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It’s in this scene before he attacks Teekl when he first explains how a Lord of Chaos & Order find difficulty manifesting on the physical plane.

Is there like a comics/lore reason why Doctor Fate can't just...put his helmet on an android body? Instead of hijacking a persons entire life away? Like can the Justice League not just make a body specifically FOR Fate to hijack? Or let him use Amazo? 💀

#Youtube

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The “hijacking” is emphasized a lot more in YJ than in the comics, where it’s just a Kent Nelson problem. All the other Doctor Fates after OG Kent Nelson retain agency in the comics.

Comic-wise, the helm works with a sentient host that it approves of. The Lords of Order, the Lords of Chaos, or the Egyptian Gods (the last are actually the current ones empowering Khalid Nassour Doctor Fate) that empower Doctor Fate don’t choose robotic hosts. Nabu doesn’t soso have to hijack people. He’s just a bastard.

In the YJ show, Nabu (the show has him be Dr. Fate instead of the hosts) does say that he uses HUMAN hosts. That’s his condition to manifesting in the physical plane.

Is there like a comics/lore reason why Doctor Fate can't just...put his helmet on an android body? Instead of hijacking a persons entire life away? Like can the Justice League not just make a body specifically FOR Fate to hijack? Or let him use Amazo? 💀

#doctor fate #young justice #yj isn’t really accurate to doctor fate to begin with

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It’s cool seeing various parts of fandom want Billy’s “Champion of Magic” direction to be explored but that would require people to think of Billy beyond being a “whimsical 10 year old whose a good boi”.

It would also mean stop ignoring & projecting negative inferences on his PoC mentor, put some focus on his supporting cast, and consider the canonical responsibilities in how it doesn’t intrude on other people’s stations because he isn’t the purveyor over ALL Magic but those connected to the Rock of Eternity ( That gives him 6 unique dimensions while respecting the current Doctor Fate’s Egyptian/Muslim derived ties, Vixen’s African ties, Aquaman’s ties to various other mythologies, etc.).

#dc comics #shazam #captain marvel #wizard shazam #champion of magic #id love for Billy’s character to evolve #but people tend to think this means he’s gotta be like zatanna or constantine #and forget to make the character stand out #he doesn’t need the justice league for that when he has his own world

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There’s hope in humanity.

watching people insist that dick grayson would post thirst traps and tiktoks and overshare online and accidentally reveal his secret identity because he’s open and honest and would never lie as if he doesn’t hate talking about himself and hides from the people he loves and rarely directly says what he’s thinking

u fool!! u have been tricked by the facade!!! a graysons nature is to perform!!

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So to a point, I can agree with that first point but also that’s a retcon to help explain why Sidious can influence the dark side from under their nose too.

To that second point though, the Jedi Order is the only group in the Republic to have actual firsthand experience in recent history. The Republic didn’t have a standing army (it just had the Judicial Forces & planets themselves affiliated in the Republic had the army but not the Republic as a whole). They’re literally the most seasoned warriors around. They did better because they can be trained to adopt such responsibilities but as you pointed out, it did play into things that went against them & it wasn’t what they wanted but their competency wasn’t called to question.

Clones never saw actual conflict until the CW (that’s what they were designed for) and with the Republic’s history, nobody comes close to their experience. You’d have to look outside the Republic like Mandolorians to come closer.

Genuinely - what were the Jedi supposed to but join the war, under the circumstances they started and given the things the Separatists were doing?

Genuinely - what is your proposed alternative for them that would have magically saved everything?

#star wars

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Facts about the current Dr. Fate

In 2015, a new incarnation known as Khalid Nassour debuted in his own short-lived solo series and he’s one of the neatest characters introduced in recent years. He’s also one of the few Arab-based (Egyptian) Muslim characters to occupy a significant role in the DC Universe as supposedly one of their premier magic superheroes.

