#The Joker has a Deathwish

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Yo so it’s April 27 you know what that means. Happy Death Day, Jason Todd

[ectonurites]

I'm writing a character analysis fic about how Cass and Jason are narrative foils in terms of their attitudes towards killing, and I was wondering if you could recall the best issues that explain why Jason kills and why Cass doesn't? I have a vague recollection of their motives, but my memory is not great and I want to go kind of in depth.

Ohhhh okay okay, so, the general answers I think lay in Under the Red Hood + Red Hood: Lost Days for Jason, and Batgirl Vol. 1 for Cass. But those are hefty stories to throw at you rather than specific issues, so to narrow down a little bit more with a few issues that stand out in my memory:

JASON — Batman #647 with Alfred’s narration combined with the Bruce & Jason sort of team-up I think says something interesting about how Jason sees Batman as too predictable due to his no-kill rule, thinking he’s unable to properly protect Gotham because criminals know he won’t kill them... which can serve as some explanation for why he will. Then Batman #649-650 with the big final confrontation btwn Jason, Bruce & Joker where he monologues at Bruce gives more insight on Jason’s POV as well. Also another separate Jason story tht goes into it a bit—his belief that doing bad things like killing is justified if for a greater good—is his talk with Mia in Green Arrow Vol. 3 #72

CASS — Batgirl Vol. 1 #19 exemplifies her belief that anyone is capable of change and deserves to live and have that chance, the ‘Nobody dies tonight’ quote comes from this issue. Another issue that goes into that belief about change (though less connected to 'killing vs not killing' in the specific scenario, i think is still relevant in terms of how deeply she believes it) is #36. Then #23 & 25 I think dig into the guilt aspect well, how her first kill when she was a child who didn’t know what she was doing has given her such an intense understanding of how precious life is (as well as a deathwish for herself because of what she had done, until facing Shiva helps her to get over that part).

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[ the muses ] // directory.

url: @crimson--corvid name: ruairí byrne media inspo: vampire the masquerade fun fact: is a vampire with a craving for murderers

url: @the--e--nygma name: edward e. nygma media inspo: dc multiverse fun fact: has a genius level intellect and an inferiority complex

url: @lethal--laughter name: jack "the joker" napier media inspo: dc multiverse fun fact: will laugh at your funeral after he sends you to it

url: @john--doe name: john doe / joker media inspo: telltale batman series fun fact: wants to make friends and enemies alike

url: @neo--knight name: terry mcginnis media inspo: dc multiverse fun fact: has multiple kinds of daddy issues

url: @nightmares--child name: terrance ward media inspo: marvel multiverse fun fact: can turn into your worst nightmares

url: @mad--mal name: mal mcmason media inspo: marvel multiverse fun fact: is a mutant who can turn into organic malachite

url: @jughead--jones name: forsythe "jughead" pendleton jones III media inspo: archie multiverse fun fact: turns into a real howler on full moons

url: @biotic--timebomb name: commander hieu shepard media inspo: mass effect universe fun fact: a secret agent who saved the universe that one time.

url: @earthquakxr name: lance alvers / avalanche media inspo: x-men evolution (mu-11052) fun fact: can literally make your house rock

url: @laughing-hellblazer name: john constantine media inspo: hellbazer (vertigo) fun fact: has just enough charm to trick the devil, himself

url: @mxchineherald name: viktor media inspo: arcane (riot) fun fact: a scientist with the most complex deathwish

url: @zaunseye name: silco media inspo: arcane (riot) fun fact: a powerful chem baron and world's worst dad

[themorrana]

Just watched Batman and Harley Quinn (2017) and I'm like WTF I just watched😂

What is the audience for this thing? I don't know about pg-13, I'd give a soft R for all the sexual things🤔

Also, Nightwing has a deathwish (idk what will happen if Joker finds out).😂

[aimeesdrink]

You already knew that those people had tried

I said to smear

You mean Jennifer and Christy?

Well, you’re not Mark and you are smarter. He has a kid apparently who wants to be the new Jew I don’t give a shit either way, but she’s not gonna steal from me and that’s literally what these fucking bastard. Children are doing. They have no sensitivity toward people who have gone through absolute fucking hell slavery, rape torture, all the stuff that you guys say oh my gosh Black Lives Matter cancel them cancel them cancel them really why don’t we cancel you motherfuckers go ahead and cancel my mother. She’s already dead you dumb fuck.

And why don’t we cancel her? Why don’t you say that to my face Mark does your daughter have a Deathwish or is that Rogers daughter because either way thems fighting words and you guys are not that sturdy.

