#knightmare batman

[solosclark]

batman v superman really is snyder's magnum opus. i know i said rebel moon will save cinema, but it has a lot to live up to in my eyes. i just saw a gif of knightmare batman getting unhelmed/uncowled and it was glorious. the sexiest ben affleck has ever looked. the gayest ben affleck has ever looked.

#mars txt #batman v superman #knightmare batman #batfleck

[yahweshandala]

#the batman 2022 #knightmare batman

[picspammer]

Fighting the Devil and his army... in Hell

#hello girlies i'm not dead i was screencapping Fury Road #took me an eternity #this is my multiverse #uf so many tags ahead... #the sandman #the sandman netflix #dream of the endless #mad max fury road #mmfr #max rockatansky #fury road #batman #batfleck #knightmare #batman v superman #dceu batman #dceu #bvs #snyderverse #tom sturridge #tom hardy #ben affleck #jamie childs #george miller #zack snyder #idek if this looks good it's some random idea i had in the shower lol #ah! i forgot #friedrich pose #crunty trio #morpheus

[sansnomp4]

Knightmare Robin - Knight Terrors

#knight terrors #knightmare robin #Tim Drake #Red Robin #robin #dc #dc robin #batman #fanart

[mndvx]

Zack Snyder BvS next Saturday so excited again leave your questions below for a chance to have us discuss on the panel during the live stream #afsp #snyderverse #fullcircle

#zack snyder #snyderverse #dceu #batman v superman #ben affleck #batman #knightmare

[mashimero]

Knightmare

The entire world witnessed the brutal end of Darkseid's biggest weapon and the leader of the resistance. They know that it signalled a new age--one without heroes in the light.

They know that the bodies of Superman and the Batman were never recovered.

This was made for the Superbat Reverse Bang 2022, in collaboration with Atanhi88’s fic Epilogue!

#Superbat #Superman #Clark Kent #Bruce Wayne #Batman #Zack Snyder’s Justice League #Knightmare timeline #DCEU #Superbat Reverse Bang 2022

[dimehun]

Some of my favourite batman arkham knight concept art

#Batman Arkham Knight #Batman #Concept art #batman arkham knight concept art #on my first ng+ playthrough wish me luck ive played it back to front like 13 times but my first time playing ng+ #doing great so far maybe i was too scared of knightmare mode lol #dc

[catie-does-things]

The feeling of powerlessness...

...that turns good men cruel.

#dceu #zack snyder's justice league #superman #knightmare #batman v superman #snyderverse #adventures of supertag #ultimate edition 2021 #polysyllabic mos sequel

[stardustevil]

Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) Dir. Zack Snyder

Thank you Zack for giving us this level of a raw atmosphere, unimaginable in today's landscape of DC movies, anyway we got a glimpse of greatness and thankful for that. Knightmare Bats you will always be a Goat <3

#batman v superman #zack snyder #batman #batfleck #Knightmare

[the-imaginative-hobbyist]

Wouldn't this be nice?

#constantine #constantine 2 #john constantine #keanu reeves #knightmare #batman #batfleck #ben affleck #swamp thing #darkseid #zack snyder #snyderverse #dc #art #the imaginative hobbyist #artist #digital art #fan art #artwork #photoshop #film #artists on tumblr

[distort-opia]

The talk about Bruce’s relationship with the Family, and his abusive parental style, made me think of this specific issue in King’s Knightmares (Batman #61-63, #66-69) -- so I need to exorcise the thoughts before it starts bugging me. The arc is part of an ongoing effort to break Batman’s mind, orchestrated by Bane and none other than his father from an alternate Universe, Flashpoint Batman (who... well it’s just interesting to see that a Batman version of Bruce’s father is also not getting any ‘Best Dad ever’ mugs for his birthday any time soon). Bruce is strapped to a machine and pumped full of Scarecrow’s gas, having a series of hallucinations; each of them is centred around a different issue/important person he’s been grappling with.

The issue I mean is #62. In it, Bruce dreams that he’s restrained by a rope and hanging upside down, bleeding and bleeding, while Professor Pyg is standing there with a knife waiting to slaughter him. The comic is drawn in very bright colors, in a style that’s clearly supposed to evoke a psychedelic feeling and experience. From the start, we are more or less told of the key players (or symbols) of the dream: blood, a man in a mask, rope, a knife. All of these elements undergo change and impact each other, one way or another.