It’s not always perfect but there’s a variety of cool things about him compared to other incarnation of Doctor Fates that makes him standout. And I want to highlight those things. The internet in various places gets the wrong idea about the character and this post aims to address it. So without further ado.

He’s a trained Dr. Fate

Don’t let DC’s insistence on his youthfulness deceive you: Khalid is actually one of the most trained Doctor Fates, right behind Kent Nelson. Now if you’re an avid reader, you’ll probably point out Inza, Kent V., & Hector seemed to be trained too. Within their stories, they’re treated as powerhouses themselves especially in crossovers.

Here’s the kicker: Khalid is a person of color. Inza, Kent V, & Hector are white characters.

Despite the fact that Hector was a novice himself, his first major storyline that debuted him as Dr. Fate has him butt heads with Mordru literally just being out of diapers and hold his own and later defeat. Even Nabu in a later JSA storyline taunted Mordru being beaten by a novice sorcerer.

Inza gets done dirty in canon after briefly being Dr. Fate but she was said to be more talented than Kent and got to use chaos magic of all magics and was pretty darn good with it. It later got substitute for being powered by life but nothing of her abilities changed.

Kent V. started out sucking so bad Enchantess in Reign in Hell was unimpressed but towards the end of 2011 right before New 52, he got to be hailed as Sorcerer Supreme 4 years after his debut. Compared that to Khalid, who been in publication since 2015 & is approaching his 9th year and he’s competing with Zatanna & Constantine roughly, hailed for his abilities a lot less.

While there’s a odd trend of PoC whom occupy traditionally white mantles having to “work” their way up and Khalid gets that a lot and some writers think his shtick is being “new”, it does give him the distinction that you’ll see an illusion of progress. You’ll read his solo and then his appearances in Justice League Dark and see there’s progress in his abilities becoming more advanced.

Towards the end of the Justice League Dark solo, Kent feels he’s taught Khalid all he can. With that, the only thing left for Khalid is to get practical experience as Dr. Fate.

His designation is backed by Allah

A major difference between him and any version of Doctor Fate is that this incarnation was chosen, in part, by Allah (The Presence within DC context) himself. This is reflected in his solo, where he gets direct guidance by both angels and the Egyptian gods. The series attempts to blend the elements together by suggesting that Allah created the Egyptian gods to as a kind of Djinn but the gods view themselves as something else and although the angels find them pretenders compared to Allah, they respect their divine station, agency, and perspective.

Given his Muslim roots, it makes sense for Khalid’s destiny to involve whom he worships. It also makes him incredibly unique in that the Lords of Order don’t directly control his designation and that he chooses to follow their direction of order because he believes in it. It gives the character agency other Dr. Fates tend to lack.

Talk about job security.

He is the rightful choice because he makes sense.

Sorry to the others but Khalid is the rightful bearer. With all the hiccups, his character not having the benefit of being an insta-master. He doesn’t get the shinny cool feats of taking down the biggest bad guy to supplant his role. He doesn’t get to be convenient “immune” to magic to make him tougher. Hell, the helm gets depowered because of Kent & it’s up to him to address that problem.

But it’s not about the power level or if Nabu is there. What makes Khalid worthy is that he IS a character. Look, he’s the only Dr. Fate you can follow that makes a lot of sense.

With Eric & Linda Strauss, you got an even creepier example of Shazam-ing things where the aged up child still has a mind of a 12 year old & ends up hooking up with his step-mother. I don’t care how the writer tried justifying it as them being reincarnated lovers. With Inza, it’s complicated since she died & comes back in a new young body and it’s tied to resurrection. She was the next closest good option though. I’ll have to do a post about her another time.Jared could have been interesting but too much of that character disassociated with the good things with the mantle. Hector is weird with his convoluted history, connections with Hawkman, and everyone confuses his tenure for Kent. And Kent V. is confusing with his name ahd the consequence of ‘revamping’ and ‘simplifying’ things but using the same names to circumvent doing honest character work to ensure Dr. Fate doesn’t need constant rebooting.

