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When Kory thought no guy would ever notice her but then Dick showed up, got stunned by her beauty and instantly fell in love with her at first sight 😭

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Starfire's different outfits in her YA novel.
Of course these bat writers just had to drag Starfire into this bullshit love triangle for cheap drama, make Barbara the jealous victim, and somehow convince everyone Nightwing is cheating on her with Starfire. Peak writing, apparently.
Poor Starfire , those fucking bat writers won’t leave her alone and had to drag her for a love triangle 🤦
It's funny how people blame fans who dislike Barbara for the destruction of Barbara's character instead of blaming the Dickbabs writers who flattened her into "Dick's jealous, insecure, bitter girlfriend" and called it character development.
One writing pattern I’ve noticed when it comes to shipping in comics is that writers often use the former love interest (especially the more popular ones) to validate or prop up the new relationship or status quo.
It feels like in order to convince readers that the new couple is strong and healthy, writers had to bring up the ex in front of them and make them cheer for them.
For example, DC constantly uses Kory to prop up and validate Dickbabs. It feels impossible to even have a DickKory conversation in the modern comics without Barbara being inserted into their conversation somehow just to remind readers for the millionth time that Kory is the ex and Barbara is now the current gf. Not to mention how Dick’s other love interests, especially the women of color, were also humiliated and slut-shamed to uplift Barbara. They literally called Helena ugly compared to Barbara.
With Tim, he started distancing himself from Steph and growing closer to Bernard. Steph was understandably upset because Tim barely payed her attention but then when they finally talked, their reunion wasn't even about just the two of them, they had to include his now boyfriend Bernard in their moment and suddenly Steph's excited to meet Bernard someone she had never even spoken to before and said seeing Bernard was “the best day of her life.” It didn’t feel natural at all.
During the time DC made Superman and Wonder Woman a couple in the New 52, Lois had to appear and convince Diana that she and Clark were not a thing. There was even a scene where Lois and Steve were on the phone calling them while Clark and Diana were busy making out, like they had to remind readers that their old relationships were over.
The same thing happened with Peter and Felicia when writers were teasing them. They made Peter tell Felicia that MJ was “more like a sister” to him. Then there’s another comic where Peter is paired with another love interest and he goes on a double date with MJ and Paul who was MJ's husband at the time. They had to make MJ be openly affectionate to Paul right in front of Peter's face and vice versa.
I’m not saying the ex has to be bitter jealous or hostile toward the new love interest. They can absolutely just be cordial and quiet about it. The reaction would actually feel more natural if they moved on quietly instead of suddenly becoming the biggest cheerleaders for the new relationship out of nowhere. Especially when the ex and the new love interest aren’t even that close and now suddenly they're super friends after the new love interest was pushed 🙄
If the new romance can really stand on it's own enough on it's own, they wouldn't feel the need to use the old lover. It just comes across as insecure and like clout-chasing off the more popular love interest to get their fanbase to pay attention to the new relationship.
I also shared a panel of Jason and Artemis. In that case, Artemis wasn’t being used as a prop for another one of Jason’s love interests, but just like the other panels it was also created to slap their shippers in the face. They had Artemis say that Jason doesn’t need her and Jason didn't even deny it, they had him agree with her. It reminded me of that time they made Dick tell Kory that he doesn’t love her anymore.
(We can say Bat-editorial is the new gf of Jason and Artemis is the ex they hated)
Like, why do writers always have to insert shady dialogue towards the ex just to break a couple up? You can separate two characters without making them act like assholes toward their ex.
The way DickBabs shippers guilt-trip people into shipping dickbabs because Babs is disabled (who mind you, is currently no longer disabled btw). 🙄
They brand it as "revolutionary" representation but apparently, calling something representation is supposed to erase all the ableist and misogynistic writing that helped prop it up.
Remember when Jason Bard, a disabled man who uses a cane, got retconned into a villain so Dick (an able bodied man) can become Barbara's one true love. And at the same time, '90s Oracle Barbara who was disabled at the time, literally slutshamed Kory and Helena just because she was jealous of the fact they had a romantic history with Dick and she also slutshamed Power Girl too just because she's hot and men admired her.
Is Dickbabs really a "revolutionary" romance if it only works by throwing another disabled person under the bus and dragging innocent women over a man????
