BATMAN!!!! Batman has been one of my long-time interests, he's my faavorite hero!! The thing I love the most about him is the fact that he's flawed. He's just a human trying to protect his city, and the morality of his actions are so interesting to me
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This comic is literally evil. So many twists and turns I was biting my knuckles every chapter and internally screaming at the screen. YOU HAVE TO READ THIS. I was genuinely tricked into thinking we would get medieval superbat but they are revealed to be half brothers. My smile dropped so quickly LMAOOO. wlw wonder woman WE WON and the whole Prince Clark and Knight Bruce + his Paladin robins make so much SENSE IT MAKES ME WANNA CRYYYYYYY. I need to buy this set one day.
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Batman
The big man himself. I have so much to say about him but one thing I find so so interesting about him is how stagnant he is. He is fundementally unchanged from the moment he witnessed his parents' death. I do have so much affection for his 'Bruce Wayne' persona, and how you can kind of argue there are 3 versions of him; Batman, 'Bruce Wayne', and Bruce.
The differences between them all are so fun to watch. Watching him switch to a dumb playboy persona WILL ALLLWAAYYS BE SO FUNNY TO ME. ALWAYS. ALSO to all the writers who make him abusive i hate you!! he loves his children!!!!!
I also dislike how serious some writers make him, he very much has dad humor, and enjoys how talkative many of the batfam is (heavy on Dick!!)
The Joker
THISSS EVIL BITCHHH... In so many installments I FUCKING HATE HIM1!!! In so many I ABSOLUTELY LOVEEE HIM. I love to hate him and hate to love him. That might be the point as he is everso changing, in contrast to Batman. He never sticks to one label or appearance, and nearly every writer is different in a way.
I am in serous love with how many writers make him flop between a general nuisense and an unhinged murderer. I like the more morally irrideemable versions but it feels that's where a lot of writers are focusing. I LOVE THE SILLY VERSIONS!!!!! I do hate it when people try to baby the evil versions though it annoys me sooo bad
I also just heavily enjoy and prefer the versions where he's just cartoonishly evil and annoying. I WANT CAMPY BATMAN BACK!!!!!!! Grunge is fine but I want more FUN.
He has no true backstory, but I like it that way, like no just make him insane i dont care about how he got here. If you want you can consider him to be 'Jack Napier' but you won't lose anything from ignoring it.
His flirting and fighting with Batman GOT ME SEATED EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. LIKE GOD I LOVE HIS PLAY FLIRTING. I'm not big on batjokes really but MAN I love their back and forth. SO ENJOYABLE.
The Riddler
I'm gonna explode him with my MIND RAY /pos. Whenever I see him I just think of the random bullshit that is his last name. In the 1940s he was born as "Nigma", and later changed to be spelled as "Nygma", but now it is considered to be "Nashton".
Some versions state that he was born "Nashton" is his maiden name and he simply changed it to be "Nygma" like the word "Enigma", and in others he was just born "Nygma".
Honestly I love this dork he is so fucking annoying lol. #RiddlebatForever.
"Dick" Grayson
His name is literally Richard idk who was the mean person who came up with Dick LMAO. He is the first robin, and i swear I'm not picking favorites but MAN I LOVE HIM. I read a bit too much of the classics so I am just enamored.
Him as Robin is SO SO ADORABLEEEE I JUST WANNA PAT HIS HEAD and also since he the very first sidekick Batman ever took in, so his bond with Bruce is little more different than the rest. Their Father/Son relationship is so refreshing and most of the time when something happens it's always Dick (or Tim) being the voice of reason
I would describe him as maybe the most the enthusiastic Robin, he was very much in his feelings as a kid so I'm glad he atleast had Batman and Alfred to guide him through. Dude gets cut out of so many installements that want Batman to be depressing and cool because of the humor Robin brings. saaadddd
Superman
He's like so perfect. He's so imperfectly perfect. He is actually the definition of a superhero, strong, fast, and is kind. But he has so many imperfections and that's why enjoy his character a lot, him being my second faavorite DC superhero.
Him and Batman work together a lot, and their dynamic is so SO FUN their tennis is palpable. I want to listen to them conversate for hours. I feel that Batman and Superman are very similar in ideals, but the way they reach their goals are different.
Whoever went "yeah can we get a rich man superhero in disguise then throw in an alien country boy born with powers then put them together" BRO ILY #SuperbatForever.
Catwoman
THE FANS BEG FOR MORE. I love Selina so much I keep her close to my heart (🐈⬛❤️<-right there ). Batcat will always get me excited but when writers write their relationship wrong it feels almost sacrilegious.
