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violent138 · 1 month
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I kind of like the idea that the super-powered heroes or metas can get mind-controlled by external sources, but that Batman's pretty immune to outright mind control (not like fear hallucinogens/exacerbated paranoia/any time he's confused about the why but he's still himself) just because if you mind control Supes/Diana, you still have access to the laser eyes and superstrength, but Batman is in such a state of disrepair, being held together by KT tape and Alfred's prayers that you need him to be fully in control of his mind to be able to use his physical abilities. 
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film-in-my-soul · 2 years
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Top Gun/Top Gun Maverick Superhero AU Headcanons
This has been my brain rot for the last few days. So instead of writing the Gahan fic I promised I would, I did this...
Here is some worldbuilding for an AU I will never write, but I hope you guys like it. Be warned, the majority of the headcanons will be IceMav and Hangster related.
Superheros Universe:
Superpowers have been developing for years now. Starting as small advancements in human physicality/mentality (theorized to have been a government experiment gone wrong) and moving through generations, evolving and spreading. They have now taken on stronger genetic mutations that are an intricate part of society and, more importantly, national security.
SFTI program (Super Fighter Tactics Instructor program), more popularly known as TOPGUN, is an elite school for Heroes and Sidekicks organized by the United States joint militant task force with the singular goal of pushing their super soldiers' abilities and team working skills to make them the best they possibly can be.
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(See under the cut for powers/headcanons)
Characters/Powers:
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Pete "Maverick" Mitchell [Hero]
Gravity Manipulation: Maverick can affect the gravity surrounding himself and others in contact with him. By increasing the force of gravity above him while lessening the force beneath him, Maverick is able to generate a tunnel that essentially allows him “flight.” Once in the air, he can maintain the force of gravity beneath him to keep himself afloat. 
Limitation: Maverick, if overusing his power, can cause himself to go into vertigo and or pass out midair. He can only maintain so many different layers of gravitation manipulation and, therefore, can only affect, outside himself, two people at once, depending on mass.
Tom "Iceman" Kazansky [Hero]
Ice Powers: (I know this is very on the nose, but do you have anything  better?) Can generate and manipulate ice/frost/general cold. It’s fairly self-explanatory. Iceman has a move called “time out” where he can essentially freeze the surrounding area up to a radius of 20 feet (the standard radius of a carousel).
Limitation: The larger the distance Iceman stretches his powers or the denser the ice, the weaker the structure or the less time it lasts. Ice’s ice manipulation can be more of a subconscious power, so he has to exercise complete control or risk hurting others. He can also hurt himself if he goes “subzero” for too long.
Nick "Goose" Bradshaw [Sidekick]
Flight: He can fly. He does not have wings. His primary role was Maverick’s sidekick, an extra pair of eyes in the air. He and Maverick also used Goose as a conduit for Maverick's gravity manipulation and allowed Goose faster flight. He was Maverick’s “eyes in the sky.”
Limitation: Little to no use in head-to-head combat situations. Flight has a maximum altitude, and use in ground conflicts was limited.
Ron “Slider” Kerner [Sidekick]
Short Range Portals: Slider can open portals up to fifteen feet apart. They can be held for up to two minutes, allowing the average mass of two people to travel at a time. He is particularly useful as Iceman’s sidekick for Ice’s projectiles or for surprise attacks.
Limitation: Portals can not be one-sided; a second portal must always be opened along with the first. If more mass goes through a portal than Slider’s current ability allows, the portals can become unstable and either collapse or distort the mass that goes through. Velocity of an object does not change when going through a portal.
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Carole Bradshaw [Civilian]
Ultrasonic Vocality: Carole can burst anyone's eardrums with an accidental scream or a jubilant cheer. Her power allows her to amplify her vocality up to 180 decibels. She never went into hero work cause it simply wasn’t for her.
Limitation: Carole’s power can activate without intention if she’s surprised or doesn’t actively think to keep herself lowered. Too loud of a sound can cause temporary muteness.
Bradley "Rooster" Bradshaw [Hero]
Flight/Ultrasonic: Rooster inherited both his parent's powers (a rarity) and, thus, can fly and emit ultrasonic sounds. He often uses his flight to disorient his opponents before taking them by surprise with his secondary power.
Limitation: Rooster’s flight is his less stable ability, and he often finds himself slipping out of his concentration and losing air. His vocal weaknesses mimic his mother's. Also, because aiming one’s voice is harder than it seems, Rooster often hesitates to use his Ultrasonic ability if there’s potential for his teammates to get caught in the crosshairs.
