#Firebug
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about-faces · 4 months ago
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—Simon Delart
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thearkman360 · 4 months ago
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How Batman: Caped Crusader wasted Firebug
(MAJOR SPOILERS for Batman: Caped Crusader & Batman #318)
Hoo-boy, this is gonna be a long one...
When I heard that Firebug was going to be used in Batman: Caped Crusader I didn't pay it any mind outside of "Oh, using an obscure Batman villain that's like Firefly who isn't Firefly" and when I watched the episode with Firebug I found him to be a funny little goober villain played by Tom Kenny, that might as well have been Firefly, and nothing more. I was a bit shocked by his death since it was very sudden but other than that I didn't care.
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After this I decided to look up Firebug and discovered that he has this whole backstory and motive not used in the show. In the comics, Firebug is a veteran named Joey Rigger that targets and burns down apartment buildings in Gotham City not out of rabid pyromania but out of a sympathetic cause; the buildings are deathtraps! (well at least the first two, the third was just bad luck)
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His baby sister was killed after ingesting lead paint chips from the walls of the apartment the Rigger family lived in, his father was killed after falling through some stairs and breaking his neck in a different building they moved into after Rigger's sister died, and his mother had a heart attack when the elevator she was in got stuck.
Joey was serving the military at the time when all of this happened, leaving him with a strong sense of guilt. After coming back home, now with demolitions expertise, he decided to ensure that nobody would ever be harmed by the apartment buildings again and that's why he burns them down as Firebug. His plan is to just destroy the buildings that killed his family and then go back to normal. He even sends anonymous tips to the police so that people can evacuate in time, though he first encountered Batman when he was saving people that were still stuck in the building. Not saying his actions are morally correct, the third building was literally just a bad elevator, but you can't really blame him.
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Eventually, Batman foils Firebug from destroying the skyscraper that killed his mother and Firebug tries to suicide bomb himself, Batman, and the skyscraper but jumps at Batman, who dodges, and Firebug falls out of the skyscraper and explodes.
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Firebug is a really interesting and sympathetic character. In a way he's a dark parallel to Batman; their families were killed by a part of Gotham City, they have expert training in their field, and put on a silly animal costume and try to enact vengeance on the part of Gotham that killed their families.
In Caped Crusader, he's Firefly with a name change. They have Flass and Bullock mistakenly call him "Firefly", he's a deranged pyromaniac, and he has nothing more than that. Why?! Why not just have him be Firefly? Firebug has had two successors, Harlan Combs (a suburban father that murdered his kid's babysitter) and the third Firebug was some asshole that bought Joe Rigger's shit from an auction.
In the Caped Crusader episode "The Night of the Hunters", Firebug targets the slums of Gotham and tries to burn them down. Why not incorporate his backstory and have these slums be where his family died? In the comics, Joey Rigger was depicted as African-American in his first appearance and then white from then on. I'm surprised they didn't have that be part of the plot. Joey's neighborhood was a slum overlooked due to its African-American population and that resulted in poor living conditions that killed his family. But nah, they just had him be bootleg Firefly.
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TV show screenshot: Batman: Caped Crusader
Comic screenshot: Batman #318
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izunias-meme-hole · 5 months ago
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These fellas gave me the impression that Caped Crusader might be a more grounded take on the Batman mythos with a clear golden age comic book flair (guys in suits with quirks, Selina, and Serial Killers with gimmicks)
Oh how wrong I was...
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Edit: GUESS WHO'S ALSO HERE?!
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fire-in-the-goat · 9 months ago
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Firebug (my ponysona) spots Prickly Pear ( @captainzigo 's ponysona) and makes an observation.
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k0zyb0n3rz · 2 months ago
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designs and stuff
jervis and jonathan
waylon and kirk
and then firebug :)
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bewilderbark · 10 months ago
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day 4 - fire spears
this one was originally intended to be a combo of days 4+5, but something about doing that felt a little weird to me... thus, day 5 is a companion piece to this one. play zeroranger
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art insight
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zephyrnine · 5 months ago
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terribly drawn over TOS memes cus i need to post (inspired by real games i’ve had!)
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alanide-arts · 11 months ago
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Stills from my recent lyric video!
(Feat. OCs by @plutobody, @dragonroilz, @keebyz, @dead-litebulb, @knucklebl4ster, @hayaang1, @alm4nditte, RobotAcap, @mrbadmic, xiaochio)
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nippongoto · 1 year ago
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ヤエヤママドボタル
ホタルの季節。
R5.11
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caleod · 2 years ago
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18-6-23
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fr-familiar-bracket · 5 months ago
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yee-honks · 2 months ago
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his name is joe.
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gethrax · 5 months ago
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Took some screenshots of ♡him♡ to use as references to "redraw" last night to practice drawing his face in different angles, and decided colour them this morning. I wasn't expecting to like him so much, but here we are! I wasn't gonna post this, but i needed to express how much i liked him somehow
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biologist4ever · 8 months ago
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stalesocartarchive · 4 months ago
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New OC just dropped!
Kamikazi!
This Insane menace to society is the love child of Madness Combat and Rain World. With bombs on his back and constantly on an adrenaline rush this freak of nature exists and it's everyone else's problem.
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Zero empathy from this creature. Completely unhinged personality. Needs to be wiped off the map
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poorly-drawn-slugcats · 10 months ago
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Days 4 + 5 - Fire Spears + Fire Eggs
is it clear idk how bugs work? also the random palette my friend gave me actually WAS black and white today. funny!
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