There's something kind of beautiful about how COIE was supposed to make it so fans no longer kept long lists of who was Earth One vs Earth Two vs Earth Three, etc, but instead now we keep lists of all of those plus New Earth
Fans will be anal no matter what, and that's so fun. Human nature is to categorize and understand.
"but tim is a misogynist in the earliest comics" "but dick cheated" "but jason is a manipulive sadist" pookie if you want to be in this fandom as well as to be sane you Cannot take the whole canon seriously. if we all would do that then- well. you can imagine
Love it when tim don't tell people SHIT. 'tim tells nobody he has lost his spleen'? Weak sauce. I want Tim to be a complete and utter mystery just by accident.
I want tim to not tell anyone that Bruce is alive. He just vanishes after bruce dies. Nobody can find him. He just shows up months later like hey the LOA is in town protect these specific people. Also Bruce is alive and I know how to find him.
I want tim to be a cryptid within the batfamily. Enough of sad baby 'please be my family' tim. Let him become ungovernable. It's what canon Tim would want. He didn't invent a fake uncle because he thought Bruce didn't want him, he created a fake uncle because he didn't want bruce
An AU where Tim is from Crime ally, but he’s still sneaky and intelligent and completely feral. So feral, in fact, that he blackmails the Drakes into “adopting” him because he’s just wants better means to stalk the bats.
The Drakes are like “damn, that level of ruthlessness is impressive, if we didn’t know better we’d think you actually were our son.”
Needless to say this is a mutually beneficial partnership. Tim gets a black credit card, a massive house, and the freedom to follow his obsession. Meanwhile the Drakes get a ruthless child who elevates their status with his frankly impressive accomplishments and also the occasional blackmail on their competitors because Jack ruffled Tim’s hair once and he would do anything to get that feeling again.
I'm digging the whole Primehood thing people got going here, I'm here for it but I just can't help picturing this exchange between Superboy Prime and Jason.
Superboy Prime: Red Hood, I'm your biggest fan.
Jason: That's... Wait, aren't you-?
Superboy Prime: Yes, Superboy Prime. And you're Jason Todd.
Jason: How did you-?
Superboy Prime: I'm your biggest fan, dummy. How is life treating you? Oh nevermind, it's not like I don't know. But yeah, sorry about the whole having to crawl out of your grave thing? My bad.
Jason: Wait, you're the son of a bitch that killed-
Superboy Prime: Yeah, that was an oopsie on my part but let's be serious 90s Kon was way better. Don't you all think so?
Jason: Who are you talking to?
Superboy Prime, gesturing vaguely at you reader of this post: Oh, them. They get it. So they have this craaaaazy idea that we should, well you know... They got fan art and fics already.
Jason:... Of what?
Superboy Prime, grinning: I think you know.
Jason:
Jason: Bruce? Batman? Dad? Can you-?
Superboy Prime: Oh, you do call him dad! Excellent. So you want to get a coffee?
I think when talking the bats will randomly ask any of the supers questions they don’t know the answer to since at least one of them is pretty much always listening in
They’re kinda like alexa for the bats since they just ask and get texted whatever the answer is like 2 seconds later
But I imagine for the supers it would probably become a race for who can answer the fastest and the most accurately
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Tim, working on a case by himself: hm.. what’s the penalty for unarmed robbery again?
Phone, pings 5 times: message from kon, Kara, Clark, Jon, kon (mobile)
Tim: :/
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Jason, looking at a truck: what’s like the average weight of one of these things?
Bizarro, appearing out of thin air: me not know
Superboy prime, also appearing: I know! I know!
Jason: then what is it??
Both: …
Bizarro: me just wanted to be last
Superboy prime: .. why would you want to be last??
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Babs, half zoned out: how much isopropyl alcohol does it take to kill a small child?
Kara, texting: girl what.
Kara: it’s 8 mol tho
Babs, texting back: 👍
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Damian, holding a new pet: Jon! can opossums have pears?