And then there's the bizarre idea that Barbara can only represent disabled romance if she's dating Dick. Since when did her disability become dependent on Dick? She's still a disabled woman regardless of who she's dating. She could be with someone else and still be meaningful disabled representation. In fact that would actually be good for her if she dates other guys other than Dick as a disabled woman because that would show that there are more than just 1 guy who can find a disabled person person like her attractive. Like why are they ignoring her other love interests? Jason Bard and Ted Kord were also in love with her when she was disabled. Why won't they appreciate TedBabs and JasonBabs and call them revolutionary too??
Why are they limiting her other potential as a disabled woman just for Dick. Is she only important because of Dick? Does disability only matters if you ship Dickbabs.
And wow, instead of talking about Barbara's resilience, her disability or the realities of navigating the world as a disabled woman, so many fans seem far more interested in talking about... Dick. Her relationship with Dick gets treated as her only character defining trait as a disabled person.... as if her value as a disabled person only exists through him......
Like, do they even realize you'd still have revolutionary representation for disabled people even if Barbara can't date Dick? Isn't Barbara and her disability alone enough to inspire other people? Does she really need a man to be considered strong, brave and revolutionary?
I can help but wonder, do they actually like Barbara Gordon or do they just like the fact she's Dick Grayson's girlfriend? Because if DickBabs had never happened, would they be this passionate about Barbara and disability? Judging by how little attention they give other disabled characters like Jason Bard, I'm not convinced.
If your idea of "disabled representation" only matters when it's attached to your favorite male character, maybe what you're celebrating isn't disabled representation at all. It's just shipping with a social justice label slapped on it.

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Man, it's genuinely tragic what happened to Barbara's character. If I were a fan of hers, I'd be super depressed and devastated. Heck, I'm not even a fan but I'm aware of how much her character is suffering because of Dick. They took a civil rights fighter and retconned her into an unemployed trophy GF whose proudest goal is wearing Dick's underwear.
Her fans stay dead silent while her character gets destroyed by the ship but the moment someone says they don't ship her with Dick, they suddenly become her biggest defenders.
Find me another character who has this many writers and fanbase that disrespects her womanhood so blatantly. Zero consideration for her goals, zero thought for her actual character. Shipping bulldozed everything she used to stand for.
Another universe. Another version of Babs being reduced to Dick's love interest.
Absolute Babs finally got some focus. She met up with the Robins, which is fine, it's expected that they're going to interact with each other. It's a pro-Batfamily book after all. She finally met the Robins but... she only directly talked to Dick Grayson.
Her first comment was, "Dick Grayson, I know you. You were on EMT." But no, not "Hey, I know you, Steph," or "I know you, Jason," or "I know you, Tim" she never learned anything about the other robins. Her eyes are only on Dick. Like is she not allowed to talk to anyone else other than Dick?
Every time she shows up in a book, she has to mention Dick, she has to just focus on Dick. It's always "Barbara and Dick, Dick, Dick."
Even the first Robin who approaches and greets her has to be Dick.
No matter what version of Babs. Dick has to be included in her mouth in order for her to tell her own story. Sigh.
Her design is great, and people love it. But you can already tell that version is also gonna be heading towards being fridged to Dick. Scott Snyder is one of those obsessed Dickbabs shippers. He admitted years ago that he's a Dickbabs shipper, and before she even appeared in Absolute, he said in an interview and I quote"If Babs is older and Dick is younger, it's weird, right?" He already based her character design on Dick . He didn't talk about Barbara as her own character with her own seperate identity and history. He only talked about whether she'd fit Dick or not. Even forgetting that Barbara was originally much older than that man. Sigh
And as expected her fans are making it worse. Instead of celebrating her separately, they immediately start drawing that version of her with Dick, they're not excited to find out about her own motivations, own goals, own missions, own relationships etc. they don't talk about any of that, they're just excited to see her as Dick's love interest.
When will they start appreciating Barbara without thinking about Dick, man? Sigh.
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(Also Note I'm not blaming The writer (Brombal Tate) here because he exposed last few months ago that he was just given orders by Editorial to write this, the complaint is more on those editors and people who keeps pushing this narrative everywhere)
"Kory hasn't done anything outside the Teen Titans. She's stuck with them."
Kory has worked with plenty of teams and characters outside the Titans. She's been involved with the others like REBELS, the Justice League of America, Generation Forged, Animal Man, Justice League Odyssey, Justice Society, Alien Alliance and even served as a mentor to Jaime Reyes in a different city, etc. The claim that she's never existed beyond the Titans comics simply isn't true.
