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thelesbianthespianposts · 3 months

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Rating superhero/villain dynamics on how gay they are

Batman/Joker:

do i even have to say it. Usually they have a pretty one sided thing with Joker being high-key obsessed with him but Batman has no interest in that at all. Way overhyped imo. bonus points for the Lego Batman Movie 7/10

Superman/Lex Luthor

despite many factors and the fact they have a son together, there’s not a lot of tension. Plus Lex gives major homophobic vibes, (he’d make pride lexcorp merch while backing don’t say gay bills)

2/10 for kon

Green Lantern(Hal Jordan)/Sinestro

oh my god. They have the whole friends to enemies thing that you could swap for lovers to enemies so easily. The worst exes you’ve ever seen. I think they’re actually a couple in some comics (prolly an AU). That one episode of DC Super Hero Girls (the new one) where Hal fights both Sinestro and Carol and they’re said to be on the same level. good shit

10/10

Wonder Woman/Cheetah

it depends on the comic. Sometimes they’re very flirty and suggestive and other times they’re tearing each other’s clothes off bc the male author thought it’d be hot. I think that goes for a lot of woman/woman dynamics in comics tho. I honestly don’t get sometimes why they’re fighting bc they seem to have a lot in common.

6/10 they should just date

Dick Grayson/Slade Wilson

Jesus Christ guys wtf are y’all doing. They have the funniest dynamic in all of DC comics. Old ass ‘nam vet picks fight with 15 year old who he blames his son’s death on. While I adore the 2003 teen titans show, they got the dynamic so wrong. Their dynamic only becomes homoerotic once Dick is an adult. They have profound respect for each other but they also fucking hate each other. They’re enemies, they’re friends, they’re co-parents, they’re the least mentally stable people you’ve even seen.

20/10 unparalleled

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upnorthtrips · 6 months

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dairy-farmer · 9 months

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Okay but a magical toy that pulls a green lantern "needs it most" routine? BRILLIANT. The chaos! The secrets! The PINING. And you KNOW I am, as always, trying to convert people to my Civilian!Tim Stan club~! It always causes so much more CHAOS when he's off the Bat Leash! So IMAGINE it:

Some uppity magic user. Trying to Make It In Gotham(tm). Realizing the HARD way that Bat-boot to the face is how Batman says hello. Panic flailing and shooting off every spell he knows. Landing none.

Throws THAT spell. The one he learned for his girlfriend but then she dumped him and he never got to use it. (Look he's PANICKING, okay?!) But he ALSO smashes it together with... something? He's not sure. He's trying and failing to dodge.

It HITS something.

Tim, on a roof. Trips over a bit of piping he doesn't see and gets hit. Oh no! But? Huh. He's fine? Sweet. Back to pictures then. The night concludes. But WAIT! This is an AU! Tim is a civilian! So who's ROBIN? Jason! Stressed as hell. B is being unreasonable and Damian's a Lil [redacted]. But what is THIS? Upon his bed? A fleshlight?

Real cute guys. Probably Dick's way of telling him to calm down. Or some creepy olive branch from B. Who knows. But he checks it out. And it feels AMAZING. Life like. He honestly gets engrossed, playing with it, exploring it. Wondering how it works. It even gets WET! It's a tight fit but he works it down onto to himself. Works loose and squelching. Oozing with he's lost COUNT of how many loads. It's the BEST.

It's the first night of Timmy's new night issues. Sometimes even DAY issues. Every night it's someone different. Some are super human fast. Some are so big he feels impaled. Sometimes they clearly aren't human. They slide in to him like they have every right to use him for their pleasure. To take and ram and fill him up then LEAVE. Oozing seed and twitching on the floor or on his bed or at school. Whenever THEY decide. And he has to hide it. Be the respectable Drake heir.

And the Cape community? Losing their damn minds! There is a toy. SOMEWHERE. THEIR toy, as far as they're concerned, and they CANT FIND IT. They NEED it back. It's the best stress relief of their LIFE. Someone TOOK it.

