under the hood

Jason Todd <33

[nivora128]

Ohhh fuckkk.... *starting to like them and also expecting them to never interact again after this because I know how things go*

[nivora128]

Jason Todd the self blamer ever.... *screaming* JASON YOU WERE FUCKING MURDERED

[nivora128]

I suggest we, from now on, WILL use these words to describe Jason. No more angry reckless broken disobedience. No more angry annoying full of rage ugly stupic dumb brutal.

Angry WARM AND WONDERFUL

Reckless TOO BRAVE TO BECOME A MAN TOO GUTSY TO DIE LIKE THAT

Disobedience SUCH A GOOD BOY MUST HAVE REALLY LOVE HIS MOTHER

Annoying HELPFUL

Ugly PAINFULLY HANDSOME CHARMING AND MYSTERIOUS CUTE AND GRACEFUL AND PRETTY BOY

Leaps before he thinks  SMART AND READY 

Stupid dumb brute strength THE GREAT BATTLER A MASTER COMBATANT QUICK AND FAST AND AGILE AND GOT SKILLS

Ontologically evil kid HE’S A GOOD KID DEEP DOWN ALL HIS PROBLEMS AND HE STILL TURNED OUT SO GOOD

Batman’s greatest failure HE WAS THE BEST SOMEONE WHO WILLING TO DO WHAT BATMAN CAN’T WHEN THE WORLD NEEDS IT

Not Dick and an acrobatic and wasn’t ready to become Robin He has performed so well with the Batman that he has been invited to work alongside the Titans from time to time. An above-average athlete and acrobat. Robin is also adept at various forms of martial arts. His training is ongoing and his skills improve regularly. He can handle himself in hand-to-hand combat and has also developed keen deductive skills.

[nivora128]

[nivora128]

Reading Willis's leters made me cry like a dog

More crying

He's SO relatable

[arcade-confetti]

I cannot ever quite put into words my hatred of the crowbar. I hate the crowbar as a main Jason weapon so so much

It feels like not seeing Jason as a character other than his death. And feels like trying to sell Jason as a Joker 2. it is like. the number one copout to me. like instinctively. genuinely i dont think any reason presented no matter how well written could ever make me appreciate the crowbar as a main weapon. i hold like an eternal hatred for the crowbar specifically

[dirixxarsn]

willis todd mustve been such a funny guy before The Horrors. this man got a son and his first move was to hold him up over the city like simba and say "this shits all yours lil guy trust youre gonna be the greatest of all time." this is the equivalent of having a kid and immediately putting them on to Avatar: The Last Airbender and then telling them theyre the avatar.

[parkjammys]

Jason Todd we get it, you're hot 🙂‍↕️

DC's hawk girl summer spoilers

[nivora128]

Do you ever think about how Jason’s eyes look so lifeless, empty and soulless when he said that “I know Bruce does things his way," and when Damian brought up about how Sheila sold him out to the Joker and he just went like “yeah, she did that, so what?” like he just accepts it even though it was eating him alive, like he knows that he can never get what he wants; compare to when his eyes were glistening with tears, deep blue and trembling with hope, pleading with his father to choose him. Do you think about this as much as I do, or you just don’t care.

And how he's got his mother’s eyes.

Remember that guys. Remember that.

[goldensunset]

bad news guys i just found out i symbolize hope within the narrative so there’s gonna be a critical turning point where i die to symbolize despair 😰 maybe i’ll get to appear as a ghost or hallucination or something later to show all is not lost?

[nivora128]

But do we talk about how he looks his age and he's pouting he's so cute so pretty you want to poke him so bad

[wltstation]

[kittykatninja321]

Jaybin getting singled out as particularly reckless and disobedient for victim blaming reasons as if 1. No other Robin has ever disobeyed Batman , 2. putting yourself at risk to save a civilian isn’t the exact type of self sacrifice Bruce taught them, and 3. as if any other Robin would’ve let their mom walk into a warehouse with the Joker and not followed her in

[nivora128]

Every time a tiny bit of news about the New Teen Titans drops, I get incredibly excited. It fills me with such intense hope that it almost makes me sick. Everyone else is so full of hope that it makes me feel sick too. It all seems too good to be true, so I tell myself to lower my expectations to rock bottom, because DC has turned me into this cynical, low-expectation-having bitch. One moment I’m overjoyed, and the next, I’ve calmed down and gone stone-cold. I shouldn't have any hope at all *head in my hands*

[tigerinmarch]

[nivora128]

Rolling my eyes. Lmao.

[sheepishmastectomy]

Tbh one of the number one things I notice when reading Batman is how Bruce uses knowledge of women's identities to control them in a really distinct way

And how he raises his boys to do the same...

Like obviously when we see the retcons in Batgirl year one, this occurs. With Steph as well... And then in another way with Cass, where she doesn't get a civilian identity? Or when we see him bully Helena out of the mask in no man's land??? And almost every time he has one of his boys at his side assisting him

[sheepishmastectomy]

Like obviously a man so concerned with his own secret identity is going to view identity and knowledge about it as having power & he just does not hesitate to wield it against women in particular as a means of coercion

[sheepishmastectomy]

coming back with examples to illustrate my point & i am being so strong and refraining from going into a lengthy digression about how batgirl year one's commitment to a more "grounded" start for babs diminishes and mocks her over and over again...

In Batgirl Year One #4, we see Bruce dictating what Dick is allowed to call Babs. You could argue this is control over his "brand," but it's part of a larger pattern of control over Babs throughout this run:

And it's immediately followed by drugging & abducting her to the Batcave, where he interrogates her to try and find out her identity...

Followed by drugging her again and making it clear that she does not get to decide what is done with her identity or her body

They maneuver her unconscious body multiple times in this issue and forcibly unmask her. Alfred and Dick are Bruce's accomplices in this. Dick occasionally challenges Bruce, but never with any real seriousness. There is no reciprocity in Barbara and Bruce's relationship here--she is entirely at his mercy at all times, and he wants her to be aware of this & works to crush her down whenever she defies him.

Bruce controls Steph also from as soon as he knows who she is: we see him do this in Detective Comics #649... her third appearance

Her identity is a bludgeon he can deploy against her-- and he's eager to do it immediately. He always goes for this blow (and yes, I'm aware he uses Tim's secret identity against him later + sabotages his relationship with Steph... but he only does it to Tim after he's been really upset with him. With women, he will deploy it right away)

In this case, Tim is apparently the first one to discover Steph's identity, but immediately gives it to Bruce, who then uses it against her. (I am admittedly so very tired so my chain of events could be off here as I am kind of throwing this post together).

He ambushes Helena with Dick to scold her for not being good enough while calling her by the hero identity she's currently not using, revealing that he's "known from the start" who she is.

Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #120

He browbeats her into giving up the cowl and Dick cooperates with him, calling Helena by the same name:

Then he takes the costume and basically kingmakes Cass into the new Batgirl... then prefers that she never step out of the role. The one girl he chooses and she can have no other identity. The moment she "gives up" the secret, he supports her & builds up a way to avoid getting it back.

Batgirl (2000) #14

And, you'll notice, Oracle's identity is a weapon that he can use to keep Cass in line here. She can't stay with Babs any more, because that would compromise the secret... the one that Bruce knows and has known since nearly Barbara's debut & claims ownership over once again.