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incorrectbatfam · 2 months

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lovesick-joey · 8 months

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oh shit oh fuck

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soleminisanction · 7 months

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I've always really liked DC's in-house choice of referring to their various superhero groupings as "families," but it has gotten a little frustrating recently with people both in canon and in fandom seeming to forget that families aren't just a parental-unit-and-kids formation. They're complicated, and a lot of the DC families are too messy to fit into that neat little nuclear family mode.

Which is to say... here's some scattered thoughts/summaries about how these families are actually structured in canon, because I think it's interesting:

Supers -- The smaller, more traditional Superfamily (Clark, Lois, Kara, Kon, etc.) is a pretty traditional Midwestern nuclear family, with Jimmy Olsen filling the role of close family friend/goofy neighbor sidekick (in the Silver Age, he was Kara's would-be suitor) and Steel feeling more like part of Clark's personal circle of friends. The recent line up, though, with Jon, the twins, Kong and Nat? Starts to feel more like some old dynasty or noble house, complete with fostered foundlings and the Steels acting almost like knights under a noble's banner, possibly reflective of what the House of El would have been on Krypton.

Arrows -- Might currently be the closet to a traditional nuclear family structure. You've got Ollie and Dinah, their younger sisters, Ollie's adopted and biological children, and Ollie's granddaughter through Roy, plus by some counts Roy's co-parent and her sister as "in-laws." Bonnie and Cissie King-Jones are adjacent to but not technically "part" of the family, though I believe it's implied at one point that Ollie might also be Cissie's bio-dad. Pretty straightforward, these guys are actually family and they act like it, for good and ill.

Shazam Family -- Also a literal, actual family. Not originally, the original golden age "Marvel Family" was considerably more complicated and only Billy and Mary were full siblings, but nowadays the whole point of the modern Shazam family is that they're foster siblings united by familial love and that's fantastic. Meanwhile your average Black Adam story is 75% angsty family drama, 25% Egyptian mythology references.

Flashes -- Technically closer to three nuclear families (the Allens, the Wests and the Garricks; four if you include the Quicks), two of whom are united by marriage and all of whom are bound by the Speedforce, which, given its semi-spiritual connections to things like Speedster afterlives, can act almost like a religious force that connects them to the additional members like Avery, Circuit Breaker and Max as Bart's foster-dad. They're a big, sprawling tree with more cousins than siblings, the kind of family that functionally has a reunion every Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Lanterns -- Now these guys are the exception that proves my point about the whole 'family' thing not being straightforward. The lanterns aren't a family, they're a corps. Soldiers. Space cops. Comrades-in-arms. They respect each other, have each other's backs, might even like or care about each other, but those last two are optional, and they don't have the same kind of assumed obligations towards each other that a family would have. They're friends and co-workers, not family, but that doesn't mean their relationships are less significant, they're just different.

Wonders -- Roughly half of them are either one of Hippolyta's daughters (Diana, Donna, Nubia pre-Crisis) or related to them through the gods (Cassie), and the other half (Artemis, Yara, modern-age Nubia) use sister as a term of endearment more in a utopian lesbian commune kind of way. I think they brought Steve Trevor back recently? He's basically the Ken in this equation and perfectly fine with that role. None of which should be surprising if you've seen Professor Marston and the Wonder Women.

Bats -- This is the one that people get really wrong when they try to force it into a traditional family structure. Don't let WFA fool you, the Bats are and have always been way more a snarled mess of tangled interpersonal relationships than they've ever been a cohesive family. Whether Dick is Bruce's son or his brother depends on what era you're talking about, and the former reading is much more recent than you think -- as in "started cropping up in the early 2000s" recent. Barbara is both Cassandra's sister and her mother. Duke and Steph both have living parents and neither of them want or would ever dream of treating Bruce like their dad; Tim was the same way until his dad died. None of the Robins ever lived in the mansion together, nor did Cass. Babs considered Jean-Paul Valley her brother and Huntress is so close to Tim she once hallucinated him calling her Big Sister. They're a beautiful mess of people finding places where their broken edges fit together into something that works for them and trying to reduce it down to a cozy nuclear family is just so goddamn reductive and lazy.

Blue Beetles -- Are only tangentially related to each other. Seriously, they never even get direct mentoring, each one just takes over when the previous one dies and works on completely different rules from the other two. They're complete strangers bound by a legacy and that's honestly pretty fun.

Zataras -- There's only three of them and they're literally a father, daughter and cousin.

Martians -- Not really a family because there's only the two of them, but an interesting case where the two survivors of what was functionally a war of mutually assured destruction came together in an attempt to find some peace in the aftermath of what they'd lost.

Titans -- The JLA and JSA aren't really in the "family" category, but the Titans lean into it hard, mostly because they're a textbook found family. They don't mirror a nuclear family structure, they're simply a group of people who came together to form a mutual support network. They're the idealized college friends you grew into your own with, some of them childhood companions and others you only met once you leave home for the first time, but all of them friends that you manage to maintain contact with for life, with everyone coming back together even as you scatter and do your own things.

Young Justice -- Meanwhile, this team is the chaotic group of misfits you hung out with when you were a teenager, especially when you were just starting to be allowed to act without adult supervision. You drive each other crazy, none of you know you're all queer as fuck, and you'd fight a bear for any of them even if they asked you not to. They'd probably be insulted if you tried to call them a family. They come out here to get away from their families, thank you very much.

