It’s creepy, no matter how you splice it, and Timm’s a creep that needs to be reigned in when he makes stuff. >Has at least 15-20 years on her >Is the daughter of one of his closest friends/Allie’s that he’s worked with for years >Is the on again off again girlfriend of your adopted son and they’re around the same age
It has never made sense and Timm forcing it into Killing Joke solidifies how weird he is.
>>Has at least 15-20 years on her
ok and? They get together as adults. Real life isn't some RPG where more years puts you on a different level when you his adulthood. Babs has been a college graduate and financially independant for years by the time they get together. >>Is the daughter of one of his closest friends/Allie’s that he’s worked with for years
Gordon is old enough to be in Bruce's father's age range. It's not like they're beer buddies. Batman sees Gordon as a respected elder. >Is the on again off again girlfriend of your adopted son and they’re around the same age
They were off after college. And not serious.
That all reads like a gym teacher trying to say it’s fine to frick a student because they’re 18 now. Technically it’s ok, but it no less creepy and off putting
Also, “they were not serious” is stupid. They were in a relationship, they’re the same age, and he’s fricking his son’s ex. It’s weird no matter how you splice it.
8 months ago
Anonymous
oh but a gay teacher frickign a 10 year old is fine right?>
8 months ago
Anonymous
It’s not fine, no. I have no idea what you’re trying to say with that, like pedophilia suddenly doesn’t make fricking your son’s ex creepy.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>all reads like a gym teacher trying to say it’s fine to frick a student because they’re 18 now.
Why do you people keep pushing this idea that Babs and Bruce knew each other well when she was under 18? He knew Gordon had a daughter, maybe said hi to her, that's it. They didn't regularly interact until she was well out of college. >Also, “they were not serious” is stupid. They were in a relationship, they’re the same age,
Anon, this might be a shock but people can go on dates without being in a relationship. Babs whole issue with him is his lack of commitment and honesty in Old Wounds.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Why do you people keep pushing this idea that Babs and Bruce knew each other well when she was under 18?
I’m not saying Babs is 18, I don’t know her age, I’m saying that your line of reasoning has that same vibe. >He knew Gordon had a daughter, maybe said hi to her, that's it. They didn't regularly interact until she was well out of college.
Genuine question. If you had a daughter, who dated your best friend of many years’ son, and you found out that your best friend is now fricking her, would you be fine with that?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Again, Babs was in her 20s when she started dating Bruce. And I mean Bruce as that's what the public would be aware of. Gordon and Bruce aren't friends. Gordon also doesn't know that Bruce is Batman.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Gordon and Bruce aren't friends.
lol ok anon
8 months ago
Anonymous
>has that same vibe. >it just FEEELS that way
weak brained. >Genuine question
First off, lol at your ESL phrasing. Secondly, Gordon's "best friend" in this scenario is also young enough to be his son.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>your best friend of many years
Do Bruce and Gordon interact casually?
I thought Gordon only knew Batman and that was only as a work-partnership.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>I thought Gordon only knew Batman and that was only as a work-partnership.
He does and it is. That anon doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Gordon knowing Bruce well comes from the comics more( same with Dick and Babs being a regular item) , which leads me to believe a bunch of people have t rewatched the DCAU since they were kids and are just going off clickbait articles and memories of these characters
8 months ago
Anonymous
Or, you know, it comes from the fricking show?
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Oh yeah you guys, they are totally not friends. Fricking idiots.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Calm down, you're on your period
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Try to say someone else is wrong to justify fricking a friend’s daughter >Prove you’re completely wrong >P-period!
8 months ago
Anonymous
Go lie down, women get erratic when they're on the rag
Specially when they start getting old
8 months ago
Anonymous
Gotta love how there’s no argument at this point, just insults and “hmmmm” with no actual counterpoints.
Enjoy your weird fetishes coomers.
8 months ago
Anonymous
*drinks wine alone with her cat*
8 months ago
Anonymous
roastie destroyed
8 months ago
Anonymous
roastie destroyed
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
8 months ago
Anonymous
I'm not saying he doesn't care about or have a working relationship with Gordon, I'm saying they aren't best friends in their day to day life
Have you ever had a job?
8 months ago
Anonymous
Didn’t watch those clips huh? Gordon was off duty.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Yes Jobless anon, I've maintained a courteous relationship with people outside of the job as well.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Not knowing he’s Bruce doesn’t magically mean they aren’t friends.
>>Has at least 15-20 years on her
ok and? They get together as adults. Real life isn't some RPG where more years puts you on a different level when you his adulthood. Babs has been a college graduate and financially independant for years by the time they get together. >>Is the daughter of one of his closest friends/Allie’s that he’s worked with for years
Gordon is old enough to be in Bruce's father's age range. It's not like they're beer buddies. Batman sees Gordon as a respected elder. >Is the on again off again girlfriend of your adopted son and they’re around the same age
They were off after college. And not serious.
>>Has at least 15-20 years on her
ok and? They get together as adults. Real life isn't some RPG where more years puts you on a different level when you his adulthood. Babs has been a college graduate and financially independant for years by the time they get together. >>Is the daughter of one of his closest friends/Allie’s that he’s worked with for years
Gordon is old enough to be in Bruce's father's age range. It's not like they're beer buddies. Batman sees Gordon as a respected elder. >Is the on again off again girlfriend of your adopted son and they’re around the same age
They were off after college. And not serious.
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That all reads like a gym teacher trying to say it’s fine to frick a student because they’re 18 now. Technically it’s ok, but it no less creepy and off putting
Also, “they were not serious” is stupid. They were in a relationship, they’re the same age, and he’s fricking his son’s ex. It’s weird no matter how you splice it.
>Why do you people keep pushing this idea that Babs and Bruce knew each other well when she was under 18?
I’m not saying Babs is 18, I don’t know her age, I’m saying that your line of reasoning has that same vibe. >He knew Gordon had a daughter, maybe said hi to her, that's it. They didn't regularly interact until she was well out of college.
Genuine question. If you had a daughter, who dated your best friend of many years’ son, and you found out that your best friend is now fricking her, would you be fine with that?
oh neat. another thread full of people who infantilize adult women, and imply that adult women cannot make their own decisions, which means everyone who thinks they're being protective of women are just treating women like children
>oh neat. another thread full of people who infantilize adult women
Oh neat, another thread where an anon disingenuously doesn’t read anything and makes up a strawman instead.
>woah! someone gets f*ckin' shot in this comic! this is so mature!
Strap on Cinemaphile because you're in for a ride. >I’ve never really liked my story in The Killing Joke. I think it put far too much melodramatic weight upon a character that was never designed to carry it. It was too nasty, it was too physically violent. There were some good things about it, but in terms of my writing, it’s not one of me favorite pieces. If, as I said, god forbid, I was ever writing a character like Batman again, I’d probably be setting it squarely in the kind of “smiley uncle period where Dick Sprang was drawing it, and where you had Ace the Bat-Hound and Bat-Mite, and the zebra Batman—when it was sillier. Because then, it was brimming with imagination and playful ideas. I don’t think that the world needs that many brooding psychopathic avengers. I don’t know that we need any. It was a disappointment to me, how Watchmen was absorbed into the mainstream. It had originally been meant as an indication of what people could do that was new. I’d originally thought that with works like Watchmen and Marvelman, I’d be able to say, “Look, this is what you can do with these stale old concepts. You can turn them on their heads. You can really wake them up. Don’t be so limited in your thinking. Use your imagination.” And, I was naively hoping that there’d be a rush of fresh and original work by people coming up with their own. But, as I said, it was meant to be something that would liberate comics. Instead, it became this massive stumbling block that comics can’t even really seem to get around to this day. They’ve lost a lot of their original innocence, and they can’t get that back. And, they’re stuck, it seems, in this kind of depressive ghetto of grimness and psychosis. I’m not too proud of being the author of that regrettable trend.
i don't care about your moronic narrative on alan moore. a story about batman is inherently immature.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>i don't care about your moronic narrative on alan moore
Anon that was Alan Moore saying that, and he's right. TKJ is garbage and only liked by morons who think Snyder is a genius.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Snyder is a genius, it's plain to see.
