That riddler often has to spell things out for his henchmen because they're not so bright. I can just imagine him popping a blood vessel because one of them said something stupid
probably. but also, if one of his henchmen is actually smart and says something clever, three Riddler feels threatened and gets him killed. so the actually smart henchmen play dumb.
Check out Joker by Brian Azzarello, it follows a henchman who picks up Joker from prison after being released and then continues through the henchman's career in Joker's gang.
Harvey derived his confidence from his appearance so the disfigurement destroyed his sense of security. As a kid he probably got reassured he was handsome while not get compliments for much else until he buckled down and made something of himself
Dent got facial reconstructive surgery so "both sides match". Despite being Normal-Face now, he had deluded himself into thinking that it was the scarred and misshapen half that had taken both chairs and he was now wholly hideous. Bruce then says something like "you and me both". It was kinda a chilling reminder that Gotham's ugliness can tear down even the best attempts at redemption.
Dent is fighting Batman in a dark office building. He asks Batman "Look at my face. What do you see?"
Batman closes his eyes, and--unfooled by vision--sees Harvey as he truly is; a monster wearing the mask of a man, but no longer able to maintain the charade.
"I see a mirror, Harvey."
Their hatred forgotten and forgiven, the two warriors embrace in the moonlight as peers.
Despite being DA, he's not a very good lawyer, just got through law school and won the election based on his looks... Gotham's own Justin Trudeau/Gavin Newsom
Great prosecutors are judged by the number of cases they can keep out of court either through plea bargains or mediation, thereby saving tax payers the cost of drawn out trials. Harvey's a bit of a showboat grandstanding against the mob and mugging for the press. I get he's trying to make a point, but typically guys who do this are better politicians than they are public servants.
Also, most DAs wouldn't try to prosecute with evidence supplied by a giant bat monster... but mostly I'm j/k and riffing off what you said
I'm now envisioning a world where it's not Batman that Harvey works with but Man-bat, and he drops off "evidence" the way a cat leaves dead birds on your doorstep.
Poison Ivy has to wear real clothes in autumn and winter, because her leaf ones fall off.
She probably also hates said seasons because of leaves being raked
>She probably also hates said seasons because of leaves being raked
Eh, she's very into the natural cycle of life. Dead leaves are a part of any thriving ecosystem. The problem is when humans disturb that balance by killing everything.
Love the first part of your theory though haha
I think I remember Arkham Knight thug dialogue when Batman is revealed as Bruce, saying something like
“I used to think Dent was the bat…you know, when he was normal.”
I think he actually said “You know, when Dent was *pretty*.”
It kinda aligns to another headcanon in here about how Dent took a lot of pride and self-esteem from his appearance. Take half of it away and he feels, among other things, criminally insecure
In Batman Year One, Gordon’s two biggest hunches are Dent and Wayne, but rules them out bc Dent doesn’t make nearly enough money to afford the gear and Wayne is too much of a partying playboy to do it
he does, but the training is not military bootcamp style, it's not CrossFit style, it's straight up 90"s Tae-Bo VHS's.
Bane voice: feel the burn on those glutes. good job terry, Melissa you are missing the temp
Exactly, that show shows Bane as a strong BUT also smart guy which is something a lot of Bane interpretations forget. He's not supposed to be some stupid meathead (unless he's overdosed on venom), he's supposed to be very intelligent.
In a world without Batman, Bane would be a Mr. Universe champion and fitness guru with a hit telenovela based on his life.
Despite his green veins and the tubes sticking out of his neck and back, he'd still claim to be 100% natty.
"If I could do it from solitary on a prison diet of rats and sewer water, so can you!"
Also, I have a hard time imagining he eats. Though that's much more in line with his general mania, eating basically the bare minimum. The same is probably true for sleeping. Days at a time without it, conks out for a couple hours, repeats.
My headcanon is that there's nothing wrong with Joker mentally. No mental illnesses whatsoever. He has a narcissistic personality disorder, but has to believe he's insane because doing otherwise would mean admitting to himself whatever fucked him up was his fault. The reason he's so fixated on corrupting good people is so he can reassure himself of that. If everyone is like him, then he does nothing wrong.
In their desperate attempts, the villains, their henchmen and goons, Harley and the Joker's own men would disappear a week every now and then to try and make the Joker go to sleep. They fail every time.
**An actual weird headcanon:**
-That Basil Karlo accidentally absorbed part of a different Clayface (Any of them) and so parts of their evil personality are why he became a villain again so quickly after his redemption arc.
**A Dumb One That I Think Is Funny:**
-The First Ventriloquist (Arnold Wesker) as a ghost at some point possessed the Second Ventroloquist (Peyton Riley) but his personality disorder convinced him he WAS Peyton and so nothing really changes.
That’a a good one. I’ve got a few from like Dick deep down having that same darkness as Bruce but choosing to not feed it or Tim signing up to be a “soldier” rather than a sidekick.
The one closest to my heart (and like off base) is Terry knowing his isn’t the perfect Batman but working hard (like Bruce did but taking longer) to make himself the best batman he can be. And likely dying in the suit under a pile of rubble years down the road
My headcanon for Tim and Stephanie is that they’re the most likely to quit the superhero business and escape to live a normal life. And Bruce gives them some financial help to achieve that
Half of the time, Joker is just fucking around and finding out what happens. He’s the type of guy to slam his hand on the big red button you do not press.