Compared to that, Khalid had a normal life for 22 years before become Dr. Fate. No resurrections, hooking up with pedos, random age-ups, or being stuck as a love interest with a brief tenure. And no being an edgy 90s character.

He is accomplished

As with any superhero, you’ll ask what kind of ways has xyz contributed to the DC Universe at large and Khalid himself has actually accomplished a few things under his belt to help make him a worthwhile Dr. Fate:

For the start of things, his debut storyline has him save the world. It’s pretty much a basic thing and happens in its own corner but starting your tenure as Dr. Fate fighting a death god out the bat does give him some credit.

He eventually becomes a member of the Justice League & Justice League Dark. He’s a good example of not every hero in their 20s is connected to the Titans or that the Justice League is conveniently separated with people in their 30s.

When Circe absorbed Hecate’s power to become a even more powerful sorceress, it was Khalid who convinced Nabu of all characters to help his team and cede all his power to him, granting him agency and the opportunity needed to defeat Circe by helping Wonder Woman and stopping the Injustice League Dark.

Within the world of magic, he is the Dr. Fate responsible for performing the Parliment of Life ritual to allow the elemental forces of nature to work in harmony once more instead of fighting for supremacy (despite Constantine’s character muddying the event to an extent).

That’s not half-bad for a PoC character who tends to be regulated to background work overtime in favor of whit(er) characters. He is still contributing nicely here and there. He’s doing more than Eric/Linda that’s for sure.

There’s still more

Yeah there’s more things but that’s when checking out the characters comes in. If you want to see more of the character and what makes him stand out, check out:

Doctor Fate Vol. 1-3 (2015 series). The Blood Price, Prisioners of the Past, and Fateful Threads.

Justice League Dark’s second series. Lords of Order. Witching Hour. Last Age of Magic. Great Wickedness.

Justice Society of America (2023). The New Golden Age.

These here are just major issues with the character involved if you want to get to know the character more. Be mindful anything above is my opinion and I am an avid supporter of diversity. I want comics to do their best to reflect people of all walks of life, to experiment and normalize non-white characters doing cool things.

And there you go: facts about the current version of Doctor Fate, ladies and gentlemen.

#dc comics #khalid nassour #doctor fate #reading recommendations #comic recommendations #character analysis

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Given the internet is full of theories & ideas on the Ancient Hero, I really wanna put my two cents on the character and point out some things that get missed.

The ancient hero is Zonai

I highly doubt with the significance and presence of the Zonai in TOTK, the very shrines Rauru made would gift Link an aspect of a random ass creature from Zelda universe we’ve never seen before that happens to be a hero.

And it would be just as weird for the aspect to be literally wearing a modified ZONITE ARMOR set which has the same defense level & is relevant only to Zonai given the set in question improves the usage of Zonai devices (which wouldn’t be used by anyone but Zonai wheras Link is afforded their abilities due to Rauru’s arm)

Not to mention the ancient hero also bears fabric that is explicitly the symbol of Zonai. It be really odd for this character to possess Zonai abilities, bear Zonai fabric & clothing that would be relevant only to a Zonai of that time frame, and it not be Zonai whatsoever or possess connections to them.

The Ancient Hero is a relative of the royal family

Given the Zonai connections to the character, it’s highly probable this ancient hero breaks the usual mold regarding heroes and is a relative to the royal family, making him Hylian too. He bears similarities to both Sonia’s tattoos that would recognize her as royalty at least and the tattoos adorned by royal guards of ancient Hyrule BOTH. Sonia prior to Queenship was a PRIESTESS so she’s not an obvious warrior type.

If Ganondorf’s comments had merits in that there’s a limited amount of Zonai that dwell (in which he was unaware Rauru & Sonia already had a child at least since Zelda is outright confirmed to be related to them both long into the future) & he comes after their time , he would have to had royal connections due to having obvious dominant Zonai genes period.

