#the JL know what superpowered teens are like

[justwannabecat]

Danny is the Ghost King.

About 99% of ghosts see him as the Savior, the Liberator, the one who defeated Pariah Dark. They see him as the Balance and the Guardian and the one Chosen by the Realms itself.

Basically, they hang onto his every word, praise his every action, because they believe that even if they don’t understand why he’s doing it, it is all part of a larger plan.

This has made Danny even more of a little shit, as it’s the only thing that makes his job as Ghost King tolerable. As a result, he starts to play into it a lot, saying and doing increasingly ridiculous things to try and figure out when they catch on.

(They haven’t yet. To be fair, it’s been a slow escalation.)

Danny gets so into this little game of his that when he’s suddenly gained an audience of a few people who claimed they were lost, he doesn’t stop. He points out landmarks in opposite directions of the Realms, he spins around and points in different directions as he talks, he floats and dashes all around the room.

And then he suddenly stops, looks at them again. “Wait. You’re living. Not. Not ghosts. That explains why-why you aren’t…” He shakes himself and suddenly there’s very embarrassed, very serious, but much more straightforward Danny taking charge.

(The JL were scared of this unknown. They had been trying to investigate the rumors of a new ghost king when they fell into a natural portal. They stumbled their way to the palace and realize very quickly that this is a kid.

Negotiations between dimensions aren’t that nerve-wracking once they figure that part out.)

[ao3feed-superbat]

sweet high school game (and chaos overloading)

read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/EAYLlSp by Inedia "What is this about, you wonder? For heroes as good and important as them, it surely must be some very delicate subject that could divide them like this. If you think so, congratulations, you fell straight into the lies feed to you by the Justice League propaganda. Because, as heroics they are, they are before anything else, children. Children stuck into superpowered adult bodies. A very dangerous and foreign concept, I’m afraid. So no, the Justice League is not arguing about the protection of the Earth or how the capitalism is the root of every problem mankind has to face, but about a stupid game of Fuck, Marry, Kill." Or : your classic fanfic of the Justice League playing Fuck, Marry, Kill and throwing the name of Bruce Wayne while Batman is dying of embarrassment. Words: 1976, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types, Justice League - All Media Types, DCU Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Bruce Wayne, Clark Kent, Diana (Wonder Woman), Barry Allen, Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), J'onn J'onzz, Oliver Queen Relationships: pre - Relationship, Clark Kent/Bruce Wayne Additional Tags: Batman Identity Reveal, fmk, the JL plays fmk, and Brucie pops up, Crack, they are morons, Green Lantern Hal Jordan (Green Lantern), Hal Jordan (Green Lantern) Being a Little Shit, Fuck Marry Kill, Chaotic Batfamily (DCU), Identity Reveal, Secret Identity, How Do I Tag, I'm Bad At Tagging, Bruce Wayne Knows Clark Kent is Superman, Batman's identity is unknown to the JL read it on AO3 at https://ift.tt/EAYLlSp

[gayshitanddadjokes]

Someone should write a fic where Tim Drake gets roped into becoming a Green Lantern while he's still Robin, before he even starts YJ. He ends up living a triple life as Tim Drake, Robin, *and* a Green Lantern. He's just playing the long game, trying to get Hal to not say anything about him and make sure Bruce never sees Tim with any Green Lanterns, all while making sure none of the Lanterns meet Robin.

When his dad goes into the coma he's like "hey Hal do you wanna pretend to be a distant relative of mine and 'adopt' me so that Bruce Wayne doesn't?" "Why the fuck does Batman want to adopt you???" "He's my neighbor. Please." Which leads to a custody battle between one of the richest men in the world and a guy whose superpower is being stubborn.

One day after YJ disbands and they all join Teen Titans, Dick drags Robin to Teen Titans saying that Robin needs more friends. Que Cassie pulling him, Bart, and Kon into a side room and being all like "Tim??????" "What? Who's Tim? I've never heard of Tim Drake in my life!" "We never said your last name." "Shit."

Eventually the JL face an enemy that can steal their powers for a limited amout of time and Tim, who was roped into this by Guy, gets his powers stolen and proceeds to pull out a bo staff and batarang and beat the shit out of this guy. Batman runs over and is like "guy why did you let Robin borrow a lantern ring do you know how dangerous that could have been? Robin why are you even here?" And Guy turns to Tim and is like "did batman just call you Robin??????????" Tim is like "yeah about that" while texting Bart for help. Eventually they talk everything out. Eventually.

OR when Bruce dies and Damian takes Robin Tim just dips and becomes a lantern full-time. Someone else finds Bruce and B is like "yooooo where the fuck is my Robin???" And eventually asks the JL for help finding Tim Drake, though he doesn't say why and Hal immediately calls him and is like "idk what you did but you fucked up and Batman is looking for you BY NAME" and Tim is like "ok i got this". Of course what they don't know is that Bruce had been listening to the call and is like "how do you know Tim Drake" and he's like "why wouldn't I know him??? I thought that's why you asked me. I know not all green lanterns know eachother, but we're both from Earth so we kinda had to run into eachother at some point" and B is like ".did you just say he's a green lantern"

[bad4amficideas]

DC MASTERLIST

One throughts for my rambles & anon dearies for all answers (not requests)

Isekais xReader tag (all I read I mean)

EARTH 1T8 masterlist (Isekai! Bat! Reader x Yandere! Batfam)

Yandere write-it-yourselves prompts

Reader is Alfred lost grandchild

What if each Justice League member represents an Olympian god... and Reader is Aphrodite.

