#wfa Bruce Wayne my beloved

[heres-the-marvel-tea]

The more I read about comic ‘verse Batman, the more I like to imagine “people who prey on children don’t deserve restraint, they deserve me” Natasha Romanoff beating him up

[puppiesandnightlock]

CLARK AND DIANA ARE SUCH LITTLE SHITS LIKE THEY FUCKING KNEW LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

"wow great disguse" HONEY. NO. I WOULD HAVE THOUGH THE BATMAN WOULD BE BETTER AT THIS. *checks notes* well actually

catman pfffft

BRUCE SCREAMING INTO HIS PILLOW AND I JUST KNEW THAT CLARK YOUBE LISTENING AND GUESS WHAT HE WAS

DIANA, CLARK, YOU ARE HORRIBLY AMAZING BESTIES

gotta say i feel u bruce that screaming into the pillow shit was relatble af

[striveattemptfail]

wfa #12 vs #71

this mug needs a safety hazard label on it oml 😂😅😂😅

i know the marks are probably not fresh, that the mug is clean and the inks/paints damian used just stained the mug even after washing, but still!!

that does NOT look safe to drink from 😂😂

(if only for the cracked edges! don't cut yourself on that bruce!! LOLLL)

i wonder how alfred apparently allowed it to continue being in the manor despite its appearance. and not only is it not thrown out, but apparently it's still being used!

it must be truly loved 😂😂

[jennrypan]

..Bruce, didn't tell Dick that Jason was dead.

And then punched Dick for even asking about it.

OH MY GOD ALL HIS KIDS NEED TO KILL HIM!!!! SACRIFICE HIM IDCIDC

Can someone who actually likes Bruce write him PLEASE. Im tired of motherfuckers making him abuse his kids and then NEVER have his kids react negatively, TIRED of them having to constantly apologize this asshole. We get it, your parents died. Doesn't mean you abuse your kids if they have a different opinion from yours!!!! Go to hell!!!

Fuck!!! I hate Canon Bruce. Fanon Bruce is the only thing that matters ever. Canon Bruce can die and I HOPE it's at the hands of Dick, Jason and Stephanie specifically :)) and when he's gone. KILL THE JOKER NEXT!!

[themaidenofwords]

My beloved mutuals,

I would like to turn your attention towards the best fucking batfam comic I've ever seen/ heard of. Wayne Family Adventures.

Do we get Bruce being a non-abusive (and dare I say it?) Good Dad for once? Yes.

Do we get plenty of snippets of sibling bonding between the Batkids? Also yes.

Do we still get intense moments and acknowledgement of character flaws and trauma? ALSO YES.

The most recent arc has been absolutely PHENOMENAL and a top tier example of how to do something comic writers mess up a lot right. Joker, Jason, and Bruce. The terrible combination. We see Bruce trying to shut his kids out and ban them from patrol in standard asshole manner, but we also get to see him tell his kids that he loves them and he's terrified and trying to protect them. Bruce has trauma! And fears! And so much love for his kids! And we get to see all of that battle it out in stunning 2D. And for Jason's part, we see his general flaw of going off alone, but we also see it developed and explained. He has trauma and PTSD. He's desperately trying to hunt down the man that killed him before it can happen again. He is stuck halfway between the memories of the scared kid he used to be and the powerful man he is supposed to be. He isn't stupid, but he isn't necessarily thinking. BUT he eventually does ask Dick for help. He overcomes that inherent desire to block everyone out and go it alone in order to ask for help, because he isn't alone.

They have flaws and complicated histories and the authors didn't slap a bright band-aid on that. The critical difference between WFA and other portrayals of Batman and his kids is the fact that they're trying to work past their individual issues in order to be a loving family for one another. No two-faced bullshit where Batman almost beats his son to death. No. They really love each other, and even if they hurt each other despite that, they're going to work through it.

I'm sure that some people get annoyed by the "soft" portrayal of the Batfam, but I personally can't call a character a "hero" if they abuse their kids. Hard line. I don't need the family to be perfect (I don't even want them to be perfect) but I need them to be trying and to love each other regardless.

They'll fall so far, but they're there to support each other when they land.

