#bizarro

[why-i-love-comics]

Red Hood: Outlaws #40 - "Stretching Your Truth" (2023)

written by Patrick R. Young art by Nico Bascunan, Jeannine Halley & Nicole Bukowska

[sarahreadstoomanycomics]

Damian and Tim teaming up to absolutely demolish Jason in video games is just the kind of brotherly bonding I’d like more of from them.

[celtic-catgirl]

Bros!!!

[thisiswhereikeepdcthings]

Bruce: everything the smog touches is our kingdom

Robin!Dick: what about that bright, sunny place over there?

Bruce: that's metropolis. you must never go there.

Robin!Dick: You can’t tell me what to do.

Years later

Clark: Everything the light touches is-

Jon, not even letting him finish: What’s that weird shadowy place?

Clark: *sighs, thinking about Batman’s upcoming rant*

Clark: That’s Gotham.

Robin!Damian: *emerges from the shadows and hisses*

Jon: I think I have a new best friend.

Clark: Just be sure to smile at Batman a lot. He likes that.

Nightwing, Black Bat, Red Robin, and Spoiler: *give the Supers a big thumbs up*

Clark, grumbling to himself: Batman never lets me call him my best friend.

Later

Bruce: And that’s why you’re the only who truly cares, and I-

Jason: Okay, first of all, eww. Stop. Secondly, I’ll be right back.

Jason, frantically dialing numbers and lighting signal fires on the manor roof: Where are you, Biz, I need you. Batman’s experiencing emotions.

Later-er

Batman: And that’s why we use the shadows-

Signal: Yeah, that’s not going to work for me.

Batman: Just please tell me you don’t have a best friend related in any way to Superman.

Signal: Uh, no?

Batman: Great. You’re my favorite child.

Signal: Cool.

[thordottir45]

The Outlaw's Spirit

After a reveal gone wrong, whether intentional or not, Danny books it. Sam and Tucker have to stay behind in Amity to prevent Maddie, Jack, and the GIW from following their best friend. The trio is 16~17 or so at this point.

Jazz, being the best big sis that she is, has been taking college classes online to protect Danny. She helps the two destroy the Drs. Fenton lab before grabbing her go bag and getting out of there. She plans to start anew in a different city so that Danny can eventually join her. She's thinking Gotham, with the ambient ectoplasm, and high crime rates, it'll feel more like home than Star City, or Metropolis.

Danny, meanwhile, keeps running. He comes across a high-tech jet and hides in it, pulling a stowaway.

This jet is a Batplane, but is currently being used by The Outlaws for a mission.

Danny's ghost sense has no idea about how to react to Jason, so it causes him to cough, revealing his location to the group.

"B." Artemis instructs Bizarro with his nickname.

Bizarro moves in slowly, while Jason pulls out his guns, and Artemis her sword. Bizarro opens wherever Danny is hiding, revealing his black hair and blue eyes of his human form. Seeing the shaking teen, B gently pulls him out and 'restrains' him via hug.

Danny is freaking out at the sight of these out-of-the-norm people, and his ghost sense is triggering a coughing fit, aggravating whatever wounds he may have.

"One of your brothers?" Artemis asks Jason, despite keeping her guard up.

"Not that I know. What are you doing in here, kid?" Jason lowes his guns, but doesn't holster them, wanting to keep them in hand in case this kid is an enemy.

Danny, coughing, takes a closer look at the three surrounding him.

"Red Hood? Artemis of the Bana-Mighdall? Bizarro? What? Huh?!"

"Worry, we hurt you." Bizarro says soothingly.

Tensing, Danny prepares to use his powers, but Artemis explains what Bizarro means before he does.

"What are you doing in here, kid? You're hurt." Jason reiterates before noticing just how the boy is breathing other than his coughing fits.

Feeling safer with these three than he had with his parents in a long time, and with them all not being entirely human themselves, Danny is willing to explain some things, but not everything.

