#batman 2004 and btas outfits

[streetmed1c]

don’t mind the hammer she’s perfectly harmless <3

[abiscuit]

Hello Tumblr.com, boy do I have the post for you

This is my very serious very cool graph that I woke up this morning and felt the very express need to make.

I’m sorry to the 2004 Batman fandom, I have not actually seen that show, I hope I am right. I will watch it soon enough.

[poisonousquinzel]

self care is blocking the (hopefully????) clueless people in the tag who've drawn their "I really love both these characters" ships dressing up as Harley Quinn and her abuser for Halloween.

[hollowsart]

What's your go-to when a Marvel or DC character isn't in TSSM (quite obviously with the DC ones)? Do you make them from scratch, or do you pick another show, such as Earth's Mightiest Heroes or someone from the BTAS universe?

whoops this response got long:

I usually go about starting with the overall general basics of the characters and then I look around to see what others have done, or I take ideas from my favorite animated cartoons that had the characters in it.

For Marvel and Spider-Man specifically, I take heavy inspiration from TSSM. the biggest examples of this are with Doc Ock, Mysterio, and Electra.

For DC, however, (specifically Batman) I take inspiration from BTAS and The Batman (2004)! I haven't actually done really much at all with the DC side of things.. Also Teen Titans is my main source of knowledge for those characters, I hardly know anything beyond that show.

If I can't find any fanmade takes or anything that really grabs me and gives me ideas for my designs and takes on the characters, I'll just... Try to come up with something on my own from scratch. Talking with friends helps to get unique ideas, as does outside media influences.

it's rare I will take a character and their design directly from a source, but my version of Penguin would be a good example of that. I do still need to give him a new outfit, but he is relatively the same as The Batman 2004's Penguin, but with a lot of my own personal headcanons and perceptions of how I would prefer the character to be.

Mixing and Matching some characters between Marvel and DC is also a lot of fun. Plus, if some characters (Scarecrow) are the same name and same-ish appearance between both franchises, you can just... remove one. (Jonathan Crane is the one that remains for my verse as the Marvel Scarecrow is.. not really that great? and really provides nothing of substance or quality nor any reason to keep existing).

Or. I will take two characters and merge them into one singular character. or even replace one with the other and completely remove that other character, they don't even have to be related. (White Rabbit Lorina & Beetle Janice switching roles, but Janice ceases to exist.. Beetle being replaced by the 2nd person to take the mantle in the comics, Leila Davis!)

Often I will simply just rewrite the characters almost entirely. Beetle, again, being an example, White Rabbit, too, just to name a few off the top of my head lol

In the end, I do also usually resort to just basing the character on my own random headcanons. If I can't think of anything for the character, I may consider swapping their gender and see if that helps me come up with ideas.

It's fun to get creative and play around with ideas for characters. Changing their relationships and backstories, but still keeping the character recognizable and maintaining at least a couple main elements of their backstory.

[silentsdaydreamz]

now ive never said which character i fell for in the 2004 batman (maybe i have, i dont remember), and its the riddler. even if the design is VERY different from what im used to (BTAS version is like BEST), but he has long hair and looks like a skinny goth dude. long hair boys fit a type i have lmao. ALSO HIS VOICE IS FUCKING SMOOTH AND I WOULD DIE FOR HIM. Anyway,,,

I can imagine my oc, during the guard au, meeting him for the first time, and the words that fall out of her mouth are just the worst. She meant no harm in it, because pissing off the gotham rogues is something she doesn’t wanna do. She sees someone bringing in this skinny dude with a skin tight outfit, and her eyes are just immediately drawn to his long hair and the mask on his face.

She knows who he is by that question mark on his chest, but she’s having a mental breakdown at his choice in his outfit. She’s just like “????” And she’s staring super hard at him because its baffling to her. Out of all the riddlers she’s met, this one was the oddest. She knows she’s staring at him because in one second her mind is fuzzy, and she can’t think properly, and just states out loud:

“who's the skinny goth dude? Don’t tell me he’s this world’s riddler.”

she avoids the riddler after that first meeting and makes excuses on why someone else needs to give him his meals and escort him to therapy classes (still dont know what happens around there). Firefly makes fun of her for it daily, will NOT let it go that she called the riddler a skinny goth dude. And she tries her best not to strangle him to death.

eventually, she has to deliver a meal to him because the normal dude is out sick for that day and she has to suck it up and give him something. So she’s flustered and wants to die and she panics when she has to climb up near the opening at the top to see in there (shes short ok), and he’s not there. So, instead of telling someone, she hastily rips open the door and steps inside to see if he’s escaped somehow. Everything is still intact, but the door has shut on her, leaving her in the dark room.

She knows how much of an idiot she is for falling for a simple trap and slowly turns around to look at the closed door, trying to see if she could pry it open before anything happened but alas, this world’s Edward Nygma was towering over her and had her cornered. Silent knows she’s strong enough to repel the riddler if he ever tried to physically hurt her, but he’s a very smart man who has a lot of gadgets that could fuck her up. 

And instead of hurting her, like she originally thought he was gonna do, he just questions her about the comment she made about him and it ends in a weird friendship..? maybe? he's curious about the “this world’s riddler” comment she made and pesters her for more information.