8 months ago
Anonymous
i have no intention on ever reading tjk but i enjoy Zack Snyder's films, you really need to stop resorting to this petty tribalism whenever you find someone who doesn't share an opinion with you.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Watchmen is unironically a masterpiece
8 months ago
Anonymous
Killing Joke is a good story and there's a reason why it's been an evergreen top seller for DC since 1987.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Killing Joke is a good story and there's a reason why it's been an evergreen top seller for DC since 1987.
Because Batgays don't know quality, they just consume like bottomfeeds.
>posts Hulk Hogan, who doesn't even kill
Lmao Bat-haters once again outed as hypocrites. Meanwhile Batman rightfully killed KGBoobies.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Hulk Hogan, who doesn't even kill
He killed WCW and TNA.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>hollywood hulk hogan >never killed
You will forever be a moronic batgay.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Digits confirm you're a liar. Hull Kogan confirmed for follower of Satan.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Hull's power level is fine for peak human but the Warrior was always next level.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Hulk Hogan, who doesn't even kill
He killed WCW and TNA.
Didn't he kill a lot of other wrestlers' careers so he could remain top dog?
8 months ago
Anonymous
>Didn't he kill a lot of other wrestlers' careers so he could remain top dog?
Yup. You remember Macho Man Randy Savage? He was one of the handful of wrestlers who could bounce back and forth between the big screen and the ring on account of his charisma. Hogan was always jealous of his mass appeal so he would always go to Vince McMahon to set back Macho Man.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Wasn’t leaving KGBeast to die immediately undone in his next appearance?
8 months ago
Anonymous
there's a difference between liking batman and being a moron like you.
8 months ago
Anonymous
If you can't see why The Killing Joke has the massive timeless appeal it does, then you're the thick one.
8 months ago
Anonymous
TKJ has appeal for all the wrong reasons.
8 months ago
Anonymous
i've never read tkj and i never will i'm a TDK man through and through.
No he like put his bite or Consciousness inside of her body as in her body got a lace and that he is a control of her body it starts actual fig or do I have been told he uses her figure a lot more sexually but she's not having dad's baby she gave dad her body.
They were forced to use the Batman Returns designs for the villains who appeared in that movie, so we got Michelle Pfeiffer Catwoman and Danny Devito Penguin. They made them look more like their comic counterparts when the art changed for The New Batman Adventures.
No, men being into jailbait who dated their son is weird. You're into the taboo and control aspect not the body which is wrong on a psychological level.
...you think most guys even think that far ahead.
Men have monkeybrain, same as everyone else on the planet.
They see this pairing and go 'strong man plus pretty female, very hot, neuron active'. Her being younger is a secondary thing that just means she'll be prettier for longer.
Men fetishize youth. Women fetishize maturity. Literally no one should be confused by this, it's how we apes think.
>Men being into their friend's much younger daughter is weird post WWII >Men being into young adult women is weird post WWII
You think men started being into GILFs after WWII?
It's amusing because it shows how few people actually rewatch the DCAU and just coast off memories and conjecture from other people.
Babs makes it pretty clear >Her and Dick were never serious >By the time TNBA happens, they've stopped dating for a while, given they only dated in college and TNBA is three years later
Plus they don't actually get together in TNBA, but sometime offscreen after. Babs is already well into her 20's by then, she's financially independent and has her own place and a job. even then- we aren't told the extent of how long and how far they went- Babs cites his lack of commitment, and Bruce equates her to Selina and Talia(who we know he didn't establish a long relationship with)
They mention in the Batman Beyond comic that Dick and Babs were together when it happened. Bruce even says out loud it must have been Dick that impregnated her
Says who? These comics have never been said noncanon.
8 months ago
Anonymous
The creators of the comics have started they don’t consider them to be direct canon with the animation to account for any inconsistencies. Timm in modern masters # 3 said they don’t really take the comics as canon.
At any rate..the Babs pregnancy comic was done 17 years later by a writer not on the DCAU writing staff. Timm had nothing to do with it.
>Dating a girl whom you were like a 2nd father for is pretty wrong
Tell me when and where it's established they're like this. DCAU Batman(and really in most universes except maybe The Batman), Babs just comes to him and helps and started on her own.
If Gordon died he'd be the first person to take her in
Ok and? She's not a little girl anymore. If Gordon died and Bruce had taken her in(still a stretch- Gordon and Bruce were friends but not THAT close in all likelihood, Gordon's a divorcee in the comics with a living ex so for all we know Babs' mom is alive in this universe) it'd be different circumstances.
>Dating a girl whom you were like a 2nd father for is pretty wrong
Tell me when and where it's established they're like this. DCAU Batman(and really in most universes except maybe The Batman), Babs just comes to him and helps and started on her own.
I don't like this pairing myself in the slightest, but why do people act like it's reprehensible? From the way people talk about it, you'd think that Babs was a high school freshman that Bruce decided to groom.
Its because she was previously dating Dick Grayson in this version. And since there's no Star Fire in the DCAU, Babs is the inly the relationship he has, so no Dick Sleeping around bullshit to make him look like an butthole. As such, Barb looks worse for sleeping with her EX's dad, and Bruce looks worse for sleeping with his son's girl, who is at least a decade younger.
What's even worse is in the Batman Beyond Comic, they are apparently together behind Dick's back.
>Its because she was previously dating Dick Grayson in this version. And since there's no Star Fire in the DCAU, Babs is the inly the relationship he has,
bullshit conjecture. Dick was shown dating multiple girls in BTAS before he dated Babs(off screen), he probably has no trouble getting women. And Babs didn't feel their relationship was serious.
>And since there's no Star Fire in the DCAU,
I have always been (mildly) curious about this. Timm was involved in the Teen titan's TV show, just because it never is referenced in JL or JLU, doesn't mean it could still be the same universe, right?
One of the show runner suggested that you can consider TT beast boy’s retelling of what happened in the DCAU.
Keep in mind, given The ages, TT would take place before the Robin episodes of BTAS where he’s in college
Comics and animation always seem to do the opposite on this subject
Comics's Dick was dating starfire at the time DCAU Babs was pushed with dick
Since the 2000s, Comics's Dick was getting closer and closer to Babs and Starfire was pushed to the sidelines and comics tried showing how the relationship couldn't work for long
While this was happening, Other animation projects like 2003 TT and the DCAMU pushed Dick and Starfire together
DCAMU's Starfire showed up early on and way before babs
Even the harley quinn show has Starfire as dick's girlfriend (or ex-girlfriend)
You got to see it in all its shittiness during Killing Joke. Which is the real issue. We've NEVER seen it portrayed positively. It's always an overdramatic shitshow where both of them acted moronic and OOC.
TKJ is what made people realize Timm was pushing for it since TAS and is arguably worse than in TAS because he was the producer and had the goddamn book to work with.
Because it makes Bruce look like an butthole and is completely out of character. That’s his friends daughter, his son’s ex girlfriend and his protégé. Bruce seems like a creep to any normal person.
>neither are the problem, you are
date your son's ex, I will wait for the details on the grisly murder
8 months ago
Anonymous
>date your son's ex
And that it right there the real problem people have with this pairing, the age difference was never significant Bruce has only ever been 10 years older than Barbara 15 at the absolute most nowhere near "old enough to be her father" without reaching into teen pregnancy territory
8 months ago
Anonymous
*son, you ignored that key phrase
8 months ago
Anonymous
Even then dick is adopted and has always been notably younger than Barbara
8 months ago
Anonymous
The age difference and his relationship with Jim get brought up more than with Dick which is what makes it clear that's the issue, or at the very least that Dick is an afterthought to most people in this discussion.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>son's ex,
They went on some dates, they were not actually a couple. Puppy love, as Babs said. Dick took it to heart, Babs didn't.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Sorry Timm but your love of cuckoldry is gross.
8 months ago
Anonymous
They seemed pretty serious in Sub-Zero and the beginning of Old Wounds, but Dick was the one being a b***h to her as Nightwing despite her obvious interest in rekindling the relationship.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>They seemed pretty serious in Sub-Zero
Not made by the same time as TNBA and Beyond.
