19 Works in The Best of DC
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Rated T For Traumatised by WibWoby
Fandoms: Marvel Cinematic Universe, DCU (Comics), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types
11 Aug 2025
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What was the fun in collecting trauma like pokemon cards if you couldn’t play them?
Peter trades in his gallery of trauma for the Bats’ rogue gallery as he adjusts to living in Gotham, losing his entire universe, and living with the ghosts of the Avengers. It’s not a fair trade—Peter is definitely being scammed for the damned shiny Jigglypuff—but at least he is getting out of this alive. Mostly.
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- Part 1 of Bitsy and the Bats
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Peter the Pizza Guy by Irisen
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), Batman - All Media Types, DCU (Comics)
20 Jan 2025
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Strange’s second spell does not have anything to do with memory. Maybe Peter should have expected it, as the previous one acted in the same way.
Instead of erasing the memories of the ones he loves across the world, the incantation plucked him from his universe, erasing all traces of his existence, and threw him into a new one.
Now seventeen, having lost his family and friends, he finds himself in a strange world, alone in one of the most dangerous cities across all dimensions.Or : Peter needs money to survive Gotham and picks up a pizza delivery job.
Spider-Man/DCU (Specifically Batman) Crossover
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- Part 1 of Pizzaverse
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from every height I’d fall I’d call by CassandrasDreamworld
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
18 Nov 2024
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Tim doesn't expect much after he's left for dead, bleeding out in the ruin that had once been Gotham. His family is dead, his friends as well, and there is nothing else to look forward to besides joining them in the beyond. Dying and delirious, he hangs on by a thread - Long enough for an offer to be made, a request for help and Tim has never been able to say no to that.
He doesn't expect much and he certainly doesn't expect a second chance but it seems like Gotham doesn't let go easily of what they considers to be theirs.
He dies and yet he doesn't. He dies but he lives.
He dies and he is taken back, time unwinding, the clock set back and he is born into a new life. A new him, and at a point where he can change things for the better, if he can survive.
Tahmid al Ghul (Wayne) is born in Spring 1997, as Heir of the Demon Head, as Ibn al Xu'ffasch - nearly twenty years before he died as Timothy Jackson Drake-Wayne.
He just hopes he will be able to survive growing up in the League of Assassins, and that he will be able to go back to his family once more.
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- Part 1 of reach out for your hand
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And hold to the low lintel up/The still-defended challenge-cup by SonoSvegliato
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), Robin (Comics), Detective Comics (Comics)
14 Jun 2023
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Tim is almost-finally training to be Robin, kind of. (Emphasis on the “almost”). (Emphasis on the “kind of”).
He’s been sparring with the Hood, Gotham’s newest vigilante, but Hood doesn’t know Tim as Tim, he knows Tim as Jason, but Tim knows that Hood is actually Jason, and honestly, Tim’s just writing the rules up as he goes.
And the stakes are only getting higher. After tragedy strikes the Drakes, Tim ends up in Bruce’s care just as a new series of gruesome crimes plagues Gotham. More than ever, Bruce is determined to keep Tim out of it.
Tim does not keep out of it. (And there are consequences to starting fights you don’t know how to win).
Title taken from “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman.
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- Part 2 of To an Athlete Dying Young
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The Other Side of Freedom (That Little Death) by RandomReader13 for OliOcelot
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV)
02 Feb 2023
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The BAU gets called in to apprehend Jonathan Crane, a psychopathic mass murderer from Gotham. Between the fear toxin and entering the Red Hood's home city, the team is more than a little concerned. But help might be coming from an unexpected quarter.
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“Batman, BAU. BAU, Batman.” Gordon squinted at Batman. “They’ve agreed to work with you and your team as consultants. Try to avoid incriminating yourselves.”
Batman grunted.CM/DC Week Day 1: "Wheels Up In 30"
CM/DC Week Day 2: Gasses and Toxins
CM/DC Week Day 3: BAU vs DC VillainsSeries
- Part 2 of The BAU Goes Batty
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when doves cry by Scarlet_Ribbons for SilverSkiesAtMidnight
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types
04 Jan 2023
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Tim is grateful Hood leaves promptly, in any case, because that means he doesn’t see Tim crawl the last few feet into his house.
[Jack and Janet die uneventfully— at the hands of a home intruder, at 3:41 in the morning on a Thursday. Two gunshots. Tim’s entire world comes to a screeching halt at 3:44, when he finds their bodies.]
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Friendly Interdimensional Neighborhood Spider-Man by mysterycyclone
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Video Games 2018-2020), DCU
27 Dec 2022
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Dick wakes up to that same flash of gold and red, lying flat on his back on top of the roof of a building. The sound of traffic fills his ears, and the air is cool and crisp the way it is in spring, when the snow and ice are gone, but there’s still a slight chill in the air.
“Oh, good. You’re not dead,” a voice says above him, relieved and curious. “Thank god. I wasn’t sure how I was going to explain this one.”
Dick blinks, sitting up and staring up at the form of a man sticking to the side of a wall, feet and back pressed against it in a sitting position. He’s wearing a super suit--blue and red fabric woven around armor and lined with webbing, with a white spider symbol across the chest. The suit has a full mask, and the eyes of it blink.
The man waves at him cheerfully. “Hi. I’m Spider-Man. I help people around here. Who are you?"
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A Collision of Masks by movaz
Fandoms: Young Justice (Cartoon), Young Justice - All Media Types, Batman - All Media Types, Nightwing (Comics), Justice League - All Media Types, DCU
05 Nov 2022
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Thirteen years ago, he emerged as Robin, partner to Batman, the infamous vigilante of Gotham.
