#batman kill count

[batbabydaily]

detective comics 33: the batman wars against the dirigible of doom

batman kill count = 7

[farshootergotme]

Wait, how tf did I miss this.

Batman: Wayne Family Adventures #7

You're telling me Forever Evil happened in this universe? You're telling me SPYRAL happened in this universe? I'll have to hope that everything went down very differently because otherwise there's a lot to unpack there that clearly this comic isn't ready for.

[drbatsponge]

It just hit me that Cassandra Cain, a character who was ultimately created because of the fallout of the Killing Joke, is the ultimate antithesis to the "One Bad Day" ideology Joker states in that story and I find that beautiful.

Since she was born she's had countless bad days and yet she still chooses to be a hero at the end of each of those days.

She's quite literally the ultimate fuck you to the Killing Joke in multiple ways by not only proving Joker's ideology wrong but also continuing the legacy and character of Batgirl.

[fictionalcharacters-mybeloved]

Creppy Old Guy

I was listening to "Creppy old guy" from the Beetlejuice musical and then I remembered "Lolita" by Lana del Rey while I was here and reading DPxDC stuff so…

Danny and Vlad meeting the Batfam.

Bruce knows Vlad is a somewhat harmless weirdo and his kids pick up on it almost instantly, so all good as long as they stay away from him, right?

Well no, because Vlad starts getting even weirder by talking about how one of Bruce's kids looks like his dear Daniel (the emphasis on his raises red flags even in people who don't go out kicking criminals at night), charmingly talking about how nice he is when he's not being a tantruming brat and then he calls the kid and there he is, the much mentioned "dear Daniel" appears, wearing heavily covered clothes (because he doesn't want his ghost wrestler bruises to show, thank you), looking very uncomfortable when Vlad puts a hand on his shoulder and dwarfing himself (he doesn't want to be here, but he's going to do it for Ellie, because she wants to go to school and he just has to avoid ripping Vlad's hand off with his teeth) while seeming to want to say something but noticeably clamming up while watching the older man out of the corner of his eye ("it's Danny, damn it" is what doesn't come out of his lips).

Bonus: someone from the Batfam "overhears" Danny and Vlad talking about a girl named "Ellie" and how Danny only stays with him because of the girl, because one of the two has to be a good father… Danny is 15 years old.

Or if this happens with Plasmius and Phantom I want the Batfamily to freak out because here they are meeting this adorable little dead teenager that almost everyone loves (because Damian tolerates him just because of Cujo, he doesn't like Danny, shut the fuck up) and then there goes the aforementioned teenager spouting things like "Plasmius keeps pestering me to live with him and I already told him that if our daughter ran away from him, what makes him think I'd want to live (heh) with him? " and "Who is Ellie? Oh, it's my daughter (they repeated that joke so much that now it's an automatic answer), it was a surprise, especially because Plasmius did it without my consent but I still love her" and we can't forget "Dan was the product of a horrible moment in my life that I hope doesn't happen and I don't want to talk about, I'll just say that the most shocking thing about him is that although he had things of mine he looked a lot like Vlad".

Danny doesn't say it with bad intentions, but referring to Dan and Ellie as his children helps him to overcome a little bit the trauma of his creations, neither is his intention to make Vlad look so bad, that's totally the other halfa's fault, no one told him to act (and be) like a freak.

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 88

  In a world where every human starts with blood that’s a very bright red, only darkening by one taking another’s life, Tim is very careful. Apparently even using explosions in warehouses and wherever else the league of assassins had set up counted as killing, to his slight horror. He couldn’t let his team know of course, even if they joked about joining him if he turned villain. 

  It was one thing to joke, but if they saw his blood, pitch black and dark enough to nearly swallow the light around it? He really doesn’t want to see the horror or disgust. He isn’t going to let anyone know if he can help it. 

  So it’s a really shitty situation when one of the henchmen of one of the rogues decides to break his nose and about fifty-something people are suddenly very aware of his very high kill count. He has a choice here. And he isn’t entirely sure if he wants to deal with the consequences of either of them. 

[lizardpersonyknow]

Tim, attempting to defend his kill count: Look it was a high stress situation ok! And I was stuck in fight or flight mode! Y'know, the instincts of every human?

Duke: you are trying to tell me that you were so stressed you reverted to your basic instincts

Tim: yes!!

Damian, reluctantly approving: and your instincts are mass murder?

(Dick, in background: yeah that's Tim)

Tim: noooo... It was make things go boom?

Jason, nodding sagely: I get that too, in fact I was under very high stress when I...

Bruce, almost frantic: when you helped people. Because you are. Supposed. To. help. People.

[arrowheadedbitch]

I wanna see something we're Tim keeps finding worse and worse excuses to commit atrocities. Like at first it's like, "I must kill this man, it is my only option for survival " and then by the end he's like,

Well, Batman didn't make the Geneva convention....