[trafficlightchild]

he’s a cool dad

[whalehouse1]

I understand they are not able to since his death is one thing that if they retcon out of comics it would invalidate so many developments of different characters since it affected people so much in universe and changed their trajectory. Also it would ruin the Robin lineage and would make it much harder to justify Tim or Steph being part of the Bat family. So Jason, as sad as it is, needs to die, and although Death in the Family tried to show him surviving being a bad thing, I don't buy any of the bad endings of if he survived, since again they keep forcing the "bad guy" retroactively on him. Then we have the other issue. Comics can't ever fully kill off characters, they will show up again if a writer likes them or the fans demand enough of them. So even if Bruce did go off and kill the Joker for killing Jason, it wouldn't be permanent, especially for the most iconic Batman villain (I do not personally care for the Joker, but if you ask for a comic villain, my money is on him or Dr. Octopus to be said.), which also invalidates Jason's ability to "control" crime the way he thinks he is, since the main crooks won't be able to ever die. The Gotham rogues are probably some of the most beloved villains (or if they're females anti-villains, again a separate issue) out of every superhero villain. None of them being killed off permanently would ever be welcomed. And then we get the "tragedy" of it. When it was just Jason dying and being revived it was horrifying since he was so different from how he was as Robin, it hurt seeing how damaged dying had hurt him and his relationships with his family members. No he and Dick didn't have the best brotherly relationship, but they did care about each other and Bruce, Alfred and him were all very loving towards each other. But now, we have Damian and Cass who had been revived with the pit as well and I'm sure there have been others, which when you keep using a phoenix down in a story, it makes the audience care less about death in the story (generally). So while I am ecstatic that all of them are alive, it makes what happened to Jason not as big of a deal as it was. And it also, like I said, cheapens the deaths of characters since there is no reason they can't just play dunk the dead in the Lazarus Pits. Bruce has fought Ra's at enough locations to know a good chunk of their locations. And this was something I forgot until @asphyxia778 reminded me of it. The writers will butcher and rewrite Jason and the other Bats in Jason stories to suit whatever morality they ascribe to. I am very anti-killing, but I do see where Jason is coming from based off the closest you can get to a "set" personality for a comic character. Dick is usually very incompetent in stories that want to feature others as to show how strong they are, but it annoys Dick fans. Tim fans get treated to either Jason trying to kill him or it never being addressed that he has had two brothers try to kill him and Tim isn't a grudge holder, and no he isn't as strong of a fighter as Jason or Damian, but he can hold his own. Also his absence in the newer Batman movies that were highlighting Damian really shows they just don't like having multiple Robins because they'd have to pick a favorite and you can't do that as a creator. But Jason gets treated often by writers as either a piece of meat (Red Hood and the Outlaws), an idiot (Urban Legends), ignorant/disrespectful (Wayne Family Adventures), trigger happy (fan works mostly, but also UtRH) and so on to justify Bruce being horrifically violent against him. I am firmly anti-abusive Bruce, and I know those stories exist and I try to ignore them as best as I can, but that type of writing and handling of it is the only way to justify Bruce's actions against Jason in UtRH and in Outlaws (I know WFA and Outlaws aren't considered "cannon" but they're officially licensed by DC and were given the go-ahead to do these types of stories), as again he is being portrayed as saving the Joker over Jason and there is nothing in the universe that can convince me Bruce would do that.

The Red Hood Problem (for me):

This is more for the comic than the show since I think the movie did a much better job at Bruce than the comic did.

