#duela dent (earth 3)

[morgangalaxy43]

Something interesting about Harvey Dent’s character that isn’t explored much is his and Two Face’s want to be a dad and start a family and how that easily makes them super jealous of anyone who has it or if someone takes or hurts the kids he already has

In The Dark Knight Harvey kidnapped James Gordon Jr. to intimate Jim and Batman In both the Gotham Knights show and the Earth 3 comics, Harvey has Duela Dent (it’s a little different in that universe because Harvey is woman and that universes Joker is father but still)

In Batman The Long Halloween movie he wanted to start a family with Gilda (she couldn’t have kids and he was still hopeful)

In Flashpoint he has twins with Gilda (Dexter and Debbie) and they get kidnapped by Martha Wayne (Flashpoint Joker) and in the sequel, Flashpoint Beyond, Harvey dies, his son gets adopted my Thomas Wayne (Flashpoint Batman) and Gilda becomes Two Face while in Arkham Asylum and later Martha Wayne (Flashpoint Joker) and Gilda becomes enraged and tries to kill her son and Martha shoots her to protect Dexter

I just find to super fascinating about how Harvey Dent and Two Face wanting to be a father and a family man in a reoccurring plot line in a lot of stories, and yet it isn’t a huge part of his character

[minie-mastermind]

Joker of Earth 3?

The identity of Red Hood went around to a couple of different Gotham Heroes before Jack Napier took up the identity for a simple act of justice. Stealing money from a safe in ace chemicals, the manager fired all the staff he could before Christmas so he wouldn't need to pay Christmas bonuses. Some families didn't even make it through the winter that year, this money would go a long way to making sure the rest would. Originally a comedian Jack Napier only knew about Owlman as an urban legend to laugh at when brought up in serious conversation. He had even mentioned him in his act, so when he saw him in person and threw him into the acid it was the surprise of his life as well as the worst day of it. Horribly disfigured he couldn't go out without being obviously recognized and hunted by Owlman, so he continued his identity as the Red Hood as he seek to revenge. He went up against Owlman again and again and lost every time. The chemicals he had been doused in affecting his health actually gave him an idea, what if he wasn't the only Red Hood? The identity had been taken up by more than one person but never at the same time, so what if there was an army to fight against Owlman? So he started looking and finding plenty of people who hated Owlman enough to join. He kept Everything secret and everyone disconnected from each other so anytime I Owlman discovered one he wouldn't discover the rest.

These crimson avengers all go by their own call signs usually based around playing cards. Wild Card Aka Jack Napier being the head and organizer of the rest. Outlaw Aka Doctor Harleen Quinzel was a therapist that Arkham who treated multiple Red Hood's before joining the cause herself, quickly figuring out the identity of its leader through the sheer fact that they used to date in college. Card King & Queen Aka Duela & Dexter Dent usually working together joined quite young and grew up in your organization after their father's disfigurement. Jokster Aka Alexis Kaye grew up idolizing him from what she saw through the media, seeing the Red Hood as the ultimate symbol of rebellion against the corrupt system. Jester Aka Gaggy Gagsworth A. Gagsworthy had been travelling with the flying graysons before the accident and after a lifetime of hardship on the road wanted to see the world change for the better.

Fake identities were built as well to throw element off the trail of any of the actual members. Ones that owl man has discovered are Eric Border, Johann Kaiser, Oberon Sexton and A. Rekoj.

Even after the supposed death of its leader it would carry on into the future as a group dealing out street justice called the Hoodz.

[ionalottabookmarks]

Talon and Duela

Okay, so. Usually when you hear “Talon” in DC stuff, you think undead assassin, Court of Owls, etc. However, the Court of Owls became a thing in 2011. This Talon predates it by about six years, and is apparently just a guy - fully alive.

He gets 2-3 real appearances - one in the story that establishes Duela’s updated origin, one other where he has an actual line of dialogue, and another where he shows up in the background of a few panels.

He also shows up in a photo in another issue, and in another he’s part of a vision/hallucination Dick Grayson has of alternate versions of himself - the only indication we have that Talon is his home universe’s version of Dick, and overall we’re not counting it, since it’s all in Dick’s head and Talon’s not even present.

