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Lucifer is so Michael Scott coded…..

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It's really fucked up when you treat characters like people and people like characters.

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for some reason middle aged comic fans coming on the internet to defend their decision as to why they thought a twelve year old should have died or lived is so funny 😭😭😭

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Babies are socially accepted parasites.

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This poll is a celebration of fandom and fandom history; we're aware that there are certain issues with many of the listed pairings and sources, but they are a part of that history. Please do not take this as an endorsement, and refrain from harassment.

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I love how people are like Jason Todd was a demon child and all the other robins were angels compared to him like lmao robin!Jason was a fucking delight what do you mean

Dick showed up at the manor with a blue stuffed animal elephant and the rage of 100 men and the only thing thats changed is that the elephant is grey now

Tim showed up with blackmail on the fucking Batman and bullied him into accepting him as robin

Damian popped up on the doorstep holding a fucking katanna

Meanwhile robin!jason was jumping from building to building squealing robin magic! and would spontaneously hug Batman. he loved reading shakepeare knowledge and literally screamed golly jee willickers as the highest curse word in his vocabulary.

Robin!Jason was a goddamned fucking delight and all the other ones were the little demon children lmaooo

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duke thomas 😄

& him hanging out with the waynes :)

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fucker! we wanted to trek those

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do you think Wayne Enterprises employees are unionized. and also, did they choose to unionize themselves or did Bruce Wayne gently talk them into it

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Jersey Gotham

Okay as someone born and raised in Jersey, I feel like we as a fandom are missing out on truly Jersey-ified Gotham. Like, c’mon, Jersey Girl Brucie Wayne??? So here I am to present a list of things I need more of because god damn it make Batfam— mostly Bruce, Jason, Tim, Steph, and Duke— Jersey (all based on my own personal experiences/real things that have happened to me):

Bruce cannot pump his own gas. He just. Doesn’t know how to. It’s not like a rich person thing, he just never learned cause he’s from fucking Jersey and never leaves Gotham. Jason didn’t know how and Talía lost her shit “How??? You are child superhero??? Who died and spontaneously came back??? But you can’t pump gas??” Tim kinda knows cause of Titans but again, he never really had to. (There’s a Twitter threaded dedicated to the Wayne family titled “is this rich or Jersey”). Steph and Duke can but they both pretend not too.

There have been fist fights over whether it’s pork roll or taylor ham. Jason and Bruce are very adamantly pork roll like the good Southern Jersey boys they are— it’s the one thing they can agree in most days— but Tim is taylor ham. Steph and Duke, despite being South Jersey, like to cause chaos and flip sides constantly. Dick, Damian, and Cass couldn’t care less.

The Absolute Hatred of New York/NYC. Doesn’t matter which kid it is, Bruce (and Alfred) got them all on board with this. Don’t even get them started on the Statue of Liberty; it’s a Wayne family tradition to try and buy it from NY because technically it’s more in NJ than NY and it’s closer too. They’ve yet to be successful but Bruce has hope for when it’s Damian’s turn.

And bc of this hatred of NYC comes the support of Philly!! None of them are super big sport fans, but they do cheer for Eagles, 76ers, and Union. Bruce, thanks to Alfred, is a big fan of soccer (“it’s football, master Bruce, I didn’t raise you in a barn”), and is a member of the Sons of Ben. He can be found in the River End of the stadium with Jason cheering for Union at pretty much every home game. There are multiple videos of Brucie Wayne and Jason Wayne screaming at refs, launching fireworks off the roof, and cursing out opposing teams’ players. Duke and Tim can be found 76ers games, while Steph frequents Eagles games.

Accents. Pls for the love of god give those boys (and Steph) accents. They are from New Fucking Jersey. They say “cawfee” and “tawlk.” They pronounce 0% of their t’s in the middle of words— kitten is ki’en, Trenton is tren’in. Jason and Steph drop letters when they gets pissed, Bruce slurs words, Duke and Tim drop passive-aggressive “y’all’s” to piss people off.

Driving. Now it’s not that they’re shit drivers, it’s that everyone else is a shit driver, and it’s not helped that majority of them learned to drive in the Batmobile. Steph has a loudspeaker on her car and frequently yells “fucking Pennsylvania turn your goddamn blinker on!” while driving. Bruce has a room in the manor dedicated to his speeding tickets. Tim as gotten into multiple fists fights at lights because people were driving slow in the fast lane. Jason is infamous for doing the Jersey Slide.

