TOURNAMENT OF THE ROBINS

CONGRATULATION STEPHANIE BROWN

[robin-showdown]

This is the Tournament Of Robins!

CONGRATULATIONS STEPHANIE BROWN, ULTIMATE ROBIN

ROUND 1

Left:

Tim Drake (DC Comics) vs Red Robins (Restaurant) Winner: Red Robins

Nico Robin (One Piece) vs Robin Lennox (The Magnus Archives) Winner: Robin Lennox

Puck/Robin Goodfellow (English Folklore) vs Robin (Fire Emblem) Winner: Puck

Jarro (DC Comics) vs Robin Scherbatsky (How I Met Your Mother) Winner: Jarro

Robin Hood (English Folklore) vs Robin (Teen Titans Go!) Winner: Robin Hood

Stephanie Brown (DC Comics) vs Carrie Kelley (DC Comics) Winner: Stephanie Brown

Robin (Stardew Valley) vs Robin (Lego Batman) Winner: Robin (Lego Batman)

Damian Wayne (DC Comics) vs Mia Mizoguchi (DC Comics) Winner: Damian Wayne

Right:

Dick Grayson (DC Comics) vs. Caveman Robin (BBC Ghosts) Winner: Dick Grayson

Robin Newman (Ace Attorney) vs. Robin Branagh (Young Dracula) Winner: Robin Newman

American Robin (Bird) vs. Bizzaro Robin (DC Comics) Winner: American Robin

Robin The Frog (The Muppets) vs. Helena Wayne (DC Comics) Winner: Robin The Frog

Jason Todd (DC Comics) vs. Robin/Bird Boy (Mona The Vampire) Winner: Jason Todd

Robin Buckley (Stranger Things) vs. Matthew McGinnis (DC Comics) Winner: Robin Buckley

Christopher Robin (Winnie The Pooh) vs. Robin The Toy Wonder (DC Comics) Winner: Christopher Robin

Duke Thomas (DC Comics) vs. Bruce Wayne Jr. (DC Comics) Winner: Duke Thomas

Round 2

Red Robin (Restaurant) vs. Robin Lennox (The Magnus Archives) Winner: Red Robin

Puck/Robin Goodfellow (English Folklore) vs. Jarro (DC Comics) Winner: Puck

Robin Hood (English Folklore) vs. Stephanie Brown (DC Comics) Winner: Stephanie Brown

Robin (Lego Batman) vs. Damian Wayne (DC Comics) Winner: Damian Wayne

Dick Grayson (DC Comics) vs. Robin Newman (Ace Attorney) Winner: Dick Grayson

American Robin (Bird) vs. Robin The Frog (The Muppets) Winner: Robin The Frog

Jason Todd (DC Comics) vs. Robin Buckley (Stranger Things) Winner: Jason Todd

Christopher Robin (Winnie The Pooh) vs. Duke Thomas (DC Comics) Winner: Duke Thomas

Round 3

Red Robin (Restaurant) vs. Puck/Robin Goodfellow (English Folklore) Winner: Red Robin

Stephanie Brown (DC Comics) vs. Damian Wayne (DC Comics) Winner: Stephanie Brown

Dick Grayson (DC Comics) vs. Robin The Frog (The Muppets) Winner: Dick Grayson

Jason Todd (DC Comics) vs. Duke Thomas (DC Comics) Winner: Jason Todd

Semi-Finals

Red Robin (Restaurant) vs. Stephanie Brown (DC Comics) Winner: Stephanie Brown

Dick Grayson (DC Comics) vs. Jason Todd (DC Comics) Winner: Dick Grayson

Finals

Stephanie Brown vs. Dick Grayson Winner: Stephanie Brown

[wasted-women]

ROUND 4, MATCH 4 OUT OF 4

Which fridged woman deserved better?

Vanessa Carlysle (Deadpool 2)

Stephanie Brown (Batman comics)

Voting ended onFeb 13, 2024

Causes of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Vanessa Carlysle

Cause of Death: Shot by gangsters hunting for her boyfriend

Propaganda:

The first movie shows that she's so freakin cool and badass and confident and caring and sexy and doesn't take shit from anybody. And she's in the second movie for a Whole Scene before she dies and it's all about them having kids. And after she dies it's like she only existed as Wade's fiancee, like no one else is mourning her, does she have any friends?? Did she have any kind of life outside of Wade???

Despite Deadpool being known for being very aware of medium and genre, the writers of Deadpool 2 showed zero awareness in killing off Vanessa Carlysle solely to motivate her boyfriend, the protagonist. This is played completely unironically - the writers themselves say it! From a Vulture article:

"[...] Then I think at some point somebody just said, ‘Y’know, Deadpool kind of works best when he’s had everything taken away from him, when he suffers.’ So the thought was maybe we can really, really engender great suffering for him by having his line of work be the thing that costs Vanessa her life."