Young Justice + Teen Titans Verse

Fae! Or Succubus!Reader searching Harem

Being Robin with the Batboys being all villains

Batboys with superpowers

Working under Dick Grayson as a Police officer

Reverse isekai, the yanderes fall/trapped in your house!! (Maybe as cute animals)

JUSTICE + YOUNG JUSTICE + Teen Titans HCs/Requests

Yandere Justice League NSFW HCs

Symbiote!Reader comes from an alternate land. Their original self died in the main one. JL goes yandere on them

Yandere Damian + Yandere Raven HCs

Yandere Young Justice reacting to the reader telling them pick up lines?

Platonic Ra's Al Ghul x Youngest Daugther Reader

BATBOYS HCs/Requests

🆕️🆕️ Damage Control IsekaiReader x Yandere!DC

🆕️🆕️ Damage Control 2

Yandere Deadwing HCs

Robin Reader HCs

Platonic Yandere Alfred HCs

Random Batboys Yandere HCs

Yandere Batboys NSFW HCs

Legal Sex Worker AU part 1 (Tim + Jason + Dick)

Soulmate + Yandere AU with the Batboys

How would the yandere Batboys react to the reader having a stuffie that kinda comes to life and both of them are best friends?

Reader with a necklace that creates a protective forcefield around her when she meditates

Yandere Batfam with pregnant reader getting away and finding them years later thanks to their 15 y/o kids. They meet again at the kid birthday.

Starfire's sister reader run away from batfam, discover is pregnant, have her child, and now gots hunted back plus her sister tries to defend her

Yan!Batfam x Raven!Sister. Reader gots pregnant, gots away, the sisters and child are found and punished five years laters. What will they do to Raven and how will they break the reader into being the obedience little wife?

Yan!Batfam with superpowered sisters darlings who ended drunk-pregnant-married with them. Years laters are found with another man who know what they suffer and whom their kids call daddy. Yan!Batfam gets their darlings and sons back in the same place where it start

Batboys react to Reader asking if can publish their stories online

🦇 BRUCE WAYNE/BATMAN 🦇

Yandere Platonic!Bruce + Ex!Damian with witch!Reader. Damian dump her for Raven, then gets into accident and Raven dump him. Reader heals him

Yan!Batman&Yan!Damian x IvyDaugther. In jail ivy get a letter saying she's going to be a grandma

Yan!Batman&Yan!Jason x HarleyQuinn!Sister where they kidnapped Reader after a fight with the siblings where Harley got away cuz her sister help her and now Reader is not in jail but missing!

Superman and Batman sharing a darling, her running but being captured because has two kids of them whom were discovered by their fathers, kidnapped by Joker and she had them rescued.

Yan!Batman x Catwoman!Sister. How would the sons react to her being their teacher and now new mom and how would Bruce reaction to it

YandereBatmanxJoker!sister where she  fall into the same stuff that the cuz she was trying to help him get away and Batman bring her to the cave to keep her safe and to make them depending on them

Yandere!Batman x bat!superhuman!reader like they where he found her in a cave while casing bad guys and she got hurt

🔫 JASON TODD/RED HOOD HCs/Requests 🔫

Yandere Jason Todd reacting to someone trying to attack pregnant reader

Yandere Jason Todd testing reader to see If she’ll escape but she only goes to get him a bouquet

Yan!Batman&Yan!Jason x HarleyQuinn!Sister where they kidnapped Reader after a fight with the siblings where Harley got away cuz her sister help her and now Reader is not in jail but missing!

🗡️DAMIAN HCs/Requests 🗡️

Yandere DemonHead!Damian HCs

Yandere Damian + Yandere Raven HCs

Reader is part of a band/dance group and have to perform at another location. Yandere Damian Wayne can’t tag along

Yandere Platonic!Bruce + Ex!Damian with witch!Reader. Damian dump her for Raven, then gets into accident and Raven dump him. Reader heals him

Yan!Batman&Yan!Damian x IvyDaugther. In jail ivy get a letter saying she's going to be a grandma

Yandere!Damian with a reader with a really unhealthy sleeping schedule

Yandere Damian with a beloved in a idilic relationship

[cartoonfangirl1218]

If Bombshells ever returned, maybe to explore the aftereffects of the war. Here are some superheroines and supervillainesses that could join the fight into the new era. The Cold War.

Jesse Quick; Jesse would totally join the families providing their homes to the displaced Jews of Europe while at the same time protecting her city from all sorts of crime. But her storyline might come with learning that in her need to help everyone and solving everyone's problems since she has the technology and the privlege, well... kinda appears as a white savior. At least to Lisa Snart which brings me to... 

