#my bab son

[thebibliosphere]

I feel like I've complained about Tim's email situation in Gotham Knights before (edit: I have), but the truth of it is just so funny.

He's signed up for so many podcasts, video game streamers, and random news alerts; it's just a constant barrage of data going straight into his constantly whirring brain. Hell, he even floats the idea of the Batfamily having their own podcast as a way to correct misinformation about them (which Jason shoots down instantly), and it's made me realize something.

Timothy Drake would be a YouTuber.

In this universe specifically, Timothy Jackson Drake, the heir to Drake Industries and the foster son of the late Bruce Wayne would be a YouTuber.

Think about it. It'd be the perfect cover. Who would ever suspect that some 16-year-old nepo baby with a YouTube channel could ever be Red Robin? You'd have to be mad. I mean, look at him.

Red Robin just dropped out of literal thin air and garotted someone four times his size, and you expect anyone to believe that's the same kid who does 24-hour Minecraft charity streams and occasionally drops 6-hour video essays (his last one was on Lex Luthor's illegal bit mining operation on the moon)?

That kid?

You think that kid is Red Robin?

Ch'yah, okay, sure. And the Joker is funny 🤡.

[cassandracain52]

A canon compliant guide of Bruce Wayne’s officially adopted children

I noticed there has been some confusion about who all in the BatFam is actually legally adopted by Bruce Wayne so I thought I’d try and help clear some things up.

(Full disclosure you can of course headcanon whatever you like, I made this is strictly to help newer fans know what is actually canon💕)

Dick Grayson: Adopted

(Batman: Gotham Knights #17 and Batman #600)

Many fans argue over whether or not Dick is officially adopted, many saying it was never official and he is still just his ward.

Though he does admittedly usually spend the majority of his actual childhood as a ward, Bruce ends up officially adopting Dick as his son(as I have explained before here)in multiple timelines

Barbara Gordon: Not Adopted

(Batgirl and the Birds Of Prey Rebirth)

There was never a need for Barbara to be adopted because she still has a Dad. She is however still very much in the BatFamily and has trained under and with Bruce

Jason Todd: Adopted

(The New Titans (1988) #55 and Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying)

Now I couldn’t track down a comic where we actually get to see Bruce adopt Jason, but there are plenty of instances in which his adoption is referenced -including but not limited to these two- throughout several timelines and reboots

Cassandra Cain: Adopted

(Batgirl 2008 #6)

Now this one is a bit more debatable as aside from this one instance, Cass’ adoption is never really mentioned again even after the timeline gets rebooted. Still the general consensus is that Cassandra’s adoption is considered canon.

Tim Drake: Adopted

(Batman #654 and Red Robin #4)

Though Tim declines Bruce’s offer of being adopted at first, we get to see Bruce adopt Tim as his son about a year or so later. His adoption is also referenced across multiple reboots

Stephanie Brown: Not Adopted

(Batgirls #13, Robin (1993) #174, and Robin (1993) #126)

Now the main reason Stephanie is not and probably will not be adopted is because both her parents are alive. While her Dad is a villain and out of the picture, her mother is a nurse and fully capable of taking care of her.

Bruce does however train her during her brief stint as Robin and much like Barbara she is no less apart of the BatFamily, she’s just not in the Wayne Family

Duke Thomas: Not Adopted (technically)

(All Star Batman #1 and Batman & the Signal #3)

Now Duke is never officially adopted because technically his parents are alive just insane due to Joker’s toxin of which there is no cure. However Bruce does take him in and let him stay at the manor and it is heavily implied he becomes Duke’s foster parent so do with that what you will

Damian Wayne: Not Adopted/Biological child

(Batman and Robin (2011) #0)

Damian is Bruce’s one and only biological child -of the main canon- and therefore does not need to be adopted because you don’t need to adopt your own child

And that’s all of Bruce’s official and unofficial children in the main canon!💕🖤

[nocturnalhe]

HAHAHHAHAHAHA BACK ON MY PLUSHIA GRIND

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

Anyway, Dick's alt universe/alt timeline kids are wild.

There's the Dick and Kori kids, Mar'i Grayson and Jacob (Jake) Grayson:

Mar'i is named after Dick's mom but with a Tamaranian twist and Jake is named after no one. Mar'i and Jake both can absorb energy, project energy and fly. However, only Mar'i has super strength. Jake also almost died at birth because of his mixed DNA and had extreme difficulty controlling his powers. He went from extremely sickly to nuclear bomb at a moments notice. Mar'i took up the mantle of Nightstar, married her uncle (?!?) and had two kids. Jake never picked a 'hero name' but he still helped people. Eventually he had a son that he named Richard.

Then there's the Dick and Babs kids, Johnny and Tommy. They're twins... I think. It's unclear. Either DC forgot the kid's name and started calling him a different name or there are two identical boys. There is speculation that John's (named after Dick's dad) middle name is Thomas and that's where the confusion is. I'm going to assume that there are two kids however, because they grow up to be very different people.

