I've always loved the idea that the Bats are feared in Gotham for the exact same reasons that the Justice League and the rest of the world deems them to be trustworthy and safe
Batman is respected outside of Gotham because of his staunch refusal to kill even when it would be easier. Gotham criminals are terrified because it's well known that his no-kill rule is his biggest hard limit on what he's willing to do. Pretty much everything else goes and they know it
Nightwing is widely beloved for being the nicest and happiest member of the Bats. His smile and constant playful banter are contagious and always make a situation seem better. In Gotham, the only other people who smile and laugh and have that much fun in combat are Harley Quinn and the Joker
Red Hood is a well-known murderous crime lord, but the League is able to trust him because he's one of the Bats. Gotham loves Red Hood the crime lord because his regulation of drug dealers and constant protection of the weak has done wonders for the lower class of the city. He's terrifying because of his open affiliation with the Bats
Red Robin is well known to be a skilled detective who always has a plan to save the day. In Gotham his meticulous investigations and planning are scary because no one can beat them. It's nearly impossible to outsmart someone who is the smaller more calculatedly vicious version of the Batman himself
When Robin doesn't unsheath his sword or bring it with him to a fight, other heroes are glad to see him get used to less violent methods of combat. If someone from Gotham sees Robin enter a fight without a sword, they're terrified because everyone knows Robin deems his sword to be the most efficient weapon for fighting, and if he's not using it things are going to be far more brutal than normal.
Signal is the only Bat that goes out in the day, and is therefore considered less broody and scary to many non-gothamites. Gotham is scared because he's a Bat that shows up during the day.
Orphan/Black Bat is a very skilled hand to hand combatant that the League knows can handle herself. In Gotham, anyone her height that can still win against someone like Bane in a one on one fight is immediately on the 'do not anger' list.
Spoiler is friendly and gets along pretty well with everyone. She's easy to talk to and work with. In Gotham her friendliness has made more than a few give up important information by accident. They like talking to her despite knowing full well that its a terrible idea. She puts them at ease more than she possibly should because she sounds just like one of them
Gotham always flips everything on its head, and that applies to how and why the Bats are perceived the way they are too
Part 1 — Temporary Baby Acquisition
Part 2 — HE POUT ????
Part 3 — The Babygirl Agenda: Origins
Part 4 — Stuck in a Bookstore
Part 5 — Dior Bruce Wayne Supremacy
Part 6 — Please Sleep
Part 7 — GALA UNDER ATTACK
Part 8 — Stuck in an Elevator
Part 9 — Bruce Wayne is scared of bats?!
Part 10 — Lex Comes to Town
Part 11 — HIT THE DECK
Part 12 — Career Day in Gotham
Part 13 — Bruce Wayne is GAY????
Part 14 — The 30th Annual Wayne Business Convention
Part 15 — Monday: Puppies!!
Part 16 — Tuesday: Protecc Him
Part 17 — Wednesday: Crafts
Part 18 — Thursday: KIDNAPPED
Part 19 — Friday: The Seminar
Part 20 — Gotham's True Cryptid
Part 21 — Temporary Baby Acquisition II
Part 22 — Valentine's Day <3
Part 23 — "I'm used to it"
Part 24 — Weird Bruce Wayne Pics
Part 25 — Permanent Baby Acquisition
Part 26 — Richard "Dick" Grayson
Part 27 — Who's Batman?
Part 28 — A Baby!!!!
Part 29 — Magical Girl Bruce
Part 30 — A Kid on the Roof
Part 31 — Grounded
Part 32 — Bruce Wayne doesn't blink?!
Part 33 — Gotham Bingo Cards
Part 34 — A Secret Third Thing
Part 35 — Q&A with Bruce Wayne
Part 36 — Bat-Themed Bandaids
Part 37 — Bruce Wayne is MOTHER
Part 38 — Be Gay Do Crime
Part 39 — PLOT TWIST
Part 40 — No Bruce?