Jason, Tim, and Steph have gotten mugged before. They talked their way out of it and gave tips to the mugger. Bruce has kicked a rabid raccoon while walking home before because what else was he supposed to do? Duke has ordered a “pork roll egg and cheese on an everything” before in Not-Jersey and cried because they don’t have it. Several foreign benefactors of WE have asked for translators at meetings with Brucie cause Brucie’s accent is so thick and exaggerated. IN CONCLUSION: making Batfam (and gotham) Jersey is funny as hell and presents so many good opportunities. Make Batfam Jersey! (again these are all just my personal experiences, big state yada yada, different experiences, blah blah idgaf I jsut need batfam fist fighting over pork roll)

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Gothamites ::

Gotham is a melting pot of culture and all walks of life. From food to music to clothing, there's quite a number of "Little" versions of a country or culture for people to visit. And for larger places such as Chinatown, the people living there do not even need to speak a lick of English to survive, given the population is large enough to support only needing to know Mandarin and perhaps Cantonese alone.

Gothamites as a group are wary people and a little smarter than a typical city dweller. Unlike denizens from other cities, they place a lot of emphasis on their own safety. That means not going to known bad areas (East End), not taking risky shortcuts like unfamiliar alleyways, don't be out past midnight if you don't need to, etc etc. This is likely due to the rampant crime, primarily robbery. Though robbers will not typically target Gothamites individually, usually tourists.

Note: The typical Gothamite carries only up to $30-40 in hard cash at best. Likely, the most valuable thing on their person would be some jewelry, their cellphone, and/or a laptop.

As for socio-economic class, in Gotham, the poor come for the opportunities, the middle class come for the wages, and the upper class come for the lifestyle. Approximately 20% live below the poverty line, which is approximately $35000 in 2022 (average national is around 14%). This number is expected to get larger in 2023. Part of it is the wage stagnation and job availability. Unemployment rate is around 9%.

Even the largest employer of Gotham citizens Wayne Enterprises only employs around 150,000 people out of 20,000,000. And as most people who visit Gotham come to enjoy the lavish city lifestyle, most people who are employed work in the service industry, which can change drastically given whatever area a supervillain or crime gang decides to devastate one day.

Big Business ::

Almost every single major brand can be found in Gotham. The Diamond District houses Gucci, Hermes, Louis Vuitton, H&M, etc in one convenient area. There are also branches that can be found through the other districts as well. Industrial companies such as Wayne Enterprises or Reddick Industries also have their headquarters in Gotham.

As can be expected, the local government leans heavily towards Big Business. That is because it is corrupt. And it is public opinion that the people up top are corrupt and cannot do anything about it because they either cover their tracks well or will bring down too many people if they were to go down.

Gotham is not pro-labor. Police often will stand on the company side when it comes to dispersal of a strike. Locations have been shut down, just for something as little as a rumor of a union vote [ see Gotham Ironworkers Union vs Gallium, ruling in favor of Gallium [1]]. People overall are intimidated into not using their rights as a worker, given that the city will provide almost no help. And there are just many barely legal things that a company can do to make their workers lives miserable.

[ Reddick Industries vs Alan Thorn ] A Glassdoor Review that Alan Thorn, ex-engineer of Reddick Industries, discusses the "lack of safety protocols and appropriate training making it dangerous for employees to work in" had been in the public eye after Reddick Industries filed a libel lawsuit and successfully won the lawsuit for $3,000,000 after Gotham City Inspectors found no evidence of Alan Thorn's claims. An appeal was filed but canceled after Alan Thorn did not show up. Reddick Industries claims no foul play, only stating that Alan Thorn likely knew he was going to lose and decided to skip town to avoid paying the suit.

Crime ::

Gotham is known for its crime rate, being in the top ten for robbery, felony assault, sexual assault, grand larceny, and murder.

Robbery in Gotham usually does not involve the common citizen. Most robbery involves stealing from supermarkets or stores outside the Diamond District. When firearms are involved, they usually involve high value targets such as banks, large companies, or armored trucks. Part of the lack of citizen targeting is because citizens do not carry much out of precaution - and that there is an easy-to-dial 217 number for credit card cancellation in the city of Gotham. A lot of cellphones are also made by WayneTech and include a GPS tracker that could only be removed by breaking the phone. So it is not very cost-effective to target a Gotham citizen for robbery, not when there's a good number of tourists instead to target. So the only time when robbery targeting citizens happens if it's en-masse like in a train.

