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#Ulysses Armstrong
timdrakequotes · 10 months
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Ulysses: The Batman’s little adjutant…
Robin: Who’re you calling little, shorty?
--Tim Drake with Ulysses Armstrong (Robin #36 – War Toy Story)
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baambastic · 4 months
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I think an overlooked aspect of potential BatFam stuff is how, because Tim had his own rogues gallery, a lot of those guys would probably carry that beef on with Damian. Sort of a sins-of-the-father situation, or sins of the predecessor in this case.
King Snake, the Baffler, Jaeger, Steeljacket, Michael Lasky AKA Dodge, Scarab, Charaxes, Detectives Cavallo and Wise, Electrocutioner, the General, etc.
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whalehouse1 · 1 year
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Duke, to Damian: Yeah our class got a new student today. Ulysses Armstrong. Just got out of juvie a few days ago. Glad they’re giving him a second chance.
Tim can be heard screaming through the mansion.
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communistchilchuck · 1 year
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fancyfade · 2 years
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ok so tim faking an injury did have a use, just a use he didn't anticipate.
he didn't throw vicki vale off the trail (and she wound up finding about bruce being batman anyway), which is the entire purpose he did it.
but ulysses was hunting down potential red robin candidates and killing them (Tim had no clue this was going on) and decided not to go after tim when he faked his injury
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arkhamknightd · 1 month
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While Tim isn’t exactly the most interesting Robin I think it’s notable that out of all the protégés he comfortably has the best Rogue’s Gallery and it Carrie’s him a long way. Barb has Killer Moth, and formerly the Cavalier I guess, and Damien has his family but all of them are mostly Bruce’s villains. And everyone has rivals in Bruce’s rogue’s gallery but those connections never stick. Tim’s got Anarky, King Snake, and the General as pretty much exclusively his nemeses, and he’s got a great dynamic with all of them, like Lonnie, Dorrance, and Ulysses are all full fledged rogues with history, and most of that history is up against Tim. Steph is the only competition, but Cluemaster is ontologically pathetic by design and it’s tougher to have him be a recurring threat yknow. I think it’s worth putting energy into, because otherwise you end up with Dick’s most recurring foes being Blockbuster and Double Dare, I like Blockbuster and Double Dare more than most, but if they’re your arch-villains then something is wrong.
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mountainsideturnip · 4 months
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simplegenius042 · 3 months
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The True Sinners & The House Always Wins?
Ask and you shall receive @carlosoliveiraa!
The House Always Wins is a Fallout New Vegas fic and part of my Fallout series A Radioactive Calamity of Love, Bombs & Gore. Here's what I have so far... It takes place a few years after the events of The Waters Of Life Flow (the FO3 fic), and half-human/half-dimensional creature hybrid siblings Ortega "Ore" Brantley and Marissa "Ress" Bishop have been tipped off about atypical activities happening in the Mojave, not dissimilar from the Occult's activities their despicable father, Arcane Urias, lead in the Capital Wasteland and California. Seeing this as an opportunity to put a stop to the Occult and avenge their friends and Urias' victims. However, this is put on hold when they encounter a securitron with a cowboy's face dragging an unconscious Courier through the scorching desert. With no place better to start searching for clues, they help get the Courier, a veteran Wasteland woman named Ryder, to Goodsprings.
Now I don't have any snippets prepared for you, but I can share that Ress and Ore split off to cover more ground; Ore will accompany Ryder to track down Benny, retrieve the Platinum Chip, speak with Mr House, get wrapped up in dealing with the Legion, and win Hoover Dam for House (plus attain any companions along the way) while Ress goes off to track down the Occult by doing the thing she loves most; intimidating the shit out of the locals in the communities she visits, killing people she doesn't like the faces of, bullying the elderly, get wrapped up in doing the NCR's bidding, almost die, then working alongside Yes Man for an Independent Vegas (plus pressuring any companions she meets into following her). All the while Urias second-in-command, Aggravor, chills in the Divide while coordinating efforts to place a warhead into the dam. If only the pesky courier with the mask and long speeches of "something, something, bull, bear" would let him get the location of the remote that originally set off the Divide.
