#batman cataclysm

[peepeepoopoo835]

batman be damned, that boy can do quadrobics!

[strawluvr]

Tim drake being robin for a little while thinking life is sunshine and rainbows before he got hit with the triple combo of batman knightfall, cataclysm and no man’s land

[rrockingrobin]

as much as i appreciate the ‘jason todd crime lord comes back to wayne manor and sees his old room’ trope, its not gonna happen. why? batman cataclysm. the quake destroyed all of wayne manor, in no way is jasons stuff surviving that no matter his plot armour

[stworzonka]

what a great Babs panel, she's so good at ignoring her feelings when she's busy i love her

[lost-my-gender-in-the-war]

I think DC canon should be ignored at all costs because WHAT DO YOU MEAN ACE DIES OFF SCREEN/PANEL IN CATACLYSM???

See in my (superior) version he actually doesn’t. Time to write fanfic about Ace finding survivors. The POV of the guy that Tim almost got to but missed? Yeah no that ends with him being found by Ace and successfully rescued. He survives and is happy and is a good boy and we love him and everyone is a bit confused on why Bruce Wayne’s dog is able to do all this but hey the dog deserves a medal of honor

(In canon, after the earthquake Ace is not seen again, and Batman had worried about him immediately after because he was in the manor at the time of the quake)

[lucky-katebishop]

I read Batman: Cataclysm (1998) and I have screenshots! Let's go!

Tim's entire arc during this series is wild, man. He gets drugged by a girl he very briefly trained with, he kills Lady Shiva while he's drugged up, and then he ends up saving Lady Shiva by basically getting the drugs into her system which then leads her to kill the people they were trying to incapacitate. This is all during a time when Tim's trying to figure out if he wants to continue being Robin or not, by the way. And during a time when Gotham is literally split in half and destroyed by a 7.6 magnitude earthquake. Comics are crazy, man.

Batman is such a freak. I love when they draw him to be depicted as such.

MY BOY! He was only in a couple of panels but my love! My boy! He's so cool. I'm bummed he didn't get to interact with Tim.

Some Alfred appreciation panels :D

D.A.R.E.!Tim going strong (the 90s were really something, huh)

Some animal appreciation panels

Stephanie and Helena teamup! I went on a rant on goodreads like a few hours ago saying how I really wished that Steph would be mentored or even team up with Helena because their philosophies are very similar and LITTLE DID I KNOW IT WAS CREATED!!! They're just so similar but Steph is still figuring out her morals whereas Helena has already become adamant on hers. I really hope they team up some more, I love their dynamic so, so much.

<3 <3 <3 (this is spoken by Bruce btw - he's talking about his identity versus Alfred's safety)

Tim is SO little brother whenever he's in Nightwing's run.

THEY'RE JUST MEETING NOW?! SERIOUSLY?!

Again- SO little brother coded

... ? If Atlantis ever really existed ??? Was this a joke? Is this sarcasm? What? Aquaman's part of the Justice League, right? What is going on? (Also I could have sworn in a previous series Tim met Babs... this is all written by Chuck Dixon, right? What is going on????)

Bonus Zesti :D

'Aight, thanks for reading! I'll have another post about reading Aftershocks soon enough so if you like this, keep an eye out :)

[starcrossedconverse]

Insane how little contagion, cataclysm, and no mans land aren't referenced very often in comics a few years after the events.

[bubblesxo]

OKAY GUYS

so. you know how a lot of people hc about the gotham accent in general dc media? well i always love this hc because accents are just so cool to me. so hear me out (this post is specific to the gotham tv show universe but can be generalized to any universe a cataclysm/No Man's Land event has occured)

earlier i was on tiktok and i found a video talking about the human tendency to create accents over time. (the video talked about how friend groups and families create accents/dialects which is?? so cool?? but i digress)

anyway, this led me to learn about a study about a group of scientists living in antarctica and how, over the period of just one winter, their vowel sounds had begun to merge together to create the beginnings of an accent. so now, i'll relate this to the cataclysm event.

to cause this event, during which gothamites are cut off in basically every way from the outside world, the bridges around gotham are bombed and destroyed (at least in the gotham tv universe). in this same universe, the time in which they are completely undisturbed (besides one guy communicating over a radio to one lady) is 97 days (over 3 months), at which time a military strike force (kinda. they're evil) is sent in to basically kill all of the criminals there. however, these people really only communicate limitedly with police, gang leaders, and like one time with bruce wayne. but that's about it. reunification with the outside world only began after day 391. that's over an entire year of near-complete separation from the outside world.

now, they already started off most likely having some kind of accent, especially noticeable in the people who lived primarily in the city. (even if the accent isn't particularly strong/differentiated at the time.) however, now they've spent an entire year together, alone in a big city. this has the makings of a stronger accent (at least for those who were stranded in gotham when this event occurred).

one of the important things to keep in mind when considering accents/dialects is the use of specialized vocabulary words, and lemme tell ya, gotham 100% has that. even excluding all of the names they have for people and the general gang info these people have, they still have multiple different terms for parts of town (ex: the financial district = penguin's territory, etc. with the other gangs in power at the time). on top of even this, the amount of stuff that just casually goes on in gotham is seen to completely flabbergast outsiders all the time. they likely have slang that is used to refer to various things the rogues do, or things about violence, gang wars, rations, barracks, etc. there is SO MUCH opportunity for an accent to originate here??

of course, once the events of No Man's Land end and reunification happens, a ton of gothamites who weren't there during it move back in and the accent is dispersed among the population. it likely is in part shared and, over time, becomes part of common vernacular, and, in part, deteriorates, especially regarding things that are no longer as common in the distant future (ex. referring to the financial district as penguin's terf 10 years after this happens would be a bit odd). however, i do believe that this would create a lasting impact on the overall population of gotham, even if only minorly.

(to those of you who keep up with my de-aged!gotham bruce au, this is going to be featured in some of the up-and-coming chapters (slang that feels off to others, weird references, a stronger accent, if only slightly, etc.). if you have any ideas or thoughts on this topic feel free to chime in!!! i love chatting and some help brainstorming on this would be appreciated <33)