#Batman Theme

[warnerswilsons]

I’m just imagining what would happen if the Batkids found the original Batman show from the ‘60s. I can picture them watching the show together, and Bruce doesn’t know until maybe Cass and Steph start singing the theme whenever he walks into a room.

The rest of the Batkids also do this, even going into multi-part harmonies for both the backing chords and the melody. I like to think that Jason and Tim would have a lot of fun with singing it. It doesn’t take long to convince Babs to join in, and she arguably does it more than most of the bats.

I can see Dick having quietly sung the theme on missions as a kid, and eventually secretly enjoying getting back into it.

Damian and Duke are some of the last to overtly join in, with Damian also having started by singing the theme under his breath, and not admitting to enjoying it, kind of like Dick. I feel like Duke would be more reluctant to join than anything else, but would join in with encouragement from the others.

In the end, Bruce thinks it’s Dick and Babs who showed everyone the show, but in reality, it was Alfred.

[shedontlovehuhself]

Misha using the Danny Elfman theme just took me back to riding the Batman rollercoaster at Six Flags Great America! We used to get off and get right back in line!

[apollosbisexualass]

Nana nana nana nana CRAB CORE 🦀

[playstationvii]

A lofi hard alternative like ‘Batman beyond’ but for @RebeccaBlacks #enXantingNoir with an enXanting edge Absolutely, let's incorporate those powerful lines and of the #BowMettal Music genre:

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**Verse 1:**

In the dead of night, where shadows creep,

Whispers of the past, secrets to keep.

Noir prowls through the darkest alleys,

Gotham’s heart, where darkness rallies.

**Chorus:**

Underneath the blood-red sky,

She is the Batman, she is the knight.

She is vengeance, takes her flight,

EnXanting, she conquers the nights.

**Verse 2:**

Steeling hearts and burning lies,

In the neon dark, where chaos flies.

Miracle Molly, with her haunted grace,

Together they carve a shattered space.

**Bridge:**

Electric dreams and haunted screams,

Broken bones and silent schemes.

From the shadows, they’ll ascend,

A night of hell, to defend.

**Chorus:**

Underneath the blood-red sky,

She is the Batman, she is the knight.

She is vengeance, takes her flight,

EnXanting, she conquers the nights.

**Outro:**

Through the fire, through the rain,

EnXanting Noir breaks the chain.

In the darkness, she remains,

Gotham’s savior, through the pain.

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Dark and powerful, just like #enXantingNoir deserves. How does this resonate with you? 🎶✨

[qweenofurheart]

the first two photos were later sold to a local newspaper and the last one was posted on dick grayson’s instagram with the caption “opps want to see me fall 💪🏋️‍♂️”

[simptasticjoe]

New Batman?

I was rewatching the Blue Beetle trailer and that line about “Batman is a fascist” really stuck out to me. Not just the obvious of how stupid the line was, but is there a deeper reveal to it? The DCEU is once again under new management in James Gunn. He started with a new slate of movies that will showcase the extended superheroes and not just the big 3. We already know Ben Affleck isn’t…

[mirbisduschoen]

If the melody is different for each person, do the Batfam hear a different melody if they return to the Hive, as they are a different person than when they entered? I remember suggesting that the tune luring a young Bruce down there was Shostakovich's Waltz No. 2: playful but macabre, the perfect tune for a young Bruce Wayne in this AU where you have specifically said he looked like a murdered Victorian child at that age. But what if he returns at some point, and the music he hears is different? What if...

What if it's a tune which resonates with him in a way he can't describe, and which he feels familiar with (tied to) on a level that defies description or categorization, but yet has never heard before in his life and can't track down the origin of no matter how much detective work he does?

Day 13

Possessed Doll au by @phoenixcatch7

[violent138]

Something so incredibly funny to me about Duke, who clocks out once the sun sets, having to be present for all hands emergencies in the Batcave in various cartoon-patterned pyjama sets with matching durags. Just standing there (loosely defined as he keeps drooping his head onto Steph's shoulder) while everyone else is suited up and forced to stay in case they need him to join them.

[musicmoreweirdthangood]

Bad City Band, 1977: "Batman 77" disco cover of the Batman '66 theme song

[guitarlessonsbobbycrispy]

Batman Theme Guitar Lesson ( TV Show 1966 ), easy!

