#v1 al

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[the-oddmister]

I hope you guys like weird al because that’s all I’m gonna be posting about

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Im not entirely what this is. No v1s allowed

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Talia Al Ghul in Detective Comics (1937) Issue 700

Carrying on from Bane of the Demon, Ra's tries to end the world with Bane and Talia by his side. Bane is still incredibly possessive over Talia who absolutely does not want to be around him which he does not care about because he views her as being his.

Batman stopped Ra's and they all retreated and also catwomans in this comic for like four panels don't ask me why I don't remember at all

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Never thought about this till now but I think I'll be irreperably damaged by Act III when we fight Gabe for the last time and the end rank score shows us Kills: 1 S

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Vision talking about Wanda in Incredible Hulk #323

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Jax: What do you want for Christmas, V1?

V1: i want to decide who lives and who dies

@jax-deluth-and-ai-winstrate , @thejadedgardner

[glorifiiedgore]

🏠 - Our muses visit a haunted house

fall/autumn starters.

He led her through the dark corridors expertly as if he’d designed them himself. The twists and turns of the maze-like hallways only furthered the suspense to get to the exit. Only Al wasn’t moving too swiftly as he acted as the guide for this scare fest activity — no — he was taking his time. The older man enjoyed the darkness, the shadows that promised misdeeds and deception. The chilling air that passed through the wooden interior pricked at the exposed flesh of his arms and all he could do was shudder; but not with cold, with delight. Places like this made him feel not so alone even though the house appeared empty. They’d paid admission like a fun house at a carnival but the attraction itself should have paid for the pleasure of its new, depraved guests.

‘ I like these types of places,’ he noted, ‘Haunts like this make your adrenaline pump. My heart is racing but I’m not afraid.’ He stopped dead in his tracks, turning to face the young woman and bringing their conjoined hands up to his chest. Swiftly he pressed her palm over his beating heart, the muscle pulsed and pulled for blood as if clinging to the last bit of oxygen in the room. ‘ It’s quiet and dark,’ he whispered, eliminating as much space between them as possible, ‘I don’t have to hide in places like this….and neither do you.’

@savagecuhnt

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Incredible Hulk #323

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oh hey, now that I can post 30 images instead of 10, guess I'm redoing my DC characters collections. Anyway, here's the Batman villains from the DC Animated Universe.

The Joker - First comic appearance in Batman v1 #1 (1940).

Harley Quinn - First appearance in Batman: Harley Quinn (1999)

Two-Face - First comic appearance in Detective Comics v1 #66 (1942).

Killer Croc - First comic appearance in Batman v1 #357 (1984).

The Riddler - First comic appearance in Detective Comics v1 #140 (1948).

Bane - First appearance in Batman: Vengeance of Bane #1 (1993)

The Scarecrow - First comic appearance in World’s Finest Comics #3 (1941).

The Penguin - First comic appearance in Detective Comics v1 #58 (1941).

Poison Ivy - First comic appearance in Batman v1 #181 (1966).

Mr. Freeze - First appearance in Batman v1 #121 (1959).

Ra’s al Ghul - First appearance in Batman v1 #232 (1971).

Talia al Ghul - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #411 (1971).

Ubu - First appearance in Batman v1 #232 (1971).

Rupert Thorne - first appearance in Detective Comics v1 #469 (1977).

The Ventriloquist - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #583 (1988).

Firefly - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #184 (1952).

Clayface - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #298 (1961).

The Mad Hatter - First appearance in Batman v1 #49 (1948).

Thomas Blake - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #311 (1963).

Man-Bat - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #400 (1970).

Blockbuster - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #345 (1965).

Deadshot - First appearance in Batman v1 #59 (1950).

Hugo Strange - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #36 (1940).

KGBeast - First appearance in Batman v1 #417 (1988).

Hellhound - First appearance in Catwoman v2 Annual #2 (1995).

Lock-Up - First appearance in Robin v2 #24 (1996).

Gork - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #480 (1978).

Copperhead - First appearance in The Brave & the Bold v1 #78 (1968).

Electrocutioner - First appearance in Batman v1 #331 (1981).

Joe Chill - First appearance in Detective Comics v1 #33 (1939).

[bestworstcase]

thing abt the theory that (raven / summer / the last spring maiden) asked the lamp’s first question is it’s like—i don’t understand how you can propose with any seriousness that someone other than ozpin used that question without interrogating how that person learned jinn’s name. it’s a mandatory presupposition, and yet…?

in V6 ozpin PANICS when the girls start to question him. he tries to forcibly suppress oscar to protect this secret; oscar has to fight past him to force the words out. the man lunges at ruby in desperation to stop jinn from answering her. in V7 ironwood remarks that ozpin told them all that there were no questions left. half of V8 is salem trying to drag the “password” out of ozpin or oscar because the lamp is useless without knowledge of how to use it. you think ozpin would just… let slip jinn’s name to summer or raven or the maiden capable of opening the lamp’s vault? that’s absurd.

this is not a narratively inconsequential detail. jinn’s name and the knowledge of how to summon her is a huge deal in V6 and literally the cornerstone of salem’s part in V8. and it’s made crystal clear that ozpin does not share it with anyone.