And of course, after the pounding of a life time by a Kryptonian. That poor stuffed hole flickers away to the next horny soul. Constantine. Who's like. "The fuck. This is attached to someone." He respectfully, caps it up, and brings it in. Cue mass glaring and cold sweating. What'cha got there john?

Well, some poor soul is LITERALLY getting fucked over... *continues reporting*

*dots connect in various heads*

Hysteria. What would their mother's say. Not even a drink first! They have SO many make up orgasms to give somebody. They have to find them! Before anyone ELSE! They are the ONLY one who would treat that pus- I mean, PERSON right!

And Tim? Prayers answered. The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak, man. You think he can keep up with Earth's Finest? Let him die a little, okay?? Just... just pass out for a bit. Festive little coma. Oww his puss. Brutes. All of them brutes. When he finds out, he gonna demand to be ROMANCED. Get the GUCCI fan merch. Seduced! THE MOST pillow of pillow princesses! D:< Justice for Tim puss!

tim's poor pussy 🥺🥺🥺 tim's little baby no-longer-a-virgin puss has been put through the wringer, always getting fondled, fingered, licked, or fucked. he hasn't gotten a break longer than a few hours since it began. sometimes the cocks inside him keep going even after tim can feel their thick cum sitting inside him. the worst part about the toy (or rather the best part of it for people using it) is that all the cum released into it is absolutely pressed into tim.

tim spends most of his days getting sloppily wet and having cum pumped into him. by the time that it reaches constantine and they're able to reverse engineer both the magician and find the "victim" in all of this- tim is already several weeks pregnant 😱. all the heroes who have been fucking tim all have to come to terms with the fact that they MAY have knocked up this civilian👀👀👀

#anonymous #asks #answered asks

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bruciemilf · 1 year

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The thought has been hunting me for a while. imagine Bruce/fem!Bruce gets de-aged for some reason or another while batkids are the same age. So not to let weird rumors start and keep the cover, young Bruce/fem!Bruce updates the Brucie persona by becoming a popstar.

For some reason, I have been obsessed with fem!Bruce releasing Ariana’s songs. Into you MV gives me major young ghostmaker and bruce vibes, and just imagine God is a woman by fem!Bruce or playboy vibes and innuendoes of side by side.

Batkids and JL are shocked and bewildered, while Alfred fully supports her shenanigans by sewing the costumes and making her wigs!! He is a theater man after all, who is extremely happy to be making sparkly dresses and blonde wigs instead of those annoying bat costumes.

Considering how big she could become, I think it could make for some funny scenes like green lanterns returning to Earth and hearing about spooky being a popstar. Or Talía and other love interests buying out merch and going/escaping from Arkham to concerts. Just Damian being shocked and malfunctioning because of his regal mother dressed out in teenage t-shirts and screaming songs inspired by their relationship at the top of her lungs… the best could be Thank U next featuring batkids with funny cameos throughout the MV.

,,, I love how your brain works and I fear it I'm equal measure

#asks #in her Britney meltdown era

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chocolateteapotsvis · 9 months

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Let's talk about Knight Terrors! But only the Flash (and a little of the Green Lantern) one shot, because we're here for the Halbarry content.

Spoilers for Knight Terrors: The Flash #1, and some discussion of the event in general. And also warnings for some minor gore (Hal's not looking so hot, as you know if you saw the pages) and spoilers from Final Night (from 1996, so you probably know them already)

Also, from the snippet about the Hal/Barry team up in Green Lantern #4 announcement, I don't think this is meant to tie in with that, but I guess we'll see when the issue comes out!

So! Context! The basic idea of the event is that a villain has trapped everyone in their own personal nightmares, tailor made from their deepest fears. Barry's story focuses around him trying to help an injured Kid Flash Wally, while slowly realizing that there's something very wrong with the world he's in. He goes to the Watchtower to use the Cosmic Treadmill to go back to the moment Wally was injured, and instead is met with this:

So, I kind of love this. It's Barry's dream, and his lack of reaction to Hal's appearance makes sense in that context. The entire scene feels less nightmarish and more melancholic, and reads to me as Barry's own regret about not being there through Parallax and Final Night (or just in general). But despite just traveling through a nightmare world that made him question his own actions and acknowledging their mortality, Barry trusts that they'll have more time to address his regrets without blame or resentment.

