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mandarinsan · 3 years

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List of interracial/interspecies DC comics pairings:

Wally x Linda

Dick x Kory

Roy x Jade

Bruce x Talia

Jefferson x Tatsu

Clark x Lois (he's Kryptonian)

Arthur x Mera (he's half-human)

Diana x Steve (she's Amazonian*)

Terry x Dana (Batman Beyond)

Ibn x Mar'i (Kingdom Come)

Supergirl x Brainiac 5

Oliver x Shado

Wallace x Emiko

Jaime x Traci

Jason x Rose

Luke x Babs

Dick x Bea

Tim x Tam

Gar x Raven

Damian x Nika

Kon x Cassie

Clark x Diana

Dick x Shawn

Tim x Zoanne

Donna x Roy

Tim x Lynx

Kory x Roy

Kon x Cass

Bar Torr x Kiran

Clark x Lana

Bruce x Diana

Slade x Lillian

Arthur x Kako

Dick x Bridget

Bruce x Selina**

Jason x Artemis

Catman x Cheshire

Barbara x Sam (BTAS)

Oliver x Sandra

Oliver x Joanna

Kara x Ben

Arthur x Diana

Bruce x Shondra

Bruce x Jezebel Jet

Oliver x Manitou Dawn

Mister Terrific x Power Girl

Mister Terrific x Sasha Bordeaux

Supergirl x Power Boy

Dick x Helena (N52)

Diana x Trevor Barnes

Arthur x Ya'Wara

Alanna and Adam Strange

Lucy Lane x Ron Troupe

Martian Manhunter x Scorch

Orm x Penthesilea (Flashpoint)

Aquagirl x Warhawk (Batman Beyond)

Power Girl x Val-Zod (Earth-2)

Supergirl x Captain Comet

Clark x Linda Danvers

J'onn J'onzz x Kishana Lewis

Ryan Choi x Giganta

Tom Curry x Atlanna

Jason x Essence

Damian x Djinn

Kon x Tana Moon

Tim x Jubilee (crossover)

Donna x Terry Long

Roy x Kendra

Garth x Lilith

Donna x Kyle

Tim x Cassie

J'onn x Bea

Dick x Liu

Babs x Kai

Jaime x Xiomara (?)

Jason x Dana

Clark x Lori Lemaris (Earth-One)

Clark x Lisa Lasalle (Earth-1)

Raven x Wallace

Jericho x Étienne

Jason Rusch x Gehenna

Matrix Supergirl x Lex Luthor

Supergirl x Jerro the Merboy

Batman x Ione

Supergirl x Ryand'r

Alvin Rusch x Joanne Raymond

Kara x Mike Harris

Supergirl x Salkor (Earth-One)

Supergirl x Dick Malverne (Earth-One)

Damian x Cassie (DCeased)

Kal-El x Talia (Elseworlds)

Starfire x Franklin Crandall

Supergirl x Z'ndr Kol

Harley x Mason

Arion x Lady Chian

Tsunami x Neptune Perkins

Third Rail x Brickhouse (Dakotaverse)

Jackson King x Christine Trelane (Wildstorm)

Damage x Judomaster

Superman x Maxima

Ultraman x Superwoman (Earth-3)

Owlman x Superwoman (Earth-3)

Superwoman x Mazahs (Earth-3)

Clark x Lois Chaudhari (Superman: Secret Identity)

LGBT

Jon x Jay

Andy x Jess

Selina x Eiko

Kate x Renee

Anissa x Grace

Artemis x Akila

Natasha x Traci

Nubia x Io

Poison Ivy x Gardener

Diana x Kara (DKoS)

Hippolyta x Philippus

Nubia x Andromeda

Madame Xanadu x Marisol del Rios

Scandal Savage x Knockout x Liana

Dale Gunn x Casey Klebba

Alan Scott x Sam Zhao (Earth-2)

Kara x Lois (DC Bombshells)

David x Hartley

Mikaal x Tony

Aerie x Wink

Alysia x Jo

Donner x Blitzen (Dakotaverse)

Green Lanterns

Kyle x Soranik

Kyle x Adara

Kyle x Carol

Kyle x Jade

John x Yrra

John x Katma Tui

John x Kendra (DCAU)