[blackbatcass]

antigonick by anne carson + the legacy of the bats

batman: year one / batman dark victory / identity crisis #5 / batman #567 / robin: son of batman #6 / batgirl #9 / x /batman: battle for the cowl #3 / nightwing secret files and origins #1 / batman #600 / batman #650 / batman #428 / new teen titans #55 / joker: last laugh #6 / detective comics #699 / nightwing #97 / batman #642 / batgirl #1 / teen titans spotlight #14 / robin #13 / x /batgirl #59 / batman #682 / batgirl #28 / grayson #12

[lanternbats]

I've been thinking about how much I actually dislike Damian becoming Batman as an adult and how I think it would be way more impactful for his character if he broke away from both of his parents and formed his own identity, which led me to "Well, who should become Batman then?" and well. What if nobody becomes Batman after Bruce steps down. The family carry on his mission, his message, but not his title, because Bruce helped them become something else, helped them become better than him. The goal was never to become the next Batman, it was for them to grow and learn and become their own people. Batman never dies, he is an eternal symbol, but one that they all wear instead of physically inhabit. I think as Bruce ages he should realise that Gotham doesn't need Batman, because now it has so much more than just Batman.

[starry-bi-sky]

i need to get this out of my head before i continue clone^2 but danny being the first batkid. Like, standard procedure stuff: his parents and sister die, danny ends up with Vlad Masters. He drags him along to stereotypical galas and stuff; Danny is not having a good time.

He ends up going to one of the Wayne Galas being hosted ever since elusive Bruce Wayne has returned to Gotham. Vlad is crowing about having this opportunity as he's been wanting to sink his claws into the company for a long while now. Danny is too busy grieving to care what he wants.

And like most Galas, once Vlad is done showing him off to the other socialites and the like, he disappears. Off to a dark corner, or to one of the many balconies; doesn't matter. There he runs into said star of the show, Bruce who is still young, has been Batman for at least a year at this point, but still getting used to all these damn people and socializing. He's stepped off to hide for a few minutes before stepping back into the shark tank.

And he runs into a kid with circles under his eyes and a dull gleam in them. Familiar, like looking into a mirror.

Danny tries to excuse himself, he hasn't stopped crying since his parents died and it's been months. He rubs his eyes and stands up, and stumbles over a half-hearted apology to Mister Wayne. Some of Vlad's etiquette lessons kicking in.

Bruce is awkward, but he softens. "That's alright, lad," he says, pulling up some of that Brucie Wayne confidence, "I was just coming out here to get some fresh air."

There's a little pressing; Bruce asks who he's here with, Danny says, voice quiet and grief-stricken, that he's with his godfather Vlad Masters. Bruce asks him if he knows where he is, and Danny tells him he does. Bruce offers to leave, Danny tells him to do whatever he wants.

It ends with Bruce staying, standing off to the side with Danny in silence. Neither of them say a word, and Danny eventually leaves first in that same silence.

Bruce looks into Vlad Masters after everything is over, his interest piqued. He finds news about him taking in Danny Fenton: he looks into Danny Fenton. He finds news articles about his parents' deaths, their occupations, everything he can get his hands on.

At the next gala, he sees Danny again. And he looks the same as ever: quiet like a ghost, just as pale, and full of grief. Bruce sits in silence with him again for nearly ten minutes before he strikes a conversation.

"Do you like to do anything?"

Nothing. Just silence.

Bruce isn't quite sure what to do: comfort is not his forte, and Danny doesn't know him. He's smart enough to know that. So he starts talking about other things; anything he can think of that Brucie Wayne might say, that also wasn't inappropriate for a kid to hear.

Danny says nothing the entire time, and is again the first to leave.

Bruce watches from a distance as he intercts with Vlad Masters; how Vlad Masters interacts with him. He doesn't like what he sees: Vlad Masters keeps a hand on Danny's shoulder like one would hold onto the collar of a dog. He parades him around like a trophy he won.

And there are moments, when someone gets too close or when someone tries to shake Danny's hand, of deep possessiveness that flints over Vlad Masters' eyes. Like a dragon guarding a horde.

He plays the act of doting godfather well: but Bruce knows a liar when he sees one. Like recognizes like.

Danny is dull-eyed and blank faced the entire time; he looks miserable.

So Bruce tries to host more parties; if only so that he can talk to Danny alone. Vlad seems all too happy to attend, toting Danny along like a ribbon, and on the dot every hour, Danny slips away to somewhere to hide. Bruce appears twenty minutes later.

"I was looking into your godfather's company," he says one night, trying to think of more things to say. Some nights all they do is sit in silence. "Some of my shareholders were thinking of partnering up--"

"Don't."

