#capeshit

"...The pie and punch are free, right?"

i preffer when Batman's parents deaths are 1. a mystery and 2. undeniably connected to one or more of the mafia bosses in Gotham. this sets up two things about Batman: he's a detective, and he's not just beating up random criminals, he's dismantling organized crime, fighting people sometimes richer than himself, people that use poor kids as cannon fodder, in contrast to Bruce, who sometimes takes those kids in and gives them a better life, or sometimes just convinces them not to continue on the path of crime. i really like that one Alex Ross sequence where Bruce talks down a child from shooting him.

second opinion: the killing joke and it's consequences have been a disaster to the Joker mythos. the Joker works as a foil for Batman because he's an irredemable force of chaos that, unlike Bruce, isn't defined by his past. giving him a backstory takes away both of these. also, him having a main philosophy of why he acts the way he acts, the whole "one bad day" thing sucks. he shouldn't have an agenda, he should be the only Batman rogue that is evil for the sake of it. while Batman might have the hope of redeeming Killer Croc, Mr. Freeze or Poison Ivy, Joker's redemption should be unatainable.

now some lighter ones: i like when Lex is a childhood friend of Clark. i have this au idea where they were raised together and i hope i get to do something with it someday.

jaime reyes is an insanely interesting character and i hope they keep blue beetle in the dcu. i thought his movie was decent.

jason todd should be completely socially inept since he was dead for his teenage years. for the same reason, and not because he was poor like some fans imply, he should also be a little dumb, or at least out of touch with some world events.

let tim graduate from robin for the love of god. even "drake" was better than this (no it wasn't but that's real world drake's fault)

i did not care for the new gods. did not care for them. they insist upon themselves.

the justice league needs to be more diverse, both in terms of characters and of gender/race. look at the avengers right now, the only two founding members are Thor and Iron Man, they have 4 characters of color (more than the number of white characters, which is huge). the trinity doesn't always need to be there! sometimes superman is out in space! sometimes gotham is too fucked up for Batman to come help! sometimes Wonder Woman has to deal with the god's bullshit!