I say relative too because the Ancient Princess is also there. She could be a sister or a cousin or something more distant depending on how far down the first instance of Calamity happened compared to the Imprisioning War & how Zonai genes work in lieu with Hylian genes. She directly wields the sealing power, which is a power that RAURU (Sonia grants power over time, not dispelling evil), which confirms she is Rauru’s obvious descendant.

What makes the Ancient Hero interesting is that he breaks the mold for Link’s place outright given his more oddly appearance & the fact that the plan in that era to beat Ganon was to use a magic sword made to fight evil, use the Ancient Princess’s power to seal him away, and all the while weakening the creature by jumping his ass & helpers with four massive mechanical weapons AND a bunch of guardians.

So I don’t adhere the ancient hero to the mold of a loyal person descended from Knights like Link ordinarily is in most variations (Wind Waker!Link being one of those exceptions).

He’s not from the Depths

The Zonai statues in the Depths are from a time before even Rauru/Mineru given how until the Upheavel in current time, it has not been explored extensively. The Ancient Hero either comes after or concurrently to Rauru/Mineru’s lifetime.

He’s not Gerudo

I know the fandom is thirsty for a male Gerudo example that’s NOT Ganondorf to see how things are different but red hair and fancy jewelry isn’t Gerudo exclusive traits. I think the red hair might suggest a difference in the family.

Hylians in Zelda have been redhead before without being Gerudo too.

Zonai have diversity in characteristics

Given the two Zonai we see are siblings, it’s highly probable that their looks & the statues do not express how all Zonai are. I’ve seen people put “deep analysis” of the aspect with Rauru & Mineru and honestly, it’s not riveting given we’re dealing with a fictional race this story has not given deep enough details.

That’s just some of my thoughts on the Ancient Hero & his aspect. Feel free to agree, disagree, etc.

#tears of the kingdom #legend of zelda #ancient hero's aspect #breath of the wild

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I actually didn’t like that interpretation because I feel you’re boxing in characters with things that fundamentally doesn’t make complete sense.

For example: Mace’s purple lightsaber color isn’t because he uses “dark side tactics”. He was a kid/teen when it was purple. In Legends, he wanted his lightsaber to signify sonething significant and desired to stand out in his own way and won his purple lightsaber crystal as part of his life journey helping out a species before he was an adult. This would be way before he would do any of that in his life that led him to create a unique path as a Jedi. Also, some of the most formidable Jedi seen in the franchise often have Green (Yoda, Depa Billaba, Luminara) and they’re great fighters too. Alternatively, Obi-Wan had a blue lightsaber throughout his life & he’s renown as a diplomat in both canons and he certainly is a strong adherent wanting to use his lightsaber first.

The issue I think that format present is it risks removing agency for characters and assigns characteristics to a characters that won’t be true: Windu’s methodology is unique but he tirelessly traditional, isn’t scared to use his saber, and all his work is to channel his personal short-comings regarding his passionate temperament to sonething positive. That’s completely the opposite of dark side tactics. Anakin is not just a warrior. He’s a capable tactician & and innovative/capable teacher & well with his hands in other areas (droid programming, piloting). He’d qualify for green & yellow lightsaber too iirc how the color coding system works.

They’re fun ideas but ultimately, I think it got dropped because then, you’re tacking on additional hurdles for characterization and I believe it risks having the lightsaber speak too closely to the character rather than the character speak about themselves & a lightsaber /color/ cannot capture the complexity of a character throughout their lifetime.

That’s just my opinion on the matter.

