“Sooo… we’ve been trapped in here by ghosts,” Flash asked for confirmation.
Superman sighed. “Eyup.” He crossed his arms over his chest. Magic and ghosts. Electric ghosts and he’d be triple useless.
“Frouffy dance ghosts,” Green Lantern added, also for confirmation.
“Ballerinas,” Wonder Woman corrected, watching the figures.
“How long will we have to watch this, exactly?” asked Black Canary.
“From the look of things?” Zatanna said. “Pretty much forever.” She nudged a desiccated corpse sitting in the audience with her foot, wrinkled her nose and stuck out her tongue.
“They’re stuck,” Batman said. They turned to look at him, standing in the darkest shadow of an already dark theater. “They get to where Siegfried is supposed to come in, and then they reset to the beginning of Act Four.”
“How do you know these things?” Flash asked.
“Knowing things is kind of his whole deal,” Black Canary pointed out.
“So what do we do?” Green Lantern asked. “Look for the missing guy?”
“We can’t leave the theater,” Zatanna reminded him.
Green Lantern shrugged. “Maybe he’s under the floorboards.”
“The ghost,” Black Canary repeated. “Maybe the ghost is under the floorboards?”
“I meant the body, obviously.”
“I think if the body were under the floorboards, the ghost would be in here with the rest of them,” Zatanna said apologetically. “Ghost rules.”
“I’m not convinced ghosts actually have rules,” Superman said, watching the dancers go back to their starting positions. “That’s just what they want us to think.”
“I don’t hear anyone else coming up with any ideas,” Green Lantern said.
“I’m not even sure why we brought you,” Flash said. “You can’t punch a ghost. It doesn’t matter how big and green your fist is.”
“You’re one to talk,” Green Lantern shot back. “What are you going to do? Run in circles real fast and disorient the ghosts?”
“I am here for morale,” Flash explained, “because unlike some people, I am a joy to be around.”
“It’s true,” Zatanna agreed. “He’s delightful.”
“Thank you, Zee,” Flash said, putting a flat hand near his mouth and then bringing it forward, ending the gesture with both hands curled into a little heart. She responded predictably: with fingerguns and a wink.
“Could you try being less cute for a minute?” Black Canary suggested.
“I’ve tried,” Zatanna said, “but the effort only makes me cuter.”
“Can’t you throw some magic at this?” Green Lantern asked. “Ghosts are a magic sort of a thing.”
“Oh, man, why didn’t I think of that?” Zatanna asked, no less perky and only probably sarcastic. She turned around to face the stage, and cupped her hands around her mouth. “ｋｃｕＦ ｆｆｏ!” she called toward the apparitions.
Nothing happened.
Zatanna turned back around, hands on her hips. “Well, I’m spent.”
in superman adventures #19, there’s a villain named multi-face who can convincingly disguise himself as anyone, even tricking dna tests and x-ray vision. Superman initially can’t stop him
and the only reason he gets caught is because multiface decides to disguise himself as, of all people, CLARK KENT i’m screaming
SERIOUSLY THOUGH SHE WAS MY FAVORITE BATMAN VILLAIN
Her physical condition didn’t allow her to age
No one took her seriously as an actress
And even when she was trying to get into a happy romantic relationship (albeit with another villain) he still couldn’t take her seriously as a consenting, sexually active and romantically interested adult
That’s a lot of blows to someone’s psyche
and Babydoll is both a sympathetic villain and a formidable one
I remember this episode fucked me up a a kid.
And man, do I wish we could see this Batman again: the Batman that consoles his villains, because the majority (if not all) of them are mentally ill people. And Batman knows this and wants them healthy again, not punished and GOD definitely not dead.
Baby Doll is so underrated as a Batman villain
but her episode was perfect
Batman: The Animated Series
The story of one fucked up, traumatized little boy, doing his best to help other fucked up traumatized people.
The Batman that cares about the inmates is my favorite. He doesn’t put up with their shit, but he does try to reach out here and there and he’s as human as he can be to them.
When Harley was re-institutionalized, he got her that dress she wanted.
In the comics based on B:tAS, there was a time during Christmas that there was snow and it was Mr. Freeze’s fault, and he was making it snow because Christmas was his anniversary with Nora and she LOVED it when it snowed on Christmas, so Batman let him finish mourning before calmly taking him back to Arkham.
He never, ever gives up on Harvey possibly recovering.
Sure, Batman is going to throw punches and do what it takes to take these guys down when they’re hurting or threatening people. And he’s not going be a complete bleeding heart; he has to protect the innocent. He’s going to take them down and take them back to Arkham, but it doesn’t mean he’s incapable of being a bit human to the ones who deserve it.
I see I have to expand on my personal distinction. When I say that Batman is strict, I’m relating him to his work. He canot let anything slip by. He has boundaries and guidelines that he firmly sticks to. This includes his coworkers (aka his children–I’m not discussing the Justice League)
Bruce, however, doesn’t need to be strict and firm every moment. Damian wants a cow? Sure. Kids not exactly behaving like elite members of society? It’s funny, no one is getting hurt, plus it’s been a while since the last good romp.
Of course, they are the same person. The behavior intersects. But I do think that Bruce is a lot more lax when dealing with domestic life, which he does not have the luxury of while in the field.
When people’s lives are on the line, you can’t afford to be chill with everything. You can’t. Everything has to go in the direction of saving them. But family life? Sure, mess around, get dirty, have a good laugh.
That isn’t to say Bruce doesn’t have boundaries in his personal life, but he’s not as rigid about them.
Batman HAS to be strict. Bruce has the luxury of not being so 100% of the time.
Bruce Wayne takes his ten year old son Dick to adopt his first Pokemon at Clark Kent’s ranch for rehabilitated Pokemon. (Yes, this is a SuperBat Pokemon AU.)
bruce threatened to fire everyone at least 5 times in the first 24 hours because everyone is using it on patrol. everyone is still using it on patrol, he’s just too tired to fight them anymore.
steph has some truly incredibly screenshots from trying to catch pokemon while in the middle of fights with various villains.
the batcave is a pokestop. so is the clocktower. everyone is very confused and worried.
babs has tried to figure out what’s wrong with the servers like 20 times and now her go-to answer to all the batkids texting her about it is just:
¯_(ツ)_/¯
dick keeps trying to remind damian that they’re not real animals and don’t actually need to be saved. damian doesn’t care. all his pokemon are named bat-[name] and it’s terrible.
cass mastered throwing pokeballs immediately and it pisses everyone else off because it took them a good 5 or 6 pokemon before they sort of had it figured out. dick is still struggling.
tim and duke are competing to level up the quickest and it’s getting very ugly very fast. phones have been broken. lines have been drawn. blood has been shed (literally bc duke stepped on a nail while running to get to a pokestop first).
nightwing has saved 5 kids from walking into traffic so far
jason has been saved from walking into traffic by 3 kids so far
it
would’ve been 4, but damian didn’t actually save him, he just sort of
said “todd look out” in a monotone voice and a hugeass truck had to slam
on its brakes to avoid running jason over. damian was too busy trying
to catch a rattata. no he doesn’t care that he already has 5, the point
of the game is to catch them all and he’s not going to leave a poor defenseless pokemon out in the wild alone.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ 
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