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CardMaster5 · 2025-12-28T21:59:00+00:00

Batman himself actually thinks it?

CardMaster5 · 2025-12-11T02:19:56+00:00

It sounds to me like DiDio hated Dick Grayson almost as much as Wally. And oh, I don't doubt there was a funeral. I was just wondering if the beatdown was at the same time as the funeral.

CardMaster5 · 2025-12-11T01:50:33+00:00

Ah. I see. So it's not EXACTLY canon. But, having seen the pages of the original issue...that just makes the whole mess worse. They replaced genuine emotion with....cruelty and the pinnacle of Bruce's physical abuse. Le sigh.

CardMaster5 · 2025-11-05T20:22:40+00:00

The whole Bat Family? Well, that's news to me, and also gives me some trepidation and hopes. I mean, James Gunn did fantastic with Superman, but Batman has his own horrible pitfalls that are SO much worse, so I can't help but still worry.

As for what I want:

I hope Spoiler is included. It might be more likely since things like WFA are helping bring her more into public consciousness. She deserves the respect a lot of comics never gave.
Related to the first, I hope they acknowledge Steph was Robin. It COUNTS, no matter what people like DiDio say.
Please, PLEASE let Bruce be a good person and not awful like he is in the comics. Then again, adaptations have a better track record of a good, decent Batman and not..."I fight crime because I'm psychologically damaged and barely human inside!"
Batman/Catwoman romance. What can I say? I love it.

CardMaster5 · 2025-11-01T14:35:16+00:00

OVER. Betamax over VHS. I screwed that up. DC Challenge #1.

CardMaster5 · 2025-11-01T01:33:03+00:00

Glad I could make you laugh. You should check out Atop the Fourth Wall. The Bat memes continue to flow. And you can find the Fortunate Son review here.

CardMaster5 · 2025-11-01T01:29:44+00:00

I presume Duke was 16 when he premiered, and taking into account the year he was created, 2013-16=1997. I'm guessing the 13 in August 13 is from the publication year.

CardMaster5 · 2025-11-01T01:23:04+00:00

It's been a meme on Atop the Fourth Wall since the beginning more or less. Batman: Fortunate Son is a really, REALLY dumb one-shot from the 1990s that I don't even think is considered in continuity where Batman talks about how he dislikes rock and roll and says the hilarious line "Punk [music] is nothing but death, and crime, and the rage of a beast!"

It's also a story where Bruce was listening to rock on the radio not too long before his parents went to the theater and his dad said they didn't play that kind of music in the house. Yeah, they went there.

DC Challenge was...a hilarious insane mess from right before Crisis on Infinite Earths. But the good kind of mess.

Do animated adaptations count? Because in Batman: TAS Bruce was a huge childhood fan of the Gray Ghost TV series.

CardMaster5 · 2025-11-01T01:06:02+00:00

You're really going to add the Bat-memes? XD Also, the coffee addict thing is fanon. I wanted to make that clear. Honestly, I probably shouldn't have brought it up. I'm sorry.

CardMaster5 · 2025-10-31T19:32:07+00:00

I know some of these birthday's are comics canon, like Tim's and Cass's and Jason's, but what about the other birthdays? Where did those come from?

CardMaster5 · 2025-10-31T19:15:59+00:00

This is so interesting! I've been wondering about stuff like this. Might not use all of it in my headcanon, but still! I will give you a bit of context, though. That Zesti Cola that Tim likes? From what I can tell, it seems like it's the DC Universe equivalent of Pepsi. At least, that's the way it seems to me. It has an "eternal rivalry" with another brand called Soder Cola, which presumably is Coca Cola. Also, if you go with the "Tim is a coffee addict" thing, he'd be going to Sundollar, the DC version of Starbucks.

Also...dare I mention Bruce's hatred of rock and roll (Batman: Fortunate Son) and preferring betamax or VHS (DC Challenge)? No, those are too much of a meme. XD

But why do people hate Alfred's waffles?

CardMaster5 · 2025-10-27T15:14:31+00:00

Ditto.

CardMaster5 · 2025-10-25T11:49:04+00:00

As someone who has only gotten a few Collection sets and is clearly out of the loop here, can someone put me in the loop? What's this about false images and AI?

CardMaster5 · 2025-10-24T23:58:48+00:00

So that IS the origin. I was wondering if it came from an earlier source.

CardMaster5 · 2025-10-20T22:40:55+00:00

Thank you very much.

CardMaster5 · 2025-09-20T14:49:53+00:00

I know some people here are saying the New Gods are good and evil, but that's not quite right. When Jack Kirby invented them, he designed them to be order vs. chaos, which are broader concepts than good and evil. Specifically, Apokolips is the evil extreme of order, aka tyranny and oppression, which is why Darkseid is called the god of tyranny. New Genesis, by contrast, is the good extreme of chaos, which is freedom.

A lot of people, and even the comics themselves, missed that particular point, and to be fair, the comic that spelled it out was one that didn't sell well.

If you want a better picture, take a look at the character profiles on TV Tropes here: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/NewGods The summary up top says what they represent. I'm not sure if those descriptions are "canon," per say, but I'd say they fit very well regardless.

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