8 months ago
Anonymous
8 months ago
Anonymous
Not Timm or Dini, not the Beyond writing staff.
8 months ago
Anonymous
So what would the kid be like (aside from being way too overpowered) if she didn't miscarry?
8 months ago
Anonymous
>They went on some dates, they were not actually a couple. Puppy love, as Babs said. Dick took it to heart, Babs didn't.
> Me? I CAN and WILL cuck my SON and be OKAY with it
do not become fathers
8 months ago
Anonymous
Dick was his ward. He never adopted him in the show. Once he reached adulthood, they were simply comrades. Also Barbara made her attraction to Dick very obvious in TNBA. He wasn't interested anymore.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>He wasn't interested anymore.
Cuz the writers thought it would interesting if they pushed the love from Dick to Bruce. Also, how oblivious are you to break down Bruce and Dick's relationship to just partners? You moron.
8 months ago
Anonymous
In TNBA their relationship had evolved to just partners. Dick had become incredibly aloof, the cool loner who couldn't be bothered to be any more than work acquaintances.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>In TNBA their relationship had evolved to just partners
TNBA sucked ass.
8 months ago
Anonymous
You can't just skip from TAS to Batman Beyond. You might as well just headcanon TAS as stand-alone then.
8 months ago
Anonymous
nta, but I head canon all of them as stand alone.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>You can't just skip from TAS to Batman Beyond.
BB is so good that you really don't need TNBA and TAS to enjoy it. TAS and BB are two worlds apart and it honestly works better when you separate them as two alt futures.
>That’s his friends daughter
This is one complaint that makes the least amount of sense to me - it's not like Gordon and Bruce are the same age hell in the Adam West show Bruce and Babs go on a date and Commissioner Gordon is thrilled about it.
The very first one she showed up mentions high school gymanstics.
>your best friend of many years
Do Bruce and Gordon interact casually?
I thought Gordon only knew Batman and that was only as a work-partnership.
>I thought Gordon only knew Batman and that was only as a work-partnership.
He does and it is. That anon doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.
Or, you know, it comes from the fricking show?
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Oh yeah you guys, they are totally not friends. Fricking idiots.
>Timmfenders try to justify their fetish by making claims that people don’t watch the show >Get BTFO by the show every time
Am I the only one who actually kinda liked their relationship in The Killing Joke movie? It's such a trainwreck but at the same time I can't look away from it, I even find the taboo nature hot to an extent.
Then again, I'm not a huge DC fan, so I don't care much about the Batfamily dynamics.
Funny thing is Timm wasn't a DC fan either and he fricking hated all thing Superman so it's not surprising he wanted to model BruceBabs after the 60's TV series instead of the comics.
>people take offense to him and Gordon being friends
Why? >and the age difference
They're both adults. Plenty of young women go for older guys. It happens a lot in real life.
It was a massive waste of time and animation that ultimately went nowhere. That was my issue with the whole relationship. At a certain point I was glad Barbara got shot, she was that fricking annoying.
Babs was created to be Batman’s love interest for both the 60s show and the comics. This was a concept revived in both the DCAU and the Lego Batman Movie.
Bruce was more into Diana than Babs, and during this time Steve Trevor was dead until the crisis where he was resurrected, and he and silver age WW were erased after being married.
Also during this time, Diana still had her life as a JAG, only post crisis Trevor married another woman and Diana continued as JAG where she and Bruce started to form the "wonderbat" in many elseworlds.
Like DC wanted WW to serve as balance to bruce's life but they never went forward because there it was a ton of resistance at the editorial due to Babs and Selina due to Earth 2 Helena.
By the way modern DC seems to hate the TV show and her Dorky Second life as Diana Prince, even JL and JLU Diana was terrible in terms of personality where she should had been the balance inbetween Clark and Bruce.
And if i were to guess it, it was DC still anal over She-Hulk Comics taking WW's place.
Barbara never wanted anything serious with Bruce, she had it once but quit once she saw that he would never settle down and how spiteful and distant he became by forcing himself into it after What happened to Tim Drake, pair that with the Near-Apocalypse of 2009 where it is said to be Ra's event that almost destroyed earth and possibly what led to Babs retirement and join the GCPD.
From that onward, Batman worked alone and developed the X-7 Batsuit.
>Near-Apocalypse of 2009 where it is said to be Ra's event
Really? I wonder if we would have seen it in JLU had the Bat Embargo not been in effect, though I don't think the show was supposed to be set then.
It happened after the last episode.
Whatever what would had been, it triggered the events of Beyond since Neo Gotham was rebuilt on the remains of the original Gotham.
Also, DC is allergic to the mere idea of reintroducing zeta in Future's End/Prime Earth Future
>Near-Apocalypse of 2009 where it is said to be Ra's event that almost destroyed earth
Oh, so that's why Ra's died for good and, somehow, hijacked his daughter's body in order to keep living?
Yes, Talia was probably Raped and Brainwashed into submission to accept by the league of assassins in the aftermath.
Seeing that Bruce never saw her after it until that beyond episode.
Whatever it was this event, it led to beyond and many cities being rebuilt into what beyond earth is now.
>Psychologically damaged man since childhood who refuses to go to any kind of therapy bangs the only woman who showed him any personal affection that doesn't fall into the bad side of his incredibly autistically rigid sense of morality (unlike selina or talia). >Said woman also enables and engages with him in the incredibly self-destructive lifestyle he uses as a coping mechanism for said trauma.
I mean, there's alot to say, but it's certainly not too out of character.
I find it amusing that people in this thread assume this mid-ass flick is canon at all to the dcau. Burnett and Dini's ongoing has far more of a legitimate claim to continuing the established narrative and there's barely a hint of a romantic tension between bats and babs.
>Doesn't make this whole thing less of a disgrace to the legacy of the dcau going by normies' reactions whenever they get wind of it.
The DCAU is a normie show you dunce.
I meant when they get wind of bruce timm's persistent fetish within the context of the larger dcau. Every once in a while, clickbait hubs like valnet dredge this shit up for pageviews or twitter warriors use it as ammo to shame fans they deem toxic or whatever. Then normie social media, content aggregators, and forums (lol) may join in on the pile-on from that point forward. You get what I'm trying to get across here? Batman being a groomer on ancillary media is a potential fanbase-ip owner pr nightmare.
He's not a groomer. He never even met her until she was in college.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Let's just say even if it's merely a brief dalliance normies are obligated to view it as socially unacceptable post-metoo. And imo it's plain bad form to date your bro's--in this case literal ward's ex.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Barbara wanted the relationship and was disappointed that he was first and foremost married to his job which is why she left him.
8 months ago
Anonymous
Normies don’t have a problem with it because they actually live in real life and understand the fact a lot of young women are into older guys. The people who b***h on Twitter aren’t normies.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>The people who b***h on Twitter aren’t normies.
This, normie are 100% ok with father figures fricking their sons’ gfs. Ignore the universal disgust at TKJ movie please.
8 months ago
Anonymous
>the universal disgust at TKJ movie please
Barely anybody watches the DC animated films, even when they have their own little category on hbomax
>Every once in a while, clickbait hubs like valnet dredge this shit up for pageviews or twitter warriors use it as ammo to shame fans they deem toxic or whatever.
When did Bruce Timm turn into the fans?
Bruce Timm admits he was always for Bruce/Babs because its supposed to be gross, meaning all the anons trying to defend it are no different than Timm and Azzarello.
https://streamable.com/bqh3s4
I'm not saying it's not a bad relationship(it's meant to be unstable), I'm saying that it wasn't wrong to depict it. They're two humans who made a mistake.
I honestly don't mind it much in BTAS. I don't like the "I'm pregnant and it's not Dick's" crap but otherwise it was a fine, almost entirely off screen, relationship.
It was The Killing Joke where I took issue. It felt tone deaf and completely out of place. It recontextualizes Barbara's injury as a tragedy for Bruce rather than Gordon. Joker has no clue Batman is personally attached to Barbara, it was done to drive Gordon mad. That's why he shoves it all in Gordon's face. Also while I don't care about the feminism stuff putting Barbara in a relationship with Bruce doesn't address the complaint, it arguably makes it more valid. It's not about his love interest getting hurt. But the biggest issue, for me, is that TKJ is a story about Batman and Joker. A batgirl prologue is wasted. If you want a prologue to expand it the best thing to do is a bit of a highlight real of Joker and Batman's experiences with one another.