 I’m not gonna let Melody use my niece and nephew as little child slaves

Because if she thinks she can get away with it, she probably will she’ll try

So Stephanie basically wants to be Jennifer because she thinks that’s what Nick wants. Nick doesn’t know what he wants Stephanie and if well I have met many women who are pretty average like Jennifer, and most of them think that they are really something and the men go along with it.

But it’s bullshit and then you’re at the marks, grocery store and low and behold

Eva said oh you’re getting your stripes I’m sorry what OK well I’m dragging that bitch

And who are a couple of these old white guys?

Because I need to tell you that you need to bend those bitches over and whip their asses. I don’t care if they are stupid. You teach your daughters better.

Because stupid trash like Jennifer and Alexis will never understand your daughters need to be cleaner or get killed who cares Nick actually cared he was hoping to find a sweet fair 14-year-old child to start a life with but instead he found all kinds of jokers

I think that’s fair yeah yeah I’m still doing my Charlize Theron method. Acting couch trip just in case.

Mostly couch trip a little bit I’m fucked. I’m guessing that there’s definitely some oxidative process which has allowed you guys to understand cosmetics better by basically using people like me as cash cows that does not help Brian’s business as a plastic surgeon.

American kids American adults Americans suck ass

Everybody has all these songs, but nobody’s doing any singing to them. Nobody believes a song they listen to everybody’s cheating and trying to steal everybody’s man.

I care I’m not sure who is at the church in my dream, but I can’t imagine how many men could be as dumb as grandfather was he was a damn fool

[bigskydreaming]

Dick Grayson’s tendency to clam up and not tell people about his problems didn’t come from nowhere. It came from years of people telling him his problems were his responsibility, and involving other people just ended up with his problems hijacked to be more about their issues.

He gets hurt by Two-Face, Bruce fires him. He gets shot by Joker, Bruce fires him and strips him of Robin. He gets brainwashed by Brother Blood, the Titans ‘forgive him’ and do him the favor of promising to never mention it again. No one decides to weigh in on the matter of his years long estrangement from Bruce and suggest to Bruce it’s his responsibility to do something about that. Bruce adopts another boy and gives him Dick’s mantle, any feelings Dick has about this are ignored in favor of how his feelings about this effect Jason. Jason dies and Dick goes to Bruce to grieve together, Bruce blames him and kicks him out of the home he was raised in. He wants Robin to die with Jason and to not be told that fixing Bruce is his responsibility, he ends up back in Gotham training Tim and working with Bruce again without his own grief for Jason even acknowledged.

Dick gets raped by Mirage, it’s his fault. He kills his brother’s murderer and Bruce tells Tim that Dick has to deal with it on his own. Blockbuster starts killing everyone who matters to him and tells him it’s because of him. He’s sexually assaulted by his future rapist in front of Barbara and she breaks up with him for it. Dick has a deathwish in the wake of everything that happened with Blockbuster and Tarantula and Bruce scolds him for losing sight of the value of his own life instead of giving him reasons to remember his life had value. His own grief for Bruce after he’s believed dead is deemed irrelevant in comparison to Tim’s and how he compounded Tim’s own loss with decisions made of desperation, but that are nevertheless largely deemed unforgivable and forever tarnishing the relationship he once built with his brother.

In the post reboot universe, Dick finds out a secret society has had plans to make him their super assassin since the day he was born, this somehow logically results in Bruce punching him after hiding all of this from Dick and then doing nothing to help sort his feelings about it out later. Dick is tortured and unmasked in front of the whole world and killed and his father blames him for it in some weird test slash emotional manipulation into pretending to be dead still and isolating himself on a solo mission instead of recuperating with loved ones.

Upon discovering he’s actually alive, Jason celebrates this by punching him, Tim rejoices by saying he expected better of him and Babs welcomes him home by telling him he’s disappointed her yet again. He’s shot in the head and while helpless in a coma, his worst enemies mess with his mind and memories right under his family’s nose, resulting in said family showing him footage of being shot in the head in an attempt to trigger his memories. And when that doesn’t work and alienates him, they put up no protest to him asking to be left alone thanks to his puppet masters pulling his strings, with not a detective among them seeing reason to keep a further eye on him or making sure he’s really alright and he’s not just saying he wants nothing to do with them as a trauma reaction due to his still being very much actively in the recovery stage and not at all through it at that point.

That’s a pretty fucking clear pattern, lol. Of course Dick clams up and doesn’t share about his problems. For years in multiple continuities, nobody has given him any reason to feel that opening up would be of any benefit to him whatsoever.

Dick’s self-isolating tendencies didn’t come from nowhere. They came from years of getting hurt and having his friends and family react to this by telling him to suck it up or go away.

