#flashpoint

[remcadll]

DC had made many questionable choices regarding the Bats but also a lot of the time said choices are very funny. Christian priest Father Todd and vampire Nightwing who crushed Tim’s head like an overripe apple I do think of you often

Theatre kid in every universe

[incorrectbatfam]

2026 DC predictions

- Superman goes evil again despite countless audience studies showing people want the opposite

- "6 7" joke

- An ICE storyline (interpret that how you will)

- WFA comes back

- A character comes out of the closet but receives no marketing

- Live action Nightwing teaser

- DC uses AI art despite publicly proclaiming they won't

- Yet another fucking Flashpoint

- Netflix purchases Warner Bros. and releases their own Justice League miniseries

- Unexpected Green Lantern trailer

- New storyline is spearheaded by a Gen Z writer and it shows

- A comic get banned from a Utah public high school

[sourkreem]

all of my Catholic guilt ft. Father Jason Todd

[yuriosakawa]

I love the Batfamily fanfics where the Flashpoint Batman someway or another ends on the main timeline and becomes the grandpa for Bruce’s kids. And you know what makes it better? If Flashpoint Joker (aka, Martha Wayne) also comes alongside him! The combination of Thomas Wayne and Martha Wayne getting dropped into the main Batfamily timeline is already emotionally devastating… but the second writers let them become grandparents, it turns into pure chaos in the best way possible.

Because Thomas is usually written as this exhausted, haunted man who suddenly gets hit with: “Wait. Bruce survived. He has children. They’re alive. They’re safe.”

And meanwhile Martha is just— “Oh, so THESE are my grandbabies? Wonderful. Which one bites people?”

She would absolutely adore the most chaotic members of the family.

Damian threatens someone with a sword? Martha is applauding.

Jason says something concerning? Martha’s like, “Finally, a normal child.”

Dick tries to establish “healthy family boundaries” and Martha immediately ignores all of them.

Tim hasn’t slept in 72 hours and Martha starts bringing him coffee like an enabler instead of a responsible adult.

Cass silently appears behind her and Martha is DELIGHTED instead of startled.

And the funniest part is that the Batkids would probably be weirdly accepting of her after the initial horror.

Because yeah, she’s technically a Joker. But she’s also:

making soup at 2 AM,

showing up to school events in wildly inappropriate outfits,

teaching the kids card tricks,

and threatening anyone who hurts them with terrifying sincerity.

Like imagine some villain kidnaps one of the Robins and learns the hard way that their grandparents are:

Batman with guns.

The Joker powered entirely by maternal rage.

There’s also something really emotional underneath the humor. Martha meeting Bruce’s children means she gets proof that despite everything, Bruce built a family instead of dying alone in an alley like in Flashpoint. And Thomas gets to see a version of his son who kept going long enough to love and be loved.

So yeah, one minute Martha is painting Damian’s nails neon green because “assassins deserve self-expression,” and the next she’s quietly crying because she never thought she’d hear children laughing in Wayne Manor again.

[keanurye]

Flashpoint fanart

[frownyalfred]

Thoughts on Pennyswaynes in which kid Bruce dies, Thomas becomes Batman, Martha the joker (? I dont fully understand the why of that, but im pretty sure she did that in that universe?) What does Alfred do? Besides suffering

You're talking about the Flashpoint universe, right? Martha ends up killing Alfred in that one.

I think in a Pennywaynes light, this is especially gruesome. Without Bruce, Martha loses it. But without Alfred, that's when Thomas starts to lose it and realize his wife is lost. She isn't just greiving, if she's willing to hurt Alfred of all people.

[facethemuses]

thinking about how in each universe one person of pennywaynes was left almost utterly alone without the others. main timeline alfred, flashpoint thomas, absolute martha.

never allowed to stay together in any universe, always torn apart before their time.

[fishfission-dc]

Something about how Jason Todd’s core character trait is how he lost faith. He lost faith in Shiela, in Bruce, in the entire concept that someone else can care about him and actually have his best interests at heart.

Something about how Catholic priest Flashpoint Jason Todd is someone who has such intense faith, who trust so heavily in someone basically unprovable. Something about how without Bruce, without being Robin, it was his faith that was his core character trait.

Something about how being Robin and the life he was led into changed him in such a tragic and deep seeded way. I don’t know