"The Titans need to move on from each other. The team is holding the characters back."
Then why is this standard only applied to the Titans?
The Justice League constantly revolves around the same popular core members: Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman and the rest of its iconic roster.
The X-Men repeatedly return to Cyclops, Jean Grey, Storm, Wolverine and other long standing members.
The Batfamily continues to center around Bruce, Dick, Jason, Tim, Damian, Barbara, and the same familiar cast.
People even complain whenever Barbara is not included in new Birds of Prey content.
Yet when it comes to the Titans, suddenly people insist the core members need to be separated from one another. Why is "moving on" only considered necessary when discussing Kory and the Titans?
Yes I want Kory to have her own solo journeys again but I don't like the hypocrisy and double standard being applied along the way.
Keep in mind that the same people saying this are fine with Dick being chained to Barbara and the Batfamily. Even in his solo, his Girlfriend must be the BAT-girl and in The multiverse where he's supposed to have different relationships he's required to come back to Barbara, be dragged back to Gotham and serve Batfamily stories all over again. Of all characters they do this to the person who became Nightwing to move out of Batman's shadow.
Kory must move on from Dick, but Dick can’t move on from Barbara? I mean He did originally but they undid all that character development he had and retconned him to pine for her forever, even went as far as making him cheat on other women for Barbara even when her relationship with her is the fakest thing ever because realistically, people don’t always marry their childhood sweetheart.
Character regression from DickBabs is promoted but anything remotely related to Dickkory gets shunned? Lmao
If we’re worried about women being defined by men, Barbara should be part of that talk. Comics literally deaged her to be Dick's gf even when she was originally created to be a congresswoman while he was a minor then nicknamed her “Girl Nightwing” , and made her waste decades following Dick around like a dog in his solo and countless Elseworld books. We’re supposed to tolerate a massive amount of Dickbabs content reducing Barbara to just his trophy GF and extension even to this day, but Kory near Dick is a “moral crime.” 😅
Really funny how this "move on" argument is only applied to the woman they don't ship dick with. 😅
And It's so ironic. Starfire and Dick have already been separated for 30 years right? Long before Tate's few panels of them, their interactions were kept to a minimum to strengthen Dick's relationship with Barbara. So what more do these people want? How much seperation is enough for them 100+ years? Kory could disappear and die in the comics and they'd still Complain about her connections to Dick and the Titans. 😅
Even if Kory continues returning to the Titans, so what? why is that automatically a bad thing? They're her closest friends and her support system and basically became her family and sanctuary. That's completely normal. People leave home to work then come back to their family after work. It doesn't need to have a negative meaning.
will DC ever have the courage to also say Dick returning to the Batfamily is bad for his character too? 😅
And oh even after what she said in this panel that just came out, Dickbabs shippers are still spreading lies about her saying she's still attached to Dick, these larpers do not care about her, they just love to trash talk whether she's with dick or not.
This panel is a great nod to how Kory encourages Dick to open up instead of bottling up his emotions. He can't pretend in front of her. She knows who he truly is on the inside.
I put all of NTT Dickkory's panels into a PDF. You can download it here. Link below
Link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/14Y0XnpLBOdMC9txB0MH5g7cCoB7dqkG5/view?usp=drivesdk
If the letters are blurry, you can always zoom in. Also, the size of each panel may look different depending on the PDF viewer you use.
Note that you'll need to download it first and save it to your device. If you just open it without downloading it, it may take a long time to load.
