Superbat/DC - Batfam

unfortunately, Damian is also the youngest brother and is, in essence, a little fucking shit. so a couple months later when Red Robin has to meet up with Batman, Nightwing, and Robin to discuss the ring of illegal organ harvesters that Robin and Nightwing have just infiltrated, Damian hands over a gift bag with a clearly bitten-back grin and falsely-innocent expression.

Tim opens the back and genuinely bluescreens.

“I- I uh,” Damian chokes back a giggle. “I heard you needed one of these.”

Tim’s face is so uncomprehending that Dick snatches the bag away and moves to open it, complaining about how Damian had made them stop at a craft store on the way over to buy the bag and he still doesn’t fucking know why-

he looks in the bag and screams.

“WHY DID YOU TAKE- WHAT EVEN IS THAT?”

Tim stares forward blankly, in pure awe at the levels of comedy his little brother is bringing to the table. “It’s a spleen. He’s given me a spleen.”

Damian collapses into a fit of laughter to the point of crying while Dick, horrified, tries not to throw up over the mangled rotting organ Damian had stolen from the illegal-transplant ring. he doesn’t stop laughing for the better part of an hour and Bruce has to talk to Damian about the dangers of messing with case evidence, especially when that evidence is actual human remains.

When her only character traits are:

Likes waffles

Wears eggplant purple

He relationship to her dad

Her relationship with Tim, not just them dating but how close and supportive they are. Tim snuck back into Gotham during no man’s land to be there when she gave birth. He was so nervous to introduce his boyfriend Bernard to Stephanie because her approval was so important to Tim and is a really cute scene

The fact she is the coffee drinker NOT Tim

The fact she was pregnant at 15

The fact her ex ran off leaving her to be a single mom after the earthquake that led to no man’s land

The fact she started a gang war

How hard it was for her to be a vigilante because unlike the rest she didn’t have the training the rest of them. There were multiple Bats that told her to quit

Her father is Cluemaster, a c list Batman villain that essentially does the riddler’s schtick but its clues not riddles. Like in universe both Batman and the Riddler think of him as bargain bin Riddler. Because of this she does not have a great relationship with her father, especially since he was in and out of prison most of her life. So just that leads to some complicated feelings right off the bat

Her father, “reformed” moves back to Gotham. She finds out he’s still committing crimes just without leaving clues anymore. Which honestly makes him maybe the smartest Gotham villain since he got rid of the aspect of his crimes that got him caught. She decides she needs to stop him, makes a costume, and goes to crime scenes as Spoiler to leave clues what her father’s plan is

That’s right, the name is Spoiler and in Spoiler alert, she was giving spoilers to what her dad’s next crime was going to be

Tim managed to unmask her at one point and she got away by smashing a brick into is face. I just think this is really funny. They date later but the first time Robin meets Stephanie Brown she hits him in the head with a brick

After she worked with Batman and Robin to stop Cluemaster, they came up with a plan and Batman told her to stay back because she’s motivated by revenge

At one point her dad managed to snag her as a hostage and was about to disfigure her with Acid before Batman revealed she was his daughter

She then tried to STRANGLE HER FATHER WITH A CHAIN that was part of his scheme, the chain not the strangling, and Batman had to stop her from killing her dad

Steph put that uniform on to stop her father and discovered a genuine love of being a hero and wanting to help people. It’s why she still does it despite her father not popping up that much. He does every once in a while but she has moved beyond just stopping him

Also, she started dating Robin before she knew he was Tim Drake, which really annoyed her because Tim knew who she was

And that’s just how she got started, that’s before she was Robin, before she caused a gang war, before she DIED

Danny: my parents tried to shoot me

She was tortured by Black Mask for information about Batman. She managed to escape but died in hospital from her injuries while Bruce stayed by her side

Only for, plot twist, it to be revealed that Dr. Thompkins withheld life saving treatment from her to prove a point to Bruce before fleeing to Africa

Okay before you latch onto that, the double plot twist was she didn’t deny Steph that treatment and was fully aware Steph was alive since she was helping her recover in Africa

Doc Thompkins let Bruce think she did

And on Bruce’s part he told her if she ever came back to America she was going to get the full wrath of the legal system for medical malpractice

Series of events that happened

-Steph “died”

-Bruce discovered she should have survived if given a medical treatment

-Leslie Thompkins lied and says she denied the treatment to prove a point

-she didn’t actually and they both were hanging out in Africa for a year while Steph recovered

I mean, she didn’t think it was necessary, this is more of a hand of the author, they did this to get the effect of killing Steph without actually having to kill her like they did Jason

This is after Bruce tried making her quit being a vigilante 2, or maybe 3 times. It would be absolutely absurd to put that on Bruce in the context of someone he fired from being Robin

And Steph dying was a consequence of her accidentally starting a gang war

There is a lot you can put on Bruce but this just isn’t one

Doylist explanation was DC came up with an entire contrived scenario to fake Steph’s death, because after Jason’s death in Death in the Family, DC didn’t want to actually murder another child

Because this was out of character for Leslie too, it was written for the drama of having a long time ally be the reason Steph die, then just reveal it was all fake. I’m Sure Doc Thompkins was doing good work in Africa but I find it hard to believe she tanked her career and abandoned her clinic for a year just to make this happen. And for her to feel the need to do this would require her to be oblivious to the fact Bruce tried multiple times to keep Steph from being a vigilante, and when that didn’t work he then gave her proper training so she didn’t die and got the birds of prey to reluctantly mentor Steph

You are definitely coming up with a more nuanced read, but contextually this just doesn’t entirely make sense

Jason, coughing: Did ya know I died of smoke inhalation

Dick nearly choking on the smoke

Dick: Jas-

Jason: Y’know Sheila was standin’ there smoking while Joker beat me

Dick slowly putting out the cigarette

Jason: I can never look at cigarettes the same

Dick looking at his pack of cigarettes, horrified

Dick: Shit little wing.. I’m sorry-

little dick and bruce .. most important thing ever

draw duke thomas / the signal

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comic panel redraw! from all star batman 🙂‍↕️

When your LITTLE brother stops being little (relatable)

Happy Valentine's, here's Bruharvey in a heterosexual situation.

