“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
Black Women are Cosplaying Harley Quinn and Slaying! With Suicide Squad heralded as one of this summer’s biggest blockbusters in film, it’s no wonder fans of the DC Comics-based series have taken things up a notch by cosplaying their favorite characters such as the canonically bisexual character of Harley Quinn
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.
Superman standing on the edge of a building, his cape billowing in the breeze, watching the sun set.
“It’s pressure cookers that explode if you leave them on too long, right?” he asks himself. “Not slow cookers?” It would be just his luck if he lost the deposit on his apartment trying to make black bean soup. It’s bad enough that it won’t be as good as he thought it will be. He’s already resigned himself to that. Every time he gets a recipe off Smitten Kitchen he ends up disappointed and yet every time he convinces himself that this recipe will be different. The less said about the clementine cake, the better.
“I’m pretty sure it’s pressure cookers,” he says, putting his fists on his hips and looking up toward the sky.
¯_(ツ)_/¯ 
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