#vanderveer wayne

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Okay, I saw a random tweet recommending the show "Powerless" last week so since I am bored I decided to give it a try.

That's a show released in 2017 that was cancelled after one season due to a lack of audience. It's a sitcom in the DC universe about regular people living there, more exactly about a team working at Wayne Entreprises R&D.

And the show is nice enough, that's a sitcom it does the job, I don't ask for more.

But the boss of that office, Van-something Wayne Junior (who happens to be Bruce's cousin or something) desperately wants to get muted from his perfectly normal city called "Charme City" to the freaking Gotham office.

His city sounds nice. Their main villain is a man with a pumpkin that throws fireballs, there are villains who make winter really cold, it sounds perfectly good for a city in the DC universe. Why the fuck do you want to go to Gotham, sir. That place is not just weird, it is living in another universe of weirdness. Why would you want that-

And like the Gotham office is certainly more important and prestigious but... it's in Gotham.

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[orange-s-mario]

3.1 % of you were right.

This is indeed other. This is actually Bruce's young cousin Vanderveer

TIME TO PLAY GUESS THE ROBIN

[thesparkwhowalks]

Robin, Batman's Cousin

Real Name: Vanderveer Wayne All Appearances: Batman #148 (1962)

Familial obligation requires that Bruce Wayne and his household host his cousin Vanderveer Wayne for a short while. He's the same age as Dick Grayson, meaning he immediately sees his cousin's ward as a rival. Dick shows him up at gymnastics in the Wayne Manor gymnasium, but gets castigated by Bruce for it - they have to keep their identities secret, dang it! Let the kid be a prick, who cares?

Well, Vanderveer cares. Seeing Batman & Robin's costumes while Alfred is moving them back to the Batcave, he concocts a plan to really show up Dick Grayson. He hires acrobat/actor Jumpy Regan to partner with him and springs into action as Robin where he knows Bruce & Dick will see. Having foiled the potential disaster that he arranged, he "reveals" to Dick that the only reason the Boy Wonder showed him up the other day was that Vanderveer was "protecting" his "secret identity".

Unfortunately for him, Lefty's a criminal and sees this Batman scam as a perfect way to steal the ice cream factory's payroll. The counterfeit Robin would have to help the real Dynamic Duo foil his partner's plan, an experience he finds properly humbling.

Vanderveer Wayne is easily one of the most obscure characters ever to appear in live action! He was a main character on the short-lived DC sitcom "Powerless", played by Alan Tudyk. There, he's Van Wayne, upper class twit cousin of Bruce Wayne and boss to the main characters. I keenly remember a gag from one episode where Van excitedly gets a text Bruce, only for it to turn out to be a request to stop using his HBO Go password.

[konmics-n-stuff]

Everyone who has ever, even slightly, been Robin

*In official, DC-endorsed media 

Total: 100 (i think)

FYI:

my definition of a ‘Robin’ is extremely vague. For example, I’m counting Lois Lane because she went to a costume party as Robin, and I’m also counting ‘Boy’ from Batman: the Return of Bruce Wayne because he had the domino mask paint and was clearly a stand-in for Robin. Et cetera.

They’re organized chronologically by their first appearance as Robin

Also this is heavily dependent on DC Fandom Wiki, so please let me know if I missed anyone or if anything is inaccurate

KEY

Red = actually Robin for a significant portion of time (more than a few in-universe days & more than one issue/episode/movie/etc)

Italics = was never Robin in main continuity (i.e. Earth Two [before Earth One existed], Earth One, New Earth, and Prime Earth)

Bold = I actually acknowledge them as Robin in my heart

Dick Grayson (Apr 1940)

Julie Madison (Mar 1941)

Ricky (Dec 1944) [possible future]

Mary Wills (Apr 1950) [Earth-Two]

Bruce Wayne (Dec 1955)

Vanderveer Wayne (Jun 1962)

Alfred E. Neuman (Sep 1966) [Mad Magazine]

Lance Bruner (May 1969)

Jimmy Olsen (May 1970)

Jason Todd (Mar 1982)

Boyd, the Robin Wonder (Apr 1983) [Earth-C-Minus]

Carrie Kelly (Jun 1986) [Dark Knight Returns]

Tim Drake (Oct 1989)

Robert Chang (Apr 1990) [Digital Justice]

Redbird (Jan 1993) [The Blue, the Gray, and the Bat]

Thomas Wayne (Jan 1993) [Robin 3000]

Bane (Apr 1993) [rejected elseworlds]

Robin Redblade (Jun 1994) [Earth-494]

Tengu (Sep 1994) [Narrow Path]