>If you want a prologue to expand it the best thing to do is a bit of a highlight real of Joker and Batman's experiences with one another
God yes that would’ve been perfect
Start off with Batman in the camp days fighting an obviously manic and excited Joker at the water dam
Then have them get progressively more weary and tired and depressed of it all with each interaction
All leading up to this story about what started it, and their despair when they realise it’ll never end.
>It recontextualizes Barbara's injury as a tragedy for Bruce rather than Gordon.
Good assessment, but you left out how the adaptation frames it as a karmic retribution for Barbara's relatively unhinged behavior that ultimately needs to nothing since it's not her story.
I don't dislike the pairing because it exists, I dislike it because it was presented in-universe as a mistake. That puts it on par with Epilogue in terms of meaningless crap that adds nothing. You don't need it to push the concept of Bruce being too dedicated to the job and pushing everyone around him away. It's just dumb relationship drama that serves no purpose. Bruce shoots down Wonder fricking Woman on-screen but Barbara is supposed to be his mistake? C'mon, nobody's buying that.
>That puts it on par with Epilogue in terms of meaningless crap that adds nothing.
It's meant to be something that puts a divide in Bruce and Babs, the last person who stayed in his life >Bruce shoots down Wonder fricking Woman on-screen but Barbara is supposed to be his mistake?
For all we know, that's what happened here. we're never told the extent of the relationship, just that Babs became frustrated with his lack of commitment to trying to have a love life..
This will come off as fetishbait but I really think Batman(as batman and not playboy bruce wayne)'s sexual experiences should be him being raped by a villainess. Ivy drugging him, Catwoman taking advantage of him, Harley during a trap of hers, Talia, etc. Because otherwise it implies Batman wanted to dick someone down more than he wanted to provide justice to Gotham.
My girlfriend is 15 years my junior and very immature because of her autism. I'm practically her dad, a "daddybf" the same way some guys want a "mommygf".
And even I think this one is iffy.
Same here. Really funny to see how people lose their composure over it, which is probably the only reason I have a soft spot for the Killing Joke movie.
Let's be honest for a second here:
The only "people" who seethe at this pairing are walled roasties who wanna protect Barbara(but are actually just jealous) and zoomers who self-insert as Dick and feel cucked on his behalf
crackpot theory time, the REAL reason why Timm goes so hard into Bruce/Babs is because he's simping for Babs and is selfinserting into Bats, so that whenever he gets them together, he imagines her moaning Bruce (Timm) instead of Bruce (Wayne)
One of my fonest moviegoing memories is going to see Timm's Killing Joke adaptation in theaters and the entire audience blowing up laughing when Timm couldn't resist shoving the relationship in. I've heard this happened at a bunch of theaters too
> and the entire audience blowing up laughing when Timm couldn't resist shoving the relationship in. I've heard this happened at a bunch of theaters too
And then everybody clapped.
I don't really need you to believe me, I was there. And I was right there with them, Barbara just suddenly throwing off her top on that rooftop was fricking funny
All you idiots whining about Bruce Timm when you'll accomplish nothing in your life. Oh no he made Batman and Batgirl a couple! you know how ridiculous that complaint sounds to anyone who has sex?
I'll gladly defend Timm. Oh no, you're going to call me Bruce Timm! How awful! Why would anyone want to be a successful long employed and in demand creator who makes a living doing what he loves?
You have to live each day, working to make a living. Keep working until you're old and out of energy to enjoy life. When your time comes,you'll die, you'll rot, you'll be forgotten. They'll put you in the hole and that's the end of your story
Meanwhile Timm made a significant contribution in the world. He changed how we animate action cartoons. Made a very definitive take on Batman that influences future takes- especially in terms of design. Peopel think of his Batman across multiple generations.
Even when humanity falls and nothing is left but the roaches and nothing sentient that'd care to watch the DCAU shows, Batman action figures based on his design will continue to lie around the world, made of unrotting plastic, long after other, lesser contributions to the world are long crumbled and gone. Kenner batman figures will be over the dust of your earthly remains.
So yeah, call me Bruce Timm.
>So yeah, call me Bruce Timm. >Weird self indulgent rant telling us to bow to our lord and master Bruce Timm for being better than us.
Ok, I will, because if you wrote that and you’re not Bruce Timm then you’re a top shelf simp.
Get off of Cinemaphile, Timm
>it begins
cringe
This.
It’s creepy, no matter how you splice it, and Timm’s a creep that needs to be reigned in when he makes stuff.
>Has at least 15-20 years on her
>Is the daughter of one of his closest friends/Allie’s that he’s worked with for years
>Is the on again off again girlfriend of your adopted son and they’re around the same age
It has never made sense and Timm forcing it into Killing Joke solidifies how weird he is.
>reddit spacing
You’re a greasy man Timm.
>replies to one person
>two people reply back
Hmmmmmmmm
how mesasge board is work??
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>Oh no they both used a common set of phrasing to mock me! le HMMMM
Gee anon, maybe your response was that stupid and multiple people can read it?
Weird way to say “I have no counterpoint” but ok.
no counterpoint needed for pearl clutching reddit gays
I accept your concession.
That all reads like a gym teacher trying to say it’s fine to frick a student because they’re 18 now. Technically it’s ok, but it no less creepy and off putting
Also, “they were not serious” is stupid. They were in a relationship, they’re the same age, and he’s fricking his son’s ex. It’s weird no matter how you splice it.
oh but a gay teacher frickign a 10 year old is fine right?>
It’s not fine, no. I have no idea what you’re trying to say with that, like pedophilia suddenly doesn’t make fricking your son’s ex creepy.
>all reads like a gym teacher trying to say it’s fine to frick a student because they’re 18 now.
Why do you people keep pushing this idea that Babs and Bruce knew each other well when she was under 18? He knew Gordon had a daughter, maybe said hi to her, that's it. They didn't regularly interact until she was well out of college.
>Also, “they were not serious” is stupid. They were in a relationship, they’re the same age,
Anon, this might be a shock but people can go on dates without being in a relationship. Babs whole issue with him is his lack of commitment and honesty in Old Wounds.
>Why do you people keep pushing this idea that Babs and Bruce knew each other well when she was under 18?
I’m not saying Babs is 18, I don’t know her age, I’m saying that your line of reasoning has that same vibe.
>He knew Gordon had a daughter, maybe said hi to her, that's it. They didn't regularly interact until she was well out of college.
Genuine question. If you had a daughter, who dated your best friend of many years’ son, and you found out that your best friend is now fricking her, would you be fine with that?
Again, Babs was in her 20s when she started dating Bruce. And I mean Bruce as that's what the public would be aware of. Gordon and Bruce aren't friends. Gordon also doesn't know that Bruce is Batman.
>Gordon and Bruce aren't friends.
lol ok anon
>has that same vibe.
>it just FEEELS that way
weak brained.
>Genuine question
First off, lol at your ESL phrasing. Secondly, Gordon's "best friend" in this scenario is also young enough to be his son.
>your best friend of many years
Do Bruce and Gordon interact casually?
I thought Gordon only knew Batman and that was only as a work-partnership.
>I thought Gordon only knew Batman and that was only as a work-partnership.
He does and it is. That anon doesn't know what the hell they're talking about.
Gordon knowing Bruce well comes from the comics more( same with Dick and Babs being a regular item) , which leads me to believe a bunch of people have t rewatched the DCAU since they were kids and are just going off clickbait articles and memories of these characters
Or, you know, it comes from the fricking show?
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Oh yeah you guys, they are totally not friends. Fricking idiots.
Calm down, you're on your period
>Try to say someone else is wrong to justify fricking a friend’s daughter
>Prove you’re completely wrong
>P-period!
Go lie down, women get erratic when they're on the rag
Specially when they start getting old
Gotta love how there’s no argument at this point, just insults and “hmmmm” with no actual counterpoints.
