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thejasontoddarchives · 9 months

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Catwoman (2018-) #57

Bruce is really swinging between extremes huh

#dc #jason todd #red hood #catwoman 57 #gotham war #last week it was ‘shouldn’t I kill you’ and now it’s ‘I’m gonna take back my son screw the plan for now’#some people are saying it’s inconsistency but tbh I think he’s supposed to be off the rails #even as he’s saying this he practically tossed said son into the middle of traffic #possibly drugged him too #For once the writers are probably telling you to take what Bruceman says with a grain of salt #like especially that last line makes absolutely no sense in the context of everything he’s done this issue lol #but tbh is this really anything new for him #the only new thing about it is the fact that it’s being framed honestly for once

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stealingyourbones · 2 years

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Danny Phantom meets Superman. More accurately I should say that Danny Fenton meets Clark Kent.

Let me make this clear cause people seem to forget this: superman is smart. Clark kent is a very intelligent guy. Hes an INVESTIGATIVE journalist. He works with Lois Lane whos a multiple Pultizer prize winner and you know damn well that Lois wouldn’t work with anyone that cant keep up with her in both wits and smarts. He’s good at his job and in some comics he gets Pulitzer Prizes from some of his articles as well. Dude is dumb but he’s smart if you get what I’m saying. High Int. Low Wis.

With that in mind, During an assignment by Perry White, Lois and Clark meet the Fentons in their Amnesty residence to get some quotes on an article that discusses “Everything we thought didn’t exist is now real. Superheroes, Aliens, even Vampires, so why do we not Believe in Ghosts?”

Clark Kent spots Danny and notices instantly that MANY things are wrong with this child. His shoulders are hunched in a way that is intentional and tensed. Like he doesn’t know if he should fight or flee. His eyes are darting around and constantly taking in their surroundings like he’s waiting for something to barge in. His heart is beating far slower than it should. The kid intentionally makes his chest rise and fall but he’s not breathing in any oxygen. All of those are concerning but they can happen in metas. The thing that isn’t normal is that Clark can’t hear any of Danny’s other organs working. Like the kid is a revitalized corpse and his body only thought to bring back half of its needed functions.

So Clark does some digging. He doesn’t want to tell any of the Justice League because this isn’t a Superman job, this is a job for Clark Kent. He gets some help from Oracle and with her word that she won’t say anything to batman, He agrees to update her regularly about the kids situation.

Oracle sends over some VERY concerning documents from an organization called “The Ghost Investigation Ward”. Oracle tells Clark that she’s working on tipping off the Bats and Birds so they can help dismantle the organization.

While sifting through the documents Clark comes across a profile of a “Danny Phantom”. As I said, Clark isn’t stupid. There is definitely a profile of Danny Fenton as well since he’s the son of two world renown ghost hunters. He puts the two and two together and uncovers just the horrible treatment that Phantom has been receiving from his parents, the government, and his peers. Clark is outraged and can’t just stand aside and let this kid suffer. So he makes another trip to the Fenton residence under the guise of needing another quote and sits Danny and Jazz down and tells him that he knows of the terrible lab safety, the immoral experiments his parents do on the regular, the neglect of the kids in pursuit of scientific discovery. He knows and he wants to help. Clark tells Danny and Jazz that there is an apartment available right nextdoor from his and that he can help them get to a safer location and apply for emancipation.

The Fenton kids are shocked at this guy and his immensely kind heart. Danny knows something is up though. Something is up with Clark Kent. He looks like all his life would be spent in the gym when he isn’t at work and yet Danny can’t find a thing on Clarks interest in working out. His baggy clothes somewhat cover up his muscles but his frame is far too wide to be hidden. Clarks heartbeat is slightly faster than the average persons. No human eyes could be that startlingly sky blue. And Danny knows that he has seen Clarks face somewhere but he cant put a pin on it.

The Fenton kids agree and they get brought to metropolis and the emancipation case is no problem with the evidence Clark managed to collect. The kids get the apartment next to Clarks and Clark helps them grow and get better mentally and situationally. Clark knows that in a way he’s trying to make up for his neglect on Connor but he still knows that helping these kids is the right decision.

After a month or so, Clark and the Fenton kids have a rhythm of meeting at each others apartments, getting doted over to make sure that the fentons are well fed and have everything they need and are getting settled into their new life.

