#everything is batman related

[mattzerella-sticks]

I have to say that the choice of Jason Todd and Kyle Rayner for this Justice League Green Lantern Dark Crisis special is... interesting.

I mean, from the synopsis and covers, it does feel like John Stewart's 'fantasy world' really is fantasy-like in that he is a knight and Kyle is a prophet (a blind prophet) and Jason... has a gun?

From what I'm thinking, maybe this fantasy world is like a Gotham City and John is its Batman? And the choice of Jason because of all the Robins Jason is the one whose expertise mirrors John's in a way (John was in the army, Jason is the only trained weapons specialist of the group).

It wouldn't be the first of these JL specials to mirror Batman, as the Superman special finds him in a world where his dream of having Jon be his official sidekick (in a Robin-inspired outfit) is the main premise. This also makes me wonder if all of these specials are variations of Batman themes and involve the Batfamily (because, though we are fatigued they ARE DC's bread and butter y'all).

AND thinking of this made me question the release order of the specials. Superman is #1 and Jon is supposed to be an homage to Dick Grayson. Green Lantern is number 2, and it features Jason Todd. I wouldn't be surprised if 3 and 4 (Wonder Woman and Green Arrow) feature Tim and Steph in some way, not to mention how the backpage stories might work and who will be woven in. And 5 would be Damian but this is also the Batman special, and I think it ends with him because in everyone's perfect world they're some sort of version of Batman, but in Batman's perfect world there is no Batman ("A perfect world would never create a Batman" very similar to when Clark told Earth-2 Superman a perfect world is one without Superman) so it's very much Wayne Family Adventures but with Damian and... either a baby or a grown woman Helena Wayne!

But I could talk about that in a whole nother post... as much as I could how both Bruce and Barry's idealized paradises are ones where they're just being domestic. But I digress...

So that might explain Jason, but what about the Kyle of it all?

There were a plethora of Lanterns to choose from that John has worked with AND are from Earth. We have to think about the character Kyle will be portraying and who would easily fill this role, then.

Hal and Guy are immediately out. No way could they ever be the kind of prophet this story needs. Plus they would overshadow the other characters in the story. Jason and Guy's characters will act to similarly and make the story one-dimensional. Hal would step too much on John's toes. So it has to be those who came after John in the Corps.

Of corpsmen, the three who come to mind are Simon Baz, Jo Mullein, and Kyle Rayner. Of the three, Simon and Jo have been present and featured in the storyline where John became the Emerald Knight, so it wouldn't be surprising if those two were chosen. Plus Kyle's been MIA for a long while since the latest GL series started. However, considering the third element - the Jason factor - they probably looked back to see who could be the perfect complement there to balance things out, and they landed on Kyle. It also helps that they both have history with Kyle as well. I expect Kyle to really lean into his artistic side in this one-shot.

Tl;dr the use of Jason might be more than just a crumb for JayKyle stans, it might hint at how the singular thread connecting the worlds in these is the Batman-ness of it all (especially since Nightwing seems to be leading the heroes and confirmed villains running amok after the DotJL are Deathstroke and Clayface, Batman villains). However, JayKyle has to be considered because choices are not made in a vacuum, especially character and story choices.

#dc comics #dcu #death of the justice league #dotjl #dark crisis #john stewart #kyle rayner #jason todd #green lantern #red hood #jaykyle #this started as a jaykyle thinkpiece but slowly transitioned lol #and into a batman piece too lol #everything is batman related #i mean just look at how dc is falling back on families and legacy #not for nothing but batman started the superhero dynasty in mainstream comics with his need to adopt children #like batman is the blueprint for ensemble casts #i could go more in depth batman and media analysis are two of my special interests #but i meant it when i joked there were other posts for this #and this could be me reading into things but nothing was gained from thinking the curtains were just blue

[klanced]

people like to joke that batman is a furry but my hottest batman take is that batman is actually a metaphor for gender expression and drag (he is performing hyper masculinity)

#batman #batfam #dc #yeah i'll tag this post #i took a queer cinema and film class in college and now everything is camp to me #but seriously the 80s and 90s batman films are SO camp and they're so much fun #you can also apply a queer lens to the nolanverse movies in the sense that you can recognize how those movies #are incredibly emblematic of the post 9/11 characterization of superheroes as relating to both american pride and identity #but also the militarization of superheroes and the idealized hyper masculinity of superheroes as well

