#Barry Opper

[sir-fluffbutts]

how did the humans™️ meet?

barry and colin was childhood friends cause barry was taken care in a "orphanage for special kids" facility where colins mother was opperating as the headmistress

at their first year of highschool, colin and joie met at a school book club where nobody else (even their teachers) showed up and became friends, which automaticaly made him barrys friend as well

barry and vincent were twitter moots and when vincent (whos 2 years yonger then everyone mentioned above) enters their highschool, he was introduced to everone else by him

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 4.5 / 10

Título Original: Critters 3

Año: 1991

Duración: 86 min.

País: Estados Unidos  

Dirección: Kristine Peterson

Guion: Rupert Harvey, Barry Opper

Música: David C. Williams

Fotografía: Thomas L. Callaway

Reparto: Aimee Brooks, Don Keith Opper, John Calvin, Katherine Cortez, Leonardo DiCaprio, Geoffrey Blake, Diana Bellamy, William Dennis Hunt, Frances Bay, Bill Zuckert, Terrence Mann

Productora: New Line Cinema

Género: Horror; Comedy; Sci-Fi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101627/

TRAILER:

[jupitermelichios]

Gotham is a pocket dimension, I will die on this hill

Over time the doorway gets bigger, more and more people can get in, but to begin with, only the weird and the magically inclined can enter, and their descendants are the ones who shape the city (ask me how Gotham and Klarion the Witchboy are connected, sometime). But even now, if you're solid and sensible and real enough, it's entirely possible to leave Metropolis on the New Jersey road and find yourself in Bludhaven without even having seen Gotham. You can pass right by the most densely populated city in the USA without even noticing, because leaving reality, stepping through the bleed into a new dimension, takes a special kind of person.

Which is a long winded way of saying I adore this idea, but I would like to suggest; this only happens in their home dimension. When the Robins are with the Titans, they're just people with a lot of training. The things they can do are impressive as all hell, but not superhuman. There are Olympic athletes who are bendier than Dick, thieves who can blend into the shadows better than Tim or Bruce, soldiers and martial artists who can shrug off more damage than Jason. Other non-powered heroes like the Arrows who can do all the things they do. Outside of Gotham.

"They're different in Gotham," is a common talking point on any team with a Bat on it, especially the Titans. And people who've never been think they know what that means. Everyone's different on hom turf. If you're one of the heroes who's primarily solo and only a team member on the side, missions with the Titans or the Outsiders or the JLA are basically field trips. Of course your attitude is going to be different.

Sometimes someone older, someone who's known the Bats longer, will say, "No, you don't get it, they're different," but they never want to elaborate, and most people don't notice.

And then a mission will take them into Gotham (superheroes, being naturally extremely strange, never have any problems passing through the dimensional gateway, although it sometimes takes Barry a couple of tries) and usually they don't notice the difference at first. Yeah the Bats are different, but only in the ways to be expected. They know this city, care about it. Of course they're different here, it's in their blood.

It's in their blood.

Some heroes never notice the difference. Some chalk it up to imagination. And some, the ones who know the Bats best and the ones who know magic and dimensions and weird best, well...

Bruce is very very good at fading into the background anywhere in the world, or finding a shadow to lurk in, good at timing things just right so you're always looking away when he leaves a room. But once you know what he's doing, it's easy enough to spot. Supes and the Flashes watch him leave. The Lanterns make a game out of maintaining eye contact to see how long it takes for him to cave and just walk out in plain sight. But in Gotham, it's like he can teleport. No matter how high up your meeting, he drops from above. Even when there's nothing above you but clouds. No matter how closely you watch, he disappears, like instead of waiting for you to turn away, he vanishes between eyeblinks.

Dick is an incredible gymnast and one of the best aerialists in the world, but every Titan has seen him fuck up and faceplant at least once. Every flying Titan has had to carry him across gaps too wide for every him to jump. They've all helped him ice at least one strain from jumping too far and too fast with only human shoulders to take the weight. They've all wondered how he still doesn't seem to fully know his limits, after twenty years of practise. And then they follow a lead to Gotham, and it all makes sense, because in Gotham, Dick and gravity have an understanding. In Gotham, Dick opperates on cartoon physics, child logic. In Gotham, as long as he shoots his grapnel before he hits the ground, there's no drop too far, no gap too wide. Every child in the city believes Nightwing can fly, and in places like Gotham, belief has power.

