#Joker doesn't honestly believe Batman is a ghost

[stillebesat]

Hunting Batman

What if Danny comes home from school one day to hear his parents in the living room talking about a new client of theirs that bought up a bunch of their ghost hunting gear in order to go hunt/capture the Batman. And like it's Batman. Sure the dude is a Gotham cryptid. But a Ghost?! Ha. He's totally not. It's a nice laugh and he can see how his parents would believe it. But Batman a Ghost? No. Danny doesn't believe it. Only. In the middle of the night. After Danny has come back from chucking the Box Ghost into the Ghost Zone for the 15th billionth time. He's still thinking about it. Could Batman be a Ghost? It seems unlikely, but....he's heard rumors over the years. Of the various Bats and Robins. How they can't seem to die. Or if they do...they don't stay 'dead' for long....not long enough for anyone to track down a body at least.

And IF he's a ghost. And IF this mysterious client is right....then his parents are going to be complicent in capturing and possibly torturing/maiming/trying to kill etc at this point THE BATMAN one of the FOUNDERS of the Justice League.

And despite all their flaws, especially around Ghosts, Danny does not want his parents to be labeled super villains and placed on the Justice Leagues's watch list or worst their Wanted List just because they didn't do a freaking background check on their new client.

So maybe for his peace of mind, Danny tracks down the paperwork. Just to, you know, double check and make sure the new client isn't some crazy super villain and just your normal regular amateur ghost hunter that they see quite often here in Amity.

And it all seems pretty normal. Sure it's A LOT of weapons and containment devices, but it's not like the government doesn't try to mass order them on occasion. So it's fine. It's all fine. Batman will be fine.

Until he sees the signature of the client at the bottom of the paperwork.

A Mr. Joe Kerr :)

#Danny Phantom #Batman #dc x dp crossover #smiley face and all in the signature #cue the 'oh no my parents are totally going to prison!! for helping a super villain the /WORST/ super villain!!!' panic #and then Danny gets to Gotham and discovers the entire place reeks of stale/rotten ectoplasm #because there's lazarus pits underneath gotham #and while the weapons /shouldn't/ hurt humans #who knows at this point who has and hasn't been contaminated by the lazarus pit waters #So a lot more people may get hurt #So Danny's frantically trying to track down Batman or any of the other vigilantes to warn them #And depending on when in the timeline it is a lot of the bat crew besides Jason /could/ be affected by the ghost weapons. #Joker doesn't honestly believe Batman is a ghost #He just thinks it's a nice new joke #Look! I have this Fancy Gun! #But no worries. When I shoot you it won't hurt! Because you're not a ghost batman #Red Hood on the other hand? #Joker can't wait to see if Hood is actually the Ghost of Robin II

[sagaduwyrm]

I know it's a classic trope of danny phantom x dc crossovers that the Justice League or the Batfam finds out about Amity Park and immediately starts an investigation, but honestly, that doesn't really make sense in world.

Like, there are ghosts in Illinois. Whoopdeedoo. There are aliens in Metropolis, assassins in Star City, metas in Central, and every type of crazy imaginable and a few that no one would ever think of in Gotham. The DC world is a very weird place.

More than that, I think it kind of misunderstands what the Justice League originally was. A lot of the time fanon and canon both treat it like some kind of centralized superhero organization with the main group as the bosses. This isn't really how it started in the comics though, from what I understand. At first, the Justice League was a bunch of independent supers with their own independent territories who occasionally talked to each other. They would get together if say, there were aliens in Star City and Green Arrow needed advice on how to take care of them, or if there was a worldwide threat they needed to work together to address, but for the most part each hero had their own jurisdiction and they were not fond of people intruding in that territory. Local problems were dealt with by local heros, and if there wasn't a local hero? Just wait a couple of weeks, the police can handle it until someone pops up.

My point is that the League is really unlikely to try to swoop in and completely figure out Amity Park's situation, or even to really care about it once they realize that they already have both Phantom and Red Huntress. At most they might invite them to a few get togethers for networking.

I bet Batman wouldn't even care that much. I know he's the king of paranoia and contingencies, but he focuses almost all of that on people he knows are threats. He doesn't have time to care about a couple small town heros with small town problems, the Joker just got out of Arkham and he's going to kill hundreds of they don't catch him fast. (This isn't to say I think B would look down on small timers, but he would probably see them as little leagues, because he has no reason to suspect that it's that important. People with the power of the Justice League aren't just crawling out of the wood work, and it makes far more sense for him to assume that the problems in Amity Park aren't particularly powerful. Like how non Gothamites never believe that normal human rogues could actually be that dangerous.)

Crazy stuff is everywhere in the DC world, and unless you make it their problem, most supers assume that it's taken care of.

That said, it would totally be awesome if the Justice League was throwing a get together for lesser known less powerful heroes and just didn't realize what they had invited until it smacks them in the face.

#danny phantom #fandom stuff #batman #dp x dc #crossover #dp x dc crossover #justice league #the dc world is crazy #there is a brand new problem every fifty feet #ghosts aren't going to break the paradigm #the Justice League would absolutely fall into the trap of assuming #that because the ghosts stay in the middle of nowhere and don't cause them problems that they aren't that dangerous #nevermind that when they were new supers they consistently managed enormous problems too without help #not sure how much sense this makes #but yeah #DPxDC #DCxDP