Golden Glider: Well I think we can all guess that Lisa has a Jewish-like last name and while her big bro, Captain Cold, Leonard was working with the Nazis, I am so arguing that he was just conveinately converting in order to save his skin and his sister's. Anyway with her brother in jail and Europe in shambles after the war, Lisa can travel to America with other displaced Jews. Some families were kind enough to "foster" these peoples which is where Jesse comes in. Well Lisa isn't the type to accept the "pity" and dislikes how priviliged a life, Jesse leads. Then comes a whole new yet classic Flash vs the Rogues rivalry.  

Nyssa ah Gul: How can we forget another misplaced Jew. Well not Jew but Ra ah Gul's other daughter, Nyssa, whose entire adopted family died in the concentration camps while Ra was off whatevering with the Lazerus Pit. But since Ra's long gone from the picture, I suppose Nyssa will have to seek answers from Talia about why she didn't try to help her or contact her after finding out they were sisters. 

Mya: Meanwhile after WWII, India is revving up for a revolution after being used and abused by the British Empire in a war they didn't even want to be in. And after being in the war, STILL treated like second class citizens. That's why Myra, prodigy of Shiva is up to lead a revolution for her people.

Gypsy: Let’s not forget about all the other groups that Nazis were prejudiced against. Cynthia Reynolds or "Gypsy" as the SS slurred against her and her Romanian family. But with Europe's landscape in disarray, Cynthia can use her earth-bending powers to help and educate people that she is more than the fortune telling, pick pocketing stereotype that the world believes.

Volcana: Now I know we didn't really get into Italy's part in WWII, but someone with volcano powers would totally be working in Italy, specifically Pompeii. The one issue is that, like in her origin story, she was working for Mussolini against her will and the Italian still wants their "super weapon" under lock and key in case of WWIII. 

Thorn: Meanwhile the late 40s-early 50s is totally not a time to be woman with a mental illness. Especially when the "understanding" doctors try to lobtomize you. So Roselyn Forrest's double personality disorder is a big problem in her life. Especially since her second personality is a scythe weilding maniac and her uncle wants to put her in an institution. Added to the fact that she is still suffering under Irish discrimination. Hopefully the Batgirls can help, not only change child labor laws, but views on mental illness too.  Giganta: A gorilla turned into a girl. Why shouldn't that be an experiment by the crazy Americans or Russians in a way to beat each other as the world superpower. Well technically the Russians wanted to send a gorilla into space and beat the Americans, but they thought a woman astronaut (or as they called cosmonaut) would make them look better. (All true look up Valentina , first woman in space). But besides being part of the space race, Giganta can bring spotlight to Africa where she was born, and which is being divided by the major world powers for exploitation. 

Crimson Fox: Constance D' Amis, French heiress would be part of the small army of woman workers during the YALTA conferance trying to get their say into how to rebuild Europe for the benefit of all. Who knows, maybe she even talked to Selina Delgatti. Hey French heiresses and Italian heiresses must know each other. Plus she expels hormones that can make anyone under her thrall which leads me to...

Queen Bee: Another pheromone expelling woman. A villainess though. Africa wasn't the only one being exploited and colonized. The former Ottoman Empire was being exploited for its oil and Lebenon is taken over by the French (Basically ample reason for Constance to go to Lebenon and fight Queen Bee). And the former queen is certainly not above going to the Russians to fight the US/Europe to get her country back. Or just team up with Lex Luthor to take down Supergirl and get her country back. I just imagine Lex and --- to be like an evil Mr.Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet okay. All suave, witty banter. It makes sense in my head.

Catherine Colbert: A bit like Lois Lane, Catherine is an everygirl. Well if the everygirl was a daughter of an dimplomat and had her sights on making a name for herself in NASA and trying to avoid the pressures of mysgonistic men that woman aren't fit for government. Being told that she is too emotional and should stay in the kicthen, Catherine rebelled by becoming a stone faced, cutting ice queen in the diplomacy track and also a horrible cook. Artemis and Cheshire: I'm taking a bit from the YJ story in that Artemis and Cheshire are half-french, half-Vietnamese. Since their abusive father was loyal to the Nazis, he disowned them and cast off their Vietnamese mother in Japanese concentration camps. While Artemis made it to America and tried to stay on the good ol American democratic way (while fighting petty looters in the streets of Gotham as one does), Cheshire went to Vietnam where she works as an assasin, for the communists and the non-communists. It doesn't matter to her as long as she gets paid. But times are changing in Vietnam as the fights about communism between the North Vietnamese and South escalate. 

Lady Blackhawk: Zinda Blake, hero of WWII and the Blackhawk brigade comes home to nothing. No money. No pension. No respect. Life as a veteran has no perks since no one has money to pay in Europe. Plus she'd still be trying to adjust to civilian life after nonstop combat and the inevitable PTSD while the Germany she loved is split into two. Hopefully Rudi and Helen will help to keep her in a safe place until she can get back on her feet.  Miss Martian: While I don't know whose in Harley, Ivy and Viktoria's circus, I feel like Miss Martian would find a safe haven there. While she did not experience the WWII, she did experience a similar prejudice and genocide on Mars being a white martian so I bet she can help with reprations. Or just join Starfire on the fire squad...wait nevermind. Fire is Martian weakness. Well at least have her and Starfire being alien girlfriends exploring the strange Earth world together.