Duela’s backstory, which we see in the Search for Ray Palmer comics, tells us that Talon is Earth-3′s Robin-equivalent - the sidekick for Owlman, Earth-3′s evil version of Batman. He and Duela have a little star-crossed romance, run away, and apparently wind up on the main earth together. Not that we ever see the two of them interact; they just show up in the background of big scenes occasionally.

Behold, all of his real appearances outside the Duela origin story:

Really, Talon is barely even a character. But I did all this research on him so I could co-opt the Search for Ray Palmer backstory for a homeless Court of Owls style Talon from my Flightless Birds series, and I figured I might as well share my findings.

[violetfaust]

I just wanted to comment on your quick and dirty Two-Face rundown... So... You know Duela...? You're right that in the comics, she was from an alternate universe where the Joker is a hero and is the Joker's daughter in that universe... But what you neglected to mention was that she is also Two-Face/Harvey's daughter in that universe too... He's just her mom!

Yeah, the universe that Duela comes from, it appears that Harvey was instead born a woman (named Evelyn), and there she is the superhero "Three-Face." She's married to the Riddler. This is what she looks like:

She's a disaster. I haven't read her stories, but I love her already.

OMG. I did NOT know that and I am so happy to hear it.

I have Thoughts about GK Duela and this is hilarious.

[tardigradetheking]

Oh God earth 3 duela dent and klarion would vibe too hard. They would do the most chaotic shit together.

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

Do you have any headcanon's for any heroic character on Earth 3?

The big two--World's Finest, if you will--are Captain Alexander Luthor of the Imperial Amerikan Marines and Jack "Jokester" Dent, Clown Prince of Justice.

Alex, despite this family's immense wealth, grew up in the shadow of his foster brother, Clark, through to their adulthood and the day Colonel Kent left for the stars and returned as Earth's new self-proclaimed ruler, Kil-Vex the Ultraman (no relation, obvs). Alex had risen to Captain under the Wilson Regime and personally requested point on the anti-Ultraman offensive. President Wilson's denial of that request and subsequent deal with Kil-Vex led Alex to defect, quickly burning through his personal wealth to build up an Anti-Ultraman Army. It was a disaster. Luthor's personal tragedies continued from there, as his wife, his sister, and eventually his own child all betrayed him for the Crime Syndicate. As his family collapsed, Luthor fully committed himself to his Legion of Justice, even as they were demoralized by defeat after defeat. In a moment of weakness, he tried to even the playing field by stealing geriatric villain Will Batson's dark lightning of MAZAHS, but the cursed magic erased his consciousness and replaced with a warped personality similar to his multiversal counterparts. He was eventually freed from the Curse of Mazahs, his belief in justice strengthened by the shame of the hunger for power he now knew slept deep within his very being.

Jack came from much less auspicious beginnings, a struggling actor and comedian whose act got him the wrong kind of attention of Owlman and his Talons. Viciously beaten and scarred, Jack took to wearing clown make-up and joined up with his ex-wife Evelyn Gold's Justice Underground. As Jokester and Three-Face, they worked with a loose network of other costumed heroes--Quizmaster, King Croc, Tick-Tockman, Mister Moth, Red Hood, and Jack and Evelyn's daughter Duela--to wage an asymmetrical war with Owlman and the fascist Council of Owls that had ruled Gotham for centuries. After killing one of the Talons in self-defense and attempting to return the body to Owlman, Jack was promptly executed, making the return of the Jokester not long after something of a personal annoyance to the Owl. As for Jack himself, even he couldn't explain why he was alive again...but then he always preferred multi-choice questions.

[twcfaces]

If I was writing Duela Dent, okay - I think I'd have to go with her 'original' backstory? It's way less convoluted to just say Harvey has a kid with his wife that he's never been told about or was deliberately hidden from him.

But nooooo, she's gotta be some Earth-3 BS. :/

[mattzerella-sticks]

After three episodes, I have a pretty strong feeling as to the direction in which they’re taking Turner’s character...

I guess I’ll start by listing a few facts about the assembly of pictures following that one of Turner:

- On Earth-3, where Duela Dent (daughter of the Jokester and Three-Face, adopted daughter of the Riddler) exists, she ends up dating that Earth’s version of Robin, known as Talon, who is the partner of that Earth’s Batman, known as Owlman. Earth-3 is an Earth of opposites, where good is bad and vice versa.