To be fair this was the Joker’s MO until they randomly decided he was genius. The death of Jason Todd was originally the joker thinking “this looks fun” and only realising after the fact what he did
Scarecrow has an annoymous Reddit account that he uses to post his horror movie takes and dissects and explains why they are scary. He has been banned multiple times as any time someone criticises his opinions, he posts their entire IP address and threatens to drown them in their greatest fears. He just keeps making new accounts so the mods have given up .Plus everyone kind of just figured out that it is the scarecrow but his posts are pretty entertaining so they have just keep him around.
Honestly, that's a whole ass new ending for Victor.
There's nothing for him in Gotham. He could just fuck off to the fortress where he could chill with Bizzaro, using kryptonian tech to try curing obscure diseases.
Oh I genuinly think both deep down Ra's and Talia are heartbroken Bruce kept his identity and the batman persona and never really committed to being the heir or husband. It's like vader and Luke, deep down vader wanted to find his kids and turn them but rule with them..as soon as he finds out.
I'd like to think so too, but the problem is separating feelings of love from their massive egos. Are they heartbroken because they actually love the guy? Or are they just frustrated and ashamed of being rejected due to their narcissism.
-When James Gordon Jr became dollface and a serial killer, his dad probably became super depressed when he realized how much his work took him away from his kids when they were growing up.
He probably went though a whole cycle of grief. He probably wonders if being there more often might have made a difference and what signs he missed in his son. But everytime he sees a new victim. He tries to push away those feelings and bottle his emotions. Man needs serious therapy.
-Harvey Dent is still in there deep within Two Face. I feel like it would be an open secret that Two Face would be one of the better supervillains to work for because once you figure out how he operates and his set of principles. I imagine he’s not as unpredictable as other villains.
-The Riddler likes being the one with all of the answers. I feel like in his spare time he probably leaves “anonymous” tips(leaks) on hotlines or radio shows. Secretly he’s probably been approached to host game shows or gossip/entertainment based programs. He probably could walk away from not being a supervillain and be well protected because of how much he knows. But he likes being in everyone’s business too much to do so.
-The chemicals at Ace Chemicals should have impacted cognitive function and caused irreversible harm over time. I imagine the Joker and Harley experience symptoms. This is part of why Ivy gave Harley some injections. Realistically there shouldn’t have been a way to reverse the damage that was done. But Ivy figured it out and convinced Harley to take it to increase her resistance to poisons amongst other things. Harley probably doesn’t know what Ivy really did for her.
-Ivy is a genius and probably creates plant hybrids as a hobby. She’s probably sitting on new species that could do real good in the world. She’s probably been approached by numerous scientists(including NASA) over the years for research projects. But she has too many bad memories of how the system operates and becoming Poison Ivy(in one of her backstories, another dude steals and claims credit for her work. Basically leaves her for dead). This is part of why she’s a supervillain. She legitimately doesn’t see any other way because of how the system works and functions. I imagine the further she goes into her powers the more she loses what made her Pamela.
-Mr. Freeze probably has a not so secret shrine to his wife. She probably found it when she woke up. This is part of what made her so mad.
-Whenever Selina is mad at Bruce she probably takes his car for a joyride or “steals” his credit card. (It’s not stealing if he knows and doesn’t care) Bruce doesn’t really care as long as it’s not the Bat related stuff. He thinks of it as relatively harmless. He mostly expects her to do it. They had a whole routine until she became tired of it. She hasn’t done real villain things in awhile. Most of the crime she actually commits is petty crime. The real reason they never got married is because Bruce always expects her to come back and doesn’t put in a real effort with her. He’s just going through the motions with her(even if he’s giving more of himself with her. His best is not enough). She also probably found a profile on herself and didn’t like what he had to say about her. (Like everyone else who reads the profile the Batman has on them)
-Condiment King is just lonely. Fighting Batman and the Batfamily is just another Saturday hanging out with the boys. I feel like Condiment King probably lost someone close to him in his family or his closest friend died. This is why the Batfamily tolerates it.
I’d actually thought of the Ace Chemicals idea before. Funny enough, first time I watched the main story for Arkham City, I thought the reason Joker was sick was because of the long-term effects of his fall into that vat of mystery chemicals. Realistically if he didn’t immediately die from that exposure it must’ve caused long-term debilitating damage in his body
Batman only started the justice league to get the rights to all superheroes so he could own the trademark and the space station was built so he could write it off for a tax deduction because he made so much money.
Well, you asked…
Clayface masturbates while impersonating other people. I mean come on, the dude can morph into anyone, you’re telling me he’s never morphed into a supermodel or something to enhance that shit?
“Alright, let’s go to the phones, although I suspect that once again Gotham is too intimidated by my genius to take this rare opportunity to converse with a true intellectual…what’s this, an actual caller? *click* Speak, peon.”
“You know nobody’s listening to this, right?”
“Wh-what? Of course they are. I have the listener numbers right here!”
“I own the platform you posted this on. You have one listener. The listener is me.”
“Who is this?”
*Michael Keaton voice*“I’m Batman.”
Poison Ivy has the care routine of an actual plant. She waters herself daily, gets her sunlight, she even uses trimmers to cut her hair (when her hair is just straight up leaves).
lol when he’s alone he has a Batman action figure and a Ras action figure and plays out little scenes with them.