John x Merayn

Hal x Arisia

Young Justice (Earth-16)

Violet x Brion

Kon x M'gann

Bart x Eduardo

Wally x Artemis

Kaldur x Wyynde

Jefferson x Helga

Dru-Zod x Ursa

La'gaan x M'gann

Artemis x Jason Bard

Miss Martian's parents

La'gann x Coral x Rodunn

Highfather x Highmother

Superman & Batman: Generations I-III (Earth-3839)

Bruce Jr x Kara Kent

Joel Perry Kent x Mei-Lai

Bruce Jr x Mei-Lai

Clark Wayne x Amanda Mason

Superman x Beautiful Dreamer

*Diana is Amazonian and also a demigod in some origins.

**After 1986's Crisis on Infinite Earths, Selina's mother was revealed to be Cuban, making her a Latina, though that aspect of her life is yet to be explored.

(Marvel version)

#interracial dc pairings #dickkory #brutalia #clois #wallinda #thundergrace #lukebabs #spitfire #jayrose #koncassie #supermartian #cheshroy #young justice #green lanterns #lgbt #this is about comics and animation #i know therr are more couples to add from live action shows and movies but i don't really engage with those #if i left anyone important out which is possible let me know

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spiiderpunk · 3 years

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hey! who do you ship babs with? :D

hmm.

Barb/happiness

Barb/recognition

Barb/hope

babs/her pc

barb/ and her never-ending degrees

babs/ sirens

babs/ bop

ngl babs could be shipped with every dc lady out there

rarely dickbabs and lukebabs thats prolly it

#barbara gordon #dickbabs #dont take it the wrong way lol #lukebabs

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bluboothalassophile · 6 years

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73. I don't love you anymore? Whatever comes to mind

Hello,

First, lemme state that I do not ship DickBabs past them being first love, and young love, long term I don’t see it lasting as they both seem excellent at bringing out the worst in each other at the worst times. The break up, on again, off again, romance DC has going for them berates what they mean to each other, romantically and platonically, and it irks me.

As friends, I think Dick and Barbara bring out the best in each other, I think they are good for one another in this sense. But as lovers, it always manages to bring out the worst of them. I adore their friendship, I like the quirky middle school love they can have going; slipping notes to each other and being dorks in general; it shows how much they care about each other. But when they date… it’s like watching a train wreck occur in slow motion at high speeds

So again, just to be clear, I don’t ship DickBabs, but I adore their friendship.

And I should be writing I’ve Got the Umbrella and NOT writing spoilers or subplots, or sidelines for Hopes for a Bastard’s coming stories. Bad Blu, very bad Blu.

Anyways, here’s Spoilers for Written in the Stars….

Perfectly Imperfect…

There were words ineveryone’s life that they didn’t want to hear.

‘I don’t love you anymore’ or ‘It’s me, not you’ or ‘I’msorry but…’ or ‘There’s another woman’ or even worse ‘I’m gay’ (that one wasn’tas painful, it only sucked if a guy had been using you as cover to keep hissexuality from the world; then yeah, that one sucked).

And as Barbara sat in her chair, trembling, and staring atthe Save the Date she’d received in the mail and the letter that accompaniedit. The letter was unopened as she sat there in her apartment as she sat there atthe invitation for the wedding…

The wedding of Richard John Grayson to Koriand’r.

Barbara wanted to scream, she wanted to throw things, breakthings, she wanted to curse this world for the cards it had dealt her and theperfection required to be her.

Her father, her uncle, her mother, her brother, they had allneeded her to be prefect. She needed to be strong, she had to be happy, cheerful,she needed to have the strength to keep her front of being perfect up.

She had been that girl, the perfect one, she didn’t set atoe out of line. She was the straight A honor student who helped kids like Dickstudy, she was in gymnastics, set for the Olympics, she was going to college,she’d get a degree in criminology, she’d work her way up through the GCPD withher father’s aid, cleaning up the department. She was happy, she was good at beinga friend, the perfect daughter, and the best she could. The only rebellious thingshe had ever done was being Batgirl! And even that she had excelled at to beperfect.

And now she wasn’t perfect!