Here are all the comics where I took the panels from:
NEW TEEN TITANS VOL. 1 (1980-1984)
New Teen Titans Annual 1, 2
New Teen Titans Vol. 1 #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #7, #14, #16, #18, #21, #23, #25, #26, #28, #29, #32, #33, #37, #38, #39, #40
TALES OF THE TEEN TITANS
Tales of the Teen Titans Annual 3
Tales of the Teen Titans #41, #42, #43, #44, #45, #47, #48, #49, #50, #51, #52, #53, #54, #56, #57, ##58, #59, #73, #81
NEW TEEN TITANS VOL. 2 (1984-1988)
New Teen Titans Vol. 2 Annual 3
New Teen Titans Vol. 2 #1, #4, #5, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13,#14, #15, #16, #17 #18, #19, #23 #26, #28, #29, #31, #32, #33, #34, #35, #36, #37, #39, #40, #41, #42, #43, #44, #45, #46, #47, #48,
THE NEW TITANS (1988-1994)
The New Titans Annual 6, 10,
The New Titans #51, #52, #53, #55, #57, #59, #64, #65, #69, #71, #84, #85, #86, #87, #88, #89, #90, #91, #92, #93, #94, #95, #96, #97, #99, #100, #101, #102, #105, #108, #109, #110, #111, #113, #114, #129 #130
OTHER COMICS:
Tales of the New Teen Titans #1
The Uncanny X-men and the New Teen Titans
Worlds Finest Comics #300
Secret Origins Annual 3
Secret Origins # 13
Teen Titans Spotlight #1, #2
Teen Titans Spotlight # 14
Teen Titans Spotlight #19
Action Comics #614, #615 #618, #627, #634
Batman #433, #440
Deathstroke #7 #14
Team Titans #1, #2, #3, #5
Titans Sell-Out Special #1
Funeral for A Friend
Legends of the DCU: Crisis on Infinite Earths
New Teen Titans: Games
The Flash #81, #82, #83, #85
Convergence: New Teen Titans #1, #2
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Here are my thoughts about NTT Dickkory:
They weren't a perfect couple. They had fights and misunderstandings like any other couple but they worked through their issues and helped fix each other.
Because of Kory, Dick stopped putting up walls. She taught him not to overwork himself, to be more open, to stop repressing his emotions and to understand that life offers much more than a job and responsibilities. She helped stopped him from turning into Batman 2.0.
At the same time, Dick kept Kory from becoming a murderer like her enemies. Kory learned to stop being reckless with her powers. He taught her mercy and patience.
Some people complain and say that Dick disrespected Kory’s culture but I disagree. Dick cared about Kory enough to correct her when she was wrong. Think about it: if someone you love told you , “I want to kill my bully tomorrow,” would you say yes??? If you truly love them, you wouldn’t agree even if killing felt justified. You’d stop them because you know it’s morally wrong to take another person's life and you don't want your loved one to go to jail.
Another thing: it’s also like if you came from a communist country and then decided to move to a democratic one. You don’t demand that the new country follow communist laws. You adjust. That’s what Kory learned. Just because killing was okay on Tamaran doesn’t mean it’s okay on Earth. Remember, Dick was one of the people who taught Kory about Earth and helped her adjust to it as an immigrant, so of course he’d also teach her about human laws along the way so she wouldn’t get herself into trouble.
And about the marriage of state, Dick was upset at first, because of course, who wouldn’t be upset if the partner you're deeply in love with, who you thought was only going to be yours, was actually going to marry someone else? But he eventually learned to accept that a political Tamaranean marriage doesn’t hold any validity on Earth.
Throughout the entire NTT run, you will see Dick and Kory already resolved the issue about Batman, Killing and her Political Marriage with Karass.
I don’t think Dick had any intention of disrespecting Kory’s culture. He only disagreed when it came to things that affect the law. Outside of that, he embraced and loved the parts of her that were Tamaranean. He loved how open and free she was with her emotions. He literally said that’s what made him fall for her. He loved how joyful she was despite everything she’d suffered, and how different she was from Batman.
Their relationship wasn’t just about love. It was about growth and compromise. It reminded people that you have to correct each other, too. If you see your partner doing something wrong, you don’t enable it. You help each other figure out what’s right and what’s not. Kory taught Dick that it’s not okay to isolate himself and Dick taught Kory that it’s not okay to choose violence.
Kory opens him up, while Dick grounds her. They both challenge each other to be better.
Because of this, they could’ve overcome anything, even the Mirage incident and Raven’s disastrous wedding. I honestly think the only thing that broke them up wasn’t each other but the editors. We know they were originally going to get married through Art Thibert’s planned Nightwing series at the time, and Marv even approved of the idea, but it was canceled because of editorial decisions, so it was rewritten into a disastrous wedding. That’s why I think Kory victim-blaming Dick in New Titans #99 was out of character. I believe it wasn’t supposed to happen originally because, prior to #99, Dick and Kory had already resolved the Mirage incident. In New Titans #95, they planned revenge on Mirage for what she did to both of them (deceiving Dick into sleeping with her and exploiting Kory’s image). Later, Kory even felt bad for Mirage despite everything she’d done.