Jason once said that being Robin gives him magic, and maybe that's true, because people who've patched up his wounds in the real world, who've seen him bleeding and delirious and in pain out there, have also seen him shrug off injuries that should have laid him out when he's on home turf. Everyone in the Burnley and Robbinsville districts Uptown knows Red Hood can't be killed, and maybe they're right. Maybe the way Roy just shakes his head and refuses to make eye contact when anyone asks him about it means something.

All Tim's friends will tell you his brain works a little faster than other people's, that he's crazy smart and spent his formative years learning to keep up with speedsters and that's maybe fucked him up a little bit. Former YJ members will roll their eyes and tell you how he loves to bitch about how much sleep he needs on missions (he must be so stressed with Batman breathing down his neck, it's no wonder he doesn't get enough rest at home) and how there's only 24 hours in a day. Kid Flash!Bart hears him complaining about how time moves so slowly and thinks foldly that hanging out with Impulse really did a number on Baby!Tim's brain. And Kon never talks about why he doesn't like visiting Gotham, about the way 24 hours with Tim there can feel like it's lasting a week (he shouldn't need to eat that often in just one day, tells himself they're just naps but knows he's slept at least twice and yet somehow it's still Tuesday), doesn't talk about the mission they did together that took three hours, only once he was far enough out of Gotham that he could see NYC, suddenly his phone was blowing up with messages from Ma and Pa wanting to know what the hell he was playing at, skipping two days of school.

Jon likes to tease Damian about the way he expects the world to obey him. The way he'll say things like 'that bad guy should trip and fall' and be amazed when it doesn't happen. But he's met Batman, and his dad has told him a little about Talia, so it's not exactly surprising. His mom is basically royalty, and his dad regularly bosses around entire rooms full of people who could squash him like a bug if they wanted. Obviously that's going to rub off on their son. But then again, maybe it's the way that in Gotham, things always seem to work out in Damian's favour. Nothing huge, nothing life changing. Nothing that isn't deniable. But the vital information is always on the first computer he checks. There's always a convinient pile of boxes at bottom of every drop. His distractions always work, and when he tells the bad guys to listen to him, it's like they can't help but pay attention.

Barbara remembers everything she's ever seen, and she trained herself to pay attention. When she gets back from Belle Reeve, she notices that the Clocktower's computers respond to her in a way Waller's hadn't. Notices that she can always intuit hardware problems that ought to take her months to fix, crack encryption that ought to be impenetrable. And she notices all the other things too. Notices the way Bruce comes and goes, and the fact that he can see in darkness that ought to blind a mere human. Notices that Dick moves like flowing ink not flesh and blood. Notices every time Jason walks off an injury that should have laid him out, every coversation with Tim that lasts a day or no time at all, every time Damian solves a problem with tools that hadn't been there a minute ago.

And because she remembers - because no matter what Gotham does to her that will always be her real superpower - Barbara is the one who takes the train to Uptown, to the street now called Crime Alley, and it's Barbara who knocks on the door of Jason Blood. Barbara who asks the question, and listens carefully to the answer, and goes home with a bag full of borrowed books on dimensional travel and magical radiation and how even the most magical beings are bound by the rules of the dimension they find themselves in.

(The books raise more questions than they answer, but it does at least make sense of the way her dad used to loose all sense of direction any time he went on holiday and take three tries to find the Gotham turn on his way home. And why that doesn't happen nearly as often now as it used to).

And so, when Cass begins talking about working with Batman Inc, about seeing Hong Kong, learning a new city, it's Barbara who sits her down and explains that it will be different there. That she'll always be good, but reading people doesn't work the way she's grown used to, not out there. That she needs to be prepared for the fact that she'll be fighting deaf and blind compared to what's become her normal on home soil (and no matter where she was born, Gotham is Cass's home soil, she and the city were always meant to find one another).

Cass still goes, because learning to fight at a disadvantage is a useful skill to have, but Barbara's right.

There are pieces of her, pieces of all her family, that never make it past the city limits. Pieces of themselves they have to leave at home, waiting for to come back to the place they belong.

Because the Bats are different in Gotham.

I love the headcanon that none of the Bats are supers, but over time? Gotham is slowly messing them up, one by one.

