It’s shallow and performative, overemphasizing problems that are only vaguely gestured to and often inaccurate in the first place.
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can everyone stop treating dick grayson like an accessory to their favs instead of his own fucking person who has narratives and stories and themes of his own 😐😐
There comes a point where we need to be able to distinguish the bad behavior of a few individuals from the group. Even if there *are* actual fans of a character spouting toxic rhetoric, it’s a small minority, and shouldn’t be used to punish or paint all of their fans as bad.
I think of all fans to blame for misogyny in Dickbabs vs Dickkory, Nightwing fans are *the* fairest choice, but I’d also tentatively say that most of those aren’t real fans either bc true fans know how flawed his approach to relationships is and the likelihood he’ll die alone lol
Put together, his romantic relationships are perhaps his WORST kind. His platonic connections have historically been much healthier, and anyone presenting a picture of Dick with Babs or Kory as something idealistic probably don’t much about him *or* his flaws.
Confession: I love all the vampire king Dick art going around, but I didn’t like him in DC Vampires. Why use him if you’re not going to preserve his personality or play with his experience with Dala (dismissing that one barely-nod at the beginning)? He’s just a generic villain.
Nonsensical discourse starts to make a lot more sense when you realize most of it is not made by comic fans, but pedophilia fans who happen to use comic properties to excuse their behavior.
Ofc they don’t understand the lore or characters. They don’t care about the comics.
I’ve read all of these. The first panel was taken from when Bruce was mind controlled and Dick commanded Bruce to hit him *because* he knew it would help snap Bruce out of it, since Bruce wouldn’t want to hit him.
The last panel isn’t even Dick. It’s a robot from Hugo Strange.
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In as much as you do want to find instances of Bruce being “abusive”, those were retconned in the late 90s and early 00s. Wolfman’s run of Nightwing and Robin: Year One come to mind, but those are instances of emotional frigidity rather than physical abuse.