Now The True Sinners is a FC5 fic where it takes place in an alternative setting of Far Cry The Silver Chronicles where Silva Omar's grief still remained long enough to dissuade her from becoming a deputy of the Hope County Sheriff's Department. Without a "muse", especially one chosen by the Voice itself, the Seals can't be opened, and the Collapse can't occur, and the Voice is livid that its muse has decided to opt out. Instead of wasting time in choosing another poor sap (especially since it has history with this one), the Voice instead just re-contextualizes the muse's purpose to Joseph, leading to the Seed Family kidnapping Silva in the dead of night so she can be present for the arrest and still break the First Seal (by technicality). Silva has to balance helping the Resistance from the inside and getting into the Seeds' good graces without sacrificing her morals and values in the process. In the meantime, Silva's (personal? family?) doctor, Kamski Neon, ends up helping to lead the Resistance to rescue the only other person he knew from the Archipelagos, and while great at organization and treating wounds, he is not very popular amongst the locals. Case in point, the snippet below:
Kamski entered the bar, moving ahead to the nearest stool, leaving Armstrong to her own devices outside. He was not unaware of the gazes that were set on him, eyes watching as he steadily sat himself in front of the bar's counter.
Like buitres, Kamski couldn't help but compare the locals to the scavengers. He disliked the bird, more than the eagles that dived at him when he took Silva's invitation into the county, but he understood their importance, despite the little pragmatism they held.
He brought a flask out of his satchel, unlatching the lid to take a swig. He took another swig as soon as he spotted the Pastor making his way toward him.
"Why?"
Kamski lazily glanced to Jeffries, spotting Fairgrave leaning against the wall next to the stairway, watching the confrontation like most of her patrons.
The Good Doctor sighed, scratching at his sideburns, the red in his hair slowly on it's way to becoming white, and asked his own question, "What is the meaning behind this "why", Pastor?"
Kamski took another swig, but found no bitterness reaching his tongue. Upon further inspecting the flask, shaking it about with no signature swish nor swirl, Kamski was disappointed that he'd be dealing with this conversation on a sober mind.
Jeffries took a breath, but his frustration made its way to the tone of his voice, "Why did you kill that man?"
Kamski raised a brow at the Pastor, "You mean the Peggie?"
"A former Peggie. A defector. One who would have exchanged information on John's supply chains, coordination of future attacks, and his next baptisms," Jeffries emphasized, "And you executed him."
Kamski blinked at the Pastor, giving a shrug, "Your point?"
As the old doctor shifted to slide off the stool, Jeffries grasped his shoulder, grounding out his next words with a solemner tone, "Even if it meant losing information regarding Silva's current captivity."
Kamski growled at him, shoving the arm off his shoulder, "I didn't just kill the Peggie. I got information out of him before I gave him what he deserved. It would have been counterproductive to not retrieve whatever information he held, just as it would have been for going through with the escort."
He pulled out a note and slammed it onto the counter.
"Here's all he had. None of it included Silva, by name nor description," Kamski stated.
Kamski made to move but Jeffries stated, "You still killed a man who wanted to change. A way out."
The Good Doctor scoffed, shaking his head at the Pastor's words. He doesn't understand. None of them would. These peggies don't get the right to attempt a vain ploy to change. Not after all they've done. All they do nothing about. It just makes it easier for them to stab us in the back.
He dragged his hand over his face, a fingers rubbing against the scar that crosses the ridge of his nose. His thumb traced the the cut that crossed his bottom lip down to his chin, a reminder that fueled his next response.
"Then he should have never listened to the words of that Profeta," Kamski replied, making his way towards the exit of the bar, ignoring the deep sigh behind him.
