#as in all of them as in like the jla

[spite-and-waffles]

Anyone who hates any of the Batkids is invalid I'm sorry I don't make the rules

[mzminola]

I do think “teenager intentionally kicks off very volatile contingency plan which goes worse than expected due to not having all the information, gets a lot of civilians killed, then dies horribly” is a depressing, unsatisfying story arc. Like, War Games just plain sucks.

So if DC wanted to throw Gotham into yet another city-wide disaster, and wanted it to be this particular kind of disaster, how could they have done it more satisfyingly?

Well, I think... have it be kicked off by a character that’s actually been involved in the Gotham mafias / organized crime. There’s multiple options here.

1. Play up Jason & Bruce being two sides of the same coin. Bruce has been working on these plans a long time, long enough that Jason knew about it (and consulted on it!) during his Robin days. Jason works on his own version, in which Red Hood would take the place of Matches Malone, but outside interference (such as Batman jumping in at the wrong moment) makes everything go sideways and oh fuck.

2. Helena Bertinelli. She’s not kicking off some contingency plan, she just straight up is luring all the heads of the Gotham crime families to one place to kill them, but the end result is the same. I need to read more of her comics to figure out how well this actually works. Heck, you actually could still involve Steph in this one; they teamed up in the aftermath of the Quake, there’s precedent.

3. Two-Face or one of the other Rogues that’s more crime-boss than supervillain. You could even have it be inspired by Bruce; he visits Harvey regularly when he’s locked up. Get them talking about their youth, Harvey’s former passion for the justice system, grand plans for “cleaning up” Gotham that felt really good to black-and-white teenage thinking, but don’t hold up to life’s actual complexities.

Or, you know, let Bruce decide Now Is The Time, kick off his own plan, but something outside his control stops him from making it to the meeting as Matches Malone, and Batman is the one who just completely fucked over the city.

DC wouldn’t ever let Bruce both fuck up on that scale and acknowledge it as a fuck up in main continuity though, so this one would sadly be stuck as an Elseworld.

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The lights of the city twinkled below them in a patchwork quilt of streetlamps, glowing windows, and neon signs. In the distance, Clark could hear the shrill wails of ambulances and police cars, but the damage was minimal and the casualties few. The three of them were just waiting for Barry to return from his third sweep for emergencies before they could debrief, write their reports, and go home.

If he searched for it, Clark could make out the high pitched whizzing noise characteristic of the Flash in motion, blanketed by a million ambient sounds; the buzz of electricity, the hum of a million breaths, pagers beeping, cars rumbling, food cooking, bits and pieces of people’s lives snapshotted in the imperceptible ripple of waves through the air.

Next to him, Diana’s was a low, steady wave, feeding Batman the few scraps of intel he didn’t already have. The words slipping out of her mouth in their smooth alto occupied his attention until-

bee-boop bee-boop bee-boop-bee-boop-bee

The ring of a mechanical melody jarred Clark out of his reverie. Clark blinked. The strange 8-bit chorus continued to play, soft enough to escape the notice of his colleagues.

The sound of video game jingles was becoming more and more familiar to him these days, filling shops and living rooms, often accompanied by the delighted cheers or defeated groans of children. But as far as Clark could tell, there weren’t any children at the top of the insurance building they were currently loitering on.

In fact, if Clark didn’t know any better, he’d say the noise seemed to be emanating from Batman. With his cape wrapped all the way around him, a huge swath of black fabric concealing his body and the numerous weapons no doubt stored on it, the source of that noise was hidden from him. And while it was common to hear an alert or signal beeping a warning from somewhere on his body, those alerts didn’t come in the form of music. 

“Do- do you guys hear that?” Clark interrupted, possessed by the need to understand where that noise was coming from.

His two companions went silent, listening intently for anything unusual in the night around them.

After a moment, Diana replied, “Are you talking about that music?”

“Yeah,” Clark answered. “What is that?”

“Oh,” Batman said in that rasp of his. 

Then he peeled back his cape, parting the black curtain of it to reveal a child curled up at his feet.

“Say hi, Robin,” Batman instructed the boy.

“Hi,” The boy obliged, glancing briefly up at the superheroes above him before immediately returning his attention to the Gameboy clutched in his gloved hands.

