#jla/titans

[thisiseditsandstuff]

What If I run away to Mars? Would you find me in the stars?

→ Donna Troy & Kyle Rayner

[hotpinkstaples]

this was back in 1999, but still..... i persist.............

[the-flying-robins]

(Nightwing in JLA/Titans #2)

One of my favorite quotes ever! JLA/Titans does a great job at really getting to the core of the difference between the two organizations. To be a member of the JLA is something to be proud of. It's about putting the safety of the many, of the world first. To be a member of the Titans is to have a group of people who will love you and protect you, would do anything to save you, while also saving the world. It was a place for the kids and teens and disenfranchised to feel safe and cared for. No kid with a perfect life joins a cause like this, they're all escaping something and the Titans provides that safe space to escape to.

I love the JLA, this is in no way a bash on them. I think they're important, and when you factor in the Titans "team is family" mentality they cover a gaping hole the Titans would leave if they were the only team.

But this "the team is family and will protect each other no matter what" is a huge part of what makes the Titans MY team. It's not perfect, and it often causes more problems than it fixes. And sometimes, the bonds they have can be too much to overcome when faced with extreme loss (Graduation Day and the dissolution of the Titans), but they always come back to it. The ones who need that family, that connection will always be there when needed because the others would be there for them.

[laufire]

jla/titans #3

otoh, this can be taken as a. kinda sweet? little dickhelena moment after the more sexually charged comments and I very much enjoy that.

ON THE OTHER. I can't help but see this as a flex lmao. helena's implicitly stating she's seen behind the lenses of that damn domino mask. specifically that one time the two of them had sex.

so I imagine that dick keeps walking towards kory and argent goes wait wait wait- WHEN did you see his eyes??? and helena replies with the most smug smile you've ever seen.

[daily-cassie-sandsmark]

[rainedropsart]

young justice’s emotional support 9 yr old

[too0bsessedformyowngood]

Do you think the general public in the dc universe knows all the superpowers of each hero in their own city (or the bigger heroes). I just thinking, heroes probably don’t advertise their powers or what abilities they have so the flashier and more used powers are more well known, but the subtle, or not outward powers are probably more obscure knowledge or speculated on.

Just imagine like people making Wiki articles or known powers of each hero and getting in debates of what powers so of them have. Like on Reddit there is a long ongoing article of weather or not Superman has super-hearing and x-ray vision or has echolocation. Like when Batman first showed up some people adamantly thought he was a shadow demon or could control darkness, and there still resents of that with like people trying to spread ‘gotcha facts’ that Batman can actually control clouds and that is why it’s always overcast in Gotham. Or like ‘Top 10 Superpowers you didn’t know these Justice Leaguers had’ videos and on there is like, “Martian Manhunter has Telepathy, there has been reports from people who he has saved of him talking to them in their mind while saving them.” Even misconceptions of what group a hero is a part of. Like some people adamantly believe Starfire is a Super just from a different family and that’s why her powers are just slightly off, like they confidently believe that Tamaraneans is just the group of Kryptonians she is from and refuse to do any research or listen to new information.

Just the general public in the dc universe speculating on things about the heroes that wouldn’t be as well know or known really at all by the general public.

[itshype]

The Opposite of a Golden Ticket (DC x DP)

The Teen Titans are horrified and delighted to discover that their latest crackpot villain is going to target International Sweetheart Ember McLain who is currently touring in Jump City. The villain wants to lower morale and prove not even famous people are safe from his machinations.

They're horrified because their PR is kinda dodgy at the moment, and Ember is a huge star and an excellent choice for a target. People lucky enough to get tickets to her concerts swear it is a religious experience though there is no useable footage to be found anywhere.

They're delighted because they were not amongst the lucky number of people able to get tickets. But a meeting to arrange her safety and some bodyguard duties while she was in the city would be just as good.

Or it would be just as good if this random roadie would let them through. He didn't care they were heroes. He wasn't letting them through without credentials or tickets.

Danny doesn't actually work here. Ember periodically sends him tickets to her shows, proving to him again that he made a good call letting her out into the world to follow her dreams. Proving she was never hypnotising anyone longer than 90 minutes after they'd paid handsomely for the privilege. He loves to come and see her, support her and tell her he's proud.

He won't let the heroes through.

Eventually, the Titans have had enough. They're about to get violent. They think Ember could be hurt right now. They think this random roadie or stagehand is just being officious.

Danny has to make a choice. Let them through and notice within 5 seconds that Ember is Not Quite Right (she's been a ghost longer than she ever was a human), OR fight them and let them look into him instead.

Ember is his friend. It's not a choice.

"Sorry, I really can't let you through, I need this job."

Danny transforms but uses shapeshifting to keep his colouring human. It just looks like he's vaguely glowing.

He takes Impulse (Kid Flash) out first, icing his boots to the floor. Danny doesn't have superspeed so he's the most serious threat. A quick Wail that's covered by the distant, screaming crowd and the rest of them are disoriented enough that he can disarm them.

After that frankly bafflingly short fight the Teen Titans find themselves back at their tower in front of the Master Computer and struggling to put a mission report for reviewal by the Justice League into words.

[one-bat-day]

Cheesyyyyyyy (but I love it)

It’s so interesting to see where the artist placed certain characters. Like Roy all the way in the back?? As if Roy’s daughter didn’t call Dick ‘uncle’??? What is Dinah doing all the way back there??? Why is she there in the first place? Two superman’s for what reason? This was before Jon became superman!! Tim all the way in the very front, but the titans are all background characters???

[violent138]

Now that the original Titans are older, every once in a while they'll hang out with their mentors and idols in the League, perhaps someone busts out some substances that can inebriate the mixed-up group, and the Titans, as a group will share a horrifying story of something insane they did as kids, all burst into laughter and not realize for a solid five minutes that the adults in the room have sobered up and gone a little solemn.

[hotpinkstaples]

[batfam-belfry]

When you know it's not your dad because he hugged you, smiled, told you he's proud of you, and asked how you were feeling

[disco-troy]

problems with beast world aside im loving the JLA/titans parallels to the Titans protecting Gar/Vic at all costs.

I think its a super interesting way to bring the titans in their first crisis, a callback to arguable their first crisis that involved the whole dc universe and to really dig into what it means to be the Titans.

[daily-cassie-sandsmark]

[nitpickrider]

I don't care who Brainiac THINKS he is, if THIS is the line up we're loading for bear. Action Comics 546