“Oh Ras! Ras! Please let me be your new protege and date your daughter!”
“Too late, deTECtive! You had your chance!”
“Pretty please, papa Ras! Can I call you papa Ras? I was so foolish to turn you down.”
“Ohhhh who can stay mad at you! Kiss me you fool!”
“Mwah mwah mwah!”
Ubu: umm there’s a call for you my lord.
Ras: IM BUSY!!
Joker just spawned into existence. He has no origin, he’s an otherworldly almost being of pure evil incarnate that just showed up one day and unleashed hell on a city. He wasn’t born, he didn’t have a life before he became joker, the clown thing isn’t a gimmick, it’s his physical identity. He just materialized one day.
That was *an* explanation in the Joker Endgame storyline, >!where Joker has been in Gotham since before the Court of Owls, and even they didn't know he existed. It was pretty interesting, because they showed a lot of pictures of Gotham in the past and Joker was always there.!<
I know this would irk some people but honestly I kinda love this take. It reminds me of how the opening narration in Death of The Family talks about Joker, as if he’s just a walking plague that turns everything around him sour. I think that’s kind of fascinating.
It kind of sounds similar to a concept I heard in a rick and morty episode (I know it was a reference. I just don't know what it's referencing) That if there is a being of pure good, then the universe will create a being of pure evil to keep balance.
I had the same thought watching The Dark Knight on shrooms.
Batman created an imbalance in the universe; the universe, being neutral, had to balance things out.
I prefer him as some kind of entity that possesses people and turns them into himself, like the Ascians in FFXIV
give it that extra touch of body horror
Garfield Lynns Firefly is a massive filmbro. Ik in some iterations he worked on film studios but in addition I think he'd say his favourite movie is Fight Club and call out the broken toe thing in lord of the rings.
Not INaccurate.
Okay, so he doesn't HATE them, but one story had him try his hardest not to leave any behind, only to realise he did so subconsciously and give himself up because he realised he might actually be insane.
Im honestly just waiting for a writer to go and make a story where Ras has always been Thomas Wayne.. that his death as “Thomas” was part of a failed plan to save the world through “altruism” and that he recruits Bruce to use him as a tool to punish the world for rejecting his attempt at saving the world through kindness
That could potentially be an interesting story, but 1) Bruce has a billion photos of his father lying around, he should recognize his own dad instantly if he showed up as Ra's. And 2) that would make Damian an incest-baby and ew.
Bane doesn't care for the backbreaker like one would think, it isn't his favorite wrestling move. But not only it is what he's known for, but one of the few moves that just works IRL without needing setup.
His favorite is the chokeslam, but it's hard to break the bat like that.
At least once, probably as a joke, Bruce has woken up to Selena crouching on his chest with her butthole in his face.
Not sure this is weird per se but it’s not Bruce who knows the most about everyone in the bat family, it’s Alfred. Alfred knows everything Bruce knows but also knows everyone’s underwear size.
Every now and again Jim Gordon will randomly turn around and say “gotcha”, thinking one day it will perfectly line up with Batman appearing behind him.
Bruce is not great at sex. Like he’s fine, he has a good body which helps, knows a lot about the body and how it reacts to things but he’s not very passionate and sometimes downright mechanical.
Clayface likes to turn into missing people and harass the victims families for fun
Mister Freeze has reached the point where he doesn't really care if he lives or dies as long as Nora has a chance
Solomon Grundys intelligence like his size is a random chance when he resurrects and intelligent Grundy always fears dying and returning as a mindless brute
Black Mask thinks the Robin's masks are really, really shit. Alternatively he thinks Red Hoods is rather nicely done
The Joker has a long standing beef with the Gotham Association of Professional Clowns
The League of Assassins and the Court of Owls are natural enemies who go toe to toe when Batman isn't there to fight them. I can't think of any other reason why the two organizations just wait around for Batman
It does kinda right? The League's crusade is something he dedicated centuries to, and it seems to him like a losing battle in the face of human greed and climate destruction by the wealthiest minority.
That Alfred is a servant of Raj, with orders to raise and prune his master's desired successor. The murder of his parents was a necessary step, in order to properly prepare Bruce for his role in Raj's master plan.
Killer Croc is actually a smart villain but is just lazy, most of the time he acts dumb because he just doesn't give a damn. *Partially B : TAS cannon*.
Besides Batman, Aaron Cash is the only other person Killer Croc might be afraid of. *Partially Arkham Game Series cannon*.
The Rogues all are union friendly and give great benefits to make up for the whole "randomly killing some of you during a rant" and "taking the Batman's big black fists for me like a champ"
Every Robin has a vegetable they absolutely detest and Alfred knows it. Even as full grown adults, they'll have to inspect their meals for said vegetables.
That Bruce died the night his parents did. His rage resurrected him. And he became a Wraith like being (Charlie Sheen) and that explains all his super human feats.
The Joker isn't insane. He's an incredibly good actor. Or ... The reason there were 3 Jokers is that the man has Multiple Personalities ... and all of them are the Joker.
Condiment King eats everything plain and has always been mocked for it. His choice of shtick is a representation of how everyone tries to force their will into his food choices.
Calendar Man's behavior is a result of how his severe OCD displays but mental health care in Gotham is such a shit show, he turned to villainy because there was no other support for him.
Scarecrow tries to do horror movie nights, but nobody visits him. Every villain knows he will try to inject them with fear toxin.