Thomas (named after Bruce's dad) took up the name Red Hood because he thought Jason was very cool. Thomas works very closely with the Bat family however and the name seems to be that only thing of Jason's that Thomas emulates. John got kidnapped as a small child and was experimented on until he developed powers. John has energy projection powers, super strength and flight. He went by the name 'Firepattern'. He was brainwashed by a cult and worked for them until his father found him again as a teenager. John Grayson actually exists in a few timelines but this is the one that gave him more than just a cameo role.

Then there's Elainna Grayson. She is Dick's daughter but they never say who her mother is. Barbara is not her mother because Elainna's mom is dead and Babs is alive in this timeline. Elainna takes up the mantle of Batwoman and fights alongside the Bat family (despite her father's objections)

Anyway... Dick has five different alt kids and three of them have the same powers and the other two took up mantles that weren't his. Very funny stuff right there.

[helenofblackthorns]

I knew this was going to happen. I knew it and it still doesn't hurt any less. i knew this scene was coming

[crazysnor1ax]

TOOK THIS PIC AFTER BATHING THESE FELLAS TODAY AND REALIZED I NEVER SHOWED YOU GUYS UPPY’S BROTHER. Meet Hopskotch!

[oifaaa]

Wait. I’m out of the loop for the Harley Quinn comic tie in. And I hope I’m reading wrong but. Are you saying they deaged Cass?? To be shipped with Damian??

I'm not sure if that's the reason why she shows up deaged but yeah in the last issue its decided that Cass will go to themyscia with wonder woman but just before she leaves she kisses damian on the check and damian blushes like im crosing every finger I have that it's meant to be platonic but at the way it was framed my hopes ain't exactly high

[leoleolovesdc]

No one in the batfamily is white except for alfred and tim send post

[zefforuins]

God I wish we knew more about what specifically was going thru Jason’s head after his fight with Bruce, because essentially his entire worldview has been collapsed. He’s spent the past however many years believing that Bruce is ultimately responsible for the pain that he feels, that the entire Batman thing does nothing but harm others, and that the only way he will “get better” is by killing Bruce.

Finding out that he was apart of Jokers plan all along, and that no, Bruce actually DOES care about him and regret what happened, and actively WANTS to make it right by working together with him has to be insanely difficult for him. By the time he shows back up in game to paint the red hood symbols and get ready to save Bruce, he’s figured out that Scarecrow is going to finish the plan and kill Bruce and that he actually…doesn’t want that. And from there on now Jason has to spend time trying to figure out who he is again.

Not only did Joker put ideas in Jason’s head, but Jason also has spend the past few years with one goal in mind, kill Bruce. As far as I know he hasn’t spent any extra time on a side gig or playing some video game that he likes lol. So he needs to find himself again and figure out how to trust his thoughts and ideas and try to free himself from the joker.

[pick-a-plush]

[mbirnsings-71]

I'm so normal totally *has sent a 17 minute long voice message about Bruce and Jason's relationship to my friends because it is apparently Jason Todd brain rot hours.*

[und8e2ff]

Saint Seiya Fun Fact:

Did you know Shun's only opponent to call him by his name is Ikki in the Galaxian Wars arc? Every other opponent Shun has fought exclusively calls him Andromeda.

there is a lot of misogyny being directed at this 13yo little boy

[graff-aganda]

do you guys see the vision

[fire-fira]

So I'm starting to read through all of Eddie's comic appearances (from this list) for fun, and--

Fury of Firestorm vol.2 #24, Special Blue Devil preview

--I honestly never would have expected Eddie to have been responsible for Dan deciding to go the superhero route in the first place. Even if Dan might have intended it to be a one-off.

It's just a fun little detail that I'm glad I found out. n.n

[tarucore]

ok but thinking about that one post, I think what modern Robin origin retellings get wrong is that Bruce was not a strict guardian, he wasn’t overly cold or distant from Dick, and I say this without judgement bc I love books like Robin: Year One and I’ll probably love the newest Batman and Robin series that’s coming out, but no modern comic really has a handle on how their partnership worked for the first 5-6 years

like the main problem between them in the early years is that they were best friends, partners!! He thought this kid was the best!!! Bruce was incredibly lenient with Dick if you think of their relationship as strictly father/son, and a huge part of their issues as Dick grew up was that Bruce suddenly started setting boundaries and treating Dick like a child just as he was becoming an adult, probably after he read a parenting book (joking) or realized that he was terrified of losing someone close to him again, whether that be by death or Dick moving away

I just don’t get why people are so insistent on ascribing the traits of modern Batman onto his early years, if Bruce had acted as emotionally distant and paranoid as he does now in certain comics then Dick would have never been as close to him as he is, and he would have left the position of Robin way earlier if Bruce hadn’t treated him like an equal

If you don’t want to lean into the campy, fun golden age Batman attitude that’s completely understandable but I’ve found hardly any modern adaptations that convince me Bruce likes the kid, much less loves him

[dragon-cookies]

I finally watched Season 2 of the Cuphead Show. I've got a new headcanon that these two bond over being single parents.