Clark and Diana stared for a moment in stunned silence.

At first, Clark wondered if he might be hallucinating. Then, his mind rationalized that perhaps this was just a victim being cared for under the watchful eye of Batman before he could be taken back to his family, or wherever else he belonged.

But then he processed the colorful costume the boy wore, the domino mask covering his eyes, the way he was sat crisscross-applesauce between Batman’s boots, leaning comfortably back against armored shins. 

The cape was lowered back down, hiding the boy from view and returning Batman to a shapeless blob.

Diana was the first the gather her wits back up.

“How long has he been there?”

Batman’s face betrayed nothing. “The whole time.”

“The whole time we’ve been on this roof?” Diana clarified, incredulous.

“The whole time we’ve been in Metropolis.”

Clark’s jaw dropped. Surely, if Batman had been carting an elementary schooler around all night, he would’ve noticed.

Right?

Barry chose that moment to flurry up the side of the building, appearing next to them less than the blink of an eye. “Hey guys. We should be good to go for tonight. Someone should check back in in a day or so to make sure everything is resettling, but there isn’t anything else for us to do tonight.” Then he took in Clark and Diana’s flabbergasted expressions and Batman’s unwavering impassivity. “What’d I miss?”

Clark pointed at the bottom of Batman’s cape and said, “Show him.”

When the fabric parted a second time, he half expected to see an empty space where the boy had been. But sure enough, there he was, tapping away at the gaming console. He peered up at Batman from the ground and asked, “Is it time to go home?”

“Not yet,” Batman replied.

“Okay.” Then the cape dropped back down again.

Barry cocked his head to the side, staring curiously at Batman. “Where did you find that kid?”

“The circus.”

“What?” Clark exclaimed, thoroughly bewildered.

“It’s not relevant,” Batman told him, as though that answered any of the questions that had been raised in the past 5 minutes.

“Is he... you son?” Diana asked cautiously. 

“Hm,” Bruce replied, and Clark had no idea whether that was a confirmation or a negation. He nodded anyway.

For a moment, all four - five - of them stood in silence. Then Barry broke it.

“So... we’ll reconvene at the watchtower?”

A chorus of affirmations followed, but for an awkward moment, no one moved, everyone waiting for Batman to be the first. When it became clear he had no intentions of being the first to leave, Barry said, “...right,” and zipped off.

With no clue what else to do, Clark lifted off, rising into the air, closely followed by Diana. When they were far enough away to be sure Batman was no longer watching them, he asked her, “So was that a yes-hm or a no-hm?” 

“I have no clue,” Diana replied. “We can find out during the debriefing, though.”

Clark nodded. The rest of the flight was spent in silence, broken only by Diana’s soft, melodious humming.

It took until they finally reached the watchtower for Clark to realize that it was the same tune from the video game.

[redrobin-detective]

You know I wonder just how desensitized heroes become not only to violence and danger but also just, normal life. I wonder if, the longer they act as heroes, they have a harder time blending in because their experiences are so far outside of normal that they can’t really relate. 

Clark peters off awkwardly halfway through a story about “some of his friends” when he realizes said story involves powers and punching. The Bats barely even flinch to being held at gunpoint, to being held for ransom, to the point that their captures worry about how Wayne treats them. Just heroes in general finding they can’t relate to other normal people, that their stressors and problems are not only so top secret they can’t talk about a significant portion of their lives but also normal people just don’t get it. Heroes get on well enough with their every day friends and coworkers but everyone notes there’s something kind of off with them. 

[theaologies]

I know there’s a lot of argument that Poppy/Cas/Kieran can’t happen because it’ll never be “even” between them with Poppy and Casteel being Heartmates but y’all…………. Man…………..

[phantomchick]

Apropos of nothing but the whole fucking thing about Bruce being embittered and deadened and rejecting hope is such a bullshit trope in both the movies and the comics. Bullshit on so many levels. The only reason B puts himself through the amount of suffering he does every night while fighting crime is because he believes he actually is making a difference and that Gotham CAN be saved, that there’s something worth fighting for there in the first place - he is literally the most hopeful person within the entire dc universe I mean compare him to literally every hero that condemns Gotham as an impossible to save hellhole. Bruce is prepared to believe in goodness coming out of that hell hole if he fights for it. 