Part 41 — Permanent Baby Acquisition II
Part 42 — Bruce Wayne Should Punch Someone
Part 43 — Vigilante Discourse
Part 44 — A Wild Superguy?
Part 45 — LexCorp Goes on Strike
Part 46 — Gift Shop Shenanigans
Part 47 — Be My Valentine
Part 48 — BRUCE WAYNE PUNCHED SOMEONE
Part 49 — #BlockBruce
Part 50 — Bruce v. The Horrors
Part 51 — Monday: Lost in NY
Part 52 — Tuesday: The Tonight Show
Part 53 — Wednesday: amFAR GALA
Part 54 — Thursday: Ice Cream Kidnapping
Part 55 — Friday: SUPERBAT
Part 56 — Saturday: Night Live
Part 57 — Caleb Gets Fired
Outtakes: Part 1 Part 2
Updates Whenever I Feel Like :)
Go read the reblogs, there’s so many gems in there and I couldn’t pick a thread to share. ✨
Danny and Tucker move in together for college in Gotham
Tucker decided to make tiktoks just for fun, he could teach people about technology and help give tips.
He didn't realize that his viewers could see Danny in the background in some clips.
Danny being Danny was never caught doing something normal instead it was always something weird.
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Tucker: "So you just switch this piece here-"
Danny in the background more than half his body in the fridge, the fridge is very noticeably growling
Tucker who is so used to it, it doesn't even register in his mind that it's not normal.
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Tucker fan-boying about the new Wayne tech
His viewers looking behind him at Danny
Danny running around fighting his food which is also growling & flying
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Tucker modifying his tech for the viewers
Danny's voice in the distance: "Bye Tuck, I need to go soup this guy real quick!"
Viewers: "Cannibalism?!"
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Tucker: "Ah yes a very normal video!"
His viewers watching Danny:
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Just an Idea
I have the urge to add on, but don't know what to write-
Humans like to interpret the afterlife as some unreachable place, or some distant time. But they also like to describe the transition between living and dead as passing through gates, passages, doors, veils. And that rather implies the afterlife is simply the next room over, not some whole other house.
The thing about ghosts is, everyone eventually dies. Everyone. And most everyone stays dead. They leave one room - the room of the living - and never enter it again. But ghosts will knock on the walls, tap on windows, play their music far too loudly at two am, thump and bump and generally annoy the living into acknowledging their continued existence.
They wander the halls and yards of existence without going back into the living room, and never quite let you forget they were still there.
As a half ghost, that was especially true of Danny. And his Lair reflected it.
While the interiors of Lairs were generally contained to the Ghost Zone, they existed at the points where one reality intersected the other. Their walls were the walls between living and dead.
Danny, being both living and dead, had a Lair more liminal than most. It sauntered down side streets, and peeked into other people's houses; it made itself comfortable on the couches of neighbours, and invaded public parks. Most of FentonWorks was his Lair, but so were certain halls of his school, a booth at the Nastyburger, and the sky over Amity Park.
And when Danny moved out, left Amity and started university in Gotham, his Lair went with him.
Let me say it again - this metaphysical space of liminality, that claimed a city's whole sky, several building interiors, and nearly entire neighbourhoods - moved to Gotham.
This was a bit of problem for the local vigilantes.
There were new streets. New parks. New rooftops with accompanying buildings that could only be accessed from above. There was a mystery booth at the Batburger nearest Gotham U that only seemed to exist on certain days of the week, with a menu to a place that didn't exist and music that hadn't seen airtime since the 90's.
You could see the stars from Crime Alley, even on cloudy nights.
Granted, Danny couldn't exactly control where his Lair manifested physically.
It hovered around his apartment in Park Row, putting his childhood bedroom up the hall from his new, adult bedroom. It added halls to GU, then claimed new ones as Danny progressed through his degree. It collapsed dead end alleyways into small town green spaces, and made sure at least some of the exits lead back to Gotham.
