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~ Batman: Black and White

Bruce's superpower is sniffing out scared and/or hurt kids to help them.

Also, the determination to be there for a kid is so strong that Jim mistakes it for Batman going after a culprit.

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This right here. This right here. THIS RIGHT HERE ----

OUT OF THE FORBIDDING DEPTHS OF A CITY NOTED FOR ITS HEARTLESSNESS, COMES THE "BIGGEST HEART OF ALL" --- BATMAN!

from Batman (1940) #216

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ok this is a funny description tho

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As someone who is a leftist, who was raised by leftists, who calls themselves a "revolutionary", who is loud about when stuffs aren't fucking okay and people rights aren't respected, I cannot explain how much I dislike the panels of Oliver Queen calling his colleagues "nazis" or "fascists" when they don't agree on something. Like, it doesn't make me want to read his comics, because he sounds like a self-righteous whining bitch, not an actual activist that knows what he is talking about. Your colleague refusing to listen to you doesn't make him a fascist, rich white man. And I don't think anyone would want to have a discussion with someone who insults them of being Nazi when they aren't happy.

Nazi and fascist are important words with meanings, historical and scientific (history and sociology are sciences) meanings. The more you use them without respecting their meaning, the less they mean shit. And like, I have seen enough to realize USAmericans barely know the meaning of Nazi, which is not simply being a white-supremacist or a fascist. Nazism is the ideology that there's an aryan race, which fits mostly GERMAN traits, superior to everyone else, with a ton of eugenics. It isn't just antisemitism, it isn't just white-supremacy, the Nazis did not like most of white people, they destroyed historical and cultural objects from european cultures for not being "aryan". My grandparents' trauma from the occupation shows that quite well. So, Oliver Queen calling Flash "a nazi" because he disagree with how to handle a situation isn't funny or cool, it's tiring and wrong. No, your red-haired, probably doesn't know a word of german, colleague isn't a Nazi. And he isn't a neo-nazi ever, which are more open to white people without tie to German culture but still use the symbolism, because he is still not doing Nazi shit.

Again, these terms aren't insults, they have meanings. Marine Le Pen, a French politician, is a Nazi because her party was created by her father and his Nazi and SS friends, and she sees Hitler as family. I am not a Nazi for wearing all black (yes, this did happened), supporting Palestine (also happened), or telling people that not voting isn't helping at all (just last week).

I would have no issues with Oliver criticizing his colleagues being controlling and abusing their power or authority, I would love that, I'm big on criticizing abuse of power and authority, but he needs to be written doing that, not just calling them "nazi" and "fascist". That's not what they are doing. And also, if you think one of your colleagues is a fascist or a nazi and the JL is letting them in control, WTF ARE YOU STILL WORKING WITH THEM??? (That's my point that he's using these terms like insults)

I can hear y'all: "You're just mad he called Batman a fascist, because you love Batman!" And like, there's a lot to talk about on Bruce's and Batman’s morality, but at the end of the day, DC is an usamerican company. Of course fascist points are going to be encouraged, this is the USA we are talking about. They cannot write a story without it, it's taught to them since birth from the imperialism and nationalism combo. And also, a good written Batman isn't a fascist, he is literally against the death penalty or even letting criminals die, which is supported HEAVILY by fascism. Like, call him out for thinking he is always right, go for it, but that's not fascism.

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ODA GAVE ROBIN HER BANGS BACK?! LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO!

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~ Batman: Knightfall

I'm fine *cries*

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~ Batman: Knightfall

So what's why Bruce doesn't suffer from back problems and chronic pains, because Shondra used her power to heal him... What a shortcut.

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~ Batman: Knightfall

Shondra went through so much trauma that her brain finally decided to regress her age. I just love her so much and I'm fucking crying. She deserves the world.

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~ Batman: Knightfall

Tim is proud to take after Bruce in the "sneaking in the shadow and scaring Jim Gordon" department.

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Bruce even makes a comparison with his sons and why they would do the same thing as her (Dick to demonstrate his loyalty, Tim because he cannot let someone behind, Jason to rebel and prove himself.) The comparison with Jason continues because the boy is dead, and Bruce refuses to lose another one of his kid, so he hopes that Cass will make the choice to save herself. And when she does, he shoves aside others to help her.

please and that’s not even a hc it’s something that’s happened before!

I forgot which issue but I think it was with either cass or barb that they shoved him out of a room on a flooding ship and got stuck 😭

I’m not exactly sure how he got whichever one of them it was out but he had to do it against water that was rushing in and already like chest level but when he did he was like “never do that again that’s my job to leave last”

Him💜💜💜

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Will never be over the fact Shadow socialises is because of Rouge

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Totally forgot about this. They really made Bruce go through the grinder. Like, mentally and emotionally, this man must be a mess at this point. He is always beating himself up for failing everyone, especially Jason, and as he is being tortured for this failure, he fails to be there for Dick. And Jason twisting the knife in the wound in the back, not helping in the slightest.

But also, Bruce does arrive in time to save Dick's life after. Which still must fuck him up, because he was not able to save Jason, again, and hurt him badly (the batarang was an accident, it ricocheted and hit Jason's neck, it wasn't intentional)

You know what I don't see people talking about enough?

Batman: Under The Red Hood

Like ten minutes before Jason's “Bruce. i forgive you for not saving me. but why... why on god's earth, is he still alive!!??" Speech, Dick whole city got a living bomb dropped on it. Blüdhaven is in a crater at the time of that speech, Dick is presumed dead.

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~ Batman: Knightfall

Bruce being like: "I'm planning to die, so here is a recording for my kids, so they cannot risk their life trying to save me, to tell them to be better than me and wtf I did wrong that got me here."

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~ Batman: Knightfall

Alfred is the only person to be able to speak some sense into Jean-Paul, because he refuses to take this shit. Jean-Paul may be more mentally ill and unstable than Bruce, Alfred knows the drill and how to operate it.

It's also very interesting, because, if y'all remember, Alfred is the one who picked up Jean-Paul as a new member for the Batfam and who also tried to get him to stop killing, to change his goal from vengeance to saving lives, especially Bruce's life. And here again, he is capable of making Jean-Paul changes his mind, and makes him protect and save Bruce's life.

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Not some random guy saying that he thinks Claude isn't the kind of people to listen to his inferiors... We really are going full on absolutism.

Now I understand why Lorenz's father kept saying Claude didn't care about the people. It was a warning about where the story was heading.

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Wait, it's even worse, because it's small nobles, who have lost all the powers they had, wanting to change kingdom and be under Dimitri, probably because there are going to be listened to. They're sending the army against people who are dissatisfied with Claude becoming king, and to force their territories to stay in Leicester.

Like, yikes.

Not them trying to paint "responding to rumors and some agitations by sending the army" as the most appropriate response... We went down the abuse of power road really fast in this dictatorship...