Jake "Hangman" Seresin [Hero]
Mimicry: (It was a toss-up between this and him just being your standard Superman-esc superhero. Chose this one because of the interview where Glen said something like: “you can swap out the vowels, you can make it an ‘a’, a ‘u’, whatever you want. So yeah…) Hangman can copy the powers of those he touches. He’s able to replicate them at about 85% effectiveness, and his ability has forced him to learn to adapt, pay attention, and become one of the most versatile active heroes. It’s also made him cocksure and forced him to act first since he needs the upper hand if he’s going into a battle without his sidekick.
Limitation: Jake can only copy up to four powers at a time, and the more he has, the less effective they are and the shorter the time period he has to use them. With two powers, he can use them both at full capacity for roughly 4 hours. With four, it reduces to 50% and 2 hours.
Javy "Coyote" Machado [Hero]
Animal Shifting: Coyote can shapeshift into an animal that doesn’t disproportionally warp his mass. He often takes the form of big dogs or cats since they’re easier and don’t stretch his mass too much. He takes on the physical ability and properties of the animals he copies and can copy any animal he’s seen in person.
Limitation: Anything smaller than a german shepherd or larger than a brown bear takes a heavy physical toll on Javy, as a smaller animal condenses his mass to an uncomfortable amount and a larger one stretches it. He can only shift into one animal at a time and cannot mix and match attributes or use only one attribute at a time. Unless it’s his special suit, his clothes do not turn with him.
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Natasha "Phoenix" Trace [Hero]
Rebirth: Phoenix, technically, cannot die. When she dies, she returns and enters “berserk” mode because her body is jump-started with adrenaline and at peak performance. The rebirth states can last up to thirty minutes. Due to the nature of her power, she is highly trained in hand-to-hand combat, as she has to risk herself to fully utilize her power.
Limitation: If the villain won’t kill her or can’t, she has to do it herself, so… trauma. Also, the more rebirths she has in a twenty-four-hour period, the longer it takes for her to be “reborn,” and the less effective the “berserk” mode is. Her maxim rebirths are three within one day. 
Robert "Bob" Floyd [Sidekick]
Ultra Stealth: Bob, unless using an external object, cannot be heard or, oftentimes, perceived. His entire presence can blend into the background. He’s a frontline sidekick for recon and stealth attacks, often paired with Phoenix. 
Limitation: Bob’s powers are innate, and so it’s more like they are his state of being. It’s a lonely power, forcing him to make himself known actively. He must wear a reflective patch or a sound maker to be actively noticed.
Reuben "Payback" Fitch [Hero]
Rebound: Payback can take any damage dealt to him and throw it right back. If he gets cut, he can reflect that same cut back. He can give back energy as well.
Limitation: He can’t throw something back if it kills him, meaning he can’t just take any hit or damage. Because of this, he has a suit that absorbs a lot of damage which he can then convert into kinetic energy. His powers force him to use his body as collateral, though, and can take him down a lot of the time.
Mickey "Fanboy" Garcia [Sidekick]
Temporary Mania: Fanboy, if he can look his opponent in the eye, can cause them temporary mania, like a fanatic. The mania lasts for roughly 10 minutes and completely disorients the enemy. There is no limit to how many times Fanboy can activate his mania on a singular villain.
Limitation: It’s an up close and personal power that doesn’t allow much in the way of a physical advantage. A trained opponent can also minimize the time spent in mania, or if an intense physical stimulant is introduced, the mania can be broken. The more times mania is used, the easier it is to break out of.
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Beau "Cyclone" Simpson [Hero/North Island CO]
Cyclones: (Stop judging me… these callsigns don’t always leave much for the imagination.)  Cyclone can generate and control up to category EF4 tornadoes. The smaller in size, the more intense the wind speeds. He can create a tornado large enough to have an “eye,” effectively entrapping his opponent.
Limitation: The larger the tornado, the weaker the wind speed. The more tornadoes he generates, the less control and the less strength they have, so he is often limited to three at a time, typically category E2. Regardless of his powers, he cannot affect weather or atmospheric conditions as his tornadoes also have a maximum height.
Solomon "Warlock" Bates [Sidekick]
Illusions: Warlock can conjure light distortions or sometimes fully formed illusions that often look like “magic.” His powers are most suited in a support/distraction role.
Limitation: What he conjures are not physical and cannot do actual damage. The sunnier the day, his solid illusions are less effective since they are based on light.