He stops. Danny hardly says a word to him, he doesn't even look at him -- he's sitting on the ground, his head in his knees. Like he's trying to hide from the world. But he's looking, blue eyes piercing up at Bruce.

Bruce tilts his head, practiced puppy-like. "Pardon?"

"Don't." Danny says, strongly. "Don't make any deals with Vlad."

It's the most words Danny's spoken to him, and there's a look in his eyes like a candle finding its spark. Something hard. Bruce presses further, "And why is that?"

The spark flutters, and flushes out. Danny blinks like he's coming out of a trance, and slumps back into himself. "Just don't."

Bruce stares at him, thoughtful, before looking away. "Alright. I won't."

And they fall back into silence.

Danny, when he leaves, turns to look at Bruce, "I mean it." He says; soft like he's telling a secret, "Don't make any deals with him. Don't be alone with him. Don't work with him."

He's scampered away before Bruce can question him further.

(He never planned on working with Vlad Masters and his company; he's done his research. He's seen the misfortune. But nothing ever leads back to him. There's no evidence of anything. But Danny knows something.)

At their next meeting, Danny starts the conversation. It's new, and it's welcomed. He says, cutting through their five minute quiet, that he likes stars. And he doesn't like that he can't see them in Gotham.

Bruce hums in interest, and Danny continues talking. It's as if floodgates had been opened, and as Bruce takes a sip of his wine, it tastes like victory.

("Tucker told me once--") ("Tucker?") ("Oh-- uh, one of my best friends. He's a tech geek. We haven't talked in a while.")

(Danny shut down in his grief -- his friends are worried, but can't reach him. When he goes back to the manor with Vlad, he fishes out his phone and sends them a message.)

(They are ecstatic to hear from him.)

It all culminates until one day, when Danny is leaving to go back inside, that Bruce speaks up. "You know," He says, leaning against the railing. "The manor has many rooms; plenty of space for a guest."

The implication there, hidden between the lines. And Danny is smart, he looks at Bruce with a sharp glean in his eyes, and he nods. "Good to know."

The next time they see each other, Danny has something in his hands. "Can you hold onto something for me?" He asks.

When Bruce agrees, Danny places a pearl into his palm. or, at least, it's something that looks like a pearl. Because it's cold to the touch; sinking into Bruce's white silk gloves with ease and shimmering like an opal. It moves a little as it settles into his hand, and the moves like its full of liquid.

Bruce has never seen anything like it before, but he does know this; it's not human. "What is it?" He asks, and Danny looks uncomfortable.

"I can't tell you that." He says, shifting on his foot like he's scared of someone seeing it. "But please be careful with it. Treat it like it's extremely fragile."

When Bruce gets home, he puts it in an empty ring box and hides the box in the cave. He tries researching into what it is. he can't find anything concrete.

Everything comes to a head one day when Danny appears at the manor's doorstep one evening, soaking wet in the rain, and bleeding from the side.

[notmoreflippingelves]

Actually going insane over the implications of Jason asking Dick to be the Robin to his Batman in Battle for the Cowl.

Like I initially took it at the purely surface-level of Jason wanting a partner in the general sense. Which made sense, it's a huge responsibility and a lonely one so an assistant/sidekick/partner seems a no-brainer if you can get one.

But then I really thought about it, because Jason is not asking Dick to be his partner in the general sense; he's not even asking Dick to be his Nightwing. He's asking Dick to be his Robin.

And they both know exactly what Jason means: "Be the light to my darkness. Be the smile to my scowl. Be the hope to my fear. "

He's saying "Be 'Robin'; be the embodiment of Love and Justice and Goodness. Be the exceptional person that you have always been. Be the slightly-less exceptional person that I was when I wore your colors. Be the person that I was in the process of becoming and might have been (or might still be), if only Joker hadn't clipped my wings."

He's saying "I am prepared to become vengeance, become the Night. And I will go further than Bruce ever dared to, because it is what is needed. I will be the necessary evil. But you don't have to be. If Batman is Gotham's curse, Robin has always been its blessing. I will be the brutal punishment to our world, and I am asking you to be its incandescent gift."

He's saying, "Be for me, what we were for Him. Be my anchor, my comfort, my hope. Remind me what it's all for, why it's all worth it. And remind yourself as well."

He's saying "Be 'Robin' again--for both of our sakes."

[mardyart]

girls night 🍿