#SPELLBINDER

[thecrowmonster]

(late) happy pride post

[mousegirlheart]

[drpumpkinsart]

Oooooh you wanna watch batman beyond. you wanna watch batman beyond SO bad ooooh

[mayamarvil]

My mommy says I can’t watch tv 🥲

Batman Beyond (1999-) #1

[artbyblastweave]

I was going to post about how Spellbinder's second appearance is an unreconstructed example of the old "why don't you just sell this shit legitimately to make a billion dollars," but wisely held off on doing so until they got to the part of the episode where it was revealed that all he actually did was take an existing widely commercialized VR platform and jailbreak the safeties that keep it from frying peoples brains so that he can use it to get hopeless teen runaways chemically dependent on him. Like there wasn't much value-added on his end here. I think these writers were also appropriately preoccupied with the question of why these assholes don't just sell their shit as an actual business

[why-i-love-comics]

Suicide Squad: Kill Arkham Asylum #4 - "Minds Over Matter" (2024)

written by John Layman art by Jesus Hervas & David Baron

[glassofoj-twitter]

The trio

[cinematicjourney]

Spellbinder (1988) | dir. Janet Greek

[docgold13]

Heroes & Villains The DC Animated Universe - Paper Cut-Out Portraits and Profiles

Spellbinder

Ira Billings was a gifted inventor and unscrupulous psychologist.  He developed a sophisticated means of entrancing people, leaving them highly susceptible to the power of suggestion.  Despite his ingenuity, Billings ended up working as a councilor at Hamilton High School where he felt unappreciated and envious toward those students who came from wealthy families.  

Billings weaponized his invention and became the costumed villain known as The Spellbinder.  First he would gather information through his counseling sessions with the wealthier students, then he hypnotize these individuals coercing them into stealing the valuables from their homes and delivering them to him.  Those entranced had no memory of their actions.

The rash of burglaries caught the attention of Batman.  Terry and Bruce investigated the matter and discovered a commonality among the victims.  All the burgled homes belonged to patients of Dr. Billings.  To further the investigation, Terry went to Billings for counseling, sure to mention the valuables in the home of his employer Bruce Wayne.  It was bait too tempting for Billings to pass up and it was not long before a mesmerized Terry was pilfering through Wayne Manner.  

Once Terry was awoken from his trance, he donned his guise as Batman and intercepted Billings.  As the Spellbinder, Billings possessed all manner of illusion-based tricks that made it difficult for Batman to lay a hand on him.  With Bruce’s help, however, Batman was able to prevail and The Spellbinder was taken down.  Billings would return on numerous occasions, becoming one of the new Batman's more persistent rogues.  

Actor Jon Cypher provided the voice for Dr. Billings/Spellbinder, with the villain first appearing in the tenth episode of the first season of Batman Beyond, ‘Spellbound.’  

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Spellbound

I finally started Batman Beyond and had an idea I wanted to try capture.

[retrocgads]

UK 1987

[calzonekestis]

Batman Beyond concept art by Jaxson Derr

[koiboyisgay]

Screenshot Redraw

Palestinian Family

[drpumpkinsart]

So I've been watching this series 🥺

[maslimanny]

We knew each other, it was as if each could see the other one's soul. Once you see into someone's soul, you're attached forever.

[viperiumprime]

Some very minor Batman Beyond redesigns!

Shriek: Tuning fork, little lines in his under suit. Playing with shapes on his armor

Inque: extra goop, making her hair seem a little oily

Spellbinder: it’d be cool if he Pale Man’d his eye when he hypnotized people, that’d be extra creepy!

Blight: just modernized the suit a bit, smaller eye sockets to up the scare factor

Dee Dee Twins: I think it’d be cool if each twin had a bit of their own personality in their designs, with a glove on one hand and their weapon of choice

Been rewatching Batman Beyond for the umpteenth time, and still marveling at all the character work! It’s probably in my top five shows, I really hope we get more BB animated content one day