- The Talon assassins were chosen from the young ranks at Haly’s Circus to train and become assassins for the Court

- Nightwing (pictured in the bottom right corner of the third picture) aka Dick Grayson was SUPPOSED to become a Talon, but Bruce Wayne swooped in and adopted him before the Court could get their hands on him

- The man in the fourth image (I believe could not be him though) is an ancestor of Dick Grayson known as William Cobb who, not only killed many Wayne ancestors since his induction into the Court back in 1901, but ALSO tried to recruit Dick to join him many times

In summation, I think Turner might not become the next Batman, but rather create a new superhero identity using the Talon alias or something akin to it (maybe he becomes Owlman, I don’t know). It would make sense given they say Turner and Duela hint at a romantic relationship, and Turner is a ward adopted by Bruce at a young age in place of other potential character choices like Dick or Jason or Duke. I also believe the Talon that he’s fought so far in the show is related to him.

[ammomancer]

Gotham Knights Characters in Comics: A Guide For Non-Comic Readers

Are you a Gotham Knights viewer curious about what your new faves are like in the source material? Well, you're in luck, because I love to talk about them!

I'll preface this by saying that while I haven't actually sat down and watched the show, I have read the full episode transcripts. Additionally, if you're wondering where Turner, Cressida, or Rebecca and/or Brody March are in this post, they're original characters for the show and have no comic book counterparts.

(characters are in no particular order)

Carrie Kelley/Robin

Carrie originates from Frank Miller's 1986 graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns. TDKR takes place in a (non-canonical) not-too-distant future where Batman has retired after the death of Jason Todd (the second Robin; his death happened in main continuity too, Bruce just responded... differently to it), but takes the cape back up for... reasons. I haven't actually read this comic despite how influential it is (basically every hyper-macho, weirdly-militarized, violence-glorifying take on Batman owes its existence to this comic, which should tell you why I haven't read it). Anyway, Carrie is Batman's Robin when he comes out of Bat-Retirement. She doesn't have too much going on to my knowledge, but is notable for being the first female Robin and for her use of a slingshot. In the sequel comic The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Carrie uses a different costume and the name Catgirl. Yes, really.

The Mutant Gang and its leader (though idk about the name Vernon Wagner since, again, haven't read it) are also taken straight from this comic. Including the part where they don't look like mutants and just look like weird punks wearing Cyclops visors.

Navia Robinson's Carrie is great, I really like her design and her performance.

Duela Doe (Duela Dent)/Joker's Daughter

Oh boy, Duela. She made her first appearance in 1976, where she initially claimed to be the daughter of various villains such as Scarecrow and Riddler before finally revealing that her father is Two-Face (according to one of the writers, this was because Harvey was the only villain who it had already been established was married; he has an estranged wife named Gilda). At some point she started using the name Harlequin (note that this was before Harley Quinn was introduced) and was a member of the Teen Titans for a bit. This Duela is definitely the most normal—she's just a bit odd (the whole Joker's Daughter thing was just to spite Harvey for abandoning her because she wasn't a twin).

One reboot (Crisis on Infinite Earths) later, Duela's parentage is once again a mystery, though she still uses the "Joker's daughter" theme. One of her most notable appearances is in the Titans East arc of the 2000s Teen Titans run, where she is a member of the villainous Titans team assembled by Deathstroke (aka Slade from the Teen Titans cartoon, they just didn't want to say "death" on kids' TV). Eventually she gets bored and switches sides to fight alongside the heroic Titans.

Some time later, it's revealed that Duela is actually from an alternate universe and because of this she's killed by a Monitor (genuinely do not know what the Monitors' deal is but they have something to do with the universe/multiverse). Later on in the same big event (Countdown) we find out that the universe she was from is Earth-3, where characters who are normally good guys are bad guys and vice versa (for instance, instead of Batman there's the villainous Owlman). Her parents are the Jokester (Earth-3's heroic Joker) and Three-Face (Evelyn Dent, Harvey's heroic Earth-3 counterpart who is a lady for some reason).