Alfred Pennyworth (Feb 1996) [Batman: Dark Alligiances]

Jubilation Lee (Apr 1996) [Amalgam Universe]

Tris Plover (Jun 1996) [Legends of the Dead Earth]

Darkbird (Jul 1996)

Bruce Wayne Jr. (Feb 1997) [Earth-3839]

Lois Lane (Oct 1997)

Rodney the chimpanzee (Nov 1997) [Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty]

Marya (1998) [I, Joker]

Barbara Gordon (Feb 1998) [Earth-37]

Robin the Toy Wonder (Nov 1998) [DC One Million]

Rochelle Wayne (Feb 1999) [Reign of Terror]

Kon-El (Mar 1999) [Hypertension]

Clark Wayne (Mar 1999) [Earth-3839]

Squid Wonder (Aug 1999)

The Robin (Mar 2000) [Earth-40]

Robin Drake (Feb 2002) [Riddle of the Beast]

Stephanie Brown (May 2004)

Koriand’r (Jan 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]

Garfield Logan (Jan 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]

Rachel Roth (Jan 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]

Victor Stone (Jan 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]

Robbie the Robin (Jun 2005) [Krypto the Superdog]

Control Freak (Oct 2005) [Teen Titans (2003 show)]

Damian Wayne (Nov 2006)

Robin Olsen (Oct 2007) [Earth-8]

Bizzaro Robin (Nov 2007)

Unnamed penguin (Jun 2010) [Tiny Titans]

Boy (Jul 2010)

Robin Robin (Jul 2010) [Tiny Titans]

M’gann M’orzz (Nov 2010) [Young Justice (2010 show)]

Jericho (Dec 2010) [Tiny Titans]

Kid Devil (Dec 2010) [Tiny Titans]

Wildebeest (Dec 2010) [Tiny Titans]

Kroc (Dec 2010) [Tiny Titans]

The Joker (Jan 2011)

Lance Heart (Feb 2011)

Fransisco Ramirez (Feb 2011)

Christopher Ward (Feb 2011)

Robin John Blake (Jul 2012) [Dark Knight Trilogy]

Helena Wayne (July 2012) [Earth 2]

Robin’s Egg (Jan 2013) [Farm League]

Super Robin (Jul 2013) [Teen Titans Go!]

Selina Kyle (Mar 2014)

Damien Wayne (Jun 2014) [Infinite Crisis Video Game]

John Thomas Grayson (Dec 2014) [Earth 2]

Nibor (Jan 2015) [Teen Titans Go!]

Daxton Chill (May 2015)

Dre Cipriani (May 2015)

Riko Sheridan (May 2015)

Duke Thomas (Jul 2015)

Troy Walker (Jul 2015)

Kat-R-ina (Aug 2015)

Isabella Ortiz (Aug 2015)

BlackDomino (Oct 2015)

Darkestdawn (Oct 2015)

SideKicker (Oct 2015)

Yellowcape (Oct 2015)

Shug-R (May 2016)

Robinbot (May 2017)

Dinesh Babar (May 2017)

Rabid Robins (Oct 2017) [Earth -22]

Cult Member Robins (Apr 2018)

Rosie (Apr 2018)

Matt McGinnis (May 2018) [Futures End]

Harley Quinn (Apr 2019)

Jarro (Oct 2019)

Billy Batson (Oct 2019)

Six of Hearts (Dec 2019)

Maps Mizoguchi (Dec 2020)

Talia Kane (Feb 2021) [Earth 11]

LeBron James (Jul 2021) [Space Jam: A New Legacy]

Drake Winston (Oct 2021) [Batman ‘89]

Anita Jean (Oct 2021)

Kiki (Nov 2021)

Son of Don Mitchell Jr. (Mar 2022) [The Batman (2022 movie)]

Gan (Mar 2022)

Jon Kent (Jul 2022)

Amish Boy Wonder (Nov 2022) [The Last Harley Story]

Darcy Thomas (Nov 2022)

Elizabeth Prince (Jan 2024) [Possible Future]

Bruce Wayne clone (Jul 2024)

[zorilleerrant]

"anyone who's worn a version of the Robin suit counts as a Robin" ah yes such famous Robins as

Maps Mizoguchi

Vanderveer Wayne

Silkie the mutant silkworm

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@paladin-of-nerd-fandom65

You're welcome!! :)

There's this hilarious headcanon that I've always had for the vampire!Batfamily btw about the thing where everyone believes that garlic harms vampires, but it's actually a myth and the only reason that idea even got started in the first place by humans was because an old ancestor of the Batfamily's (who's still alive) is severely allergic to them and would always used to run away from people who had them, so now humans always try to attack everyone of them with it everytime if they have it on themselves and it annoys the Batfam because of how ridiculous it is lol

(Also, spoiler alert, it was Bruce's younger cousin Vanderveer Wayne who's severely allergic to them, so garlic is also banned from the mansion whenever he visits them because of this)

If Chris and Jake were Halloween characters/creatures (like a vampire, werewolf, witch, literal monster, or whatever else like those for example) what would they be?