"My parents, they're scientists, they found out that I'm not entirely human... I had to run. I saw this jet, and it was a chance for me to get further away from them before they track me down."

"They can track you?" Artemis asks while Bizarro releases Danny, setting the teen down on a bench. Jason pulls out a med kit and sets it down next to Danny.

Jason then gets the Batplane into the air while the other Outlaws get to know the stowaway more.

Jason's inner bat wants to do so much research that he resembles the Replacement more than himself, but more of him sees himself in the kid and, as much as he loathes to admit it, pull a Bruce to take care of the much-too-thin teen.

Setting the autopilot to Gotham, Jason re-joins the discussion, noting that the kid's coughs get worse the closer he gets. Odd.

Bizarro and the teen have bonded over video games and movies, even with Bizarro's speech mannerisms.

Artemis, on the other hand, is patching the boy up, not offering much to the conversation other than clearing some things up for B.

"Course's set for Gotham. Figure we'll want Alfie to get some proper food in ya. Now, can you explain all the coughing?" Jason plops down across from the teen, keeping some distance to not make the coughing worse if his hunch is right.

Danny explains in the broadest terms for his ghost sense, that it can tell when people have died, and that Red Hood didn't come back right.

Tense, Jason's vision bleeds into green as he questions, "How?"

"I can tell because I didn't come back right, either..." Danny then tries to explain ectoplasm as glowing green goo, causing Jason to tense even more.

"Lazarus Waters."

"What?"

Taking off his helmet, the lenses of Jason's domino are glowing, "Lazarus Waters. They threw me in mostly dead, and I came out mostly alive."

"That shouldn't..." Danny tilts his head, thinking of the lessons from Frostbite on the nature of ectoplasm and what happens when it gets corrupted. All part of his training for taking the throne. "Huh. Sounds like you got a batch of the more corrupted stuff. With pure ectoplasm, it would bring you back fully, with few side effects."

"Ectoplasm?" Bizarro asks from Danny's right.

Explaining in more detail, since Red Hood is some sort of subject of his and needs help, time passes and soon the autopilot is landing the jet.

"Come on, kid. Let's get some food in you, then we can see what to do about the Lazarus Waters." Jason puts a hand on the door to the Batplane, opening it to reveal the Batcave.

Just something that was floating around in my head. Not sure if I'll continue it, it's unlikely.

[nightmareinfloral]

a collection

[blackfoxsposts]

Dpxdc prompt:

Danny glanced between Red Hood, Artemis, and Bizarro thoughtfully. Sure, he could go with them nicely and explain why his mini me 'kid napped' Damian, but that wasn't the fun option.

As an idea took place, Danny really wanted to try out the fun option.

[im-totally-not-an-alien-2]

Halloween prompts no. 15

Danny had been living in the ghost zone for almost a month now and he hated it. He was constantly under attack and could barely find anything to eat, he was so hungry.

Thats why when he was attacked this last time he fled into a part of the zone no one went to because of how unstable it was. What he went through wasn't quite a portal, it was more like he got liquefied and thrown into another dimension as a small pond.

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Bizarro wasn't having a very good day. He had been fighting off a bounty hunter and had just defeated them when they sent a parting gift- a missile of some sort that sent him rocketing down into the ground. The ground gave away under the impact and Bizarro found himself swimming back to the top of green waters. Flying above the surface he tries to regain his bairings before noticing the water was moving. No..it was..solidifying? And before he knew it a glowing white haired child was in the place of the waters.

Biz flew closer to inspect the child and was surprised when they used ice vision to blast him away. Pretty much unharmed, gears turned in Bizarros head before he came to the conclusion that the magic waters had turned into a child because of him. The ice vision was proof enough of paternity for him.

He gapped, "Bizzaro have son?!"

Danny looked just as flabbergasted if not more so and just kinda went with it because he was tired and hungry and weak and he was okay with being adopted so long as it wasn't by a creepy person or a billionaire. A few weeks later Biz introduced his son and showed him off proudly to the the outlaws. Jason and Artemis side eye eachother uncomfortably wondering if Biz just kidnapped a child and gently confronted him about it. Then they learn about the appearent Lazarus Pit that turned into a child.