Some seem to be convinced she doensn't care about Bruce at all and her flirting is her only misleading him?? HUHHHH??? They both care about eachother a lot, she just refuses to let him convice her how to live her life lol. Arkham Knight is my absolute FAVORITE version of them!!! EEEEEEE
They are so so SOOOO CUTEEE AK WAS MADE FOR THE BATCAT FANS. Selina needed so much MORE SCREENTIME AUGGGHHHHHH I LOVED SEEING THEIR BACK AND FORTH... I get so giddy thinking about them lol
As much as I do love seeing them in a relationship I do not think they could survive committment, marriage just doesn't feel like it would work. #BatcatForever.
Two-Face
I will literally always defend Harvey with my life idk... His designs change the most out of every Batman villian, the left side of his face has been like every color of the rainbow at this point. My favorite is the blue one (above).
Sometimes he's written as a longtime friend of Bruce, and sometimes he's just an aquantence of Batman, but either way I love him to death!!!! His story is so tragic, and tragic characters are my favorite.
Maybe I'm insane but the amount of women in media that has him in it JUST STRAIGHT UP FUMBLE HIM is crazy.
Like he'll reveal his face and they'll go screaming and running away WHAT ABOUT THE LAST 20 YEARS OF MARRIAGE?!?!?!?!???? YES i'm talking about TLH. Gloria dropped the ball so badly bro. I genuinely believe I would not fumble Harvey Dent like idk... B:TAS has the best one I love her so much for actually still loving him regardless and caring about his mental health. WE NEED HER BACK
I love seeing him and Batman together, Bruce has a lot of compassion for him, still believing that there's still good inside him. #TwobatsForever.
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I love shipping him with other people so much. He has such a unique personality that he has great chemistry with so many characters!!! Plus the fact that there are so many versions of him that have different personalities/motivations/backtories so that gives you a LOT of options.
BatCat [Batman/Catwoman] They are my parents. The most widely known and common ship. I already complained about this but I hate it when she's written incorrectly..... I loved TB2022 BatCat a lot, and telltales can be good too. ARKHAM KNIGHT IS MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE. They're so sweet and adorable!!!! Did you know once Selina refered to him as 'Spooky'? YOU DO NOW
What I specifically like about them is Selina's clashing personality against his. She's a very independant and interesting person, and Bruce can't help but want to learn more about her. They're both very similar in the way they both don't like being helped but worry about eachother endlessly.
Their will-they-won't-they can be so frustrating and overplayed, but I love watching her just tease and be playful with him. Arkham Knight GOT THIS THE BEST, I LOOOVED WATCHING THEM ON SCREEN SHE DESERVED SO MUCH MORE SCREENTIME THAN WHAT WAS GIVEN TO HER. I honestly considered that to be their best iteration. (go watch it!)
Superbat [Superman/Batman] OK YOU WERE WAITINF FOR THIS ONE. I AM ROOTING FOR SUPERBAT SO MUCH EVERY SINGLE GODDAMN TIME I LOVE SUPERBAT SO FUCKING MUCH!!!!!!!!!!
You're gonna have to pry them from my cold dead hands and even then you'll be spending the next eternity haunted by me for doing so. The reason I love them so much is because of their dynamic. Bruce comes from money and is a billionare in uppercrust Gotham (spin off of New Jersey) but Clark is an alien from space who was raised in Kansas, and now lives in Metropolis (spin off of New York) as a reporter. (This also applies to BatCat)
In their upringings they are so vastly different but in their superhero identities they are the same. Superman is a seemingly perfect person, born with his powers but Batman uses his intellect combined with technology to stop crime. I know a lot of people boil them down to 'Black cat x Golden Retrevior' but oh boy I could go on and on with how much more nuanced they are.
It's true that Bruce is very reserved and untrusting but it's important that Superman is who he trusts. They both trust eachother a large amount and Batman simply isn't the type to be as lighthearted as him. Their back and forth is very entertaining to watch, the more you go into their relationship the more you see how similar they truly are.
JLU GOT THIS RIGHT.... I swear to god i'll find the clip, but the episode where Lex is assumingly 'reformed' but Clark refuses to trust him tickles me. UPDATE: FOUND IT FOUND IT!!! Please watch this whole clip it's so funny. This characterizes them so pefectly I was slack jawed when I first watched it. Like this is THEM. Superman isn't constantly happy, especially when it comes to Lex, probably the only human on Earth he hates.
I've been a Superbat shipper for years, so seeing that the Superman 2025 release causing a resurgance excites me so much!!! I'm eating up the superbattison so bad. The reporter and billionare art always puts me underground. I LOVE seeing them in their civilian attire so much more than in their superhero identities.
