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@maverickwayne

Unapologetically a Bruce Stan || He/Him || AroAce
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Anonymous asked:

Ultimately, can Batman be a sympathetic figure in a narrative that's established the Robins are genuinely in lifethreatening danger every night they go out?

Oh, absolutely. I think you have to file "kid sidekicks" next to "60% of aliens look exactly like humans but maybe with blue hair sometimes" and "glasses are a foolproof disguise" as part of the suspension of disbelief required to enjoy superhero media. Should you let a 12-year-old fight crime in real life? No. Could an ordinary man survive as many head injuries in real life as Bruce Wayne does? Also no! If we can accept the latter, why not the former?

The thing to always remember about kid sidekicks is that they're not meant to be realistic or plausible. They're not even really supposed to be a commentary on Bruce Wayne's (or whoever's) parenting skills or whatever. They're supposed to be power fantasies for the intended child audience. Just because the industry only publishes child-friendly comics under duress these days doesn't change why the character type was created in the 1940s. Kid sidekicks exist to make kid readers feel powerful and cool, just like 12-year-olds are constantly saving the world on their own in middle grade books. That's a good thing.

Also, they're fun.

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clayfellover

in honour of the underworld saga coming out soon i finally decided to make epic shitposts

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malenjoyer

I don’t agree with bullfighting morally, but I’ve been looking at certain pictures of matadors and their poses for a couple of months…

LISTENING!!! I didn't know the word for this but I appear to have quite a few flamenco dancer photos saved on my pinterest!!

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itscuriosu

my first girlfriend turned into the moon🌕

sokka finally joins my ATLA series! you can view the rest of my atla series below⬇️

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doraambrose

One thing DC has gone wrong with batfamily comics is the fact that basically everyone has died. It makes it so when the person dies, there's no more shock or sadness because we all know that they're going to be resurrected.

When Jason died, it was a BIG DEAL. Because nobody thought that ROBIN would die. And die so violently. And he was a kid. It shook the comic world and changed Bruce. And then he stayed dead for like idk 10-15 years. Nobody thought he was coming back. And his death was something special. He was batmans biggest failure. That was the vibe and the reason for his resurrection.

But now, basically everyone has died and come back to life. It's no big deal and if I was in the comic universe and I heard a robin died, i would probably brush it off since they'll probably be alive again in like 3 weeks. It no longer provides the utter shock and suspense that Death in the Family did.

Anyway, DC has been too loose and repetitive with death and resurrection and that has basically made them lose edge and shock value in that arena

I was in grade school when they killed Jason and I remember hearing about it. I grew up in a family of rednecks, most of them didn't know the difference between Star Wars and Star Trek and nobody was reading the current comics but Robin dying actually made it into some adult conversations. It was vague, "do you remember that TV character" or "remember when you used to read comics growing up?" but it did come up, usually with vague confusion or disbelief because how could they kill Batman's sidekick? (No, they had no idea there was had been more than one Robin so they thought it was Dick Grayson that died. If they knew Robin's name at all.)

And he STAYED DEAD. Things had already changed by the time I tried to get into comics as a teen (LOL comics aren't for GIRLS!!!). By then there was a saying, "nobody stays dead except Uncle Ben, Bucky Barnes and Jason Todd". Now nobody stays dead in comics and everyone knows it.

He was dead from 1989 to the end of 2004, which doesn't seem all that long looking back, now that he's been alive again longer, but at the time it was permanent and perpetual.

In 2005-6 the Infinite Crisis brought back the multiverse, which had died two years before Jason.

In 2006, in response to reader opinion that death was growing cheap, DC did a Teen Titans storyline where Kid Eternity was found chained in the door between life and death, holding it open. There were many Titan zombies, it was a whole thing.

(The Titans have long been notorious for resurrections as well as killing off cast like midges, because in the 80s they started getting lots of characters who only existed for that book to round out a large cast, so the writers could kill them at will, with impunity, which most major comics could not.)

In 2009 Final Crisis supposedly patched the continuity problems created by Final Crisis. It did not achieve this even a little. Killed Batman though.

In 2010 when DC did the Blackest Night massive crossover event, which was similar to the Titans zombie thing but bigger, and announced it had changed how death worked For Everyone Forever and cheap resurrection was off the table now for real guys, most people did not believe them.

For one thing, it ended by resurrecting several dead people and setting hooks for Batman never having actually died at all.

In 2011 when DC announced a full reboot of the entire universe it seemed like maybe this intensive intervention could actually reset all the storylines and the escalation creep and restore the stakes of dying and the drama of Going Through Things to characters who had done every kind of trauma thrice.

This failed comprehensively on all levels. Among many other failures of cohesion and nerve, they killed Robin again almost immediately. He was back within the year.

The fact that Alfred is still not back from his latest death is being treated more as DC being a pack of petty, contrary brats than as death having any meaningful hold on these characters that anyone ought to respect.

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ectonurites

you call comics 'picture books' because you don't respect the medium in general and think they're just for kids. i call comics 'picture books' because the majority of the modern writing feels like it was designed in a lab to either piss me off or bore me to death meanwhile the artists are still putting their whole pussy into what they do. we are not the same

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beetledrink

not to be insensitive but some of the salem witch trials were so funny bitches like “i saw her at the devils sacrament!!!” girl… what were YOU doing at the devils sacrament 👀

If ANYTHING is a heritage post it’s this.

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yrkhn

i feel bad so im gonna post this shi from23(?)

explanation:

1. Bruce tries to reconnect with Jason. This comes a couple of years after Jason's return and a lot of events afterward. During another family holiday, Bruce finds Jason alone outside the manor and the one-sided conversation happens, during which Bruce says those words. Anger and resentment prevent Jason from answering anything.

2. Years later and AFTER ETHIOPIA (you know... this Damien arc). Bruce screwed up. Jason hated him for it, a lot happened and after a long time and a showdown they came to peace. Jason can see how tired Bruce is and he knows every word Bruce is going to say to him, he knows it all by heart. So one day, after another fight, Jason just says THIS back to him.

He hadn't said that since he was the kid Bruce carried in his arms. And they both know it.

That's it. :3

sorry my english is bad i know i just wanted to share this with you

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