Yet another reboot later (the New 52, noted for its many... questionable decisions), Duela is now just some girl with major issues and an obsession with the Joker. She also wears his severed face as a mask. Yyyyyeah, you can pretty much ignore this version.

The Gotham Knights version seems to be going with Duela actually being Joker's daughter, since she describes her background in such detail and she seems troubled enough by it that I doubt she made it all up. I'm interested to see what direction they go with her, at any rate!

Harper Row (Bluebird) and Cullen Row

Harper and Cullen get to share a section. Do Not Separate Them etc.

Comics Harper and Cullen's mom, Miranda, was murdered rather than having walked out on them (though I get why they changed this, as it ties in to the story of another character who probably won't be on the show—Cassandra Cain, who's currently on Batwheels and DC has this weird thing about characters appearing in more than one show at once). Since their shitty alcoholic dad was in and out of jail, Harper ended up having to be the one to take care of herself and Cullen. Eventually she applied for emancipation and they both moved out.

Harper is very good with machinery, and she provides for herself and Cullen by working as a professional electrical engineer. Harper was inspired to become Bluebird when Batman saved her and Cullen from some homophobic assholes (specifically they were targeting Cullen for being gay, though Harper is also bi. They never say if Cullen is trans or not). After this she and Cullen became fixated on Batman and his exploits (well, more so than the average Gothamite is), and eventually Harper went out fighting crime as Bluebird. Bluebird mostly uses gadgets she made herself, including a big taser gun. She's currently in college and volunteering at a clinic.

Cullen... doesn't do all that much. Tyler DiChiara noted in an interview that as much as he likes comics Cullen, he doesn't like how passive he is and he's excited to show him stand up for himself more. I definitely see that in the show and I'm totally here for it!

Stephanie Brown (Spoiler/Robin/Batgirl)

No, that's not a spoiler warning, she actually uses the name Spoiler.

I'll be honest, Steph is one of the main reasons I made this post, just 'cause the show version is such a far cry from her comics iteration (and not in a good way) that I felt almost duty-bound to try and set the record straight. I'm all for new interpretations of characters, but this goes beyond that into "in name only" territory.

So, what is comics Stephanie like? Well...

Stephanie Brown is the daughter of Arthur Brown, a failed game show host better known as the C-list supervillain Cluemaster (basically a lamer knock-off of the Riddler). Growing up with a criminal father (who alternated between being in jail and being an abusive prick when he was home) and a mother who, albeit loving, was limited in her ability to take care of her due to her drug addiction, Steph had to be tough. When her dad broke out of jail and was a fair bit more competent than normal, she decided she'd had enough and tried to stop him as Spoiler (because she "spoiled" her father's plans, you see). The first time she met Robin (specifically Tim Drake, the third Robin) she hit him with a brick. That must have been a good first impression, because they actually dated for a while. There's a story arc where Steph finds out she's pregnant (from a shitty ex-boyfriend, NOT Tim) and ends up giving her baby up for adoption. When Tim couldn't be Robin for a bit (his still-alive father Jack found out he was Robin and grounded him), Stephanie showed up to the Batcave in her own homemade Robin costume and basically declared herself Batman's Robin. When Bruce fired her from the position (for really dumb reasons), in an attempt to prove herself she tried to carry out one of Batman's plans to stomp out organized crime in Gotham. However, Steph made a mistake (part of the plan involved one of Bruce's fake identities but she didn't know it was one of his fake identities and thought it was an actual person) and ended up accidentally starting a huge gang war. In the midst of this gang war, she was kidnapped and tortured by Black Mask (the one Ewan McGregor played in the Birds of Prey movie, yes), and when he eventually let her go and she got to a hospital, she ended up succumbing to her injuries and dying. Messed up!

Some time later it turns out she actually faked her death and was in hiding for a while. She's given the Batgirl mantle by the aforementioned Cassandra Cain (who was Batgirl at the time) but after the New 52 she's Spoiler again (currently she's like, both? it's weird).

