Lets Be Real, The Only Reason The League Doesnt Know Captain Marvel Is A Kid Is Bc His Villains Dont

Let’s be real, the only reason the league doesn’t know Captain Marvel is a kid is bc his villains don’t want anyone to know that they get the shit kicked out them by someone who hasn’t even gone through puberty yet. They keep that shit on lock down, any ‘outsider’ villain who tries to look for it gets the whole monster society on their doorstep, Batman steps foot in Fawcett once and almost gets mauled by every criminal in the city at once. When word got out the “world’s greatest detective” was on the look out for Marvels secret identity they all mutually decided that they had to find him and chase him out the city before he found billy. This leads to Marvel himself having to show up and put a stop to it

Unfortunately for Marvel this means the JL is very curious to know why his villains are so unusually protective of him, Billy genuinely has no clue and assumes he’s grown on them in some weird way but he just gives them a shrug, saying maybe they’re just territorial

Jason Todd has always been the most cryptic Wayne/batfamily member.

Even as a kid, Jason was still a bit of a cryptid. Sure, the others were strange, but not like him.

Dick was a weird circus kid who liked swinging on chandeliers. He seemed really cheerful and adventurous (he never showed guests his anger, despite wanting to kill Tony Zucco). Tim was already an established rich kid, and he was too smart for his own good.

You see, the others were a strange outsiders knew. They thought they understood the oddities. Jason, though?

Guests had no idea what to think of him. He was nervous to be around so many people, to have so many eyes focused on him, but he was bright and cheery all the same. When uncomfortable, the boy could disappear so quickly. He was tiny from years of malnutrition, but he was fast. Nobody really knew his story. Obviously, he was found on the streets, but nobody knew much else about him. Then one day he disappeared and the next news of him was that he was dead.

Months after his death, there were people who would swear they'd seen his ghost while they were walking. One day the sightings stopped and the young ghost was never seen again. Years later, someone who looked like Jason Todd if he'd been given the chance to grow would be seen walking around Gotham.

After crawling from his grave, Jason was a mysterious John Doe at a hospital for a while. Nobody knew where he'd come from or how he'd gotten such terrible injuries. One day, he just disappeared, after being unresponsive for his entire stay. On the streets, there was some weird kid who nobody really knew. He didn't react to their attempts at communication and pretty much just walked around as a zombie, but he fought like a demon if provoked. Then one day some people from out of town started asking about the kid and he just disappeared forever. Nobody saw him again.

As a civilian after he comes back, he's some young guy who's super muscular (seriously, what's his workout routine?) and nobody really knows where he came from. He doesn't seem to have a job, but he has plenty of money. They don't even know his real name, and every time he uses one it changes (aliases to keep anonymity. He doesn't really have much of an identity outside of red hood or Jason Todd, a kid who died years ago).

As the Red Hood, he rarely even takes off his helmet (unless it was broken off, like when Bruce fought him, or he was purposely showing someone who he is). They don't know his age; he just showed up one day in full body armor ready to become a crime boss. He's got a rule against hurting children and is incredibly skilled in combat. He's too smart and calculating. His move with the duffel bag made him infamous, and he was able to evade Batman by himself for months.

Even to other members of the family, Jason is a mystery. Not much is known about the years in between his death and his return as the Red Hood. His confrontation with Bruce isn't discussed much by either of them, and Jason just sort of does his own thing most of the time. He's had several odd team-ups, and they never really get context as to how or why they meet and decide to start working together.

Not to overanalyze the comedy/horror zombie comic, but I really love the thematic choice of having Jason in his underwear for basically the whole final issue (and not just for thigh reasons, I swear)

Like, I don't know if DC actually will commit to developing Jason a new identity, and I don't know if it'd be done well even if they did permanently discard the Red Hood persona, but I appreciate Rosenberg asking the question "Who is Jason Todd is underneath the armour and the fronts and the trauma?” and answering with;

1) Resourceful

2) Compassionate

3) Convicted to his beliefs

And 4) A HERO

Justice League: we need someone to break into this Juvenile Prison for this mission, but none of our kid heroes can do it because we don’t want them to get a criminal record in their civilian identities! Is there anyone who could go undercover as a kid and get arrested so we can get the intel from the prison?

Billy, was actively running away from the cops when he was called into this meeting, already has a criminal record, DEFINITELY knows the layout of this juvie: uh hey guys did you know I have UH shapeshifting powers?

Favorite thing about Kaveh and Alhaitham’s canon interactions at this point in time is that Alhaitham straight up refuses to tell Kaveh anything that happened at the Akademiya or why, despite being arguably the most involved person in the whole affair (since he came up with the plan, tweaked the Akasha terminals, etc.)

and meanwhile from Kaveh’s perspective, his misanthropic conspiracy theorist roommate overthrew the government, is being considered as a candidate for the new head of government, and he also straight up tells Alhaitham that he suspects him of leading a coup d’etat to seize power. Absolute insane energy. They had two long conversations and there was no communication involved whatsoever.

They bounce around in my brain like the dvd waiting screen