A lot of the felony assault and murder involves people in East End and some of the outer districts / Docks. Most of it is gang-on-gang violence, and the police will often ignore the most crime-infested areas or arrive there late when all the fighting is done. The reason why police can get away with this is because of a very strong police union, who insists that the average policeman is ill-equipped to fight a "supervillain" who could be laying a trap in the area. Unfortunately, there is precedence for their claim [ see Scarecrow Incident [2]].

The murder rate is usually normal for a city of this size. The only problem is when supervillains get involved - and then the murder rate spikes (similar to that meme about Spiders' Georg).

Note: In my honest opinion, the worst crime that happens involves companies exploiting their workers, and the workers not knowing their rights or scared to use them. Example: There are managers in some of the service industries that have convinced their waiters and other staff that they are entitled to a cut of the tip pool.

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Okay, okay, so I had ta' edit th' last two panels cuz Joker's more about causin' chaos than organizin', but this is all in Insomnia's nightmare so I stand by my rewrite!

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stephanie brown dies at 16. at 16 and a quarter, she is woken up, screaming and thrashing and attacking, covered in acid green water. at 16 and three quarters, she has a young boy firmly attached to her side, calling her ukhti. she is learning what that word means, and what all the words spoken around her mean, from the woman who watched her rise from the water.

talia explains that she was not the one to retrieve her body, nor did she ask for it, but she did receive it. she explains that she knew bruce once, years ago. stephanie looks into the face of the boy curled up next to her and believes talia. talia says that she will not allow any more robins to be dragged to her doorstep, bodies cold and eyes closed. stephanie sees photos of a young man with the same green eyes as the rest of them, damian on his hip. she sees photos of him with a sword, with a gun, with nothing but his fists. she sees one photo of him as a child and— oh. the bright colors, the boyish grin, the shadow lurking behind him. at 17, stephanie understands.

at 17, stephanie decides that she won’t go back to gotham yet. she can’t. that’s where jason is, the other lost robin, talia tells her. at 17, she trains with staffs, swords, knives, guns, and whips. anything and everything she can get her hands on, even the things b would never let her touch. b thinks she’s dead, and whose fault is that? talia seems to think it’s b’s, but steph isn’t sure. she only knows one thing: this will not happen again. no more dead robins, she swears.

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I know there are alot of angsty Tim does not believe he is part of the family takes but consider a hilarious twist on this where Tim 100% separates being a bat verses being a Wayne like its more of a family business type of situation. 

Like Jason goes on a full ass monologue about how Tim stole Robin and his place in the family as Dick’s brother and Bruce’s son and Tim is like??? chill I’m an employee dude. Damian tries to kill him to prove that he is the superior son and Tim is super confused because shouldn’t he go after one of Bruce’s sons instead of an unpaid intern?

Bruce has a whole heart attack when Tim tries to ask if he has a retirement plan or benefits lmfao 

Cue everyone trying to show Tim he’s part of the family except he is dodging attempts left and right (like that time he created a fake uncle just so he wouldn’t get adopted)

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A story within a story where a mother sits her rowdy children down and tells them a story about a the world's sweetest, kindest mother who never lost her temper, never cursed and never yelled at her children, no matter how rowdy they could get. She would only gently, kindly told them to not do the dangerous things. One day she sweetly, kindly told her children to not go play at the riverbank, because it's dangerous and they might slip on the rocks, fall into the water, and die. Her children do not listen. They go play at the riverbank, where they slip on the rocks, fall into the water, and die.

And the sweet perfect mother of the story comes to the riverbank, sees that all her children drowned, and starts crying so bitterly that angels overhear her, and the angels say to each other, "she does not deserve this, this woman has never done anything wrong in her life, this should not have happened to her", and feeling great pity for her, bring her children back to life, and after that they always listened to their mother and lived happily ever after.

And the storyteller's children, who at this point are familiar with the concept that these stories are supposed to have some sort of a moral or lesson in them, interject to point out that their mother hasn't always done everything perfectly, she isn't always sweet, curses a lot, and as a matter of fact loses her shit at her kids all the time. She isn't like the mother of the story at all.

And their mother agrees: Her children are correct. She is not a perfect mother who has never done anything wrong. Angels will not have pity on her, and they will not bring her little shits back to life if they go to the river and die. So they better fucking not go get themselves killed in the first place.

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