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do you ever find a piece of fanart so beautiful you take time out of your day to just stare at it

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You’re telling me rn..that Duke wouldn’t want Kendrick’s jacket…and wouldn’t use Bruce’s money to get it…and wouldn’t wear it to galas to piss off the high class racists attending…. Ok then….moving along…(Guys this is coming from my own want of Kendrick’s jacket btw)

My fellow Duke Thomas lovers:

@numberonedukethomasapologist

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live laugh love Duke Thomas 💝

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someone's jealous they don't have a beloved TV show and catchphrase...

Virgil will also feature in the book of bats (out March 30).

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Everything to do with Duke Thomas, the Signal

So this is just going to be a long spiel on who Duke Thomas is and all the information we know about him in the comics. I mostly just made this to give writers and batfam fans a summary on this character or to inform fans of this guy without needing to read through many comics. This is not a post discouraging headcannons, you can use this information or you can take it with a grain of salt. Well that's enough from me, I hope you enjoy!

His age in reference to the other batfam members. Although we don't have a canon age for him, he is shown to be in high school, I assume his second year, but we don't actually see much of his school life. He is around 2 years younger than Tim and 3 years older than Damian but you can correct me.

Duke was not adopted by Bruce. HOWEVER he was taken in as a ward, just like Dick. He has living parents and family like Steph and no one considers her a Wayne (actually, people do but I guess they're just weird /jk)

He does not live at the manor, he lives in the Narrows. I did this whole thing already, His legal guardian is his older cousin Blah Blah Blah just read this thing i wrote

His parents are literally cured. This is actually a pretty recent addition so I don't blame people for not knowing but yeah, his parents are fine. I'm not sure what this means for Duke because DC just loves him so yk...

His powers. Well to start, his powers include Photokinesis, Ghost Vision (seeing into the past), Cosmic Perception, X-Ray Vision, Telescopic Vision, Microscopic Vision, Invisibility, Umbrakinesis, Shadow Absorption, Shadow Generation, Shadow Bending, Shadow Traversal, Photo-Umbrakinesis, Power Amplification (of other metas) and Accelerated Healing. And, he awoke to his powers AFTER becoming Signal (surprising, I know!). Additionally, His mom does have the metagene, so yes he is a meta but! his biological father, Gnomon is an immortal albeit, not very clearly established. We don't know what effects this has on Duke, whether he will become immortal or something but people have wrote some really interesting explorations of this idea.

His suit and everything were designed by Bruce. Duke didn't actually ask to be bright yellow but at least he got to name himself, in memory of his mother.

We Are Robin. Okay let's see, vigilante group, kids from all over Gotham, started by Alfred, still exists in canon just not as the team we know (Dax, Riko, Izzy, Dre) Speaking of, the WAR kids have been sent to Arkham Juvie, Duke and Izzy are dating and Dax & Riko are meta vigilantes now and they hate Duke for 'betraying' them and becoming a Bat.

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me when someone utilises Duke Thomas' power-amplification ability

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me explaining how Duke may not be a Wayne but he is a batsibling and the complex relationships that he has with each of the batfamily members

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i just saw someone source a fact with nothing butt nightwing are you kidding me

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you know how people write their username in their art like a signature or watermark

well i just saw someone whose username was so long it took up a quarter of that character's outline

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THIS IS WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING 💥💥💥

people know Duke Thomas's mom is fine and he's living with her again, right??? They know that he helped her through her recovery and she knows about his life as Signal? And that he was living with his cousin Jay prior to that? Everyone understands the concept of temporary guardianship and how an adult can be a mentor without being a parental figure, right???????

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Everyday I mourn the loss of Duke Thomas' personality

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Tim Drake Gun Batman this, Battle for the Cowl that

lets talk about Duke Thomas as Batman

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Just got done with Duke. Need to finish his Robin Wars look though…

And yes, I changed his name for my au. I just feel it’s a bit punchier than… “the signal…” so sue me. And if by chance anyone is thinking “what about the other DC character named Beacon?” She’s gonna have a different name. One that actually has something to do with her powers. That’s all.

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I've just been doing some research for some schoolwork but tell me why I've been seeing all these recent articles formatted as

"Three Word Title: 100 word/Three sentence paragraph."

Erm excuse me? Now I'm not denying that I haven't used AI, I mean how else would i be able to recognise that format

For fun, I put some of these through some 'AI detection' programs (yeah they're unreliable but I was bored) and well...

"100% AI"

I mean, are you kidding me?

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love wfā but as far as I'm concerned, the war kids (- izzy) absolutely HATE duke

like at this moment in time riko and dax are literally villains and everyone else is in arkham for some reason

so yeah they would not like their vigilante nepo baby friend

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the thing abt duke thomas is that he is a genius truly gifted kid who had a promising albeit average future ahead of him until tragedy struck and took his parents from him. then all the energy he has diverts and he blocks everything else out and dedicates himself to finding them and also being a huge problem for anyone who'd try to obscure that.

like #1 most underrated thing abt his character is that he is, by definition, a "retired crash out". after age 14 he had no friends, shit grades, was getting into fights so often he was being kicked out of schools AND foster homes. it truly was self made vigilatism and the power of friendship that saved him from tunnel-visioning into an early grave.

ALL THIS TO SAY my favorite thing abt duke thomas pre batman and the signal (hell even during the comic) is how much of an unapologetic asshole he is to everyone indiscriminately in a bad way. He was kind but lil bro was NOT nice. he was selfish and a dickhead even to ppl who cared and were really trying to help him. I really like to think that him getting past that wasn't dc neutering him but the active choice to get better after he finally found a solid support system. that being said, he most definitely code switches and has to CONSISTENTLY hold back from poppin bitches in they mouthes bcs hes past that! he's in his healing arc! <as he'd say.

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sorry another bald tshirt post that came to me last night

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when a white hero has a poc successor and suddenly a domino becomes a full mask...