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Damian: I have no respect for Santa. Don’t sneak in through the chimney and undermine my authority by bringing my family presents. Walk in through the front door and fight me like a man.

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Steph: I've been expecting you, Duke. Duke: How did you do that without turning around? Steph: Let's just say the first few people I did that to were not you.

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Dick: Are you coming to bed? To,: I can't. This is important. Dick: What? Tim: Someone is wrong on the internet.

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Steph: You know, I used to play back in my gory days. Damian: You mean glory days? Steph: Ah, that too.

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Artemis: Are you really planning to shoot the demon? Jason: Don't worry, it's a holy gun. Roy: How so? Jason: It makes holes.

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Young Justice 80-Page Giant

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Young Justice 80-Page Giant

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Young Justice (1998) #2

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Young Justice 80-Page Giant

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it's a fun hc of mine that during dick's robin days, he went through the "omg i wish i had a cool secret language so i can have secret conversations with my friends" phase all kids go through. but one of his closest friends at the time also happened to be the batman, a guy with possibly the most bizarrely diverse arsenal of skills in the world. bruce sees the merit in the entire idea of a coded language to communicate rudimentary information when they can hear but not see each other. so why not make a code built on bird vocalizations? it's pretty much incomprehensible to anyone without a trained ear or comprehensive knowledge of birding and impossible to even passably mimic without proper training, so while the chances of interception are high, the chances of someone understanding it enough to interrupt during the middle of a bird-convo and feed false information are not.

it also, batman and robin come to realize, feed into the "holy fuck our vigilantes are cryptids" idea. bird sounds that come from seemingly no determinable location (ventriloquism) come to mean batman and robin are nearby. to the goons of gotham, bird song becomes inextricably connected to getting your ass kicked by the dynamic duo. the real reason why criminals don't operate during the day is because they get skittish and jumpy about if the sounds of birds chirping are real birds or some masked vigilantes lying in wait to rock your shit, and it's just easier to commit crimes during the night when all the birds are asleep so you know for sure.

ornithologists have boards on their bedrooms dedicated to the bird-bats of gotham. they've written dissertations.

the bird language becomes a bit of a batfamily bonding connection. teaching each other how to do different clicks and whistles, making up slang so bruce and barbara can't complain of clogging up comms with non-mission relevant talk, searching up birds to associate them with different people, psychologically terrorizing the criminal populace of gotham by chirping at them...

how the bird code works is that there's a bird assigned to each one of gotham's major heavy hitter criminals and vigilantes, and a few assigned to heroes out of the city (by which i mean the ones the bats associate with often enough to have a sign to address by). the only birds i've got so far are the robin (for robin. self-explanatory) and the glistening-green tanager (for the joker). i only have one for the joker bc i wanted to reference this hc in one of my fics and so searched up green birds to find the most eye-searingly annoying-to-look-at green bird i could find, and the glistening-green tanager was the closest one to fit the bill.

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Here's a list of recs if you'd like to read somecomics about different batfam characters:

BRUCE WAYNE - Batman: Year One (1987) - Batman: The Long Halloween (1996) & Dark Victory (2000) - Batman: Knightfall Saga (1993) - Batman: No Man's Land Saga (1999)

SELINA KYLE - Catwoman (1989) - Catwoman (1993) - Catwoman: When in Rome - Catwoman (2018) - Catwoman of East End

DICK GRAYSON - Robin & Batman (2022) - Robin: Year One - Nightwing: Year One - Nightwing (1996) (specifically Tomasi's run!) - Batman: Black Mirror

JASON TODD - Batman: The Cult - Batman: A Death in the Family (i dont actually care for this but i feel obligated to include it so here...) - Batman: Under the Red Hood

TIM DRAKE - Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying - Robin (1993) - Young Justice (1998)

CASSANDRA CAIN - Batgirl (2000) - Batgirl (2008) - Batgirl: Redemption - Batgirl: Silent Knight

BARBARA GORDON - Batgirl: Year One - Black Canary/Oracle: Birds of Prey - Birds of Prey (1999) (especially Gail Simones run!!) Barbara also appears frequently in the batgirl runs

DAMIAN WAYNE - Batman and Robin (2011) - Robin: Son of Batman - Robin (2021) - Batman & Robin (2023) (currently ongoing! imo this would be a good place to start reading since its happening right now so you can see it happen along with everyone else!)

DUKE THOMAS - Batman: Zero Year - We Are Robin - Batman & The Signal

HELENA BERTINELLI - Huntress: Year One - The Huntress (1989) - Batman/Huntress: Cry for Blood - Nightwing/Huntress Helena is also a character in birds of prey from issues #57-127 <3

STEPHANIE BROWN - Detective Comics #647-649 - Showcase '95 #5 - Robin (1993) #126-147 (steph has a ton of appearances in Robin 1993 so it would be good to read that for more or to look through her appearances on locg if you just want to read about her! these chapters are her as Robin.) - Batgirl (2009)

I haven't read a super large amount for every single one of them so disclaimer that some of the ones I mention here might not be their best! These are what I could think of but there are plenty more, especially as standalone issues, so if anyone sees this please mention more!! also, there are lots of comics that are questionable but this list was very much on the fly off the top of my head so i was kind of sat here with my head in my hands like 'god i need to give more than one jason todd comic dont i....' and this was all i could come up with that wasnt like.... a random detective comics issue idk

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Cassie: Problem, I can't tell if this food is over-sauced or undercooked.

Cissie: Solution, just pop it back in the oven for another 10 minutes. There's at least a 50% chance that'll fix it, right?

Tim: Result? Food has somehow become unpleasantly soggy and unpleasantly crunchy at the exact same time.

Kon: No better time than this to pull out my favorite word! Slunchy!

Anita: ...put it away.

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For science:

Clarifications:

If you don't know the exact number you've read just go with your best guess

Comics here refers to single issues, not collected trade paperbacks. For instance, the Under the Red Hood trade is 14 issues.

WFA is a non canon webcomic, not a traditionally published comic, so it goes in a separate category.

Comics don't have to be Batfam focused, just from DC.

Reblog for a bigger sample size + bonus: put your fave bat comic and/or fave batfam member in the tags.

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Cass: *is throwing stones at Jason's window* Jason: You have a phone for a reason, Cass! *THUD* Jason: DID YOU JUST THROW YOUR PHONE AT MY WINDOW?!

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Damian: How long do you think it'll take? Dick: I don’t know, three or four. Damian: Three or four what? Days? Weeks? Months? Dick: Yeah, maybe five. Damian: Five what?!

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Dick: Tim's refusing to wear their glasses!

Tim: Dick, look, I wore the glasses for a day. My eyes are much better now. Watch.

Tim: *points to Steph* Steph.

Tim: *points to Jason* Jason.

Tim: *points to Damian* Sasquatch.

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Jason: Bet you can’t eat 15 crayons! Dick: Bet you I can! Tim: *sips coffee, checks to make sure 911 is still on speed dial, and goes back to reading the paper*