#titans: beast world

[kriffin-ink]

A redesign of Nightwing’s beast world look

In my rewrite of Beast World, the beasts are symbols of what the characters hate most about themselves (i.e. parts of themselves they see as “beastly”) and for Dick I chose his guilt. Outsiders 2003 was a big inspiration for that specifically, with his guilt about leading the people he loves to their deaths, which is symbolized by a black bird as an omen of death

[gffa]

I love that Nightwing has files on how to take down all of his friends and they're okay with it, because it's a reasonable point to be made and because he trusts his team to tell them about it. I love that this is one of those crystal clear examples of Dick taking the things Batman does and doing them better, that he's not Batman Lite, but instead that he's Better Than Batman, that's the whole purpose of Nightwing's character, that's everything that Bruce wanted for him, to be the kind of Bat that Bruce sees himself as too damaged to be.

[violet-catsarelife]

so I saw the panels from Titans Beast World and blacked out.

He's the goodest good boy. So what if he ate a raccoon. and maybe killed some people. So what.

Look at him all curled up!! He deserves all the headpats and scritches🥰

(said panels under cut)

[nterror-blog]

Ummm.... That's certainly.... a look 😅

[iconuk01]

Credit where it's due. DC looked at the comic Market and thought...

"You know what we need a bigger slice of? The Furry market"

When the only thing that can stop the Necrostar is Starro, Beast Boy has no choice but to transform into his own version of Starro. Typically, Starro uses smaller versions of himself to control people's minds, and it seems that Beast Boy retains this ability as well, but instead of mind control, it transforms people into animal forms. This is likely why Batman transforms into his horrifying beast form. While Beast Boy obviously doesn't intend for this to happen, it seems neither Beast Boy nor Batman can control themselves in their new bestial form.

So we have Dick as a fox

Bruce and Jason are wolves

Damian is a cat

Harley is a bunny

I can hear the fics already....

[sadiewayne]

ok but why is everyone focussing on beast world jason (which is amazing) and not on dick and bruce

like bruce said he was dicks dad

Titans: Beast World #2

he then asked dick to stop him from hurting anyone when he was changing

Titans: Beast World #2

dick then knocked him out. like knocked out big ass wolf batman who had all the skill but none of the restraint

Titans: Beast World #2

and then, if he wasn't already a badass, he fought him again, then fought alongside him against croc (bruce fighting with him because his instincts were to protect) and then knocked him out a second time!?!?

Titans: Beast World Tour: Gotham

honestly i am enjoying this event more than i thought

BONUS

this panel did it for me honestly

[connanro]

titans: beast world #2

[those-goddamn-bats]

helpp why is jason's internal monologue as a WOLF so profound and philosophical

whereas batman's is literally 'must protect gotham's humans'

[ferrouswheel11]

DC Character's Canon Fursonas part 1:

(according to Titans: Beast World crossover event)

Black Adam: lion

Live Wire: eel. looks more like a moray than an electric eel tbh

Jimmy Olson: GIANT turtle. or tortoise

Power Girl: kryptonian flame bird?

Batman: gray wolf (domesticated?)

Killer Croc: crocodile or alligator

Harley Quinn: (buff) white rabbit

Jason Todd: brown wolf... or a coyote or jackal — the story is titled "Scavenger"

Ratcatcher: naked mole rat

Huntress: black panther

Killer Moth: cockroach

Robin (Damian): tan cat with black tips, resembles a sand cat or other small wildcat

Godspeed: hornet

Fadaway Man: white squirrel

The Flash (Avery Ho): leopard gecko or similar/moray eel/bee

Kid Flash (Wallace West): brown lizard, unknown species/musk ox/bee

Iris West: cuttlefish

Impulse: frilled lizard/bee

Captain Cold: polar bear

Pied Piper: peregrine falcon/bee

Circuit Breaker: peacock/bee

The Flash (Barry Allen): bee, due to Animal Girl's manipulation

Nightwing: red fox, according to announced issue #6 cover art

[eliotwauh]

Dreamer by Fico Ossio in Titans Beast World: Metropolis #1

[smashpages]

Lenticular variant cover for Titans: Beast World #3 (DC, December 2023) by Clayton Henry and Marcelo Maiolo

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

The way Batman praises his son !!

(Titans: Beast World issue #2)

[gffa]

WALLY IS A REAL ONE. "I have seen this movie and I AM NOT FALLING FOR THAT, BYE." he says and just speed-runs Frodo's journey from The Lord of the Rings. Incredible.

[ufonaut]

Alan Scott in Titans: Beast World (2023) #4. Art by Lucas Meyer.

[judedeluca]

Virgin Nightwing working with a Zionist Vs Chad Lightning Lad trolling a Fascist

[sadiewayne]

fuck it, i'm talking about beast world

(i have not read issue #1 yet, this is mostly a rant about tom taylor and #6, so kind of spoilers for dick in beast world)

ok, so the cover for #6 was announced and...

i'm pissed

so, firstly, this article on it made me want to cry

WHY IS THAT THE TITLE FUCK OFF

i am sick and tired of the "nightwing is a sex symbol" bc why do they keep forcing this narrative

also, this is a direct quote from tom taylor

Yes, you do get Nightwing turned into a fox because we’d be inhuman monsters not to do that. People want to see that.

do i like dick as a fox bc i like dick and i like foxes, so i am happy for that, but the fact it has been done purely for the sex symbol reason is annoying

tom taylor's run is something. there are good things about it (haley) but a lot of mis-writing of dick as a character and ignoring a lot of characterisation that has occurred aver the past 83 years. i like the limiting of his sexualisation - it is a lot less present in taylor's run than previous runs - but making dick a fox bc foxy get it bc foxy bc sexy is stupid and annoying

dick WOULD be a fox, but not because of that. he would be a fox because he is a trickster, he is manipulative (something tom taylor seems to forget half the time). this man can fool batman if he wants. this is a good enough reason for him to be a fox but no, it's because he is sexy

it also fits with the bats being canines (not damian but cat damian makes so much sense and it's close enough) with bruce and jason both being wolves. dick as a fox fits this perfectly. especially with him, bruce, and jason, the three characters that mirror each other. bruce and jason are both wolves because they are the same. they are so similar it's scary sometimes (my own opinion on them anyway. there are differences between them ofc but they are a lot more similar than they are different). dick is a fox because his is the same but different. a canine but he chose his own path, became a better version of batman. a master manipulator.

there was a perfect reasoning but it was thrown out because "let's continue the over-sexualisation of him" was the easy way out

do i think the better reasoning might end up being the actual reasoning in the comics, possibly. idk if they will dive into the reasoning tbh, i'm not holding out hope for it.

idk man, i think beast world is gonna be fun, but this just made me cry

i'm only happy bc the cover by sweeny boo is actually nice (it doesn't accentuate his ass so tysm for that bc now i don't feel bad when i use it in my nightwing widget)

also, i am not someone who hates tom taylor. ii think his writing is fine and i love superman: son of kal-el ok. he doesn't write dick badly, sometimes he just misses and that is ok. i still like the run and will still get it and read it bc i'm enjoying it ok

i just don't like the OVER-sexualisation of dick