#ditf spoilers

[jasontoddssuper]

Been a while since i did anything with these three so here y'all go :]

(Percy art was allowed to repost with the watermark + I have a dni in my pinned and i ask you to respect it as i will you if you do)

#jason todd #percy jackson #perseo jackson #persephone jackson #zagreus #batfam #robin #red hood #rhato #dead sidekicks force #hades game #pjo #hoo #teen titans #ditf #lost days #utrh #wfa #wfa spoilers #jason and zagreus are trans men + percy is transfem bigender and they're bi adhd autistic and mdd #real self shipping hours #jaysumm #perlex #casszag #my edit #good times #💌 #letters from summer #pop post 🌟

[covertblizzard]

rip jason todd or whatever but it's STEPH'S TURN!!

#stephanie brown #robin #spoiler #batman #mypost #dc thoughts #i say whatever as though i was not devastated about ditf even though like... i know almost everything that is happening in that storyline... #LISTEN... stories make me sad sometimes :( #ANYWAY STEPH WHACKS TIM WITH A BRICK WHATS UP #i don't know if like... people who follow me are ready for rage but like... i know rage is coming #bcos i probably WILL be complaining a lot #jason's dead now besides the little side stories i'm reading #it's steph turn then cass turn and then whatever happens from 2005 onward i need to figure that out

[distort-opia]

Hi! First of all, you have an amazing blog! Your batjokes reflections are among the most accurate and profound. I wanted to ask you what you think about "The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing"? Do you have any idea why the Joker stopped laughing and is it related to your thoughts that he decided to finally give up his humanity? Does it still seem to me that he is suffering because Bruce, trying to be the best Batman (as the clown wanted) in the Joker's War, chose Gotham over the clown? Do you think they will be able to survive this crisis, as they once survived the death of Jason, or is DC trying to put an end to this relationship(I mean in terms of romance/care/affection)?

Hey! Again, thank you so much for your kind words and appreciation, and my apologies for answering so late.

Tbh, I am wildly curious about The Man Who Stopped Laughing, October can't come quicker. The writers and artists involved are promising, and the official description of it is highly intriguing:

What do you mean, DC, that Batman might be in on the joke? Is it even Batman to begin with? [squinted eyes] And what the hell is Mirror Master doing in all this? The cover seems to suggest he might influence Joker, perhaps get in his head somehow, but to what purpose?

Putting the rest of my thoughts and speculations under the cut. Warning for spoilers of Batman #126 and of The Joker (2021), just in case.

I'm also hoping it'll deal with Joker's reaction to the ending of Batman #100 somehow. The Joker (2021) has been much more focused on Jim Gordon, than the actual titular character -- but we do get some clues to Joker's mental state, and it doesn't seem terribly good. He got framed for A-day and discovered that he was being cloned without his permission, which is absolutely something Joker would hate: there being duplicates of him controlled by someone else. The last issue of the comic has Joker say this:

That's quite the self-destructive response. Taking this into account, and the events of Joker War, in which Joker asserts more than once that Gotham (and him, clearly) is disappointed... to me, like I mentioned in my response to your other ask, it feels like Joker is tired. Bruce leaving him behind in Batman (2016) #100 is a huge part of it, but it's not all of it. That was just the culmination of Bruce not rising to Joker's needs, to his Batman-related standards, adding onto Joker's existing anger and bitterness. As to why he stops laughing... this has happened before, in Batman (1940) #450-451 and The War of Jokes and Riddles more recently. In these stories, what is always put at the forefront is Joker having lost the joke. He struggles to find anything funny again, which is the core of his Joker identity. Joker laughs at the world, and if he cannot laugh, who is he?