Clark hasn’t told the league. Oracle keeps her promise to keep the Fentons out of Batman and the Justice League’s radar. Clark knows that he will have to tell them soon eventually. He knows that things like this wont last. He tries his best to keep these kids happy and support them how an actual caring parent should act.

A few months into the Fentons stay in Metropolis on a cool autumn afternoon, Danny is sitting on a beanbag chair reading a ratty old book that Clark lent him as Clark is typing away on his computer writing up an article for the Daily Planet when Danny looks over to Clark and says,

“I’m Phantom.”

Clark pauses typing and shoots a small smile towards danny, “I know.”

Danny nods in relieved acceptance as Clark straightens up from his hunced over position on his computer.

He pulls back his shirt collar slightly to show the blue suit and red cape. “I’m Superman.”

Danny looks at him and smiles, “I know.”

They both just sit and continue reading and writing with soft smiles on their faces. Comforted at the exchange and that it’s finally out there and eachother knew.

After a while Danny’s obsession gets to be too much. He tells Clark about it and that he has to find a way to sate his obsession of protecting and Clark accepts that it was only a matter of time and invites him to meet the League.

When Superman brings Danny to the Watchtower, saying that the rest of his fellow superheroes were shocked would be an understatement. The Man of Steel and this ghost kid are talking like a father and son.

To say that Batman was pissed that he wasn’t informed of this child is also an understatement. But there is also some amusement and respect under that frustration. Superman managed to keep this kid under wraps and didn’t even alert Batman. Superman smirking and saying under his breath to him “Looks like the World's Greatest Detective isn’t so great huh?” Makes Batman respect the man even more.

In the Watchtower, Danny meets up with Teen Titans/The Team/Whatever They’re Called Now, and meets Conner. Conner is understandably pissed and spiteful that Danny got to have Superman as a father figure.

Conner knows that Superman treating Danny this way is definitely a way of him trying to make up for the faults and breaks he had with his parental relationship with Conner. he agrees with himself that he shouldn’t hate Danny for having Superman as a Dad and the two get along like tinder and matches. Connor still has a grudge against Superman don’t get me wrong, just not as much as before.

Sometimes while the League is in battle, Superman likes to just look for Danny and watch him hold his own against world ending threats. Danny is now truly confident and it’s no longer a facade. He’s no longer hunching into himself to look smaller. He laughs more often now and seems to be genuinely happy. Superman fondly looks at his son as his kids eyes flicker with green fire as he says a shitty ice pun and freezes Metallo in his tracks with ghostly ice.

#dp x dc #prompt #writing prompt #who am I kidding this is basically an outline of a fic not a prompt #eh might as well put the tag there #Danny phantom #dc comics #Superman #Batman #I just want happy dad Clark Kent do you understand?#I want this static ass character of a man have the writers give him some character growth so I’ll do it my self the only way I know how #writing a concept for a fic crossover that would no way in hell happen in cannon #Lois Lane gets along super well with Jazz. they’re both super smart ladies and would make an unstoppable force against nature #I like to think Danny has similar unbreakable skin besides ghost weapons like Superman and Kryptonite #so imagine Clark Kent being really happy that he can finally hug someone with his full strength and not kill them #think on that one for a second

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audhd-nightwing · 16 days

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dc stop having characters non-consensually kiss nightwing challenge ‼️

#a trope i hate so much #dc continues to do it over and over and over #and i’m like. this character has been SA’d twice and your constantly having him be sexually harassed?#it’s not even just villains!#@ dc writers: kills you kills you kills you #dc comics #dick grayson #nightwing #nightwing comics

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laufire · 4 months

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"batman is first and foremost about rehabilitation and the possibility of redemption for everyone-" is he. is he really, though. when he clearly believes "criminal" is some personality trait divorced from circumstances and goes around calling goons "scum" and acts as if killing once, even under extreme circumstances that are not at all their fault, taints someone forever?