Bruce smiles at Clark one day in the Cave, and his eyes reflect the light back like a wolf's

Jason suddenly has tiny fangs, but nobody has the nerve to mention it

Alfred literally doesn't die

Dick can jump higher and faster than ever before, but barely notices it

Tim is awake for three days straight and doesn't blink

They're all subtly, but noticeably different. Gotham-blessed, or cursed, or something in between.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.2

Beer Birthdays

Peter Schoenhofen (1827)

James W. Kenney (1845)

Fal Allen (1961)

Erika Bolden (1985)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Isaac Asimov; science fiction writer (1920)

Lynda Barry; cartoonist (1956)

Kate Bosworth; actor (1983)

Diane Lane; actor (165)

Sally Rand; dancer, stripper (1904)

Famous Birthdays

Nathaniel Bacon; led Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1647)

Jim Bakker; televangelist (1939)

Josh Baskin; character in film "Big" (1975)

Ernst Barlach; artist (1870)

Boo-Boo Bear; cartoon character (1958)

Lennie Briscoe; character in TV show “Law & Order” (1940)

Tia Carrere; actor (1966)

Gabrielle Carteris; actor (1961)

Dabney Coleman; actor (1932)

Taye Diggs; actor (1971)

Philip Freneau; poet (1752)

Cuba Gooding Jr.; actor (1968)

Taye Diggs; actor (1972)

Lou Gramm; rock musician (1950)

Larry "Bozo the Clown" Harmon; entertainer (1925)

Dennis Hastert; politician (1942)

Calvin Hill; Dallas Cowboys RB (1947)

Anna Lee; actor (1913)

Bill "Mad Dog" Madlock Jr.; Pittsburgh Pirates 3B (1951)

Gino Marchetti; Baltimore Colts DE (1927)

Roger Miller; country singer (1936)

Frederick Burr Opper; cartoonist (1857)

Joanna Pacula; actor (1957)

Dick Powell; actor (1904)

Josef Stalin; Russian dictator (1880)

Helen Taft; First Lady (1861)

Saint Theresa; Carmelite nun (1873)

Michael Tippett; composer (1905)

Christy Turlington; model (1969)

Arthur Carter "Pinky" Whitney; Philadelphia Phillies 3B (1905)

James Wolfe; British general (1727)

[picsinhead-blog]

Tim’s Favorite Movie Project: Critters 2: The Main Course

Critters 2: The Main Course (1988)

Directed by Mick Garris

Starring Scott Grimes, Liane Curtis, Don Opper, Terrence Mann, Barry Corbin, Roxanne Kernohan

Released April 29, 1988

Plot: Two years after the events of Critters, the citizens of Grover’s Bend have resumed a normal, Krite-free existence. The peace is shattered when Krite eggs are discovered, mistaken for some kind of antiques (?!) and begin to hatch. Soon after, shape shifting alien bounty hunters Ug and Lee return to join the citizens in an epic battle for Grover’s Bend – and Earth itself!

One of my favorites because: Critters 2 is an oddity in so many ways. On the surface, it’s a pretty basic sequel – it gathers all the survivors of the first film (well – those who were willing to return), and more or less repeats the premise. But Critters 2 is a gratuitous sequel that’s self-conscious about being a gratuitous sequel. Critters 2 is a PG-13 rated film that raises the level graphic gore from the first film, and features 80’s action movie levels of nudity (working in a brilliant Airplane! level sight gag). It’s a film that doesn’t seem to have any artistic reason to exist, and it capitalizes on that by featuring main characters struggling to find their place in the world: Brad tries to hide his identity because of his association with the events of Critters, and Charlie is reluctant to return to Earth for fear of being shoehorned back into his old role. The shapeshifting Lee spends the whole film restlessly trying to find what shape it belongs in; Sheriff Harv is now played by a different actor and doesn’t want to be a part of this at all. But what really makes Critters 2 memorable, and what earns it a place (at least for now) on this favorites list, is the strength and novelty of its Easter imagery. The Krite eggs are mistaken for God knows what, decorated, and used in an Easter egg hunt, which is all well and good, but can’t compete with the most memorable sequence in the film in which a man dressed as the Easter Bunny gets his suit filled with hungry Critters and crashes as a bloody mess through a church window. Exceptional. There are so many Christmas horror movies, but it’s somewhat harder to find any that exploit the bright colors and silly imagery of Easter – and maybe that’s because it’ll never get any better than this.  