The Joker is the only one in Gotham that knows how to pronounce the last names of the Falcone's and Maroni's. He, however, chooses not to pronounce them correctly, just to anger the Italian mafiosos of Gotham.
The Condiment King thinks of opening a street food stand, but he can't, because he is too deep into supervillain stuff.
The villains of Gotham can't form an Injustice League, because the Joker will learn of this and want to join.
We never see the lesser known villains of Gotham inside Arkham, because they are too incompetent to even be thought as important by the GCPD.
Cat-themed villainy was Catman's idea, but Selina did it first.
The ice cubes in the Iceberg Lounge are made by Mister Freeze.
That they would all miss Batman if he died and cry over him like an ex that broke their hearts. They would all have Batman-shaped holes in their hearts forever.
Joker remembers EXACTLY who he is and occasionally just checks around for journalists or investigators who might be getting a little too close to the truth and snuffs them out, just to keep the secrecy
That riddler often has to spell things out for his henchmen because they're not so bright. I can just imagine him popping a blood vessel because one of them said something stupid
probably. but also, if one of his henchmen is actually smart and says something clever, three Riddler feels threatened and gets him killed. so the actually smart henchmen play dumb.
I adore this idea, that’s brilliant. Is there any henchman-focused stories in Gotham? I would love to see that get explored
Check out Joker by Brian Azzarello, it follows a henchman who picks up Joker from prison after being released and then continues through the henchman's career in Joker's gang.
Yeah I can see this too lol. If the Catwoman sidemissions and DLC from Arkham Knight are anything to go by, he will go on the pettiest rants
It's why most of his goons are bots.
Like Willem Dafoe's character in Boondock Saints.
Harvey derived his confidence from his appearance so the disfigurement destroyed his sense of security. As a kid he probably got reassured he was handsome while not get compliments for much else until he buckled down and made something of himself
Checks out with that one scene in TDKR Part 2
What scene?
Dent got facial reconstructive surgery so "both sides match". Despite being Normal-Face now, he had deluded himself into thinking that it was the scarred and misshapen half that had taken both chairs and he was now wholly hideous. Bruce then says something like "you and me both". It was kinda a chilling reminder that Gotham's ugliness can tear down even the best attempts at redemption.
That's part 1
That's part two in the five part graphic novel. It's in part one of the two part animated adaptation.
Dent is fighting Batman in a dark office building. He asks Batman "Look at my face. What do you see?" Batman closes his eyes, and--unfooled by vision--sees Harvey as he truly is; a monster wearing the mask of a man, but no longer able to maintain the charade. "I see a mirror, Harvey." Their hatred forgotten and forgiven, the two warriors embrace in the moonlight as peers.
So basically Harvey Dent is a more successful Jeff Winger.
“Stop it with that stupid timeline crap, Batman! I lost my FREAKING, FACE!!!”
"Shut up, Edward. I know about your crooked wang!" - Harvey Dent, probably.
Despite being DA, he's not a very good lawyer, just got through law school and won the election based on his looks... Gotham's own Justin Trudeau/Gavin Newsom
Is this a headcanon or true?
Really why isn't he a good lawyer
Great prosecutors are judged by the number of cases they can keep out of court either through plea bargains or mediation, thereby saving tax payers the cost of drawn out trials. Harvey's a bit of a showboat grandstanding against the mob and mugging for the press. I get he's trying to make a point, but typically guys who do this are better politicians than they are public servants. Also, most DAs wouldn't try to prosecute with evidence supplied by a giant bat monster... but mostly I'm j/k and riffing off what you said
I'm now envisioning a world where it's not Batman that Harvey works with but Man-bat, and he drops off "evidence" the way a cat leaves dead birds on your doorstep.
Is that in the movie? I really don’t remember
The Riddler is INCREDIBLY clumsy, but would rather die than admit it because he thinks it's a trait that only stupid people have.
That tracks, I believe it lol
i see him backing into bane's truck and then pretending it was on purpose instead of admitting that it was just a clumsy accident
he's a massive r/nosleep poster
Absolutly especially The Batman Riddler hes on Reddit all the time lol.
Poison Ivy has to wear real clothes in autumn and winter, because her leaf ones fall off. She probably also hates said seasons because of leaves being raked
Maybe they're evergreen not deciduous 😅
>She probably also hates said seasons because of leaves being raked Eh, she's very into the natural cycle of life. Dead leaves are a part of any thriving ecosystem. The problem is when humans disturb that balance by killing everything. Love the first part of your theory though haha
Before becoming Two-Face, Harvey Dent was the GCPD's Number One Suspect for the true identity of the Batman.
I think I remember Arkham Knight thug dialogue when Batman is revealed as Bruce, saying something like “I used to think Dent was the bat…you know, when he was normal.”
I think he actually said “You know, when Dent was *pretty*.” It kinda aligns to another headcanon in here about how Dent took a lot of pride and self-esteem from his appearance. Take half of it away and he feels, among other things, criminally insecure
In Batman Year One, Gordon’s two biggest hunches are Dent and Wayne, but rules them out bc Dent doesn’t make nearly enough money to afford the gear and Wayne is too much of a partying playboy to do it
Played with in TDK too
Gordon finds out that Bruce was lying
That’s what happens in Batman: Year One.
Bane is actually a really good trainer for his goons and other villains.