Bernie "Hondo" Coleman [Sidekick/Professional Maverick Handler]
Telepathy: (Literally, I spent 20 minutes trying to learn what Hondo means and got nothing helpful, so… this is what I got.) He can telepathically communicate with anyone and multiple people as long as they are within a thirty feet radius. His largest asset is acting as a multiway radio between heroes in active combat without the fear of radio lines being tapped since Hondo is the radio.
Limitation: The more people on the “radio channel,” the more confusing it can get for Hondo. The longer he keeps his channels open, the worse the fallout will be, full migraine to basically going into a small coma.
Before TGM Headcanons:
The night Bradley learns Maverik pulled his papers for the National Security Heroics Institute Program, he blew up. Almost literally. He went off the rails so badly that he blew out all the glass in Maverik's house with his shouting and didn't even realize he'd caused Maverick's ears to bleed.
Maverick was deaf in his left ear for almost a month after the fight, and that wasn't even what hurt the most. That had been Bradley walking out the door and never looking back.
After Goose died in a TOPGUN exercise (Ice's wall of ice, Maverick attempting to slow Goose's flight by force so he wouldn't hit it, Slider's ill-timed portal, Goose not being able to stop his spinning and get control... an accident all around) Carole never wanted Bradley following in her late husband's footsteps and asked Mav (who had to ask his husband) to pull Bradley's papers.
Ice and Maverick don't actually get together until after Goose's death, after Ice comes back from the gulf, while Maverick opts to stay stateside and help Carole and Bradley.
Once upon a time, Goose was talking about Carole, the lovesick fool he was. "My honey's got the voice of an angel." "Bradshaw, your wife could shatter eardrums with hardly a whistle." "An angel, Wolfman."
Carole used to get teased a lot in high school because she'd always had lousy control over her voice and just got too darn excited, but Goose never made her feel silly for it, taking all her loud energy for himself and making sure everyone knew he was the winner for it. Ringing ears and all when Carole said yes when he asked her to marry him.
Maverick had been wearing earplugs cause he wasn't an idiot.
Mav and Ice aren't enemies anymore. Not after the "you can be my sidekick any time," "bullshit, you can be mine." But neither had planned that it would go beyond a one-night stand (which somehow turned into a weekend stand and breakfast the Monday morning). It had.
Ice couldn't stay stateside like Maverick, and Maverick didn't ask him to. They send letters. They make calls. They somehow make it work, even with the distance and the potential death always hanging over their heads, especially as the villains start getting more overt.
Ice calls him six months later to tell him he's docked on the East port, so close yet so far. Six hours later, when the sun sets, Ice hangs out on the flight deck, trying not to frost over the metal too badly. A shadow crosses over him. It's Maverick. He's hovering like he's not risking getting shot out of the fucking sky by using his powers around a carrier he's not assigned to.
It's dangerous and ballsy and so fucking stupid. It's the first time Ice tells Mav he loves him.
Sometimes when Ice and Maverick kiss, Ice loses control, and it has given Mav a cold once or twice.
Sometimes Maverick accidentally floats them in zero gravity. Ice will never (even though it's very obvious) tell Mav just how much he actually likes making out (and more) without the pressure of the world on them.
During wintertime in Mirimar, if Ice is on leave and Maverick isn't running errands, he will build up an icerink for them, Carol, and Bradley, just for some wintertime cheer because he remembers Maverick telling him once that Goose loved ice-skating even though he couldn't keep his ass off the ice to save his life.
Bradley gets his superhero name because while he's got his Ultrasonic power on lock, flight? Ironically. Not so much. So sometimes, instead of flying, he sort of has to come crashing to the ground.
The other hero trainees had said he was like a Rooster. Loud as hell but a terrible fucking flyer.
Bradley has broken too much glass in his life to ever repay. Sometimes, he's done it intentionally...
Jake has always gotten shit about his powers, especially from his father, because he's "just a little copycat, can't even have a power all on his own, has to ride the coattails of better heroes."
Instead of letting that define him, however, Jake took it as a challenge to take others' powers and make them better, learn to use them in new ways, superior ways, so that no one could say he wasn't worth the title of hero.
This, of course, did not earn him any favors, not that Jake minded all that much. You didn't need friends to be the best.
That changed a bit with Javy, mostly because while Jake could study and analyze and perfect human powers, animal behavior? Not so much, and it actually helped the two become friends pretty quickly.
Jake hates copying Javy's power the most because he doesn't like being in a skin that isn't his own, but Javy is his sidekick, and Jake needs a power to start off a fight.
Once, when he was practicing with Javy's power, Bradley had come in and, knowing it was Jake, had made the joke, "is this your way of telling me you're a dog, Bagman?"