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am I the only one who actually prefers the lore that says that Jedi collect their crystals and then meditate with them and that's what gives the crystal it's colour??? (i certainly hope not)

i know it's a thing in the comic books where characters just pick out a crystal with the color already ingrained into it and there's nothing more to it but I feel like half the reason lightsabers are cool to me is because they actually tell you something about the user, they tell you their preferences in combat, how they view the force and sometimes even how deadly they can be

do I wanna believe mace windu just found a purple crystal or do I wanna believe he got this rare color because he uses dark side tactics but has the ability not to be blinded by them?

the first time I saw Anakin's lightsaber was blue I thought it was very telling about who he was and I believe that it was actually the first hint to his dark tactics and eventually his fall to the sith (even if it was by accident this is my interpretation).

how could the chosen one, the person with the most midi-chlorians, a person who has incredible force potential, uses a blue lightsaber instead of a green one? it is so accurate to his character because blue means you prefer using your saber to using the force in combat, they're also usually the first to pull them out and the ones to do it without hesitating to anyone anywhere.

i just thought it was perfect, that paired with an aggressive style, it was right under their noses

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Ngl, this was the first argument i saw on Tumblr a while back when I started covering Star Wars content on my blog and the whiplash I had when realizing how people interpreted the scene vs what actually happened. It made me get in the habit of double/triple checking scenes bc people just come out of the woodwork with crazy recollection.

The number of times I've seen people misconstrue/misremember the Tatooine plot of Phantom Menace as "the Jedi (even though it was Qui-Gon) bought/stole Anakin" is astounding

One time I even had someone say OBI-WAN (he was on the ship the whole time) was the one who bought Anakin

This is beyond "media literacy is dead"

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“ Why do people hate things being Jedi critical? It’s okay if they’re flawed.”

There’s flawed and then there’s presenting the idea the in universe religious minority who essentially have to fucking do everything as narratively ‘flawed’ bc they don’t appease everybody essentially. Be it Anakin, be it their philosophy, etc and correlate to the idea of how that leads to their fall. Most ‘Jedi critical’ points just assigns a unusual level of onus on them for simply existing. Jedi are human/human-like so we know they’re flawed to a point but when they’re accessory to slavery, accuse them of child taking, or whatever points and ignore context, it’s not being critical. Y’all just wanna slander.

Whats actually annoying is how this fandom & this franchise can look at this religious minority group (composing a lot of PoCs & allusions to other cultures) who get literally persecuted by a politician who created a entire army called Stormtroopers, which is right on the nose for Nazi allegories, and go “lets craft ideas & stories that suggest they’re at fault for really existing & not being perfect paragons of good.” This is the same fandom to say the Sith made some good “points” despite being a part of the problem, ignore the Msndalorian’s weird ass system of government, and find ways to sympathize with characters who participate in murder & genocide because they’re hot (Anakin, Kallus, Maul).

And to top it all off, the story had them killed via mind control to shoot them in the back by people they bonded with for maximum hurt & efficiency after fabricating a war using OTHERS.

#star wars #jedi order

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Reminder that the Guardians of the Whillis are a great non-force sensitive alternative to being a Jedi. Yes being a Jedi requires being force sensitive BUT Guardians adhere to a lot of their philosophy especially since they help protect kyber crystals.

They’re not a nation & obligated to accept anybody and everybody good grief.

A non-force user cannot learn and follow the Jedi teachings and philosophy and be a valid Jedi? The Air Nomads were not all airbenders, but they all shared the same culture. The Jedi are meant to be more than just space wizards with laser swords, yes? Are the Jedi like the Air Nomads or just the Airbenders?

The ability to use the force is a requirement of being a Jedi, yes.

#star wars #sw #jedi order

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Happy Ramadan!!!!! featuring my favorite Muslim character, Khalid Nassour, and made by my super talented lovely awesome friend @jellicent 🫶🏽💛

to my Muslim followers, I hope we have a blessed and rewarding month

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I’ve said this before but just to expand what I was saying earlier regarding Zatanna’s not necessarily being “de-aged” to be with Dick Grayson in YJ. In comics, Zatanna was moreover aged up to be closer to Batman.

Dependening on the stories, Zee starts off her heroism at 18-21. Sometimes she joins the JL after years of searching for her father or around the same time.