The big issue I have with her portrayal in Gotham Knights is with her background. Steph not only being a rich girl, but a big part of her story involving her being a rich girl, is missing the point SO hard in my opinion. A lot of who Stephanie is is because of her lower-class background (much like her fellow dead Robin, Jason Todd, who Bruce would compare her to a lot while she was Robin). She's someone who's had to fight for everything she has, that's like the whole point of her character! She and Harper were actually roommates in the comics for a bit.

Harvey Dent/Two-Face

(first image is regular ol' Harvey, second image is him as Two-Face. There are a lot of variations on 2F's design, but pretty much all of them fit the description of "at least reasonably handsome-looking normal guy face on the left, messed-up scarred face with a glaring eye and constant snarl on the right".)

Here we get to the part I imagine a lot of you were waiting for. There are people who could explain this better than I (maniac-reboggles, for one), but I'm including my own attempt for the sake of completeness.

As he's existed since 1942, there's a lot of different ways Harvey's backstory has been told. The Incident that makes him into Two-Face has been pretty consistent since day one, but what happens before then varies more. In modern comics, though, it's generally something like this:

Harvey Dent grew up with an abusive father who kept a lucky coin that he would flip to decide whether or not he would beat his son. (This is where the DID comes from; childhood trauma is pretty much a prerequisite for the disorder as far as we know.) As an adult, Harvey is a close friend of Bruce Wayne (just to be clear Bruce and Harvey have had Gay Undertones for a long time, it's nothing new) and the youngest District Attorney in Gotham's history. Since this is Gotham, the justice system is corrupt as hell, but Harvey is doing his best to straighten things out and trying to root out corruption, earning him the nickname of Gotham's "White Knight". Things go bad when, while prosecuting mob boss Sal Maroni, Maroni (or sometimes one of his lackeys) throws sulfuric acid in Harvey's face, horribly scarring him. This is the last straw for Harvey psychologically--this incident has proven to him that the legal system is beyond hope. Taking inspiration from his father, Harvey reinvents himself as Two-Face, making decisions using a coin that has one clean side and one scratched-up, "scarred" side. (Originally it was that he'd either do a good deed or a bad deed, and sometimes it's still that, but other times it's more between "evil" and "less evil"). In more recent comics Harvey's alter (referred to by different names depending on the continuity; most often Two-Face is the name of the alter, but in BTAS he's "Big Bad Harv" and in at least one continuity he is referred to as Harvey's "associate") is depicted as a "protector" (which is more realistic to DID- people don't just have "evil" alters unlike what some movies would have you believe) who just happens to be rather ruthless in his methods.

Bruce is forever upset at what happened to his friend, and is often depicted as wanting to help him get his life back together and go straight; sometimes Harvey even agrees to that, but due to the nature of comic books he always goes back to villainy eventually. Sigh...

Lincoln March

This is....Mmmm.

I haven't read the comic arcs with him in them, but in the Court of Owls arc, Lincoln March (which is apparently an alias) is seemingly a cool guy who supports Bruce in his endeavors to make Gotham better, he wants to run for mayor, a real stand-up guy. He even seems to want to assist Batman against the Court of Owls.

Buuuuut it turns out he's actually working with them. But they like, betrayed him or something, and also he claims that he's actually Bruce's secret twin brother, Thomas Wayne Jr.? It's left ambiguous if this is true or not.

(I mentioned before that Rebecca and Brody were made up for the show--for clarity, comics Lincoln is single.)

I don't know what direction they're gonna go with Lincoln in the show but I have to hope it isn't as dumb as the comics. But who knows, it could be way better, or it could be even dumber. We'll see!

[iodoesdolls]

Clowns from 3 different universes. (1st girl is Duela Dent, the Jokester’s daughter from earth 3. 2nd girl is the Joker from Tangent earth. 3rd girl is Duela Dent, Two Face’s daughter from the main universe.)

[iowriteswords]

So many projects going on right now, so I thought I’d do a quick update.

Shards of Glass: novel written under the name Jenny Prater, about a girl crossing fairyland in search of her missing friend. Based on The Snow Queen. Coming out September 26, preorders open now, working on lots of promo stuff.

When Pinioned Birds Take Flight: currently ongoing Batfic.

Who Shall Make the Clown Laugh?: upcoming fic, fully written, will be shared in a few weeks, 1ch, 11k, follows Earth 3 Talon!Dick and Duela Dent.