The Joker had shattered that perfection she had used to keepher life. He had taken it all away from her!

Joker had stolen her legs, her purpose, her life, her love,he had killed her as surely as if he had shot her in the head! In some ways Barbarahad thought Jason lucky, lucky he didn’t have to deal with the pain of beinginvalid now.

But that was until she had learned Jason was alive, and Jason…Jason had come back and from what she had seen of him, he had come to survive ahell. And he didn’t even care!

Barbara shivered as she rolled away from her table, therewas a knock on her door as she pulled down her tea pot.

“It’s open!” she called out as she started the tea. If itwas a rogue or something, she didn’t care.

“Hey Babs, okay, so I was having problem with the Batwingprogramming, and Tammy is driving me nuts. I swear she’s almost onto the fact I’min the Batfamily,” he said as he walked on.

“Yeah, sure, I’ll look at it,” Babs said swiftly as she triedto clean her tears away before he saw them.

“Babs?”

“I’m fine,” she dismissed. “Just allergies, I need to dustmy fans again,” she lied pulling off her glasses.

“Is this about the Save the Date I’m looking at on yourtable for Dick’s wedding?” he asked.

“No,” she trembled.

“Uh-huh, why don’t you look at me when you say it,” Lukeordered sharply, and she glowered over her shoulder at him.

Barbara and Luke’s unconventional friendship; if it couldeven be called that, had been when the Court of Owls had acted again, and Dick,Tim, and she had needed help rescuing two years ago. Luke had found out hisfather was in on the Batfamily when Lucius had been attacked in his office andtortured for the access to the tech, Luke had found out and intervened. He’djust been discharged from his service, and he had actually been at WE for a jobinterview working Wayne Security and in their hurry and urgency to save Damian,Luke got swept up into their ranks and stayed. He and Kate, they stayed.

Now, Barbara had always known Luke, he was a few years olderthan she, and he’d been close to Dick when Dick was adopted by Bruce. She hadn’treally cared all that much for Luke, he was annoying to her because when she’dhad legs all he had to do was stand and hold the ball out of her reach, Dickbeing a monkey would clamber all over Luke.

Then he had joined the ranks of the Bats, and now they hadthis odd friendship, that she didn’t always know what to make of because hewasn’t as annoying now, as when they’d been kids. God she hated him when they’dbeen kids.

He was always composed, perfectly, and tall, and smug, hehad had the arrogance of knowing he was the best, smartest boy and bestathlete, but the war had changed him. Now he was different, not as smug, andshe found his presence tolerable.

“I’m fine,” she dismissed.

“You know it wasn’t going to last, Babs,” Luke said softly.

“What the hell do you know about it!?” she snapped as shespun her chair around to glare at him. She fucking loved Dick! Loved him withall her heart! She found herself glaring at Luke who stood there very calmlyholding the Save the Date in his hands.

“You know, you can lie to a lot of people Barbara, but notto me,” he stated coldly as he stood and walked over to her slowly.

“You don’t know me.”

“I know a lot more about you than you’d think.”

“You wouldn’t understand anything I’ve been through for aminute!” she hissed.

“Oh no?” he mused humorless. “A bad thing happened to you,the world fucking forgot to stop and notice, kept spinning. You picked up thepieces, reesembled who you were before the bad thing happened, but that leavesa bitter taste in your mouth with a sharp tongue and bad attitude. You won’t letit go, that fucking feeling, it’s all you got some days when you wake up, itfuels you, it’s what drives you to get up some days. Other days feels like it’sdrowning you and you want someone to hurt as much as you do because the worldforgot about your pain.”

