OKAY SO WHO ASKED FOR A POST THAT DETAILS DAMIANS CONNECTIONS TO MAGIC?.. nobody? oh okay.
(be forewarned, this is long)
now after ignoring batman 666, let's see what we have.
ROBIN: SON OF BATMAN (2015)
now, in robin: son of batman #1 It's confirmed that after his death in batman incorporated, damian went to hell. Hell is usually connected with the more magical side of the dc universe, but that's not it.
The entirety of the comic delves into damians connections to more mystical things. mythical swords and magical ancient towers, weird extinct bat-dragons, magical cults that want to destroy the whole world, etc etc.
this is easily regarded as one of damians best comics and having peak damian characterisation, so obviously Damian being magically inclined can easily work well with his character.
Now, after a barrel load of compliments, let's get to the extremely negative side of things.
TEEN TITANS (2016)
Damian's cloned brother has magic and that sentence is about as much as i care for this book. Moving on.
BATMAN (2016)
Again, dog shit damian characterisation, but here we go. Damian here actually shows an ability to use a binding spell and has a wand, making some sort of deal with a random demon, but a far cry from damian apparently selling his soul in batman 666. Moving on finally out of rebirth because that was a bad time for Damian's character.
ROBIN (2021)
Now we go back to the good. Apparently from the maternal part of damians family, magic is more commonplace. ra's even having a whole spell book to his name. Robin 2021 kinda toys with the ghul family and the lazarus pits magical and devilish side which isn't new... but it's new to involve damian!
In the final parts of this story, Damian's heart specifically is used as a plot device, lord deathman even dubbing it as "the bloodstream of the demon" and ruh (ra's' mother) uses it as a power source to fuel demon summonings, which started the Lazarus rain event.
TEEN TITANS DARK (Unreleased)
Back in early 2023 (i think) dc teased a sort of "teen titans dark" with damian, black alice and monkey prince. The "dark" moniker referencing Justice league dark, a magic team made up of magic users that solve magical bullshit. It's a good book, recommended read, i just thought I'd add this to the pile.
Detective comics/Knight terrors
Now, including these two together because they're about the same topic: Dreams.
damian is confirmed to have some sort of control over dreams and sleep, defeating demons that show up in his sleep, yet never actually disappear when he wakes up. He also has an ability to stay awake after a massive worldwide phenomenon causes everyone, even the dream masters that taught damian, to sleep and experience night terrors.
Dreams are, again, connected to the magical side of the dc universe. Now I'm not going to pretend like i actually read sandman to you, i can't lie on ramadan, so let's all give me a pass here for my lack of understanding of all that.
Batman and robin (2023)
In this, damian mentions a bit of off screen monster hunting with Frankenstein and lays a trap that lights someone on fire. I used to think this was some sort of hex but this artwork is extremely unclear, but since Frankenstein is mentioned and from my knowledge dc's Frankenstein is magic let's pretend this is some sort.
As an extra note: this guy definitely died. There's no way about it, he got lit on fire with nobody helping him. He's gone. Damian just killed a man.
Extra Extra notes:
talia using magic!
now, i haven't included these examples in the "the ghuls have magic" segment because uh...
(batman: the doom that came to Gotham/dc bombshells)
yeah...
Not only are these interpretations of talia EXTREMELY orientalist but also just generally out of character and could've been done with any randomly introduced characters.
For the unknowing white american people in the crowd: arabs actually don't only dress in revealing "belly dancer" outfits and lanterns. i know, shocking, we actually wear normal clothes.
And just to add again, there's a lot of stories that include ra's having magic, but I'm not the biggest ra's head (lol) so i didn't read them all, i implore u to do your own research because I'm not doing it.
this about wraps it up. thank you to the magic damian believers may we all win someday.
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It's Time for a New Team!!
I'm so happy to get so much Maps in this series. Seeing this new identity and the potential this could bring in the future. And fortunately, there is more to come!
After the successful events of Paradise Island, it was soon revealed as to us why Batgirl (Barbara) wasn't invited on their little adventure in saving Sin.
It was revealed that Barbara would meet her demise each time she joined the team on their endeavors. It would become evident that Maps attempts time traveling "eleven" times beforesge came to that conclusion.
Which makes this whole time traveling somewhat confusing since it wasn't properly explained in full detail. Especially when there's someone else tampering with the past.
Maps explained it in the next scene: What the next plot of the new series will be.
Our next scene just plays out as a hint to the next season in this series where we tackle time traveling. It features our girl Mia! Of course, so I hope we'll be getting more lore about Meridian and how she'll be able to save Barbara. Their investigation will take place in the next book, March 5th.
It will be an interesting concept.
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end game (ft. damian wayne)
we’re finally getting everyone’s reactions to amnesia-bear-bruce, but aren’t we forgetting the most important kid? (if im mistaken then WHOOPS)
damian wasn’t in end game, and i have no idea where “batman and robin” fits in the current timeline, BUT THAT AIN’T STOPPING ME. This kid loves his dad too much for his possible reaction to not be shown.
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