My relationship to this movie: When I was little, my grandparents had a side room where grandpa had a little 8” or 10” color television set up. When we were at their house, us kids would hang in that room and watch whatever was on – usually movies on TBS or Channel 11. This meant very little adult interference, but also zero control over what was on or what parts of it we saw. That is where I saw the Easter Bunny sequence for the first time. (This is the first but definitely not the last time a movie I saw on that TV will make this list.) That experience, probably in 1989, represented the sum total of my direct knowledge of the Critters franchise until 2019. I would have movie nights with my friend in Buffalo by syncing our starts and texting throughout the movie; she picked Critters (and for some reason, Critters Attack!) in late fall 2019, and was disappointed that the scene I was waiting for was not in that movie. Then, in late summer 2020, I got into the rest of the series via Scream! Factory’s loaded Blu-ray box set. Revisiting Critters 2 for this writing was the fourth time I’ve watched the movie in its entirety.  

My favorite _________: Critters 2 is my favorite Easter movie. List Position at Debut:Critters 2 is the twelfth entry in this project and starts at number twelve.

[90smovies]

[hardtickettohomevideo]

Schlocktoberfest IX - Day 14: Critters 4

Schlocktoberfest IX – Day 14: Critters 4

  Critters 4 (1991)

Trailer (Which is in German and more entertaining than the actual film):

*Spoilers Throughout*

Mission Log: Those lovable yet deadly space aliens, The Crites, are back again and doing exactly what they did in the first three Crittersfilms. However, this one is actually set on a spaceship! Yes, after 5 flicks…

[half-o-lasaga]

you know what i don’t like? that they’re producing a movie about one of the most prominent transmasc people in history, marketing him as gender-fluid, and casting a female to play him.... and no one’s talking about it.

[goldentemplariumcrow]

The thought that in some verse Barry reseting the timeline again and again makes Dio's life harder and more broken with each new reset is an interesting thing.

After all, he may not know or be connected to Dio in any way, shape or form, but the Templar Order opperates on global scale to control and eliminate anomalies, and thus, every time he resets the timeline again new anomalies occur and certain people come back to life even though they should be dead and gone, which leads to Dio having to live through new traumas while still remembering the previous ones and, at times, having to "correct" the mistakes by killing certain people again.

It comes to a point where he's so desensatized to it all that he isn't just devaluing life only due to the indoctrination, but because he can feel in a subconscious level the changes and each time the reset happens a little bit of his humanity breaks with it, leaving him colder and closer to an Isu mentality whenever it happens.

[thepeoplesmovies]

101 Films Giving Jeepers Creepers A Blu-Ray Release

101 Films Giving Jeepers Creepers A Blu-Ray Release

This Halloween 101 Films is releasing 21st century horror classic Jeepers Creeper(2001) for the first time on Blu-ray in the UK.

The film stars Justin Long (Drag Me to Hell), Gina Philips (Chained), and Patricia Belcher (Flatliners).

The package includes recent interviews with producer Barry Opper and actress Patricia Belcherfor the first time on a UK release, commentaries with director and…

[goldinavonlea]

I wonder if Gilbert ever told Mary who the girl he was referring to was. If he did, did she mean for him to be careful and make sure he loves her and it’s not just a crush or just in general marry the person you love without thinking of anyone in particular. And once planting season starts, who is going to look after Delphine. I mean I’m assuming both Bash and Gil will be busy with farm work to be able to look after her while they work. Poor Delphine 😭😭😭

I mean I would assume he’d mentioned a little more about her and Mary is, knowing as she does that she’s not going to be around to be a fussy big sister and vet any women he brings home for him, giving him the guidance she considers most important, particularly off the back of the conversation they’ve just had about Bash: Mary married the love of her life, and she wants the same for Gilbert.

Also, having had a child so young and it clearly not having worked out with the father, Mary is well aware of the consequences of falling into a relationship with someone who isn’t your Life Mate out of loneliness or the desire to have Someone, even if they’re not The One. It’s obviously a very different dynamic in today’s world, but back then it just wasn’t The Done Thing to just... try it out with someone, see how it goes, and if it’s not what you’re looking for nbd: fun fact I’ve only learned since watching this show, but I was looking up some stuff about courting gifts (read: I was fantasising about The Ultimate Dream which is a pretty boy giving me a pretty ribbon god I love a ribbon) and discovered that a significant part of the significance of physical gifts in courtship was that they could be held as evidence in a court of law if you deemed someone to have broken a promise to you. I’m not exactly certain under what circumstances you could have taken someone to court, what exactly constituted a ‘promise’ that was considered legally binding, but you could get up on the docket with a ribbon and an engraving of your face and be like ‘See? Evidence of his intentions towards me’. That is the level to which courtships were Not Fucking Around in the byegones, so naturally Mary is going to be cautious when her 18 year old baby brother in law wanders home with a pretty flower humming to himself over a girl he’s only just met—especially after he’s evidently been pining over someone else the whole time she’s known him, there are no flies on Mary, she knows. You sort of only had one shot proper shot at the whole Romance Thing—if you jumped in too soon and then wanted to back out you’d have a hell of a time doing so, and probably completely screw the reputation of yourself and the other person involved in the process, which would make both of your lives very difficult indeed.