After they got revenge, Dick and Kory seemed to have fully moved on from Mirage. They were enjoying each other’s company and laughing together again. They even celebrated when Dick could finally go out with Kory publicly without disguising himself. Nothing in those issues suggested that Kory was holding a grudge against Dick or that the Mirage incident was an unresolved issue in their relationship.
There’s also Titans Sell-Out Special, which came out before #99. It included a promotional cover for Art Thibert’s Nightwing series that was supposed to launch after New Titans #100. In that book, Mirage went on vacation with them and even though Mirage joined them, Kory wasn’t mad at Dick at all. She was happy and smiling with him. They were even kissing. That implies DC was still planning for them to have a successful marriage at that point.
That’s why Kory’s reaction in #99 feels out of place to me. She suddenly gets angry at Dick again over the Mirage incident, even though in the previous issues she appeared to have already moved past it.
So I think the original wedding plan was canceled sometime between New Titans #95 and #99. The story was altered to make the Mirage incident their conflict again and that conflict led to the “marrying for the wrong reason” wedding and the “Raven possessing Starfire” storyline, which was then used as a reason to progressively break them up in the process because Dick had to be pulled out of the Titans books so he could move back to the Bat-editorial group who didn’t want him dating a superpowered character in their books.
Overall, what I will say to the haters of NTT Dickkory is that you can find DickKory unhealthy, that’s your own interpretation but you cannot say that their entire history was just a teenage fling. They dated for a decade (1980–1994).
You can say Kory wasn’t the best partner for Dick and vice versa, but you cannot deny that they were genuinely in love with each other when they were together.
You can dislike Dickkory. It’s your personal preference, but you cannot say Kory was just the “disposable slutty alien” to Dick. Dick’s entire characterization in NTT contradicts that made up claim.
You can prefer Dick with someone else and vice versa, but you can’t ignore the fact that Dick and Kory were an important part of each other’s histories and that shouldn't be ignored.
You can prefer Dick with Barbara but you cannot say Barbara was the one and only woman he genuinely loved.
And you cannot say Dickbabs is much healthier. NTT Dickkory only had 3 fights while there are literally 10+ panels of Dickbabs fighting and abusing each other.
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Reposting this because apparently y’all need the reminder:
Real comicbook readers with media literacy know that DickBabs' entire history in the comics is soaked in manipulative pedophilia, child grooming, misogyny, slutshaming, racism, xenophobia, cheating and straight up character assassinations.
If you’re actually a Dick fan and a Babs fan, you’d know how much the characters suffer whenever DC forces them together.
The only people who defend DickBabs are those ignorant and egostistical shippers who don’t care about the characters as individuals. They’ll excuse all the harmful toxic and abusive elements in the relationship as long as Dick and Babs are paired because They’re not fans of Dick or Barbara. They’re just fans of the ship.
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When Dickbabs shippers are too pathetic and insecure that they have to keep stalking and lurking around Dickkory spaces 😭
Not Dickbabs shippers making their way into the Dickkory subreddit uninvited while pretending to be Dickkory fans, only to start demanding they delete their posts the moment they bring up how Dickbabs spent years disrespecting and shitting on Kory and women of color in the comics using ooc retcons 😭 then after getting banned for harassing users and starting personal drama because they can’t handle an opinion about a fictional white ship, they run back to their own sub pretending they were unfairly banned for being “moral activists who also ship Dickkory,” despite contributing absolutely nothing to the Dickkory sub other than crying about posts exposing shitty Dickbabs comics.
For someone who claims to be Dickkory shippers, they seem more "butthurt" about people calling out Dickbabs for slandering Kory than the Dickbabs comics actually slandering her. 😭
Be serious for once. Nobody forced you obsessive Larpers to stalk another fandom space to begin with. 🙄
Like why are y’all even camping in the Dickkory sub when you already have your own sub? The entitlement is genuinely wild. It’s like tresspassing into somebody else’s house, yelling at them for talking in their own living room, then crying when you get kicked out 😭 like Get tf out of our property, you weirdos. You are not welcome here.
no fandom acts more desperate and insecure than Dickbabs shippers. If your ship needs censorship, harassment and policing other fandom spaces you don't own just to survive criticism, then maybe the criticism hits. Deep down they KNOW the complaints are valid, which is exactly why they freak out every time receipts get posted. They’re desperate to protect the fake “healthy and wholesome” image they keep trying to sell.