[spielzeugkaiser]

I saw the saddest little meow meow yesterday!! All I could think about while watching that version of Bruce is a. GIVE HIM A ROBIN and b. LET HIM MEET SUPERMAN

#the batman #the batman 2022 #battinson #bruce wayne #clark kent #dick grayson #alfred pennyworth #jim gordon #superbat #I fucking loved everything about this movie! the detective work #the costume #shy antisocial bruce who can't really hold eye contact #him helping with the evacuation in the end #bruce being a hot topic MESS #I am sorry but I love one (1) messy man who has to fight the tears when he drops his ice cream #also bruce honey I feel you with the not wanting to talk to people #peak relateable #also he is clearly not talking much in this movie because he just goes non-verbal from time to time #not because it's some kind of 'interrogation tactic' #GODS I love this movie #jesus it's 2022 and I'm back with the urge to draw superbat like i did. 5 years ago?? RENAISSANCE

[spacedace]

I've been working on a dp x dc fic that has rather quickly become the home of the "Jazz is Gotham's Favorite Psychiatrist" au I posted about a few days ago and I've just really fell in love with the idea of Queer Platonic Murder Gremlins Damian & Dani/Elle being absolute terrors to their family and deciding to get married when they turn 18 for the sake of avoiding various people trying to date/marry them to get to their family's respective shit (the Wayne's money & social standing in Gotham as billionaire socialites, the Nightingale's massive power and influence over the Infinite Realms as the royal family).

Damien casually mentions he and his demon beastie Elle got married the day before without even glancing up from his food and completely derailing what was actually turning out to be a pretty calm family dinner for once. His siblings are losing their shit because what the fuck Damian, Bruce is having a crisis - he didn’t even know they were dating??? And he just found out Elle's sister/guardian is the mysterious doctor that he thinks is making some of his rogues disappear??? Damian didn’t even invite them to the wedding has he completely failed as a father?? - meanwhile Alfred is just there knowing full well that the two kids are little Aro/Ace menaces - he bought them each their first Ace ring for Pride this year he knows what's up - and deciding "actually I have something to do in the kitchen" and letting the chaos reign.

The Nightingales are fully aware of what's up (Danny was the one who had to do the presiding over everything in the Ghost Zone side of things and Jazz is a notary on top of everything else and signed off on all the paperwork on the human side) and are just enjoying all the various entities that were pushing for an arranged marriage between themselves and Elle for power or whatever bullshit having hissy fits over losing to some human kid. They're especially having fun not telling Constantine the specifics of the whole thing and letting him sweat it out over the fact that the Crown Princess of the Infinite Realms apparently just married the "Demon Heir" whoever in - literal - hell that is and she now is in possession of all his soul contracts.

#dp x dc #dc x dp #batman #batfam #dani fenton #danielle fenton #danny fenton #danny phantom #jazz fenton #damian wayne #queer platonic damian and danielle #aro/ace damian wayne #aro/ace danielle fenton #i'm the one writing so there's always gotta be at least one ace lol #gotham therapist jazz #gotham's favorite psychiatrist Jazz AU #Tim is having a crisis over the fact that he’s technically now related to his boyfriend danny because of this #Jason is just sitting there watching everything go to shit #and debating on if he should mention that he’s actually been dating Jazz for years and that they're common law married at this point #just to add fuel to the fire #if he doesn’t damian will because he woke up and decided to choose violence #but to be fair he always does 😂 #writing prompt #fanfic writing prompts #this is open for anyone to jump in on if they’re interested #john constantine

[tastycitrus]

sometimes i see things in cass's tag on both tumblr and ao3 that make me want to do this

#cassandra cain #i need people to stop tagging everything related to batman/batfam for visibility or whatever #because it's kind of annoying to search the tag and have to dig through posts that don't even mention cass by name in them yet she's tagged #and i think the cass tag on ao3 is kind of a lost cause at this point :\ #there's good cass stories in there but 9 times out of 10 i'll open it to find nothing cass-centric #and what is there is a bunch of very fanon stories about how tim is a poor little meow meow or something like that

[frownyalfred]

Any particular reason you love Batfleck so much? Or is it just a "blorbo I found on the ground and now I'm attached to it" kinda thing?

