U know what’s a good vibe. Batman struggling w teaming up with other superheroes, not bcos he’s used to working alone, but bcos he’s so used to teaming up w children
His sense of humour has been completely shot for years, all he knows are dad jokes. He has to restrain himself from saying ‘hi tired I’m Batman’. He has lollipops & dinosaur band aids in his utility belt. One time he got in an argument w Green Lantern and blurted out 'i think you need to take a nap’
He once tried to make Clark stand in a corner after he was reckless on a mission, and when Clark pointed out that he was an adult, Bruce stormed off muttering about kids these days and why Clark couldn’t be more like Nightwing
The seven stages of batman
You are a civilian. Batman is a myth, and a meme
You are a brand new amature rookie superhero. Batman is totally a myth, guys, right? This is just hazing the new guy. lol. I’m too smart for this.
You are a rank and file part time superhero. You know better than to go to Gotham, but you won’t say out loud why.
You are an established superhero. Batman is a founding member of the justice league and probably a vampire.
You are a league reservist. Batman is a ninja Sherlock Holmes CIA Hacktivist and also the thing that lives in your nightmares.
You are a front line justice league member. Batman is a single dad who gives dad advice and makes dad jokes and keeps trying to dad at you.
#secret stage 8: you are a superhero younger than batman #batman is your dad (@skyriderwednesday)
I want a Batman story where he starts off as a cheerful and a bit socially daft guy. Where Bruce Wayne is a complete goof and hopelessly romantic fool. He tries to court Talia or Selina with the extravagance and thoughtfulness of a man with the means and mind to try to give his love the most fantastically romantic time ever. He’d be so proud and happy for Dick and his team of superheroes, and all he can imagine is the good they’ll do when they become the next Justice league. Even the criminals in Gotham aren’t too violent, just people looking out for their own.
Then Jason comes into his life, He loves this child so much. The kid adores Alfred and follows him around like a duckling and is quietly delighted with all the toys, books, schooling, ect. that Bruce can provide. He’s smart, studious, sassy, curious, and adorably enthralled with magic (magic!Jason) practically a prodigy but still playing little pranks here and there. He can imagine Jason fitting in very well with Justice league dark if he wants to follow his big brother’s footsteps. Though that plan doesn’t quite play out as he’d hoped.
(I’m just so done with Jason only ever being destined for death and nothing more, and the death of a child being treated like no biggie or a goddamn joke. That shit should be goddamn traumatic and serious.)
However Jason is mercilessly murdered by the Joker, then Barbara is paralyzed, Talia doesn’t want anything to do with him, and Harvey well…Harvey went insane chasing shadows before killing himself. Bruce then starts to spiral into his dark and broody, emotionless, cold and calculating Batman. Turning paranoid and controlling, because if he could have planned for everything then he would have prevented the worst from happening to the people he cared about.
I want Batman’s closed off and harsh personality be a result of his life getting to a point of falling apart instead of the insanity of “dead parents” because frankly I’m sick of those damn pearls. I get it as a motivation to start being a hero but the rest of why he’s a dick to his allies and so damn standoffish about being in control all the time shouldn’t be tied to that. I think it should be a process of him losing his hopefulness to the thoughtless acts of cruelty later down the line.
Give me a batman that starts with everything to lose, a hopeful man who believes that people can change for the better if they were given a proper chance. That goodness is inherent because superman who has all the power to do anything still decides to do good. A batman who thought people were only evil because of desperation, or needed/wanted something but is proven so wrong that it slowly breaks him, into the batman we’re familiar with.
(the kind of batman that lashes out at Dick, ignores or doesn’t care for Tim and Steph, beats & banishes Jason from Gotham, and makes contingencies & plans to be able to take out his JLA friends)
Maybe even have the parents be secretly not the best people. I’ve been thinking about Martha Wayne being a high ranking member of the court of owls, and his father sharing a hand with Hugo strange to make Arkham asylum a hell on earth.
Lemme know what you guys think because frankly I kinda hate how toxic Batfam is and I really don’t care for trying to pretend it’s a good time to be with the kind of batman we have. Straightup fanon gooddad!Bruce is so far away from what Batman is, I can’t imagine them being the same person at all. At least with this kind of timeline I feel like it could possibly work.
Random HC: One similarity between Bruce and Jason is their ability to remain perfectly still while small children climb up them as if they are the kids’ personal playgrounds. As well as the frequency with which that happens.
Hey all! I run a 5e dnd campaign with some followers from here and today the Bad Bi Bureau surprised the players bi gifting them kittens. This is Shau Ogar, a half-orc played by @batdad who took time to draw the scene! Please considering commissioning her at http://batdad.tumblr.com/c
“They are,” Shau Ogar pauses a moment, “A unexpected, but welcome gift. Cats bring good fortune, and fewer rodents.” He picks up the meowing one. “You shall be Pangurath Rat’s Bane.” He pats the other, “And you shall be Bizturgi Vermin’s Death."
Once again screeching past a deadline, mermay 2022 with batbabies sleeping like otters.
Dick would 100% still be sleeping on top of Bruce but Damian has claimed that spot. Cass likes drifting while she sleeps and will sometimes use Bruce’s arm as a floaty. [id in alt text]
The real reason Bruce has gone from looking like a martial artist to a body builder is he makes sure he’s strong enough to carry his kids in case something happens, and Jason came back a fucking tank
baby Dick Grayson buying Bruce a “save a horse ride a cowboy” shirt (he doesn’t know what it means he’s just very passionate abt animal rights and he saw it at a stall in the city) and Bruce wearing it cus its a birthday present from his kid so. he has to.
Clark sees it and is physically incapable of looking him in the eyes for the next 3 months
This short series will premiere exclusively on Ismahawk’s YouTube channel and will serve as an official live-action version of Webtoon and DC’s record-breaking Batman comic. The three-part miniseries will premiere mid-October and you can check out the full cast below.
Jonathan Bentley as Bruce Wayne
Yoshi Sudarso as Dick Grayson/Nightwing
Lisa Foiles as Barbara Gordon/Oracle
Tim Neff as Jason Todd/Red Hood
Peter Sudarso as Tim Drake/Red Robin
Meghan Camarena as Stephanie Brown/Spoiler
Gemma Nguyen as Cassandra Cain/Orphan
Carter Rockwood as Damien Wayne/Robin
Du-Shaunt ‘Fik-Shun’ Stegall as Duke Thomas/Signal
Marcus Weiss as Alfred Pennyworth
There’s a teaser trailer out!!!
Us rn
I AM FILLED WITH SUCH GREAT JOY☺️It just might cure my depresión
Not a day goes by when I don’t think about the time in comics where they showed Bruce looking at photos of his kids that he had sitting in his desk and it included a pic of Tim giving Jason bunny ears while Dick photobombs
The real reason Bruce has gone from looking like a martial artist to a body builder is he makes sure he’s strong enough to carry his kids in case something happens, and Jason came back a fucking tank
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