Enjoy your weird fetishes coomers.
*drinks wine alone with her cat*
roastie destroyed
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
I'm not saying he doesn't care about or have a working relationship with Gordon, I'm saying they aren't best friends in their day to day life
Have you ever had a job?
Didn’t watch those clips huh? Gordon was off duty.
Yes Jobless anon, I've maintained a courteous relationship with people outside of the job as well.
Not knowing he’s Bruce doesn’t magically mean they aren’t friends.
that's not reddit spacing
Your concession is accepted
As is yours.
Simp
homosexual.
>NOOO YOU CAN'T BE ATTRACTED TO WOMEN IN THEIR PHYSICAL PRIME
shut the frick up you queer
conservatives agree with you that women are children, anon
He's not a conservative or a liberal, just a dumb troll.
>>Has at least 15-20 years on her
ok and? They get together as adults. Real life isn't some RPG where more years puts you on a different level when you his adulthood. Babs has been a college graduate and financially independant for years by the time they get together.
>>Is the daughter of one of his closest friends/Allie’s that he’s worked with for years
Gordon is old enough to be in Bruce's father's age range. It's not like they're beer buddies. Batman sees Gordon as a respected elder.
>Is the on again off again girlfriend of your adopted son and they’re around the same age
They were off after college. And not serious.
oh neat. another thread full of people who infantilize adult women, and imply that adult women cannot make their own decisions, which means everyone who thinks they're being protective of women are just treating women like children
>oh neat. another thread full of people who infantilize adult women
Oh neat, another thread where an anon disingenuously doesn’t read anything and makes up a strawman instead.
Simp
>I have no argument: The post
inb4 another non-point
Simp
I read the thread and anon is right.
Does he ever post on sites still. I saw he did a q and a in 2004. Has anyone notable used this site before
bump
>The Joker shoots blanks
I mean he’s constantly being exposed to various noxious and caustic chemicals on a daily basis. Can’t be good for his reproductive health.
Harley accidentally on purpose stabbed Mr. J in the nuts.
homie nobody, absolutely NOBODY, have a shit that Babs was a congresswoman in the 70s.
Joker always uses that fake gun prop.
Canonically 80+ years of exposure to hazardous chemicals that permanently altered his DNA making him quasi-immortal.
Surprising that Barbara of all people would fall for a lie like that.
Fun fact: Moore disowned TKJ for being immature in his own words.
>woah! someone gets f*ckin' shot in this comic! this is so mature!
Strap on Cinemaphile because you're in for a ride.
>I’ve never really liked my story in The Killing Joke. I think it put far too much melodramatic weight upon a character that was never designed to carry it. It was too nasty, it was too physically violent. There were some good things about it, but in terms of my writing, it’s not one of me favorite pieces. If, as I said, god forbid, I was ever writing a character like Batman again, I’d probably be setting it squarely in the kind of “smiley uncle period where Dick Sprang was drawing it, and where you had Ace the Bat-Hound and Bat-Mite, and the zebra Batman—when it was sillier. Because then, it was brimming with imagination and playful ideas. I don’t think that the world needs that many brooding psychopathic avengers. I don’t know that we need any. It was a disappointment to me, how Watchmen was absorbed into the mainstream. It had originally been meant as an indication of what people could do that was new. I’d originally thought that with works like Watchmen and Marvelman, I’d be able to say, “Look, this is what you can do with these stale old concepts. You can turn them on their heads. You can really wake them up. Don’t be so limited in your thinking. Use your imagination.” And, I was naively hoping that there’d be a rush of fresh and original work by people coming up with their own. But, as I said, it was meant to be something that would liberate comics. Instead, it became this massive stumbling block that comics can’t even really seem to get around to this day. They’ve lost a lot of their original innocence, and they can’t get that back. And, they’re stuck, it seems, in this kind of depressive ghetto of grimness and psychosis. I’m not too proud of being the author of that regrettable trend.
i don't care about your moronic narrative on alan moore. a story about batman is inherently immature.
>i don't care about your moronic narrative on alan moore
Anon that was Alan Moore saying that, and he's right. TKJ is garbage and only liked by morons who think Snyder is a genius.
Snyder is a genius, it's plain to see.
i have no intention on ever reading tjk but i enjoy Zack Snyder's films, you really need to stop resorting to this petty tribalism whenever you find someone who doesn't share an opinion with you.
Watchmen is unironically a masterpiece
Killing Joke is a good story and there's a reason why it's been an evergreen top seller for DC since 1987.
>Killing Joke is a good story and there's a reason why it's been an evergreen top seller for DC since 1987.
Because Batgays don't know quality, they just consume like bottomfeeds.
>hates Batman
>posts in a Batman thread
Rent-free
I'm making fun of Batgays, not Batman.
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>svtfovgay
lel
>posts Hulk Hogan, who doesn't even kill
Lmao Bat-haters once again outed as hypocrites. Meanwhile Batman rightfully killed KGBoobies.
Hulk Hogan, who doesn't even kill
He killed WCW and TNA.
>hollywood hulk hogan
>never killed
You will forever be a moronic batgay.
Digits confirm you're a liar. Hull Kogan confirmed for follower of Satan.
Hull's power level is fine for peak human but the Warrior was always next level.
Didn't he kill a lot of other wrestlers' careers so he could remain top dog?
>Didn't he kill a lot of other wrestlers' careers so he could remain top dog?
Yup. You remember Macho Man Randy Savage? He was one of the handful of wrestlers who could bounce back and forth between the big screen and the ring on account of his charisma. Hogan was always jealous of his mass appeal so he would always go to Vince McMahon to set back Macho Man.
Wasn’t leaving KGBeast to die immediately undone in his next appearance?
there's a difference between liking batman and being a moron like you.
If you can't see why The Killing Joke has the massive timeless appeal it does, then you're the thick one.
TKJ has appeal for all the wrong reasons.
i've never read tkj and i never will i'm a TDK man through and through.
Who did it better? Harley Quinn spoilers btw
Did they already cripple her in that show too?
>Raped, raped, possibly raped
>attacks the victim
What a b***h.
A pimp has to correct their hoes. None of those girls paid.
>not including talia, the actually canon
Not In the dcau. She gave her body up to her dad.
>She gave her body up to her dad.
I dont see the problem
No he like put his bite or Consciousness inside of her body as in her body got a lace and that he is a control of her body it starts actual fig or do I have been told he uses her figure a lot more sexually but she's not having dad's baby she gave dad her body.
I dont know, I will not put my dick in the same place joker did it
Selina's blonde? Never watched the Timm cartoon
They were forced to use the Batman Returns designs for the villains who appeared in that movie, so we got Michelle Pfeiffer Catwoman and Danny Devito Penguin. They made them look more like their comic counterparts when the art changed for The New Batman Adventures.
Can’t spell contrarians without Cinemaphile.
Pairing makes sense for girls with daddy issues, but men being into them is weird.
>but men being into them is weird.
>Men being into young adult women is weird
Huh.
No, men being into jailbait who dated their son is weird. You're into the taboo and control aspect not the body which is wrong on a psychological level.
>Women over 20
>Jailbait
Peculiar.
...you think most guys even think that far ahead.
Men have monkeybrain, same as everyone else on the planet.
They see this pairing and go 'strong man plus pretty female, very hot, neuron active'. Her being younger is a secondary thing that just means she'll be prettier for longer.
Men fetishize youth. Women fetishize maturity. Literally no one should be confused by this, it's how we apes think.
>Men have monkeybrain
Tumblr pls
I'm a man
Men have monkeybrain
Women have monkeybrain
Literally everyone has a monkeybrain.
We're apes that just so happen to be able to talk. Pretending we're somehow not bound by our animal instinct and patterns is stupid.
Okay thanks for the psych eval, stranger.
Men being into their friend's much younger daughter is weird post WWII as femoids generally prefer men of the same or similar age cohort
>post WWII as femoids generally prefer men of the same or similar age cohort
hahaha
>Men being into their friend's much younger daughter is weird post WWII
>Men being into young adult women is weird post WWII
You think men started being into GILFs after WWII?