Jon, crashing through a wall: you got an opossum?? Can I see??
Damian:
Damian, holds it out: her name is Kevin
Jon: aww she’s so cute, she can have pears
Damian, joking: would she have been not allowed them if she wasn’t cute?
Jon: nope <3
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Duke, has no idea who will respond: how much is £50 from 1973 in dollars now?
Kon, texting: $1,060.02 I think?
Duke: thanks bro
Kon, texting: 😼
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Bruce: hm.
Clark, floating behind him: it’s 18.5
Bruce: thank you
Tim: ???? What. Where did that come from
Clark: well I carried the 3 and I-
Tim: that’s not what I meant, what question was it from???
Clark: .. the one Bruce asked?
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Dick: hey big blue?
Clark, texting: ?
Dick: where’s Tim?
Clark: with Kon and Bernard somewhere, I’m not listening to whatever they’re doing I learnt not to last time.
i can’t believe some people on the internet made up primehood as a joke and then enough people got into it that they’ve willed it into existence and now dan mora is drawing superboy prime with a fatson todd necklace wearing a “bring red hoods helmet back” tshirt… phenomenal stuff really
I find it funny how many people love primehood and makes jokes about primes 4th wall awareness but people don’t focus enough on the fact that Jason is super meta as well.
Like there is a panel where Jason talks about turning 53 (which would be his real world age given his 80s continuity). Like there are so many small bizarre instances of Jason alluding to his real world characterization and impacts but like done in almost the same way I would expect a seer or conduit might.
Bro basically does a soliloquy to the audience like in a Shakespeare play. Only he doesn’t know there is an audience.
I think it would be super funny if Jason said some meta shit unprompted and it throws Prime off.
Jason: me and Bruce don’t work. Like him admitting he’s wrong would break the universe and that can’t happen.
Prime (squinting his eyes): yeah.. something like that.
Or
Jason: I had a dream that none of this was real. That no matter what I do I don’t have any control. I’m not the one writing my own story. I’m just a character for others amusement.
Prime (doing a double take): the $@&!
Jason: It’s probably nothing.
Prime: it’s definitely something!
And possibly
Prime: that’s what you get for crawling out of your coffin.
Jason: I’m not sure if that’s what happened. It’s all so muddled anymore. Who’s to say what actually brought me back.
Prime (Turing to the reader) you seeing this chat?
And of course
Jason: I feel like people are always hoping my down fall. Like if you put my life in the peoples hands the would vote to kill me off.
Jason seems to be canonically fixated on phone pools specifically which is something that would have no in universe correlation to his death.
My theory is that due to Joker gaining immense power during Emperor Joker he made Jason watch the phone poll results while he was dying and Jason has no context for how or why he was 'hallucinating' this but he understood somehow that people from another dimension were voting for him to die. He has some level of meta awareness following this event, he just doesn't know what it means.
Just thinking about how Bruce would probably meet with anybody on a lower level who stole from Wayne Enterprises and the employee is scared because, well this is Gotham, are they going to get a ballpeen hammer to the knees? Arrested? Blacklisted? And then no, it's Bruce Wayne coming by to ask simply "why?" and he listens, the employee probably gets mad because what does he know about shit like the cost of living or fuel? And he's just nodding and if he gets mad, it's about your shitty landlord upping the rent or the unpaid medical bills you got, and Bruce often doesn't fire you or call in the police? No? He just tells you to head back to work when you feel up to it, apologises if WE made any situation they were in worse and you get a raise too? Those bills are cleared? Therapy to get you through the stress? Absolutely. Just Bruce who cares about his employees and wants to help them.
Yes I know that capitalism killing people is a central part of TBHX. BUT it's hysterical that X is broke. He gave Cyan ONE SINGLE COIN. He took all the sugar packets from his 9-5 job while being the world's most famous celebrity. He probably teleports because he does not have a car. Imagine being near omniscient and fucking broke.
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