[Secret Origins v2 #27 - Recounted through Dr. Mist, who reveals being the mastermind behind her father & her upheavals in life by force via Felix Faust. In the story, he does realize how fucking creepy and patronizing his actions were.]

[ Justice League of America #51 - This story places her at 20 years old when she finally reunited with her father and joins the JL a short time later. But this story makes it seem like she was an orphan rather than raised by her father for a chunk of her childhood.]

[ DCU Heroes Secret Files & Origins #1 - This timeline would imply that she joined the JL first at 21.]

All these sources came prior to her history with Batman, which would naturally move her timeline to make her adjacent with him prior.

[Compared that to Dick, whom she met alongside the Titans in Tales of the Teen Titans #4 in the 1980s. By then, Dick was already college bound with high school graduation [Batman #217]or a teenager depending on your context, placing him roughly 16-18 give or take. This same series in which the picture above has him retire the Robin name in #39, which modern stories typically have that done at 18 years old.]

I think it’s very important to note that Zatanna’s character has changed overtime and that there’s no definite “Justice League generation” vs other generations of heroes. There’s not this neat little box where every DCU character conveniently fits in.

The Titans might fit in the “heroes in their 20s” box and the Teen Titans feature heroes younger than 18 but even then, some TT reached 18+ [Red Devil] and there’s been a plethora of heroes in their 20s in the JL [Kyle Rayner, Khalid Nassour, Ronnie Raymond/Jason Rusch]. Just like the JSA has younger members & successors who join, the JL features membership of varying ages.

[I literally forgot the source of this.]

I understand the basis makes it seem like Zatanna is infantalized but that’s not necessarily true. The character wasn’t always Bruce’s childhood friend and at one point, only met significantly in the JL to Batman’s own recollection. & one other time where she was disguised as a witch unknown to Bruce himself long before the retcon that made them childhood friends came to be.

It’s also hard to say “Zatanna has to be around this age bc she hangs out with so-and-so” because characters like Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman has had their histories altered in many ways. Barry Allen’s age has never been stated so using his interest in her as an age gauge is iffy and honestly, in real life, people have relationships, flirtations, and friendships with people older and younger than them. Part of adulthood is meshing with people & it’s not always convenient that you’ll be friends with people your own age. Interpersonal relationships are also multi-faceted and complex.

I also think it’s sets a bad precedent to not examine the character’s history and go off of the “idea” of where characters are instead of their history. Various DC characters already get this:

Billy Batson is always like 10 or 12 when people think of him but like he’s been 15 & 16 too. His relationship with Courtney Whitmore for example happened when he’s in high school himself. He is also chronologically older than Jon Kent regardless of space bullshit.

Raven & Beast Boy’s character get de-aged to the point they’ve been in Dick, Tim, and Damian’s version of the Teen Titans in media & comics.

Jaime Reyes remained eternally in high school until recently and it took a movie to budge him from that.

Stephanie Brown & Cassandra Caín are out here having Damian be closer to them in age because editorials, writers, and fanon completely forget both characters have been 18 far longer than anybody thinks.

Khalid Nassour debuted in 2015 already 23 years old & a year older than DICK GRAYSON IN THE SAME YEARS. Nowadays, he’s drawn as a teen/college age guy and his timeline either implies he’s in his 30s now or in 2023, all his 100+ appearances took place in ONE YEAR so therefore, everyone he interacted with also progressed one year overtime?

Long story short, it’s really important in my opinion to consider a character’s history and not just go off of whose their friend is, what you think their idealized version is like, and do not use the characters whose timeline DC & Didio has outright played Russian Roulette with accommodate their idealized version of the characters as a placeholder.

#dc comics #zatanna

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For a time, Zee was actually close to Dick Grayson’s age, particularly during the NTT era when he was Robin still but close to debuting as Nightwing. Zee was 18 when she first joined the Justice League (Barry’s age has never been specified so I’m not gonna try).