"Armstrong," Kamski greeted the sharpshooter at the porch, who only gave a grunt in acknowledgement as she tended to her rifle, "You know where the Jailhouse is?"
Armstrong stopped wiping the barrel, looking up to the doctor, "My pops drove past it sometimes when he was running errands for some old war friends of his. Hard to miss."
"Excellent," Kamski smirked, turning towards the sedan limousine he stole, "Because I'm going to need directions."
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thehandwixard · 7 months
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god. im like such a bitch about it for understandable reasons i think but its god's worst trick on me that two of the post-reboot comics ive genuinely loved (new super-man and we are robin) either have their team devalued and never used (JLC YOU WILL ALWAYS BE FAMOUS. NEVER FORGET DRAGONSON) or be mercilessly broken apart and only used again as strawmen to represent people being shitty about duke as the signal. and they use riko (ok fine she makes sense) and DAX?? conflict avoidant motherfucker nerd boy dax?? to do this. and retcon that the we are robin youth movement is in trouble again post-hoc for whatever reason to do this. their new costumes fucking suck. swagever
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mzminola · 2 years
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Sad bit from reading comics out of order today: knew from Red Robin that Armstrong’s bombs wind up killing his two siblings because they’re in the wrong place at the wrong time, and that Tim blames himself for this.
Getting to Robin 1993 and discovering that those sibs helped Tim deal with Armstrong multiple times, including rescuing Tim when Armstrong dropped him in an actual lion pit. Like geez, no wonder Tim’s wrecked about their deaths.
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sporkberries · 1 year
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Tim Drake and Red robin
 Aka the whole identity problem.
So there’s a lot of discussion over Tim and what identity he is going to take up- this is by no means recent, it's been going on for over a decade. So for a lot of people who are newer to comics I want to explain why Red Robin isn’t really an option as a permanent identity for Tim, and what Red Robin means to Tim personally
So first off, for expositions sake, Tim didn’t create Red Robin. The costume nor the identity.  It originated in the Kingdom Come Storyline and belonged to Dick Grayson
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(Dick Grayson, Earth-22) Honestly i don’t want to get into the can of worms of Kingdom Come and it’s not that important to my point so just know this is where Red Robin comes from.
Okay now the first appearance of Red Robin in Main Continuity was in Countdown to Final Crisis where the mantle was taken by * drum roll*
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Countdown #14 Jason Todd!! This is also not very important because Jason mainly does multiverse shenanigans that isnt important to my overall point. I just find it very funny that Jason was Red Robin before Tim. Also he kills an alternate universe version of the joker- Good for him!
Now into the stuff that actually affects Tim and why he chooses to don the Red Robin Mantle in the first place-towards the end of Tim’s robin run. Where we see Red Robin stalking Tim around Gotham.
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Red Robin in Robin(1993) #177 This Red Robin ends up being Ulysses Armstrong( a gang leader and recurring baddie from Tim’s Robin run) and to say the least he does some not very nice things!! Said things including luring Tim into a warehouse and blowing him up(what is up with robins and warehouses seriously?) anyways looking good tim!
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Robin(1993) #181
After this injury Tim wears the Red Robin cowl to hide/protect his identity while he takes care of Ulysses. And in the ensuing fight a bunch of children get blow up- it’s great and definitely good for our protagonists declining mental health, Now for a bit more exposition after this incident Tim helps break Jason out of prison who then dons a cringe batman suit and kills a shit ton of people- the infamous Battle For The Cowl storylines ensues. With Dick Grayson taking the mantle of Batman and Damian Wayne being gifted the Robin mantle. Though Dick wasn’t wrong to do this(which is a whole other thing to argue about) it upset Tim and he needed a new costume to wear on his quest to bring Bruce back. He chooses Red Robin, as it’s an identity he considers dirty and disconnected from both his previous titles and the rest of his family.