#see: when he finds out cass was made to kill once as a child #he's witnessed cass's current reverence for life and yet he has a fucking meltdown about it because ''she *was* perfect''#and that's just one example.#like canon is extensive. there are examples for anything and what you cherry pick to read will influence what you believe #the truth of the matter is that the bulk of what *i* have read shows me this lol #like even in comics where he touts this line some of it (his classism and utter disdain regarding criminals for one) still shows #(often in reflection of a writer's values for sure)#and i can reconcile it as... change is something he WANTS to believe is possible. he TRIES to believe it. but he doesn't.#but i can't agree this is his core #there's also the fact that even if it was he'd often display unbelievable carelessness towards rogue's victims due to it #but that's a whole other topic #and this is all something he teaches to those under his tutelage btw. this is something all bats follow to some extent #talking to the void #my thoughts #dc #dc thoughts #dc comics #bruce wayne #i might be opening a can of worms with this one but i needed it off my chest lol

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oifaaa · 8 months

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Thinking about the rule of three and how if a good writer got ahold of Dick then maybe the next time Dick gets to go full righteous anger on a guy the fucker he's punching doesn't get back up

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swamp-spirit · 10 months

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I'm obsessed with the confluence of meta-decisions that led to Under the Red Hood as a story.

Like, we have the Joker, who was supposed to die in one of the first issues because Finger worried having re-occuring villains would make Batman look incompetent. The editor nixed it, and the Joker lived.

Jason Todd, meanwhile, had the opposite pressure. Laugh at the Robin insecurity trend all you want, but it represents the very real reaction of fandom. Fans /hated/ Jason for not being Dick, and called in to have him killed. He was quite directly murdered by fandom itself, and there was some genuine ghoulish cruelty from the fans calling in for his death.

The Joker was saved by editorial medling, Jason Todd was killed by fan vote.

And then UtRH brings back Finger's initial concern. Because, as much as fandom wants to argue to morals, the rogues live because the IP must be protected, because comics thrive on the status quo, the ability to bring back the big names and replay the same tragedies. UtRH digs into the pain that might bring to the characters, where their death changes nothing, where the characters who don't sell will be replaced and forgotten and their killers are immortal.

In a way, the real rage is at the medium/industry itself. The industry that killed Jason for being unpopular, then replaced him with another Robin immediately, the industry where no consequence can be permanent because, no matter how many times you killed a big hero or rogue, another writer or editor will always bring them back.

In story, Jason and Bruce aren't really having a moral argument. Jason is saying "I want you to love me enough to make me feel safe and make me feel like my death mattered. I want to be assured I am still worth protecting, even if I've grown and changed" and Bruce is saying "I love you, but there's no amount of love that will make me cross that line". They want the same thing. They want to be father and son. They want the Joker dead.

Over them looms the weight of the status quo. Bruce has tried to kill the Joker. Hell, after Jason's death, he wasn't stopped by a rule against killing, he was stopped because of a weird, racist plot where the Joker became an ambassador from Iran. Bruce can never be the father Jason needs, can't kill the Joker and hang up the hood, because he is Batman, and Batman sells issues.

And Red Hood is held back too, because he can't be 'the man who can do what Batman can't' because they can't have a DC character offing rogues. Writers had to choose between defanging him or making him a rogue himself.

Gotham can never heal, because the story cannot end. The Joker has lived almost 100 years, has been countless different characters, has changed backstories and motives, but he will never die.

#the joker #jason todd #under the red hood #dc comics #this is honestly one of the best things dc fanfic has going for it #you can just fucking kill the joker #you can do that and no other writer can take over your fic and change it #anyway i'm writing a fic where the Joker dies of natural causes shortly after Jason returns to Gotham

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armed-with-a-waffle-iron · 5 months

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I somehow only just watched Nolan’s Batman and like I dunno, seems to me this Nolan guy doesn’t actually like Batman or comics.

#he’s trying SO hard to say something bleak and dark and gritty with a story for kids #like where the fuck is robin chris? not straight enough for you?#the killing joke-ification of batman i swear to god #anti annoying rich white male writers #dc comics #bat family #anti christopher nolan #christopher nolan #bruce wayne #batman begins #the dark knight #the dark knight rises #the dark knight trilogy #batman #batman and robin

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yvtro · 1 year

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expanding on why imo the bruce is afraid of bats -> makes his name "batman" and jason is traumatised by the joker -> makes his name "red hood" analogy doesn't work the way it was intended to (but maybe works in an even more tragic way, if you are willing to embrace it.)

according to winick (some tweets that i'm too lazy to find and include), jason's choice of name is also supposed to be about his fear. however, even setting aside the obvious disproportion in the gravity of events that prompted the invention of these identities, winick fails to take into account one crucial element:

-> bruce doesn't fight bats. it's a symbol. we're keeping everything in the metaphorical dimension here.