And then, immediately after Hal comments how he doesn't know when to let things go, he helps Barry go back in time. Hal trusts Barry's judgement, and Barry knows he can count on that, even when everything else in the world is wrong.

And then there's all the little details, like Hal's Boomer vocab calling back to their Silver Age adventures, Barry recognizing Hal by his signature boring constructs, how Barry doesn't think twice about asking for Hal's help despite his condition and Hal being able to make something as incredibly complex as a working Cosmic Treadmill no problem, how Barry only asks everyone else for information until he finds Hal...

Also, I can't help but wondering if Hal's "Didn't anyone tell you what happened?" is a callback to the League not bothering to tell Hal when Barry died. Between that and Hal's comment about no one coming to visit him, I wonder how Barry feels about how the rest of the League treats Hal.

(Though it's pretty funny, that, from a straight reading of the scene, you could come away thinking Barry's sorry that Hal's face no longer features on League merch)

Honestly, I'd forgotten about the "attacked by your fears" part until writing this up, but it works for Barry on that level too: failing the people closest to him in a world that doesn't make sense. The introduction of the story was how Barry grounds himself in facts and the people around him, and Barry's continued struggle even as those things are ripped away (sometimes by his own doing) was really heartening, despite the nightmare and the cliffhanger.

Even outside the Halbarry moments, Knight Terrors: The Flash is a solid stand alone. I loved Barry's introspection about how he sees the world and the Speed Force, and his relationship with Iris. The introduction of the dream stuff works well even if you're not familiar with the larger event with the trippy visuals and the little things out of place, things Barry himself starts noticing throughout the story. Definitely recommend it, though with a warning for the level of gore that you'd probably expect from these pages and knowing that it's a nightmare world.

But it's a dream sequence, which means it's really open to interpretation! If you've got another read, I'd love to hear it!

The Green Lantern one is decent too, though probably better if you go in knowing that about half the issue is about Sinestro. The overall approach addresses Lanterns having a different relationship with fear than the average superhero. I really appreciated it, especially when so many comics forget that.

#spoilers #halbarry #knight terrors #comic recommendations #knight terrors: the flash #knight terrors: green lantern #and despite my own bias #knight terrors: the joker #hal's turn to be charred like a rotisserie chicken #thanks Ceeloi for that colorful turn of phrase #totally not procrastinating my Halbarry Week stuff

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legacieszine · 2 years

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angiestown · 8 months

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more detailed descriptions of what I mean under the cut

pop culture horror: you know like hockey mask guy and pinhead and chucky and freddy krueger

non-movie horror: like gore and scary stuff, but it's not from anything specific. you wouldn't bring a 5 year old to this party

non-horror halloween movie: merch from movies that are more for all-ages. I think adams family and twilight zone would go here even though they're mostly tv shows

vintage horror: like Dracula and Frankenstein and all those movies

retro halloween: because of printing limitations, most of this stuff is just black and orange ink, sometimes maybe green or another colour as well. often has a hanna barbera look to it or a retro comic book look

kawaii: everything is very very cute and not scary even a little bit. very clean lines. think pusheen or hello kitty

cute & goofy: this is more what you'd find at michaels or walmart. kid friendly, but not sickeningly sweet. might scare a really young kid

witchy: you guys know what witchy is I think. if you don't you probably weren't going to choose it anyway

autumn focus: halloween is secondary to your pretty photos of orange leaves and wet sidewalks and cute seasonal treats

crafts: all those things you would've made as a kid. simple jack-o-lanterns and those leaf bags with pumpkin faces fall under here too I think

#halloween

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kiragecko · 9 months

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What is the dumbest thing the (NTT) Titans would admit to be talked into?

Okay, it is a new week and I am awake! This is hard because I haven't got up to many shenanigans in my life, while these guys are all adrenalin junkies.