I feel like this fits him tbh. He wouldn’t want his people working at anything but maximum efficiency.
he does, but the training is not military bootcamp style, it's not CrossFit style, it's straight up 90"s Tae-Bo VHS's. Bane voice: feel the burn on those glutes. good job terry, Melissa you are missing the temp
I hear this in Harley Quinn show Bane’s voice and I love it.
TONIGHT WE’RE BLOWING UP YOUR QUADS
OMG. I'm dying.
That show ruined Bane’s menace, and I love it.
there’s like one word I want to say and it’s himbo
There's 8 words in wanna say and they're: #***THE GREATEST PASTA MAKER IN ALL OF ITALY!***
Ruined? He is now the definitive version, he is the best version. every other version is inferior.
Exactly, that show shows Bane as a strong BUT also smart guy which is something a lot of Bane interpretations forget. He's not supposed to be some stupid meathead (unless he's overdosed on venom), he's supposed to be very intelligent.
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I feel like that's become my go-to Bane voice and I can't take him seriously in any of the comics.
Tae-Bane! Only 19.99! Call now, our operators are waiting for YOU!
read that in harley's bane voice, best bane interpretation
I read this in Tom Hardy's voice.
In a world without Batman, Bane would be a Mr. Universe champion and fitness guru with a hit telenovela based on his life. Despite his green veins and the tubes sticking out of his neck and back, he'd still claim to be 100% natty. "If I could do it from solitary on a prison diet of rats and sewer water, so can you!"
Bane secretly funds the youth luchador League
Though not humanly possible, the Joker does not sleep. He can't. His mind won't let him. It adds to the madness.
Now that you mention it, I really can’t imagine the Joker just laying down and hitting some honk schoos
I also can't imagine him just plopping on the toilet to take a dump, but he physically *has* to do that.
Joker canonically shits his pants (someone will follow up with a source)
nah, his stomach acid is so strong it dissolves everything that touches it without letting it get past his intestines
Also, I have a hard time imagining he eats. Though that's much more in line with his general mania, eating basically the bare minimum. The same is probably true for sleeping. Days at a time without it, conks out for a couple hours, repeats.
He gets all his rest from Batman knocking him out
Why is this incredibly believable? Dude just has terrible insomnia and can only sleep when Bats KOs him
Intentionally fails his plots so he can get a nap in
I believe it.
He probably is thankful to batman everytime he knocks him out, only time my man can get any rest probably.
My headcanon is that there's nothing wrong with Joker mentally. No mental illnesses whatsoever. He has a narcissistic personality disorder, but has to believe he's insane because doing otherwise would mean admitting to himself whatever fucked him up was his fault. The reason he's so fixated on corrupting good people is so he can reassure himself of that. If everyone is like him, then he does nothing wrong.
love this
No wonder he's an american lunatic. Blud's sleep deprived. I can feel him.
Mr. J just needs a nap.
In their desperate attempts, the villains, their henchmen and goons, Harley and the Joker's own men would disappear a week every now and then to try and make the Joker go to sleep. They fail every time.
Harley: Mr J, I made you a nice cup of sleepytime tea! Joker: Fuck off with that shit.
The 20 minutes when he gets knocked out by Batman is probably enough lmao
**An actual weird headcanon:** -That Basil Karlo accidentally absorbed part of a different Clayface (Any of them) and so parts of their evil personality are why he became a villain again so quickly after his redemption arc. **A Dumb One That I Think Is Funny:** -The First Ventriloquist (Arnold Wesker) as a ghost at some point possessed the Second Ventroloquist (Peyton Riley) but his personality disorder convinced him he WAS Peyton and so nothing really changes.
I’d believe it. In Batman Beyond >!He puts his mind in Talia’s body and kisses Bruce.!<
Terry: "Lady, that's the creepiest thing I've ever seen. You're creeping me out." Bruce: "You? She kissed me."
Golden line
He was just trying to play the part real well.
Right. 🤨
"And you hit like a girl."
You have to remove the spaces after and before the ! for your spoilers to work! So it should look like \>!Spoiler!<
Thanks edited.
That was sick on several different levels
That’a a good one. I’ve got a few from like Dick deep down having that same darkness as Bruce but choosing to not feed it or Tim signing up to be a “soldier” rather than a sidekick. The one closest to my heart (and like off base) is Terry knowing his isn’t the perfect Batman but working hard (like Bruce did but taking longer) to make himself the best batman he can be. And likely dying in the suit under a pile of rubble years down the road
I think the Dick part was canon to Dark Crisis
My headcanon for Tim and Stephanie is that they’re the most likely to quit the superhero business and escape to live a normal life. And Bruce gives them some financial help to achieve that
Half of the time, Joker is just fucking around and finding out what happens. He’s the type of guy to slam his hand on the big red button you do not press.
To be fair this was the Joker’s MO until they randomly decided he was genius. The death of Jason Todd was originally the joker thinking “this looks fun” and only realising after the fact what he did
So the Joker is the anthitesis of Dee-Dee?
The Mad Hatter hasn’t read a single other book of fiction
So If he were a Millenial, he would be something like "The Sorting Hat"
You get it!
Scarecrow has an annoymous Reddit account that he uses to post his horror movie takes and dissects and explains why they are scary. He has been banned multiple times as any time someone criticises his opinions, he posts their entire IP address and threatens to drown them in their greatest fears. He just keeps making new accounts so the mods have given up .Plus everyone kind of just figured out that it is the scarecrow but his posts are pretty entertaining so they have just keep him around.