-> now, consider: jason does fight joker. joker is his enemy.

that makes the whole act less of a reclamation and more of a, in order to defeat what you are seeking to destroy, you have to become the very thing situation.

which would work if the writers wanted to say that jason isn't actually any better than joker. and which is perfect if you want to introduce another layer of tragic irony, in which jason is actively trying to defy his fate, but actually walks himself back into it. (this is not what they wanted to do there though)

#i can confidently say that this is a sort of accidental brilliance that you can find only in this medium #because i have seen what the writers said about it. i saw them defending the choice as jason laughing in the face of trauma #which is uhm. an interesting take. i'll gladly kill the author instead #(i'm talking about an interpretation method. this time it's not a death threat)#jason todd #jay meta #red hood #utrh #dc comics

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insertcoolusernamehereee · 7 months

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DC LOOK ME IN THE EYES AND TELL ME THEY DON'T HAVE ROMANTIC TENSION.

Crying rn, they're so close in the second photo, but at the same time too farrrrr

#damian wayne #jon kent #damijon #super sons #jonathan samuel kent #robin #superboy #JUST KISS ALREADY DAMNIT #I was reading Son of Kal-el and had an instant urge to read DamiJon fanfiction #DC COME ON NOBODY CARES ABOUT JAY #*screaaaaaam*#Dc are cowards >:(#HIS HEARTBEAT MEMORIZED SHUT UP #DOES JON HAVE JAY'S HEARTBEAT MEMORIZED?#If he does #He wont be hearing his heartbeat for long :))))#DC put me in the writers room i swear i wont kill anyone #except Jay he can burn #Can you tell im salty?

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thejasontoddarchives · 10 months

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Jason Todd, eepiest boy in the dcu

Why’d they add a wig/hair to the robin mannequin …..

Batman: The Adventures Continue (2020)

#Bruce we get it you miss Dick but isn’t this a bit overkill #jason todd #red hood #batman: the adventures continue #btac #dc #anyway #if you’ve seen my previous posts about this comic you’d probably know what ‘backstory’ I’m talking about #but even when they did Jason Todd dirty to favor Tim I’d say Jason got a compelling enough new backstory with a lot of potential #so if the writers felt the need to copy bit for bit from Jason maybe even they deemed there was nothing interesting enough to pull from Tim #and his backstory. but I think what should annoy you more is #their idea that anything new they could’ve come up with for Tim still wouldn’t top ripping off of Jason lol #also. WHO has ‘monopoly on batfamily joker trauma’?#cause last I recall Jason doesn’t even have monopoly over his own life and death #the way they make everything about it about Bruce’s suffering instead #and the fact that Jason can’t fucking have his way with the joker because that’s not how BRUCE thinks it should be done??#not to mention when Dick beat the clown to death because he thought Tim was killed (and that was his last straw after Jason)#guess who resuscitated him! starts with a ‘Bru’ and rhymes with caboose #the ONLY person with a monopoly on batfamily joker trauma is Bruce actually lmfao

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jasontoddenthusiastt · 11 months

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Big sigh

#I knew they were likely to take this route. I’m still disappointed nonetheless.#comic spoilers #dc spoilers #also baby how are you going to ‘put’ these things ‘down’ with rubber bullets.#yes irl rubber bullets can be fatal. to humans. but this is comics. the writers gave you these because they didn’t want you killing anymore #or at the very least want you to be on the fence about it :/#dc #knight terrors #my post

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audhd-nightwing · 6 days

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headcanon: dick actually prefers wearing baggy clothes in public and is way more comfortable in them because nobody comments on his body when he’s not in form-fitting outfits

and it sucks because he actually really enjoys wearing form-fitting outfits and feels good in them, but any time he does people stare or catcall or even grope him and he just. can’t handle that after everything

plus the villains kissing him as nightwing thing has gotten so bad that he’s genuinely considering getting a mask that covers the lower half of his face