There's 80s music playing! I can't not go on a murder rampage! It'd ruin a perfect gag!

I can't let perfectly good hard drugs go to waste in an evidence locker!

And it just keeps getting more and more unhinged until Batman finally finds out and he has NO IDEA what to do about it

[ghost-bxrd]

Prompt:

The first mission the Court send their newly minted Talon on is an assassination attempt on the ward of one Bruce Wayne… Dick Grayson.

Calvin— can’t kill Dick. He can’t.

He didn’t know it would be the boy he grew up in the circus with they want him to murder in cold blood. He didn’t know— didn’t recognize him until the knife was already at his throat.

But he remembers now. And he won’t do it. Never. Never.

He’ll run. Disappear. Dick doesn’t know who he is, it’s better that way, and if he’s lucky the Court will be too busy hunting him to care about the failed assassination.

Unfortunately for Calvin, Dick does remember; Recognizes the Talon.

And he’s not inclined to let his childhood best friend slip through his fingers again after years of believing him dead.

[thesandsofelsweyr]

Batman just shoved one of the militia's heads into a high voltage electrical cabinet. I've seen what arc flashes do to people. That dude isn't walking that off.

[were-wolverine]

guys. GUYS. tim has not canonically killed anyone. when he blew up those LoA bases, nobody died. tim drake has never canonically killed someone.

if he had, it would take away from his character! it would trivialize his complicated morals and take away from his desire to do good! and honestly, it would make him less interesting!

if you want a batkid that kills people, jason is right there. tim can be morally grey without killing, and it makes him a much more compelling character!

this is not to say that jason isn’t an interesting or compelling character, he is! it’s just that tim doesn’t have the reasons jason does for killing, among other things

plus, just because he won’t kill doesn’t mean he hasn’t thought about it or wanted to (re: the people that killed his close friends/family)

[nana-mizu-shiki]

Like the little shit he is, he continues to lay little breadcrumbs of life changing realizations at his brothers' feet.

"I don't know if those of the Batman and Nightwing fics are worse."

[batbabydaily]

detective comics 33: the batman wars against the dirigible of doom

batman kill count = 6

[froot-batty]

Had to post these two together they're like a bonded pair of zoo animals at this point

Y'all already know how they came to be, so I'll talk about how they came to be...together!

So, Alexis was already the Red Hood by the time Steph came into the picture. Bats couldn't always be around to help train Steph (and honestly just supervise her in general), so oftentimes Red was left to the task. For Red it was like a dog getting a new playmate. Finally! She didn't have to deal with Bruce being all quiet and emo alone anymore!

Steph immediately thought she was super cool and hot and basically short-circuited every time they were alone

Their relationship doesn't progress to anything past friendship while Steph is doing her time in-costume, but there's a mutual attraction between the two of them the eeenntiirree time. Alex has killed people in a roller derby outfit before, so she's got no shame she'd be ready to get hitched on the spot if Steph asked, but Steph has been made of repression and shame her entire life so it takes her a long time to accept herself for who she is

And then she gets paralyzed and her entire life is knocked upside down

Both Bruce and Red are there with her the entire way, but only Red knows what it's like to be betrayed by family in such a monumental way. It's that kinship they share and the soft side that Alex shows Steph during her recovery that finally allows their relationship to grow deeper

It's a very gradual process. Steph wakes up one day months later with Red sleeping in bed next to her and goes "OH GOD, ARE WE DATING??"

Like yeah, dummy. Y'all have been making out every day the past two weeks

[ravenpureforever]

Tim Drake Compendium 1 is truly unparalleled reading experience because we’ll have Batman #480 where Tim reflects on and grapples with his complicated, complex relationship with father as he has changed in ways his father can never understand and he both loves his father and resents him a little as he is torn between child and caretaker while also having a vigilante double life that is about to get a lot more messy for him.

And then the next 2 issues he’s teaming up with Jimmy Olsen and Superman to fight vampires in Metropolis.

The tonal whiplash is one of the fucking funniest I’ve ever seen with one of the most unhinged stories I’ve read so far. Absolutely bonkers.

[phyreunavailable]

Also hi. Hihihi. How does one read the comics and go "Yeah the Joker is pretty cool" because me personally I totally get why the Robin's collective are like. We should just kill this guy. Because I am like man. They should just kill that guy.

This is not to say I hate the Joker as a character I just think that he should be hit by a bus. Seven times. Jerry Johnson, the bus driver, should not be charged for killing Joker either because he did a public service. That's how I think of the Joker.

[puppetmaster13u]

Mini Prompt

"It's me or him, Bruce!" Jason screamed, green covering his vision as he held a gun to the Joker's head.

"Pull the trigger."

"What?!"

Batman Bruce His Dad simply tilted his head, voice quiet, emotionless almost.

"I have decapitated that thing no less than three times for what he did to you. Pull the trigger."