which doesn’t make it impossible for raven or summer or the spring maiden to have found it out somehow—but, like, “somehow” matters actually. i think the most plausible somehow is if the lamp itself has a way to provide instructions if approached in the right way. notably no character has ever tried asking the lamp how it works or how to use it, and well. 6.2 “why does it matter who carries it?”/“he’s trying to stop you.” right? there’s room here to interpret ozpin’s intense anxiety as rooted in a real possibility that ruby might either release jinn or unlock the lamp’s user manual if she keeps asking questions while holding it.

but then in V8 we also have salem talking to the lamp (“i have questions for you”), and she understands how the staff works (“you say they used the staff; i assume you rid the world of their creation. what did you create in its stead?”)—so like, there’s a nonzero chance salem knows there are beings inside the relics and even if she doesn’t she, um, talks to the lamp conversationally hello. we’ve also seen that salem Thinks Aloud when she’s trying to figure out something she doesn’t understand (V4, “what are you planning?”).

out of all the characters in this story, salem most seems the type to, like, pick up the magical lamp and go “how do you work?”—but does it make sense for jinn’s name to be so important narratively if it’s on the magical equivalent of a post-it note somewhere?

and then too like—

this is a matter of taste maybe. but there’s, i think, this tendency to look at the lost fable and its emotional aftermath and try to retrofit that to whatever happened with summer and raven; there’s an unspoken presupposition that the world has not changed very much in the last twelve or fourteen years. but they didn’t. even before V9 that was clear—in V1-3 ozpin et al are very much not doing business-as-usual, they’re rattled by what happened to amber—and that glimpse we got in V9 is like, summer gets called away on an urgent secret mission in the dead of night and tai is like “pfft can’t wait for it to turn out another false alarm” about it. ozpin’s irrational paranoia was an inside joke to them.

there’s a crucial piece missing here—why did summer rose do the things she did?—and the lamp feels… like a cop-out. she reflects tai’s casual attitude. the face she shows raven is curtly confident. neither is real; before she puts on the smile and turns around she looks distraught. the last thing she says to her girls is “i love you just the way you are.” she is the reflection in ruby’s mirror. she was “the best of us.” and “you were born to hypnotize them all.” mirrored eyes, you know?

ruby believed in ozpin. she believed in the fairytales she tried so hard to live up to.

did summer?

the thing about the lost fable is it’s a clean break, right. yang twitches the curtain with the revelation that ozpin gave the branwens magic and qrow smooths it over and ozpin promises to be honest with them. a few weeks later, they catch him in another lie of omission and argue and jinn lays out his entire fucking life story in technicolor for them. it’s a sudden, shattering shock.

raven says she needed answers, and that the longer she looked for them and the more she learned, the more horrifying the world became. she tells yang to question everything. she says she “tried to leave”—tried. does that sound like raven asked one question (out of three) and decided to fuck off forever?

tai says raven’s flaws are what tore the team apart. twelve years later qrow is still trying to get her to come back. summer planned her rogue mission with raven behind their backs. every new kernel we get about these people suggests an interminable, convoluted mess.

ruby sounds just like her mother. summer doesn’t sound very much like ruby. “we,” ruby says, and “i,” says summer. summer rose never lies, but she plans a rogue mission with raven behind tai’s and qrow’s back and nobody suspects a thing, and when ruby asks qrow tells her summer’s last mission was a summer secret in the same tone ruby said ozpin secret. cut to the heart of this thing and it’s obvious that nobody really knew summer, only the things summer let them see. and i think—ultimately—summer left, and never came back, not because of something she learned but because she had to break the mirror.

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[the-oddmister]

I. Am so mentally ill

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How else is it going to tell you that it considers you a friend:( ?

[taliaalghulhub]

Talia Al Ghul in Azrael (1995) Issue 30

Azrael fights a man named Bimmu who was hired by Ra's Al Ghul to fake kidnap Talia in the same way he had done in her second appearance (See Batman: Tales of the Demon, part one) to see if he would be a worthy heir

For extra context him and Talia has met earlier in the comic in the desert then again in Azrael Issue 29 where she had told Jean-Paul that since their meeting she had dreamt about him and claimed that in her culture they believe that some people are bound to be together from the moment the universe is created and that's what she believes that Jean-Paul is for her

Back to issue 30, Talia tells Azrael that her father had engaged her twice before. She tells him that one was a brute, referring to Bane (see Bane of the Demon), and that the other was magnificent, referring to Batman.

They kiss and Azrael tells her his backstory after which Ra's enters the room

Later they go to a graveyard and Azrael tells Talia that he accepts Ra's Al Ghuls offer to become his heir and marry Talia when Ra's enters again and tells Azrael that he rescinds the offer because after testing his DNA they found that Jean-Pauls blood contains animal genes and Ra's wants his future grandson to be genetically perfect

Ra's sick's Bimmu on him again and Azrael is restrained, Talia asks if she can say goodbye and in doing so kisses him and tells him not to open his mouth afterwards

Azrael is put into a vat of acid and only had about a minute before said acids begins to eat through his suit, he's able to escape because when Talia kissed him she put the key to the chains binding him into his mouth

Azrael escapes and Ra's and Talia are gone.

Azrael (1995) Issue 29

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Spider-Man 2099 v1, #24 (1995); lines by Rick Leonardi & Al Williamson, colors by Steve Buccellato  

please come back and relentlessly tear into miguel nd gabriel again xina u were so good i miss ur character every day