#and Batman beats the shit out of Jason

[booklover223]

Dick would be LIVID when he finds out that Bruce saved the fucking JOKER over saving his son from the same way he ORIGINALLY died

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDNT EVEN CHECK TO SEE IF JASON WAS OKAY?! OF COURSE HES GONNA BE PISSED WTF BRUCE?!!”

And when he finds out the Jason actually did die this time?? Robin became a thing because of Richard Grayson being a gremlin who wanted REVENGE for his parents deaths, you think after all the trauma he went through with Jason and his death and revival that he’s gonna be any kind of sympathetic to Bruce?? Dick literally killed Joker for killing his brother who he had major regrets about and now he finds out his own father killed that very same brother just to save that STUPID FUCKING CLOWN?!

DPxDC idea: The Batarang Incident kills Jason and he returns as an Infinite Realms ghost.

Humans are not inclined towards surviving incidents like having their throats cut or being in an explosion that brings down a building on them. One after the other, with no rescue or medical attention? Jason died again in that confrontation with Batman and the Joker. He returns as a Ghost of the Infinite Realms.

For one reason or another, perhaps he forms right away right next to his corpse, perhaps Batman never looks for his body, Jason is able to return to being the Red Hood without much trouble. Sure he covers every inch of skin and uses a voice changer, but he did that before, it's nothing new. If he's a bit more paranoid about it, well chalk it up to his father having stuck a batarang in his neck the last time he removed his helmet.

Jason is just glad that his suit covers up the glow. Because he does that now. Glow. All the time. Compared to the glowing? Inhuman changes of colouration are just window dressing. Getting a hang of his new powers took a couple of weeks, but the timing was convenient - people might have expected him to be out of the game for months with the injuries he should have had.

So Jason's ghost now. It's fine. When he asked his father Batman to choose between killing him or letting him kill the Joker, he can't say this was an outcome he expected. But it's fine. Everything is fine.

(It's not fine.)

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 296

Through a series of miscommunication, the League is now under the impression that Batman, strange cryptid that he is, may or may not have given birth to the other vigilantes running around in Gotham. This was not helped by Bruce referring to all of his children, no matter how big they get, as his babies. Nor was it helped by Red Robin, in the middle of a narcolepsy-fueled imminent crash, mentioned how he had no mother. 

It also doesn’t help that no one is aware that they are in fact completely normal people, and not aspects of Gotham itself brought to life. Though really that’s on the bats themselves, because at this point they should at least count as undead. 

[onnahu]

Jason: *slaps Tim over the head*

Tim: Dude!

Tim: Why'd you do that???

Jason: *shrugs* Dunno. You look especially punchable today.

Tim: It wasn't even a punch!

Jason: Well if you say so.

Jason: *punches Tim*

Tim: Dude!

[betterthanbatman1]

Brothers!!

[dukeofthomas]

"Angry robin" "violent robin" "misbehaving robin" shut up and accept my alternative; spunky Robin. Determined and head strong, can out-stubborn the Batman, has a strong moral-backbone and does what he thinks is right regardless of what anybody else says, Robin. Jason who was sassy and quippy and made crude jokes with a smile on his face. Jason who hid in Bruce's cape and whispered gossip to him. Jason who, if Bruce refused him something, could keep bothering endlessly until Bruce caved. And also dramatic Jason. If Bruce tells him no, it becomes a whole theatrical show; a monologue, a narration, embellishments, and falling onto the floor in his grief upon the fact his cruel father has denied him once again.

(Jason who has suffered through abuse and homelessness and poverty and starvation, who is the Fight out of Fight or Flight, who's built up defenses and walls and when pushed and triggered responds with the thing that's always protected him; anger. He's sweet and kind and funny, and when he sees a pimp hitting a prostitute he gets furious and responds with violence.)

[kb-jank]

rejecting jason todd is tim drakes robin, accepting dick grayson is tim drakes robin. i like to be a little canon complacent every once in a while

[anneonomus]

pre-robin baby stalker tim as a streamer. that’s it that’s the post

[spiritsglade]

utrh au where jason knows exactly what went down after his death and is instead doing the red hood stuff because batman's reaction was to grievously maim muggers and petty thieves. because jason's a crime alley kid at heart and he knows what desperation looks like and why people turn to crime and he knows how much hospital bills can fuck up a person's life forever.

robin dies and batman ruins countless lives in the city he's meant to protect as a coping mechanism. it takes another fucking child becoming robin again to fix him.

why is this man being trusted as gotham's protector.

[qcomicsy]

Unpopular opinion but Joker should be as much as Harley Enemy as he is Batman's, and way more than he is to Jason Todd.

Jason Todd needs to be freed from his death and joker it just ties him behind as the Robin who died and it's pretty much just a limbo at this point. He got back at him, didn't felt great let him be.

But Harley does deserve to have a better revenge.

I say that because, we already saw joker get at Batman at every fucking way possible, we know how it goes, hell almost any person who read enough comics could make-up a issue by themselves at this point on how much those fuckers keep getting confront at eachother other like, we get it.

But with a writer who actually respects and understand Harley and use her as a character and not "quirky pixie dream crazy girl 🤪🤪" could make an interesting run where she confronts joker in the same level.

I'm not talking about tie her with him or restrict her character no. I'm talking about how if someone's have the right, the skills, the knowledge to get back at Joker other than Batman this person should be Harley. And if there's someone (other than Batman) who Joker definitely wouldn't stay back just watch thrive this person would be Harley.

Also it really surprises me how Harley isn't the fist person people go after to get knowledge on how to confront Joker (I get why Batman doesn't do it though).

Not only makes sense to his character (as an asshole that threats people's as pawns) as it makes space to a different approach in comic books set on Gotham.

[mikakuna]

me watching bruce regret his parenting choices with dick and tim and damien in a genuine way and then seeing him regret his parenting choices with jason in a "i regret raising him/i should've known better/i should've known his true crime alley roots/i made him a failure and he's my mistake" kind of way

[littlefankingdom]

~ Batman: Knightfall

It seems that beating up the Joker is therapeutic for Bruce. It filled him with determination to survive and fight back, refusing to die from Joker's hands when he already took his son from him.

Then, he remembers that it's Bane who's behind all of this, so he redirects his determination. As tired as he is, he is not giving up. Batman never gives up.

[thatonebipotato]

sometimes you just need to pick and choose what is and isnt canon because canon is a mess and sometimes really fucking stupid

[noodle-artist]

Me every time I check in on the Batman comics:

[birbinabox]

Tell me Jason Todd would not listen to Before he cheats by Carrie Underwood. I dare you.

[tiredofsatansbullshit]

what is it about tim that makes people want to beat him up as soon as they meet him irl

[dukeofthomas]

Something I really especially love about btas is that every character is just… a human. Batman doesn't just show up and incapacitate 30 people no issue, he has to fight and brawl with just 1 or 2 henchmen. He can be taken out by hits and poisons and such. The rogues have to surrender when the cops get guns to their faces, and can be overpowered even by normal people. Joker isn't some pure evil incarnation of the Devil or whatever, he's just… a really bad man. Same for every other villain and character. And Bruce actually gets to show personality and emotion beyond Brooking and Grunting. He makes jokes and laughs and gets sad.

I'm really getting to understand why people call this the best Batman adaptation.