#batfanon

When he’s a horrible ass to them in canon, it is meant to show that he is on the edge of a breakdown, like full violent destructive meltdown.

You can literally measure Bruce’s mental health by how he treats his friends: when’s he’s horrible to them, it’s not cool and badass, it’s explicitly him wrongfully lashing out at people that care about him.

Like, there’s a reason that when Bruce immediately succumbed to the Parallax parasite’s influence, it sent him straight into a paranoid, gnashing spiral of saying horrible things to and about everyone. And that’s just the first example that comes to mind.

In their peak form, a Bat is nothing but a flimsy tissue paper to them. I don't think you are really sitting down and thinking about what it means to be faster than sound, to have the strength to move planets, breath glaciers and shoot the fire of the sun out of their eyes.

And even among the non-kryptonians, you've got the Steels who are geniuses on par with Lex and Bruce. Their tech is highly advanced and JH is from a military background and combats regularly with threats like freaking Mongul and Darkseid. A bat's gonna not look all that great coming out of a fight with the Steels.

Like we can guess it was developed as a hyper-exaggeration of the suggesting therapy bit to make it into a whump bit, but where did that in specific come from.

What originated it that people latched onto.

There must have been some super popular fanwork at some point that used it first that people then copied, right?

Like I want to find the er example. Who came up with it. Where did it actually come from.

Because it was so widely believed in fanon circles despite being complete horseshit, and it's so specific (unlike a bunch of other fanon being more general concepts), but no one seems to know the source.