Young Justice

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Do you think Clark Kent's first few major articles were about the continued presence of lead pipes in parts of Metropolis' water system

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(Average Metropolis reader after investigative reporter C. Kent's 452nd article on yet another case of landlords/business owners/factories' continued use of lead pipes/paint/gas/glass knowingly exposing the public to dangerously toxic lead levels) what the fuck happened to this guy

[teaboot]

One day Bruce Wayne mentions in an interview that heroes like Superman are overrated, as the most effective way to reduce crime is to provide public resources and improve local infrastructure, then cites how neighboring city Metropolis has effectively lowered their violent crime by 13% after addressing their outdated water system and investing low income housing. the reporter conducting the interview suddenly starts looking a little uncomfortable

[teaboot]

To be clear, Clark is still a fantastic investigative reporter. He still has to track down the sources to prove all this shit

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"Who, Clark Kent? Yeah, we're pretty sure he's a Meta. Is he a superhero? Like what, "Lead-detector guy"? "Captain pipes?" Don't get me wrong, he's a great guy and it's a handy trick, but it's lead detection, not laser vision. He's not about to go running around in tights any time soon."

[sindri42]

I just love the idea of a cape maintaining their secret identity by pretending to be a completely different and less impressive kind of parahuman.

[roach-works]

everyone assumes that kent is so squirrely around superheros because he’s just desperately hoping not to be conscripted to the JLA to fix their plumbing

[teaboot]

Local Metropolis Reporter Publically Recognized For Contributions To The City; Awarded Medal Of Distinction

[championofdnd]

They tried to get superman to present the medal but he was offended at being called "overrated" in comparison to Clark so he declined

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Counter offer: Bruce Wayne disguised as Superman

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beating this dead horse with memes

[bunniope]

how it feels

[lakemojave]

[flipchild]

Leonard Snart

[zoobus]

John Stewart is the black green lantern right? Why is he a bastard? Is justice league racist about him?

I like this show and i am conflicted on the Green Lantern character, Jon Stewart

On one hand, he is technically exactly what I asked for as a child - a black character who isn't a gross amalgamation of white fear and racism, a flawless Mary Sue, or the type where fun risks being offensive, so they're the killjoy.

He has a distinct personality, he is strong in a definable way, he has (many) flaws that are treated as such, and he isn't a stereotype that non-blacks will be familiar with

On the other hand,

I hate him so much it's unreal

i can't say I hate him because he's lost potential, a wasted character, or even that it's bad writing why I dislike him. It's the opposite, John Stewart is written very well.

John IS a stereotype, but it's one of those cultural stereotypes that's only recognized within a culture, which implies there was some color in the writing room

And he's a very realistic one, a persona I'm continually faced with

Strict, disciplined, harsh, quick to assume the worst about you, even quicker to assume the worst about your intentions. Anything you do incorrectly is viewed as willful immorality. His hard childhood built a hard man, one who saw how difficult and unfair life is and still came to the conclusion "and I got out of it -now what excuse do you have?"

He was in the military

Why are they always in the fucking military

I knew Johns my whole life. My last manager was a John. These people drive me insane

This is very good character writing and I hate John Stewart

[zoobus]

This is an old ask but let me bring it back with more context for why this meant do much to me

As a child (honestly, even as an adult), I was hungry, starving for quality representation of terrible black people. It was something I thought about a lot, something I eagerly looked towards the future for - once the world simmered down on the racism, once enough time had passed and white people didn't need to make black characters performativly perfect or exist just to remind you about oppression, I would finally see the hideous, morally repugnant, or at least fascinatingly unpleasant portrayals that white people always got. I wanted black It's Always Sunny. I wanted black jackasses who didn't worry about reflecting badly on the black community.

And then here came Mr. Stewart, knocking me on my ass by being exactly what I asked for. Better yet, he's a familiar face, acting exactly like -and I cannot stress this enough - every adult black man I knew as a child. He was written by someone who knew, someone who'd been there. As much as I hated his ass, his presence made me feel seen. He was ugly but in a good way, the negative representation I craved.