I think it’s the shared love we both have for alcohol, poor coping mechanisms, and strength training.

#asks #anon #batfleck #bvs #I just relate to him you know #I’m also hot and very very sad #and bitter #jkjk #I saw him in the theater and his stupid everything clicked into place in my mind #bruce wayne #batman #dc

[skyjanquest]

I found some Batman artworks I made around 2021. So you know what to expect for the next few posts! 🤣💙🦇

#batman fanart #nightwing #drawing #illustration #dick grayson #asa noturna #fanart #art #robin #dc comics #im not so happy with this drawing #but everything batman related has a place in my heart #I did this drawing when I was learning how to use procreate #batman

[waywardducks]

It is, once again, time to reread ‘The Way it Goes’ by Pennneminem.

#tim drake #dc comics #tim drake angst #tim angst will always break my heart #I relate to him a little bit too much trauma wise I swear #It's such a great fix though ughhh #I even made a playlist for it and everything #The way it goes #batfam #batman #jason todd #dick grayson #bruce wayne #red robin #damien wayne #screaming crying throwing things

[arunneronthird]

okay but imagine we got to see jon grow up and we could enjoy teen jon, damian supporter extraordinaire

#i think about it a lot like his parents didnt see him grow up #his best friend was left alone basically #i think about it a lot and also want to personally murder the writer #jon kent #superboy #superman #batman #yes i gotta tag everything dc related batman i made the choice and now i cant find things without the tag #dc comics #my art #supersons #damijon #ladies. gentlemen. you have eaten well.

[radiosummons]

My dad: Why doesn't Batman kill the Joker? I just feel like it would solve pretty much every problem he has.

Me: *trying to compress over a decade's worth of Batman lore and knowledge into something bite-sized that my very much not nerdy dad will be able to understand and accept all while my sister is staring at me knowingly and with smug sibling judgement*

Me: Bruce Wayne thinks that if he kills the Joker, he won't be able to stop and will just go full serial killer mode.

My dad: Ah ... so he's a pussy.

Me: I mean ... Jason Todd would probably think so ...

#radio talks #dc shit post #batman shit post #bruce wayne #batman #jason todd #red hood #yes this was an actual conversation i had #with my family #yeah my dad is team red hood #talking about anything #fandom or comic book related with parents #is so funny but also a delicate balance of #trying not to overload with too much info #but also desperately wanting to share your opinions on everything

[themyscirah]

This week's Outsiders fucked heavily imo

#anyways yeah i took it as a metaphor... #dont think it was the one intended because idk the authors views and also feel like theres a lot of personal opinion in my own #interpretation bc it plays into my haterisms or whatever but like. #idk dark multiverse duke had a point. batman is infecting everything and honestly going kind of crazy trying to destroy him is such a valid #response. like hashtag relatable we've all been there bestie #no but him yelling out to luke abt how hes gonna destroy batman he promises and then just the dimension or whatever those words were being #like 'its never the end' like true actually. it never ends #anyways no clue whats going on w the mystery stuff at the end (kind of the point) but 👀 #anyways good job comic for getting me engaged and sitting up in my seat after a mid start tbh #blah #not me making my entire post/review in the tags here instead of the actual post again rip #whatever idrc #dc comics #tuesday spoilers

[msfcatlover]

There is something very funny in loving characters from different fandoms with the same name who would just… loathe eachother. On sight. The more they got to know eachother, the worse it would get. They’d find even one little thing they had in common, and be fucking horrified.

…I want to lock them in a box together and see what happens.

#Fandoms all #My life #mine #// #Now /technically/ this is about Tim Drake & Tim Stoker. But also not really? Because Drake’s just a kid and Stoker’s a grieving big brother #No matter how much Drake pissed Stoker off there’s going to be that part of Stoker that just wants to protect him. #As well as not wanting to get in an argument with a literal child. #Also Stoker has a lot in common with Drake’s own adoptive older brother and I don’t think it would take long to realize that #meaning they both have a clear & comfortable role they can step into in relation to eachother and it wouldn’t be On Sight Violence. #HOWEVER #personality-wise they are both everything that drives the other up a wall and if they were peers it absolutely /WOULD/ be On Sight. #Every. Single. Time. #(…every Tim.) #pfft #/ #tma #batman

[forevercloudnine]

How do you feel about w/ayne f/amily a/dventures? Its obviously pretty popular in most of the batfam fandom but as someone who seems to enjoy the more complex side of them how do you feel about it?

