#{ flashpoint }

DC had made many questionable choices regarding the Bats but also a lot of the time said choices are very funny. Christian priest Father Todd and vampire Nightwing who crushed Tim’s head like an overripe apple I do think of you often

- Superman goes evil again despite countless audience studies showing people want the opposite

- "6 7" joke

- An ICE storyline (interpret that how you will)

- WFA comes back

- A character comes out of the closet but receives no marketing

- Live action Nightwing teaser

- DC uses AI art despite publicly proclaiming they won't

- Yet another fucking Flashpoint

- Netflix purchases Warner Bros. and releases their own Justice League miniseries

- Unexpected Green Lantern trailer

- New storyline is spearheaded by a Gen Z writer and it shows

all of my Catholic guilt ft. Father Jason Todd

Because Thomas is usually written as this exhausted, haunted man who suddenly gets hit with: “Wait. Bruce survived. He has children. They’re alive. They’re safe.”

And meanwhile Martha is just— “Oh, so THESE are my grandbabies? Wonderful. Which one bites people?”

She would absolutely adore the most chaotic members of the family.

Damian threatens someone with a sword? Martha is applauding.

Jason says something concerning? Martha’s like, “Finally, a normal child.”

Dick tries to establish “healthy family boundaries” and Martha immediately ignores all of them.

Tim hasn’t slept in 72 hours and Martha starts bringing him coffee like an enabler instead of a responsible adult.

Cass silently appears behind her and Martha is DELIGHTED instead of startled.

And the funniest part is that the Batkids would probably be weirdly accepting of her after the initial horror.

Because yeah, she’s technically a Joker. But she’s also:

making soup at 2 AM,

showing up to school events in wildly inappropriate outfits,

teaching the kids card tricks,

and threatening anyone who hurts them with terrifying sincerity.

Like imagine some villain kidnaps one of the Robins and learns the hard way that their grandparents are:

Batman with guns.

The Joker powered entirely by maternal rage.

There’s also something really emotional underneath the humor. Martha meeting Bruce’s children means she gets proof that despite everything, Bruce built a family instead of dying alone in an alley like in Flashpoint. And Thomas gets to see a version of his son who kept going long enough to love and be loved.

You're talking about the Flashpoint universe, right? Martha ends up killing Alfred in that one.