Jake and Bradley did not get along at first. Since Bradley could use multiple abilities like him, Jake thought that Bradley was his best competitor. It made Bradley the biggest target for Jake's need to be better, and Bradley, seeing too much of Maverick in Jake's easy swagger and seemingly endless confidence, pretty much was always on the verge of punching the blonde in the face.
It's only after a tough fight where they have to work together (Bradley needing another body in the sky and Jake running out of possible powers to copy) that they reach a stalemate.
That is, of course, when Jake realizes that it's not just the competition he likes about Bradley. It's also because he's fiercely loyal, just as proud as he is, and is damn good-looking, even with the pornstache.
Jake doubles down on being a dickhead, but at least attempts to keep it teasing, and Bradley takes it in stride more easily.
Before graduating TOPGUN (Jake taking the trophy by half a point with Bradley and Natasha tied for second), during the celebratory drinking, Bradley actually compliments Jake, with no pretense, no double meaning, and Jake, a little too tipsy, takes it as a sign that Bradley might be interested enough to sleep with him.
It goes very poorly, mostly because the room is filled with superheroes, when Jake goes to kiss him. He brushes up against Static, another TOPGUN graduate with an electric power, and ends up zapping Bradley pretty bad instead of actually kissing him.
Bradley hadn't even realized what Jake was going to do and just let that fact he'd gotten a very literal shock go, figuring Jake was too drunk.
The moment was gone, Jake was now sober, and he chickened out from trying anything else.
They were dispatched to other sides of the world two days later.
During TGM Headcanons:
The next time Jake and Bradley see each other, Jake has a villain kill, and they've been called back to TOPGUN for a mission no one knows anything about, and they've back slid into being rivals again. At least from Bradley's point of view.
Regardless of the universe, Jake is actually, in his own stupid way, trying to goad Bradley into being better, doing what he needs to do so he doesn't die with his head up his ass, fighting Maverick for whatever fucking reason.
Phoenix is there too, and gets a new sidekick in Bob, who is cute and uncomfortably unnoteable.
He's not cute enough to stop her from deploying her trauma "joke," upon being asked what her power is. Which is to show instead of tell.
The first time she pulled that same joke on Bradley, she'd jumped off a four-story building. Bradley had thought her power had something to do with flight and only realized, the closer she got to the ground, not doing anything, that he was wrong. He couldn't get to her before she hit the ground, and it took her about a minute for all her bones to reset.
He'd asked her, through tears, because he thought she'd died for good, what the fuck she was thinking, and Natasha had laid it out for him. He was gonna have to get used to it. It was her power, and she had to die to use it.
Bob hadn't cried, but he had thrown up.
The kicker of it all is that Jake and Bradley work well together with Javy, Phoenix, and Bob, but they're both too in their own heads about everything; it's making the whole mission prep a mess.
When everything snaps and Jake brings up Bradley's dad, it's only because everyone is holding them back that Bradley doesn't pop Jake's head like a melon.
Even seeing red and spitting blood, Bradley would never willingly attempt to hurt a fellow hero, especially not when surrounded by other heroes who could also get hurt.
Bob wins them dogfight football because half the time, even with his reflector patch on his shirt, only Phoenix and Rooster can keep tabs on him.
During mission practice, a simulated energy beam almost hits Coyote, but Phoenix intercepts it. Bob is able to get a piece of her away from the blast radius, and she's able to regenerate, but it's terrifyingly touch and go.
Ice does not die.
Instead, he shows up at TOPGUN to get everyone's head set straight.
He and Mav run everyone through drills again, this time working as a team, and it seems to help, but Bradley is still holding himself back.
He's not expecting his name to be called, but it is. Maverick picks him as wingman for the mission, and it goes tits up pretty much immediately.
They manage to infiltrate and blow up the super serum refinement plant but when they leave, they're intercepted by defense systems, and villains are in pursuit.
Maveric takes a missile meant for Bradley, and instead of leaving, Bradley disregards Cyclone's orders and returns for him.
Once the formation is broken, Hondo can't keep the radio channel between the team open.
The only reason they make it back at all is because Jake is waiting with Halo.
The second he hears that Hondo had lost communication with Maverick and then Rooster, he's sprouting wings, grabbing Phoenix's power (since she'd retreated with Bob as directed and is back at the base) while he's at it, and taking off.
Jake dies twice in order to get Bradley and Maverik out of the shit storm they're in, bagging himself another villain kill.
The first time he dies is an accident. A villain intercepts him en route, but it works out in the end. He's able to get to both of them just in the nick of time, catching the projectile meant for them in the chest. He's close enough to kill the villain in the blast as well.