Rocket: Again, haven't had the joy of reading the final vol of Bombshells United so I don't know exactly what Bumblebee has been up to nor the racism she had probably experienced. But Raquel would be in a similar boat. An African American teen in an unjust pre-Civil Rights movement society with the added difficulties of teen mom hood. I really want some spotlight on her whether she joins the Batgirls or strike out on her own or helps Icon just like in the comics.

Mercy Graves: Alongside Lex wherever he is, I want a similar debut to what Mercy did in JL. Mercy takes over LexCorps during Luthor's absence, absolutely crushes it and makes it more of a success than Luthor ever did because she is not obsessed with the Kryptonian heroes. Maybe she even teams up with Waller? Who knows? Or even have two heads, Mercy Graves and Lena Luthor, making millions and making plans, evil or no, always ending on top.

Silver Banshee: A woman whose screams causes people to age. How they could NOT use her in a war, I do not know. But I picture Siobhan's arc going something like after her family dies in battle or something or other, she taps into her genetic banshee powers. Fueled with grief/cynicsm/vengeance she travels around the Iron Curtain, causing death since death is a mercy compared to living in destitute misery.

Plastique and Roxy Rocket: One is a Canadian explosives expert, another just really, really loves rockets. Both would be very useful on either side of the Cold War. They're traditionally illanesses so I could see them as double agents like Cheshire, working for whoever pays the most for their time.

Roulette: Roulette’s big thing is gambling on illegal cage fighting activities. Well lets up the ante by having her big gamble being stoking US/Russian tensions. After all the longer the war goes on, the more she gets paid for her information on the other side, her contacts for weapons, her spies etc. She'd be rolling in dough, and loving it even when under threat of nuclear destruction.

Fire and Ice: No idea how the heck they would fit in to a post WWII world. But let's suppose they want to escape Brazil and Antartica respectively to be able to help out in the aftermath after doing nothing during the war. Jessica Cruz and Aresia vs Star Sapphire Meanwhile with Hal Jordan out of the picture, let's have the infamous Green Lantern vs Star Sapphire rivalry again.

Lady Shiva: Street fighter, assassin, mother of the future Batwoman, Cassandra Cain. Lady Shiva must be part of the Cold War. She is bit of a anti-hero so I doubt anyone would know where her loyalties truly lie, but she'd be on the side of whoever her daughter wishes to protect.

Cassandra Cain: The new Black Bat, continue Katy Kane's work, and the Batgirl's work, and all the work that needs to be done after WWII. She's the new heroine.

[redrobin-detective]

So with the isolation au I’m assuming the JL would think that the Robin they meet is the first. So can you write a scenario where they have a confrontation with the Robin after the isolation is lifted. Maybe the big bro’s come in the rangle in their little brother.

So I actually have a vague, half completed storyline for the main Isolation AU but this is just me being silly and kinda mean to the JLA lol

(Also I realized after I finished I should have the different names for Wing and Hood but I don’t have the AU settled enough for that so just pretend okay?)

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“What a fucking day,” Hal sighed, wiping his hand across his face. Clark gave him a disapproving glare at the cuss word but otherwise agreed. It wasn’t just the world almost ending, that wasn’t anything new, but discovering a whole team of incredibly competent human heroes operating under the League’s radar for over a decade was something else entirely. 

He was both fascinated and frustrated by the Batman’s complete independence. The man ordered the Justice League members around like children and didn’t bother to answer any questions unless it was convenient for him. He’d almost cried with relief when the Titans had said that one of Batman’s partners was amenable to talking to them. He’d come up to the Watchtower to make sure the Titans were all right and Clark wanted to catch him before he disappeared like the rest of them had.

“Robin?” He questioned, entering the room where the kids had been chatting loudly. He’d raised an eyebrow at the name when Kon had told him earlier but the boy was very small, almost birdlike in his stance. And for him to be out there without any powers… “Do you have a minute before you go, we had a few last minute questions.” 

“B ghosted you huh and you’re hoping to shake me down for answers, huh?” the teen smirked. “Well I have a few minutes before they come to collect me, I’ll do what I can.”

“You do know we’re in a very secure space station, not even the president can get up here,” Hal said with an audible eye roll. Robin just smiled.

“How many of there are you?” Clark asked because, frankly, with everything going on it had been hard to tell.

“More than you noticed, we’re very shy,” Robin answered genially. Clark could already tell this was going to go about as well as it had with Batman.

“How did you all stay hidden for so long?” Clark tried again.

“Oh the usual, wiping security cameras, not doing toothpaste ads and cutting all primary colors from our costumes.” Beside him, Cassie, Bart and Kon snickered. Just who’s side were they on?

“Why are you doing this? It’s dangerous out there for people-” he stopped himself from saying ‘like you’ at the last second but he’s sure Robin heard it. His teasing smile mellowed out in something more serious. 

“I imagine for the same reason you do it, there were people and need and we couldn’t just stand by and do nothing. You don’t need superpowers to be a good person. Now, if you’ll excuse me,” he said pushing himself up and brushing imaginary dust off his uniform. “My brothers are here for me.”

“Your brothers!?” Hal boggled, looking around in a panic. Clark just tensed with surprise as two grown men jumped down from the ceiling. As with last time, he hadn’t even heard them. The Bats sure knew how to make him feel human. 