And let’s talk about the obvious jealousy too. The Dickbabs sub only has around 2.7k members while the Dickkory sub has over 13k+ 😭 No wonder they’re so obsessed and threatened by what gets posted in the Dickkory sub, they know it reaches way more people. Their sub is so tiny and irrelevant that they have to keep talking shit about the Dickkory sub just to drive attention to their own. Clout-chasing bigger subs is the only thing helping them gain more members 💀
The most hilarious part is that they already got their ship canon in the current comics and they’re STILL bitter, insecure, and stalking Dickkory spaces everyday. Dickbabs comics really aren't satisfying EVERYONE 🤣 they need to just break up Dickbabs already because even their own fans are still miserable to this day, still obsessing over the ship they claim to be dead instead of focusing on their own content. LMAO
Parasitic Character = Toxic Fandom.
Dickkory dogwalking Dickbabs in 2 recent polls 😊
Nightwing 138 spoilers
"There are things more important than you and me"
I'm sorry, but Barbara’s words don’t match her actions when she wasted six years chasing Dick around like a dog in his solo. One sudden “damage control” line doesn’t erase that 😅
Also, this was another annoying moment to read in his own book. “It’s why we work so well together” another corny fanfic-style dialogue. Anyway, who even cares? I’m paying to focus reading about Nightwing, not watch Barbara waste another page seeking attention.
And lol she's already in jail but she still wants to find some way to reach out to Dick. She could have called her father instead but she chose to call her bf, doesn't that still make her look clingy and obsessed with Dick. My the irony of her dialouge. 🙄 (Not to mention they're dragging him to her limited book)
Seriously so happy to see Dick quickly ending the call. He's so like me, now go mind your own business and leave him alone girl 🙄 but hey Dickbabs shippers will still romanticize anything

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DickBabs panels with Non-consensual Sexual Assault on Dick Grayson.
(Putting this out again because I've seen these mtf still attacking DickKory in the recent Titans issue.)
Okay, so DickBabs shippers were so mad about New Titans #33 and #34. They weren’t the only group who had issue with it but they were definitely the loudest. They made multiple discourse about it, especially on Twitter, acting like the most offended moralists around.
They said Kory sexually assaulted Dick when they kissed, even though both Dick and Kory were under the influence of coffee. They called it non-con SA and said Dick was victim-blamed even though Kory got victim-blamed too, especially by Dickbabs shippers.
Their reaction is so hypocritical and ironic considering DickBabs is rooted on Pedophilia, Child Exploitation, Grooming, Voyeurism and SA and I've seen many of them Romantize all of them for years.
They forgot that in 2017, Barbara did the very same thing they accused Kory of doing.
Barbara initiated a non-consensual kiss on Dick, and he literally had to stop her and reject her advances. I guess hers was worse since you never saw Dick rejecting Kory’s kiss in those issues, which is why Barbara is the one that counts as non-consensual Sexual Assault. In this story, Dick and Defacer had just broken up, and he clearly wasn’t okay. He was depressed because he was still in love with Defacer, but what did Barbara do? She immediately tried to make a move on him and forcibly kissed him.
She even put her arm on his neck to add pressure and make him deepen the kiss 💀💀 she's literally making him move against his own will and forcing herself on him.
Like… how is that okay? It’s so inconsiderate and selfish of her. She doesn’t even care that he needs space and time to grieve from a break up and that he still has feelings for another woman. She’s ready to manipulate him into getting with her the second she finds out he's no longer with another woman, even asking him to stay in the same bed even when he's clearly unwillingly to like she's so desperate and thirsty
And you know another funny thing? DickBabs shippers said that Titans #34 victim-blamed Dick, but the Dickbabs writer victim-blamed Dick here too. They had him apologize, saying that both he and Barbara “weren’t thinking,” even though Barbara was the only one who initiated the kiss 😭
she doesn’t care if she pushes him into emotionally cheating on Defacer and Sexually assaults him without his pernissionmmmmas long as she gets his full attention. This isn't love. This is unhealthy Obsession, SA and Emotional Manipulation.
It’s crazy how DickBabs shippers had no issue with this, even though it’s the exact same thing they complained about DickKory. Name another fandom that switches morals faster than DickBabs shippers. The same thing is “problematic” when it’s DickKory, but suddenly acceptable when it’s their ship 😭
And let me tell you this too. I've also seen them giggle at this panel where Barbara literally stripped unconscious Dick while he's naked without his consent, then had the AUDACITY to talk about his naked body when he woke up. If a man removed a woman's clothes while she's passed out this would BURNED DOWN. Immediate cancellation. But since it's Barbara, it's an "iconic shippy humor"??