It's amusing because it shows how few people actually rewatch the DCAU and just coast off memories and conjecture from other people.
Babs makes it pretty clear
>Her and Dick were never serious
>By the time TNBA happens, they've stopped dating for a while, given they only dated in college and TNBA is three years later
Plus they don't actually get together in TNBA, but sometime offscreen after. Babs is already well into her 20's by then, she's financially independent and has her own place and a job. even then- we aren't told the extent of how long and how far they went- Babs cites his lack of commitment, and Bruce equates her to Selina and Talia(who we know he didn't establish a long relationship with)
They mention in the Batman Beyond comic that Dick and Babs were together when it happened. Bruce even says out loud it must have been Dick that impregnated her
That comic isn’t canon to the DCAU.
Says who?
None of the comics are.
Says who? These comics have never been said noncanon.
The creators of the comics have started they don’t consider them to be direct canon with the animation to account for any inconsistencies. Timm in modern masters # 3 said they don’t really take the comics as canon.
At any rate..the Babs pregnancy comic was done 17 years later by a writer not on the DCAU writing staff. Timm had nothing to do with it.
>Babs is already well into her 20s by then
It's still like a high school girl fricking her old volleyball coach, it's weird as shit.
But she barely knew him as a high school girl. They didn't start interacting extensively until she was a college graduate.
Dating a girl whom you were like a 2nd father for is pretty wrong. It's an abuse of trust and authority
He wasn’t a second father to her. They don’t have that relationship.
If Gordon died he'd be the first person to take her in
If Gordon died she'd live on her own because she's a woman in her 20's with a job.
But hasn't he known her since before she could drive
Depends on the continuity.
Ok and? She's not a little girl anymore. If Gordon died and Bruce had taken her in(still a stretch- Gordon and Bruce were friends but not THAT close in all likelihood, Gordon's a divorcee in the comics with a living ex so for all we know Babs' mom is alive in this universe) it'd be different circumstances.
If gordon died
>PLAP PLAP PLAP GET PREGNANT GET PREGNANT GET PREGNANT
>Dating a girl whom you were like a 2nd father for is pretty wrong
Tell me when and where it's established they're like this. DCAU Batman(and really in most universes except maybe The Batman), Babs just comes to him and helps and started on her own.
ok groomer
I don't like this pairing myself in the slightest, but why do people act like it's reprehensible? From the way people talk about it, you'd think that Babs was a high school freshman that Bruce decided to groom.
Its because she was previously dating Dick Grayson in this version. And since there's no Star Fire in the DCAU, Babs is the inly the relationship he has, so no Dick Sleeping around bullshit to make him look like an butthole. As such, Barb looks worse for sleeping with her EX's dad, and Bruce looks worse for sleeping with his son's girl, who is at least a decade younger.
What's even worse is in the Batman Beyond Comic, they are apparently together behind Dick's back.
>Its because she was previously dating Dick Grayson in this version. And since there's no Star Fire in the DCAU, Babs is the inly the relationship he has,
bullshit conjecture. Dick was shown dating multiple girls in BTAS before he dated Babs(off screen), he probably has no trouble getting women. And Babs didn't feel their relationship was serious.
>And since there's no Star Fire in the DCAU,
I have always been (mildly) curious about this. Timm was involved in the Teen titan's TV show, just because it never is referenced in JL or JLU, doesn't mean it could still be the same universe, right?
>Static:So where's Robin?
>Batman:with the Titans
>Static:The who?
The Titans exist in the DCAU, but they're not the ones from the cartoon.
>doesn't mean it could still be the same universe, right?
It's not.
One of the show runner suggested that you can consider TT beast boy’s retelling of what happened in the DCAU.
Keep in mind, given The ages, TT would take place before the Robin episodes of BTAS where he’s in college
Comics and animation always seem to do the opposite on this subject
Comics's Dick was dating starfire at the time DCAU Babs was pushed with dick
Since the 2000s, Comics's Dick was getting closer and closer to Babs and Starfire was pushed to the sidelines and comics tried showing how the relationship couldn't work for long
While this was happening, Other animation projects like 2003 TT and the DCAMU pushed Dick and Starfire together
DCAMU's Starfire showed up early on and way before babs
Even the harley quinn show has Starfire as dick's girlfriend (or ex-girlfriend)
Because the purpose of said relationship was for cheap drama and for to get under the viewers’ skin.
What drama? The entirety of it happens off screen, mentioned offhand once. Dick's not even present to react.
Bruce Timm and pals have stated they did it because they knew it was as wrong.
Sure, but again it’s barely a source and f drama in the show itself.
You got to see it in all its shittiness during Killing Joke. Which is the real issue. We've NEVER seen it portrayed positively. It's always an overdramatic shitshow where both of them acted moronic and OOC.
Completely separate continuity.
TKJ is what made people realize Timm was pushing for it since TAS and is arguably worse than in TAS because he was the producer and had the goddamn book to work with.
Because it makes Bruce look like an butthole and is completely out of character. That’s his friends daughter, his son’s ex girlfriend and his protégé. Bruce seems like a creep to any normal person.
She’s a grown ass woman. If she wants to be with him, then that’s her choice.
Barbara isn’t the problem, Bruce is.
neither are the problem, you are
>neither are the problem, you are
date your son's ex, I will wait for the details on the grisly murder
>date your son's ex
And that it right there the real problem people have with this pairing, the age difference was never significant Bruce has only ever been 10 years older than Barbara 15 at the absolute most nowhere near "old enough to be her father" without reaching into teen pregnancy territory
*son, you ignored that key phrase
Even then dick is adopted and has always been notably younger than Barbara
The age difference and his relationship with Jim get brought up more than with Dick which is what makes it clear that's the issue, or at the very least that Dick is an afterthought to most people in this discussion.
>son's ex,
They went on some dates, they were not actually a couple. Puppy love, as Babs said. Dick took it to heart, Babs didn't.
Sorry Timm but your love of cuckoldry is gross.
They seemed pretty serious in Sub-Zero and the beginning of Old Wounds, but Dick was the one being a b***h to her as Nightwing despite her obvious interest in rekindling the relationship.
>They seemed pretty serious in Sub-Zero
Not made by the same time as TNBA and Beyond.
Not Timm or Dini, not the Beyond writing staff.
So what would the kid be like (aside from being way too overpowered) if she didn't miscarry?
>They went on some dates, they were not actually a couple. Puppy love, as Babs said. Dick took it to heart, Babs didn't.
> Me? I CAN and WILL cuck my SON and be OKAY with it
do not become fathers
Dick was his ward. He never adopted him in the show. Once he reached adulthood, they were simply comrades. Also Barbara made her attraction to Dick very obvious in TNBA. He wasn't interested anymore.
>He wasn't interested anymore.
Cuz the writers thought it would interesting if they pushed the love from Dick to Bruce. Also, how oblivious are you to break down Bruce and Dick's relationship to just partners? You moron.
In TNBA their relationship had evolved to just partners. Dick had become incredibly aloof, the cool loner who couldn't be bothered to be any more than work acquaintances.
>In TNBA their relationship had evolved to just partners
TNBA sucked ass.
You can't just skip from TAS to Batman Beyond. You might as well just headcanon TAS as stand-alone then.
nta, but I head canon all of them as stand alone.
>You can't just skip from TAS to Batman Beyond.
BB is so good that you really don't need TNBA and TAS to enjoy it. TAS and BB are two worlds apart and it honestly works better when you separate them as two alt futures.
>That’s his friends daughter
This is one complaint that makes the least amount of sense to me - it's not like Gordon and Bruce are the same age hell in the Adam West show Bruce and Babs go on a date and Commissioner Gordon is thrilled about it.
>you'd think that Babs was a high school freshman that Bruce decided to groom.
Because she was. Batman aint no hebepihile.
show me the episode BTAS where she's in highschool
The very first one she showed up mentions high school gymanstics.
It's obvious she was in high school. Babs only when to uni at the time Robin became Nightwing, which was much after.
>Timmfenders try to justify their fetish by making claims that people don’t watch the show
>Get BTFO by the show every time
>Lucky Trips of being fricking wrong
Anon in the first episode Barbra shows up Gordon says she's literally visiting from College.
idk, seems like a dick move to date your friend's daughter
Peter Parker and who is the equivalent. Jubilee?
