#the titans

[allovesthings]

The relationship between Batman and the Titans in a nutshell:

Bruce: I raised and trained a good son.

The Titans: You fucked up a perfectly good Dick Grayson, look at him, he's got issues.

It makes me happy how ride or die they are for Dick which in return means they just don't like how Bruce treats him.

[gothamundernightlight]

Incorrect Batfam Quotes

Robin: …and all in all, our mission was a success!

The Justice League: *looking at their sidekicks covered in bruises surrounded by property damage

The Justice League: If this is what you call a success, we’d hate to see what you would consider a disaster.

[audhd-nightwing]

travis moore Titans art >>>>>

[ye-olde-rd]

I don’t know if anyone else thought of this.. but headcanon that after the whole possession thing the titans, if they ever got a physical form, would look more like Newton.. idk I’ll probably flesh out the whole thing later

Also uh, I might be going on a few side quests to get the ideas out of my system before going back to darkwing duck.. :33

[fantastic-nonsense]

TRAVIS MOORE MY BELOVED

[royboyfanpage]

I'm never gonna be over Donna's photo album actually

[wwprice1]

Donna Troy by Artgerm! 😍😍😍

[gotham-at-nightfall]

Titans #9

[dragononaskateboard]

Hmmmmm, Collector backstory?

Here we have the past collectors, busy “watching, preserving and observing” the world/the boiling isles, And poor little Collector not getting any attention/not having anyone to play with

Then we have The past collectors hanging out with the titan trappers, They are trying on real skulls from real titans, like the titan trappers wear

And we have the titan trappers fighting the titans in an all out war, the painting paints the titans with red evil eyes - meaning that the collectors agree that the titans turned evil (Why? Why would the titans “have to” turn evil?) (Did they meddle in the Collector’s affairs? Why and how?)

In the eyes of the collectors, what would be deemed as evil? “But should they (the creatures on the boiling isles/the titans) meddle in our affairs, we’ll clean the planet and scorch the air” — Aka they killed the titans (with boiling water?/creating the boiling isles?)

That’s their duty, and it’s the one The Collector one day is gonna have to fulfill too.

“Here Little Collector, this is your duty!” — But Little Collector don’t want that, They want to have fun and play with their friends! The titans are The collector’s friends!!

“Make friends instead” Hey Past collectors why don’t you just make friends with the titans instead?? You don’t have to fight each other!

The collector thinks the past collectors(/titan trappers?) STINK! BOO!!

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Titan/King backstory | Owl beast backstory | Wittebane/Clawthorne backstory

It’s all connected!!

[galaxyglaze]

Tales of the Titans covers by Nicola Scott, Javier Rodríguez, and Chris Samnee

[allovesthings]

The titans 🤝 Batman to Dick about each other: They are not good enough for you

[gothamundernightlight]

Incorrect Batfam Quotes

*Red Hood is in the bottom of a collapsed hole. Red Robin stands up top.

Red Robin: Hood, what do you see?

Red Hood: Gee, I guess I see the same thing as you, just closer!

[audhd-nightwing]

dick being 5’10 but seeming short compared to his friends because they’re all taller than him is my favorite thing

kori: 6’4

roy: 5’11

wally: 6’0

donna: 6’2

TECHNICALLY DONNA IS 5’9 BUT SO WAS DIANA ORIGINALLY AND SHE GREW TO BE 6’2 SO IM JUST GOING WITH THAT AND SAYING AT FULL HEIGHT DONNA IS 6’2 OK

[ye-olde-rd]

Seal them within the tea tin!

[that-sea-sponge]

Don't Read My Mind

I'm having some thoughts about this panel. This one line in particular. It comes from Titans(2016) - #19. The Titans were trying to help Donna and shit went sideways so the Justice League shows up to shut them down. Wally's power is fritzy and Donna's not herself at the moment. Batman has started to question Dick's leadership in front of the entire team and Dick walks away. Then there is this throw away line from Batman "Don't Read My Mind".

Why not, Batman? What would she find out about you that you don't want Dick to know? First of all, isn't it already established that Batman can block mind reading efforts - unless he's super distressed. Context clues want the reader to think that this is Batman being Batman, but it's something else entirely.

He's afraid. He's worried that this is the time he's pushed too far. He's here insisting that Dick shut down the Titans, the ONE thing that Dick has put passion into beyond his own career. One of the major, original sources of conflict between the two of them was Robin choosing the Titans over Batman, in Bruce's mind at least. He could lose Dick, again, over this. Nightwing doesn't walk away when Batman is speaking. Nightwing stops when Batman calls to him. Dick isn't being the good soldier this time.

Truthfully, Batman knows that while Dick's team dropped the ball optically, they did the right thing by helping a friend and that the Justice League would've made the same calls. No one would have dared call them on it, either, despite the genuine risk to the greater population. He can't say that. What he can say is, what he says on the next page. It's hard to run a team of demi-gods. Optics are important, results be damned. Dick soon asks "Have I disappointed you?" and Batman says nothing. In Dick's mind, he's despairing. He failed Bruce again. He failed his team, he failed in front of his heroes. He isn't good enough to do what he does at the scale that he wants to do it on - the Titans will never be good enough. He failed everyone. Again.

Batman isn't disappointed. Batman is glad Dick stopped to listen to him just one more time. Batman is glad Dick heard what he was saying, but more glad that Dick stopped. This time, he stopped walking away. He didn't disappear off the face of the Earth to re-emerge as someone else. Batman doesn't want the mind reader to tell Dick the truth: He's terrified that Dick will leave him again. Dick is in the right here, even if he took some chances. His team was in the right.

Trouble is, Dick has to be better than right. Nightwing has to do it cleaner than anyone else. He has to be more transparent than anyone. Someone is going to have to be able to call the League on their bullshit. That will be Nightwing, but first he's got to do it by the book every time, feelings and loyalty be damned. In Bruce's mind, the very first loyalty damned will be Nightwing's loyalty to Batman. Someday. He'll push too far and Dick will use the ethics / standards Bruce impressed on him since he was eight and disappear forever. Just not today, it seems. Look at the art for a second. Bruce and Dick only see each other obscured by shadows. Really their logos, their professional identities, are the only thing they see of each other at this point. Nightwing is turned, storming away from Batman. It isn't until Batman calls Nightwing by his real name that they start to see each other. Now it's Bruce and Dick in the light. If that is not symbolic of a whole hell of a lot between them and their personalities, I don't know what is.

[out-of-context-flash]

Unmasked Wally in Titans (2023) #3