How did Dickbabs vs Dickkory become THE DC ship war?Especially considering Bruce's romances with Selina and Talia are arguably bigger and more influential than either of Dick's.
>>155265537Because both Talia and Selina are crazy bitches and most every other hero has had a single consistent love interest.
>>155265537Doesn't Kory whore around because Tamaraneans have open relationships?
>>155265537Dickbabs is mainly rooted in 90s comic autism meanwhile dickory was mainly based in early 2000s tt show autism followed by the shitty reboot autism also dickbabs doesn't really happen outside the comics
>>155265537Selina and Talia are just lamer then Starfire and barb
>>155265537Because it’s not just readers who have been petty about it, writers and editorial basically started it. Dixon and various other writers in the late 90s to mid 00s tried real hard to diminish Dick and Kory’s 10 year real time/3-4 year comic time relationship into a brief fling, had Bruce and Barbara make disparaging comments about Kory, and retconned in two times of Dick cheating on Kory with Babs (Nightwing Year One and Nightwing Annual #2). That lead to a lot of Dickkory shippers being (rightfully) salty about DC’s handling of them, which they then take out on the Dickbabs ship, which lead to Dickbabs shippers being angry about Dickkory and its shippers.During Morrison’s Batman saga, had he pushed Selina as Bruce’s true love at the same time he was destroying Talia’s character then he probably could’ve triggered a ship war on the same level.
>>155265537because batman has never had a definitive love interestand the sheer number of times writers have tried to push for a specific one to be THE ONE only for the next writer to decide that they werent actually the one has left batman in a state of Schrodinger's love interest, where every batmans main love interest is genuinely just accepted to be canon only to that specific version and not batman as a conceptthere are even universes where he ends up with barbara gorden, starting with the adam west version, and picked up by bruce timm and lego batmanby comparison, the entire nightwing person was created for new teen titans and the first wolfman/perez run of teen titans consistently depicted starfire and nightwing as the resident super couple until editorial decided to step in, transplant nightwing back into batman, and remove all connection to teen titansso nightwing has two versions that are in the contest to be the "definitive" version of himthe original teen titans version, who is indisputably with starfireand the batman version, who is indisputable withunlike with batman, where each version is just accepted to have a setting-specific love interestpeople tend to want nightwing to have a lois-lane style universal constant
>>155265584It doesn’t help that DC still tries to dangle Dickkory in their fans’ faces only to yank it away every few years. If they let Kory be with somebody else consistently and let her do more than be Dick’s ex then a lot of them would probably become disinterested in the ship or at least begrudgingly accept they aren’t going to be together again.
>>155265537Comic book writers will write dialogue like this and then be confused when people prefer manga and anime.
>>155265656You prefer anime and manga because you're a retard who doesn't know what an edit is.
>>155265672Comics are so badly written that you can easily believe that's real.
>>155265537Bruce deserves to die alone and unloved. People care about Dick
>>155265537Talia isn't as popular a character as Selina. Most normies don't think/know about her and most Bat casuals still parrot that rapist retcon. Similarly while Selina may be more popular with BatCat being a well known ship, Bruce doesn't have a reputation of being tied down. Hell even among comic editors it was mostly just Denny O'Neil who pushed her as Bruce's main love interest, most writers didn't seem that invested in it.Robin/Starfire (and Starfire in general) however are pretty popular among normies and casuals due to TT03 which makes it interesting how DC basically refuses to attempt to court them due to Bateditorial being so possessive and territorial.
>>155266113>DC basically refuses to attempt to court them due to Bateditorial being so possessive and territorial.the fact that any pairings other than nightwing/starfire exist is literally down to thisthey were the longest lasting couple of the new teen titans
>>155265537>Especially considering Bruce's romances with Selina and Talia are arguably biggerAre they?
>>155266342Batcat certainly is but nobody but brown girls who project themselves onto her care about Talia
DickBabs won the canon war, but DickKory won the culture war.
>>155265547>Every other hero has had a single consistent love interest.Not really
>>155265550no actually shes pretty monogamous outside of that one terrible red hood page that horribly mischaracterized hershe just embraces sexuality because of her space standards
>>155266775All it would take is one popular Batman cartoon that isn’t afraid of featuring the batfamily
>>155266822Because of her sister gorilla pimping her across the local system.
>>155265550No.>Franklin Crandall (some HIVE guy from early NTT)>Dick>Karras>Phyzzon>Captain Comet>RoyTwo of them were for political reasons (one of them she didn't even like), two of them were long term relationships, and one of them she wanted to be a long term relationship but he was killed for refusing to continue HIVE's plans. Only Captain Comet was a fling.
>>155265584>he probably could’ve triggered a ship war on the same levelMorrison retconning Talia as a rapist and every run after running with supervillain Talia achieved the same result. Bruce now only has 1 realistic love interest
>>1552656561 It's an edit2 pic
>>155265562It's funny because the New Teen Titans vs 2003 Teen Titans discourse came back because the former is now fueled by zoomers who have no nostalgia for the latter
>>155266810Except most of the iconic DC heroes do have their set love interest and deviations from it are temporary (eg flashbacks, general drama) or are relegated to elseworlds.Superman = Lois Aquaman = MeraFlash = Joan/Iris/LindaHal = CarolOllie = DinahAnd Diana had Steve until Perez took that away, and even then new 52 brought Steve back as Diana’s main love interest and they’ve stuck with it so far. And Morrison fucked Talia up due to his mommy issues and Ram V is the only one who’s done more with her than make her Damian’s bitch mom or Bruce’s jilted ex so even with the marriage fiasco Selina probably won the BrucebowlMarvel has none due to making all their heroes horny sluts and cucks
>>155265537Most characters have their heavily favored love interest. But Dick's two main love interests are so contested that it's even pitted DC editors against each other. No surprise writers comment on it.