Am I the only one who actually kinda liked their relationship in The Killing Joke movie? It's such a trainwreck but at the same time I can't look away from it, I even find the taboo nature hot to an extent.
Then again, I'm not a huge DC fan, so I don't care much about the Batfamily dynamics.
.. can you specify your gender?
Xir
Why, you ask?
Hi Timm
Killing Joke Babs deserves to have been raped by that gangster.
Nah, Batman should've made him watch him fricking Batgirl
b a s e d
Funny thing is Timm wasn't a DC fan either and he fricking hated all thing Superman so it's not surprising he wanted to model BruceBabs after the 60's TV series instead of the comics.
what does those 3 things have to do with anything.
>Funny thing is Timm wasn't a DC fan either and he fricking hated all thing Superman
Neither of these things is true.
just remove robin the timeline and then everything would be ok
So Robin's the problem here. If Dick wasn't in the picture, then Batman can blow Batgirl's back out and no one will complain.
Robin is just one part, people take offense to him and Gordon being friends and the age difference
>people take offense to him and Gordon being friends
Why?
>and the age difference
They're both adults. Plenty of young women go for older guys. It happens a lot in real life.
It was a massive waste of time and animation that ultimately went nowhere. That was my issue with the whole relationship. At a certain point I was glad Barbara got shot, she was that fricking annoying.
who even seethed at it aside from post wall roasties?
It making people seethe doesn't make it good
Babs was created to be Batman’s love interest for both the 60s show and the comics. This was a concept revived in both the DCAU and the Lego Batman Movie.
Anon in the 60s/70s the comics writers made it clear they weren’t going to make Babs another love interest for Bruce.
She wasn’t Dick’s either. Dude was in his teens while she was almost 30. She was a congresswoman too.
They still toyed with the idea every now and then, so it’s not like they were completely opposed to it.
Bruce was more into Diana than Babs, and during this time Steve Trevor was dead until the crisis where he was resurrected, and he and silver age WW were erased after being married.
Also during this time, Diana still had her life as a JAG, only post crisis Trevor married another woman and Diana continued as JAG where she and Bruce started to form the "wonderbat" in many elseworlds.
Like DC wanted WW to serve as balance to bruce's life but they never went forward because there it was a ton of resistance at the editorial due to Babs and Selina due to Earth 2 Helena.
By the way modern DC seems to hate the TV show and her Dorky Second life as Diana Prince, even JL and JLU Diana was terrible in terms of personality where she should had been the balance inbetween Clark and Bruce.
And if i were to guess it, it was DC still anal over She-Hulk Comics taking WW's place.
OP, you seem like you would be exhausting to put up with irl
>enjoy the misery of other people
anon, that's not a good thing
Its pretty hot NGL
They're both hot people and the taboo factor just makes it better.
Sauce of artist?
Jay Marvel
Barbara never wanted anything serious with Bruce, she had it once but quit once she saw that he would never settle down and how spiteful and distant he became by forcing himself into it after What happened to Tim Drake, pair that with the Near-Apocalypse of 2009 where it is said to be Ra's event that almost destroyed earth and possibly what led to Babs retirement and join the GCPD.
From that onward, Batman worked alone and developed the X-7 Batsuit.
>Near-Apocalypse of 2009 where it is said to be Ra's event
Really? I wonder if we would have seen it in JLU had the Bat Embargo not been in effect, though I don't think the show was supposed to be set then.
It happened after the last episode.
Whatever what would had been, it triggered the events of Beyond since Neo Gotham was rebuilt on the remains of the original Gotham.
Also, DC is allergic to the mere idea of reintroducing zeta in Future's End/Prime Earth Future
>Near-Apocalypse of 2009 where it is said to be Ra's event that almost destroyed earth
Oh, so that's why Ra's died for good and, somehow, hijacked his daughter's body in order to keep living?
Yes, Talia was probably Raped and Brainwashed into submission to accept by the league of assassins in the aftermath.
Seeing that Bruce never saw her after it until that beyond episode.
Whatever it was this event, it led to beyond and many cities being rebuilt into what beyond earth is now.
Would Timmcucks be cool with Uncle Ben hooking up with Gwen Stacy after she broke up with Peter?
Uncle Ben’s dead.
>Uncle Ben's with Gwen in heaven because OMD kept May (and Pete) from ever going up there due to devilish dealings.
A better metaphor is Gwen and Norman Osborn
Hey wait a minute...
Which are the canon ages in btas?
chad always wins
She looks like a sock puppet.
Yeah. Bruce's sock puppet.
well I might be seething anon but I wouldn't be if I didn't care anon.
>fricking your dad is le bad
how many layers of cucking are we right now?
Azzarello strikes again!
What I'm getting from this thread is that Bruce and Dick should spitroast Barbara.
>Psychologically damaged man since childhood who refuses to go to any kind of therapy bangs the only woman who showed him any personal affection that doesn't fall into the bad side of his incredibly autistically rigid sense of morality (unlike selina or talia).
>Said woman also enables and engages with him in the incredibly self-destructive lifestyle he uses as a coping mechanism for said trauma.
I mean, there's alot to say, but it's certainly not too out of character.
I find it amusing that people in this thread assume this mid-ass flick is canon at all to the dcau. Burnett and Dini's ongoing has far more of a legitimate claim to continuing the established narrative and there's barely a hint of a romantic tension between bats and babs.
What flick?
That picture is from the actual series, Batman Beyond. In the slide show with the other women Bruce has fricked.
Fair enough. Doesn't make this whole thing less of a disgrace to the legacy of the dcau going by normies' reactions whenever they get wind of it.
>Doesn't make this whole thing less of a disgrace to the legacy of the dcau going by normies' reactions whenever they get wind of it.
The DCAU is a normie show you dunce.
I meant when they get wind of bruce timm's persistent fetish within the context of the larger dcau. Every once in a while, clickbait hubs like valnet dredge this shit up for pageviews or twitter warriors use it as ammo to shame fans they deem toxic or whatever. Then normie social media, content aggregators, and forums (lol) may join in on the pile-on from that point forward. You get what I'm trying to get across here? Batman being a groomer on ancillary media is a potential fanbase-ip owner pr nightmare.
He's not a groomer. He never even met her until she was in college.
Let's just say even if it's merely a brief dalliance normies are obligated to view it as socially unacceptable post-metoo. And imo it's plain bad form to date your bro's--in this case literal ward's ex.
Barbara wanted the relationship and was disappointed that he was first and foremost married to his job which is why she left him.
Normies don’t have a problem with it because they actually live in real life and understand the fact a lot of young women are into older guys. The people who b***h on Twitter aren’t normies.
>The people who b***h on Twitter aren’t normies.
This, normie are 100% ok with father figures fricking their sons’ gfs. Ignore the universal disgust at TKJ movie please.
>the universal disgust at TKJ movie please
Barely anybody watches the DC animated films, even when they have their own little category on hbomax
>Every once in a while, clickbait hubs like valnet dredge this shit up for pageviews or twitter warriors use it as ammo to shame fans they deem toxic or whatever.
When did Bruce Timm turn into the fans?
Whenever smug homosexuals are close by.
No normies even remember this shit, they mostly remember BTAS and JLU and Beyond--and not this 5 seconds in Batman Beyond.
Bruce Timm admits he was always for Bruce/Babs because its supposed to be gross, meaning all the anons trying to defend it are no different than Timm and Azzarello.
https://streamable.com/bqh3s4
where do you think we are
I'm not saying it's not a bad relationship(it's meant to be unstable), I'm saying that it wasn't wrong to depict it. They're two humans who made a mistake.
>I'm saying that it wasn't wrong to depict it. They're two humans who made a mistake.
It's a stain on an otherwise good show.
The whole point of Beyond is to be a bad future where everyone made bad decisions, with Terry as this new hope.
Its hot
Is that Josh Peck?
Holy crap that does look like him
do you know what I think?
Young Cake Pussy.
For a batman, she pregnant.