Ten years ago, the Justice League formed, and Batman refused to join their ranks.
Seven years ago, he lost Robin, and found Nightwing.
Three years ago, he left Gotham for good.
Two days ago, the Justice League became aware of his actions in Blüdhaven.
Today Young Justice showed up at his precinct.Dick Grayson is about to find that none of his masks – Detective Richard Grayson of BPD, Big Brother Dick, or Nightwing – can hide him from the inevitable movement of fate.
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- Part 1 of The Many Masks of Dick Grayson
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“Replacement.”
Tim freezes, gaze still locked on Jack’s prone, silent form sprawled out on the floor, and pulls the phone back to look at the number.
It’s kind of funny, he thinks hazily. Of course he would accidentally kill his dad and then mistakenly call Jason, of all people.
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Jack Drake used Drake Industries to hide his white-collar crimes. Janet Drake used her socialite status to hide her participation in a group of assassins.
Really, they should have expected Tim Drake to reject the idea of being a normal child.
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The Drakes, while criminals, do try really hard to be good parents and raise a normal child. Tim, who tries to be a normal kid, also really wants to be just like his parents.
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hand in unlovable hand (a chokehold) by britishparty
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics)
30 Sep 2022
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Tim Drake is eleven years old when he’s grabbed off the streets of Bristol while he’s on his way home. It will be okay, he tells himself: they’ll call his parents, and they’ll pay the ransom, and he’ll get to go home.
There are pictures of Batman and Robin on the camera he was carrying. A lot of pictures.
They don’t call his parents. They call Black Mask.
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or: the one where Black Mask kidnaps Tim and tries to groom him into a ruthless heir, and Tim tries to figure out how to destroy him from the inside out.General warnings tagged, anything not covered by those is in end-of-chapter notes to avoid spoilers.
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- Part 1 of blackbird singing in the dead of night
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dead ringer by punkrockhades
Fandoms: DCU, DCU (Comics), Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics)
11 Jul 2022
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“Oh, are you guys talking about Jason?” said a familiar mechanized voice from across the rooftop, and the Bats spun around to spot the Red Hood casually leaning against the rooftop access door. “I miss that kid, he was a riot. Hope he’s doing alright.”
There was a moment of silence as the entire group stared at Red Hood, processing his words, and then Red Robin blurted, “Wait, you know Jason?”
“Sure,” Red Hood responded breezily, amusement written in the lines of his posture. “We got pushed into the Pit at the same time. He went a little crazy and fell off a cliff, but shit could only go up from there, am I right?”
The Bats find out that Jason Todd is alive and apparently has questionable taste in friends, if the Red Hood is any indication.
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- Part 7 of batfam prompts
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The guy gave her a lopsided smile, “I think everyone around this area has, ah, been hit by Cluemaster. Nice to know someone’s looking out for us. A smart one, too.”
“It comes with the job. You know how it is.” She gestured to her bloody outfit.
“That’s the Cluemaster’s arch nemesis for ya!” And he chuckled as he walked off, presumably to get her a plate of waffles.
She grimaced.
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- Part 2 of climbing up these walls
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A Temporary Good (Come to Those Who Deserve It) by RandomReader13 for RSeamonster
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Criminal Minds (US TV)
29 Apr 2022
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When the BAU is called in to track an unsub that's going on a killing spree spanning 3 states, they're expecting a rapidly devolving psychopath. What they get instead is a wise-cracking vigilante on a mission. Are they ready for the Red Hood? And is the Red Hood ready for them?
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“Okay,” Jason muttered to himself, shifting the car into drive. “Just a couple’a dumb feds. Nothing to worry about.”[Note: This work is completely written! I'll be posting the next chapters on Wednesday and Friday.]
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- Part 1 of The BAU Goes Batty
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Mrs.Mctwitter, the babysitter (I think she's a little bit crazy) by Tht0neGal666
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Red Robin (Comics), Batgirl (Comics)
30 Dec 2021
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"Batman told me not to take food from strangers." He repeated loyally, not even looking at the plate as his stomach growled. Stephanie snorted.
"Batman isn't here, birdy." She teased, then bit her lip. Ok, so maybe she does sound a bit like a rouge. She can hear it, now that Tim pointed it out.
"He will be." Dick claimed, not even a crumb of doubt in his voice. "Batman is going to find me because I trust him, like he trusts me not to break the rules."
Tim snorted, this time. "You're Robin. If you aren't breaking Batman's rules and keeping him on his toes, what are you doing?"
Dick's face twitched, in the way that meant he was rolling his eyes, and he exaggerated the gesture by rolling his head with it. "Those are for his stupid rules that don't make sense. Like trying to bench me for no reason, or telling me not to microwave cereal."
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or; Steph and Tim get stranded in the past, and Steph comes across a lost and delirious little bird. Literally what else is there to do but kidnap him.Series
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What are brothers for?
(Or: some minor dimensional travel, pseudo-kidnapping, and a whole lot of meddling.)
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Tim Drake was devastated after the Joker murdered Robin. He witnessed Batman's descent into madness afterward. Instead of becoming Robin, Tim has other plans.
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Red Hood doesn't know that Stephanie Brown is the new Robin.
Tim Drake doesn't know anything about Red Hood or why he wants to fight Robin. All Tim knows is that a man in a red helmet just broke into his house.
Jason needs to figure out what's going on, Tim needs a dad, and Stephanie needs to figure out just how long she's going to last as Robin.
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robin is magic by vioislit for Poteto
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Batman (Comics), DCU (Comics)
29 Aug 2021
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maybe robin is in fact, not magic, but a curse. because his absence only means pain.
or: a collection of thoughts on how stephanie brown sees robin.