As for who’s going to look after Delie (it’s adorable that they call her that and also essential that, like Anne, it’s spelled with an E: girl’s a baby not a New York sandwitch) during busy times on the farm, I’m not especially concerned—Marilla would, Anne would, Mrs Lynde would if it was a truly desperate situation though I personally would not hand a child of mine over to Rachel unless it was life or death, I imagine Miss Stacy would if it were harvest and school was out, perhaps the Barrys might now.

What DOES worry me is what happens when Gilbert goes off to Queens, and Bash is now facing down the prospect of single parenting a child and running a farm on his own all year round. The question of who looks after Delie THEN as a more permanent issue, as well as who’ll help Bash out, nags at me continually.

I don’t think from the way they’re talking about it that Queens is quite the same as it was in the books (which is to say, a teaching academy), since it always seems phrased with Gilbert like he’ll be going straight from Avonlea to med school, Diana saying she’d have a degree if she were allowed to attend Queens etc. In the books as I understand it, you go to Queens to get your teaching cert, then go on to Redmond from there to do your actual degree (Med for Gilbert, English for Anne). It seems to me that they’re sort of shuffling the concept of Redmond into Queens, with Queens as Med School for Gilbert, and Anne studying her BA in English.

But if that were not the case, what might have been Quite The Thing To See would have been a reversal of roles between them regarding teaching positions: if Mary’s died but Matthew lives (which I’m big time hoping for I mean frankly I wouldn’t have asked for this as a trade because I was sort of prepared as much as I could be for losing Matthew, but since they’ve already taken Mary off us they Absofuckinglutely cannot have Matthew too I will bare knuckle fight Moira myself), we might have seen Gilbert spending the year at Queens getting his teaching cert worrying about Bash struggling with everything on his own, and then him getting a teaching position in White Sands (? I think?) and Anne getting the Avonlea school (opposite to how it goes in the books) with Anne rather than Gilbert approaching the board to request a swap, so that Gilbert could be at home with Bash to help out (rather than Anne getting to be in Avonlea to support Marilla after Matthew’s death).

I think I’d quite have liked that.

As it is (as I said, with Queens I am fairly sure not being a teaching academy in AWAE), I really am not sure how Bash is going to go about handling it all on his own. Maybe Matthew renewing his offer to help Gilbert with the land but to Bash, with Bash Jerry and Matthew working both farms together while Marilla minds Delie during the day? That might work really well actually—Bash could go back to Green Gables after the day of farming, have dinner with them (so he’s not having to juggle a full day of farm work then having to cook and mind Delie), then head home to spend the evening treasuring his daughter. Though I hate the idea of him living in the house without another adult for company, missing Mary. I’m still hoping that Elijah is going to turn it around and step up in the wake of Mary’s death, so maybe he and Bash will manage to form a ragtag unit to run it all together (though still with Marilla’s help I’d imagine: she’s so besotted with Delphine and I’m not sure Bash could be carting Delie around the farm with him all day.

Although that being said I’m pretty sure that’s exactly what women did for like... thousands of years, farming and agriculture were traditionally the realm of women as well as childcare while men hunted (I read somewhere once that they’d done studies on really old remains and found that due to the hard graft of agricultural labour the average woman from x time period (and quite probably x broad geographical area) would have been more jacked than the average olympian today which is So Very Cool anyway) so they must have just touted their kids about with them, although this was probably in a time of much greater communal living and the whole ‘it takes a village’ thing so they probably had some gals minding the tots whilst others farmed etc etc anyway ANYWAY

Anyway yes, the prospect of how Bash is going to manage as a single parent and sole individual working that farm worries at me too (although... honestly I’ve never seen all that much evidence of what they’re actually getting up to I mean they... fix border fences I guess but other than that... mainly seem to hang out in the barn whacking the shit out of waggon wheels? Aren’t they an orchard? Like surely there’s no way in HELL an orchard large enough to sustain a living could be harvested by one or even two people? You know what actually how DOES that work I have questions now what kind of opperation are these people running anyway ANYWAY I have Can’t Shut Up Disease and I apologise)

[saturdaynightmatinee]

CALIFICACIÓN PERSONAL: 5 / 10

Título Original:  Critters 4   

Año: 1991

Duración: 112 min.

