#fab five dc

[viioggvl]

*How I think the Fab Five hired Bumble Bee* (no thoughts, and a dash of angst)

Robin: So. What do we do about the chick in the bee costume?

Speedy: *popping popcorn into his mouth* What’d ya mean? Keep her!

Wonder Girl: She is not a dog, Roy!

Robin: Besides, Batman will get mad if we hire a new member. He’ll disable the team!

Kid Flash: So we run away.

Speedy: I’m so in love with Wally’s plan.

Wonder Girl & Robin: *sigh* We bet, Roy.

Aqualad: Hire her!

Aqualad, Speedy, & Kid Flash: Hire her! Hire her!

Robin: God, fine!

The rest of the team: Yeah!!!!

*Karen didnt even apply for the team, she got stuck in crime fighting with them*

#fab five #fabulous five #dc #fab five dc #dick grayson #donna troy #roy harper #garth of shayeris #wally west #speedy #ribin #robin #Wonder girl #kid flash #aqualad #bumble bee #karen beecher #her special appearance lol

[identifyallen]

I will never ever get over the way Wally looks at Dick. Not in a million years.

#dick grayson #nightwing #wally west #flash #the flash #kid flash #teen titans #titans #dc titans #fab five #birdflash #dickwally #wallydick #justice league #justice league of america

[allovesthings]

The relationship between Batman and the Titans in a nutshell:

Bruce: I raised and trained a good son.

The Titans: You fucked up a perfectly good Dick Grayson, look at him, he's got issues.

It makes me happy how ride or die they are for Dick which in return means they just don't like how Bruce treats him.

#dc comic #dick grayson #the titans #the fab five #the new teen titans #Nightwing #batman #bruce wayne

[zahri-melitor]

In terms of trying to transplant how Dick’s generation grew up to independent adult heroes onto Tim’s generation, one of the significant issues is that the two groups have very different backstories.

The Fab Five and their generation were largely cared for children with present guardians during their teen years. Their ‘growing up’ rebellion moments were about wanting to establish their own identities separate to their parent/guardian. Then once NTT occurred and new young adult characters were added to it, you had a bunch who were escaping overbearing guardians with expectations the young adult didn’t want to fulfil, and leaving trauma behind.

The Core Four and other 90s heroes, in contrast, were mostly latchkey kids. They had loving but absent parents and parental figures. They were largely expected to grow up and show they were independent in their early teens. The arcs of their stories were not about growing up and finding themselves and ‘be your own person’, but about learning to trust others and interdependency and working together.

Like the shape of a Fab Five story is ‘in my preteens or earlier a Disaster Happened and I was taken in by a hero who cared for me and taught me the business as their sidekick. Then around 18-20 I moved out to live in a sharehouse with my friends as I wanted to find who I was outside of the shadow of being a sidekick’.

While…Tim’s generation largely aren’t sidekicks in the same sense. The shape of THEIR stories are of ‘teenager with largely absent adults is expected to grow up and show emotional maturity too early’. It’s actually notable that Tim, Kon and Bart all have long term story arcs that involve gaining a stable household right near the end.

Kon’s entire solo is the story of how he is neglected and exploited by every adult around him. He doesn’t have parents. He’s Peter Pan, the little boy who cannot grow up, who lives without parental expectation. He’s a celebrity kid exploited by Rex Leech and by CADMUS, who’s expected by those around him to act in an adult manner and held to that standard while simultaneously specifically being underage and not having the right to make his own decisions. His final arc in Superboy is about being so abandoned he doesn’t even have CADMUS to depend on anymore so he has to find an apartment and a job (the building superintendent) and is expected to act and function like an adult in that position. Superboy #59 (FIFTY NINE) is when Kon finally gets his own name. Superboy #100 is ABOUT Kon moving in with Jonathan and Martha Kent and finally having a stable home environment where he can be a child. Heck Kon’s already had a story where he’s ‘married’ and responsible for a kid. He’s had solo space adventures.

Bart’s solo is about Bart and Max learning to be a family together, but also: Bart’s childhood didn’t contain parents. Meloni turns up occasionally through his solo and loves him but also has to disappear away back to the 30th century at the end of each appearance. The final arc of Bart’s solo is about him moving in with Jay and Joan Garrick for more stability, because Max has disappeared (and stays disappeared). And then, post his solo, Bart even already has HAD an arc where he had to grow up and assume the Flash mantle (which went horribly wrong and led to his death).

Tim? Tim’s entire solo is about upheaval and change. The first time he’s expected to behave as an independent hero, not a sidekick, is literally Robin #1 when Azbats kicks him out of the Cave. Jack threatens to send him away to boarding school on multiple occasions and DOES for the Brentwood arc. He loses Jack, he loses Dana, he moves out to be a hero caring for his own city at 16, in Bludhaven post War Games. Bruce’s adoption of Tim was all about giving him back that sense of stability and support so that Tim had people backing him up again in his personal life and not only as a hero. And then he does the ‘leave and get a new identity’ thing during Red Robin.

And Cassie? Cassie starts with a loving mother and her story arc over becoming a hero is about periods of operating on her own. She moves away from her mum to go to Elias School. Due to operating as a hero under her own name she eventually has to come up with the alias of Drusilla Priam to give herself a non-public identity to retreat to (and isn’t living with Helena Sandsmark but renting on her own during this period to protect Helena).

This is a set of characters for whom it makes no narrative sense to tell a story of them growing up by ‘moving out and finding their own identity as separate heroes’ because their entire PAST is about being alone and looking for connections and people to rely upon. They haven’t been looking for their mentors to accept them as independent adults, they’ve been looking to their mentors to be present and work with them.