Chris, easily a would be a ghost given his canon self was born in the Phantom Zone. If I’m a more mystical creature AU though, like say if implemented in the early 1800s like say many Gothic tales, I envision him being the son of a prominent war hero who sadly perished during a nighttime siege in his family’s fortress and now roams the ruins of said fortress (which explains why he’s in nightclothes as a ghost), searching for a friend to talk to since his childhood while AU live was pretty heavily strict and lonely

Or alternatively, akin to Jon, he can also be a werewolf albeit hailing from a different clan/pack of them who hail from distant lands and the Pack Leader, Zod, is a brash sort, inadvertently leaving Chris behind during a pack voyage one stormy night, allowing the Kents to find and take him in

Then there’s Jake; I can see the Graysons being vampire rulers of a secret kingdom within the Balkans, who live in relative peace from the human world and Dick being the King of said realm. Kory descends from a Royal clan of vampires hailing from another corner of the globe, a clan notably for ironically blending in well with humans and can withstand sunlight unlike Dick’s clain can. Mar’i and Jake are the children of these Royal two, as Crown Princess and Prince respectively.

Despite having a literal thirst for blood, Dick has explicit rules for his kingdom to forbid human blood from being taken out of precaution in making sure their kingdom isn’t discovered and their existence under peril from the humans. Thankfully there location deep in the forests have a variety of wildlife they can fear from instead.

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Dick meets Bruce Wayne’s cousin Vanderveer "Van" Wayne in Batman (1940) #148.

[lonestarfangirl2014]

Imagine a AU where all of thomas and marthas siblings from various canons/continuities existed and thus all of Bruce’s first cousins existed to

Imagine a AU Where Van wayne(known as van jr in powerless) who in the comics was seemingly somewhere around dick graysons age(while in the show he was a adult seemingly around Bruces age) was for some reason put in Bruces care. Imagine if the same happened to Bette Kane. IMAGINE IF VAN BECAME A CRIMEFIGHTER ALONG SIDE BETTE AND DICK(maybe as batlad). IMAGINE IT!!!!

Imagine if Thomas cousin famous detective Bruce N. Wayne (who bruce got named after) wound up coming to live with Bruce & Co. at Wayne manor.

GUYS WHAT IF BRUCES COUSIN JANE CO-OWNED WAYNE ENTERPRISE WITH HIM. (In some continuities Thomas And his Brother Philip co-Ran Wayne enterprise before Thomas’s untimely death).

[yoshimickster]

Y’ever think how weird it is that DC changed it so that Bruce was raised by Alfred and not his uncle Phillip?

I mean, I get that Alfred is popular, but its STILL kind of confusing how many modern interpretations of the character have Bruce having SEVERAL uncles...buuuuuuuuut he wasn’t raised by them, and instead raised by a butler. Also for some reason they made Phillip a Kane, and not a Wayne in the main storyline, as for why I do NOT know!

[tomorrowwoman]

There’s also something oddly hilarious that Green Fury has no idea who Vanderveer Wayne is. Like, I know he’s an idiot but I figure he’d be well known in Charm City. I’ve honestly assumed given Emily was hyped to work with him in episode 1 that he’d be the cities most famous non superhero celebrity.

[kimhargreeves]

The Wrong Wayne-Vanderveer "Van" Wayne

Summary:Reader is the second in command in Wayne Securitiy and wife to Bruce Wayne's cousin, Vanderveer. Who is hard to work with but Reader knows it's just another ordinary day for them and will always have her husbands back.

A/N: I had no excuse for writing this. I've been watching too much Doom Patrol, Powerless and other tv shows/movies Alan Tudyk has been in cause he's such an amazing and underrated actor.

It's another glorious and long day here at Wayne Security here in Charm City. I got dressed early and got a box of donuts and carried two cups of coffee on the other while waiting for the elevator to elevate me up the building. I spotted Jackie who quickly rushed in with me so she wouldn't have to wait for the elevator to go down again, I gave her a small smile.

"Good morning, Jackie." I tell the woman who has a tired expression on her face but nonetheless smiles back. "Good morning to you too. Do you need help with-"

"Of course." I pushed the items into her hand and quickly adjusted my skirt and blouse before the elevator stopped and the doors were open. My heels clicked onto the tiles when I walked a few steps ahead and saw Jackie trying her best so the food won't fall over.

