#arthur brown

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

the realest man is Gotham is this random Blackgate guard who let Steph beat the everloving shit out of her dad for 10 full minutes no questions asked

from Robin #16 (1995)

#she's unhinged i love her #literally always raring to inflict physical violence on her dad #stephanie brown #arthur brown #batblogging #certified iconic gothamite moments

[incorrectbatfam]

Have you seen the tiktok going around that's a guy talking to his kids like "The more you sass me, the more I'm gonna flirt with your mother!" That but it's Bruce threatening to leave his comms on deliberately when he's around Selina if the baby bats don't start behaving themselves on patrol.

Bruce: The more you sass me, the more I'm gonna flirt with your parents.

Dick: Jokes on you, I'm an orphan.

Bruce: Alright then.

Bruce: *flirts with Commissioner Gordon*

Bruce: *flirts with Barry*

Bruce: *goes to space*

Bruce: *flirts with Luand'r*

Dick: STOP THOSE ARE MY IN-LAWS!

———————

Cass: *blinks*

Bruce: That's it. I've had it with your attitude.

Bruce: *goes out with Lady Shiva*

———————

Bruce: *walks in with a bouquet of flowers*

Luke: Uh... what's all this for?

Bruce: Remember the other week when you called my prototype strobe light batarang stupid?

Luke: ...Because it is?

Bruce: Well, guess what?

Bruce: *gives the flowers to Lucius*

———————

Jason: And what if I don't? What are you gonna do, let me die again?

Bruce: No.

Bruce: *opens Grindr*

Jason: You wouldn't.

Bruce: Oh yes I would.

Bruce: *slides into Ollie's DMs*

———————

Tim: It's a good thing I never introduced you to Bernard's family.

Bruce: I could always look them up in the phone book.

Tim: What year are you living in?

Bruce: I'm just kidding. I'll be back in an hour. Hold down the fort for me, m'kay buddy?

Tim: Yeah, sure.

[an hour later]

Bruce: *walks in holding hands with Lex Luthor and Max Mercury*

Tim: What the...?

Bruce: I still know your best friends' parents.

Lex: This is what you handcuffed me for?

Bruce: Shush, I'm making a point.

———————

Bruce: We go in on my signal.

Steph: This is my dad we're talking about. I'm not gonna sit around and risk him getting away.

Steph: *swings onto the scene*

Bruce: *follows her*

Steph: Stop right there, Cluemaster—BATMAN WHAT THE FUCK?!?

Bruce: *sweeps Arthur off his feet*

———————

Bruce: *lecturing Damian*

Damian: Tt.

Bruce: One second.

Bruce: *pulls out his phone*

Bruce: Hey Talia, I was wondering if you had dinner plans tonight?....Yes, Damian is misbehaving again.....7:30? Perfect!

———————

Duke: You've never met my friends' or girlfriend's parents and Jokerized people can't consent, so...

Bruce: *turns on the computer*

Bruce: *emails the immortal entity Gnomon*

Bruce: *gets a reply*

Bruce: Alfred, fetch my tux.

———————

The voice in Bruce's head: *says mean things*

Bruce: Oh yeah? Well how do you like THIS?

Bruce: *proposes to Selina*

———————

Holly: *flips him off*

Bruce: *proposes to Selina*

Selina: Again? That's the second time today.

———————

Julia: You're nothing a bloody angst-addled egotistical baby twat!

Bruce: *looks at her*

Bruce: *looks at Alfred*

Bruce: This isn't gonna work.

#bruce wayne #batman #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #damian wayne #duke thomas #stephanie brown #cassandra cain #luke fox #holly robinson #julia pennyworth #selina kyle #alfred pennyworth #talia al ghul #arthur brown #jim gordon #justice league #batfamily #batfam #batboys #batbros #batgirls #batkids #batsiblings #batman family #incorrect batfamily quotes #incorrect quotes #incorrect dc quotes #dc comics

[sweetmeatdale]

Cluemaster: Ask me any question! On any topic!

