#jewish bruce wayne

[frownyalfred]

actually I think the best characterization for old/older Bruce Wayne is just Overbearing Jewish Mother.

"Where are you?" "Why aren't you back from patrol yet?" "Alfred made dinner and you're not home." "You can't go out in the base layer armor, you'll be too cold." "I told you that you weren't going to stick that landing, and now look at you." "Don't whine to me when you break your ankle." "We're doing an x-ray on your ankle and that's non-negotiable." "What did I tell you about going after muggers on lower 9th? It never ends well." "Oh, you need a pickup on lower 9th? Who could've seen this coming?" "You never check your comm when you're talking to Barbara. What if something important came through?" "Why don't you bring Barbara around more?" "Alfred made extra dinner, please invite Barbara." "No I'm not using a cane, when I start using a cane you can take me out back and shoot me." "I'm not being dramatic. What's with that tone?" "Put that down. Why are you holding that?"

[aeturnum-mendacacium]

do you ever wonder if the JL pre-identity reveal wondered what nationality or religion Bruce was? Or wondered if he was part of a minority? And they were like too scared to offend him but every single time they were totally off on every theory-

Flash: dude what if he's like- chinese or something.

Hal: nah bro I think he's muslim, I realised that he never eats the foods which are haram

Flash: HAH??? FUCK REALLY?? I OFFERED PORK TO HIM YESTERDAY, NO WONDER HE SAID NO.DO YOU THINK HE HATES ME NOW??AM I GONNA DIE??

hal: I'll prepare your funeral :)

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Bruce : * just generally doesn't like pork

[starryaugust]

I feel like the wayne household is one of the houses that the sitting on the corner superstition holds the most

Bruce, already 60 and married: *sitting in the corner of the table*

Literally all of his kids in the same time: *gasps*

Dick: Bruce get out of there, don't you want to get married before you're 70?

Bruce's spouse: ...

Bruce: *signs* I'm already married Dick

Damian, literally 12: *sits in the corner*

Staph: Damian what are you doing there? Don't you want to get married before you're old and withery?

The entire table: ...

Clark, visiting: *sits in the corner*

Dick: *actually tackling him so he wouldn't sit there*

The entire table: ...

Jason: *sits in the corner for the first time since he came back*

Tim, sadly: I guess we won't be invited to any weddings soon...

Jason: ????????

[transmasculinizing]

ik people dont see the appeal of letting bruce b anything but white bc "oh hes the product of rich white privilege" or whatever but listen. listen. the way he talks to his kids is so brown parent with undiagnosed autism level communication skills to me

[lucien-calore]

i keep seeing people talking about bruce giving the bat kids christmas gifts and i just. bruce wayne is CANONICALLY JEWISH.

[galaxymagitech]

Both Bruce and Dick come from diasporas, and I’m kind of torn on how to engage with this.

On the one hand, you can go the sweet route. Bruce knows what it’s like to live in a diaspora, to have your culture whittled away over generations of loss, to struggle to engage with your culture after the death of your parents. He would try his utmost to help Dick preserve his Romani traditions. He would find Romani cultural groups in the area and coax Dick to meet them even though he’s grieving. Bruce wouldn’t stand for Dick losing his connection to his culture the way Bruce lost connection to his own.

But on the other hand, you can also go the tragic route. Canon Bruce has very much assimilated. He celebrates Christmas and has expressed a desire to be Christian, and hasn’t ever celebrated a Jewish holiday on panel (to my knowledge). Canonically, his mother celebrated Hanukkah, but Bruce seems to have no interest in being anything but the WASPy son of Thomas Wayne. And he knows that it’s safer this way. No one remembers that Martha Wayne was quietly Jewish. If Bruce assimilates, he avoids the antisemitism, the conspiracy theories, the danger. It’s easier that way. And Bruce wants what’s best for Dick (or at least, what he thinks is best). So I could also see him not actively trying to suppress Dick’s Romani heritage, but also not ever bringing it up and quietly sweeping it under the rug. And of course he knows that this is awful, but—he thinks he’s helping. Gotham’s upper crust is full of vultures, and Bruce thinks that if Dick follows in his footsteps, he’ll be safer that way.

So…Bruce understands some of what Dick’s going through. But how that comes out really depends on how hopeful he is—whether he wants to give Dick a better life or whether he’s just treading water and trying to keep his ward safe in the only way he knows how.

