#and then in his zombie like state was thrown into a Lazarus pit

[lunallaa]

So potentially hot take....

Jason Todd doesn't need to or should be that much a pretty boy. Not saying he should be super ugly or something but I am a firm believer of the rough and really just average appearance Jason agenda.

I know we all love how Dexter Soy draws him but let Jason be just a lil ugly a lil beat up yknow?

This post is all in silly goofy fun pls don't get mad 🫣

[galahadwilder]

Origin Theories

In honor of the spookiest season of the year, I would like to put up my theory for the interconnected origins of several Batman villains, Young Justice-style. This has already been shot down twice by DC canon, but I still like it.

We start with the Lazarus pits. We know that they are alchemical mixtures that are capable of healing any wound and even returning the dead to life. Sometimes they are artificial, sometimes they are naturally occurring, and sometimes they can only be made/exist at certain places thanks to something involving the structure of Earth's magic. This is all stuff that has been postulated during stories involving Ra's al Ghul. But why does Ra's get to have all of the Lazarus fun?

For the purposes of this theory, I will be postulating based on the "naturally occurring" version that can only occur at particular places on Earth. What happens, however, if the conditions are ALMOST perfect, but just a little bit off? What if it's possible to make an imperfect Lazarus Pit? What if... one of those is the Gotham Swamp?

This brings us to Solomon Grundy.

In the mid-1800s, a Gotham merchant named Cyrus Gold was killed and thrown into the swamp. Unspecified chemicals in the swamp reanimated his body as the unkillable zombie Solomon Grundy, who went on to terrorize Alan Scott AND Batman for many years. We already know that Lazarus is capable of bringing back the dead; an imperfect Lazarus might very well reanimate them, right?

Next on the list: the Court of Owls. They have been secretly running the city of Gotham for centuries, using their undying soldiers, the Talons. The Talons have some alchemical mixture in their blood that makes them not alive, but keeps them from dying as well. What do we know that can do that? Thanks to Solomon Grundy, whatever's in the Gotham Swamp.

But of course, the Talon compound is far more refined than whatever Grundy has. The Court will need somewhere to process it, to make it viable for their purposes.

Where better than the Ace Chemical Factory?

All this is fine, until one day a small-time comedian falls into one of the Lazarus vats. He emerges... changed.

The Joker can recover from near-mortal wounds. In fact, outright killing him doesn't seem to have an effect. DC Comics has outright stated, in at least one instance, that he is immortal. So what if... thanks to his fall into the Court's chemical vats, his body naturally produces the Lazarus compound? It heals him, constantly, keeps him on the brink of life, makes it so that no matter what damage he suffers, he will always recover with time.

And what do the Lazarus Pits do to people who've been healed by them?

Drive them temporarily insane.

"Temporarily" doesn't apply if your body is constantly producing the stuff. If you ARE a Lazarus Pit. You will never know sanity again - the price of immortality.

And THAT is my headcanon for the origin of the Joker. I just blew all y'all's minds.

Happy Halloween, everybody.