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Most people forget or ignore Duke Thomas, when they talk about the batfamily. And even the ones who include him say that he is the 'normal' one. Some people argue with that, and say that Duke is like the rest of the batkids with the example of him jumping out of a moving car and into a bridge.

Duke is way more than that. So, I complied a list of facts and feats of Duke Thomas. This will most likely be multiple parts.

Duke swear a lot.

Has a record of getting kicked out of schools.

Knew Leslie Thompkins way before he met the batfamily. She is also the one who found him foster homes.

His parents are jokerized, that's why he is put to foster homes. He also takes care of them in the mental hospital.

He doesn't trust the police.

He is very sarcastic. Especially to the cops.

He jumped out of a moving police car and through a bridge. The reason why he was arrested is because he had wore red shoes. In those times, vigilantism was very illegal and appearently red was the symbol of Robin.

One time, Bruce got amnesia. And Duke, to make him remember, pulled him and himself onto a railway and did not move even when he saw a train coming. Thankfully, Bruce snapped out and pulled them of the rails.

His mom used to call him Babybird.

Some villains nicknamed him as Babybat.

He understands Joker in a way Bruce never did.

He doesn't see himself apart of the Batfamily.

His powers are: He can technically see peoples weak parts through how much power they concentrate to them. He can see glimpses of future, rewind the present time like a video. He has increased healing, super fast reflexes. He can see particles in substences. He can literally see light. He also has a bit of telepathic powers. He can speak and be seen on different frequencies, so he can be invisible or speak in a tone that no one would understand. Invisibility.

To add to it, he did not have shadow powers from birth. A supervillain, kind of mutated his genes so that he could control the darkness.

His mother had powers.

First time he went out as Signal, people hated him.

He was The Signal, way before discovering his powers. He discovered his powers when his father tried to recruit him to his endeavours.

His father is a supervillain named Gnomon, and he has the same powers as Duke. Gnomon also had a picture of child Duke on his desk.

Bruce gifted him his own base of operation, called The Hatch.

Bruce called him a gift to the city.

He is good with Damian.

This is the end of Part 1. I'll continue in Part 2.

Two extremes

she's a MOTHER!!

the fanon that dick was awful to his successors — being abusive to jason or mean to tim — is very funny to me because he categorically handled being replaced better than either of them did

CEO of jumping off stuff and shouting snappy oneliners

What do you think of people saying Tim should be Nightwing after Dick

controversial take — i think the only person who should be nightwing after dick is chris kent. robin is a mantle that was never supposed to be a mantle, and was transformed from dick’s family legacy to something else beyond his control. i don’t think his different aliases should be a testing ground for successive heroes. it’s boring. come up with some new ideas

tim has like….. terminal copycat syndrome. the only two original ideas he’s come up with are mr sarcastic and drake (derogatory). narratively, he desperately needs a win. leaving robin behind was an important part of his character arc, and now we’re stuck in the limbo of dc being too afraid to turn him eighteen, and too pussy shit to do anything remotely interesting. let him be rook! or cardinal! let him go to college and kiss boys! the yj generation growing up to create their own identities would be good storytelling and distinguish them from the titans

damian shouldn’t be nightwing either for the same reason as he shouldn’t be batman— an important part of his character is a rejection of fate and destiny, and the forging of one’s own path. he should become his own thing, his own person! we must shed the need to make every batman character step into the boots of another. he also shouldn’t be flamebird btw.

The claim that "Superman is too strong to have any meaningful conflict" is a ridiculous statement and makes the assumption that all conflict is rooted in violence.

Superman has conflicts around philosophy, societal issues, loneliness, balancing work and personal life, human empathy, rescue and yes, he does fight things. Things that are as strong as him. Just because he can move fast and punch good doesn't mean he can't have anxiety.

(This story isn't related to this post, but the art is from Superman Lost #2)

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Batman and Tim Drake in Detective Comics (1937) #615