Bradley just about loses his mind in the calm of the aftermath because Jake's on the ground, bloody and not moving.
It's only when Maverick covers his mouth does Bradley realize he'd been screaming.
They get to Jake, and that's when he starts coming around.
"Jesus Bradshaw, I know you have pipes like that, but give a guy a warning. Almost killed me a third time." "A third- A third time?!"
It's not the time and Jake, more refreshed than Bradley or Maverick, goes on ahead of them to clear the path back to base.
After TGM Headcanons:
Iceman threatens to freeze Maverick to the bed if he ever pulls shit like that again. Maverick, of course, just replies that if Ice is in the bed with him, there's no chance of him leaving anyway.
During the "we lived" celebrations, Jake decides he's done not at the very least trying to have something with Bradley and drags him out of the bar. Bradley goes willingly, though he does question what Jake's doing.
"Didn't wanna zap you this time." This, of course, confuses Bradley, but then Jake drags him into a kiss, so he's not thinking about much else for the next little while.
When the kiss breaks, both of them realize they're not on the ground anymore, which is ridiculous and hysterical, and Bradley lowers them to the ground to kiss Jake again.
Jake admits, a few months later, after he and Bradley have talked and are together, after seemingly endless therapy appointments, that he didn't know if he'd come back a second time during the mission, that he didn't know if his mimicry of Phoenix's powers would hold after dying at least once already.
Bradley proceeds to thoroughly ravish him in a life-affirming way after breaking a window shouting at him.
Maverick is taken out of active duty and teaches full-time at TOPGUN so that he can stay close to Ice and Bradley since they've reconciled.
A year and a half later, when Jake asks Bradley to marry him, he has Iceman make him an icerink.
Maverick had given him that hint when Jake had asked for his permission.
Maverick wears earplugs again because Bradley might look like Goose, but he's still Carole's boy through and through.
Well... this was a lot, and basically just the barebones of a fanfiction I will never write. I hope whoever made it through all this had fun reading.
These headcanons and character things are completely up for grabs if anyone feels inspired by them btw.
Thank you again for reading!!
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superhero--imagines · 7 months
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He’s literally obsessed with you - With the Bat Boys
A/N: trying out these fucking ugly banners again because y’all seem to like them and I need the internet-good-writer validation points.
Dick Grayson
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* He’s a simp bro
* Just because he’s hot doesn’t mean he isn’t hiding a whole horde of daddy and mommy issues isn’t into you
* He trails after you like a lost puppy and he would kiss the ground you walk on if it didn’t make you a little concerned
His breath brushes against your calf, a tender kiss placed on your knee.
He’s done this enough for you to know it’s not sexual.
“I can do it myself Dick,” you murmur, cheeks hot as you watch him kneel on the ground, his nimble fingers working to untie your shoes.
“I know you can.” His eyes sparkle when he looks up at you with a smile. “But I want to do this for you.” He grins when you hide your shy smile behind your hand, setting your shoes to the side and placing a soft kiss on your ankle.
Jason Todd
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* He’s in between terror and bliss
* Jason doesn’t understand how you meant so much to him so fast
* It’s simultaneously thrilling and terrifying how much you occupy his thoughts and time
* But for better or worse, he can’t seem to let you go
He can’t tell what’s warmer, the heat from your body or the heat radiating off from his face.
Here he is, face bright pink with the heart of a sixteen year old boy in a man’s body, falling in love for the first time.
And you’re asleep.
You’ve turned his whole world upside down, and made a mess of his mind—and now you’re getting the best sleep of your life using his chest as your personal pillow.
And he has no room to complain since he’s enabling you, wrapping his arms around you rto keep you pressed securely against his chest.
Because the only thing scarier than holding you close, is having you somewhere he can't reach.
“I can't believe you made me fall in love like this,” he murmurs, pressing a sweet kiss to your hair.
Damian Wayne
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* He really embodies “hard to the world, but soft for my girl” vibes
* This man has never done a chore in his life, but if you’re feeling out of it or overwhelmed, watch him at your doorstep with a broom and apron
“Damian I support you in anything you choose to do,” you start, “but do you know how to use a washing machine?”
“Of course I do my love, I’m not a savage.” But the fact that he’s putting dish soap in tells you otherwise.
He’s a little confused, but he’s got the spirit.
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I love the concept of Gwen being trans because it implies the following conversation
Gwen: I’m a girl
Her dad: of course, I love and accept you, what do I need to do to help you with this
Gwen: I’m also spider woman
Her dad: absolutely NOT
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robintherobiner · 3 months
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I am a firm believer of the fact that that all the teen superheros had a crush on Nightwing at one point and he is just completely oblivious to this fact.