So they made them decide to starting a family only to kill her off in the same scene 👍.

Vanessa was originally not even supposed to die, but they changed that without a thought so the male protagonist would suffer more! And of course, the WAY she dies is made to be all about him, too!

The writers were apparently surprised with all the criticism they received for this scene! Because they were not aware of the concept of fridging at all. 😐

Just because you are aware what fridging is it doesn't mean you have a carte blanche to do it??? Being self aware doesn't make it less stupid.

Deadpool is literally about subverting overused comic tropes and the writers did not know about this overused trope and executed it to a T.

Stephanie Brown

Cause of Death: Tortured for several days before succumbing to her injuries

Propaganda:

Steph was a wildly popular character who was made Robin for a couple month specifically in preparation to kill her off in the War Games cross over event. During her time as robin comics fans responded so well that one of the writers asked if they should keep her alive and let her have a real run but an editor refused. Instead she was horrifically punished by the narrative for... doing exactly what every robin has done always. Not listening to batman, rescuing him, trying to earn his approval. Unlike the other robins she was murdered in a way that implied some kind of sexual assault while none of her friends or mentors looked for her. Did i mention she was 15?

[nefarious-616-necromancer]

[ectonurites]

JUST BURST OUT LAUGHING IN THE LIBRARY

[ectonurites]

The book is “The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture” by Glen Weldon!

[ectonurites]

I had been so amused by how that sentence started I neglected to acknowledge how funny it was the whole way through

[filthy-vigilante]

Who would make the best Batman

Dick Grayson

Jason Todd

Barbara Gordon

Tim Drake

Cassandra Cain

Stephanie Brown

Duke Thomas

other/not list (put in replies below)

Voting ended onApr 20, 2023

[robin-showdown]

the red robin vs red robin poll *may* have been what i talked about when i submitted you into the ultimate-poll-tournament 🤫

<3

[sun-n-moon-showdown]

SUN AND MOON DUO SHOWDOWN - FINALS

Who is the Ultimate Sun Moon Duo?

Zuko and Sokka (ATLA)

Joe and Nicky (TOG)

Duke Thomas and Cassandra Cain (DC)

Voting ended onApr 11, 2023

[duketectivecomics]

A (Non)Comprehensive List of Reasons Why Everyone Should Vote for the Bumblebee Bats (Duke & Cass):

So first up: Duke is the ONLY member of the batfam who works during the day! Cass is far from the only one to work the night shift ofc, but she's also very well-known for being one of the few batkids who says on several occasions that she WANTS to be Batman & to carry on the mantle. She's a Major Night Bat & is in her element when working from the shadows.

More so cosmetic: their costumes complement each other and are nearly completely inverted! Duke's primarily a yellow/golden outfit with black & white accents, whereas Cass' Batgirl costume is primarily black with gold & occasional white accents.

Their most distinctive abilities also complement each other very well! Duke is also known as the only metahuman in the batfam, and one of his abilities (along with general light powers) is being able to see a few minutes into the past/future. This is especially useful for him in combat, when he can 'predict/see' his opponents moves. Similarly, Cass' greatest ability as a fighter, and a crucial part of her origin, was being raised from birth w/ no language, in an effort that 'body language' would be her 'native tongue'. She's able to read people so clearly, that she can tell what they're about to do before they do it. Notoriously, Duke's newness means that his ability isn't as useful around villains with more combat experience, and Cass' ability notoriously doesn't work as well with metas, and that's where they help each other grow! They've been shown sparring so many times in an effort to help better one another!

Another tick for them being foils is how Cass was raised by her father with the expectation to follow in his footsteps as an assassin, which she ultimately rejected. Whereas Duke only later found out after becoming a vigilante, that his bio-father is a supervillain (who then tried to tempt Duke into joining him too).

I said before and I'll say it again, they're the batfam's Apollo & Artemis and there's so many more things that I could say about their journeys as characters, as siblings, how their time on the same team helped them to grow. Hell I could bring up even smaller shit like how Cass couldn't (& refused to learn how to) read for the longest time, while one of Duke's major hobbies is being into fantasy & poetry and just!!!!

There's so many things about these two that has me constantly rotating them in my mind like rotisserie chicken, they're blorbos of all time & plz plz plz consider voting for them. They get constantly ignored or pushed aside in the batfam fandom itself, I'm honestly shocked they made it to the finals against so many odds. It would be absolutely INCREDIBLE if they won it all ;-; anyways thanks for coming to my talk, ted <3

[robin-showdown]

People still reblogging the red robin v red robin poll to laugh about it are so funny I love yall

[ultimate-poll-tournament]

currently submitted tournaments for 2.0 part 1:

* means they participated in 1.0

! means they need submissions

^ means they finished at least one bracket

@beautiful-boy-bracket ^

@dwampyverse-tournaments

@gnc-swag-tournament !