“I was fine, you didn’t need not come get me,” Robin said with an audible eye roll. The taller of the men, dressed in red with a face covering hood on his head just put an arm around his shoulders. 

“You know how dad worries, besides, its been awhile since I visited the Watchtower,” the man shrugged as if breaking into the most secure station this side of the Milky Way was nothing big. Hal looked a bit pale under his mask.

“Thank you for taking care of our youngest Robin,” the man in blue says with a polite little bow. “B won’t say as much but he appreciates how much you all watched our backs and trusted us even when we played it close to the chest.”

“Ug, I’m not a little kid,” Robin whined. 

“Youngest? How many of there ARE you?” Hal choked out.

“Come on, Wing, we gotta tell em something,” the man in red said as he decided to aggressively ruffle his uh little brother’s hair. 

“I guess we do owe them that much,” Wing said, “I’m Nightwing who was the first Robin, Red Hood who was Robin II and of course you know our current and third Robin. That’s not even mentioning our sister, friends and various extended family members.”

“This,” Hood said gesturing to the three of them, “is just the tip of the iceberg. Do yourself a favor and don’t go digging any deeper. You’ll just give yourself a headache.” That said, the three brothers took back to the rafters and disappeared from sight. Clark was sure if he tried to follow he’d lose track of them very quickly. He didn’t even want to know how they were getting back to Earth.

“Isn’t Rob and his family the coolest?” Bart gushed with stars in his eyes. “Are they gonna join the League? Pretty please, we wanna hang out with him some more. Rob had some great ideas on how to better use my speed and-”

“We’re still talking it over,” Clark said, holding up one hand and rubbing his temple with the other. True, bringing the Bats into the JLA would be an incredible asset but the mental strain might not be worth it.

“Gotta add on another wing to this place,” Hal muttered. “ Who’d have thought the man in a batsuit with the personality of a grapefruit has a small army of cackling gremlin children.”

“I know it’s pretty great,” Kon said dreamily. Clearly the children had a very different experience than they all did. 

[nativehueofresolution]

2, 3, 5, 6, 7

2. favorite male character? bruce wayne. i know, i know. well, ok you do know, but for those who have not listened to my deep batman thoughts at 3am, i know the type of fans who usually give that answer, but batman to me is a symbol of hope and getting up and trying even when it seems pointless. he means a lot to me; plus i've been a fan since i was very young, obsessively watching justice league (side story but during kindergarten my best friend and i would act out jl episodes with me as wonder woman and her as hawkgirl. we would also do this with teen titans where i was starfire and she was raven. she hadn't seen a lot of episodes - i don't think she had cable- so mostly i would explain all of the episodes to her and why she should love all these characters. in that sense, i have changed little as a person.), so i also just have a lot of nostalgic fondness for the character that cements my love.

3. favorite female character? mary jane watson and selina kyle. i know i'm cheating a little with two, but they both represent different parts of why i love comics to me.

with mj, i think of what you can do with the format of comics--how many of them are never-ending. in a lot of ways that's confusing and frustrating but mj reminds me how that can actually end up being rewarding. she was intended to just be a goofy side character. if, say, spider-man had only run for a hundred issues, that's all she would have been. but she developed into such a rich and vibrant character, till she became as iconic as any superhero. and it's so slow! it takes years before she actually shows up on the page, because she's a running gag about blind date peter's always getting out of. the development of her inner life-- showing her party girl facade, her backstory, the way she felt about peter, it was built up for decades with little clues showing there was more to her than was obvious at first glance. it was made up of authors upon authors, and yet her story somehow came together as if it was always meant that way. in a medium often known for things never changing, she shows that actually when stories and different runs blend together it can be a beautiful and meaningful character journey. and like she's had authors that hated her and wrote her out, and so often another author can take that and turn it into something richer. mary jane turning down peter's proposal led to her re-entering peter's life as a friend first and foremost, which helped them finally get to know one another so they could have a real romance. the early 2000s of her and peter separating just led to an incredibly satisfying arc in jms's run where they rebuilt their marriage. like to me, it shows that you can turn years of different competing authors into a cohesive story that makes sense and can still be compelling.

selina, on the other hand, represents to me the fun of comics as a myth, that's constantly reinterpreted. in part because she's an older character, there are so many different incarnations of selina. she can be delightfully punny supervillain, a complex antihero, a thief with a chip on her shoulder, or deeply confused airline stewardess... and still be recognizably the same character. i love seeing different interpretations of her - imagined first batcat meetings, different backstories, and a moral compass that shifts but yet always has certain core pillars. as opposed to someone like mj, who has a relatively straightforward character journey, she's someone who has been reinterpreted a lot, because she occupies this grey space, and that means is always shifting. which makes her stories fun, because how she'll operate isn't a given. i also just love having a female character who can be dark and moody, but also feminine? i feel like with female antiheroes, they often written like they have to be extra gritty and tough, to show they're just as hard boiled as a male antihero (there are lots of examples but i won't lie, i'm thinking of mcu j/essica jones rn). and that's not wrong, female antiheroes should be allowed to be those things. but they shouldn't only be those things, you know? selina's not emotionally repressed or extremely violent, she's not someone who is extremely rude rude or harsh but does the heroics anyways. she's someone in tough situations who makes tough choices. who's tried to survive, even if she had to sacrifice parts of herself. i feel like, to me, that's a more nuanced female antihero than a lot of what i often see.