Dick: Hi guys, Batman let me to give you guys a training session, because Robin mentioned you all wanted to learn how to do a backflip!
All the teens staring at Dick's abs and thighs with red faces: Oh, cool..!
Tim: OH MY GOD YOU'RE ALL DISGUSTING!
Dick: Robin! Don't insult your friends, they didn't even do anything!
Kon, shuffling to the side to peer at Dick's ass: Yeah Rob, we didn't do anything.
Tim, seething: I CANNOT WITH YOU PEOPLE!
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superbat-love · 6 months
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Kidnappers — Burst into the room during an interview between the billionaire Bruce Wayne and reporter Clark Kent. One of them shoots Clark Kent in the chest
Clark Kent — Stares in confusion at the kidnappers for a few seconds, then does the most dramatic twirl and falls onto Bruce with a final croak, pretending to be dead
Bruce Wayne — Pretending to be a traumatized hostage in hysterics while stealthily trying to move the man off him so that he can take control of the situation. Fails because this reporter seems to be the literal definition of dead weight and cannot be moved no matter how much force he uses
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doodlesforfics · 2 years
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Who’s Old Now? by @lirabuswavi​ (um i hope i tagged the right person, cause like im 80% sure you are same ao3 lirabuswavi, if not im sorry <;D)
ok this one-shot literally opened my eyes to sheer chaos possibility of Adult!Fenton adopting kid Billy B. while Teenager!Phantom being mistaken as Shazam’s ward and just ladskjsdk??? superhero/magic/ghost community would not be prepared. amazing fic. such fun.
and some doodles inspired by the fic
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let lil Billy have retired ghost superhero possibly eldritch overpowered being Phantom as protective Dad.
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jaeryale · 2 months
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Bat brothers for the win
Enjoy my silly little pinterest pose inspired fanart of Dick and Damian<3
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lizardpersonyknow · 5 months
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No Ok this is very out of left field but Tim would absolutely collect completely unnecessary blackmail on the justice league just in case there's another timeline incident where nobody believes him. Even if they don't believe it the majority has been blackmailed to say they do
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berrysquared · 1 year
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Intro page on Mumbo Jumbo for the silly little Superhero au
He is just a guy who gets rescued by Hotguy and Cuteguy 50 times a month and is on Tired
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redhoodscorvid · 13 days
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Jason Todd vs. Tropes pt 1
Let's talk hypervigilance and weapons safety!
Pick your preferred version of events. Era: Jason has survived his showdown with Bruce in Under the Red Hood. He has not yet reconciled with any of the bats.
All guns are loaded unless in a traditional gun safe(s). If one weapon of a particular type is outside of a safe, that's the one that counts for this poll.
Reply or reblog with why you picked what you did... and where you think any explosives might be.
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zal-cryptid · 8 months
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Just had to draw her after reading this incredibly based Superboy comic. Very egg.
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arrowmaker15 · 6 months
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This one's a bit of a mean one, because I'm pretty sure most superheroes didn't like Jason when he showed up.
(Jason Todd first meeting the Justice League)
Batman: Team, this is Robin.
Green Lantern (Hal Jordan, bored): We know. You introduced him to us a few years ago.
Robin (Jason Todd): That was the other dude, dude. I'm the improvement.
Superman: You're replacing Dick?
Robin: Yup!
Flash: That's... Low, Bruce. Really low. And this kid doesn't really look... Capable? No offense. Dick quit like, what, a few months ago?
Robin: Um, two and a half years ago, thank you very much, and two, I can handle my fuckin' self.
Batman: Language.
Green Lantern (Guy Gardner), sassing: And he swears? This was a downgrade, Bat-boy.
Robin: Okay, fuckin' ouch, dude.
Wonder Woman, walking to Robin: I think he will do a fine job. May I shake your hand, young one?
Robin, internally fanboying: Yes, please!
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violent138 · 26 days
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When it gets super cold in Gotham and snowy, Tim probably stashes coats all over Gotham, just some massive faux fur-lined blankets that were tailored as coats and switches between them while running into action on patrol.
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oldmannapping · 7 months
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Trigger warning: Discussion of past sexual assualt and mention of domestic violence (fictional).
HC: Dick donates one of his Nightwing suits to a What Were You Wearing exhibit to destigmatise male rape.
He does a single interview with a carefully-vetted reporter in response to the media explosion.
Exerpt below.
Reporter: Despite your flashy and talkative superhero persona, you've actually been quite good at keeping details of your personal life close to the vest for all these years.