[dragon-lancelott]

the fact there isn't one jewish, nonbinary, autistic Bruce Wayne X jewish, genderfluid, adhd Hal Jordan fanfic is deeply upsetting 😔

[azaablue]

i think that jason vehemently insisted on having a bar mitzvah because he just assumed that dick had one and wanted to prove himself as a part of the family and bruce didn't think much of it so he was like 'sure' and it wasn't until a decade later that jason learns that dick never had one on the principle of wanting to be ungovernable and he never actually asked and bruce thought he knew

[shewolf-sinclair]

batman is a very private person. duh.

brucie wayne isn’t as private. he’s actually very open, about certain things. like relationships and issues and people he supports as a public figure. but he still keeps personal things personal. the public only knows he’s jewish because he speaks about it when doing activist work against antisemitism in gotham. otherwise. you would never guess

bruce wayne isn’t usually very religious. he values his judaism but more so as a cultural background than a religion he doesn’t regularly go to synagogue, he doesn’t keep sabbath or keep kosher. BUT he absolutely sat shiva for jason. and i like to think that it was huge when jason found out after coming back. because he knows bruce stopped practicing years ago. he only practices on high holidays (and maybe passover). and he does chanukkah for the kids. so him taking the time to sit shiva for the whole week is a huge deal.

i like to think it was a huge jumping off point for them to start fixing things

[ednygmasbowlerhat]

Bruce Wayne is canonically Jewish and we don’t talk about this enough. Obviously the representation would be amazing and as a Jew i would love my favorite hero to be Jewish but also it would just add so much to the character. Just like cultural flavor and personality. And of course plot lines. Like just imagine the entire bat family getting together for Jewish holidays or like batman making torah or rabbinic references all the time. Like what if he’s giving one of the bat kids a lecture and is just like “that reminds me of this story I learned about hillel and shammai in hebrew school blah blah blah”.

Also this just makes so much sense because superheroes were created by Jews like Superman literally has the most Jewish story ever but aliens can’t be born Jews and the kents aren’t Jewish so he’s not canon Jewish so having bats as Jewish is just too iconic.

[xxxjasontoddxxx]

In case you didn't know, most of the Wayne clan is Jewish.

Bruce and Tim go to synagogue, Dick comes home for the holidays (yes, all of them), and I get called home to light the menorah every Hanukkah.

Barbara, Steph, and Cass aren't Jewish but they do join us in celebration.

Alfred makes the best matzo ball soup, and no, I do not take criticism on that because it is a fact.

I don't know where Duke and Damian stand, but I assume Dami is agnostic at this point? I'll have that conversation with him later.

Anyway, this is just a long winded way of saying happy Passover!

To all my Jewish friends, I love you, and I wish you the best. Love and light, and all that. ✌🏻

[frownyalfred]

RIP Martha Wayne. As a Jewish mother you would have loved having Clark as a son in law because he’s never more than two seconds away, is always willing to help out around the house, and has 0 excuses for not visiting.

[jewish-microwave-laser]

HEY WAIT A SEC IF HIS HOOD IS ATTACHED TO HIS CAPE THEN

[sokoneedsagun]

Cold take: Damian and Bruce both have stick straight hair

Warm take: Damian has curly hair

Hot take: Bruce got curly hair from his mom and Damian got his fathers hair type not his mothers, so they both have curly hair with way too many cowlicks

[lizyarikus]

So I see a lot of discourse about Damian Wayne and whitewashing and.

Why the second that we start talking about Damian's genetics it's all "his gorgeous Arab-Chinese brown Roman nosed mother" and "his ENGLISH-NORTHWESTERN EUROPE father" and suddenly there are no mentions of Bruce's Jewish descent? We remember that it's an ethnicity, not just religion, right?

That boy has crooked noses on both sides of his ancestry. Depending on your headcanons, if not Bruce himself, then definitely someone from his family Martha definitely Martha had strong Ashkenazi curls.

Y'all treat Bruce like he's a pasty blond Norwegian with no recognizable ethnic traits to pass down. Which reads really weird next to detailed descriptions of Ra's racial presentation over the history of the character and whatever handful of facts we know about Melisande.

[weirdnotal]

The bat kids don't deserve the bland whiteness that DC gives them, and as a mixed child who is often presumed as white, I would love to see DC explore this more honestly. Nothing has to change dramatically about their characters (except maybe some features)