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Red Robin(2009) #1
Tim is at a VERY dark place in his life during the Red Robin run. A lot of fanon characterizes Tim as pretty depressed and sad and almost all of that stems from this period of time exclusively- and it makes sense. Tim underwent a series of very serious and brutal losses under a pretty short period of time( Steph[briefly],his dad, Conner, Bart, and Bruce all dying). And though pretty much everyone was right to doubt him about the whole Bruce being alive thing that rejection definitely didn’t help things. For Tim Red Robin offers a sort of outlet he doesn’t have to be Tim he doesn’t have to necessarily be a good person he just needs to do what needs to be done( I’d argue for the beginning of Red Robin that’s his main philosophy)
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Red Robin(2009) #2
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Red Robin(2009) #4
In Adventure Comics(2009) #3 Tim reunites with Conner while he’s in Paris, where in Conner says this
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Conner knows Tim better than anyone, keep that word Punishment in mind. As it comes back up again in** Red Robin(2009) #9**
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And okay this being brought up again is a joke but i still think its true. Tim IS punishing himself. He hates he situation he’s in he hates that he can’t save anyone he hates that he keeps making the wrong decisions(having the children be near the bombs, helping Jason get out of prison, and basically everything that’s happened in Red Robin as well) Tim IS a good person and he has a very strong moral compass- so betraying any aspect of his conscience- pretending to be someone he’s not HURTS him.
At the end of Red Robin(2009) Tim tries to kill Captain Boomerang, the man who killed his father( see: identity crisis) , or he very nearly tries to anyways. He wants to kill him, HE IS ABOUT TO KILL HIM. but he doesn’t.
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Red Robin(2009) #26
Tim is at a crossroads. He’s hurting but he still WANTS to be good. He ends up doing the right thing but is that what Tim wants? Tim is changing he’s not Robin anymore he’s becoming his own person his own individual.
So you may ask, what happens after this? Does Tim figure out who he wants to be? Does he make a decision? HAHA silly you!! NO!! Dc resets the whole universe, retcons Tim’s backstory erases all his character development then un-retcons his backstory etc etc leaving Tim Drake in character limbo for essentially a DECADE.
So all this backstory withstanding why do I think Red Robin is a bad choice for Tim as an identity(discounting the fact he’s not even RR anymore but just robin which is stupid and also dumb) ? Well Red Robin was never MEANT to be permanent- Red Robin was a temporary means to end, a tool to get to his destination. I see Red Robin as a chrysalis of sorts. Tim as Robin was the caterpillar, red robin was the chrysalis and his next identity would be who he becomes, or rather who he DECIDES to be. Having Red Robin as Tim’s main identity is a disservice to his character but also doesn’t allow him to complete his arc. Tim doesn’t have an identity he chose and wanted for himself; he hasn't even moved on from ROBIN. In order to develop as a character Tim NEEDS to discover an identity for himself, abandoning the robin mantle entirely.
I think there is hope, a lot of Tim’s content since and including Urban Legends have been largely about him discovering himself and searching for his identity. Let’s just hope DC actually follows through.
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timdrakequotes · 1 year
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‘Okay. You’re either delusional or suicidal. Why else would you call yourself Red Robin?’
--Tim Drake to Ulysses Armstrong (Robin #180 – Search for a Hero Part 4: Gray Knights)
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zahri-melitor · 9 months
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Lost the original post, but someone was talking about Tim mostly just having the same gallery of Rogues as the rest of the Bats, and that’s not actually true. Our lad had over 200 issues of solo comic during post-Crisis, he definitely has some Rogues that are his more than anyone else’s!
King Snake (Edmund Dorrance). Dorrance is 100% specifically one of Tim’s villains. If in modern comics any writers decided to resurrect him and start using him again I would be delighted, because he’s such a painful white guy who thinks he’s all that and better than the Hong Kong-based gang he runs. He’s also ‘died’ multiple times and just because he appeared in Blackest Night doesn’t mean he’s still dead now, we’ve had two universe reboots since then!