“You can’t even imagine,” she started.

~~~*~*~*~~~

“Dick and you, yeah, before you two had a shot, I’d haveeven put money on it, before; Barbara. But now, you are sodesperate to hurt someone and drag them down to your level that there’s no wayanything you start with anyone would last. And it’s not because you’re unlovable,that’s the opposite of the problem here. The problem is you don’t like this newreality or the new you and you fight it tooth and nail to cling to a you thatno longer exists. And that anger is why it wouldn’t last.”

Luke had known Barbara since he was ten, he hadn’t alwaysliked her. She was younger, brattier, and annoying. She was also Miss Perfect,but he learned real quick to see through that. Then Dick had come along, andthe poor kid worshipped Barbara’s façade; not her, the perfect façade he hadmet. Luke knew that was doomed from the start, well, maybe not before theJoker, but after it, it was all fucked to hell. And he’d watched Dick Graysonclaw his way through the pain of losing his little brother and girlfriend, to onlyhave the girlfriend cut him down and drag him down to her level of agony.

Luke was actually very relieved when Dick and Babs hadfinally ended. Kid deserved to be happy, he deserved love, real love, the loveof a woman, not a façade, and that was where Kori came in. Dick and Kori, thatwas real, true, once in a millennium, soul mate, rewrite the stars kind oflove. It was real, and Dick was a better man with Kori than he ever could bewith Barbara.

No, this didn’t make Barbara a bad person, he actuallyadmired her tenacity to pull herself up from the gutter and to find a way toadapt to her life. He had lost friends before their deaths because they couldn’tdo what she had done. He had watched some good friends just give up. And whileLuke didn’t always like Barbara, he could always admire her and play itstraight with her.

The freckled redhead glowered at him, and her glassesglinted dangerously as they glared at one another.

“I’m not upset or hung up on Dick,” she stated.

Luke resisted rolling his eyes at that. And he wasn’thaunted by nightmares of Jason Todd; but that was tales for a different time.

“I’m Not!”

“Oh, no, I believe you Babs, to a degree,” he clarified forher.

“I’m not!”

“Barbara, he’s in love, he’s getting married, they have abeautiful daughter, who has stolen all our hearts. It’s okay to be hung up onit, but don’t get it in your head to wreck it for him,” Luke warned her.

“I would never do that!” she snapped.

“I know all about how you left her to die, Barbara, and Iknow about it from Tim before you think to go skins someone’s balls off,” hewarned her as he held up a hand to pacify her. He had only learned about itwhen the teen was so sleep deprived and thinking about a coming alien invasion,the very aliens that had apparently kidnapped Kori from Kom and Lobo and hadbeen annihilated by Raven; apparently. He didn’t know about that last bit forsure, as it wasn’t in files he could read.

Barbara looked like he had just fed her a sour apple.

“You’re human, I get it,” he shrugged. “But you and Dick, itwas never going to work Babs, and you have to let it go.”

“I am,” she admitted bitterly. “I just… he’s my oldestfriend, I’m happy for him, I really am. I get it now. But…”

“But.”

“It was supposed to be me,” she admitted softly and hewalked over as he slowly knelt to her level. He pulled the glasses off as thetears fell and she furiously tried to wipe them away.

“It’s his loss too, Babs,” Luke reminded her.

She sobbed as she slumped forward, and he wrapped his armsaround her. They weren’t really friends, but they’d grown up together. He’dbeen for forever, so they were something important.

“Hey, if you’re up to it, if you want to go, you can be myplus one,” he said as he rubbed her back.

“You’re just asking out of pity,” she sniffled against hisshoulder.

“Well, partially, and partially because, he is the circusmonkey and he’s important to both of us,” Luke smiled slightly as he pulledaway. “And Babs, I don’t pity you. Admire you at times, and respect you always,but I don’t pity you. Never have. You survived, now you just have to stoppitying yourself.”

“I…”

“You. Survived.” Luke repeated that, because it wasimportant.

Just like him surviving Jason Todd had been important,before Jason had come home and before he even really knew that it was Jason whohad just about killed him.

“Why couldn’t he just love me?” she whispered against hisshoulder.

“He does Babs, just not the way you want,” he assured her.Luke was tempted to hoist her out of the chair and flop down on her couch withher, but he didn’t. It wasn’t his place, so for now he’d just hold her.

They were kind of friends after all, and kind of friends didthis for the people their cared for.

She smelled like lavender, and lemons.

It was kind of an odd combination to notice, as he ignoredthe kettle and just held her.

#bluboothalassophile #fanfic #hopes for a bastard #hopes for a bastard universe #barbara gordon #lucas fox #lukebabs #dickkori #spoilers #hopes for a bastard spoilers

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dilfdoctordoom · 3 years