I almost blocked my father for repeatedly sending my brother and I WFA panels in our family comics server

#occasionally i am self-aware enough to recognize my intense hatred of WFA as a form of elitism #and that there is nothing inherently wrong with dc cashing in on the legions of batfam fans who like the general concept of the characters #without wanting to read comics or in general learn literally anything about them beyond their most surface level characteristics #but yeah pretty much everything about WFA was tailor made to infuriate me as much as humanly possible #i have unfollowed mutuals for putting it on my dash too often #of course that being said: i have never read it! so i cannot actually speak to its quality as a comic #just as a general concept i have a knee jerk negative reaction to #and i'm also a hypocrite because i did reblog a cassandra + bruce thing from WFA once #but that's just a demonstration of how desperate i am for cassandra favoritism content #i know the opinion of most people who actually read comics is that 'cassandra is bruce's favorite' is a delusion of a subset of batfam fans #but dick grayson getting jealous of cassandra in batgirl (2008) was instrumental to my understanding of the characters #like yes in most functional ways dick is bruce's favorite #and bruce does often value the ways that dick is different from him!!! #but also bruce values his own priorities over All Else and cassandra shares those #and also relates to her in a way he doesn't relate to any of the others #the difference between shared trauma and shared coping mechanisms i guess #however it's also true that these things only come into play when writers remember that cassandra exists #because the average batman writer is only interested in the batboys. like that is undeniable #but idk like the rebirth outsiders run???? #when duke confesses something to cassandra and she immediately goes behind his back to tell bruce about it??? #even tim would have thought twice before doing that #and that's why cassandra is objectively bruce's favorite. case closed #this no longer has anything to do with wayne family adventures #UNLESS wayne family adventures comes to the same conclusion about bruce and cassandra somehow #anyone who reads wayne family adventures and is somehow reading these tags: please let me know

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

Okay but do you actually read too many comics?

I should have figured I'd get an ask like this eventually but let's just say I don't have a League of Comic Geeks account specifically because I know the number of comics i have read is somewhere in the 5 digits and I don't think I actually want to know that number......

#i must have read over 3000 batman related stuff alone #but remember i also love green lantern #green arrow #birds of prey #justice league international #teen titans #young justice #the flash #shazam #i could go on the stuff ive read #plus i tend to be a completionist for the the characters i love #so if i love someone i tend to read most everything they've been in #it's a problem

[wildestheart4ever]

Idk who Jason Todd is besides the barest details [I’m more familiar with Dick, Tim, and Damian], but I’ve read enough Danny Phantom/Batman crossovers to know I love him already......

Is it ridiculous to love a character based on nothing but potentially skewed portrayals of them in fanfic? Maybe, but it sure hasn’t stopped me before 

#Random #Danny Phantom #DP crossover #My interest in the DC universe didn't quite stick enough for me to indulge in everything Batman related [My favorite DC hero]

[tastycitrus]

the main batman comic and detective comics are so disconnected from each other plotwise that gotham war trying to claim that they’re happening concurrently paints a hilarious picture of the situation

bruce drives off at the end of gotham war and immediately goes back to being possessed by an azmer demon and captured by orghams to be hanged

tim makes a big deal about him always working to save bruce, yet when bruce is literally about to be hanged he’s nowhere to be found

and this isn't even getting into the batman and robin comic which features damian moving in with bruce and having father-son bonding time even though gotham war had bruce abandoning damian and in the end driving off by himself after telling dick that he and barbara are now the new parents of the mostly adult batfam

#batman #detective comics #gotham war #gee it’s almost like gotham war was a terrible idea that should not have been realized #like it wasn’t enough that the writing in the event itself was terrible and inconsistent #they had to drag everything else batman related into it #you can tell they were really trying to make gotham war seem important with long lasting consequences by having it affect all batman titles #but actually it just makes everything worse by trying to imply that everything is happening at the same time #regardless of whether it actually makes sense for any of their plots #in fact these other comics have basically only barely acknowledged gotham war which makes it feel even more inconsequential