There’s a lot of story there in characters recognizing the role they played in shaping him this way, and taking responsibility for THEiR mistakes with him.

My non existent kingdom for characters apologizing to Dick for letting him down or not being there when he needed someone. There’s endless fics about him apologizing to Jason for not being a better brother or him apologizing to Tim about Robin, but where are the apologies he’s owed?

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should you fight ___?, my (main) paras edition

Wainwright: This man could hold his own against a powerful psionic entity even back when he wasn’t immortal (with only a gun and his wits, btw). Seriously, do not, unless you want to be absolutely shredded by a flying, shotgun-wielding, knife-throwing wisp of living smoke.

Soren: He’s bad at gunfights, but extremely skilled with a sword and bow. Don’t fight him unless you can somehow translate Minecraft PVP skill to real life. Did I mention he still has his Command Block?

Fiddleford: Physically? You could, he’s but a noodle. Emotionally? Imagine the toll. Mentally? Say hello to amnesia.

Alistair: You’re going to beat up a nice gay trans man? Really? Well, prepare to die I guess. Just like Winny this one’s been a badass even before his Favorite times. Have fun fighting a literal light. (That has a sniper rifle.)

Simon: Similar to Fiddleford (why the hell would you want to fight him), except this one’s more a glass cannon type. Do not fight if you don’t have some kind of pyrokinesis.

Gaster: One word: no. They can straight up annihilate things. You wouldn’t fight a black hole.

Stanford: Fight at your own risk. He’s skilled against the supernatural and kind of a badass since that dimension hopping thing, but in a psychic/astral battle you could beat him extremely easily (unless you’re a dream demon).

Newton: He’s part puppet and part lightbulb, you could beat him with an oversized nail (an enchanted oversized nail. That being said, why the hell would you want to fight him?

Conductor: Xe’s a time traveller. You already lost.

Archibald: He’s a seasoned mercenary with psionic powers. Fight him only if you want a challenge, and I mean hardcore challenge. Even if you get something to counter his powers, he still has a lot of energy weapons.

Lowe: Same as Archibald, except the psionics are replaced with advanced cybernetics. He’s also much more skilled, so if you want to fight him, prepare beforehand.

Patricia: I don’t know why would you want to fight her, but unless you’re a magical-girl-verse villain or blessed by the Sun himself, you don’t stand much of a chance.

Pascal: Three words: mad aetheric science. You probably shouldn’t.

Brad: He has super strength and durability, but he’s also very, VERY aggressive and mentally finicky. Fight him if you have a deathwish, or if you have the deconstructed supervillain power to counter his deconstructed superhero power.

Noer: He’s a honorbound warrior who wants to fight, but specifically the strongest person ever. If you try to fight him, he’ll probably just run away from you instead.

Phoe: Depends on which Phoe we’re talking about... but in her current semi-ghost form, you can and should fight her, she’s but a powerless little shit.

Esther: Same as above, she’s a semi-ghost now. I don’t think you should fight her, though. She deserves a break.

Timekeeper, Spaceowner: They’re all powerful meta-deities. Do not.

Sunweld, Moonward: They’re all powerful meta-deities, but I/parame personally hate/s them and it is possible to beat them up if you’re also some kind of deity (and you have allies), soooooo...

Bill: Yes. Fuck yes. He’s in Rembrance (jail for cosmic villains), I/parame weakened him during the battle with Phoe, and everyone hates him. I would gladly film him getting beat the fuck up.

Ren: Outside of Warrennuchi only. He’s the Admin, dammit.

Avery: Same as Ren, except you’re in only slightly less danger outside of Warrennuchi. She has purified demon magic under her belt and will NOT hesitate to delete you with it.

Nikolai: I/Ey legally can’t lose. Sorry.

Hypno: He also legally can’t lose, but for different reasons. You know how the Joker can’t technically die? He has that, but more... tangible. That being said, I would pay to see him be humiliated. Just bring some mind control protection and dodge his sawblades.

[ideasthatshouldbe]

Idea for a DC fanfic

dunno if this has been done (if it has, plz link me cuz i WANT THIS) but i really wanna see a fanfic where in an attempt to yet again reform Two-Faces obsession with duality by getting him into DnD. They reason that by having him DM a game and make decisions based on D20 rolls that perhaps he might come to think in terms of greys, instead of black and white terms. After some coaching and instruction from the staff, Two- Face begins a small campaign with some of his fellow inmates, to promote prosocial behavior for them as well as Two-Face. Poison ivy was chosen specifically to help with her misanthropy issues, Harley Quinn is there because Ivy literally wouldn’t agree to try it if Harley wasn’t there (joker is conspicuously absent because neither Harley or Poison Ivy would agree to be there if he was),Clayface is there for the socialization, and Deadshot is there to hopefully build connections that might help with his chronic deathwish, Poison Ivy is a druid for obvious reasons, Harley Quinn plays a bard, and Deadshot plays a minmaxed archer. and Clayface is a tanky Barbarian. It goes alright at first, but joker upon hearing he was intentionally excluded, go out of his way to escape his cell JUST to dick around with the game. Villainous hi-jinks ensue.