The vigilantes particularly disliked that little feature. For all that Danny's Lair was adding features to Gotham, it wasn't removing them from Amity Park. So when you entered a "new" building from a rooftop in Gotham, the street level exit left you hundreds of miles away in a city in an entirely different State.
The average citizen adapted, of course. It was nice to take your lunch break in a peaceful (if a bit spooky) park that cancelled out all the city noise of downtown Gotham, and still be able to get back to work on time. And Gotham U was already such a maze, a few non-euclidean hallways that cut across campus was seen as a godsend. So what if they looked like they came from a movie about high school in the 80's?
It only really became a problem for Danny when his Lair opened itself a door between his kitchen, and a mansion he'd never even visited before.
Because now Batman was in his apartment, and Danny had no way to explain that he hadn't intentionally started haunting Wayne Manor.
Part 1 — Temporary Baby Acquisition
Part 2 — HE POUT ????
Part 3 — The Babygirl Agenda: Origins
Part 4 — Stuck in a Bookstore
Part 5 — Dior Bruce Wayne Supremacy
Part 6 — Please Sleep
Part 7 — GALA UNDER ATTACK
Part 8 — Stuck in an Elevator
Part 9 — Bruce Wayne is scared of bats?!
Part 10 — Lex Comes to Town
Part 11 — HIT THE DECK
Part 12 — Career Day in Gotham
Part 13 — Bruce Wayne is GAY????
Part 14 — The 30th Annual Wayne Business Convention
Part 15 — Monday: Puppies!!
Part 16 — Tuesday: Protecc Him
Part 17 — Wednesday: Crafts
Part 18 — Thursday: KIDNAPPED
Part 19 — Friday: The Seminar
Part 20 — Gotham's True Cryptid
Part 21 — Temporary Baby Acquisition II
Part 22 — Valentine's Day <3
Part 23 — "I'm used to it"
Part 24 — Weird Bruce Wayne Pics
Part 25 — Permanent Baby Acquisition
Part 26 — Richard "Dick" Grayson
Part 27 — Who's Batman?
Part 28 — A Baby!!!!
Part 29 — Magical Girl Bruce
Part 30 — A Kid on the Roof
Part 31 — Grounded
Part 32 — Bruce Wayne doesn't blink?!
Part 33 — Gotham Bingo Cards
Part 34 — A Secret Third Thing
Part 35 — Q&A with Bruce Wayne
Part 36 — Bat-Themed Bandaids
Updates Once a Week :)
finally in season 2! quick question why is he straight
i'm watching gotham and i kinda hate it so i just want to know when does nymobblepot truly start???? i'm tired of everything being about jim and my man ed nygma appears only like 30 seconds per episode :(
i'm watching gotham and i kinda hate it so i just want to know when does nymobblepot truly start???? i'm tired of everything being about jim and my man ed nygma appears only like 30 seconds per episode :(
Read a fic years ago (please help me find it so I can give credit) where physical manifestations of different DC cities showed up. That's pretty much all I remember, but this is what I think Gotham looks like.
She wears a gray hoodie over a black ball dress (concealing a near infinite number of knives) with a skirt that's torn and stained with blood and filth. The dress is low backed, and when she takes off the hoodie it reveals an abundance of whipping scars. She wears a pearl necklace and rarely speaks, though she has been known to sing, scream, and make various cooing, chirping, hissing, growling or otherwise animalistic noises.
Her hair and skin are dark, her eyes kaleidoscopes (everyone disagrees afterwards what color they were, all agree they saw into your soul), and her height changes according to the situation. She has a black eye and tear-stained cheeks, some say because she is forever mourning her children. Her feet are bare and bleeding, as though she's been walking on broken glass.
She wanders the alleys and walks the shadows, weeping, bleeding, mourning, comforting, calling. Darkness heeds her command, and she protects her children however she can. She is the adoptive mother of the strays and orphans that dwell within. She is Lady Gotham.