(Like usual, I will ignore your suggested Titan lineup and do as I please ;)

Dick - Multiple times a year he is convinced to compete in a weapons-free match against Donna. He almost always loses. This isn't the dumb thing - the fights are VERY fun. No, Dick agreed to have one of these matches ON LIVE TV, for charity. The amount of sexist thugs who suddenly decided they could take him, after! The obnoxious videos from Tim of him wiping the floor with Cassie, weaponless! The obnoxious video from Tim of Bruce taking down Diana, weaponless! (Which Dick can't prove is faked!) Tim's only doing it for fun, but the stupid two-bit criminals are serious, and if Dick has to defend Donna's skill one more time he's going to have a hissy fit.

Donna - Cassie talked her into helping plan a surprise party for Tim. It was awful! She spent most of her time trying to keep Dick distracted, only to find out near the end that Tim hates surprises, so it was a 'surprise' party. Every aspect had been carefully vetted with Tim. Dick knew what was going on, and Cassie only wanted Donna to keep him distracted because she was still being petty about Damian being on the Titans. Now Dick thinks Donna's taken sides in the Damian Problem!

Wally - Currently, Wally is trying to convince everyone that it was agreeing to a playdate between the twins and Damian. A bored speedster can be talked into almost anything, though. He will, if forced, admit to trying to vibrate through the entire Earth to get to the other side. Yes, it was unbelievably stupid. Please stop talking about it.

Roy - Getting Lian the model Batcave she so desperately wanted. Especially since he recognized that Dick would never let him get away with an inaccurate one, and asked for a floorplan. They don't need this many action figures. Lian does not need an action figure of every superhero who has ever existed. It isn't an insult for his 5 year old to not have your action figure. Uncle Hal NEEDS to stop bringing her more Green Lanterns. They do not need every Green Lantern. There are hundreds of Green Lanterns. Isn't there an identity risk in giving me a figure of your civilian doctor, Dick? Please. Please, stop.

Garth - facilitating an argument between Vic and Gar the first time he met them. Why are they like that?

Raven, after you made it really clear that 'dumb' did not mean 'horrific', no matter how innocently stupid the original bad idea was - going to a anime convention while her empathy was on the fritz. She made it 4 hours, and for 15 minutes, it was the calmest anime convention that has ever existed. (She got some really cool xxxHolic and Revolutionary Girl Utena merch, though.)

Kory - joined a trivia contest. This was actually dumbness all around, as everyone forgot that trivia contests set on Earth, EVEN IF THEY'RE SPACE THEMED, are pretty Earth-centric. Humans rarely know the indigenous name for stars systems.

Vic - replaced both arms with chainsaws. He has no excuse. He had to get Joey to attach the second chainsaw and he STILL didn't recognize the inevitable problem concerning 'not having chainsaw arms at some point'.

Gar - The PSAs he recorded for COVID. He stands behind the subject matter, but the scripts and editing ...

Joey - Agreeing to paint Dick nude. If he'd done something small, and easy to conceal, everything would have been fine. Kory and Dick could have stored it somewhere private. It was a good painting. But he hadn't done something small. And it had still been in the Tower when the Titans had to make a safety broadcast. Enough had been visible to make Nightwing's public life miserable for MONTHS, and Joey feels awful.

#teen titans #new teen titans #gecko's lists

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florisa6s · 1 year

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A idea- young justice

I have a feeling that when ever one of the teams mentors get their kid angry they wear someone else's tee shirt.

Like when Batman gets robin angry he wears superman's shirt and when flash gets kid flash angry he wears green lantern shirts.

(also I can totally see Roy and Jason doing it too)

Robin: so what did he do this time?

Kf: what do you mean?

Kf who is wearing all green with a lantern ring while hugging Hal Jordan

Hal: yeah what, do you mean?

Robin: .... nothing

Arsenal: fuck dad's

Red hood: can't agree more

Red hood with a wonder women shirt and arsenal with hawkgirl merch

#dc prompt #young justice #batman #arsenal #red hood #the flash #kid flash #Robin #hal jordon

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luimagines · 1 year

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(( met the colors or was it accidentally? ))

Four and Ethan are send out to check out a small dungeon since the chain are too big and wind hiding cause he prank sky by dye his hair pink.