Nightwing: (chuckle) Yeah, that's a pretty big part of having a secret identity. Talk lots, say nothing. When in doubt, throw in a pun or two.
Reporter: So after, what is it, ten, fifteen years of being a public figure-
Nightwing: More than twenty, now.
Reporter: Twenty! Gosh you're making me feel old.
Nightwing: Me too.
Reporter: So after more than two decades of being in the public eye as Nightwing, you've chosen to reveal a part of your life, some would say arguably one of the most vulnerable and private parts of your life. Why now?
Nightwing: It definitely wasn't a quick decision. I think that for any survivor of crime, it's important that they take time to heal and process things. Particularly for something like rape or domestic assualt, so much agency is taken away from you and I think for me, owning my story was a really important part of feeling like I could take control back.
Reporter: And you wanted to take control in a way that helped other people.
Nightwing: Not at first. I wasn't- It wasn't something I immediately thought like, "Oh, now I can relate to victims better on the job, how can I use this for good" kind of thing. I was really- For a long time, like years, I just wanted to pretend it didn't happen. Like it was the same as any other injury I'd get being Nightwing, or Robin, or whatever, like it wasn't any different.
Reporter: But it was different.
Nightwing: Yeah. I mean for one thing, it wasn't really an injury. I mean, there's no such thing as luck here, or being more raped or less raped, but in my case, I didn't have physical injuries. I wasn't- it wasn't like I was overpowered and beaten or anything like that. So I didn't feel like there was anything to "recover" from, if that makes sense. And I think there's also a lot of shame that went along with that, as a man, as a superhero, as someone who's used to being the strong one and the one who protects people, there was a lot of shame I felt. Like, if this was really rape then it would have been more violent, and I'd have been able to fight her off, and my body wouldn't have responded... All of that.
Reporter: All things that I'm sure you've heard from other victims, over the years.
Nightwing: Yeah. And that's something, I didn't want to be a victim. That wasn't- Nobody wants to be a victim, but I've spent most of my life helping people and being the hero, so it was impossible for me, for a long time, to do that cognitive shift and think of myself as both. Like, yes I'm a hero, yes I'm strong, and yes I was also assaulted and yes I need help to deal with this.
Reporter: So it was a long time before you told anyone.
Nightwing: Yeah. It was actually my broth- It was someone in my family, who noticed some things I said and some ways that I acted, and confronted me about it.
Reporter: Confronted?
Nightwing: Yeah. That's how it felt, anyway. I was really defensive at first. I was still in denial and wasn't really in a place to talk about it.
Reporter: But you did.
Nightwing: Well, he didn't really give me a choice, ha. It was- and you can cut this out later, if he doesn't want me to say it- but it was Red Hood. He's got a lot of experience with survivors and he's stubborn as shit so I didn't stand a chance. I think part of me also, I think I was ready to tell someone. I think I needed to accept what had happened.
Reporter: So it was the right time for some tough love.
Nightwing: Some tough brotherly love, yeah.
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Imagine just running about your ordinary day life and suddenly everything is turned upside down, what you believed to be fiction and nothing more than child dreams became your new reality. Now you had duties and that was to protect the city and its residents from those who wish to harm them. It’s a tough job, one that no one would be able to handle all by themselves.
Luckily you got your trustworthy companion by your side at all times! You two fit together like pieces of a puzzle; managing to save the day hundereds of times. There was nothing you couldn’t do as long as you had each other. You knew each other well-or how good you can know each other without learning the other’s identity.
Secret identities is one of the top rules of being a superhero. It could be dangerous for your loved ones if your enemies got their hands on that sort of information. They would use your family and friends to blackmail and extort you. That couldn’t happen or all hell would break lose if the city’s heroes were captured and defeated.
In the beginning when you and your partner had first been assigned the role of heroes, he seemed fine with the rule of no knowing who the other person were behind the mask, and you were too. There wasn’t any reason for you to want to find out who his civilian identity was.
But then things began to slowly change.
It started with him wanting to stay together a little longer after missions and you agreed, thinking he wanted to discuss things regarding your work. Which is what you talked about originally until the subjects switched to different topics like hobbies, favourite movies, best book you’ve ever read. Just normal easy stuff, not so hard to answer right? There were millions with the same reply as you so there was no chance he’d be able to guess who you were.
He’d only thought of you as a partner and maybe even a friend up till this point, but new feelings has began brewing and he didn’t know what to do with them. Brushing it off as a silly crush he didn’t do anything else than initiate spending more time together to satisfy him. It didn’t last forever and he eventually needed more.