Batman(who has been getting help from Cluemaster’s daughter all night):

#it’s 10 pm #do you know where your children are? #stephanie brown #spoiler #Batman #robin #arthur brown #cluemaster

[morgangalaxy43]

All of the batkids have mommy issues or daddy issues (except Dick, his parents were nice)

#dick grayson #mary grayson #john grayson #jason todd #willis todd #catherine todd #sheila haywood #tim drake #janet drake #jack drake #cassandra cain #lady shiva #stephanie brown #arthur brown #crystal brown #batkids #batfamily #dc comics

[arkhamknightd]

While Tim isn’t exactly the most interesting Robin I think it’s notable that out of all the protégés he comfortably has the best Rogue’s Gallery and it Carrie’s him a long way. Barb has Killer Moth, and formerly the Cavalier I guess, and Damien has his family but all of them are mostly Bruce’s villains. And everyone has rivals in Bruce’s rogue’s gallery but those connections never stick. Tim’s got Anarky, King Snake, and the General as pretty much exclusively his nemeses, and he’s got a great dynamic with all of them, like Lonnie, Dorrance, and Ulysses are all full fledged rogues with history, and most of that history is up against Tim. Steph is the only competition, but Cluemaster is ontologically pathetic by design and it’s tougher to have him be a recurring threat yknow. I think it’s worth putting energy into, because otherwise you end up with Dick’s most recurring foes being Blockbuster and Double Dare, I like Blockbuster and Double Dare more than most, but if they’re your arch-villains then something is wrong.

#tim drake #batman #robin #dc comics #batfamily #not art #nightwing #batgirl #dick grayson #barbara gordon #damian wayne #killer moth #cluemaster #arthur brown #drury walker #lonnie machin #ulysses hadrian armstrong #Edmund dorrance #stephanie brown

[thejasontoddarchives]

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures (S2) Ep. 100 - Enough (Part 1) | CRC Payne, Starbite

Jason and Steph fans get fed this week

#has Jason always had brown eyes in wfa? #I know he does in his own webtoon but that one isn’t real to me so #stephanie brown #arthur brown #jason todd #batman: wayne family adventures #wfa #dc #comic panels #wfa spoilers #comic spoilers #anyway #it’s always a bonus if they show them as babies too

[why-i-love-comics]

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures #101 - "Enough II" (2023)

written by CRC Payne art by Starbite, Jace Camedon, Suzi Blake, & Paula Fidelis

#spoiler #cluemaster #stephanie brown #arthur brown #DC #wednesday spoilers #spoilers #comic spoilers

[robintherobiner]

Sorting the Robin's biological parents

Mommy issues club:

Jason, Sheila sold him to the Joker.

Tim, Janet was very neglectful.

Damian, Talia... Just Talia in general causes issues.

Daddy issues club:

Jason, Willis was physically abusive.

Tim, Jack was also neglectful.

Stephanie, Arthur was very absent due to being in jail 24/7.

Non-mommy issues:

Dick, Mary was very loving.

Jason, Catherine was shown to be very sweet when not high.

Stephanie, Crystal is shown to be very loving.

Non-daddy issues:

Dick, John was very loving.

Damian, Bruce seems to be a good dad (surprisingly-)

#dc comics #dc universe #batman comics #batman #batfam #batfamily #dick grayson #jason todd #tim drake #stephanie brown #damian wayne #dc robin #robin #mary grayson #john grayson #sheila haywood #willis todd #janet drake #jack drake #arthur brown #crystal brown #talia al ghul #bruce wayne #daddy issues #mommy issues

[iconuk01]

Pouches - Who's to blame (Not entirely serious)

Now, we remember that the king of the super pouches is Cable, and for good reason... Since his intro in 1990 he has tended to be more than slightly... pouch intensive

This isn't even a spoof cover, it's an accurate representation of his costume at the time.

But did he START the trend?

I think not.

Leaving aside Batman from the 1966 series, who had hefty pouches in his belt...