[skppstr]

this is what it would look like if DC locked in and let me do a blue beetle cover

[lycanthrology]

[attempting to flirt] if i was stuck in a timeloop id desperately explain my situation to you every single reset

[arbitraryexistence]

Ever since reading my first time loop-based book as a preteen, I’ve had a Secret Time Loop Code Word. It’s been the same word all these years. I’ve never written it down anywhere or told anyone what it is, just kept it tucked away in my brain. That way, if someone I know ever confided in me that they were stuck in a time loop, I would have a way to confirm it: I would tell them the time loop code word and instruct them to find and talk to me again on the next loop. Of course, if it’s a time loop, I wouldn’t remember telling them the code word. But they’d remember it. So if someone ever came to me and said “I’m stuck in a time loop, and the time loop code word is [X],” and it was indeed the word I’ve secretly held onto for most of my life, I would know that we had had this conversation in a previous loop and that they were telling the truth.

Will this ever be useful? Almost certainly not. But hey, there’s nothing wrong with having a completely absurd contingency plan. In case of time loops.

[jackhawksmoor]

[sephyannart]

[wanderintofics]

Batman’s compassion for criminals and murderers is fascinating when put up against his anger and distrust and sometimes contempt for Jason and Helena, again and again the one thing he truly can’t stand is murder in the name of some greater good

he understands and forgives greed and anger and fear and desperation as a reason for killing but the second you try to smear a bit of righteousness over that death he is disgusted, he is actively less empathetic, he wants nothing to do with you personally

I think one of the key things here is also that Jason and Helena operate in Gotham and Bruce is driven enough by favouritism and territoriality that this contempt gets driven to the forefront and he feels he has more say in what goes on in his city

[umbrellajam]

[nat-20s]

fem!Superman is usually either depicted as looking basically like Diana in a different costume ("hrt really is amazing!" "why the fuck do you look like me?") or as a short haired butch that looks near identical to male!Superman. but I think. if we look deep into our hearts and souls we can find the truth. Clark would be a curly mullet butch with sheep shearer swag. thank you for coming to my ted talk

[nat-20s]

this is what yuri Clois looks like imo:

[quietwingsinthesky]

(pa kent giving The Talk voice) see when a bull and a cow love each other very much, that’s how a calf is born [remembers his son came from space] of course if the bull comes from another farm, the cow might not end up taking, but that’s alright [remembers clark might be gay] sometimes bulls also love other bulls [remembers clark is an alien again] but if the bull is from another farm, he might have a calf if he fools around with bulls from here so he should be careful.

[martyrbat]

hate when a batman artist isn't committed to bruce's lame bat schtick... give that man a bat insignia on the bottom of his boots rn

[martyrbat]

he already has back issues and hes committed to being a campy cunt.... give him the good boots.

[the-sage-libriomancer]

i was going to comment how impractical it would be for Batman to be walking around in boots with his own damn insignia on the soles, but you know what i accept this explanation ajksjkdhajkdhkajkk. the man gets to strike fear into the hearts of criminals AND be as campy as his dramatic ass desires

[raptorific]

I still think it’s hilarious that the reason nobody ever figures out Superman’s secret identity or where he lives or what he does when he’s not saving the planet, is because he already told them all the Kryptonian stuff that can’t be tied to any of his human friends or family. I guarantee you the in-universe wikipedia article on Superman lists his name as Kal-El and the “personal life” section says that he lives full-time at his private fortress of solitude at the north pole. Nobody in the world looks at Clark Kent and thinks “oh my god, maybe he’s superman!” for the same reason nobody ever starts to suspect that their coworker who looks KINDA like Barack Obama is actually secretly Barack Obama – They know who Barack Obama is and know what he does and they know their coworker Greg is Greg and not Barack Obama. They have no reason to assume Barack Obama secretly moonlights as Greg The IT Guy at their workplace even though they’ve never seen Greg and Obama in the same place. At best, “Greg is secretly Obama” would be a running joke at the office, and the same is true at the Daily Planet. “Kal-El of Krypton, who lives in a CRYSTAL PALACE at the NORTH POLE and whose dayjob is SUPERMAN, sometimes puts on a suit and pretends to be a clumsy reporter and lives in a one-bedroom walkup in Metropolis” is a ridiculous concept to anyone who doesn’t already know it’s true

[comedowntheroad-blog]

@unpretty

[roachpatrol]

“Hey, that— that guy, in the corner, is that— is that Superman?” 