5. what would your mutant superpower be? i mean ideally teleportation, because i am plagued by commutes, but i feel like i'd probably get something weird like eye boy, only like... even less practical. that's my feeling.

6. would you want to live in a universe where superheros/villains existed? absolutely not lol. anyone who would has not thought this through. i mean, i don't think there's any universe where that works out well.

7. who do you think has the coolest superpower? growing up idolizing jean grey, i thought telekinesis was the coolest super power. i can recognize there are flashier or more practical powers, but yeah telekinesis still brings out the nerdy little kid in me.

[thekoogler-blog]

The Koogler Watches Comic Con Trailers 2018

Comic Con Trailer

Glass.

I’ll be honest, not too concerned about this one. I feel like this trilogy should have been like a duology. Split could have been like a 20 min lead in to Glass. Like he takes the girls, there’s a montage of all his personalities, the little rascal, ms doubtfire, or maybe she was more professor mcgonagall. And then there was like his demon one who could bend bars or whatever. He’s fully demon now like climbing the walls like a cricket demon. So I’m trying to figure out the twist from the trailer, and I guess the twist is going to be this is all in their heads. Or the twist is that they’re like actually heroes and villains and then they need to save the world. The twist is that there will be a 4th movie. They’re going to wring this out and try and get one last movie out of it. Plus it has pouty face Sarah Paulson in it, I’ll probably catch this one on the VOD or something. I’ve never seen the whole movie of Unbreakable but I got the key points. Willis survives the crash, he’s unbreakable and Jackson is super breakable. He’s like the guy from SpongeBob the chocolate episode. I won’t lie, when he fell down those steps, I kind of laughed, which is like some hidden superpower that I have. I can’t get through Precious without cracking up at least three times. But anyway…….

Koogler Scale of Watchability: Three MeowMeowBeenz

 AQUAMAN

I feel like I don’t have to say much about this. I know the immense intense hate that some of the DC universe has for it. Mostly just the DCEU, the animated bit is good. The comics are good. The games are good. The movies, to me, are good too. Look, we didn’t have any of these movies, none, now we have them all over the place. I agree that we need quality over quantity, but on the DC side, we are just getting started. Let’s give it a chance. Now to the trailer. Man oh man. I’m digging the visuals. The inevitable war scene looks good. The giant jellies, the SEA TURTLES (side note, I love sea turtles. SO FUGGIN MAJESTIC), the deep sea monsters and riding sharks and sea horses and shig. DOOOOOOPE. I’m a big fan of under the ocean life in general so I’m here for all of it. They fixed the speaking thing from JL where they had to conjure a water bubble to talk, they just talk. Favorite part of this whole trailer, the sharks willing to just destroy the entire aquarium to help little AC. One thing I’m not too fond of, that red hair of Mera. And I do see the similarities of this and BP. But, there’s room for both. Always has been, always will be. I’m looking forward to seeing this because I want to see if maybe this is somehow going to set up Legion of Doom. We have the Joker, Lex, and Deathstroke, add in Manta with Cheetah coming in and then possibly Black Adam sometime in the future. I’d like to see Reverse Flash get added into this somewhere as well but hopefully DC pulls this off with all the shakeups. I’m just hoping its not going to be too heavy on the puns and one liners and what not. Arthurs transition from the surface world to becoming the king of Atlantis was no laughing matter and I hope that comes through on the screen.

Koogler Scale of Watchability: Five MeowMeowBeenz

  Shazam!

Yes BOYEEEEEEEE. As per usual with the DCEU, people have a lot of complaints, but I’m here for this one as well. Kid in a superhero body came through in the trailer and I’m looking forward to it. This is one movie that needs to have that light and breezy funny and easy touch. Billy is a foster kid down on his luck, home to home, who just got the gift of a lifetime. Needs to be funny and goofy, but have the action of MOS. Shazam and whoever he is fighting need to be slingin each other all over the place and what not. I like the suit and everything, but the lightning on the chest looks more like a night light than anything else. But you don’t really get much other than a quick intro to Shazam. Tells you the gist of who he iis. Meets the Wizard, says the name, now he is Shazam. Just like I was talking about with Aquaman with the LOD filling out, for the next one, the Justice League should be filling out as well. Now is the time to plant the seeds for it. Lex needs to be in the background of all of this plotting and scheming with Deathstroke putting his team together to take on the League. Maybe do the JLA: Doom storyline but have Lex in the driver seat instead of Vandal Savage. Yeah, yeah, that could work

Koogler Scale of Watchability: Five MeowMeowBeenz

 Godzilla: King of Monsters

So, I won’t lie, I know nothing about anything Godzilla other than what I learned from the Godzilla 2000. I think I saw pieces of the one released before this, but not much. I don’t remember if he fought a monster or not, but. This looks ok, but ONLY IF Godzilla is fighting all of these monsters. Also, Clair de Lune in the trailer. That gets two BIG THUMBS up from me. And it sounds like Vera Farmiga is going to be a bad guy somehow. Cuz Friday Night Lights coach and Millie BB don’t seem to like her. It looks like we’re going to see Mothra, and I’m guessing Rodan and the three headed one….Golgon? I don’t know names. I saw the moth one, there was a flying fire one, and the three headed one. Looks like its going to be a more dramatic world smasher. You don’t play Clair de Lune in a movie that is a bit classy