I honestly don't mind it much in BTAS. I don't like the "I'm pregnant and it's not Dick's" crap but otherwise it was a fine, almost entirely off screen, relationship.
It was The Killing Joke where I took issue. It felt tone deaf and completely out of place. It recontextualizes Barbara's injury as a tragedy for Bruce rather than Gordon. Joker has no clue Batman is personally attached to Barbara, it was done to drive Gordon mad. That's why he shoves it all in Gordon's face. Also while I don't care about the feminism stuff putting Barbara in a relationship with Bruce doesn't address the complaint, it arguably makes it more valid. It's not about his love interest getting hurt. But the biggest issue, for me, is that TKJ is a story about Batman and Joker. A batgirl prologue is wasted. If you want a prologue to expand it the best thing to do is a bit of a highlight real of Joker and Batman's experiences with one another.
>If you want a prologue to expand it the best thing to do is a bit of a highlight real of Joker and Batman's experiences with one another
God yes that would’ve been perfect
Start off with Batman in the camp days fighting an obviously manic and excited Joker at the water dam
Then have them get progressively more weary and tired and depressed of it all with each interaction
All leading up to this story about what started it, and their despair when they realise it’ll never end.
>It recontextualizes Barbara's injury as a tragedy for Bruce rather than Gordon.
Good assessment, but you left out how the adaptation frames it as a karmic retribution for Barbara's relatively unhinged behavior that ultimately needs to nothing since it's not her story.
oh boy just wait until you people discover Superman 79.
I don't dislike the pairing because it exists, I dislike it because it was presented in-universe as a mistake. That puts it on par with Epilogue in terms of meaningless crap that adds nothing. You don't need it to push the concept of Bruce being too dedicated to the job and pushing everyone around him away. It's just dumb relationship drama that serves no purpose. Bruce shoots down Wonder fricking Woman on-screen but Barbara is supposed to be his mistake? C'mon, nobody's buying that.
>That puts it on par with Epilogue in terms of meaningless crap that adds nothing.
It's meant to be something that puts a divide in Bruce and Babs, the last person who stayed in his life
>Bruce shoots down Wonder fricking Woman on-screen but Barbara is supposed to be his mistake?
For all we know, that's what happened here. we're never told the extent of the relationship, just that Babs became frustrated with his lack of commitment to trying to have a love life..
Everyone seething is a moron that thinks Bruce is old enough to be her dad.
Barbara is 25 and Bruce is ~32.
There wans't a dream fantasy of Barbara as Batgirl saving Batman from other villans and later he, as a reward of her rescue, almos kiss her?
I think Gordon is like a second father to Bruce, what's the problem?
This will come off as fetishbait but I really think Batman(as batman and not playboy bruce wayne)'s sexual experiences should be him being raped by a villainess. Ivy drugging him, Catwoman taking advantage of him, Harley during a trap of hers, Talia, etc. Because otherwise it implies Batman wanted to dick someone down more than he wanted to provide justice to Gotham.
My girlfriend is 15 years my junior and very immature because of her autism. I'm practically her dad, a "daddybf" the same way some guys want a "mommygf".
And even I think this one is iffy.
Why? You sound like exactly the kind of guy who would support this kind of thing
They should've made the sex scene more explicit, that's my one critique of the film.
As homosexual as it sounds because it's not wholesome. Theirs is a gritty pulp romance, rough, disfunctional, not fun to watch.
>black clothes
>black lipstick
Did Babs have a goth phase or something?
I wish
Same here. Really funny to see how people lose their composure over it, which is probably the only reason I have a soft spot for the Killing Joke movie.
It happened in friends with Monica and nobody gave a shit
>178 replies
>77 IPs
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>How do back-and-forth debates work?
Sport /co, but Timm is going to frick you for defending his weirdness.
An ESL and a simp
So sad
Bruce should frick all the young and upcoming superheroines.
Calm your breasts Johnny and Associates.
>ctrl "creepy"
>3 results
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
All three of those were me, yes. Point?
>so what if I've been samegayging all thread long?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
>Having a string of conversation is samegayging
Either you’re baiting or really, really dumb.
>you are a dumb chudderino, date a single mom already you creep
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Gordon literally knew his daughter was Batgirl, so I'd be surprised if he didn't consider the possibility she was fricking Batman.
As far as he knew, she was dating Bruce Wayne.
It’s kind of funny how brazen was about it at times.
On a tangent, did we ever see much of Barbara in that original BatGirl design
I don’t think so. At least not after the original animated series.
>ctrl *pretending to speak directly with Bruce Timm*
>11 results
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Let's be honest for a second here:
The only "people" who seethe at this pairing are walled roasties who wanna protect Barbara(but are actually just jealous) and zoomers who self-insert as Dick and feel cucked on his behalf
Hi Timm
not an argument
>t. homosex
Accurate take. Robin was always known for being a homosexual.
It was foreshadowed for the longest time though
That movie came out after Batman Beyond. The only hint of it was the dream sequence in Batgirl Returns.
It also had no involvement from Timm, for all the people who claim it's just from him.
>It also had no involvement from Timm,
He always pushing for it.
https://streamable.com/bqh3s4
Ok and? He still didn't work on that movie. It wasn't just him.
but le bruce timm is the target of my oedipal hero slaying! you can't just fricking not acknowledge him as being the crux of all problems!
>It wasn't just him.
homie we all knew that.
I don’t know, a it seems that most people place the blame exclusively on his shoulders.
Yeah, Alan Burnett wrote that scene who was also part of the DCAU crew. They were all for it.
This was the ep where he and Terry met up with Talia on their island. I wish it was legit cause that would have made for an amazing arc.
crackpot theory time, the REAL reason why Timm goes so hard into Bruce/Babs is because he's simping for Babs and is selfinserting into Bats, so that whenever he gets them together, he imagines her moaning Bruce (Timm) instead of Bruce (Wayne)
Snyder and Tynion are the reason why I don't like Batman anymore. I miss Alan Grant and Norm Breyfogle.
One of my fonest moviegoing memories is going to see Timm's Killing Joke adaptation in theaters and the entire audience blowing up laughing when Timm couldn't resist shoving the relationship in. I've heard this happened at a bunch of theaters too
> and the entire audience blowing up laughing when Timm couldn't resist shoving the relationship in. I've heard this happened at a bunch of theaters too
And then everybody clapped.
I don't really need you to believe me, I was there. And I was right there with them, Barbara just suddenly throwing off her top on that rooftop was fricking funny
The Killing Joke never came out on theaters
I don't really need you to believe me.
Saying it the second time doesn't make it any more believable.
And I don't really need you to sprout bullshit.
regal special event in a few places, it being one night only is also why the crowd was full of dorks
>6 seconds apart
?
All you idiots whining about Bruce Timm when you'll accomplish nothing in your life. Oh no he made Batman and Batgirl a couple! you know how ridiculous that complaint sounds to anyone who has sex?
I'll gladly defend Timm. Oh no, you're going to call me Bruce Timm! How awful! Why would anyone want to be a successful long employed and in demand creator who makes a living doing what he loves?
You have to live each day, working to make a living. Keep working until you're old and out of energy to enjoy life. When your time comes,you'll die, you'll rot, you'll be forgotten. They'll put you in the hole and that's the end of your story
Meanwhile Timm made a significant contribution in the world. He changed how we animate action cartoons. Made a very definitive take on Batman that influences future takes- especially in terms of design. Peopel think of his Batman across multiple generations.
Even when humanity falls and nothing is left but the roaches and nothing sentient that'd care to watch the DCAU shows, Batman action figures based on his design will continue to lie around the world, made of unrotting plastic, long after other, lesser contributions to the world are long crumbled and gone. Kenner batman figures will be over the dust of your earthly remains.
So yeah, call me Bruce Timm.
>So yeah, call me Bruce Timm.
>Weird self indulgent rant telling us to bow to our lord and master Bruce Timm for being better than us.
Ok, I will, because if you wrote that and you’re not Bruce Timm then you’re a top shelf simp.
And damn fricking proud of it.
>Ngl, seeing people seethe over this pairing makes me la-ACK!
Do starfire dick shippers blame bruce timm too for dick dating babs?