"I'm so sorry." I apologize running to her. She smiles tiredly, "No problem, Mr Wayne will be excited to see you."

I was about to reach the door to Mr Wayne when I turned around, "Wait..how do I look?" I ask afraid if I even got dressed nicely.

"You look good as ever." I smile proudly and nod my head ignoring Emily Locke who stood behind Jackie with her nerdy friends. Emily is the newest girl who joined Wayne Security, it's been about a month since she started working here and Vanderveer Wayne hasn't been fond of her.

I could say the same. Wayne Security has been doing fine on it's own, I know I shouldn't say this bur she can be pushy and a handful.

"Good morning my love." I cheerfully say once I opened the door and Van jumped a bit since he was focused on his own portrait.

"You scared me." He says with a small chuckle and takes the items from me and places them on his desk. "I bought you your favorite coffee." I sing and he grabbed the cup from me and sniffed it.

"Perfect. I knew you were the perfect woman for me." He says leaning down to quickly kiss my lips.

"Why? Were there other candidates?" I tease.

Van shrugs his shoulders and drinks some more. "A few here and there, but there was something special about you. The moment you stepped into my room and-"

"And accidently stepped on a Batman figure and tried fixing it." I ask with a smile and point at the small figure that rests on top of one of his drawers. "Exactly!" He snaps his fingers and wraps an arm around me.

"Aha, you know meeting you was a mistake." I reply and try to not laugh at the funny story, "Not this again (Y/N)" my husband says pouting and I ignore his icy blue eyes and sat on his chair.

"I was sent here to work at one of the best companies, Wayne Security. I was surprised it wasn't in Gotham since I lived there, I thought 'Wow Mister Wayne wants me to work for him and i'm going to meet him?'"

Van rolls his eyes but since he hates me making fun of the day we met. "Thing is I got the wrong Wayne. I thought I was meeting that hunky Wayne guy, The Bats! Not his cousin." I can't helo but smirk to myself when he frowns.

"Hey hey you should be grateful that you at least met one of the Waynes. Everytime someone mentions 'Wayne' they immediately think of my cousin." He says rambling now about it.

"Come on he's handsome." I tease.

"Handsome huh? Let's see about that." My husband says getting closer and almost sitting on top of me when he leans down to kiss me. I grab onto his tie deepening the kiss when there's a knock on the door and we quickly pull away.

Jackie stares at us knowing she interrupted something. "What is it this time?" Van annoyed by her presence asks.

"Mr Wayne is on the line."

Van hurried to the other side of his desk and picked up the call excitedly. I laughed at him being this childish whenevee his cousin calls, so while he was busy I decided to look around the company. It had been a few hours since I started working and went to the resting area, there sharing lunch were Emily, Ron, Teddy and Wendy.

With the rest of the workers. "Hello everyone, I can see you're all sharing your delicious lunch." I sarcastically say and watch Emily shaking her head.

She's always said '(Y/N) and Van are so meant for each other' with sarcasm of course of saying 'those two are so alike no wonder they got married' I've heard hee say those words thanks to a few employees. I could've told my husband to fire her, but despite us not getting along and her struggles of changing Charm City. 

I can see a spark in her and know she'll do great."I know I know. Some of you might hate me and SOME of you might think i'm like selfish and arrogant like my husband." I tell them while glancing at the famous group when I said 'some'.Emily gave me a fake smirk, "Can you get to the point?""My point is..I no longer will tolerate my employees to eat junk food. From now on you'll be eating healthy your brains need it."

"Was that an insult or a compliment?" Teddy asks in a whisper but Wendy smacks his head so he'd shut up. 

"So here I present to you the finest dish sent from Gotham for my beloved friends, from my brother in law might I add, Bruce Wayne." I place on their tables many different italian dishes and see many of my employees drooling at the sight.

"Please don't mention this to my husband, he might get annoyed that I bought some of these with his credit card." I add and see all of them digging in."Whoa I'm surprised by this, thank you (Y/N)" Emily says with a genuine smile.

"Of course. I know we haven't gotten along but I really want thst to change between all of us. I don't want to be one of those typical egocentric bosses or should I say co-bosses who doesnt think of their employees. So want to be friends?" Emily nods her head and we hand shake."I smell something delicious and it isn't my wife." I try to not laugh when Van came out of no where and began piling a plate with many italian dishes on it.

"Dude chill no one's gonna steal from it." Wendy says holding her own plate. 

"Well you people are so i'm taking this with me too." Van said grabbing a whole lasagna and winking at me before rushing to his office again."Mrs Wayne look what who's here." Jackie says showing up.

