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[ciudad-gotica-853]

JAJAJAA otro momento de agilidad.

Ya deja ese hombre Doll.

[jokerihardlyknower]

One month on Batman: a beginners descent.

Disclaimer: this was written in April 2024.

I've never been a superhero person. I've never been a Batman person.

I had never interacted with any Batman media, never knew anything about Batman besides his parents died and he got upset about it.

Recently I have made the executive decision to start my Batman journey. I wanted to document my experience as someone entirely new to Batman as I make my way around the universe.. universes.

My journey starts on April 9th, 2024. A YouTube video came on my recommended, I watched it. The video? "A perfect Batman villain: baby doll | Batman the animated series". Before this I had never considered Batman as something I could ever participate in. This video tipped the scales in Batmans favor and I decided, it's time. It's time to open the door to batman.

Two days later, April 11th, I start watching Batman: the animated series on HBOmax. The first episode on HBOmax is the cat & the claw part:1. This episode debuts Catwoman in this series, and is actually the first time I realized Catwoman was a villain. I guess I hadn't put that much thought into it before. I also learned that she was a love interest for Batman, interesting. It is to my understanding that he does not reciprocate her feelings, at least not to the capacity that she likes him. But I also believe that at the point of the series I am currently at, she likes Batman more than she likes Bruce Wayne. I also didn't know she was blonde, or that she had a cat partner or cats at all. These are trivial and minor things but it really goes to show how little I really knew. While I have continued watching, I have not yet reached the babydoll episode.

There were many notable villains I had not heard of before and have since learned about through watching. Such as Dr freeze, and clayface who I originally thought was the same man as the thing from marvel as I also know nothing about marvel outside of the two spider verse movies.

Two days later, April 13th, I watched the Lego Batman movie. It was...amazing. It was so good it made me scared, that no batman would ever compare and I would lose interest in my journey completely. (That has yet to happen). I enjoy the over exaggeration of the characters because as a complete beginner to this subject it helps me get general ideas about who characters are, even if it's a dumbed down uncomplicated version. Not to say Lego batman is dumb, no, the Lego batman movie is genius and perfect. I love how Batman and Joker's relationship is explored in an obviously, painfully obviously, queer coded way.

And I want to take this time to make an announcement. This is a serious rant about ship and stan politics. Not all jokers are the same, not all Batmans are the same. Every separate Batman universe is exactly that: separate. Characters will have different relationships in different universes and that's okay. Someone enjoying Lego Joker is not the same as enjoying suicide squad joker. Lego batjokes is not the same as Joker(2019) batjokes which is p3d0ph1l1a by the way, pointing that out because I've seen batjokes fanart with joker(2019) and it's. Ahem. This is a direct response to "you can't ship this because this character did x!" This logic does not apply to media with this many different universes. Different universes have different canon events, Lego Joker saves Gotham by holding hands with Batman, that is a completely different man to the killing joke joker.

Tw: S/A, skip this next paragraph if necessary

Spin off rant: for now I will not read the killing joke, I will not watch the killing joke. I've heard enough. While I would typically approve of a story exploring the complexities of the ties of joker and Batman, jokers backstory and what that means for everything else, the mirror images of batman and joker, I don't approve of the way this goes about it, it feels disrespectful to women, and also ridiculous at times. Sexual violence is overused. Sexual violence is overused by men as a sort of fantasy. According to secondary sources the creator of this comic uses sexual violence in almost all of his work. Why do you feel the need to express this over and over? Why are women overly exploited in horror media in a way that almost never advances the plot? What is the point? Because at this point you are obsessed, and it's weird. It leads me to believe this is something you think about way too much. Oops! Almost wrote something without rape in it sorry guys that was a close one. Imagine being a freak, couldn't be me.

Why does Batman laugh at the end of the killing joke. Is he stupid 🤔?

If you're mad about this I think you need to take a joke. Pun intended.

Um. Lego batman super good love that joker what a guy. In this movie I learned that poison ivy had a poison kiss, I don't know why I never thought about whether or not she was poisonous before. In the movie I think she has plant powers which I have seen displayed in the odd TikTok clip here and there but I think in Batman the animated series she isn't magical just a scientist so I'm not sure if the no magic is exlusive to the animated series or if it's just one of those things that depends on the media. I also learned that the penguin has actual penguins, in the Batman animated series I have yet to see any penguins, just a vulture?? Which I don't understand why he has.