But the most important thing about this dream is that it’s clearly supposed to symbolically reflect the way Bruce relates to the Robins -- and more precisely, it reflects what he fears from them. The key to understanding this mess is keeping in mind who Professor Pyg actually is under the mask (Damian, his son), and who he represents.

What follows under the cut are lots of comic panels and wild extrapolation and interpretation on my part, since overthinking is my hobby. Fair warning, there’s lots of blood involved.

There’s already a lot to unpack, at the beginning. “The rope was talking, now it’s yelling. Understand, sympathize, thank it for its help. And cut. And cut.”

It’s an interesting contrast, the fact that the rope -- what’s keeping Bruce restrained -- is the one with a voice. Meanwhile, the “enemy”, the man in a mask (who, again, is actually Damian underneath) keeps talking and shouting, but Bruce cannot hear anything at all.

“They all want the same thing. Year after year they beg for it. And you can’t give it to them.”

What, Bruce? Love? Approval? That’s very likely it, and in light of this, I think the ropes in the beginning signify Bruce’s own emotions. What he always sees as an obstacle and something that binds him. They yell and they beg, but all Bruce really does is acknowledge them as he cuts them anyway. He escapes in order to attack Professor Pyg, whose voice Bruce still cannot hear.

“You should have heard him... listened... There’s a knife in you now.” Here an exchange of elements takes place. Bruce sheds the rope, and gains the knife. As the story progresses, Bruce tries to pull out the knife and survive, using the pain to ground himself. All along, he can’t hear a word of what his assailant is saying. But the inner dialogue begins to suggest (like on the cover of the issue itself) that what Professor Pyg is saying is “Little pig, little pig. Let me in.”

And Bruce does this:

He turns the knife on his enemy, but not for long. Bruce tries to interrogate him by inflicting pain, and has to remind himself not to kill him. All the while, Professor Pyg manages to pick the knife back up from the floor.

At this point, Professor Pyg begins to rant again, with Bruce not hearing any of it -- but all the while, his memories are coming back. He remembers being attacked by Bane, and by his own father. Slowly begins to realize that this is all a dream, that they’ve done something to him. He begins to fight Pyg with batarangs and then asks himself, “What is Pyg? A metaphor. A myth. A story. A dream.”

And here come the crucial elements to interpreting it:

“Your children aren’t safe. They’re dying. You love them, you created them, created their love, and they’re not safe.”

The “she” in there is Selina, of course. Since all of this takes place quite recently after Bruce proposed, and after she left him at the altar, a lot of the whole arc of Knightmares is Bruce dealing with that. There’s definitely an amalgamation in Bruce’s head, when it comes to his attachments: Selina, Alfred, Dick -- his children, all of it is love, and all of it is something he thinks he built. To Bruce, it’s all dead marble that he shaped and sculpted into being his ideal. It’s something he desperately wanted but couldn’t muster on his own, so he prayed to make it come to pass. 

In the end, he desperately asks Professor Pyg, “How did I get here? How do I get out?” And for the first time... he can hear the answer.

And then Damian leaves. The dream ends. Nothing is truly resolved, because Bruce has a couple more hallucinations before he manages to break out of it. The idea that Bruce built his love is the point his mind is trying to make through them, and the moment he gets confronted with that by Selina in issue #69 -- with the fact he didn’t truly love her, but that he wanted to (”I have to love you,” he says) -- he finally comes out of the dreams.

But in this issue... it’s just interesting to me that his Family, his children, Damian (possibly as a stand-in for all the Robins) are included in this too. What textually happens in the dream is Professor Pyg simply having Bruce tied up and talking while holding a knife, with Bruce attacking him twice -- and Pyg only stabbing and defending himself the moment he does.

There’s a continuous exchange happening. The rope never comes up again: Bruce thanks it for its service, but sheds the hold of his emotions. What’s left is the blood and the knife. The knife is the power love affords you over another. Blood represents all the things you lose when the knife sinks into you; it’s weakness. And it keeps switching. Bruce is overcome with blood and then gains the knife, and uses it to hurt a person he cares about. But then Damian gains the knife and all Bruce is left with is the blood. And all along, while Bruce is attacking, Damian is reaching out but Bruce can’t hear it. And what he’s saying is, “Let me in.” Bruce only hears it when he stops fighting and uses his damn words to ask.