Needles to say, it wasn’t simple to balance the heroic deeds while exploring these foreign emotions, it made things complicated to focus during dangerous events. That wasn’t good, obviously. What if he messed up and the villain got away? Or even worse, someone could get hurt. Someone that could be you. No, he can’t that happen, he must stay concentrated.
Yandere hero, who wanted to respect your secret identity pact but is dying to know who is behind that mask. He understood it was important, however he couldn’t help it. Convincing you to break that promise is impossible, that he saw. Perhaps he can trick you into revealing yourself? You’d probably see through his trick though.
Because of your good relationship and media, it became common for people to ship the two of you as a couple. Which he honestly didn’t mind one bit, especially now that he realises just how deep his love for you goes. It’s almost as if he’d do anything for you. He wanted the citizens to know who you belonged with and that was made sure when those news articles were posted.
You couldn’t believe it. So much stress all because of a single photo. A picture an anonymous individual has secretly snapped has spread like wildfire under a scorching summer day. You and your partner’s relationship status was the city’s top subject; discussed by so many and apparently very interesting to the old as well.
And what the hell was your colleague doing basically enforcing those rumours? If he kept standing so close to you and swinging his arms around you, everyone would think you’re a pair. Which you were not. You already had someone you were interested in, though you’d not had the courage to make any move since a relationship would be near impossible for you right now. Having to run around and help civilians and defeat bad guys, a romance would not be befitting.
So how are you gonna deal with your friend’s recent antics? He’s trying to hold you at the site even after your work is done, ask more regarding personal life, and you actually caught him attempting to follow you when you were leaving to go home. You couldn’t believe it. Why was he suddenly doing all this? You thought you two were on the same side of things, so how come he is breaking all those promises?
Did he not understand why it was dangerous to reveal your civilian identities and people could actually get hurt if the wrong person got their hands on that information. But all he said was that no one would find out. That it would be fine if you two knew each other for real. It would be good for you to be closer, your work would be easier if you trusted each other more, or something along those lines was what he told you.
You did not agree in the slightest. It was a stupid idea and one you would not comply with. He frowned and hissed, “fine!” and disappeared into the night, leaving you alone on the rooftop with the cold winds hitting you in the face. You thought that was the end of it and life would return to normal.
It didn’t. The next mission he was acting coldly towards you, almost getting himself sliced up as he refused to listen and give you any of his time, claiming he’d do it without your help. Like you predicted it didn’t go as planned for him and you were forced to step in many times before he finally accepted he couldn’t do things alone. You were happy that he returned to himself and stopped ignoring you, until he started his shenanigans again and they were worse than anything he did previously.
After missions your partner lured you away to a secluded rooftop were he’d prepared a table for the two of you. On the white table cloth stood a tall candle, a flame dancing atop it. In the vase next to it was a red rose, fresh with life. Apparently he wanted you to enjoy a nice dinner after a hard day, you deserved it. While you agreed on deserving a little rest, it wasn’t with him you wanted to relax and it certainly wasn’t on some date he’d set up.
Feeling somewhat bad for him as you had to turn him down once more, you talked softly to him and explained to your best abilities that you couldn’t. You wondered if you should’ve made up and excuse first but changed your mind as it would be mean to do and you needed to be perfectly clear with him that you weren’t interested in him in that way.
The horrible sensation of regret filled you when his eyes welled up in tears. You expected him to scream at you, maybe even physically confront you. But bawl? No, that was not what you envisioned. Like before he ran away from the scene and you stood there silent in the dark.
When he reached his home, he ripped his mask off and threw it in the floor, punching the wall with every emotion whirling in his mind. He was sad, so terribly sad. What, you didn’t feel anything for him as he did for you? Not even a bit, an inch? Apparently not, as you had stated to him without uncertainty in your voice. He wanted to scream, hit something. Anything to forget his heartbreak. He’d fucked up. What if you wanted nothing to do with him anymore. What if you replaced him with someone new. A new and better partner.
He couldn’t let that happen. Why can’t you understand how much he loves you, the lengths he’s willing to go in your name. He was a bit ashamed to admit it but he was sure that if things stood between you and being a righteous hero, he’d chose you no questions asked. You were just so much more important than those random people he was forced to save on a daily basis.
Despite the rough conversation you two had the day before, he pushed himself to act completely normal; like it never happened. Although you were a bit worried about him since your rejection seemed to have hit him pretty hard, you let it go as he appeared like himself and you couldn’t let that distract you forever. You had a city to protect and you could not slack off.
You just had to hope his sad rejected state wouldn’t eventually turn into something else. Something like anger. Or worse, madness.
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