The same child that was currently glowing while raiding Jason's fridge and stealing all the Capri-suns. It was then that they noticed how thin the kid was and made plans to get something to eat.

"Phantom" as the kid called himself, was skittish around him and Artemis but was completely fine with Bizarro. He spoke with him fine, cracked jokes with him, not an ounce of fear. Unfortunately the kid had taken to hiding behind Bizarro whenever one of them got too close. Even Biz himself couldn't get the kid to chill out near them.

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Danny himself liked Bizarro. He was enough like a ghost for him to be comfortable around him but his new dads humans reminded him a little too much of his own parents and thier betrayal. His inner Jazz told him he might have ptsd and he had to agree with her.

It was this that led to the realization that he might be afraid of humans in general.

In the meantime his new dad wanted to do all sorts of bonding activities with him and he was okay with that. More than okay actually.

[striveattemptfail]

Supers carrying others bridal style: Jay Nakamura vs Jason Todd | Superman: Son of Kal-El (2021) #4 vs Red Hood: Outlaws #7

Bonus: Meanwhile Flash and Nightwing...

Nightwing (2016) #91

[tsuyakiku]

WEEE ARRRE OUUUUTLAAAAWWWSSSSSS

[sohotthateveryonedied]

Is Jason actually good with kids, or is that fanon?

Oh, that's definitely a canon thing. Jason has always cared deeply about children and taken great efforts to protect them. Hell, the first comic he showed up in as Red Hood showed him taking control of Gotham's drug dealers and telling them that if they dealed to kids, they'd be swiftly and painfully murdered.

Batman #635

It can be assumed that the reason Jason's so passionate about protecting children and teenagers is because he himself had a crappy childhood. He had to take care of his drug addict mom, then lived on the streets, and then became a child soldier who died before his sixteenth birthday. Jason knows what it's like to have your childhood taken away, so he does what he can to protect the kids of Gotham. It’s like what Selina said about Bruce that one time: “When you take away the cape and the cowl and the capital ‘T’ in ‘The Batman’...he’s all about protecting the innocent.” Bruce and Jason have this in common. 

Batman: Urban Legends #1

Batman: Urban Legends #2

Batman: Urban Legends #6

DCeased: Unkillables #1

Batman Eternal #18

Red Hood: Outlaw Annual #3

Grayson #15

Then there's Jason's relationship with Duela Dent, which I’ve always loved. Jason was the only person who always believed in Duela and genuinely tried to help her, even when she screwed up or seemed "unfixable". No matter how many times she stumbled, he never gave up on her because he has personal experience with needing second, third, and fourth chances. And it worked in the end; Duela gave up the life and went back home to try being a normal girl again.

Red Hood/Arsenal #6

Red Hood/Arsenal #6

Red Hood/Arsenal #9

Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #50

Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #50

Jason has a similar relationship with Bizarro, treating him with respect and understanding even when everyone else saw him as a monster. Jason saw Bizarro for who he was: a creature with a childlike mentality who deserved his own life, rather than the weapon everyone else thought he was.

Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #3

Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #4

Red Hood and the Outlaws (2016) #7

(The only exception is Damian, who Jason is not afraid to bodyslam into the ground lmao.)

Batman and Robin (2011) #11

Teen Titans (2016) Annual #1

[why-i-love-comics]

Red Hood: Outlaws #40 - "Stretching Your Truth" (2023)

written by Patrick R. Young art by Nico Bascunan, Jeannine Halley & Nicole Bukowska

[marcofffca-sonca9]

Alfred adopting the Outlows wasn't on my wishlist BUT HELL YEAH

They should stay there more

[melodivita]

Dark Trinity as Reductress headlines 1

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For those of you who haven't seen it yet, Nico Bascuñán, the artist for the Red Hood Webtoon just uploaded art on their Twitter! <click image for better quality!>

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Art by birdyzhao