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🔥 Babs Gordon :>

I think all of my Babs opinions are controversial so let's just go under the cut for a moment

We are absolutely at the point where support of certain titles is a massive indication of, at the very least, passive ableism and I don't think fandom has the right to be mad at disabled fans for being pissed about that. This is about Nightwing but it's also about every fucking Batgirl book we've had since the New 52 started

The way Young Justice adapted her story was shit. I understand wanting to give Babs more agency -- but we know there are ways to do that without sacrificing the character of an Asian woman

Actually, on stories that give Babs agency in becoming disabled -- I don't like it. Now I know that sounds bad, but let me explain: Babs lack of agency is part of her origin story as Oracle. And I think that the Oracle Code dealt with this the best, because Babs... isn't given much agency in how she became disabled, but it isn't the shitshow of TKJ. Like, IDK how to explain to able-bodied people that most of the time, disabled people don't have agency in how they become disabled... and that such a big part of Oracle was Barbara reclaiming her agency. Casting that aside means reevaluating what Oracle is and no writer has ever actually done that

I'm not excited for the Batgirl movie. I think it'll be a Batgirl: Year One adaptation, which is great! Year One is probably the best Babs Batgirl story, but... Officer Barbara Gordon. Racist directors. It being a Babs Batgirl movie, when it could've been about Cass instead (look, I don't like her BOP characterization, so let's give her a movie where she has an accurate personality/backstory/etc)

I think one of the worst 'fanon' aspect of Barbara Gordon is this steadfast belief that the Joker shot her because she was Batgirl/she was Batgirl at the time of TKJ. Like... I think the fact that Babs decided to stop being Batgirl is infinitely more compelling. It also makes her one of the most interesting Batfamily members -- because she gave it up. She gave it up and she didn't need a tragedy to do that and god, I wish people'd remember that

Ted Kord is probably one of her better love interests and thanks to modern comics, I genuinely prefer him to Dick Grayson

Babs is kind of a bitch and I think that should stay! It's a flaw that makes her an interesting, dynamic character

And continuing from that! People need to remember that Babs was never a perfect mentor for Cass or Steph or even Charlie. Barbara is a very flawed person and so are all those characters and seeing how their flaws mix together and contradict each other and how their strengths combine to make those duos significantly better and more interesting to read

Dick/Babs did more harm than good to both characters and has actually done irreparable damage to them (and Kory)

Batgirl should always be a part of Babs story... provided they keep it so that she quit before TKJ. Actually should stay either way. Like how Dick should always be Robin before Nightwing, Babs should always be Batgirl before Oracle. And neither should ever return to those roles.

If a competent writer took a stab at it, I think I would enjoy LukeBabs? Hm especially with Jace I think there's something there for them, in how they fit with their families, expectations, the hero life AND HOW IT IMPACTED THEIR FAMILY, like genuinely... these two are a duo with endless potential and it makes me kinda mad that we only got to see them together in Burnside (AKA Babs has no character time)

I'm not excited for Batgirls at all, even if I exclude the ableism and the ongoing character assassination of Cass and Steph. I just think there's this push to make the mantle of Batgirl more important to Babs than it actually is. That's not to say it's not important to her -- it certainly is -- but recent comics have kind of pushed this idea that it's the most important thing to her, rather than something from her past that she's cherished and moved past. I also think that this book would've been somewhat tolerable if it actually explored what Batgirl meant to all three characters -- and had it end with them all leaving the mantle behind. Maybe handing it over to Tiffany Fox/Nell Little?

Nissa and Babs had a really fun, underrated dynamic and honestly, it feels more like what fanon thinks Babs and Steph were like

Acting like Babs has more 'power' as Batgirl than she ever did as Oracle is just so blatantly incorrect and one of the most infuriating things to read

The Burnside design. It's kinda ugly. I'm sorry but it is like Babs... Babs what trashcan did you fish that out of oh my god just steal Bruce's credit card and fix this mess

Within the next ten years, we are going to get some form of media where Barbara is Damian Wayne's love interest. Will not elaborate.

Savannah Welch is one of the best comic book casting decisions ever and I actually hope we get to see her again, hopefully as Oracle

#q & a #funniest thing about me is that i can write essays on babs & she's not even in my top 50 dc characters.

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