#i have a lot of feelings about him okay #dick grayson #dc comics #nightwing #dc stop having characters sexually harass nightwing challenge #these are not fun hcs #moreso ‘how i think these things would affect him’#dick not even feeling comfortable wearing skinny jeans in public.#dc i am coming for you #cuz the amount of times that he’s harassed and objectified etc is ridiculous!!#and it would definitely affect him!!!!#he’s shown to be visually uncomfortable with it! multiple times!#and is also canonically a SA/rape survivor!!#dc writers i will find you.#cw sa mention #when in costume around people he is constantly on edge #except his family and friends ofc #but even in a mask and armor he feels less safe than he would in a hoodie and sweats #anywayyyyy #yeah i cant stop thinking about him again #the Grayson writers specifically i will hunt down and kill one by one #in my head this started with me thinking about amab nonbinary dick grayson #and then i was like #yeah cuz he’s woman coded so it makes sense which brought me to WHY he’s women coded #(because he’s just as sexualized and objectified as them)#i’ve literally never seen any other male character treated this way. just dick grayson #ok sorry i’m rambling

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rockingthegraveyard · 1 year

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Earth 11 Jay, in my brain, looks a cross between Josette Maskin and Rhea Ripley.

#she's tall as fuck as well #you can't change my mind #in my minds eye she's so so gorgeous and buff and perfect #she also could and definitely did at some point kill a man with her thighs #i mean canon jason did as well #we all know #dc writers/artists are just too cowardly to show us #Jason Todd #Earth 11 #lets see how well i can draw my vision #also she has josette's shorter hair

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oifaaa · 1 year

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I'm not following your logic. Every piece of media Judd created about why Jason did what he did in UTRH was centered around the Joker being alive and every piece since has stated Bruce killing the Joker would heal Jason in some way. The only reason he breaks down and destroys is room after being healed by the Pit is that he learns the Joker is alive and killing people. 1-2

I'm starting to wonder if I'm the only person who's actually read this stupid book considering Jason literally says very clearly to the Joker in utrh that this isn't about you and that he is only bait - honestly tho alot of people get confused about this so I'll try to explain it

The Joker isn't important the only reason he is in the story is bc he killed Jason, if he was killed by literally any other person and that person was still alive by the time jason came back to life nothing about utrh would change apart from maybe the name red hood - the story of utrh is about Jason's relationship with Bruce that's what Jason cares about everything else the way jason thinks crime should be handled and his morals on killing are all secondary - jason doesn't actually want Bruce to kill Joker and he doesn't really expect him to, it's all theatre

If Jason actually wanted Joker dead or just to prove his system works better then Bruce's he wouldn't have to go through the whole show and dance of the stand off - he could of killed Joker when he had him tied up like Joker literally asked him why am I not dead and that's when Jason's says bc this isn't about you - I don't know how Judd could write that whole scene out and people still don't get it

So then we get to my point about Dick killing the Joker and how that wouldn't mean anything to Jason since Dick isn't Bruce and its really as simple as that - Jason wants to prove a point to Bruce, Dick killing the Joker before Jason has a chance to prove said point wouldn't help him at all it would of just made it more difficult for Jason to get the resolve he needed with Bruce and that's it

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bamboozled-distress · 9 months

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every time I see people hate on Barbara because apparently her whole character has been simplified to just be a love interest for dick because they like him and kori more, all I think is that audio thing where it’s like “you are a GIRL why are you hating like a MAN”

#oh my god imagine if I tagged this as starfire that would be honestly so petty and so annoying #but that’s what everyone does to barbara that would be so silly of me #you go on the Barbara Gordon tag on anywhere and it’s like 1% of people liking her and dick togrther 95% of people shitting on her because #they think kori is literally so much better then she is #and 4% is batfam posts or text posts where she’s there as the only sane one bc that’s what fanon has done to her #i love her and I absolutely love kori but omg pls stop being like insanely sexist to her #sorry i would die for Barbara Gordon i love her #and everyone literally gets the excuse of wishing her character never existed and how terrible she is and being incredibly misogynistic to #her bc of the killing joke when the killing joke was literally BUILT on how sexist the writer one #she was literally the only female in that whole thing and look what he did #but look how strong she was how it didn’t stop her how she persisted with oracle #she is literally the most important people to Batman as oracle and her being one of his most powerful assets #is insane because of how similar they are #how stubborn they are how angry they are and their moral compass and how shut off they are it’s literally insane #anyway babs is literally the best ever and all the haters literally make no sense 🫶🏽#barbara gordon #oracle #dc oracle #batgirl #laz.exe #dc

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babygirlcowboy · 1 year

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....don't know what this Twitter poll talk is about....currently shaking in my boots

#jason gets killed bc gotham citizens voted via twitter poll??#that's what im picking up from the bits and pieces on my dash #dc writers is it crack that you smoke??

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