Though still not remotely large enough for some of the stuff he randomly produced from it, even if it DOES fold up... sort of.

But I digress....

I did consider the Silver Age bat villain Cluemaster

But those are specifically "plastic-glass pellets" containing assorted chemical weapons, like explosives, gas, acids and the like, so not sure they count.

It's been suggested that one of the first in the modern era to develop this was Longshot in 1986, when he did indeed have pouches on his belt, because artist Art Adams thought he needed practically-sized pouches to carry things in.

But even then are there MANY pouches? His bandolier was to store his throwing knives for easy access, so weren't pouches per se.

So technically, the first X-Men character to really lay into the pouches side of things isn't Cable, not by a long shot... it's this guy, slightly later in 1986

So Doug Ramsey was leading the field of poucher-y in the X-Verse side of things.

Just look at that vest and belt, LOADED and lined with pouches, and we never even find out what's in them... Though I think it would include pens, pencils, notepaper, some money, spare keys to the Xavier school, first-aid kit, lock picks (because he's always wanted to carry lockpicks), string (Everyone should carry string), breath mints and other things a relatively sensible teenager would want to be sure he was carrying if he had the room in his outfit and wasn't given to cargo shorts!

And yet, there are other contenders, so let's work backwards...

Also from 1986, Batman (again) from "The Dark Knight Returns" where even his BELT looks to be on a course of serious steroids!

And in 1983 we got this stylish new costume retconned into the history of the Golden Age Tarantula in All-Star Squadron who, up until this point, wore a purple and yellow spandex outfit that was, oncufsingly, identical to the Golden Age Sandman's spandex costume outfit.

Notice that he has rings of pouches on both boots, where he keeps things like spare cash in case he needs to hire a taxi and probably some spare ammo for his wirepoon gun.

But I think I've found patient zero as, from 1981's New Teen Titans #3. we have the inventor and technologist par excellence, the man who would be known (Eventually) as Mikron O'Geneus, though he would, perhaps thankfully, becomes better known by his codename:

GIZMO!

Look, even his LOGO has pouches!

In fairness, given his speciality is creating techno-widgets and devices out of other technology, him carrying dozens of gadgets and components makes a lot of sense, to the extent that he even manages to carry MORE weapons than Robin's utility belt (Which is TARDIS like in and of itself)!

So I think we have a winner!

Gizmo started the modern pouch trend!

If anyone can find earlier/other contenders, then please feel free to add them!

#pouches all the way down #cable #nathan summers #batman 66 #bruce wayne #cluemaster #arthur brown #longshot #cypher #doug ramsey #tarantula #john law #gizmo #mikron o'geneus #robin #dick grayson

[sporkberries]

Robin(1993) #16

Serving this hard while beating the shit out of her dad is what makes stephanie brown the realest character in gothan-based comics

#spork says stuff #dc #stephanie brown #do i tag this as batfam #yeah sure #batfam #arthur brown

[about-faces]

Seeing those BatFam webtoons of Steph and her dad issues makes me annoyed about One Bad Day: Two-Face all over again. One of the big reasons that issue was popular was because of how Steph didn’t trust Harvey for one second, didn’t feel any sympathy towards him, and criticized Bruce’s own sympathy for Harvey as being stupid and dangerous.

And in the end, the plot vindicates her skepticism when Harvey destroys his noble father for absolutely no reason. Just evil for the sake of evil.

Which only worked because the author went out of her way to create a whole new backstory for Harvey, turning his abusive monster of a dad into a kind, loving, successful man. “All the best parts of me are my father,” Harvey says at one point. This Harvey is written expressly to be exactly the person Steph says he is, just to prove her right. He is just rotten to the core, playing up a “good” side that isn’t really there to manipulate Bruce and others. And there seems to be no reason for it in this story other than to make Steph look like the only sensible person who can see through it.