The idea that the kid who saw his parents murdered in an alley and grew up trying to become someone with the skills to stop that from happening to anyone else doesn’t believe in heroes or in people being worth saving in the first place??? When his entire belief system is rooted in every life being worth saving??? Is absolutely insidious grim dark nonsense that detracts from the core of the character and I roll my eyes so hard at it.

[flashfuture]

The Green Lanterns when they’re in their own comics:

Independent, Scary Powerful, Not taking shit from anyone, Chaotic bastards.

Charming and Roguish but so genuine in their love of helping people. They’re renowned around the galaxy as people you can trust and be safe with.

There is no stronger band of brothers. A group of competent leaders who are the senior members of the Green Lantern Corps because they’ve earned it.

The Green Lanterns when with the JLA:

Sidelined, Tripping over themselves, Never made a plan in their lives, Incapable of doing anything unless BruceMan tells them to.

Generally there to be the laughing stock. Making inappropriate comments that are ooc as hell for all of them.

More interested in show boating than saving the day.

[displayheartcode]

I’m still trying to understand because I know people who have read the books…there are fans doxxing an author and sending her death threats…over a ship

What

[vidalinav]

I’m not going to lie though Elucien is growing on me. Not enough to write it so don’t ask, but maybe the near constant images, fan art, and posts have actually persuaded me. 

[thelittleredheadedmusician]

Is it just me or does no one care about the hints about Jakeem Thunder on Stargirl? Like they’re doing A Lot when it comes to hinting at/including JSA characters & I’m already shocked by how there’s so much more than I was expecting but they mentioned Johnny & the Thunderbolt a couple times, Courtney took the pen, and now this week Mike was talking about his friend Jakeem coming over? Maybe I’m the only person who’s read Too Many JSA comics and REALLY likes Jakeem and is watching the show but I really expected more hype? Cause that was a twist I wasn’t expecting in the respect that I didn’t think they’d include him at all?

[gothamincarnate]

i don’t read a ton of like, non superman dc shit but it’s always os funny to see how the magic users are always called in as this like “oh? the league failed we should finally call in the big guns” and like, it’s so funny bc theyre always just like somehow a Big Damn Heroes Moment but also Herding Cats does this make even a lick of sense

[sonicanary]

One last thing

SIN LANCE

[foeofcolor]

Metropolis, on average, is likely to have much higher than average rent than Gotham. Reporters, non tv ones esp., don’t get paid that much these days with the gradual decline of print media. Probably lower than average for someone aiming to keep a low profile.

My point is, that rent in metropolis sucks ass and Clark just starting at the daily planet and running off to be superman all the time, is just. having an awful fucking time, because to be superman he can’t have roommates. He probably ends up doing some part time jobs with odd hours to keep his secret.

And most people also don’t know that superman HAS a secret identity in the early days and think he just. full time lives at the north pole.

So when the jla starts, no one KNOWS he has secret identity and Clark isn’t particularly keen on exposing it so he just. keeps coming up with bullshit ass excuses why he is randomly offline sometimes.

FLASH : Hey supes, why weren’t you at the meeting yesterday-

GREEN LANTERN : Got a hot date?

CLARK : I was, uh. Preparing for my hibernation.

 AQUAMAN : Your fucking WHAT

MARTIAN MANHUNTER, FULLY AWARE THAT CLARK IS MAKING BULLSHIT UP : Many species do such things-

FLASH : Alien species??

WONDER WOMAN, ASLO AWARE THAT HE’S LYING : Flash, Kal is also an alien, no matter how similar to humans he may look.

WONDER WOMAN : Kal, If there is anything we can do to assist-

CLARK : No, No, No it’s, it’s fine, it’s not a big deal-

BATMAN, AWARE OF HIS SECRET IDENTITY : It IS a big deal, superman. If one of our strongest is to be out of commission for an extended period of time-

CLARK : Oh, I won’t- We, we do it in shifts.

WONDER WOMAN : Is that so, Kal?

CLARK : Yeah, h. haha. 

Smash cut to a few years later-

KARA : YOU TOLD THEM WE DO WHAT

CLARK : I PANICKED OK?

Diana and Bruce never let him live this down btw.