Ethan follow four and check what's around them as four lead hold he holds the lantern but four step on a trap making the pillars next to him glow and forcing four to split colors. Blue,green, vio and red all stand there confused yet shock green turn to see Ethan there watch the colors.

Ethan lift up the lantern while his etra scarf hands sign language them.

Ethan*sign language *: are you guys okay? This dungeon must be magic related-

Blue: how are you not freaking out?!

Green: blue! Relax we all know that this is likely going to happen anyways.

Red: but to be spilt up just like this? Four will likely be confused when if we merch back?!

The three talk/agrue as vio walk over to Ethan.

Vio: I'm vio and they are well you get it.

Ethan smile and nod as vio grab the scarf to examine it yet the three see and walk over to each have Ethan scarf to examine for themselves as Ethan shrug and mute out a chuckle as he walk the four color boys to look for answers on why this happen to them well four.

Vio: shape and feel like a scarf but isn't, it's smooth like a sword? Hmm. Ethan?

Ethan turn to vio as in yes since the colors have his scarf hands so can't sign language back but would nod or shake his head to vio questions.

"This is now a game of twenty question." Vio bit his lip in amusement. "My apologies about the others. They can be quite... the handful at times."

"No." Blue stands and points. "You're done. Out. Never come back."

Green starts giggling. "I thought that one was actually pretty good."

"Over my dead body."

Red wiggles and pats Ethan on the top of his head. "Well! This way we have more hand to look after one another if things get any worse. So let's keep going."

"Agreed." Vio gestured with his hand for the group to continue forward. "Age before Beauty."

"We're all the same age."

"But I'm better than you."

"Blue, he's just trying to rile you up. Just take it out any monsters we meet."

"Gladly."

#pinky replies #armless! ethan

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spirits-reviews · 2 years

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Rise of the Blue Beetle!

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Batman: The Brave and the Bold (season 1, episode 1)

Let’s start with the opener for the episode.

The first voice line spoken in the entire season (and series as a whole) is said by Clock King. There is nothing wrong with this, of course, as he’ll be a reoccurring villain in the series. Though it’s an odd choice to open with an originally Green Arrow villain instead of a stereotypical Batman one like the Joker.

However, this makes more sense when we pan down to Arrow and Batman in a trap together. Both look mildly inconvenienced by this. Naturally they escape the trap while bickering. However Batman has a little mental monologue? Narration for the audience? Which goes as follows;

‘Sure, Green Arrow and I have our squabbles... but that’s because we go way back. As competitive as we are, the truth is we make each other better. And though I’d never tell this to his face... there’s no one else I’d rather have at my side in a tight jam than him.’

Straight away we know that this version of Batman isn’t a loner and actually cares deeply about his friends. Actually wanting to work with them over just working with them out of necessity.

And freeze frame into the intro. So far we know that Batman is friends with Green Arrow and Clock King is a villain in this universe. Not a bad opener for a kids show.

Speaking of the intro, part of it shows heroes in single colours. The order is as follows;

Etrigan the Demon

B'Wana Beast

Doctor Fate

Deadman

Fire

Red Tornado

Guy Gardner

Plastic Man

Bronze Tiger

Blue Beetle

Kamandi

Jonah Hex

All of these characters are seen in about 6 seconds and the expectation is that we’ll see them at some point in the season. (I won’t list the intro again unless it changes.)

And from the intro we go straight to posters that I can only assume are meant to be Easter eggs for future episodes. From what I remember about watching the series as a kid, it seems likely. Either that or being a superhero doesn’t pay the bills so they all sell merch in this universe.

Back to the plot though. We’re introduced to 2 teens talking about a hypothetical situation with Batman and Superman. Then they switch channels to the news, showing that Batman and Green Arrow are stopping Clock King. Once he’s defeated, we finally learn the names of the teens.

Paco (right) and Jaime (left). Jaime asks if Paco could ever see him as a hero up on a poster and Paco’s response is pretend to scan him, ‘detecting high levels of geek.’ Jaime is obviously hurt by this, but brushes it off as him just having to sleep. Personally I feel like Paco was kinda a jerk here, but moving on.

