#felipe garzonas

[carnicer01]

"He slipped"

Batman (1940) issue 424

[elidiot]

stalker!era tim catching a picture of the moment felipe garzonas falls to his death, Jason out of reach but in frame enough that it's clear he couldn't have pushed him. Maybe he could have saved him. But he didn't push him

Tim now has to decide, as he watches Batman and Robin's relationship deteriorate before his eyes, if revealing his presence is worth potentially saving his heroes' relationship

bonus: he has no idea his intervention has the chance to save jason's life

[chocolatehottubfest]

On my “Bruce keeps punishing Jason for Bruce’s own failings” bullshit again.

A part of me wants to write a fic where Bruce brings Jaybin to Commissioner Gordon in handcuffs after the Felipe incident, and Jaybin is put on a trial masked only to be pronounced innocent because all evidence of guilt is circumstantial. How DO you prove if someone fell or was pushed? Batman hasn’t investigated, and the GCPD can’t tell their ass from elbow. Maybe Felipe’s father tries to pull something, but it just backfires on him since his own higher ups are fed up with the whole issue and are calling him back after the mess his family’s made in the states because if the evidence against Jaybin is circumstantial, the evidence against Felipe is most certainly not. It turns into a Very Public trial.

The entire time Jaybin’s attorney (that he has because of the sixth amendment rather than Bruce hiring one) keeps pointing out that Jaybin’s underage while the man who brought a child to investigate an SA case isn’t and therefore should be scrutinized instead.

And Jaybin’s free to go, so he and Bruce are just sitting in the Batmobile awkwardly, and once they arrive back to the Cave, Jaybin goes “Yeah, I quit, Bruce. And I’d like to change my surname from Todd-Wayne back to Todd, thank you very much.”

It’s very “Hephaestus caught his wife in the act of infidelity and showed it to the Olympus, but by doing that only succeeded in humiliating himself”-coded.

And if you wanna get on my ass with “But vigilantism is illegal, wouldn’t Jaybin be punished for that?”, the American court system has to build a case on one specific charge, they can’t “and by the way” their way into jailing someone, there would have to be a separate trial for that.

But I won’t write it because I’d have to Write it, y’know?

[nevion]

Whenever Garzonas is bought up, always mentioning Garzonas, Jason snaps, saying "Gloria Stanson. Stanson's case."

They brush his comment aside, continuing their conversation as if the case name isn't special.

But it is.

Not only does it dehumanise the victim, but it shifts the focus of the story. How those with dipolamtic immunity, can use their power to dodge any charges against them. How the system fails consistently. How a man can easy get away with a crime if they have enough money to.

It removes the harm and impact the victim experienced, sometimes undermining it, and instead is remember as just the victim. The victim's name often forgotten, turned into just another statistic.

But by using the Gloria's name, it bring more agency, making it known who exactly the victim was and what she experienced. She wasn't just a victim, she was a victim of rape by a man that could silence her and anyone else that might protestagainst him.

By using Gloria Stanson's name, it focuses on how society and the systems fail. How the justice system is corrupt, letting a man who did a horrendous act like rape get away due to diplomatic immunity and money.

By using Gloria's name, it reduces Felipe's notoriety, preventing him from being glorified, turned into a film to watch as the victim is depicted inaccurately or completely different or wiped from the story.

It brings recognition to those that see the case just how fucked up society and the systems are. And from that, change can happen.

Jason has the firm belief that a case shouldn't be known by the perpetrator, but by the victim.

[nightwingsgypsyrep]

One thing I don’t really see talked about in reference to The Diplomat’s Son is how Felipe and Jose Garzonas’ deaths directly mirror each other, and yet we are led to draw completely different conclusions about Bruce and Jason from their deaths:

Felipe’s death obviously comes first, and whilst it’s left up in the air whether or not Jason intended for him to go over the balcony, Jason definitely caused it, and the entirety of #425 serves the meta purpose of solidifying the narrative of the consequences of Jason’s “actions”.

However, what isn’t discussed as often is Jose’s death. Of course, this is far less ambiguous as Bruce would never kill on purpose, but ultimately, Jose is killed by a car which falls on his after Bruce climbs up the scrap heap. Even if this wasn’t the intended outcome, like with Jason’s ‘spooking him’, it was Bruce’s actions as Batman which led to Jose’s death, and yet the narrative does not feel the need to follow up on this in the same way that it does with Jason and Felipe - thus, Bruce is effectively, and perhaps hypocritically, deemed blameless.

Anyway, I just think that how the narrative treat each of the Garzonas men’s deaths is really interesting. It’s obvious that Jose’s death was an accident so the narrative exonerates Bruce immediately, but even the suspicion of guilt is enough to fully doom Jason.

It ultimately doesn’t matter that Jason said he didn’t mean to cause the death, as the issue’s very existence (as a continuation of the Diplomat’s Son plot) is enough to find Jason guilty. If the narrative didn’t want us to find him guilty, the story would have been allowed to move on without following up on the aftermath (as it does when Bruce is indirectly responsible for a death, like Jose’s). By choosing to linger on this, the writers highlight Jason’s involvement in the Garzonas case as significant enough for comment, in a way that Bruce’s involvement in the death of Jose Garzonas isn’t. Thus, regardless of whether Jason did it, the narrative finds him guilty of Felipe’s death (and perhaps even all of the subsequent deaths in the junkyard), in a way that it would never for Bruce. And I just think that the contrast in the treatment of Bruce and Jason in the wake of the Garzonases’ deaths (especially since the plot revolves around their diplomatic immunity, aka real life plot armour) is really telling of the treatment of Jason’s character at the end of his OG Robin run, and how formative this is for Jason’s revival in the 2000s.

This is not necessarily saying that Bruce believes Jason did it - honestly, in the narrative it’s not wholly relevant, as Bruce is more concerned about Jason’s mental health than anything - however, the entire meta purpose of the arc is the writers telling us that Jason is capable of great violence when pushed.

[heademptyjustptysie]

Felipe may have fallen, and wasn't pushed, but it was still jason fault, because he hadn't saved-

Jason could murder that man in cold blood and i wouldn't give a shit

Fuck off

[iliadicjasontodd-moving]

thinking about gloria and thinking also about the actually undoubtedly latina women of felipe garzonas’s home country and how bruce and the gcpd and everyone except jason was willing to accept that they would be sacrificed on a predatory man’s altar in return for their own women’s safety, willing to live with and not contest the fact that garzonas was definitely going to go back and keep preying on women that he would have even more unfettered access to so long as it was off-page. how many had he already hurt and how little did bruce wayne ever think of them, a thousand miles from gotham

[gigiimariiie]

Jason Todd/Robin & Bruce Wayne/Batman DC Collage 💔

As you can probably tell by now, Jason Todd is unfortunately one of my favorite characters. He’s genuinely so relatable to me.