País: Estados Unidos  

Dirección: Rupert Harvey

Guion: Joseph Lyle, David J. Schow. Historia: Rupert Harvey, Barry Opper

Música: Peter Manning Robinson

Fotografía: Thomas L. Callaway

Reparto: Don Keith Opper, Angela Bassett, Brad Dourif, Terrence Mann, Paul Whitthorne, Anders Hove, Eric DaRe, Martine Beswick, Anne Ramsay

Productora: New Line Cinema

Género: Horror; Sci-Fi

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101628/

TRAILER:

[cultfaction]

Critters: A New Binge – The new TV series you didn’t know was coming! “The critters return to Earth in search of one of their kin, who was left behind years ago during an earlier mission.

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 1.2

Beer Birthdays

Peter Schoenhofen (1827)

James W. Kenney (1845)

Fal Allen (1961)

Erika Bolden (1985)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Isaac Asimov; science fiction writer (1920)

Lynda Barry; cartoonist (1956)

Kate Bosworth; actor (1983)

Diane Lane; actor (165)

Sally Rand; dancer, stripper (1904)

Famous Birthdays

Nathaniel Bacon; led Bacon's Rebellion, Virginia (1647)

Jim Bakker; televangelist (1939)

Josh Baskin; character in film "Big" (1975)

Ernst Barlach; artist (1870)

Boo-Boo Bear; cartoon character (1958)

Lennie Briscoe; character in TV show “Law & Order” (1940)

Tia Carrere; actor (1966)

Gabrielle Carteris; actor (1961)

Dabney Coleman; actor (1932)

Taye Diggs; actor (1971)

Philip Freneau; poet (1752)

Cuba Gooding Jr.; actor (1968)

Taye Diggs; actor (1972)

Lou Gramm; rock musician (1950)

Larry "Bozo the Clown" Harmon; entertainer (1925)

Dennis Hastert; politician (1942)

Calvin Hill; Dallas Cowboys RB (1947)

Anna Lee; actor (1913)

Bill "Mad Dog" Madlock Jr.; Pittsburgh Pirates 3B (1951)

Gino Marchetti; Baltimore Colts DE (1927)

Roger Miller; country singer (1936)

Frederick Burr Opper; cartoonist (1857)

Joanna Pacula; actor (1957)

Dick Powell; actor (1904)

Josef Stalin; Russian dictator (1880)

Helen Taft; First Lady (1861)

Saint Theresa; Carmelite nun (1873)

Michael Tippett; composer (1905)

Christy Turlington; model (1969)

Arthur Carter "Pinky" Whitney; Philadelphia Phillies 3B (1905)

James Wolfe; British general (1727)

[multiverseforger]

THOMAS WAYNE (BATMAN)

An alternate reality version of Thomas Wayne appears as the Flashpoint version of Batman. In this continuity, Thomas turns into a crime-fighting vigilante after he and Martha Wayne witness their son Bruce Wayne murdered by a gunman in an alley during a botched mugging. When Barry Allen from the original timeline learns that this universe has a Batman he attempts to elicit his aid in restoring his lost abilities and undoing the changes made to the timeline. When Barry enters the Batcave he expects to find Bruce, but is immediately attacked by this far more violent Caped Crusader, against whom he is no match without his speedster abilities. It's only when Barry calls out the name "Bruce" that Thomas ceases his assault and the two are able to talk. When Barry learns that this timeline's Bruce Wayne was killed as a boy he is able to deduce that the man standing in front of him is Thomas Wayne.[2] Allen reveals to this Batman that the timeline he is living in is an altered version of his own, with significant changes resulting in a much darker and more violent world. Batman asks Barry the details of his son's life after his mainstream counterpart's own death. Willing to change history and ready to sacrifice his own life to restore his son's, Batman agrees to help Barry rewrite the timeline, which they beliee has been altered by Eobard Thawne (The Reverse Flash), the first step of which is recreating the accident that gave Allen his powers and turned him into The Flash.[3]