Jason grows up, Two Face and Harvey try to do better for him, don’t want him to join the business but as soon as Bats was aware Harvey had a kid, he became involved.

Which leads to Jason being at the wrong place, at the wrong time, when he gets hit with something and dimension jumps.

When he tries to find his Dads in this other universe, he realizes that Two Face and Harvey don’t recognize him. He wonders if in this world, he’d been found by Bruce first, which was an ongoing joke between Two Face and Bruce. But no, Two Face recognized the name Todd when Jason had asked and said if the man had any more kids he had to flip his coin about he may as well finish the job now.

Big public announcement, making a big deal of it, mockingly suggesting the Waynes can donate the proceeds to charity, so long as Tim gets in the ring with him, and people are like, Tim? Tim Drake-Wayne, smallest of Bruce Wayne's kids, so baby-faced he looks like a high-schooler even in his early twenties Tim? And there's a huge kerfuffle, people calling the influencer out for going after someone way smaller than him, being a coward by not picking Bruce Wayne or even Dick Grayson, and people egging him on to beat up Bruce's 'girliest' kid and betting Tim will back down and "Daddy Wayne will just bring out the lawyers".

And then Tim says "yeah sure". And yes he DOES set it up so that the proceeds will go to the Neon Knights program, thank you very much, and he doesn't really hype up the fight or seem that worried about it online, and the influencer is talking constant shit and posting videos of him training to get ready to "beat little Timmy's ass", and he keeps trying to goad Tim online but the most he gets in response is Tim going "k".

The day of the fight, the venue is packed, the whole Wayne clan is there to cheer Tim on, medics are on stand-by for when Tim gets badly hurt, and everyone is So Ready for This. And the influencer is a big guy who's in shape, and he's won a few fights already, and Tim looks itty bitty next to him, but also he's a lot more fit than people were expecting? Like he's got more scars than people expected (which was zero) and he's got good muscle tone, and he squares up like an actual fighter, but he's still way smaller than the other guy.

Then the bell rings and Tim wipes the fucking floor with the influencer. He's fast and ruthless, and the influencer gets maybe two hits in before Tim is in his space and climbing him, locking his legs around the guy's neck and throwing him to the ground with his momentum. The fight is fast, which people expected, but it's because Tim hammers the guy and takes him down before he knows what's happening, which people did NOT expect.

Afterwards, people are trying to break down the fight and figure out what the FUCK happened, and one retired MMA fighter admits he pretty much knew it was going to turn out like this.

"Bullshit," the other commentator goes. "Bullshit! How could you have possibly known that Bruce Wayne's kid was a fighter like that?"

"One," the guy says, grinning, "the kid's a Gotham native. Gotham natives fight tooth and nail, even the richer ones. Two, he's said before in interviews that he took self-defense classes as a kid."

"Oh bullshit, plenty of kids take karate classes growing up-"

"Yeah, but 'plenty of kids' don't have a non-meta kid sidekick running around their city. You know how Star City has some of the best youth archery classes in the country? And how that came about after Speedy came on the scene?"

"Oh my god," the other commentator mutters. "Drake's a fucking Robin fanboy, isn't he."

The retired fighter grins wider. "Is he ever. So he's been taking self-defense and martial arts classes from a young age. Then he got taken in by Bruce Wayne, who's first son was raised as a world-class acrobat before Wayne took him in, and since then he's become an Olympic gold medalist for gymnastics, and now he's Tim's big brother.

"And the piece de resistance," the fighter says gleefully, "head of Wayne Enterprises R&D and close personal friend of Bruce Wayne is Lucius Fox, who's daughter briefly dated Tim and who's oldest son is Luke motherfuckin' Fox, one of the best MMA fighters I've ever seen."

"Oh my god," the other man repeats.

"So on top of learning martial arts for years, that's two people directly in Tim's circle who are top-tier athletes, who I'm damn sure wouldn't have let him in that ring without knowing how to handle his shit."

"...So Brad's lucky he made it out of that ring with all his bones intact."

Like. Bruce gets the rumors when it’s just him because the Bat tech is so expensive, surely it must be a rich guy. And his accidents (from real honest skiing trips or boating mishaps because Bruce does like to get away and be a little reckless when life gets too stressful) always seem to line up with Batman being out of commission after a big fight. (Bruce left Gotham because there were crazy things happening, he didn’t want to get caught it those crossfires!)

Then he takes in Dick Grayson around the same time Robin appears on the scene. They’re just both so acrobatic.

And things keep piling up, but it really is just coincidental. Meanwhile Batman’s just some guy who’s a tech genius whose been stealing equipment from work at Wayne Enterprises and his son is the first Robin and his nephew who he got custody over for a few years is the second and the first Batgirl was his sons fucking babysitter until she figured out why her services were no longer needed and decided to don a cape instead of calling CPS and the rest are all completely unrelated with their own full lives and families and come from different parts of the city and took up the mantles when they were vacant for too long and he just doesn’t have the leg to stand on to tell them no.