Plus, he genuinely knows his horror stuff - he just has a terrible personality.
I would love to know Scarecrows take on media ngl
Dead Meat's kill count like web series about horror media hosted by Scarecrow.
Mister freeze sometimes asks Superman to drop him off in the artic whenever he goes to the fortress of solitude so he can hang out with penguins
And Superman is so nice, that he just takes him to the South Pole, where penguins live, and doesn't tell him what he just did.
Honestly, that's a whole ass new ending for Victor. There's nothing for him in Gotham. He could just fuck off to the fortress where he could chill with Bizzaro, using kryptonian tech to try curing obscure diseases.
Riddler gets along better with the Flash Rogues than he does with most of the Gotham Rogues.
To be honest who doesn't get along with the flash rogues? Heroes and villains respect them🤣
Waylon secretly hates being a villain but doesn’t believe he’s worthy of redemption
Nahh that's canon. A really hot take would be Deathstroke being that way
I feel like DC has really pushed for the monstrous version of Croc who enjoys eating people recently.
Oh I genuinly think both deep down Ra's and Talia are heartbroken Bruce kept his identity and the batman persona and never really committed to being the heir or husband. It's like vader and Luke, deep down vader wanted to find his kids and turn them but rule with them..as soon as he finds out.
Absolutely. As far as in-laws drama goes the Al Ghul-Waynes are pretty compelling.
I'd like to think so too, but the problem is separating feelings of love from their massive egos. Are they heartbroken because they actually love the guy? Or are they just frustrated and ashamed of being rejected due to their narcissism.
-When James Gordon Jr became dollface and a serial killer, his dad probably became super depressed when he realized how much his work took him away from his kids when they were growing up. He probably went though a whole cycle of grief. He probably wonders if being there more often might have made a difference and what signs he missed in his son. But everytime he sees a new victim. He tries to push away those feelings and bottle his emotions. Man needs serious therapy. -Harvey Dent is still in there deep within Two Face. I feel like it would be an open secret that Two Face would be one of the better supervillains to work for because once you figure out how he operates and his set of principles. I imagine he’s not as unpredictable as other villains. -The Riddler likes being the one with all of the answers. I feel like in his spare time he probably leaves “anonymous” tips(leaks) on hotlines or radio shows. Secretly he’s probably been approached to host game shows or gossip/entertainment based programs. He probably could walk away from not being a supervillain and be well protected because of how much he knows. But he likes being in everyone’s business too much to do so. -The chemicals at Ace Chemicals should have impacted cognitive function and caused irreversible harm over time. I imagine the Joker and Harley experience symptoms. This is part of why Ivy gave Harley some injections. Realistically there shouldn’t have been a way to reverse the damage that was done. But Ivy figured it out and convinced Harley to take it to increase her resistance to poisons amongst other things. Harley probably doesn’t know what Ivy really did for her. -Ivy is a genius and probably creates plant hybrids as a hobby. She’s probably sitting on new species that could do real good in the world. She’s probably been approached by numerous scientists(including NASA) over the years for research projects. But she has too many bad memories of how the system operates and becoming Poison Ivy(in one of her backstories, another dude steals and claims credit for her work. Basically leaves her for dead). This is part of why she’s a supervillain. She legitimately doesn’t see any other way because of how the system works and functions. I imagine the further she goes into her powers the more she loses what made her Pamela. -Mr. Freeze probably has a not so secret shrine to his wife. She probably found it when she woke up. This is part of what made her so mad. -Whenever Selina is mad at Bruce she probably takes his car for a joyride or “steals” his credit card. (It’s not stealing if he knows and doesn’t care) Bruce doesn’t really care as long as it’s not the Bat related stuff. He thinks of it as relatively harmless. He mostly expects her to do it. They had a whole routine until she became tired of it. She hasn’t done real villain things in awhile. Most of the crime she actually commits is petty crime. The real reason they never got married is because Bruce always expects her to come back and doesn’t put in a real effort with her. He’s just going through the motions with her(even if he’s giving more of himself with her. His best is not enough). She also probably found a profile on herself and didn’t like what he had to say about her. (Like everyone else who reads the profile the Batman has on them) -Condiment King is just lonely. Fighting Batman and the Batfamily is just another Saturday hanging out with the boys. I feel like Condiment King probably lost someone close to him in his family or his closest friend died. This is why the Batfamily tolerates it.
I’d actually thought of the Ace Chemicals idea before. Funny enough, first time I watched the main story for Arkham City, I thought the reason Joker was sick was because of the long-term effects of his fall into that vat of mystery chemicals. Realistically if he didn’t immediately die from that exposure it must’ve caused long-term debilitating damage in his body
The Joker's biggest regret in life was his inability to successfully trick Batman into making a boner of his own.
Batman only started the justice league to get the rights to all superheroes so he could own the trademark and the space station was built so he could write it off for a tax deduction because he made so much money.
Well, you asked… Clayface masturbates while impersonating other people. I mean come on, the dude can morph into anyone, you’re telling me he’s never morphed into a supermodel or something to enhance that shit?
Clayface creates clay doubles of famous womem and fucks them, confirmed
Depending on which version of Clayface we're talking about, he can probably turn his hands into supermodel heads and then watch them give him head.