Batman shows up and when Jaime expresses sadness at his friend not believing he could be a hero states;

‘Secret-identity thing’s a bummer, huh?’

First off Batman just said bummer. Second, he just sympathised with Jaime rather than just being there to get him for the mission. This small bit of acknowledgement sets up Batman as more of a mentoring figure, instead of just a boss-like one.

Blue Beetle!

Oh and I should also mention that there’s a meteoroid heading straight towards a space station. On the way out of the atmosphere the pair have this conversation;

Blue Beetle: This is like a dream come true. Partners with Batman.

Batman: We’re not partners. Not yet at least.

Blue Beetle: I know. You teach. I learn.

Batman (inner thoughts): I’m here to learn something too. I could’ve asked Green Lantern to help me with this mission. But I wanna find out if Jaime has what it takes to be a hero.

Once again setting Batman up as more of a mentor.

Also Batman’s regular suit can just allow him to go to space. I guess this is a kids show and and understandably follows these rules.

Anyway, Jaime loses control of the suit. Batman asks if this happens often and we get a flashback to him trying to get a cat out of a tree. The suit clearly takes control in the flashback but Jaime says no to it happening often.

The suit opens a portal to another planet and both heroes go through it. Obviously the meteorite has not been dealt with. Where are the other heroes who can fix this? I refuse to believe that all of them are busy.

So there’s these little alien blob creatures getting attacked and abducted by these guys. One alien tries to fight back but is wounded. I assume this one will be important as they’re a different colour to the rest.

These two are awfully calm given that they’re lost on another planet with currently no way home. They get surrounded by the aliens and look at that, I was right, the one that’s a completely different colour is indeed important.

This one states that the ‘great one’ has once again returned to save their people. Beetle assumes that they mean Batman, but Batman looks at a statue of an alternate Beetle while saying that they’re not talking about him. Jaime is understandably shocked.

We then learn that Kanjar Ro is the name of their attacker and he wants to harvest their bodies for fuel. Kids shows in the 2000s did not mess around. There is mention of a previous encounter where the last Blue Beetle faced a gamma gong. All shudder before referring to their people as ‘Gibble.’

I will be referring to this character as P Gibble (short for Purple Gibble) unless a different name is given.

‘All hail the blue one!’

Jaime is being very polite despite having no idea what’s going on. Batman points out that it’s probably the scarab. He backpedals on saying the last host could’ve been killed after he realised that he scared Jaime.

‘Sidekick... why do you not bow?’

While Jaime tries to explain that Batman is the bigger hero, Batman just goes with it.

Playing the part of the sidekick and even bowing to Beetle.

Beetle doesn’t like this. Thinking the plan is bad given that he can’t even work his suit fully and doesn’t think he can save them.

A child handing him a drawing makes him change his mind. Speaking of which, why does the paper look the same as earth’s? Are there the equivalent of earth trees on this planet? It looked completely made of rocks earlier.

Batman realises that the Gibbles will be needed if they are to win this fight. Beetle manages to convince them with some minor encouragement from Batman.

I would also like to point out the closing statement;

Blue Beetle: ...and, um, you know, better to die on your feet... than live on your knees.

Batman: They don’t have knees.

This got a decent laugh out of me I must admit.

And the attack begins.

Then we get to see what Kanjar Ro is doing to the Gibble people. I have to point out that what looks like a pile of Gibble corpses is actually a pile of still alive Gibbles. They’re screaming in pain so we know that they’re alive. Thanks writers. This isn’t horrifying in the least.

From that we swiftly move onto the fight. The Gibbles go to find their kidnapped friends and Kanjar Ro initiates a fight with Jaime believing him to be the original Beetle he fought.

Jaime blasts Kanjar Ro into a console. The latter yanks a blaster off one of his men and just starts firing. He almost blasts Batman but Jaime defends him. Earning a ‘way to go kid’ from Batman.

From here we get some nice stylised action shots as Kanjar Ro is seemingly defeated. However while they’re celebrating it is revealed that Kanjar Ro is still in the fight.

