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The DC Body Swap Brawl

Round 2, Brawl 1

Location: Warworld

A planet. A weapon. A world of danger. Among its many armaments, automated guns and lasers protect its corridors, and firey turrets prevent access to its surface. It is a dark place where only the toughest might survive.

Team 2

Team 4

Discuss how you think the fight will go in the notes, and in five days we'll vote to see who comes out on top!

Brawl Rules | General Rules | Bracket

Bruce has been friends with speedsters since he began his Batman career, knows impulse abilities firsthand, and I believe he's already been to Warworld at least once, and to top it off Lightray is literally right there to give directions to Moonrider on how to use his new powers. Team 4 just got there with completely unknown abilities and bodies (which would really be detrimental to their fighting style) and they're out of nowhere in a very dangerous planet. I think team 2 could really pull this off.

I was going to say Talia in the body of Blue Beetle would solo the whole battle until I read your reasoning now I may be swayed...🤔

Jeje Talía is a really strong contender, but she's in a completely new body, in a completely new place, with an alien ability I don't think she's ever even heard about (unless there's canon to sustain she might have lol). Her change of center could be really detrimental to her balance, and I don't think she has any weapons at hand. Harley now has a demon she basically knows nothing about in the body of a man she also knows nothing about lmao. Etrigan could really balance the scales.... If he's feeling up to it. If Harley has no control over him it could kinda work? But he's known to want to do his own thing most of the time. But even if Etrigan tried to carry the fight it would be two against one, cause Tim, no matter how smart he is, is once again in a completely unknown body with a very different array of abilities and a completely new center of balance. While he may be able to recognize the place, the physical setbacks could be very detrimental, specially against a speedster.

On the other hand, team 2 has two guys who already know each other swap. It's true that Moonrider now has a new different set of abilities, but his body type is pretty similar to Lightray, and not only does he personally know the guy and his abilities, the guy he swapped with is literally right there. It's true that Lightray without powers on Luthor's body can't really do much in terms of fighting, but he can definitely help Moonrider navigate his new abilities. And my reasoning with Batman is still the same lmao. Even with the off balance, in the new speedster body he can take all the time he wants to adjust lmao. Knowing the abilities is essential, at least in my opinion

The DC Body Swap Brawl

Round 2, Brawl 1

Location: Warworld

A planet. A weapon. A world of danger. Among its many armaments, automated guns and lasers protect its corridors, and firey turrets prevent access to its surface. It is a dark place where only the toughest might survive.

Team 2

Team 4

Discuss how you think the fight will go in the notes, and in five days we'll vote to see who comes out on top!

Brawl Rules | General Rules | Bracket

Bruce has been friends with speedsters since he began his Batman career, knows impulse abilities firsthand, and I believe he's already been to Warworld at least once, and to top it off Lightray is literally right there to give directions to Moonrider on how to use his new powers. Team 4 just got there with completely unknown abilities and bodies (which would really be detrimental to their fighting style) and they're out of nowhere in a very dangerous planet. I think team 2 could really pull this off.

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Action Comics #1064 - "Brainiac Attacks!" (2024)

writers and artists will go "this isn't good enough." my brother in christ, you're creating something new out of nothing and expressing yourself creatively. your productivity and unrealistic standards of perfection do not define you or the worth of your art. you're doing great.

U ever see a take that u couldnt disagree more with but its a popular fandom take so u know if u voice it youre gonna get dragged through tue mud

I mean I'm on my yearly re-reading of pre-crisis and he was pretty good with Jason and Helena lmao. Also with Bruce Jr? But there are like three different Bruce Jr and one of them gets the short end of the stick (but they did make up so character growth???). And also with Dick.... When they aknowledged it of course (I do have a whole meta talking about how fricking inconsistent their relationship was lmao). But no yeah I get it man I get it, modern Bruce is.... Is a lot and it's not good. It's honestly baffling what they'll justify him doing in favour of the writer's fragile masculinity/politics, and I really do wish we could see some consequences for it? It's always brushed off under the rug when it happens and even if it's aknowledged it's never like, truly taken seriously? I mean, I know this is comics and all, but you'd think it would have more lasting consequences, and that could be really interesting to play with! But writers do be pussies ngl. Hell, even if it's not my fav characterization of him, it is has been a very prominent and recurrent theme since the 90's/2000's, so you'd think it would be. More impactful to the character I guess?

U ever see a take that u couldnt disagree more with but its a popular fandom take so u know if u voice it youre gonna get dragged through tue mud

I mean I'm on my yearly re-reading of pre-crisis and he was pretty good with Jason and Helena lmao. Also with Bruce Jr? But there are like three different Bruce Jr and one of them gets the short end of the stick (but they did make up so character growth???). And also with Dick.... When they aknowledged it of course (I do have a whole meta talking about how fricking inconsistent their relationship was lmao). But no yeah I get it man I get it, modern Bruce is.... Is a lot and it's not good. It's honestly baffling what they'll justify him doing in favour of the writer's fragile masculinity/politics, and I really do wish we could see some consequences for it? It's always brushed off under the rug when it happens and even if it's aknowledged it's never like, truly taken seriously? I mean, I know this is comics and all, but you'd think it would have more lasting consequences, and that could be really interesting to play with! But writers do be pussies ngl. Hell, even if it's not my fav characterization of him, it is has been a very prominent and recurrent theme since the 90's/2000's, so you'd think it would be. More impactful to the character I guess?

I was getting pretty fed up with links and generators with very general and overused weapons and superpowers and what have you for characters so:

Here is a page for premodern weapons, broken down into a ton of subcategories, with the weapon’s region of origin. 

Here is a page of medieval weapons.

Here is a page of just about every conceived superpower.

Here is a page for legendary creatures and their regions of origin.

Here are some gemstones.

Here is a bunch of Greek legends, including monsters, gods, nymphs, heroes, and so on. 

Here is a website with a ton of (legally attained, don’t worry) information about the black market.

Here is a website with information about forensic science and cases of death. Discretion advised. 

Here is every religion in the world. 

Here is every language in the world.

Here are methods of torture. Discretion advised.

Here are descriptions of the various methods used for the death penalty. Discretion advised.

Here are poisonous plants.

Here are plants in general.

Feel free to add more to this!

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hm. Batman u are very important to me. also u need a lot of help king

"My fate is to be a mother--

--and suffer for it."

part two of my favorite talia panels (outfits) from batman: the tales of the demon

part one

(in the first panel she’s holding batman’s cape while her men kidnap him girlboss <3)

(yes, batman’s lying on the floor in the first panel that’s the effect she has on him <3 fr tho she shot him with a poison dart, saved his life and took him to a cottage <last two panels<)

I don’t know which author needs to hear this right now but even if you never update your wip i would never regret reading it a time of joy is never wasted

The Bruce & Jason vibe of it all

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