This iteration of Batman is the subject of the mini-series Flashpoint: Batman - Knight of Vengeance, written by Brian Azzarello and drawn by Eduardo Risso. This story is set after the first, failed attempt to restore Barry's powers and fills out the backstory of how different this version of Gotham is and how Thomas opperates as Batman. We learn that he funds his vigillantism through a string of successful casinos, which he also uses to keep an eye on local criminals.[4] These casinos are managed on his behalf by Oswald Cobbelpot as his security chief, while Batman fights crime. Local judge Harvey Dent is distressed when his twin children are kidnapped by the Joker, so he calls in Thomas and James Gordon who we learn is the Chief of Gotham's privatised police force, owned and funded by Wayne. Dent blames Wayne for the kidnapping as it was he who convinced him that privatising the police force was a good idea, and threatens to take both it and his casinos away if his children aren't found.[5] Gordon, who knows Thomas is Batman and is his closest confidant, works the case while Thomas recovers from a fight with Killer Croc in Gotham's sewers. He consults with Selina Kyle, who is paraplegic in this world and fulfills the role of Oracle, and follows a clue to track down where the Joker is holding the children; The long abandoned Wayne Manor. He misleads Thomas and tries to take down Joker himself, but in a shocking twist ends up shooting Dent's daughter who the Joker had disguised to look like herself. When he realises his mistake and tries to help the girl, The Joker appears from behind him and cuts his throat. This is when we learn that this Joker is none other than Martha Wayne, driven insane by grief following Bruce's murder. Thomas cannot bring himself to kill the her due to their past relationship, and so he feels responsible for the Joker's crimes.[6] When he shows up as Batman, having learned of Gordon's plan from Selina, Gordon is already dead, but both children are still alive, the girl just about holding on. While trying to save them, he is attacked by Martha, and we see through flashbacks how her sanity slipped away following their Son's death, and how she blames Thomas and wants to punish him for failing to save him. During their fight Thomas explains to her that he has the chance to re-write history, to save their son but at the cost of both their lives, which is why he feels obligated to ask her if he should go through with it. This revelation seemingly restores Martha's sanity and she makes him promise that he will, and they share a moment as a couple again. But when Martha asks what their son becomes after their counterparts' deaths and Thomas reveals that he becomes that world's Batman, Martha hysterically flees from him, and falls to her death through the same hole that their son once fell into as a child.[7]

After a second attempt successfully restores Barry's powers, Wayne works with the Flash to rally a team to oppose Eobard Thawne's changes to history. He contacts Cyborg for help in tracking down the government's secret "Project: Superman" location, only to be disappointed at Kal-El's frail appearance, having been held in a secret bunker his whole life with no access to the yellow sunlight that grants him his powers. It's only after they free him from captivity that Kal-El's powers manifest after being exposed to sunlight and he flies away.[8] After escaping Project Superman with the help of Element Woman, the Flash's memories change more drastically, forcing Batman to attempt to prevent the speedster's memories from altering. Batman injects the Flash with a drug that slows down electrical activity in the brain. After Hal Jordan's death during an attempt to stop the World War between the Amazonians and Atlanteans, the Flash elects to try to save this altered world, so Batman joins the Flash as the group heads to New Themyscira in Batman's plane and are joined by Enchantress. During the final battle with both Wonder Woman and Aquaman, the battle seems to be in their team's favor until Billy Batson is killed and Eobard finally appears.[9] Batman stabs Professor Zoom in the back using an Amazonian sword and learns that altered timeline was actually created by the Flash as part of an attempt to save his mother, Nora Allen. Before acting on this new information, Batman is fatally wounded by the traitorous Enchantress. Before the Flash leaves to try and restore the old world, a dying Batman thanks him, and entrusts him with a letter to give to his son, expressing his confidence that Barry will recreate the better world the Flash has spoken of and sharing his regret for what will happen to Nora as a consequence. Despite Pandora's actions preventing The Flash's from being able to recreate the Pre-Flashpoint timeline perfectly, Thomas’s will is done as his son is alive as Batman in this New Alternate Timeline. Barry gives Thomas's letter to Bruce Wayne and tells him that the timeline could not have been restored without Thomas's help.[10]

Thomas's letter tells Bruce that the loss he suffered has corrupted him, that he is consumed by his past and is neither a Hero or even a good man. He credits those qualities to Barry Allen, due to his ability to move past his own loss and find hope and love again, hinting perhaps that he hopes Bruce can do the same.[11]

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