[omegatheunknown]

AEW ALL OUT

Last of the all-hype pre-TV cards for AEW largely delivers, but ‘when are they gonna get to the fireworks factory’ looms over everything.

- Really need that weekly show, glad we’re not doing this again. Exhibition feel really knee-capped a couple of otherwise fine matches. Through the first four official AEW events I’ve noticed a sense of ‘well let’s wait for TV to see how they sort this out’ re: the women’s division, integrating the joshi, building up to matches outside of youtube, and the production hiccups. We won’t know until we know, but little has changed since Double or Nothing. - Production is still very work-in-progress, camerawork has this loose and improvisational feel that failed to capture a score of (one assumes) nice shots, entrance music is still way dialed down and it feels like a lot of themes lack anything resembling the ol’ glass shattering cue to incite a pop.

*Pre-Card Casino Battle Royal (N/R) - I think we can safely conclude this format is not conducive to a good time. The shared entrances preclude individual pops and confuse the issue of when the action starts. I assume some of the women turned on each other on the ramp, but the entrances are so casual (and camera work so frenetic) everything is sloshed together. Match was subsequently very incoherent, barely got a shine out of talent like Jazz, Nicole Savoy, Big Swole and Faby Apache. Bit let down by who wasn’t there (Delilah Doom, Shotzi, random Joshi stars -- where’s Yuka at?) but it’s fun to chant ODB and see Ivelisse and Awesome Kong. - Mercedes Martinez as the joker was a moment and a good omen, hopefully she’s gonna have a run in the division. - I’ve seen Nyla Rose do some cool things but she didn’t look good for a lot of those twenty minutes.  Private Party v Los Gueros Del Cielo (***) - This is hands down the best ‘buy-in’ match from the first four shows, the bar is low but this killed. High energy flippy shit with some classic tag team reversal of fortunes. Private Party is a great find, and they have one of the few themes that sticks. - I love Jack Evans playing to the first couple rows with his trash talk, reminds me of Kevin Owens caring little that it doesn’t play on TV, he’s still gonna jibber-jabber. *Main-Card SCU v A Boy and His Dinosaur & Marko Stunt (**1/2) - SCU are relishing this curtain-jerking business, which I love. Scorpio Sky’s ascendance to ‘guy who can hang with consummate professionals CD and Kaz’ has had the odd side effect of making him into ‘guy who could have a singles run,’ though maybe that’s got a lot to do with how charismatic he’s been on BTE (doesn’t hurt that he’s 13 years younger than Daniels.) - Luchasaurus is a big big star. ‘Jungle Jack Perry’ (Thanks, JR) is probably also that. Really interested to see how their popularity shapes the tag division.  - I enjoy Marko Stunt on a gut level but the commentary team couldn’t plausibly dance around the fact that a guy his size needs to be literally Rey Mysterio for this match to have ended any other way, so it was a bit hard to buy-in all the way. Kenny Omega v PAC (***1/2) - With the lack of build, the lack of hype, the lack of story and the lack of history between these two, two of the best wrestlers in the world still managed to put on a surprisingly fluid exhibition, save a couple missed spots. A couple tremendous reversals and surprises sets up what could be a very nice feud with a bit of investment.  - Ultimately didn’t like it as much as Kenny’s match with CIMA, though I’m all-in on ‘the best bout machine’ having trouble establishing himself in AEW, the finish was brilliant. Darby Allin v Joey Janela v Jimmy Havoc (***) - Barrel spots, skateboard spots, weapons galore, whole lot of don’t try this shit at home... I mean this is exactly as advertised, if you’re going to do a schlocky hardcore match here’s how you ought to do. Three competitors keeps the pace brisk, and someone like Darby Allin, who has athleticism in abundance, allows for a different sort of holy shit moment than Janela or Havoc. Total deathwish. Best Friends v The Dark Order (**1/2) - Still really hard to make sense of the Dark Order as in-ring performers. They’re not stand-outs in either direction, and while I like the idea of the creeps, the gimmick has yet to gel. Grayson seems more than capable but Evil Uno seems a bit ‘local indie’ thus far. I may be being completely unfair.  - Huge pop for Orange Cassidy. Huge pop for the hands-in-pockets suicide dive. Hikaru Shida v Riho (**1/2) - I know there were some serious stakes here (A championship match for a very pretty belt!) but I really want to know something about either of these women aside from Riho’s extensive experience and Shida’s enthusiasm for swords. - Match was pretty good, really. Not as good as some of the 5 ✪ GP matches from the last week but that’s not super fair (Nor is imagining Konami, Kagetsu, Mayu or Hazuki in AEW. But imagine!) - Do I think either of Riho or Nyla Rose are a particularly exciting inaugural Women’s Champion? Not at this point. Cody Rhodes v Shawn Spears (**1/2) - After a summer of loving Cody matches, I... I mean I liked this match. Cody is sports entertaining as hell. I really could’ve done without Pharaoh getting spooked by the pyro, but Cody being extra-AF with his entrances is still fun otherwise. Spears’ taste in entrance gear has not improved all this time, and the song seems... at odds with what he’s presenting himself as. - Ultimately Cody wasn’t wrong. Spears is a good hand. He is zero percent a star held down for too long by the WWE. For every Cody or Juice Robinson there’s a bunch of Shawn Spears’. I guess that could sound villainous, but truth is a babyface. Maybe find Spears a tag partner? - DOUBLE A! ARN ANDERSON! SPINEBUSTER! NEVERMIND - FIVE STARS! Lucha Brothers v Young Bucks Escalera De La Muerte Ladder Match (****1/2) - Yikes.  - Dios mio. - Seriously, let’s keep these two teams away from each other for awhile, I want to see them live long prosperous lives. - Mask spot was brilliantly done. Penta’s trash talk was in peak form. The Young Bucks and ladders, name a more iconic duo. Classic ‘go for the belts or go for the insane stunt’ moment for the Bucks, who cannot and will never be able to help themselves. As good a ladder match as I’ve seen since Ladder War VIII, possibly since VI. Chris Jericho v Hangman Adam Page for the AEW Championship (***1/2) - Say what you will about latter-day Y2J and his dad-bod, he understands what he’s doing better than just about anybody, he’s one of the best wrestlers at-48 I can think of (certainly having a better year than Ric Flair had at the same age.) He put Hangman over huge. He put Aubrey Edwards (his backstage pick of official) over huge.  - Page did some cowboy shit and brought a horse down the ramp for his entrance, which also puts him over as the kind of big star who can do that kind of nonsense. - Jericho’s knockout elbow took a while to get over but I think we’ve solidified it with that blow to Page, it ends matches in a hurry, it’s a great reversal and Jericho can plausibly pull it off regardless of condition.  - Any doubts about the wisdom of strapping the title to Jericho have to have evaporated in the wake of this. 