Clark looks up from his computer at the new intern. “Oh, no,” he says. “You caught me.”

“Clark, you pull this shit every time, man,” his desk neighbor Steve says. “Shut the fuck up.”

“No, the kid’s right, I’m Superman,” Clark says. He gets out of his seat and cracks his back out. “I guess we’re gonna have a superhero fight.”

“Clark, sit back down.”

“Nope. Superhero fight.”

“Clark if you don’t sit the hell back down and finish your article by lunch I am going to tell Perry on you.”

Clark points at the intern. “You get off easy this time, buddy,” he says, and sits back down. 

“So…” the intern says, very lost. “Uh…”

“That’s Clark,” a slightly older and more experienced intern says. “He’s Superman’s asshole twin.”

[beka-tiddalik]

The funniest part is when Clark does this in front of Jimmy Olsen, who is just staring in disbelief as Clark talks about using his superpowers to help Ma Kent on the farm in a sarcastic tone of voice, when Jimmy knows for a fact it’s 100% true, that is what Clark did last weekend.

Intern: “Ahahahah Superman in Kansas tilling the fields at superspeed, that’s a good one. What, if the tractor breaks down, do you just pick it up and take it back to the barn?”

Clark: “Nah, between my ex-ray vision and my heat vision I can generally find whatever the problem is and do a spotweld if necessary so long as I know where to get the parts - once had to nip over to South Korea because I didn’t want to wait 6 weeks for the ship to get there.”

Intern: “Bahahaha classic, Clark you are so funny! Superman fixing tractors with his heat vision, oh that’s a good one.”

Jimmy: “…”

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[titleknown]

Hot Take: While Bizarro is technically a more direct "crude doppelganger of the hero" analog, I still think that Lobo works better as the "Wario" to Superman.

Like, don't get me wrong, I love Bizarro, I just don't think he's as direct a Wario-type!

[asafish]

idk what im drawing but well i made it！

[dirbenaffleck]

i think the marvel vs dc conversation is bad because they're very different animals and i think its very obvious in how they approach the avengers and the justice league, even if you compare it between dceu and mcu, because at the end of the day superheroes in marvel seem to be allied with the governemtn regardless of their cause, like shield and avengers seem to be deeply connected in both fucntion and system because they're lead by a military guy and then the league in itself is funny because literally no one gets paid, they consider it volunteer work, that they operate outside of the planet so they would not be beholden to one state

[frownyalfred]

the Avengers: you don't understand, we HAVE to work with the government. to protect people.

the JL, in their satellite floating just outside of Earth's jurisdiction: lmao ok

[stuck-in-jelly]

I don’t think I’m ever going to be over Edi Gathegi and can’t help but feel so happy for him with his role in James Gunn’s Superman

For those of you who don’t know Edi Gathegi starred in X-Men First Class as the character Dawrin (aka Armando Muñoz)

Dawrin’s powers are literally super adaptation, his body changes to every possible scenario in order to survive.

Gills to breath under water and fins when submerged

Stone skin when struck with an attack

In space his body will change to be able to breathe, when fire is directed at him he will become fire proof, etc. he is essentially unkillable dude to his mutation!

And yet in the movie he gets introduced solely to be killed

The unkillable, Black, Hispanic, Male, character literally gets killed first and acts as a ‘motivator’ for the rest of the cast even though they hardly mention him after his death.

Edi Gathegi even voiced his concerns, only for the studio to promise him that Darwin would eventually come back and be resurrected in future movies but surprise surprise. That never happened.

Years later James Gunn reaches out and askes him to audition to the point he sees 200 people and still ask if Edi Gathegi’s tape has come in.

Edi Gathegi despite his hesitation due to his last super hero movie experience decided to give it a shot and what a way to right a broken promise from the past!!

He not only doesn’t die but plays a vital role in the story, he’s been praised as a scene stealer being one of the most liked characters right behind Superman

Edi has been open in interviews about what this means to him and how happy he was to have this opportunity

Its great to see this come full circle