#JIM GORDON

[darkpotatorises]

Batman: The Long Halloween - The Last Halloween #0

[littlelostbirdy]

In your headcannons when does Jim Gordon find out (actually learn the identities) or 'find out' (get confirmation of the identities he figured out and, very purposefully and politely, firmly ignored until just now this minute) of the batfam?

[angicoforest]

No anatomy just darkness

[littlediscoveredstars]

Headcanon that Jim Gordon used to think Dick’s real name was just Robin. It’s not an unusual name honestly, and there’s nothing particularly bird about his outfit, so Gordon thought nothing more about it when they first met.

Gordon: “Uh, kid, this is a crime scene-“

Dick, hands on his hips (and no pants):“My name is Robin!”

Gordon catches Batman’s frown and assumes it’s because Robin isn’t being careful enough about his name.

But time goes on and no one finds out where the kid lives, so Gordon lets it slide. He’s a cute kid, if a little intense, but it’s fun to watch him grow up with Barbara (yes, he knows about batgirl. Yes, he chewed Batman out for it but decided to ultimately ignore it like everything else).

But then a new Robin comes in. This is a kid again, not a full adult like he was a year ago.

Gordon: “Hey, Batman? What happened to Robin?”

Batman: “This is Robin.” He sounds so unbothered, like he doesn’t realize this is a completely different kid!

Gordon’s concern for this half-mad vigilante skyrockets. Batman has convinced himself that this kid is the same as the first. He’s going through it and the mental gymnastics are more than Gordon can take.

So, he lets it go.

But then that Robin disappears and Batman’s acting up. Nightwing shows up a few times and it never really helps things. Gordon’s getting more headaches than smoke breaks and at this point, he’s really to pull the plug on this whole bat business.

But then Robin comes back again and Gordon’s has it. He confronts this kid, fully prepared to push through whatever gaslighting’s been happening, only for Tim to look at him like he’s stupid.

Gordon: “Kid, who are you really? Because the Robin I met graduated collage years ago and the one after that is dead!”

Tim, with the most judge mental look physically possible: “Commissioner…Robin’s my hero name.”

Gordon: “…Your hero name?”

Tim: “Yeah. I’m Robin, like the bird. Batman and Robin. Heroes. Why would I go around using my real name? That would be stupid and dangerous.”

And Gordon has to call off for the rest of the day, he’s so pissed.

[bats-and-the-birds]

I like to imagine that a series of events has lead to Jim Gordon being awkwardly left alone in a room with each of the Robins at least once per Robin, thus leaving the poor man who is already overworked suddenly charged with looking after a very small crime-fighting child.

Gordon -enters his office to find Dick!Robin somehow perched on the back of his chair-: ....Hi?

Dick!Robin: Hi! Batman told me to stay here.

Gordon: ...Right. -awkwardly reaches into the filing cabinet that he keeps snacks for Barbara in- Do you... eat?

Dick!Robin: Yes?

Gordon: -offers him a pack of peanut butter crackers as though trying to distract a dangerous animal from pouncing-

[fakakta-art]

worth it

[itsdabatt]

baby’s first homicide case

(inspired by supernatural’s painfully awkward season 1 promos)

[lilsoupboiii]

Some more of my personal favorite panels from s2 of Batman: Wayne Family Adventures

[batcavescolony]

Red Hood: Kill the joker!

Batman: I can't kill the joker

Jim Gordon:(who only heard Batman say kill the joker) *busting in* NO! WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS. Batman doesn't kill, I fired bullets at you last time to get you to stop. You did this for me Im doing this for you! Back away from the clown and-

Red Hood: ???

Batman: it's not for lack of trying

Red Hood:...

[camo-wolf]

I don’t care what anyone says I’m looking forward to it

[frownyalfred]

Jim Gordon has two modes when it comes to interacting with the Batkids: 1) wondering if he should try to arrest Batman for child endangerment and 2) wondering if the only thing keeping those kids from committing worse crimes than vigilantism is the fact that Batman is not currently in prison

[starspilli]

jim gordon names his gray hairs after the robins

[sisaloofafump]

In case it seems like every third comic has Batman in it... you're not wrong. He's been in 38.6% of DC issues since 2020, with a stark increase of 8% each decade since the 90s and surpassing Superman in popularity. Despite this, there's been a massive drop off of comics where he is teamed up with Superman or a Robin (although the amount of group team ups between Batman Family members has increased, as well as Nightwing solos).

[tampire]

Married couple knocks some sense into that nerd and his husband joins in

[ochibrochi]

🌲🐯🦅🐿️🐱 detective crossing 🐐🐦‍⬛🐺🐦🌲

[bats-and-the-birds]

Headcanon that early on in Dick's tenure as Robin, Batman gets seriously injured during patrol one night. Not enough that his life is in danger, but like, enough that he's unconscious and needs medical attention.

And after he gets him squared away, Jim Gordon sees a small, masked child covered in someone else's blood, and then his Dad (tm) instincts kick in, and he refuses to let Robin go to wherever he calls home alone. So he just... takes him back to his home.

And this can go two directions. Either

Barbara, not Batgirl yet, wakes up when her father comes home and sees a boy slightly younger than her, covered in blood, and befriends him, for sure freaking out her father but also making him incredibly worried about Robin and if he has any other friends or not.

or

Barbara, fully Batgirl, but not on patrol that night because she had a test that next day, wakes up when her father comes home, and comes face to face with her best friend in his masked alter ego, and they both have to pretend that they don't know each other for like two days, meanwhile Dick's sweating because like Holy shit, I've had sleepovers here before, whatever you do, don't act like Dick Grayson.

Either way it ends with Dick, mask still firmly in place but wearing Barbara's pajamas, and Babs fully passed out on the ground around a game of monopoly when Batman finally comes to collect his sidekick.

This experience would also make Jim Gordon even more terrified for Robin on a daily basis because before, he was sort of a shadowy, cryptic force that followed Batman around, but now Jim knows that he's just a little boy, smaller than his own daughter, that likes the same games and cartoons that Babs does, and I'm not sure he'd be able to handle that.