@who-do-i-know-this-man

@least-sexy-man-competition !

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batman sexyman tournament (@batman-heritageposts) ^

@sun-n-moon-showdown

@graveyard-gambit-tournament *

@fuckable-old-man-battle

@rgb-showdown

@titular-twins-tournament

@fantasticfrogfacedown ^

@ultimate-rat-bracket

@yuribracket ^

@robin-showdown ^

@colourcontest

@ultimate-destroyer-duel !

@trioswag-competition

@aro-culture-competition

@insanepoll !

@redcharacterbracket

@best-kirby-character-tournament

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@tentacletournament ^

@bestfictionaldivorce ^

@sans-au-war

@worstutfanonthingpoll

no: (just thought it would be nice for others to see everyone who was nominated despite some being illegible)

bug race (eliminated IN round 4, if only)

transfemswagbracket (eliminated round 5)

nonhumancrushcontest (eliminated round 5)

autismswagsummit (they won. good try though /lh)

[robin-showdown]

what's ur main account if u wanna share

my main is @mylonglosttamlin :)

[archivistsandlibrarians]

Trying to have pictures of podcast characters is a little difficult so now I'm going to have to start bugging fan artists to see if I can use their art (with credit, of course) for the bracket.

If you make fanart and would like to contribute images for any of the following characters, let me know!

Gertrude Robinson (TMA)

Jurgen Leitner (TMA)

The Librarians (WTNV)

Gordon Porlock (Red Valley)

Thank you!

[kennysweep3000]

Welcome to the Bad Mom Awards 2023!

With your help we can find THE worst mom and recognize some other really bad ones! Whether they fucked up an entire family or just one person, nominate that bad mom! The damage can be emotional, mental, physical, long lasting or temporary.

General Inspiration: @cringefaillosersummit @robin-showdown @eldest-sibling-tournament @fuckable-old-man-battle @babygirl-beatdown and many others!

Where is the bracket? In progress, we’re still waiting for the preliminary matches to end and the vote about Gandalf and YOUR MOM

Submissions are closed MAIN GAME STARTS: 23 March

CURRENT ROUND: preliminaries

No real people

No you can't submit your own mom. Even if she is the worst.

They can be any gender as long as you can explain why they are a "mom"

They don’t have to have blood related children, just some sort of maternal relationship with somebody

Their children can be dead, alive, or other

You can submit multiple nominees just not the same mom more than once!

The bracket size will depend on the number of submissions

Grandmothers are OK to submit. Generational trauma is real.

No milfies. Hotties are allowed but they need to be bad moms. This is not that showdown, just purely bad parenting.

Submissions will be open until I get enough nominations.

[autismswagsummit]

GRAND FINALS

Donatello Hamato (Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles) v.s Shigeo Kageyama (Mob Psycho) v.s Papyrus (Undertale)

Donatello Hamato

Shigeo Kageyama

Papyrus

Voting ended onMar 25, 2023

[pocketkris]

VOTE FOR DONATELLO !!!!!!

[anxious-assembly]

Anxiety Havers Gather Round

Does your blorbo overthink? Do they get labeled as a recluse? Do they not to well in crowds? SUCKS FOR THEM, THEY'RE ALL GATHERING TOGETHER

Rules 1. Can be canon, coded, or headcanon 2. No real people 3. Submit as many different characters as you want but don't spam submit 4. Propaganda is encouraged. @ me or send it to my inbox, just remember this is all in good fun 5. Have fun!!

SUBMIT HERE

I'm super new to tumblr so this might go terribly. Combined with having anxiety myself please be gentle with me.

Inspired by: @autismswagsummit @mad-scientist-showdown @magnificent-mlm-matchup @skittlesquadsquabble @second-place-showdown @sleepsmackdown and many more wonderful people!!!!

[robin-showdown]

AND THAT CONCLUDES THE FINALS! CONGRATULATIONS STEPHANIE BROWN!

I am mentally giving Stephanie Brown a very large trophy that says 'Ultimate Robin.' I am so proud of her she has just flown through this entire tournament. She deserves this.

I personally enjoyed my time here with the batfandom you seem like a fun group of people so I hope to see you guys on my dashboard outside of the tournament. (and maybe I'll pick up a few comics so I actually understand what's going on. Who knows?)

This tournament has been brought to you by @mylonglosttamlin

[robin-showdown]

SHE WON!!!!!! LETS GO!!!!!!!!!!

GO STEPHANIE!

[robin-showdown]

dick deserves the title of best anon, but i would die if he won again (i'm salty about the other tournaments lol) so i voted for steph! and feel disappointed about it... the struggle is real yall

Fair enough. I've heard he's won a Lot of tournaments.