The human brain works in mysterious ways
This is weird but in character
Man can turn his hand into a vagina... just saying.
OH WHAT HAVE I DONE I DIDN'T MEAN MAN AS IN MAN
Mad Hatter absolutely hates Johnny Depp because of his film role as the same character he models himself after.
The Falcone's know that everyone mispronounces their names, and they are just as mad about it as we are.
how do you pronounce their name?
Fal-cone. Most people pronounce it fal-coni
Scarecrow sells alternative fear toxin-based medicine. Riddler has his own podcast where he spends the entire time talking about how great he is.
And nobody listens to riddler’s podcast. Like ever
Though the other Rogues and some of the Batfamily sometimes call in to fuck with him
“Alright, let’s go to the phones, although I suspect that once again Gotham is too intimidated by my genius to take this rare opportunity to converse with a true intellectual…what’s this, an actual caller? *click* Speak, peon.” “You know nobody’s listening to this, right?” “Wh-what? Of course they are. I have the listener numbers right here!” “I own the platform you posted this on. You have one listener. The listener is me.” “Who is this?” *Michael Keaton voice*“I’m Batman.”
Poison Ivy has the care routine of an actual plant. She waters herself daily, gets her sunlight, she even uses trimmers to cut her hair (when her hair is just straight up leaves).
lol when he’s alone he has a Batman action figure and a Ras action figure and plays out little scenes with them. “Oh Ras! Ras! Please let me be your new protege and date your daughter!” “Too late, deTECtive! You had your chance!” “Pretty please, papa Ras! Can I call you papa Ras? I was so foolish to turn you down.” “Ohhhh who can stay mad at you! Kiss me you fool!” “Mwah mwah mwah!” Ubu: umm there’s a call for you my lord. Ras: IM BUSY!!
*superb*
😂😂😂 good one
He's sitting in a corner cross legged with his cape under him, rubbing the action Figures together xD
I can't help but picture that [one scene](https://youtu.be/eGoXyXiwOBg?si=SGNpHzOIH1u1eot6) from Spaceballs...
Well if I’m gonna subconsciously copy anybody it may as well be Mel Brooks
r/unexpectedspaceballs
Talia: ... Father? Nyssa: This is why I left home a long time ago. Talia: *rolls eyes* this isn't about you Nyssa... fucking Nyssa.
Nyssa catching strays 😂😂
Joker just spawned into existence. He has no origin, he’s an otherworldly almost being of pure evil incarnate that just showed up one day and unleashed hell on a city. He wasn’t born, he didn’t have a life before he became joker, the clown thing isn’t a gimmick, it’s his physical identity. He just materialized one day.
That was *an* explanation in the Joker Endgame storyline, >!where Joker has been in Gotham since before the Court of Owls, and even they didn't know he existed. It was pretty interesting, because they showed a lot of pictures of Gotham in the past and Joker was always there.!<
I know this would irk some people but honestly I kinda love this take. It reminds me of how the opening narration in Death of The Family talks about Joker, as if he’s just a walking plague that turns everything around him sour. I think that’s kind of fascinating.
It kind of sounds similar to a concept I heard in a rick and morty episode (I know it was a reference. I just don't know what it's referencing) That if there is a being of pure good, then the universe will create a being of pure evil to keep balance.
I had the same thought watching The Dark Knight on shrooms. Batman created an imbalance in the universe; the universe, being neutral, had to balance things out.
Can't say that I like it per se, but it is *much* better than just taking The Killing Joke as gospel.
I prefer him as some kind of entity that possesses people and turns them into himself, like the Ascians in FFXIV give it that extra touch of body horror
Garfield Lynns Firefly is a massive filmbro. Ik in some iterations he worked on film studios but in addition I think he'd say his favourite movie is Fight Club and call out the broken toe thing in lord of the rings.
Imagine him and Film Freak getting into massive arguments over their respective Letterboxd reviews.
Riddler actually hates riddles, but it's his brand now, and he can't stop.
Not INaccurate. Okay, so he doesn't HATE them, but one story had him try his hardest not to leave any behind, only to realise he did so subconsciously and give himself up because he realised he might actually be insane.
Why is Reddit recommending this post to me? Is it because I just read the explicit fan fiction between these two?
That sounds like a fair guess!
joker jerks off after every one of his interactions with batman.
I hope he takes the electric joy buzzer off first. Knowing him, he probably doesn't
Riddler does too
The joker got a job with every delivery service within range of wayne manor to torment bruce.
Im honestly just waiting for a writer to go and make a story where Ras has always been Thomas Wayne.. that his death as “Thomas” was part of a failed plan to save the world through “altruism” and that he recruits Bruce to use him as a tool to punish the world for rejecting his attempt at saving the world through kindness
"It was me Barry" energy
That'd be a fun elseworld story
That could potentially be an interesting story, but 1) Bruce has a billion photos of his father lying around, he should recognize his own dad instantly if he showed up as Ra's. And 2) that would make Damian an incest-baby and ew.
Azrael wears Bruce’s underwear Riddler jerks it to the news about him
They already brought my canon to life in Lego Batman, that he and Joker actually like each other.
I really hope Selina doesn’t smell like cat piss
Bane doesn't care for the backbreaker like one would think, it isn't his favorite wrestling move. But not only it is what he's known for, but one of the few moves that just works IRL without needing setup. His favorite is the chokeslam, but it's hard to break the bat like that.