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close ups on eyes and necklace
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I'm maybe remembering to post this on the last day of the month, but here is an interesting fact about DC Comics for Jewish history month:
Harley Quinn canonically has a relative that was at the Holocaust.
When she accidentally came back to the past and came across Nazis, she recalled her and was filled with anger about her story on took that on the Nazis.
She kicked Nazis ass's to avenge her aunt (and also because they were Nazis and she hates them).
Red Alice (Aka Alice Aka Beth Kane) and Harley Quinn should meet. They would be best friends!
Archive has failed to give me what I want so I'm throwing it all on you.
Jewish Blonde maniac crime boss super villain that is not so evil of Gotham. They are both crazy and they would be best friends!
The comics writers has something against showing Alice anywhere outside of Batwoman (she's not just her tween she's her own person!!). Or just remembering she exists at all most of the time.
Also... It would be funny if Jason and Alice/ Beth would meet. They are legally family, they both legally died and then became the largest crime lord of Gotham for a period of time until they became more the anti-hero/ anti-villain type with a questionable moral code.
It would be funny to see an interaction of them meeting and talking about it what it's like to die and come back as a crime lord of Gotham 😂😂
But yeah first of all mainly Harley and Alice are the ones that I want they'll meet.
Insane Jewish blonde villains of Gotham that were tortured by a psychopath to become what they are.
(Actually we don't know what happened to Beth since the moment she was kidnapped in the comics so I'll assume something similar to the Arrowverse has happened to her because we have no information (it's driving me crazy we don't know what happened to her)).
Harley and Alice would be bff. They are so alike, please someone go write that fanfic.
In general I need fanfics about Beth/ Alice. Desperately.
She's such a great character with so much potential.
My English is not great I'm not a native speaker so sorry if I have typos and mistakes.
I can really see Alice (Aka Alice Kane, Beth Kane, Aka red Alice) having a tea party on her own grave. It's just the sort of nonsense stupid shit she would do.
She would find her grave very amusing and would use that to taunt Kate.
Just imagine, Alice, on her own grave, having a tea party. And Kate yelling at her wtf why do you do that leave your grave alone.
Alice: but I love to come here and see how much you cared about me when I was gone!
Alice would have an unhealthy obsession with her grave and the fact that they were broken after her and would use that to tease her family.
I just want Alice having a tea party on her own grave
Can someone write that fanfic?
I never watched shameless but whenever I see that one actor I see him as The Joker from Gotham and the twin character of his he also played if you ever watched that show.
I haven't, but I've seen edits of that, and I know who you're talking about!
I'm two episodes away from finish Gotham.
Edit: why did Nyssa Al Ghul show up at the "last minute"? There should be backstory...
I'm on the final season of Gotham.
Is there anyone who want to talk about Gotham if you want to? I'm on season 4.
Can't I take a break... Why would that reporter kiss Jim Gordon as Leslie Thompkins come back!?! Is seasons get heartbroken?! That's my question... 🤷♀️🙃
I watch the season 2 finale of Gotham and can I said "what the actually heck?!?!" I barely began it and it basically blow my mind 🤯
I basically yelled at my laptop to let Jim Gordon know that he have to fight against the drug or whatever it is.
I'm crazy? Yeah I'm definitely crazy and I know it.
Edit #1: Jim Gordon acted weird and I love it 😂😂😂😂🤣
I've been watching a tv show called Gotham. It's good show. At first I watch it I thought that I don't like it so I dropped it. Then somehow this week, I decided to give it another shot. I freaking love it. I'm almost to the end of season 2.
That's if Gotham had Pinkie Pie living there!
DC should get a good clown character instead of only evil/antihero clowns. But instead of making the clown a superhero, just make them a very chill and genuinely nice person who helps people but in normal ass ways. DC needs a clown that gets cats out of trees and starts directing traffic when the lights go out. Put them in Gotham and make them like a stereotypical party clown too.