Jason is now a murderer after this comic, this part is fine since he can still operate in Gotham having that be true (Cass, Jean-Paul, Damian, Tim, etc.) but the way they went about it doesn’t work for me. His resurrection has him come back, go on a frenzy and kill some of Ra’s’ men before he flees into the desert. Now where his mind is at here is debated, but if he survived the desert he must have been “sane” at one point. Or you like Lost Days and the Al Ghuls just picked him back up to train him, which that’s a different issue I have with Batman comics. He then gets back to Gotham and ruthlessly kills drug lords, pimps and other such criminals as it’s the only way to protect Gotham. This is where my first problem comes into play. Jason’s father was a criminal who died due to Two-Face and his mother (Catherine, that other woman can burn for all I care) died of a drug overdose. So him coming from that background had to be retconned so he wouldn’t go “oh extreme poverty and desperation can lead people to do things they wouldn’t consider otherwise”, but instead go to the classic, “my dad beat me so it’s okay that I became an orphan”, because then he’d have to be shown recognizing that killing people could result in leaving people behind much worse off. They try to do this in Urban Legends but Jason just seems a little off character there, especially knowing Tyler’s mom might not make it along with him just being a lack of impulse control personified. Then on top of them retconning (read gaslighting) his parents, they also keep trying to rewrite him as this super grumpy Robin who just would attack without thought. But we have the original Jason stories, he was rough around the edges, sure, but he wasn’t cruel or nasty or more violent than other Robins. And that’s what makes Red Hood so tragic, is he lost his joy and became resentful instead. He still kept his kindness in well-written stories, because he’s the same as Cass when it comes to bleeding hearts. If they can’t save someone they go full on Bruce moping mode. But nope, now we have Jason who couldn’t care less about saving people, he just wants to sow discord. And I know it was all to get the Joker out of Arkham, which just shows Jason as stupid (he isn’t but they love putting the stupid Robin label on him and Steph) since if he waited a day or two, Joker would be back on the streets. Then we get to my final issue, aside from Bruce not wanting to kill Joker but having no issue slicing Jason’s throat. It completely invalidates so much of Bruce’s decision to not kill the Joker that the hypocrisy leaks through the page and destroys any reason Jason could hold onto the “He didn’t kill because it’s his one rule” which yes is understandably frustrating for Jason but at least could give him some reason to think Bruce didn’t just value him as a body on the job. Which Bruce didn’t, Bruce, before some twats got allowed to write him, loved his children unconditionally, spent time with them and was a good father to them. This dunks on that harder than him and Dick in Infinite Crisis. It also perpetuates the Batman/Joker Optimus Prime/Megatron dynamic of “we’re made for each other to kill!!!”, which I’m fine with when it’s the Joker thinking that but not Batman. These rogues do not mean more to him than his children. He assaulted Two-Face, one of his closest friends when he attacked Dick, extremely violently might I add, but Joker gets a pass because “they’re the same you and I”? No that’s some BS right there. Also it cements the Red Hood backstory and I’m firmly anti-backstory Joker. But the actual final problem is the redemption part of his story. Writers don’t seem to do this and have him revert back to killing or he uses non-lethal rounds 😑, but it usually comes out of nowhere and it never is satisfactory. Have him keep killing and have the Bats have to put him away or actually write character growth for him in the Batman comic so it can more easily bleed over. But they won’t since edge lords sell. I absolutely love Jason and I as much as I wish you could retcon his death.

[superbattrash]

Coming off anon for once because you need to see this look at him LOOK AT HIM

He’s- he’s- he’s??????? I just love him so much 😭 he’s a dilf, he’s a softie (*starts humming I’m a bitch, I’m a lover*), he’s a good dad, he’s smart, he’s dumb, he’s the love of my life ;-;

[sweetums0kitty]

Status report: Currently crying, throwing up and screaming P1

The grounding technique is something my therapist does with me, so wild to be represented. I wanna hug him

[davidalleynethinksfast]

more of the batfam bullying dick please

[kumikoumae-archive]

I truly appreciate how old Bruce looks in WFA, he's got worry lines and wrinkles. This man absolutely looks like a dad of 6.

[batsgirll]

it’s missing them hours again

[baambastic]

[tate-lin]

I'm 100% sure Bruce knows how to tie a tie but STILL THIS IS THE FUNNIEST GODDAMN THING I'D SEEN IN A WHILE THANKS WFA 😂

Like broooooo watching them all be useful is just. So hilarious to me LMAO

As a side thought, people who take WFA seriously are so weird. Y'all realise that this is just meant to be a comedic fluff with some angst peppered in when we're least expecting it, right? Just have funnn don't worry about canon and fanon so much~

[ID: Hal Jordan in his Green Lantern uniform and looking backwards to the left at Diana]

ALS SHOUTOUT TO MY BELOVED HAL AHHHHHHH I LOVE YOU SO MUCH 💕

[ID: Damian looking serious and lowkey traumatised is hugging a befuddled Alfred round the middle as he enters Wayne Manor with his luggage]

AND AHHHHHHH DAMIAN MY BELOVED SWEETHEART YOU'RE SO CUTEEEEEE😭

[peroxideprinces]

ok but. duke bein the favorite child is basically canon have u read wayne family adventures. basically bruce gives a bunch of reasons why he can’t take his kids to galas and for everyone else it’s bc they embarrass the shit out of him. for duke it’s “no he has a test tomorrow he needs to study !!”

god wfa my beloved <333 but YEAH

[sweetums0kitty]

Screaming, crying and throwing up: part 2 DC Comics could never

He said he was wrong yall, holy shit they love eachother!!!! You can pry the idea that WFA Bruce is Battison all grown up from my cold,dead fingers.

Also in the first panel Bruce and Jason are mirroring eachother with their poses and I like how their body language is open. It’s good, also the forehead kiss! I’m dead

No thoughts, head empty Bruce loves his son and Jason loves his dad.

Peace