It wouldn’t have worked the same way if the author had actually incorporated Harvey’s canonical abuse. I still wonder how Steph would react to that Harvey. How much empathy would she have for what he went through? Would she condemn him for not pulling himself up by his boostraps the way she did, choosing to become a hero instead of a monster? Would she take his mental illness into account, or the extent to which he tried to be heroic and was torn down by forces without and within? Or would she be like Dick, and flatly condemn him as a psychopath, unworthy of any sympathy and unable to be salvaged, if not redeemed?

And for that matter, what would that Harvey make of her? Even if she didn’t empathize with Harvey, what if he empathized with her? What if Two-Face decided to pay Cluemaster a little visit, to mete out some justice of his own, and how would Steph react to that?

There’s a far more interesting and troubling story to be written about Harvey with Steph (and/or Cass, for that matter), but it would require a writer who was willing to dive into these complex questions about what makes a monster. Someone willing to acknowledge that Two-Face is both villain and victim, an abusive “survivor” who arguably didn’t actually survive. A walking scar, still seeking out some sense of justice and fairness in his own broken way.

#harvey dent #stephanie brown #batfam #wayne family adventures #cluemaster #arthur brown #abuse cw

[batmanisagatewaydrug]

funniest thing about Cluemaster being a second-string Riddler knockoff is that it can actually work wildly in his favor, re: actually giving up the puzzle gimmick pretty easily

like Eddie's been in the Arkham revolving door for YEARS with no improvement (which, you know, not totally his fault. it's Arkham) and then Arthur kicks it in Blackgate for six months (possibly less in-story, that's the real life passage of time!) and not only kicks the habit but then escapes Blackgate with a couple buddies in tow to immediately resume a life of crime with 100% less self-incriminating clues. like honestly good for him.

#batblogging #tim drake #arthur brown

[incorrectbatfam]

Cluemaster: Batman, you ruined my life.

Bruce: I don't even know who you are.

#source: tumblr #bruce wayne #batman #arthur brown #cluemaster #gotham rogues #batfamily #batfam #batman family #incorrect batfamily quotes #incorrect quotes #incorrect dc quotes #dc villains #dc comics

[bobbinalong]

siktc au browns. yes, i'm including the baby. i like drawing her.

#dc #fanart #bobbinart #stephanie brown #crystal brown #arthur brown #oc allie brown #siktc au

[maemil]

Can't believe I never realized she absolutely stole these from her dad. Most iconic hater of all time.

#does she ever use them? maybe its just meant to be a strange interpretation of a utility belt but the similarities seem purposeful #but i have never seen her smoke bomb or blow anyone up with them #she wears them in a much less stupid looking way too her dad could never #stephanie brown #spoiler #image id in alt text #arthur brown #cluemaster #dc comics

[goodoldfashionedengineer]

Why did it take me watching the 1966 Batman show to learn that Dick has an aunt?

Actually, no, objectively I knew he had other relatives, but that fact never really registered?

And now I've fallen into a rabbit hole...

Did you know that her comic counterpart, introduced in 1964, was introduced after Alfred died when he saved Batman and Robin from a falling boulder and essentially took his role?

And when she found the Batcave, she smeared pitch onto all the exit routes of the Batcave, because Bruce and Dick tried to trick her into thinking that they aren't Batman and Robin.

They used a hydrofoil attachment to get over it.

So they go out for partrol to catch the latest villain.

You'll never guess who it is.

It's Cluemaster. Fucking Cluemaster.

He painted a special chemical onto the BatTires so he could locate them but the tracks just stopped at some point.

Bruce and Dick thought they outplayed Dick's Aunt Harriet.

#wild times in comic history #never did I expect to see the name cluemaster when starting this little research #pre crisis #dc #dc comics #batman #batman comics #batman and robin #batman 1966 #dick grayson #bruce wayne #robin #aunt harriet #cluemaster #dc comic #arthur brown #Bruce and Dick gaslighting Dick's Aunt and Steph's dad's evil scheme mistaken as Harriet's attempt to collect proof #I did not have that on my bingo card #alfred pennyworth