I do believe Damian here is not just Damian. From the start, Professor Pyg is drawn in colors reminiscent of the Robin uniform, so I do think this applies more generally to all who’ve been Robin to Bruce. Always begging to be let in, and Bruce not being capable of it, because he inherently sees that as a threat; the edge of a knife, weakness. Always trying to talk to Bruce, but Bruce not hearing them.

The issue also pretty much says that Bruce thinks he made them, like Pygmalion made the object of his love. That he chose them to be Robins, and chose to love them, and made them love him. Not only that, but since this is all under the influence of fear gas, there’s also what Bruce sees as a threat... what he created slipping his control, and turning against him. The people who love him not getting their love returned in full, not being let inside, and thus Bruce finding himself under the sharp edge of the knife because he didn’t listen. And yet... the final nail in the coffin, I feel, is that the ending of the issue isn’t simply Damian leaving.

It’s Damian asking to be let in, with the “I’ll huff and I’ll puff and I’ll blow your house down” another potential reference to how opening up to someone can make you weak. This is the answer to Bruce’s question; this is what he needs to do in order to wake up. Let himself be vulnerable. And then Damian waits, but Bruce just falls back into old patterns, the things he’s been saying to himself all along. “Evaluate. Reassess.” He doesn’t answer. And when Damian leaves, he doesn’t call out -- he just looks resigned.

The way Bruce is constantly torn between wanting love and his utterly monumental fear of it, which makes him crave control so badly and hurt so many people and in the end himself... it certainly makes me feel all kinds of ways. Some of which I can definitely descibe as ‘feral’. And sad.

#I think I just need to acknowledge that I like King's writing sometimes #though it's very likely just because I'm into dissecting stuff into tiny little bits #and when he's not being fake deep and utterly nonsensical #King does provide the opportunity for that #anyway yeah. gonna tag this under #batman: knightmares #since I'm pretty sure I'll analyze the other dreams Bruce has at some point too #should I make a tag for my personal Bruce-centric comic metas #haha it could be #welcome to Bruce's twisted mind #we'll see #batman #batman meta #bruce wayne #bruce wayne meta #damian wayne #batfam #batfam meta #my meta #blood tw

[brainsick-bruce-wayne]

KNIGHTMARE

I made this one up :3

What if a physical manifestation of Bruce's grief/rage/fear started terrorizing Gotham and the only way to defeat it is thru some emotional/mental acceptance of things what then

#my art #dissident au #batman #dissident au batman #dissident au bruce wayne #dissident au knightmare #bruce wayne #im sure similar concepts exist but #oh well

[razanulhoque]

"The world burns at the end of time. Fire and ashes reign. The Knight dreams of a better yesterday and wonders how they all fell so far."

Believe it or not, I've had the idea for this drawing for years, ever since I played the Mad Max game on the PS4.

This was meant as more of a landscape practice. I still enormously suck at it, and I'm not 100% satisfied with how this turned out. Guess I still have a lot of practicing to do...

Anyway, I hope you still like this one!

#batman #benaffleck #ben affleck #benaffleckbatman #zack snyder #zacksnyder #snyderverse #restorethesnyderverse #knightmarebatman #knightmare #dccomics #fanart #dceu #dceumovies #dceufanart #dc comics #dcfanart

[cannibalgh0st]

Just 3 silly guys 🤡🤡🤡

*click for better quality!*

#the joker #joker #three jokers #knightmare joker #arthur fleck #the joker 2019 #the batman 2022 #gotham #batman #batjokes #2023 #cannibalgh0st #cannibalgh0st-par0xysms l #june #my art #stylized art #toony style #toons #cartoons

[jltoyphotography]

“I am vengeance, I am the night, I am Batman”

And some older Batman posts

#lego #thelegodude01 #legophotography #brickcentral #legominifigures #Lego Batman #Batman #dccomics #dcsuperheroes #lego dc #bat family #robin #the dark knight #batfleck #batmanvssuperman #lego minifigures #lego photography #knightmare #justice league

[iamfitzwilliamdarcy]

actually now having re-read (most of) lotr and thinking a lot of the stewardship in it-- sam and frodo, faramir and aragorn, eomer and theoden/merry and theoden, etc -- i am.... even more emo about Snyder Batfleck getting to be Superman’s True Knight

#um it makes Knightmare verse hurt even more also #zsjl #dceu #zack snyder #batfleck #batman #bruce wayne