They have already all BEEN through the steps of moving out (while underage) and learning to look after themselves as nobody else was there to support them. Growing up for them is about learning to trust and be respected for the skills they already have and trusted to know what they’re doing, rather than leaving to show they can operate independently.

And that’s a harder narrative to show, because it’s a less common growth story in our culture. But in the Core Four’s case, I’d argue a lot of the traditional signifiers of adulthood (moving out; moving away for education; taking responsibility for a city on their own; travelling for quests) are things they were already expected to do while still significantly underage, and so sending them through that plot again isn’t showing anything new to allow them growth. What they need is the adults around them to treat them as adults for the things they already can and do do.

#dc meta #core four v fab five

[lomakes]

So happy I can finally share one of the piece I did for @royharperzine last year!💖

#teen titans #roy harper #dick grayson #donna troy #wally west #garth of shayeris #fab five #dc fan art #dc

[its-minart]

They’re just very important to me :(( <3

#i love them so much #best of friends #I’d give my life for them all day any day #love me some child soldiers sticking together #and kicking ass #fab five #dick grayson #robin #wally west #kid flash #donna troy #wonder girl #garth of shayeris #aqualad #roy harper #speedy #teen titans #og teen titans #dc comcis #dc #fanart #dc fanart #mi basura

[donnatroyyyy]

#dc comics #comics #robin #batfam #dick grayson #damian wayne #tim drake #bruce wayne #jason todd #barbara gordon #duke thomas #cassandra cain #stephanie brown #teen titans #fab five #donna troy #roy harper #wally west #garth #garth of shayeris #og teen titans #aquafam #aquaman #aqualad #mera of xebel #queen mera

[fatimajpeg]

teeny titans

#teen titans #the fab five #dc comics #my art #dick grayson #roy harper #wally west #donna troy #garth of shayeris #robin #speedy #kid flash #wonder girl #aqualad #so many tags damn #anyways KIDDOS #dc #art #fanart #artists on tumblr

[starfiretruther]

wonder twins again (what are they talking about?)

#they're discussing goncharov #dick grayson #donna troy #mine #wonder twins #dick and donna #dc #dc comics #titans #the fab five

[soranatus]

Teen Titans Breakfast Club by Cliff Chiang

#dc comics #teen titans #fab five #batman #robin #dick grayson #wonder woman #donna troy #green arrow #speedy #roy harper #the flash #wally west #aquaman #garth of atlantis #cliff chiang

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Wally posing for the photo, taking the photo and also secretly fucking with Roy for said photo all at the same time is one of the best Teen Titan traditions and I love it

#dc #dc comics #the flash #kid flash #wally west #roy harper #red arrow #speedy #arsenal #teen titans #titans #fab five

[princemonday]

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

[identifyallen]

I’m about to ruin your guys day. Let’s talk about canon and fanon. Dick Grayson edition. I’ve realized that some people don’t actually know what’s canon and what’s fanon. (It’s okay to like what’s fanon more than what’s canon, but I want to clear some things up)

Cooking: Dick can actually cook! Literally everyone says that he can’t cook, but he can! He has cooked for his younger brother (Tim Drake) numerous times! I’m pretty sure he’s cooked with the Titans too.

Singing: Dick is one of the only batfam member’s who can sing. In fact Dick is good at literally everything. (Not EVERYTHING but he can do most things)

Kindness: Don’t get me wrong Dick is a sweetheart but some people make it seem like he’s sweet, in a very dumb way. My point is that he’s nice, but not to the extent people make it out to be.

Brothers: This has to do with Dick and Tim, but I still want to add it. Most people think that Tim’s favorite brother is Jason. This is not the case. Tim is the closest with Dick. After Jason died, whatever Dick didn’t do for Jason, he did for Tim. He even trained Tim.

Ps: Tim even grew up with Dick as Robin.

#dick grayson #nightwing #tim drake #red robin #teen titans #titans #dc titans #fab five #batfam #batfamily #batbros #bat brothers #bat boys #bat kids

[natoraptor]

Happy belated(extremely late) birthday Speedy! The two original sidekicks Roy Harper and Dick Grayson! Teen Titans Go!

#roy harper #dick grayson #dickroy #dc comics #dc fanart #fan art #digital art #teen titans #teen titains go #titans #arrowfam #batfamily #arsenal #robin!dick #fab five #speedy

[allovesthings]

Dick breaking the world's record in skydiving and just never telling anyone but Tim and Alfred is amazing in itself but can you imagine the comedic potential of him just casually dropping this years later like that for example with the Titans:

Someone on tv: new skydiving/freefall world's record broken.

Dick, distractingly, reviewing some cases on the side: Oh yeah, I broke that one already, the trick is to not pass out for too long.

*Crickets*

*Crickets*

*Crickets*

Wally: you did... What ?

Dick:

Donna: You... Broke the world's record for skydiving, as in jumping off a plane two years ago and you never told anyone ?

Dick: Yeah. Two years ago, when Bruce went on his little time-travely trip.

*Crickets*

Roy, suddenly very tired (tm), with the deepest sigh you can imagine: Of course you did.

Garth: Wait no, what ? can we come back not passing out for too long while falling through the sky ? I think that's a pretty big part of the conversation?

In canon, because that was right before battle for the Cowl and Bruce was just dead, it was kinda one of the last things he did for himself before taking said cowl, he probably won't ever tell anyone but still, it's funny.

#dick grayson #dc comic #dc comics #nightwing #the fab five #donna troy #wally west #roy harper #garth of shayeris #garth #troia #the flash #arsenal #red arrow #tempest

[mlbdraws]

americas favorite teens

#teen titans #fab five #roy harper #speedy #arsenal #dick grayson #robin #nightwing #donna troy #wonder girl #troia #garth #garth of shayeris #aqualad #tempest #wally west #kid flash #the flash #dc #dc comics