>>155265537Is this a serious dialogue balloon from the comics?
>>155265537I'm starting to think people just like gingers for some reason.
>>155268703They're less common and considered wild lovers so there's a level of exotic appeal to them.
>>155265537Dickkory is popular due to that extremely horny movie
>>155265611Yeah like that moment in Winick's Titans where Dick says he could never truly love Kory the way she wants him to, but they make out anyway.Or that whole time Winick had them sleeping together in Outsiders while Devin Grayson was gunning for DickBabs. Mess.
>>155268961It's popular because that was Dick's main relationship during the Wolfman/Perez run of Teen Titans. If it wasn't such an iconic run that showed why they made a good couple then it wouldn't have been that popular. Also helps that the '03 show had it, even if they didn't truly get together until the movie.
Batman is too autistic for most people to self insert with. Dick is pretty easy to self insert on.Self insert ships are always the most contentious.DickxKara is the best ship
>>155269083I do find it surprising barely anybody did anything with it until Waid with World's Finest. Then again, the Batman editors hated Dick being with Starfire so they probably didn't want him with Kara either. There was a brief time when Dick was Batman and had some eyebrow raising interactions with Power Girl.
>>155265537If Dick and kory are popular why aren't they together in the comics??
>>155268456Selina definitely won the Brucebowl, at least culturally, everyone knows Batman goes with Catwoman, a lot of people don't even know of Talia al Ghul.
>>155268961What movie? It's popular because of the Teen Titans cartoon, that's it.
>>155269214bat editors hate anything they cant control and since starfire was created for the teen titans they fucking hate her ass
>>155265537Talia has been out of the running for agesThere's the date rape retcon where she spermjacked Bruce to have his kid. And that time she made a clone of Damian who eventually killed him. Or that time she spermjacked Deathstroke to give Damian a brother Or that time she genocided MarkoviaAlso the Batman Beyond episode where Ra's stole her body and slept with Bruce kinda weirded out a whole generation
>>155265537Ok but who is better, Babs or Kory?
Talia has almost never been taken seriously as a love interestsI think Damian was a good chance to change that if they wanted to though, have her join the Batfamily to dote on Damian while having a complicated/uneasy relationship with BruceOn the otherhand the last thing we need is more fucking Batfamily members I suppose>>155270488Kory unless you're one of those types uninterested in what Dick gets up to outside of the Batverse, which is plenty of people to be fair
>>155269083I want DickxRose
I've never read comics, why are you faggots talking about dicks
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>>155273922Hey anon don't be a Richard.
>>155269463>It's popular because of the Teen Titans cartoon, that's it.the teen titans cartoon didnt invent it from scratch, it was already popular even before the 2003 show due to the new teen titansrobin was rebranded into nightwing specifically for new teen titans and starfire was invented for that same comicand they spent about 10 years of real world time being each others definite love interests
>>155273922there's a bunch of panels like this
Dickbabs was only ever hot when there was a noticeable age gap between them. Got less interesting when they were both adults in their 20's.
>>155268703The color pops on the page
Aren't there like a gazillion Robins anyway? Can't they get one for the two of them?
>>155274976They sort of tested shipping Jason/Redhood with Barbara over their shared trauma with Joker, but fans kind of hated it and Three Joker's was relegated to a Black Label book when it was originally supposed to be canon.
>>155274976>>155275426They shipped Babs/Jason during Batman Eternal when Dick was “dead” lmaoAnd it was Jason who turned her down ultimately, not the other way around
>>155276078Why the fuck would Dick even want Babs then? If my ex tried to fuck my brother I'd be over her so fast.
>>155265537>Selina's fucked at least 2-3 generations of Slam Bradleys, would fuck Dick to get Bruce's goat, was a literal prostitute>Talia fucked Jason, Bane, Slade, and had an orgy>Wonder Woman fucked multiple men in her solo (including a black guy and a brown guy) and Superman>Zatanna fucks Constantine and implied to have had threesomes with him and Nick Necro>Babs fucked Dick, Luke, Jason Bard, wanted to fuck Jason, cybered with Ted KordDC needs to push Silver St Cloud again, she wouldn't do shit like this.
>>155277019>would fuck Dick to get Bruce's goatOnly in the TImmverse, or in the post-crisis pre-HUSH era where her personal history with Bruce was all wiped from existence.
>>155277312Everything is canon after Infinite Frontier, anon.
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>>155265537Dick should've made Colombina his girlfriend and his Flamebird because Bette SUCKS
>>155273900Dick is for Joey.
>>155276851Why did he wants to date Babs when she was chasing after Bruce?
>>155279060To prove himself better than his mean dad, of course.
>>155279211> because mentall illness and insecuritiesCase closed.
>>155279789That's why Timm was pushing for a Nightwing/Catwoman show in the DCAU, because he wanted Dick to "get back" at Bruce for fucking Babs lmao.
>>155266218>due to Bateditorial being so possessive and territorial.This. Like how they had the first batgirl as Flamebird even though It doesn't made sense but they wanted the krypton Hero pack. Or using Alan being in Gotham to steal some JSA villains. Or that comic trying to paint Mr Freeze as a crazy bastard that made Cold scared of Gotham and Freeze's extremism.>>155268243Talia was already ruined because Rucka dumb mindbreak comic
>>155276851In Dixon and Devin runs It made sense. And in Batman reborn both acting as the parent of the batfamily was cool.But now felt like Barbara is just trying to be possessive and trying to reeducate Dick as her will
>>155274976Well they sorta did that with Damien getting Raven.