Bruce Wayne at an expensive party and Clark Kent there as a reporter pretending not to know eachother is gonna kill me EVERY TIME. I LOVE IT. Obviously this could be any one of them but I like seeing this as superbattison... lol. I think this Bruce would ruin him on purpose.
BatLantern [Batman/Green Lantern] I mentioned Selina calling Bruce 'Spooky', but this is Hal's whole thing. If ship media excludes this I get so dissapointed!!! LIKE CMONNN THATS SPOOKY T_T
Hal is portrayed as more flirty than Bruce, and I love that so much. I love the idea of Hal being in outer space so much that he just has no clue who Bruce is. Cut to the Justice League movie where he just goes "Who the hell is Bruce Wayne?" need that more tbh.
They're the only reason I watched that movie I'm sorry. Their dynamic the whole time was making me laugh Don't even watch the movie just watch that clip and you'll get the general gist.
I don't know what it is about them, but I feel like if Bruce ever became a GL he would be pretty similar to Hal, so them together makes a lot of sense to me. If any queer ship with Bruce were canonized (it won't but still) I think realistically they would make the most sense. Sorry Barry.
GhostBat [Ghostmaker/Batman] Dare I say... I've never even read any comic with Minhkhoa in it I'm SORRY. I just haven't gotten around to them yet and I'm lazy... But I still love this ship!
I don't actually know *a lot* about them so I won't go on and on, but they knew eachother when Bruce was training to become Batman and Khoa came back to haunt him in the future. He's messy.
RiddleBat [The Riddler/Batman] WAIT WAIT,,, I know some peoples minds blank to TB2022 fanart but just keep reading... I'll admit I first heard of this ship when I first watched that movie and liked the idea of it (like cmon, the idea of is like kinda genius) but I hate to be that guy but Edward literally hates Bruce Wayne. Like he hates him. He quite literally tried to kill him and Alfred by sending a pipebomb to their house in the second half of the movie. LMAO.
I think that this ship would work out so much more if we dropped the rose-tinted glasses and LEANED MORE INTO THIS... Though I have a lot more to say about his relationship with batman. Edward straight up despising him is for the singular reason of him being an orphan but he's rich.
"I was there that day. The day the great Thomas Wayne announced that he was running for mayor, made all those promises. A week later, he was dead, and everybody just forgot about us. All they could talk about was poor Bruce Wayne. Bruce Wayne the orphan. Orphan. Living in some tower over the park isn’t being an orphan. Looking down on everyone with all that money, don’t you tell me. Do you know what being an orphan is? It's thirty kids to a room, twelve years old and already a drophead, you wake up screaming with rats chewing your fingers, and every winter one of the babies die because it's so cold."
Still IDK if they would work out... Edward's endearment of Batman is because he does what Edward wishes he could. It's why he has a meltdown about it in jail when he visits him. He built up an entire image of him and it was shattered in front of him. I've gotta write an analysis and shrine about this Riddler cause I love him so much. Damn I'm about to watch this movie agin.
He genuinely believed they were on the same side, and in his mind they were partners. eeeh it's him idolizing a false version of Bruce + Hating the real him + being severely mentally ill and obsessed is why I can't fully hop on this boat!!! But the fact that they never ever work out and will always be doomed is only pulling me in further unfortunately. I'll still like fanart from time to time though don't get me wrong... Either way I like Arkham Knight and Zero Year RiddleBat the most!!! send tweet
TwoBats [Two-Face/Batman] Also referred to as BruHarvey. I already said this but doomed messy queer ships are my favorite always always. Whether or not they're long time friends, or acquaintances the reason I like this ship is beacause of the duality of Harvey and Bruces friendship.
Morally, he's still there in a way, and this is just a HC or maybe it's canon I dunno but I like the idea of him coin-flipping is a part of him that still wants to go good, and leaving it up to chance lets him believe he isn't responsible for his choices.
Batman believes in this too, it's why he rarely ever refers to him as two-face when talking to him. He calls him Harvey because that's who he considers him to be. I saw someone point out that his 'no killing' rule pertains to him, as he wants to believe that Harvey truly isn't gone, and I love that!!!
I liked reading 'The Judas Coin', it portrays their relationship exactly as how I see them. panel 1/3 panel 2/3 panel 3/3. Yeah sorry I pulled up with proof. I love how they talk to eachother in panel 1, I personally think they'd become very adjusted to eachother over the years. But early on I want to see the hate Two-Face has towards both Batman/Bruce, as in most versions of him he was there/involved in some way when he first became Two-Face.
ending That's all! If there's some I missed I'll likely update this later, so I hope you enjoyed reading this. If you also like any of these ships for another reason or agree/disagree lmk in my Guestbook, I would love to see others perspective!