And the fact they weren't even dating here... This is how Barbara treated a character who's canonically an SA survivor. The complete lack of respect and basic decency, the insensitivity, the double standard is Ugh.
And the other totally fine SA they give a pass like Barbara trespassing in Dick’s own house, installing cameras all over his private space, to sexually oogle at his naked body without his consent that’s creepy and awful as hell. That's visual r*pe on Dick right there but you sickos love it since it's Dickbabs. 😡
Anyway what do I expect from a ship whose origin is Pedophilia and Child Abuse.
it's alao that disturbing that Dickbabs shippers pull out their original version as “proof” that they came out first, like bruh Barbara is written as a grown woman and Dick is still basically a kid there. and the scene they love to bring up is her literally forcibly kissing him without consent. why are we weaponizing and using a panel of Barbara sexually assaulting a minor as shipping ammo in shipwars. be serious for once 💀
there is no world where an adult putting their mouth on a minor is romantic, iconic or defensible. “but he had a crush on her” okay??and she was the adult. her job was to set boundaries, not entertain a child’s silly feelings or touch them. stop trying to turn something gross into relationship proof just because it suits your dumbass ship.
this is the woman that they defend to death???? An also self-confessed Child Predator whose Fetish are Young Boys.
Also crazy how they say Oracle is his best love interest when she ignorantly victim blamed him and accused him of liking his r*pist after he got sexually assaulted and r*ped by Tarantula too.
Dickbabs shippers: crying, being so pressed, clutching pearls "Dickkory is immoral and unethical! We Stan ETHICS!"
also them: *romanticizing SA, pedophilia, and straight-up criminal behavior from dickbabs* "awww dickbabs are just silly lil dorks being adorable!! 😍💕" ignore the consent issues!
If Kory is the one who did that to Dick in those dickbabs panels, y’all would be writing Angry essays about how disturbing and violating it is. But because it’s Barbara, suddenly boundaries and consent don’t matter? Yet somehow Kory is the one constantly demonized smh.
Dickbabs shippers are the most disgusting self-righteous hypocritical shipping fandom in DC. Screaming "morals!" at other ships while stanning their own questionable mess. They're like corrupt priests preaching purity from the pulpit. 🙄
DickBabs fans really think “read comics” is a gotcha like the comics don’t prove their ship is ooc garbage. Sweetie, I back my anti-Dickbabs argument with comic panels all the time because canon is where they're the most insufferable pieces of shit.
70s DickBabs? Adult Barbara SA'd minor Dick by putting her lips on him. That’s pedophilia and child abuse.
90s DickBabs? Misogyny, deaged Barbara just to make her "pleasing and dateable" to a man, Racism + Xenophobia, slandered Kory and POC women, Tresspassing + Voyeurism, had Barbara stalk Dick with spy cams in his own apartment, Verbal and Physical Abuse, Toxic Girl Boss Oracle bullied Dick multiple times while unprovoked.
Rebirth DickBabs? Trying hard to copy TimSteph's dynamic. No wonder, they later erased TimSteph to make this knockoff look original.
Tom Taylor DickBabs? He said "I’ll fix DickBabs."
Also Tom Taylor: "but what if she's unemployed and he's brainless. And I canonize Fanfiction and Headcanons I secretly enjoyed reading during highschool."
Watters' DickBabs? Same corny goofy ass shit. Barbara spams "Boy Wonder" chanting it like a magic spell to keep the coodependency alive, maybe the writer is not really a huge shipping weirdo like Tom Taylor but hey still obviously an editorial’s puppet.
Every writer, Every Era, Every version is a new flavor of Trash.
DC: "We’ll make them love Dickbabs."
Polls and Popularity gap: "No, we want Dickkory."
Loud minority: "They don’t read comics!"
Comics: Exist. Legally. Pirated. Scans posted 24/7. Panels everywhere.
DickBabs: still flops harder than DickKory.
Loud minority: "You’re all misogynist, ableist, sexist, stupid people who deserve to die!" - just to cope over ink and paper.
Maybe it’s not Dickkory fandom's fault. Maybe your dumpster fire ship is just simply boring, mid, and less popular. And it's time to accept that for you to heal. Cope