Koogler Scale of Watchability: Four MeowMeowBeenz

 Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

You guys…..you guys you guys……you……guys. When I hear that music and I see those towers. You know the music that I’m talking about. Even though Harry isn’t here anymore that sense of wonder and magic still pulls you in. It still makes you want to watch WHATEVER they put out. Its great stuff, it really is. But this is about to give us a little glimpse into the world young Dumbledore, some of his humble beginnings. We get some returning faces along with some new ones. I personally can’t wait to see this and Nicholas Flamel. I mean….I feel we’re getting deep into some of the things we kind of just glossed over in the original series. I can’t wait. I’ll see this alone if need be because I’m always ready to dive back into the Wizarding World. I’d like a movie on the founders of Hogwarts to be honest, there has to be a story there. Right? RIGHT!!!! I just want more stories and more books and more all of it.

Koogler Scale of Watchability: Six MeowMeowBeenz

 The Walking Dead Season 9

So…..Rick is an old man now. Yes, there will be a time jump I suppose, and I still need to catch up because the last episode I saw was Carl getting bit and dying in a sewer. Do I care that much about that to stop watching the show? No. Will I catch up? Yes. Do I know what’s about to happen? Yes. Everyone seems to be living in harmony. The last of the Saviors, the bad ones at least seem to be gone. The Sanctuary, Kingdom, and the Hilltop, along with the trash people, seem to be living in harmony. But, there’s some cracks in the armor. The people seem to maybe not be getting along together. Some don’t want to be in a big group and others don’t want to play nice with each other. I mean, you had to expect that this would come, the Saviors did some messed up shig to everyone and forgiving them aint gonna be as easy as 1, 2, 3. This is also the fabled season of Rick and Maggie leaving I think. There is a shot of some boots walking with blood dripping down. I wager Rick is going to get but of course and die or whatever and Maggie or Michonne is taking over. And maybe the feud between Darryl and Rick is going to boil over. My man Dan Fogel looks like he’s going to play a part in this. Maybe he’s a Whisper. Who knows. But I will watch it, but I have to watch half a season, plus Preacher is on so I’m gonna fit this shignattle in here somewhere. I won’t lie, after the whole meeting with Negan where he first arrived, I gotta say my interest in TWD has waned from about 100 to a 90, maybe an 89. But I’m still fully on the wagon.

Koogler Scale of Watchability: Four MeowMeowBeenz

 Disenchantment

I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know if I dreamed this maybe, but didn’t they try this already with another Matt Groening show that didn’t work out. But I hear Abbi, I hear Keegan, not sure who the goblin person is, but I like all the stuff. Most of the stuff so I’ll watch and take a quick sneakle peekle and see if it keeps my interest.

Koogler Scale of Watchability: Two MeowMeowBeenz

 Titans

Yall. This one gon be zoppity. These are no longer Teen Titans. These are just straight up Titans as evidenced by the trailer giving the the large TV MA right in the beginning. With Raven being such a central part of the trailer, you already know who’s coming to dinner. That’s right, I know my boy Trigon is going to be making an appearance, how, when, and in what capacity, we don’t know. But, I’m anxious to see it. The core crew from the show is there, Robin, Star, Raven, and Beast Boy, but I’m guessing in this universe, Cyborg has been drafted to the JL and they are getting two new additions, Hawk and Dove, played by Thad Castle and ARods ol girl. The one thing I’m really anxious to see, just what the hell did Batman do to make Robin that….damn…mad. Because there is an episode here called Jason Todd, so this whole I’m kinda Jason Todd but I’m also Dick is gone. He’s got a real grudge against the Bat in this one with the standout line from the trailer

“Fuck Batman��

I mean, I’m in. Plus add in the fact that Jason Todd will be mentioned in the show, throw in the Doom Patrol, and Wonder Girl. I’m getting more of a Young Justice vibe (great comic by the way), from this than anything. With just a splash of adultness. I mean Robin really stepped on that guys face pretty friggin hard

Koogler Scale of Watchability: Five MeowMeowBeenz

 There were other trailers that I didn’t mention, Arrow, the Flash, the Orville, Black Lightning, Yeah, I’m not caught up on these either so I didn’t watch because I don’t know what happen with Flash and the Thinker. I don’t know what happened with the Arrow crew Diaz or Dominguez or whatever his name is. And I don’t know what happened with Black Lightning and Tobias Church. Hoping they didn’t kill him because I like him.

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Hi! I don't know if you're taking requests right now, but if you are I would love to read something about how everyone knows Batman is around, but nobody really knows anything about him. They all just assume that if he's out there he must have superpowers like Superman and Wonder Woman and Bruce just never corrects them. Like, he just lets everyone think Batman has superpowers hence why in the JL trailer Barry asks what his power is.

This was fun :D

Title: (Not) Just A Man

Summary: Batman: the man, (but more importantly) the myth.