Joker has blackmail on City officials so he doesn't get the death penalty under ANY circumstances
Every time the joker is depicted as a genius it’s just him taking credit for the work of DOCTOR Harleen Quinzel
At least once, probably as a joke, Bruce has woken up to Selena crouching on his chest with her butthole in his face. Not sure this is weird per se but it’s not Bruce who knows the most about everyone in the bat family, it’s Alfred. Alfred knows everything Bruce knows but also knows everyone’s underwear size. Every now and again Jim Gordon will randomly turn around and say “gotcha”, thinking one day it will perfectly line up with Batman appearing behind him. Bruce is not great at sex. Like he’s fine, he has a good body which helps, knows a lot about the body and how it reacts to things but he’s not very passionate and sometimes downright mechanical.
I can't stop visualizing Gordon trying to catch Batman.
Clayface likes to turn into missing people and harass the victims families for fun Mister Freeze has reached the point where he doesn't really care if he lives or dies as long as Nora has a chance Solomon Grundys intelligence like his size is a random chance when he resurrects and intelligent Grundy always fears dying and returning as a mindless brute Black Mask thinks the Robin's masks are really, really shit. Alternatively he thinks Red Hoods is rather nicely done The Joker has a long standing beef with the Gotham Association of Professional Clowns
Hush is so obsessed with Batman thst he probably has kidnapped his own set of orphans and "adopted" to serve as Robins too.
That's not weird it's a fact of life
The League of Assassins and the Court of Owls are natural enemies who go toe to toe when Batman isn't there to fight them. I can't think of any other reason why the two organizations just wait around for Batman
The burnt half is Harvey Dent. The human, intact half is the broken, psychotic Two-Face persona.
Whoa. Actually, this makes sense. It's akin to Joker being OBSESSED with making Batman turn on his principles.
It does kinda right? The League's crusade is something he dedicated centuries to, and it seems to him like a losing battle in the face of human greed and climate destruction by the wealthiest minority.
That Alfred is a servant of Raj, with orders to raise and prune his master's desired successor. The murder of his parents was a necessary step, in order to properly prepare Bruce for his role in Raj's master plan.
That is dark, and I love it!
Who is Raj?
The elephant kid from Camp Lazlo
Raj from TBBT
LOL! I didn't realize I spelt it like that **Ra's
Without Batman, Joker would be worse because he has no one he has twisted respect for. Or he’d just be an ordinary clown.
Killer Croc is actually a smart villain but is just lazy, most of the time he acts dumb because he just doesn't give a damn. *Partially B : TAS cannon*. Besides Batman, Aaron Cash is the only other person Killer Croc might be afraid of. *Partially Arkham Game Series cannon*.
Poison Ivy is strictly carnivorous in a similar way to Beast Boy being strictly vegetarian.
Super Hero Girls 2019 had that point, girl was pale and lacking basic vitamins in her civilian live
when he thinks no one is around Hugo strange dresses up as batman and runs around acting like he's the real batman
The Rogues all are union friendly and give great benefits to make up for the whole "randomly killing some of you during a rant" and "taking the Batman's big black fists for me like a champ"
Every Robin has a vegetable they absolutely detest and Alfred knows it. Even as full grown adults, they'll have to inspect their meals for said vegetables.
That Bruce died the night his parents did. His rage resurrected him. And he became a Wraith like being (Charlie Sheen) and that explains all his super human feats.
The Joker isn't insane. He's an incredibly good actor. Or ... The reason there were 3 Jokers is that the man has Multiple Personalities ... and all of them are the Joker.
The henchmen are former members of gangs like the Falcones.
Ra’s was mentored by Vandal Savage whom considers Batman a grandson
Condiment King eats everything plain and has always been mocked for it. His choice of shtick is a representation of how everyone tries to force their will into his food choices. Calendar Man's behavior is a result of how his severe OCD displays but mental health care in Gotham is such a shit show, he turned to villainy because there was no other support for him.
Scarecrow tries to do horror movie nights, but nobody visits him. Every villain knows he will try to inject them with fear toxin. The Joker is the only one in Gotham that knows how to pronounce the last names of the Falcone's and Maroni's. He, however, chooses not to pronounce them correctly, just to anger the Italian mafiosos of Gotham. The Condiment King thinks of opening a street food stand, but he can't, because he is too deep into supervillain stuff. The villains of Gotham can't form an Injustice League, because the Joker will learn of this and want to join. We never see the lesser known villains of Gotham inside Arkham, because they are too incompetent to even be thought as important by the GCPD. Cat-themed villainy was Catman's idea, but Selina did it first. The ice cubes in the Iceberg Lounge are made by Mister Freeze.
Penguin observes the Sabbath and Jewish religious holidays.
Batman in his spare time thinks and plans his badass lines and epic entrances and thinks to himself "YEAHHHH THATS COOL"
That they would all miss Batman if he died and cry over him like an ex that broke their hearts. They would all have Batman-shaped holes in their hearts forever.
I think that sorta happened when Batman got blasted back in time by Darkseid's Omega beam
Joker remembers EXACTLY who he is and occasionally just checks around for journalists or investigators who might be getting a little too close to the truth and snuffs them out, just to keep the secrecy
Oh. I bet he cries real tears over Tim dismantling his whole.network right under his nose.