Generally I've started developing an unreasonable hatred towards most batfam-meets-jl fics for the sole reason I hate how glazed and almost deified Bruce & the batfam is.
It's the same reason I don't like Danny Phantom-meets-DC because everytime one party gets glazed to hell and back. But like ESPECIALLY with batfam fics like what do you mean Bruce can ban Hal from Gotham due to a non-existent "No metas in Gotham" rule, AND somehow manages to hold back an alien invasion from Gotham almost singlehandedly with the help of almost always just the Robin's, Batgirls, and maybe, MAYBE Batwoman & Signal if they're mentiond.
Mind you, I especially hate that stupid rule. Because A) it has no basis in canon and B) its so fucking stupid. Because people unwittingly make Bruce look like a fucking bigot/hypocrite in their fics when they have it.
A bigot, because considering how often he kicks the other supers out just for visiting (even if they're in civvies), this implies he kicks out civilians too (or in some way stops them from coming) for something outside of their control à la marvel mutants. Imagine little old Molly Smith from Metropolis, wanting to go to Gotham U for their medical program & scholarship. Only to get the heart attack of her life because Batman shows up, saying she can't come in because it just so happens she has the meta ability to be 3% extra lucky on the 3rd Tuesday of every month or something.
And a hypocrite because he stops people like Flash or Superman from even ENTERING Gotham but doesn't do shit about Poison Ivy or any of the other.
It's stupid in fics where it's "courtesy" to tell batman they'll be stopping in gotham for whatever reason because it's "His" city. What do you mean this grown man throws a temper tantrum just because another hero wants to VISIT. Not even talking mentioning the times they come because they want to HELP people. I don't care if they don't "know his city" make them save civilians or something then but kicking them out is just dumb.
But also like, they always, ALWAYS dumb down the other characters to prop them up as well. Like I saw someone mentioned once that Red Hood would be a better marksman then Oliver Queen. JASON TODD. A BETTER MARKSMAN. THAN THE GREEN ARROW.
Or they'll have Bruce correct them on some obscure piece of their expertise (like I once read a fic where Bruce corrected ZATANNA??? about something magic related??????). If he is so good at everything why bother with a team at all. "he can't be everywhere" cloning is viable and almost certainly easily accessible to Billionare Bruce Wayne.
The worst is always when they absolutely idiot-fy the other JL members. They make basically everyone just flat out incompetent (most notably Oliver & Hal just become jokes but the others still get it too) so that the batfam all look like geniuses in comparison and that is just. So frustrating.