[ace-malarky]

Character Intro; Urart Kinroy

Urart Kinroy - 15 (3/12) - cismale, gay biro - I stole Robert Pattinson’s face - wingless

+high speed activities, heights, thrillers

-enclosed spaces, meetings, spiders

Urart is an adrenalin junkie of the highest degree, and it’s just as well his family has the money [and the inclination] to support all these activities, because he’d find a way to do them either way. He’s a bit of a joker and a complete optimist, and rarely lets things get him down for long.

~

Urart lives for the thrill of it all. He constantly looks for new things, always seeking his next thrill.

He doesn’t necessarily expect people to keep up with him, but it is nice that they try.

Ifernia manages best, and for one incredibly confusing parachute jump (filled with delighted shrieks and yells and laughter the wind rips from them both) he almost thinks that it’s a shame he’s gay because they would have made such a power couple.

Only almost and only so short because he would not give up Zelt for the world.

Ifernia is, in any case, utterly smitten with Saich and barely has eyes for anyone else from the beginning.

When she gains her wings, Urart considers it a victory; he will always be the champion thrillseeker, because wings are almost a cop out. It’s one thing to be able to trust yourself that far, and another entirely to place your trust in the hands of another, in aids made by the hands of the people.

Not to say that he is foolhardy; he knows the risks and he’s careful, even if that’s not as careful as Zelt would like.

It’s not as if he has a deathwish; it’s more like he has a piss off death wish. He wants to cut it so close so many times that by the end Death has given up on him ever joining its ranks.

He wonders if that would be a kind of immortality, if pissing off Death would lead to never dying.

Urart jumps between thinking that’s the coolest thing and thinking it would get lonely, so when Ifernia comes back having set herself on fire, his first thought is almost to pity her because she will never know Death.

(He is wrong. She will come to know Death all too well)