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mainalias · 4 months ago

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thinking about compiling screenshots of golden/silver age batman exclusively calling dick his ward to combat the allegations that it was “initially a father-child relationship”

#dc #batman #brudick #i don’t even ship it #i think i'm still mad at the poll when people were trying to refute the brudick points #by saying shippers are also biased and ignoring the history and that it really was a familial relationship early on #me the only asshole on this website enough of dumbass to try to read early batman “no it fucking wasn't”#if you hate the ship fine but don't back up your argument with complete lies #the pro-brudick camp has receipts which gives them way more validity than the haters #i'm sure somewhere out there there's dick grayson pre-crisis saying bruce is like a father to him #there's so many comics and i've barely scratched the surface #but i did read both the first golden age compilation book of batman and silver age world's finest compilation #and neither of them say anything like that #and no “his ward dick grayson” is how he's called constantly it's one of the stock phrases in the ever present narration #early comics fundamentally didn't understand they were a visual medium and are full of very tedious and unnecessary text panels #and to be fair each issue needed to function as an intro to someone who had never heard of batman and robin before so #“and his ward dick grayson”#every damn time #their relationship was adult man and his plucky kid sidekick he inexplicably hangs out with #which doesn't make sense and doesn't parallel to real life real social interaction #but neither does a man going in a batsuit to fight crime #and the out-of-universe explanation is because this comic was aimed at kids who were supposed to project onto dick grayson #and the kids want to be batman's kid-partner not his kid-son #it's not that complicated this trope still exists today #kid who should not be here but is because it's a kids' show/book/movie/etc #i stg i'm gonna become a brudick shipper out of spite at this point #and WHILE I'M COMPLAINING i am also going to be mad at the people who get all up-in-arms #about all the evil heroes doing child endangerment on their poor abused sidekicks #should there be kid heroes? no but cape comics would suck without them so stop complaining and enjoy yourselves #RL vigilantism is also always bad stop bringing real world standards into this they don't apply

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