In Batman (1940) #450, his struggle with becoming Joker again is more framed within the context of trauma (having murdered Jason, being shot and surviving it in Batman: Death in the Family) -- but I think it's not a coincidence that it happens after Bruce leaves him to die in that helicopter... which is also the end of Batman (2016) #100. However, in TWOJAR, Joker has lost the joke not because of trauma or Batman leaving him to die, but because Batman has become too predictable:

So. What's happening now, is that Joker was left to die by Bruce again (though tbh, it's not as bad as in DitF; when Bruce left Joker to crash with the helicopter, Joker's death was much more likely than when he left Joker strapped to the bomb after literally making sure Joker had the tools to disarm it). And not only that, Joker's also disappointed in Batman; he's too predictable again. It does make sense for Joker to stop laughing, if you take these two past intances it happened into account. The first time, Joker became himself again because he was forced to -- there was a Joker impostor and Joker needed to take back his identity again. And the second time, what got Joker to laugh again was having to do something entirely unexpected: stopping Bruce from killing Riddler.

Taking into account the whole cloning subplot of The Joker (2021), who knows, maybe Joker will have to defend his identity from an impostor (a clone of himself) again. Hell, even Mirror Master might play a similar narrative role to Riddler in TWOJAR. But more interestingly... Bruce going against what Joker expects, doing something surprising that would help Joker find the joke once more, might also actually happen. Which is the part I'm actually cautiously excited about.

Bruce is not doing very well either in the mental health department, right now. He's shown to have become the Batman of Zurr-en-Arrh, as shown in Batman (2016) #126:

So... maybe this is what's hinted at with "Or is he in on the joke?" in the official description of The Man Who Stopped Laughing. Maybe it won't be Batman as we know him chasing Joker down, it'll be the grinning Batman of Zurr-en-Arrh. In Batman: R.I.P, this is who this Batman is described as:

He's what Batman becomes when Bruce is taken out of the equation. And ironically, it seems it's him who's designed Failsafe, a robot meant to kill Batman. So, we've got a Joker who's overtly suicidal, and a Batman who's overtly suicidal... as you've put it, they've both lost balance in their fight against the abyss. But in Batman: R.I.P, Joker helped in bringing Batman back (which ironically enough, he's also done in TWOJAR when he stopped Bruce from killing Riddler -- he preserved the existence of Batman). I'm not holding out too much hope, but it'd be cool if Batman of Zurr-en-Arrh and Joker interacted, and if Joker actually helped Bruce find his way back to himself somehow -- in the process restoring meaning to his identity as well. Helping Bruce, in whatever unexpected form, might make him laugh again.

To summarize, I do think they will "survive" this ongoing story arc; mostly because, as I've said elsewhere, I don't think DC will ever have the balls to separate Batman and Joker entirely. Their dynamic has fascinated from the moment they were created, and it doesn't seem like interest is dying down, let's be honest. DC will only "break them up" or end their stories when they stop bringing in money. The question, to me, is more if the way they survive it this time will be interesting. And I hope it is! I'm only speculating for fun in the above, but it'd definitely be great if we got an interesting psychological story; if we get Batman and Joker consolidating each other's identities again, being each other's constant.

#thank you for the ask! hope this was fun to read through #asks #batman #batman meta #joker #joker meta #batjokes #batjokes meta #my meta

[theangelofangst]

Bruce Wayne holding, protecting and loving his Robins.

#carrie kelley #tim drake #jason todd #dick grayson #bruce wayne #batman death in the family #batman tas #the dark knight returns #fuk you DC Bruce loves ALL his children #daddybats #batman #nightwing #batman and robin #red hood #red robin #batfamily #dc showcase #ditf spoilers

[miyaeto]

#miya edits #DITF SPOILERS #darling in the franxx spoilers #darling in the franxx #DITF #anime #anime edit #anime gif #monochrome #OKAY #FINALLY im done with all the edits i wanted to do #and all the scenery from this anime was so beautiful AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH #even though i finished this anime like a few weeks ago. it took me until now to finish up all the edits i wanted to do ahaha #it was a fun to mess around with making edits for this anime though !!! #also all of my coloured edits will be on my side blog. notjahnny !!! check it out if you want to see the coloured versions :) #omg but honestly you guys are probably sick of seeing DITF edits by now. i've been consistently making DITF edits the past few weeks AHHHHH

[pansexualnoodle5]

DAMN THEY REALLY DID THAT

#I LOVE IT #for anyone who needs clarification #Jason is red robin #and Tim Drake is Batkid #the name is a little lame #but this suits tim just fine #tim was in like one scene and they did his character perfectly #i respect them for that #batman death in the family #death in the family spoilers #ditf spoilers #death in the family #dc comics #jason todd #tim drake #bruce wayne #batman #under the red hood #batfamily #batfam

[jokerous]

“One. Bad. Day.”