2 days later April 15th I watch the Batman with Robert Pattinson. This movie was also pretty good. Really good. Another instance of me getting scared that nothing else will ever live up. My only hope for this, If my fears turn out to be true, is the sequel to this movie coming. I like how the central villain is The Riddler as well as honestly the people he was trying to expose. He had that right idea, wrong execution type of thing. Which I think is not necessarily to him being super duper evil but I think he's just emotionally unintelligent and mentally disturbed. He needs a really good talking to. I can see him being rehabilitated. It would take a long time because you know the incel adjacent pipeline is a deep hole to fall into and therefore a deep hole to be pulled out of. Despite being a homosexual man myself, I was not as attracted to the riddler as all the lesbians I know. Sorry I just had to say it. Something I really like about this movie is the humanization of a lot of villains like the penguin who in previous incarnations is really weird to say the least. I'm not saying weird is bad by the way. There's a perfectly good time and place for weird and campy and silly villains This particular Batman movie just wasn't that place and that's okay. Another aspect of this movie I think is really interesting is how it's different to other Batman media and the way that they portray Bruce Wayne. In a lot of Batman media, But I'm going to particularly call out Batman The animated series since it's the one I most familiar with at this time, Bruce Wayne is a heartthrob He's beloved by the people at least the rich people of Gotham. But in the Batman he is much more pathetic and emo you know, showing up to the club in the rain sopping wet with smudged eyeliner. I can't help but imagine a song on the world's smallest violin. I also think that this movie really shaped the way I perceive the villains by default because this being the first live-action movie I'm seeing a lot of these villains, It's hard to erase them from my mind when looking at other iterations. Maybe I'd be more apprehensive towards these representations of say the penguin and the Riddler If I had gotten used to the previous representations. But then again I don't know I am not active in the Batman fandom space. I don't know how other people feel about this so I don't know what I'm talking about.

Sometime after watching this movie I realized, wait a minute I have seen a Batman movie before, or at the very least a Joker movie. That's right, in 2019 I watched the Joker. It was mid. And if I'm totally honest I don't remember the entire thing, I remember important things I think. I remember that I didn't like it that much not for any specific reason It just didn't speak to me all that loudly and The fact that I didn't really like it that much probably discouraged me a bit from any other Batman movies even though I know it's silly since Batman is like in the movie for what 30 seconds or less as a child? I have also seen suicide squad the original with the Joker who shall not be named. But that came out in 2016 which was a notably horrible time in my life and so I do not remember anything about that movie or what it was about. So it's safe to say I basically haven't seen suicide squad.

Back to the penguin for a second. Sometimes he has three fingers and sometimes he has five. When he does have three fingers is there a reason for that? Was he born like that and if so is that the reason he's called the penguin or is him being the penguin the reason he has three fingers like is he part penguin or is he just a normal person who happens to have three fingers which is more common in real life however this is Gotham.

Back to catwoman, is her dad always falcone or is that made up for the Batman movie? Many questions indeed.

When I watch too many Batman the animated series episodes in a row I start getting a headache and the damn intro makes me want to bite the TV as well as all the music it seeps into my brain like poison so I have to microdose Batman. The most recent episode I watched was Christmas with the joker, what a jolly gay fellow.

When I started this journey I wasn't sure what to expect. But now at one month on Batman, I can feel the changes. They've appeared in my dreams. I think about them during the day. I see a nerdy ginger and I think "he could play the riddler." I drew Bruce Wayne as a woman. I posted year old fanfiction for a completely unrelated fandom but haven't kept posting because I've been writing Batman fanfiction everyday. I drew Bruce Wayne and Clark kent side by side to decode the differences between the two so if I make fanart in the future I can have distinct personalizations. I'm changing. I'm scared. I'm sick in the head. What have I become?

I have made a group chat that you are not invited to for all my Batman questions comments and concerns to discuss with my family and family adjacent. If one person comments asking for it I will leak the conversations from the group chat.

I had seen a lot of tiktoks in the past regarding the telltale Batman game. And I brought up to my sibling that I would play the game, however I saw a picture of the Joker dying and considering this is a nicer joker I didn't want to put myself through that. They told me he did not die in the game. So I bought it and haven't played it yet.

Anyways, that's my one month on Batman update stay tuned for my descent into Batman and let me know what you think I should watch next.

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Coco: aléjate de mi vieja matt Hagen!

Headcanon mío: matt y Mary se conocían cuando aún estaban en el negocio de la actuación y muchas veces fueron invitados juntos a shows como el Gotham Palace o ahi de perdida con Murray xD