Jaime lets the victory go to his head, giving the Gibbles a hypothetical situation between him and Kanjar Ro. Similar to the one he gave Paco at the start of the main plot.

An explosion in the ship’s deck reveals Kanjar Ro. Batman says he should take the lead but Jaime brushes him off to rush in.

This leads to him getting struck down by the gamma gong that was mentioned earlier. Black Beetle in young justice was also defeated with the same tactic, though there was no gong used.

Everyone is defeated. Jaime is taken by Kanjar Ro while Batman and the Gibbles are left as bait for... giant space squid leeches? That’s the best description I’ve got. Honestly.

I mean look at these things. What else could I describe them as? The most concerning thing here is that someone will want to smash these things. I know.

Anyway, Batman gets an arm free and punches the leech things. P Gibble wishes that they could find the power within that Blue Beetle spoke of. Batman responds by pluging a cable into them which makes them super-charged. Making P Gibble realize the power within.

Cut back to Kanjar Ro throwing water on Jaime. Given in the next shot he’s hitting the gong to try and vibrate the scarab off his back, I can only assume Jaime passed out from the pain and was woken back up with water.

Batman gets dropped off by the Gibbles. Takes out the guards and then hits Kanjar Ro into the gong which causes the scarab to jump off Jaime’s back. The gong is then bashed into his head by Kanjar Ro.

Kanjar Ro puts on the scarab and begins to fight Batman. Meanwhile, Jaime reflects on his arrogance and spits on a lever to escape. Picking up the gong on his way out.

Using the gong, Jaime removes the scarab from Kanjar Ro. He recovers it as Kanjar Ro reaches for a blaster on his calf. P Gibble blasts him twice before he can do anything.

The episode ends with the Gibbles thanking both heroes before they return in time to stop the meteoroid. With Batman’s final words being;

Batman (internally): Of course, that’s just a fancy way of saying “That’s weird.” But half the things I encounter on this job make no sense. Take this mission. I wanted to see if the kid had hero potential. Instead, I got to see him become one.

Batman: Ready, partner?

This ends the episode on a good note. Jaime finally gets to be Batman’s partner like he wanted to be at the start.

Overall I’d rate this episode a solid 8/10

#batman the brave and the bold #jaime reyes #blue beetle #dc #batman #kanjar ro #gibbles #green arrow #clock king #review #animation #nostaliga #dc cartoons

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You seriously are judgemental of people for not liking soulless corporate shit that turned Great Darkness from Swamp Thing into Crisis Big Bad and is a way for new gen to have their big moment before fully putting them to sidelines? Come on.

that's my fucking point, it's not soulless corporate shit any more than the original crisis on infinite earths or zero hour: crisis in time were. you think those were made with no concern whatsoever for the books they might sell or the way they might rejuvenate a stagnant universe?

an indescribable boom of miniseries followed crisis, look at the ridiculous amount of new titles between '86 - '88 (longbow hunters, the demon, doctor fate, the phantom stranger, the crimson avenger, underworld, slash maraud, wild dog, blackhawk, power girl, peacemaker, etc etc without naming even half of them) and that's not even counting things like batman: year one that existed solely to establish the post-crisis origins of dc's bestsellers or any of the ongoings affected by the crisis or started as a result of it.

similarly, and take it from someone who owns every piece of zero hour promo material and has spent weeks painstakingly going through every solicitation of 1994, zero hour: crisis in time had quite literally over 80 (eighty!) tie-ins and an entire month after its finale dedicated to promoting the seven entirely new titles born from it.

and they're both generally acknowledged as some of dc's absolute heights! it's a formula that works with varying amounts of success, that's true, but you can't possibly compare stuff like dark nights: metal that's created solely for the purpose of selling merch while still framing the jl trinity as its main characters (how about bruce's entire black lantern arc for no reason whatsoever? diana using the helmet of fate? because they're mr scott snyder's specialest little perfect soldiers, right?) and playing around with violence & gore for the sake of violence & gore... to dark crisis' meticulous set up starting with infinite frontier (2021) #0-6 and slowly making its way through justice league incarnate #1-5 and beyond. you just can't.