Overtime, her timeline & Dick were adjusted long after to make Zee more comprable to Bruce to making them childhood friends, which then makes her adventures with the JL likely take place a little later into her adulthood. It’s important to note because NTT/Titans in general tended to be older than what people think and the JL isn’t always consisting of people in their 30s onward.

It's both funny/frustrating how Zatanna is shipped with characters from two different generations of two different franchises.

Batman/Zatanna from the comics. Chalant (Dick x Zee) from Young Justice. FlashMagic (Barry Allen/Zatanna) from the comics.

Anywa, y'all are free to ship whoever you want with her. I just find the whole situation amusing.

(Why YJ? Why? Also can DC stop deaging female heroes just for the sake of shipping?)

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New 52 is still canon. They’re literally following up with the “Gray Son of Gotham” story in the latest Nightwing issue, which was first conceptualized in the same series.

And respectfully, in actual canon, Joker hates Dick the most. Out of all of Batman’s protégés, Joker went through the trouble of digging up old members of Haly’s Circus and out on a display, jokerized his old childhood extended circus family, and killed two of his childhood friends and Joker targeted them just to hurt one of the few vestments Dick has family wise outside Batfamily & even the Titans.

The ramification of that forced Dick to move out of Gotham (albeit there’s another reason), he lost a lot money and resources because he invested a significant amount of it on Amusement Mile, and he eventually had to use Batman’s money because he could not quite substain his equipment & suit on his own. Before that, he has his own penthouse & set up.

The event also was the final straw for Haly’s Circus, as they felt Dick was no longer relevant to them. It was strained because Haly left him the circus on his death bed instead of his loyal son (Haly knew he was Nightwing & trusted him to protect them from the Court of Owls) and when Joker attacked, that was too much for them. To this day, Dick has not reached out to them since because of that in any other story to my knowledge .

Joker went well over the top than any other of the Batfamily sans Bruce just to hurt Dick & it’s because he makes Bruce a better person & Dick being the type of person to put faith into others.

It is so funny to me that the Joker just hates Dick Grayson the most out of everyone in the batfamily.

And realistically, it's probably because he was the one who "took Batman from him and changed him to be softer", but I like to believe it's because Dick is funnier than him. One time, when he was Robin, Batman smiled when he made a joke or a pun and that just never happened when Joker made a joke (because you know, Dick was never a serial killer) and he is still salty about it and will be for the rest of his life.

#dc comics #dick grayson #the joker #nightwing

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Alright. Let’s see what goes.

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

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You know, for all the talk about the importance and coolness of adoption and found families, y’all sure love to sleep on the Shazam Family and relatives they got. I mean for real.

You got the Wizard Shazam/Mamaragan (let’s get some diversity in this bitch)

Then you have his found siblings:

His edgy bio demon children:

Another edgy kid he picked up (he’s actually called the “Son of Mamaragan”):

That edgy kid’s (second) family:

Edgy kid’s descendant:

Another kid (DC writers have stated they have a father son relationship so bite me);

That same kid’s legal, foster parents (I’m tired of y’all forgetting Victor/Rosa and their existence for Superman, Batman, Constantine, etc. Also Billy can have more than 2 parental figures)

And the Vanquez’s foster family

You got a very unique approach and connections with many characters to mess around, headcanon, play with, etc.

But like 98% of the time, people just wanna make Billy significant to Superman or Batman (because putting him with more black hair, blue eye kids that get treated interchangeably is smart) and Mary to the “Wonder Family” like they don’t got a family of their own.

#dc comics #shazam #wizard shazam #mary marvel #billy batson #mary bromfield #freddy freeman #captain marvel #captain marvel jr #darla dudley #eugene choi #pedro pena #blaze #satanus #amon tomaz #teth adam #black adam #adrianna tomaz #malik white #bolt #osiris #isis #this actually isn’t everyone either. #and it’s very diverse so you really can play with all kinds of different experiences #alas #it’s all about batfamily and their friends