 I turn around and can't help but smile at the small blonde headed child in her arms. "Hi there baby." I say adorably and grab the baby from her hands and gently bounce the baby in my arms and hear him giggle. 

"Who's a cute baby?" I laugh when he smiles and see Emily smiling at it."I still can't believe he's Mr Wayne's kid." I scoff at her comment and laugh."Trust me, he may be a childish man most of the times but he does make an excellent father. Doesn't he?" The baby covers his face and smiles.

 "How about we visit daddy?" I leave everyone to enjoy their lunch and head to the the office to greet my husband again. 

I knock on it and open the door, "Look who's here!" Van immediately smiles and stands up from his spot, "My dear son. Come here, Damien." He says opening his arms and Damien giggles and tries to reach for him. 

I walk closer and handed my son to his father, "Ah my adorable son, the man who's going to inherite my fortune, business and potentially surpass my brother." I sit next to Van and see him bouncing our son on his lap while the baby giggled and tried pulling my husbands tie. 

"Careful you don't want Bruce to become so competitive all of the sudden with a child." I tiredly rest my head on his shoulder and we watch our son chewing on his father's tie.

"He'll become a splendid business man like his father." Van proudly says which made me roll my eyes ans chuckle." I can't wait to tell him the story of how I got the wrong Wayne." I joke again which earned me a small pinch from him. 

"Oww I'm kidding. I love you Vanderveer Wayne.""I love you too (Y/N) Wayne."Van and I look at each other and shared a kiss until I felt something between us, Van felt the same and we looked down to see that Damien grabbed some lasagna and smashed some onto his father's expensive suit.

"Oh come on son." Van whines but smiles when he sees me laughing. "Yeah, he really is your son." 

"How come he never does these things to you." He quickly asks handing me Damien who got comfortable and rested his head on my chest. "Because even he knows how terribly you treat your employees." Van rolls his eyes and looks at us both. 

"You're right, I'll try apologizing to them but first I want some alone time with my wife and son." He placed the dirty napkin from which he got out a bit of stain in the trash and scooted his chair closer to mine and rested his head on top of mine. 

I closed my eyes too and smiled while holding onto my son with one hand and the other holding my husbands one while gently touching the golden ring on his fingers. I definetly didn't regret choosing him over Bruce Wayne.

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[dr-archeville]

Van Wayne is actually older than fans think. He actually appear in Batman #148 in 1962.

Yup!  That was mentioned in the updated version of the article I’d linked to a few weeks ago.

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The Batfamily Tree.

...or as much of it as I could fit. Which was a surprisingly lot. I’m not even sure what to write! I guess... Some explanations/notes-

Jane and Vanderveer’s parent(s) aren’t stated, but they are on the Wayne side of the family.

Bette’s parent(s) are not stated either, but she is on the Kane side of the family.

It was never officially stated if Alina’s father was Bruce or the Joker, or both, or neither.

Lance was adopted(?) due to an agreement his father made with Thomas Wayne, but he died pretty early into his life with Bruce and Dick.

Holly was adopted by Selina in at least one continuity, and serves typically as a younger sister figure to her. Arizona was brought into Selina’s life after Holly’s ‘death,’ and served as a similar figure, but was not officially adopted I don’t believe.

Stephanie was adopted by Bruce in at least one continuity.

Sasha/Scarlet and Tyler/Blue Hood are not canonically adopted/fostered by Jason, but, come on. They should be! Also, as far as I’m aware, Rose is the only person to be canonically married to Jason. Sorry JayRoy, Jaytemis, Joyfire, etc. shippers!

Charlie wasn’t officially fostered/adopted by Babs, but the Birds of Prey (Babs included) seemed to take on a parental role for her.

Carrie Kelley is Babs’s cousin(?) in some continuities, I think, but I decided not to add that because... there’s too much already okay...

Easter Egg: Warren McGinnis’s family ‘box’ is connected to the Detective/Pizza Club (Maps’s) box because he was a friend of the Detective Club/in Gotham Academy at the same time as them! ;)

I hope people can find this tree useful! And if some of these are characters you’ve never heard of before, well, then you can check out my fic- Alina Shelley-Wayne Meets the Batfamily- to get a look at pretty much all of them! ADDITIONALLY, I’m working on a Masterpost for all Batfam information (timelines, maps, histories, etc.), which you can view what I have HERE. It should not be editable, so please don’t if it is. If you have information for it you want to tell me, DM me here on Tumblr for now.

Please reblog so other people can see this and hopefully learn more about the Batfamily! Especially for those that don’t particularly read the comics, I think it’d be really helpful.