more, more, more

because duh, movie batman for a more mainstream audience is going to be based on the mainstream misinterpretation of the character. in movies, a lot of the time, batman is depicted as the character- and not just the mask. i think comics make it easier to understand that batman is both himself and bruce wayne. there’s a third person and two masks, if that makes sense.

my point is that in the live action movies this is often ignored, because it’s a complexity that either a mainstream audience would struggle to understand- or the limits of those movies and just won’t allow for that depth.

it’s why i didn’t rlly like battinson))

one of the main reasons batman and robin *click* in media, is because bruce is a bit of robin. hes always been a child, and will always remain one. one of the reasons hes so good with children (fuck you bad bat-dad red hood comics) is because he connects with them.

now in the movies, hes childish enough, depending on the movie. but childish is different than being a *child*. in the movies he may occasionally be childish, but he lacks the tenderness to complete.

this clashes hugely with the batman and robin dynamic, batman *needs* that tenderness to even consider *having* dick grayson in the first place- this was mastered in BMAS— and for what i mean i recommend yall watch the episode “robins reckoning”

one part in that episode really stands out, when bruce walks into dicks room and comforts him about all the changes, all his fear, and the death of his parents. and with the vulnerability, dick helps bruce. THAT is batman and robin, partners. bruce was responsible for dick, comforted him, fathered him- at least a little. and then dick was able to help bruce, without knowing it.

that tenderness and compassion is lacking in modern batman, or at least the movies. but even in comics it’s hardly touched on. which is unfortunate because it’s what MAKES their dynamic. without it, as in the movies it is ALWAYS without it, robin cant be incorporated.

batman and robin are symbiotic,

any robin. in some way, batman is able to guide robin- father and love and we all know this.. and then because of that, robin is able to show batman how to deal with his *own* life (purposely vague here bc it depends on which robin)

🫡here u go boss @qu33rcommunist

second bit is with oomfie jon... @vulture-venom haiii

(including the anti kill rant because i think you have to mention his love when talking about his no kill rule. like a big part of why he doesnt kill is in fact intwined with his love for life.)

NO KILL RULE YOU ARE SO IMPORTANT TO MEEEEEEEEEE. Batman is DEFINED by love. Love for those he’s lost and those he refuses to lose. Love for his family, for his friends, for his city, for his children. Love for the people he walks by on the street. Love for the condemned on death row. Love for the people sleeping on benches. Love for people standing at the edge of a bridge. Love for EVERYONE. LIFE IS SACRED. HE LOVES IT TOO MUCH. FOR BETTER OR WORSE.

I will be honest when I first read it I was really just thinking of the goons... and like. Can you imagine??

You're a goon who's been working for Harvey Dent for ten years. He's a good boss, most of the time. He doesn't use the coin when he's paying you, so that's good. But- he does get caught a lot. And so paychecks are slim and unsteady. You just lost your house, your wife left you because she doesn't approve of your lifestyle, so you decide- hey, one last round with the Boss, and then we can let Batman explode our van and that'll be the end of my suffering.

But no. Batman arrives, because he does, and he notices you. Because he's the World's Greatest Detective, because he knows everyone who's on Harvey's payroll, because he knows your wife left you, something makes him pay extra attention to you.

He grunts when you throw your first punch. He actually stumbles backwards when you advance on him. He still beats you, of course, but Harvey gets away, somehow, strangely, so that means you have payment for tonight, at least.

And you still have all your bones, and the ziptie around your wrist is rather lose, it's no problem at all for you to slip out and make it home before the cops arrive.

btk did wonders for the “bruce wayne is not in fact a near-heartless uncompassionate asshole who saves people only out of some high and mighty moral obligation as that doesn’t even make sense” fans.

Kara is at a crossroads, and one road leads towards Clark and one leads to Lobo. Or rather, one path leads to embracing the responsibility of the life and powers her parents gave her, and the other is continuing to drink her life away, not caring about anything or anyone but her and hers.

Lobo is immensely powerful, and the last of his planet. Just like Kara. And when we meet him, he’s passed out drunk in a bar, oblivious and uncaring of violence and exploitation around him. Just like Kara was trying to be when she first met Ruthye.

Lobo is Kara’s future if she gives up on trying to be good. Drunkenly stumbling through the galaxy not helping anyone or anything and only caring about herself. Maybe not mindlessly cruel, but not kind or good or caring of the pain of the people around her.

It’s why they both get Ruthye’s spiel, it’s why Lobo’s whole introduction mirrors what Kara was just doing demanding to know about the Brigands, it’s why they’re both “the ditz from the bar”, it’s why they both have the gag with the space suit collar.

It’s why Lobo crops up each time Ruthye and Kara are faced with choices, sometimes acting as a devil on their shoulders, sometimes just a big lurking ominous warning of their bleak future if they make the wrong choices. It’s why Lobo says “let Ruthye have her revenge”, uncaring of how the violence might haunt Ruthye for the rest of her life. He’s a big constant reminder why Kara cannot let this thirteen year old girl be consumed by violence, and of who her parents didn’t want her to be.

Lobo is Kara’s foil and shadow.