Joker vs Jason Todd in BATMAN: DEATH IN THE FAMILY (2020)

#dcedit #batman: death in the family #batman death in the family #death in the family #jokeredit #ditf spoilers #joker #jason todd #red hood #dc #dc comics #john dimaggio #my gifs #this scene is so powerful #i got actual chills #the last line is just *chef's kiss*

[notjahnny]

#miya edits #darling in the franxx spoilers #DITF spoilers #darling in the franxx #eating disoder things #anime #anime edit #anime gif #anime scenery

[jasontoddssuper]

My honest reaction whenever i remember the whole reason Robin Jason Todd keeps getting characterized as always having been a violent edgelord is that a bunch of grown ass people in the 80s couldn't handle a poor kid being relevant in a superhero comics series

#LIKE IT'S FUCKING INSANE AND FUCKED UP WHEN YOU GET DOWN TO IT????if you perpetuate that version of robin jason then i don't trust you #jason todd #pro jason todd #robin #red hood #star sapphire jason #(this is a ref to that one meme btw) #batfam #ntt #ditf #lost days #utrh #rhato #the outlaws #teen titans:damian edition #dead sidekicks force #wfa #wfa spoilers #wfa salt #dc critical #letters from summer

[agustcult]

︴⋄ 𝙕𝙚𝙧𝙤 𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙞𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙨

ғᴀᴠ ᴏʀ ʀᴇʙʟᴏɢ ɪғ ʏᴏᴜ ᴜsᴇ/sᴀᴠᴇ

#zero two manga #zero two art #zero two anime #zero two headers #zero two icons #zero two #zero two users #zero two x hiro #002 icons #002 #anime icons #darling in the franxx headers #darling in the franxx icons #darling in the franxx #ditfxx #ditf icons #ditf spoilers #ditf headers #manga icons #magazine icons #magazine headers #anime aesthetic #kpop icons #manhwa icons #anime headers #webtoon icons #shounen icons #shoujoedit #shoujo icons #shounen

[yumiirai]

anime : darling in the franxx

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#darling in the franxx #Ditf #ditf spoilers #ditfedit #ditfxx #Ichigo #anime #90s anime #anime aesthetic #anime art #anime scenery #anime girl #anime cosplay #animation #anime icons #anime edit

[shadcwforged]

Helping others...helping Gotham healed me. I want that for you. Because I love you, son. I know the pain...the anger you have inside. Killing him won’t end that pain.  You have to be strong. Use this pain to be strong, son.  For your family.

BATMAN saves ROBIN and doesn’t survive - Batman: A Death In the Family (2020)

#my gifs #ditf spoilers #gosh #bruce knew he didn't have much time left #and had to tell jason everything #:( #batman #jason todd #red hood #a death in the family

[theangelofangst]

Bruce calling Jason his son —Batman: Death in the Family

Why don’t you just rip my heart out and stomp on it DC, it’d hurt less then showing just how much Bruce really loves Jason.

#batman death in the family #death in the family #death in the family spoilers #ditf spoilers #jason todd #bruce wayne #batman #red hood #batfamily #batfam #batman under the hood #batman under the red hood #dc showcase #under the red hood

[jasontodding]

ditf plays out like a super emo, overly dramtic personal video diary that jason himself is narrating and honestly? that’s valid.

#jason todd #red hood #batman: death in the family #death in the family #ditf spoilers #dc #personal

[milfcodedvillain]

When this queen realizes I can treat her better than bruce wayne and starts dating me...

#dc #talia al ghul #death in the family #ditf spoilers #mine

[elektrae]

Clark:

Bruce: my son. Jason, my son. My son! My son Jason that you know. My son? My son... My very own son. My son who died Jason. Jason. Son. My son who I used to fight alongside.

#ditf #a death in the family #death in the family #dc #bruce wayne #jason todd #ditf spoilers #ig #not really but