On that note, the Duela Dent blog series that’s sort of on hold for now, but will pick up again.

Bird and Bee: upcoming fic following Earth 3 Talon!Jason at his new home in Earth 11, currently working on chapter 4 out of an estimated 5.

Untitled Talon!Cass and Lady Shiva story, currently in very early planning stages.

The Shoemaker Prince: this short story collection came out 2 years ago, but I’m currently putting the finishing touches on a second edition. The plan was originally just to reformat and correct some errors in the text, but the reformatting dramatically decreased the page count, so I ended up adding 3 more stories.

When the War Ends: my current novel which I set aside at 65k to focus on Pinioned, but I’m definitely gonna get back to it soon.

Take Off Your Happy Face: fic following Harley and Tim in Joker Junior aftermath, was supposed to be my next fic project, after finishing When the War Ends, then Pinioned, then another novel, but somehow it’s happening now.

Silence: the aforementioned another novel, about a mermaid; I’m 12 chapters in but have set it aside until finishing at least When the War Ends and Pinioned.

Untitled Flightless Birds part 4: I’ve written a few scenes for this, but it’s mostly a project for later. However, I’ve had to do a lot of outlining for it already because it takes place in the main flightless birds world at the same time as Pinioned, so timelines have to match up since Tim is making phone calls into the Pinioned world. Currently brainstorming for titles including words flight, flown, flying, etc. Will feature new characters including Bart, Kara, and maybe Sin.

[ao3feed-brucewayne]

Birds of a Feather

by classyjazzy

Richard Grayson was not always evil. He had been finely crafted into something vicious and filled with hate by his father, Owlman. He was perfected into a soldier, one who would kill, steal, and do anything if it meant the approval and love of Thomas Wayne Jr.

But when he's carried away from one universe to another, his worldview is shattered. His arrival on Earth 0 will lead to a sequence of events that could unravel the very fabric of existence, while the former villain juggles with trying to change for the better and escape the grasps of Owlman and the Crime Syndicate, who aren't exactly unaware of Richard Grayson's peculiar circumstances.

TW: Depiction of abuse

Words: 1842, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English

Fandoms: DCU (Comics), Batman (Comics), Teen Titans (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, Titans (Comics)

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Major Character Death, Graphic Depictions Of Violence

Categories: Gen, Multi, Other

Characters: Earth-3 Richard Grayson | Talon, Bruce Wayne, Kal-Il | Ultraman, Earth-3 Lois Lane | Superwoman, Duela Dent, Teen Titans (DCU), Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, Stephanie Brown, Barbara Gordon, Duke Thomas, Cassandra Cain, Justice League (DCU), Clark Kent, Jonathan Kent, Alfred Pennyworth, Kon-El | Conner Kent

Relationships: Duela Dent/Earth-3 Richard Grayson | Talon, Barbara Gordon/Dick Grayson, Selina Kyle & Bruce Wayne, Stephanie Brown/Tim Drake, Clark Kent & Lois Lane, Jonathan Samuel Kent/Jay Nakamura, Helena Bertinelli/Jason Todd, Kal-Il | Ultraman/Earth-3 Lois Lane | Superwoman, Kal-Il | Ultraman/Thomas Wayne Jr. | Owlman, Flatline (DCU) & Damian Wayne, Garfield Logan/Raven, Roy Harper/Donna Troy, Linda Park/Wally West

Additional Tags: DC Comics References, DC Comics Rebirth, Earth-3, Earth-3 Crime Syndicate (DCU), Slow Burn, Slow Build, Action/Adventure, Action & Romance, Angst and Hurt/Comfort

source https://archiveofourown.org/works/42207606

[ionalottabookmarks]

Duela Origin: Version Two

So we’re gonna go back after this and do her full 70s run, but since we’ll meet a new version of Duela tomorrow night on Gotham Knights, I thought it would be a good idea to cover her 2nd origin first. (We might also have a post on Gotham Knights Duela, if I either like her or hate her - neutral feelings don’t generate blog posts.)

Duela’s second origin is provided in a flashback, basically (granted, a nearly issue-long flashback) in Countdown Presents: The Search for Ray Palmer: Crime Society in 2007. By this point, Duela has been murdered. This issue is set in Earth-3, which Jason Todd, Donna Troy, and Kyle Rayler are visiting in search of Ray.

