This is amazing, I love this more than my father
I want one of those scenes in a dude bro film where “tomboy” chick has to wear a dress to go undercover or whatever, but instead of the guys drooling as she walks down the stairs, they’re like “k. U need to stop. Go put the cargo pants back on. You look super uncomfortable and awkward in that. Brutus, you go be the fake prostitute.”
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Batman and Batman Villain Ideas Masterlist: I've made a lot of Batman ideas over the years. Specifically, over the past one or two years while i've been going through a comics hyperfixation. So now i'm just going to try and make a masterlist here. Just to try and organise all of these posts. The keyword here being try.
My take on The Riddler pt. 1
My take on The Riddler pt. 2
My take on The Cluemaster
My take on Anarky
My take on Victor Zsasz
My take on Victor Zsasz pt. 2
Part 1 of a Mister Freeze Christmas Miniseries
Batman and Robin (Jason Todd) TV Show Idea part one
Batman and Robin (Jason Todd) TV Show Idea part two
Batman and Robin (Jason Todd) TV Show idea part three
I'm just putting text under here to make it easier to access and edit it later. Because that's the only thing i know to do right now.
this makes sense to me, idk if it will make sense to u
essential reading/recommended reading/optional reading
Batman v3 (2016) #100 [this is his first appearance, but it's very brief and not necessary to understand the character]
Batman v3 (2016) #102-105 [Ghost-Maker's introduction arc, very important]
Batman v3 (2016) #106-111 [lead-in to the Fear State arc, lots of good moments, the secondary story starting in #107 is Ghost-Maker focused and absolutely essential to understanding him]
Batman v3 2021 annual [my favorite Ghost-Maker story of all time]
Batman Fear State Alpha [he's barely in this, but if you want some context]
Batman v3 (2016) #112-117
Catwoman (2018) #37-38 [I have a fun time with these appearances, but you don't need to read them unless you like the Wight Witch story-line]
Batman Urban Legends #11-13 [he shows up briefly in the Wight Witch 'Stigma' story-line]
Batman Fear State Omega [he's barely in this, but he has such funny lines]
Batman v3 (2016) #118-121 [context for Batman Inc stuff if you want it]
Shadow Wars [an event story that Ghost-Maker shows up in. Find a reading order on the Wikipedia page]
Batman: The Knight (2022) #1-10 [technically he doesn't show up until issue 4, but just read the whole thing. Also this is the most up to date cannon of the backstory, even if I like it less :/]
Batman v3 2022 annual [Batman Inc kick-off]
Batman Incorporated v3 (2022-2023) #1-12
DC Pride (2023) "The Dance"
DC vs. Vampires: World War V #3 & #4 (he's in these. I don't know much about Dc vs vampires, but if you like it, he's here!)
Misc non-story appearances (you'll be disappointed if you read these for him)
Infinite Frontier #0
Justice League (2018) #75
DC Pride (2021)
DC Pride (2022)
Harley Quinn: Uncovered
DC's 'Twas the Mite Before Christmas
Wildstorm 30th Anniversary Special
Absolute Power Task Force VII #7
Trade Paperbacks
Ghostmaker/Clownhunter [collected issues that mostly feature stuff from the issues I've already mentioned above]
Batfam and their relationship with the vigilante alter egos:
Bruce wanted to have some sort of conflict with Batman, and to some extent he got what he asked for. The only problem is that the general public decided that the conflict he had with Batman was the divorce™. And although it feels very weird having yourself as your ex, Bruce finds a twisted pleaser at criticizing Batman's life (or parenting, mostly parenting) choices.
Dick, contrary, following one of his impulses of teenage maximalism, decided to be on the opposite part of the spectrum: he loves, read wants, Nightwing in every possible way. Answering questions, he shamelessly adds unnecessary and inappropriate details (“If I got this ass, I'd be like DJ brbrbrbr”) purely to make his siblings grimace in disgust.
Jason is legally dead, and the dead, as a rule, don't have opinions. Red Hood, on the other hand, is very opinionated about poor sweet angel Jason Todd who died too young. And he expresses this opinion especially loudly and especially heartbreakingly, overusing the shit out of extensive literary knowledge, when Bruce and Dick nobody in particular is within earshot.
Tim has a public beef with Red Robin, because, actually, fuck that guy. He has started multiple twitter wars, spending hours making his two official accounts fight each other. He doesn't need to do that anymore, everyone already knows that these two hate each other's guts, but Tim still does it simply for the love of the game.
Damian is Robin's defender for life, even though he really wants to be a hater like his father. They just don't get him like Damian does. Because, alright, maybe Robin did steal these penguins from the public Zoo, but MAYBE that penguins were kept in terrible condition; have you even tried to use your cognitive abilities to consider it, moron?
Cass doesn't say anything about Orphan, when asked, just stares at people until they leave her alone. It doesn't feel right to lie to their faces, but she also can tell the truth because, well, her relationships with herself in any form are… complicated.
Steph is Spoilers biggest fan: she's obnoxious about it and will yap for hours, if someone dared to mention her alter ego in a sentence. She carries a napkin with her own signature in the pocket of every pair of her pants, and insists that the sweatshirt she's wearing right now (it's always a different sweatshirt) hasn't been washed in a month because Spoiler touched it.
Duke, being the OG gaslighter of the family, went an extra mile and created a dramatic, gut-wrenching backstory about him and Signal being best friends in their childhood but slowly drifting away, hunted by the different lifestyles and the burden of responsibility. And now when someone asks him about Signal, Duke makes a sad face and lets out a few sniffs, one time he legitimately cried, and since then reporters are too uncomfortable to ask him.
“barbara gordon getting paralyzed for the sake of bruce wayne’s development was misogynist, but oracle is a better mantle for her and she should still be a wheelchair user.” i say into the mic.
the crowd boos. i begin to walk off in shame, when a voice speaks.
“she’s right,” they say. everyone turns to the 5th row, but no one is there. then on the screen behind me: barbara gordon herself.
I love the x-men so much because that's just what leftist infighting is like! that's literally all it is! xavier is a sellout and they all hate him but he's the only one with any money. everyone complains about "they keep switching sides and dating each other it's so fucking confusing" like my dudes have you never been a part of any socialist organisation, ever. then people will go "magneto is so strong how has he not killed a bunch of teenagers" HE DOESN'T WANT TO KILL THEM! this started in a goddam basement over coffee he does not want to hurt them he just wants them to shut up and listen and will fling cars to do so
"If tampons should be free, then so should my diabetes meds."
Yes? Yes they should be? Your life-saving medication that you need in order to live for a condition you were born with should be given to you at no cost?