it's idiotic to claim dark crisis is a platform for the next gen to have their big moment and nothing afterwards when it's bringing back legacy characters who haven't had the spotlight in decades -- oh, excuse me, did you forget alan scott & todd rice were main characters in infinite frontier? did you forget the jsa will be main characters in dark crisis starting with #3? how about cameron chase or cameos from forgotten 90s heroes like jared stevens/fate? or villains like hank henshaw? -- and that's counting pariah and the great darkness, who seem to be mutually poisoning each other towards this ultimate end in what's frankly some utterly compelling writing. hell, even joshua williamson talking about how he brought kyle rayner back because there were no other plans for him post-seemingly-dying-in-space in green lantern 2021 says a whole lot about the care dark crisis is handling its cast with and the genuine love for the medium going into this. you know that whole recent debate about writers who don't read or whatever it was? you can tell every single person involved in this latest crisis does read and does love comics as an art form. it's exciting! it's legitimately going back and looking at the original crisis and at zero hour in ways no modern event has dared! it's a book about legacy that actually understands its subject matter!

and you know what? even if it was all about the next gen getting their big moment, i would still welcome it because i'm sick to death of batman, superman and wonder woman and i'm sick to death of the universe revolving around them. why don't you want to see levi kamei deal with the great darkness like alec holland once had before him? why wouldn't this generation be given the same chance previous ones had?

i can see you've never once bothered to look at any of the behind the scenes discussions that have gone into dark crisis, and that's fine, but it doesn't make you any less of an idiot to come here with empty talking points everyone's passing around like a game of telephone because they saw a meme on twitter. i think dark crisis (on infinite earths) is one of the best things that could've ever happened to modern dc and disliking the fact that it approaches comics the way they had in the eighties and nineties simply means you don't understand comics or have no real love for them.

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#dark crisis #dark crisis on infinite earths #jsa #justice society of america #green lantern #kyle rayner #swamp thing #pariah #the great darkness #asks #anon

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I love these!! Could you do ‘babe, what the fuck are you wearing’

Can I just tell y'all how funny WFA is becoming to me? I fucking love it

"Babe, what the fuck are you wearing?"

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She knew something was wrong with her husband when he came home from the Justice League meeting. He was brooding, much more than he usually did, and while she never liked tempting the beast, something was up with him, and she couldn’t help but worry. Watching as Bruce stalked past the kitchen, she turned her attention to her children sitting at the dinner table waiting for the food to finish cooking. “Does anyone know why your dad looks like he got his hand slammed in a door?”

Stephanie pulled the green straw that she’d been obnoxiously slurping on out of her mouth and quipped, “I dunno, Missus W, but maybe you should ask him when he gets in here?”

Her eyes narrowed and she looked at her children. “Why do I get the feeling that you’ve all done something that I don’t know about?” They shrugged, some with looks of suspicion others with looks of offense; she pointed the spatula at them. “Mark my words, if y’all’ve done something to make him upset, I’m gonna put this spatula on your butts.”

As they giggled, Bruce walked into the kitchen, stopping to press a kiss to her cheek before moving to the head of the table. “You feeling alright, dear?” she asked. “You look a little upset.”

“I’m fine,” he replied, watching as she turned off the stove and carried the saucepan over. “Just tired.”

“Well,” she smiled. “I made chicken and rice, so your day is about to get better.” Placing the pan down, she reached behind her neck and lifted the apron from her body, hanging it over the back of the chair. “So, how about we—”

“Babe, what the fuck are you wearing?” Bruce questioned, very, very quietly.

She looked down at her Green Lantern shirt. “Hallie got it for me the other week. I thought I’d wear it?”

Bruce took one last look at it, stared straight ahead out the doorway and rose from his seat, bypassing the entire family as he stalked into the living room.

“What’s his—”

A bellow tore from the living room and the entire kitchen descended into hysterics as they heard, “GODDAMN SUPERMAN MERCH! WONDER WOMAN MERCH! FUCKING FLASH! ASSHOLE GREEN ARROW! AND MY FUCKING WIFE IS WEARING GREEN LANTERN SHIT! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!”

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