Earth-3 is an alternate universe where the characters have swapped moralities. This story follows Jokester, the good Joker, who fights Owlman, the evil Batman, and Talon, the evil Robin.

Jokester used to date a woman named Evelyn Dent, who eventually disappeared. Years later, she reappears with two new personalities, a husband, and a teenage daughter - Duela.

(Sorry, I think part of a panel got cut off here)

(I do think this was a clever nod to Duela’s original thing of pretending to be different villain’s daughters - here, she’s Two-Face’s (well, Three-Face’s) daughter, Joker’s (Jokester’s) daughter, and Riddler’s step-daughter.)

This little intro establishes that Duela sometimes hops universes without understanding what she’s doing or how. Her presence in the wrong universe - the main one - is what ultimately leads to her death. Which is an event we’ll cover someday, probably.

Jokester really enjoys having a daughter, until she introduces her boyfriend to the family.

Duela and Talon run away together, eventually landing in our main universe. I don’t know what happened to Talon there, since he barely made an appearance (we’ll cover that eventually, too), but Duela, as previously established, died.

Shortly after, Riddler, Jokester, and Three-Face get in a fight with Owlman, where Riddler dies, and Three-Face seems to, though we find out at the end of the issue that she’s still alive.

With nothing else to live for in his home world, Jokester joins Jason, Donna, and Kyle, hoping that Duela has gone to some other universe, and he’ll be able to find her again.

That’s where this issue ends - later, he’ll find out Duela is dead, and then die himself.

This is by far my favorite post-70s Duela appearance, which is unfortunate since it’s, you know, post-mortem.

(I don’t think this appearance is consistent, as far as characterization, with her appearances in the time leading up to her death - immediately-pre-mortem Duela is violent, erratic, and insane, where this one seems a little weird, likely due to her accidental universe hopping, but ultimately like a sweet kid. To be fair, though, we have no idea how much time passed between running away with Talon and the events leading up to her death, or what ended up happening to Talon in that time. It’s possible that several years have passed and she’s been through significant trauma. She doesn’t appear to be significantly older, but her aging went way wonky in the 80s, and that’s briefly addressed in at least one later comic, so it’s possible that’s still in play and she’s several years older than she looks.)

Anyway. Come back next time, when we hop back to the 70s and Duela meets the Teen Titans. (Unless I do a Gotham Knights Duela post first.) (Or I don’t have the energy to write something in time, in which case we’ll go with a pre-loaded collection of Duela appearances.)

[lowduckcap]

Earth 3

EARTH 3.

Injustice Syndicate

1. Ultraman

2. Owlman

3. Super Woman

4. Power Ring

5. Johnny Quick

6. Atomica

7. Death Storm

8. Sea King

9. White Martian

10. Angelique

11. The Bowman

12. Rubber Man

13. The Outsider

14. Grid

15. Ultragirl

16. Talon

17. Magog

18. Scarab

19. Inertia

20. Silver Cyclone

21. Reverb

22. Rupture

23. Scream Queen

24. Coyote

25. Doc Chaos

Legion of Justice

1. Lion Heart “Luthor”

2. Red Hood

3. Power Tower

4. Star Sapphire

5. General Grodd

6. Prof. Magnus

7. Q-Ranger

8. Stingray

9. Grave Digger

10. Venus

11. Savanna

12. Lady Granite

13. Enigma

14. Lonar & Thunderer

15. Star Woman

16. White Rabbit

17. Lioness

18. Matter Mage

19. Shadow Sheriff

20. The Mind

21. Lady Sonar

22. Time Keeper

23. Bat Woman

24. Zibarro

25. Sir Grundy

Starro?

3 Face?

Duela Dent?

Dr. Domino?

Red Tool?

[chaosmultiverse]

🌋 @ Duela

Send 🌋 and my muse will blurt out the first thing that comes to mind when they see your muse

"So.... Can anyone tell me why his colors are a inverse of that Impulse guy? Are they like- Related or something?"

[slash-and-burn-babe-archive-blog]

DC needs to stop being convoluted