“What’s his deal?” Superboy asks. His arms are crossed and he’s glaring at the doorway Batman just swanned out of like some kind of mystical overlord. Clark is briefly thankful his younger clone doesn’t seem to have heat vision, otherwise he might be remodelling parts of the Fortress. To say that the new hero’s first meeting with Batman had gone well would be drastically overstating things.

“He’s Batman.”

Superboy just stares at him. “Yeah but what are his powers? Mind control? Invisibility?”

Clark shrugs, grinning a little as he repeats, “He’s Batman.”

–

BATMAN IMMORTAL? the headline screams at him when he sits down at the dining table for breakfast. To his left, Tim is grinning into his muesli, obviously having read the front page article and found it highly entertaining.

“It could be true, you know,” his second youngest says. “That thug did shoot you in the head and you just walked away.”

“He thought he shot me in the head,” Bruce corrects, skipping to the business section to read something other than gossip and speculation. Well, other than just gossip and speculation because it is still a Gotham newspaper and if there’s one thing Gothamites love to do it’s gossip and speculate - especially about Bruce Wayne and Batman. Usually separately, thank goodness. “You were there, you know he missed.”

Tim rolls his eyes. “I’m just saying, maybe it’d be good to spread the rumour that you can’t die. Might make some of the villains give up.”

Bruce just grunts. From the pleased look on his son’s face though, he knows he’s going to consider it. In a world where every other hero has a meta gimmick, it wouldn’t be a bad idea to make people think he has an edge, even if it is entirely fictitious.

Tim waits until he’s just taken a sip of coffee to add, “If nothing else, I bet Ra’s will get a kick out of it.”

–

“I’m telling you, Pete, I saw him walk right through a wall like it wasn’t even there.”

“You’re being ridiculous man, everyone knows his thing is flying not phasing.”

“Well Superman has more than one power, why can’t he?”

“But superman ain’t one of those metas, he’s an alien.”

“…”

“…”

“…I heard Eric kicked him in the groin and broke his own foot last month.”

–

Whispers follow Batman through the halls of Titan’s Tower when he arrives for a scheduled check-in on the training of the young heroes. Just because they’ve been given independence, doesn’t mean their heroing is going to go completely unsupervised.

When he gets to the training centre he stops just inside the door because-

Are those garlands of garlic decorating the walls?

One by one the sparring teens in the room stop and fall silent, all staring at him with a mix of poorly disguise fear, curiosity and amusement. The latter is mostly just Red Robin, standing beside Kid Flash and radiating quiet glee. Bruce zeroes in on his young former partner, who doesn’t look guilty or abashed in the slightest.

“Today’s lesson,” Bruce intones, striding further into the room. “Is on what to do when you encounter opponents of the mythical variety.” He scans each the young faces watching him with rapt attention. “Have any of you fought a vampire before?”

Red Robin snickers.

–

“I do not understand why you encourage these rumours, father.”

Bruce grunts without looking up from the batarang he’s putting together. Something Dick had mentioned about Wonder Woman had caught his attention the other day. It had been the timing more than the comment, though, delivered at just the moment when Bruce was glancing over the sodium pentothal in the pharmaceutical warehouse they’d been searching. If he could engineer a miniature batarang to disperse the truth serum without detection…

“It’s ridiculous,” Damian continues to rant, arms crossed and brows lowered as he leans over Bruce’s shoulder. “People should fear you because you are highly skilled and- and fearsome! Not because of some inane masquerade involving a fire retardant suit and a blowtorch, or a few miniaturised fireworks and a foreign language, or a cowl with built-in laser pointers-”

Bruce’s lips twitch into the barest hint of a smile at the hidden compliment buried beneath the indignant tone. “Spreading false information about my abilities has strategic value. Those who fight me won’t be able to prepare effective offensive or defensive measures if they do not know what exactly they should be prepared for.”

“Don’t let him fool you!” Tim calls over from the main computer monitor. Bruce is sure he finished whatever he was working on ten minutes ago and just stuck around in case the opportunity for mischief cropped up. “B only does it because he thinks it’s fun!”

Damian splutters. As though he thinks Bruce is incapable of such human things as fun.

Well. There was that android myth that started spreading through the younger hero community a year or so ago… No one has ever confessed to starting it, but Bruce is sure Jason was involved.

–

After several weeks, the weight of the cowl is no longer cumbersome or unfamiliar. The padding settles on his cheekbones and hugs his jaw in just the right way. He’s even got used to the slight peripheral vision impairment and decreased mobility in a fight.

He still hates the cape, though. Even if it is fun for dramatic landings on the roof of the GCPD building.

“They’re saying you’re a time traveler,” Gordon says. No explanation of who ‘they’ is; rookies, criminals, speculating reporters. Everyone has a theory. “A younger Batman come from the past.”

Dick lets the light from the signal catch his smile. He is, after all, the easy going Batman; no need to hide his amusement in the dark. “I’m thinking something more along the lines of Benjamin Button,” he says. “You think they’ll buy age regression?”

Gordon takes a drag from his cigarette. The smoke twists and curls through the night sky before dissipating above the signal. “Son, at this point, I think they’ll believe anything.”