#dc comics #meta #batfamily #super family #arrow family #flash family #wonder women #shazam family #batman #superman #wonder woman #green lantern #teen titans #young justice #kinda rambling #just kinda throwing some ideas together #families of choice #non-traditional families

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sebeth · 2 months

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Lian Harper

#Lian Harper #Roy Harper #Arrow Family #dc comics #dcu

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princemonday · 1 month

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all hail the gold chain ft roy and dick

#the chain stays on during sex #roy harper #red arrow #speedy #arsenal #nightwing #robin #batfamily #batfam #dc #dick grayson #dc comics #teen titans #arrowfam #arrow family #fab five #dickroy #roydick

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melonlthawne · 5 months

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the besties. bart’s face is hidden by his hair.

DO NOT TAG AS SHIP. they’re both gay/lesbian in my interpretation

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striveattemptfail · 6 months

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roy harper does movember send pos—no wait

roy harper does movember but doesn't go full goatee bc

outsiders (2003) #11

now send post lol

#roy harper #lian harper #arsenal #dc arsenal #speedy #dc speedy #arrow family #arrowfam #red arrow #jercy speaks #.if anyone know what issue this is from PLEASE lemme know bc i cannot for the life of me remember at all 😭😭#.anyway happy november y'all and happy birthday roy!!! LMAO #green arrow #oliver queen #.ETA: updated to include issue number ty yall!!!

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ramen-flavored · 1 month

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brunoartist · 5 months

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Archer team: Arrowette, Red Arrow and Speedy!

#illustration #green arrow #speedy #red arrow #arrowette #dc characters #dcu #dc comics #comics #dc universe #arrow family #comic book cover

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vodrae · 3 months

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The Justice League has a fund for the emergencies known as "Diana and Clark wanted to hug but forgot we're not half gods"

Batman: DELETED

Robins and Agent A: 126,352,786.32$ used, patient's note "Ain't regret nothing"

Lil Arrows: 125,352,786.32$ used, "Wait until we got ribs to break again."

Kids Flash: 98,557,961.12$ used "Play up with someone capable to shatter Earth is always a good idea"

Black Canary: 89,865,987$ used "Make it 100, i'm not losing against kids without pants"

Lantern: 76,355,654.45$ used "Sup has been chosen by a pink ring ?"

Arrow: 65,324,456.56$ used "Still not as hard a spending one year on a desert island. Also my wife is awesome."

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mycatcalledluna · 5 months

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Why does this feel like an equivalent exchange, like only one non powered vigilante family is allowed to be together at once

#dc #arrow family #bat family

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incorrectbatfam · 5 months

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If you could live in one DC city, which one would you choose? Star City? Central City? Metropolis? Gotham? Or a different one?

All of them have their pros and cons

Star City

- Pros: the Arrowfam

- Cons: Ollie's chili

Central City/Keystone

- Pros: more mentally stable Rogues gallery

- Cons: the Midwest

Metropolis

- Pros: not Gotham

- Cons: gotta buy a new car every week the way they get thrown through your office

Smallville

- Pros: Kon

- Cons: corn

Gotham

- Pros: grunge vibes

- Cons: Gotham

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lovesick-joey · 10 months

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jayroy doodle

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amaramizuki666 · 1 year

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dc x dp crossover prompt

danny was floating in the middle of the summoning circle. his eyes danced across the room looking at the cultists who had the fucking audacity to summon him 3 hours before he has to take the s.a.t’s. when is gaze caught the eyes of the guy they where trying to use as a sacrifice. danny was just floating their in his ghost kingly glory. holding his gaze, with his ex. who just so happens to be dressed as a vigilante. the same ex he broke up with so he didn't get them mixed up in his hero shit. “danny” the vigilante whispers “fuck my after life”.

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Also I write these for people to use, so please I'm beginning add to it. I love seeing what people add

#DC comics #dc batman #dp #dp x dc crossover #dp x dc prompt #Danny Phantom #ghost king danny #danny fenton #batfamily #arrow family #danny needs a nap

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incorrect-quotes-batfam-edition · 2 years

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Flashfam: “I love you, we’re family ♥️”

Superfam: “It’s complicated, but we’re still family and I care for you.”

Arrowfam: “Everyone here has issues, and we all need to work though them. We fight all the time and we have our grievances, but we’re family and we generally like each other.”

Batfam: “The words ‘I love you’ will come out of my mouth when either I’m dying or you’re dying, and we won’t talk about it after being resurrected.”

#look I love the batfam #they are a family and do love each other #but if it’s said out loud in a situation that isn’t going to result in certain death #then someone’s being mind controlled and/or impersonated #relatable #batfam #batfamily #flashfam #arrow family #arrowfam #superfam #superfamily #flash family #I didn’t mention the wonderfam or aquafam because I’m tired #and also they vary drastically depending on what you consider canon #the green lanterns are a hispanic family in the way that you’re not sure if you’ve met this person before #but you call them your cousin anyway #I’m so tired #math hard and brain no work good

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asongofstarkandtargaryen · 6 months

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Roy and Lian 's bond is adorable in every universe:

I love them!!!

#roy harper #lian harper #arrow family #dc comics #wayne family adventures #roy and Lian

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