Lynx (and the rest of the Ghost Dragons). Both Lynx I and Lynx II are also Tim’s foes, though he’s happy to share them with Cass if she also wants to get some kicks in. Lynx I also has died twice (both times due to Cass) because a writer couldn’t be bothered to check the canon bible while writing.
Ulysses Armstrong. The General mostly exists to be an absolute pain and cause Tim angst. Also I’ll never forgive them for killing off Matthew and Hillary Armstrong, who helped Tim out from their very first appearances.
Anarky/Lonnie Machin. Tim’s shadow half. They’ve been feuding since 1990 and there’s no sign they plan to stop (even when they’re working together).
Ratcatcher is arguably more Tim’s villain than Bruce’s, and nobody else really deals with him.
The Sk8er Bois. Bring them (and Tim’s extremely dangerous skateboard) back!
Johnny Warlock. Wow do I ever hate Johnny, and he’s super annoying, but he’s definitely in Tim’s gallery.
The obvious one: Lady Shiva. She’s not Tim’s exclusively but only Cass has a closer connection in the Batfam and Tim’s connection is arguably closer than Bruce’s.
Plus of the more standard Bat Rogue collection:
Arthur Brown particularly dislikes Tim (alongside the obvious pick that he’s part of Steph’s gallery)
Maxie Zeus has mostly only tangled with Tim out of people who aren’t Bruce.
Arguably Tim’s the main Robin to deal with Mad Hatter too.
Ventriloquist is again a Tim-as-Robin era villain (mostly 1, I don’t think 2 spent much time near any Robin)
There’s probably some correlation between Bane’s position among the Rogues and Tim to make, because of how their timelines cross, but equally I highly dislike Bane so I’m not going to bother sketching it out.
Riddler has a soft spot for Tim.
So does Selina, whose first reluctant team up with that kid was during the original Clench.
Can’t forget Jean-Paul Valley (while hallucinating St Dumas)
And that’s just off the top of my head, there’s definitely others with more than a single storyline.
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companion-showdown · 8 months
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Hottest Companion Nominations are Now Open!
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communistchilchuck · 2 years
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heartbreaking: writer you have neutral to negative opinions about because youve only read one of his comics but have heard about his other works (fabian nicieza) made a point. not saying it was great. or bad at all. just… a point. going to add onto this later but you just get the panels for now
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kiragecko · 8 months
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Who’s Tim’s nemesis?
There are characters that have a clear nemesis. I don't think Tim is one of them. But some possibilities:
King Snake/Sir Edmund Dorrance - tangled with Tim while he was still in training to become Robin, and was set up as one of Tim's most important villains for years. He's one of the main reasons Tim hates Paris. But he died in 2004 and hasn't really mattered since. Also, he mostly came into conflict with Tim through happenstance - even his one period of revenge eventually switched focus to Lady Shiva.
Ra's al Ghul - was only really focused on Tim after everyone in Tim's life started dying, but the Red Robin series definitely made a strong impression. Wants Tim as his right hand man/heir/ ... whatever would be fun to manipulate him into becoming.
The General/Anarky/Ulysses Hadrian Armstrong - this little monster and spoiled brat has the longevity to count as Tim's nemesis, but I'm not sure he ever QUITE separates himself from the pack. Tim hates him. He's caused Tim a moderate amount of trauma (burn scars across his neck and scalp, his first taste of the Red Robin costume, and a bunch of guilt over getting Ulysses's siblings killed). He's also given Tim a valuable asset (Lonnie Machin, the first Anarky). But he's a petty little brat and 'nemesis' is too grand of a title for him.
Damian or Jason - no. They really aren't. Nothing they're upset about is actually about Tim.
The Concepts of Neglect and Adultification - strong possibility. Boy's so in his head that it makes sense for his greatest foe to be in there with him.
Can y'all think of other possibilities? I admit that my knowledge of villains isn't very deep.
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