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spicyhamsamson · 1 year

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I am. So fucking tired of Batman being portrayed as a bad parent and a toxic person. And it’s so goddamn widespread. Fuck, it might be as bad as the whole “Superman being a kindhearted Boy Scout is boring” take.

I get it, the man’s not exactly stable, he watched his parents get murdered in front of him and spent years of his life training to fight crime dressed like a giant scary bat, of course he’s not perfect.

But to say that Bruce Wayne isn’t caring, isn’t empathetic, to call him abusive…it just misses the point of who the character is to me.

Why do you think he fights crime? Yes, part of it is because he’s bitter and sad because his parents were cruelly ripped from him as a child, and he’s lashing out against the corruption of his city. It’s arguably the focus of his earlier years. But he learns to become more than that. He learns to bring hope, a chance to be better.

Harleen Quinzel is the Joker’s right hand lady, but she’s also a victim of an abusive relationship and a woman with a surprisingly strong moral compass and a love for animals, and wants to get better. That’s why we see time and time again that he has a noticeable soft spot for her, because he knows that she’s a good person at her core.

Harvey Dent is a man who will decide someone’s fate on a coin toss(and a pretty inaccurate depiction of DID), but he’s also Bruce’s close friend who clearly needs help learning to live with his condition, rather than try to get rid of it, and someone who he still goes out of his way to visit, even after everything, because he recognizes he’s not just a criminal with a weird gimmick, he’s a man who is struggling with a condition that he’s mishandled his whole life.

Victor Fries is a cold, emotionless man who will callously discard allies and blame them for being careless, but he’s also a man who’s either lashing out because he had the love of his life taken from him, or just desperate to make sure she isn’t taken from him, and is willing to do anything just to guarantee her survival. Of course Batman would understand, his whole life was defined by having people he loved taken away from him.

Even the Joker, arguably one of the most morally bankrupt characters in all of fiction, is someone that Batman has offered a chance to. After the guy shoots the daughter of his friend, a girl he cared for like she was his own kid, and paralyzes her from the waist down, he tells the Joker that he doesn’t want to hurt him. He wants to get him help. He looks at this monster who has taken countless lives and says “You don’t have to be alone.”

For fuck’s sake, he sat with Joe Chill in his last moments so that he wouldn’t be alone. Joe Chill, the man who murdered his parents, who took so much from him, the person responsible for all of the misery and suffering he’s gone through. And he sits with the man to comfort him while dies. Do you know how much emotional intelligence and maturity that must take? To comfort someone who arguably ruined your life?

And you’re gonna tell me the man who did that would abuse his kids?

That he’d hold up the young man whose death was his greatest failure, the boy he grieved, and say this?

That he’d look his goddamn son in the eyes and say this to him?

Why the FUCK do you think he took in Dick Grayson in the first place? It wasn’t because he saw the kid and thought “Ah. A potential soldier.”, it was because he saw a boy experiencing the same heartbreaking loss he had so many years ago, and wanted to make sure he didn’t end up as bitter and miserable as he was.

Why do you think he smiled when Tim Drake presented him a broken watch for Father’s Day? Because he was just happy to see the boy alive and safe.

DAMIAN LITERALLY POINTED AT A COW AND SAID “I’m keeping her. She’s Bat-Cow.” AND BRUCE JUST WENT WITH IT. DIDN’T EVEN NEED TO ARGUE WHY BRUCE SHOULD LET HIM KEEP HER. HE SAID “this cow is my pet now” AND BRUCE SAID “aight, bet”.

The thing about Batman is that he wants to make sure nobody else ends up feeling the way he does. That’s not just about stopping a mugger so a boy’s parents aren’t gunned down. It’s about giving his loved ones the support and care that he couldn’t have, because it was taken from him. It’s about comforting someone who just went through a traumatic experience and letting them know that they’re going to be okay. It’s about going to someone locked away in a cell who thinks that they’re a lost cause and a burden to society and telling them that he wants to help them get better. It’s about EMPATHY and COMPASSION.

That’s what makes him a HERO. He’s meant to inspire us, to show us that we can have that same empathy for others around us, that we can turn our suffering into hope for a better future.

I just wish more people at DC would start recognizing that. But I might as well follow that example myself. Maybe through this struggle of having to see this hero mistreat the people around him and act like a grade-A jackass, people will start to recognize that missing compassion, and slowly but surely, it might come back. After all, what is this post, if not trying to bring attention to the matter in the hopes of fixing it?