[redrobin-detective]

It always pisses me off when Billy is written as being ignorant to the horrors of the world when he was homeless for most of his childhood. When he does act childish as captain marvel its because he finally has the chance to relax and be playful after years of being a kid screwed over by the world. He saw the worst the world had to offer and came out kind and smiling and thats powerful

Tho I can imagine a leaguer getting irritated at him tho and snapping that he should "act his age" or imply he had easy and Billy just stops and stares at them then is like "I don't want get into my sob story tragic backstory but I was homeless most of my life I have literally never been sheltered, so uh, give a guy a break? Damn."

Just like??? The idea of optimism and fun and kindness being 'childish' and 'unrealistic' annoys me so much. Some of the nicest most accommodating people I've met have gone through horrible circumstances. It is a choice to be kind when the world has not been kind in return, to look at all the pain you've suffered and say "no, I will not contribute to this. We can do better."

Like once the dust settles on the Billy reveal and the JLAers kind of get used to this 12 year old wandering around the Watchtower I just want this quiet moment of revelation. Where Billy says something and they realize that his empathy and strength of heart come from HIM the boy who has had nothing for most of his life. He chooses to be kind when he does not have to and I want to League to fucking respect that dedication from someone so young.

[comatose--overdose]

Batman, leaving his birds in the Justice League's care for a few days: A few rules for looking after my anklebiters are as follows: Make sure to keep anything peanut away from Tim and don't let him have cheese. He's allergic but he'll try to eat it anyway. Jason needs to be given his space, and don't interrupt him while he's reading unless it's absolutely necessary. Diana stands the best chance of not being shot in that case. Stephanie doesn't like being alone for too long, and Cass shouldn't be left alone for too long. Things happen. Duke forgets that not everyone is as sturdy as he is, especially his siblings, Clark I'm trusting you specifically to keep an eye on him. Dick can mostly take care of himself but not if he's spending too much time taking care of the others, make sure he doesn't overwork himself. Good luck dealing with Damian, nothing I say is going to help you there except give him some art supplies and keep the knives away from him if you can.

The JLA:

😧

B: [turns to leave and then stops, looking over his shoulder] Hnn... I suppose it's also fair to warn you that when I called them anklebiters it wasn't an exaggeration. They will bite if they feel threatened.

JLA:

😨

B, walking out: And if anything happens to my children on your watch, know that I will utilize all of my contingency plans.

JLA:

😰

[hidden-under-lock-and-key]

What do you do when confronted with with your Secret identity? Deny! 

I am in a good mood so I decided to share this crack idea I had a few nights ago. @noir-renard helped with some parts of the ideas so check them out! If it’s in bold the the idea was from them. Sorry in advance for this mess of a post.

Somehow some way The Justice League runs into a very sleep deprived Phantom. When asked for his name Danny accidental replies with his civilian name. Out of pure embarrassment he just leaves, goes home and sleeps.

So the next morning when the JLA is knocking on his front door, interrupting his coffee, Danny does the most logical thing and denies everything.

——

Danny: “Yeah no this happens a lot actually. His name is Danny Phantom, which sounds a lot like Danny Fenton. With us being named Danny and living in Amity we get switched around all the damn time.”

Because like what can they do, if when presented with evidence Danny just like “that isn’t me.” I like to imagine Barry in particular is calling his BS

——

Barry: “But he said Fenton!”

Danny: “Well you heard wrong Mister Flash ” *sips coffee*

Barry: “You look just like him!”

Danny: *Shrug shoulders* “Merely a coincidence.”

Barry: “We have video evidence of you transforming behind a burger joint.”

Danny: “Whoa there buddy you are staring to sound a lot like Wes.

——

Danny: "You think I am ghost? Well could a ghost do this?" *Smacks hand against the wall*

Barry, now unsure of himself: "Uh, I don't know?"

-----

Danny: “Look Mr. The Flash, if it's really that important to you I guess you can pretend I'm Phantom, but as you can see I'm an alive boy. Do you want me to be a not-alive boy that badly? I don't know how to take that.”

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Imagine the Fenton parents hearing the justice league accusing Danny of being Phantom.

Maddie: “How dare you you compare our Danny to that ghost?!”

Danny sipping coffee in the background: 👀☕️ “You tell ‘em mom!”

———-

Ignore this god awful post just a little idea I had.