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batmancurated · 4 months

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the batman adventures holiday special - ‘white christmas’ by paul dini & glen murakami

#the batman adventures #batman the animated series #batman #bruce wayne #dc comics #batman comics

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snuize · 8 months

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Why'd no one tell me there were batman adventure pin ups??

#batman #dc #dc comics #joker #the riddler #superman #the penguin #killer croc #mr freeze #two face #clayface #harley quinn #robin #btas #batman the animated series #batman adventures #the batman adventures #comics

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arklayasylum · 26 days

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— harleen quinzel icons

⤷ from the batman adventures: mad love, 1994

#dc #harley quinn #harleen quinzel #dc universe #dc comics #harley quinn comics #harley quinn icons #dc icons #the batman adventures #mad love #the batman adventures: mad love

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kstarlitchaotics · 4 months

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Bruce here being the little Drama being that he is and whose fault is that Bruce lol

#dc #batman #bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth #the batman adventures #the batman adventures 4 #dc comics #90s comics #batman comics #dc fandome

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pageofqueens · 4 months

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#dc comics #happy holidays #poison Ivy #harley quinn #batman tas #batman the animated series #the batman adventures #batman adventures #harleen quinzel #pamela isley

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balu8 · 7 months

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The Batman Adventures #9: The Little Red Book

by Kelley Puckett; Mike Parobeck; Rick Burchett; Rick Taylor and Tim Harkins

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#dc comics #the batman adventures #Mike Parobeck #Rick Burchett #Rick Taylor #Tim Harkins #Kelley Puckett #comic book

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holy-shit-comics · 1 year

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#the batman adventures #batman adventures #batman the animated series #joker #the joker #dc comics #dc #comics #comic books #batman

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rassilon-imprimatur · 1 year

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The Dark Knight Returns (Miller/Varley/Janson/Costanza)

The Batman Adventures # 3 (Puckett/Templeton/Burchett/Taylor/Harkins)

Super Powers (Scioli)

#Joker #Batman #Frank Miller #Lynn Varley #Klaus Janson #The Batman Adventures #Kelley Puckett #Ty Templeton #Rick Burchett #Tom Scioli #The Dark Knight Returns #etc etc etc

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johnvenus · 1 year

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Happy Holidays from the Bat Fam!

Art by Tim Levins (link to IG)

#batman #Bruce Wayne #Nightwing #dick grayson #batgirl #barbara gordon #robin #tim drake #batman the animated series #batman: tas #the new batman adventures #tnba #the batman adventures #batman gotham adventures #tim levins #artist appreciation

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maniacwatchestheworld · 1 year

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Reading The Batman Adventures is so funny to me because like... Dr. Langstrom is ALWAYS having a bad time! Apparently ever since that first time he turned himself into a giant bat and grew to regret it, every other biologist in Gotham immediately decided "fuck this guy in particular!" and has made it their life's mission to torment him and make his life miserable!

Poor Kirk. He just wants to be left alone to his test tubes, but people keep making people turn into bat-people!

#the batman adventures #batman #kirk langstrom #manbat #man bat #batman the animated series

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ultrameganicolaokay · 1 year

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The Batman Adventures Omnibus by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm, Ty Templeton, Kelley Puckett and more. Cover by Templeton. Out in September.

"Debuting in 1992, Batman: The Animated Series achieved a near-impossible feat by integrating the dark and mature themes of the Tim Burton Batman films into a kid-friendly cartoon show. This massive omnibus collects the entire comics run of the animated Dark Knight from The Batman Adventures #1-36, The Batman Adventures Annual #1-2, The Batman Adventures Holiday Special #1, a story from Batman Black & White #1, The Batman Adventures: Mad Love #1, and for the first time ever, the never-before-reprinted comic book adaptation of the animated feature film Batman: Mask of the Phantasm!"

#the batman adventures omnibus #the batman adventures #btas #batman the animated series #batman #dc comics #paul dini #bruce timm #ty templeton #kelley puckett #dc omnibus #comics #collected edition #books

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snuize · 7 months

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I would like to make everyone aware of catboy batman

For context: he loses his memory making him basically 7 years old again and of course catwoman tricks him into thinking they are crime fighting partners

#batman #dc #dc comics #comics #batman comics #the batman adventures #34-36 #bruce wayne #alfred pennyworth #robin #dick grayson #batfam #batfamily #bat family #big fan of his yahoo

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arklayasylum · 27 days

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— harley quinn icons