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paladin-of-nerd-fandom65 asked:

Unpopular DC Opinion: the Reboot that gave us the current continuity as of now since 2011 should’ve had the following at launch: Only 12 -29 total books, each issue only $1.99 max, only two Batman books, Nightwing is a Titans book not a Batbook, The Titans should have three teams at launch: Titans (Donna, Garth, Roy, Lilth, Karen Beecher, Jericho), Young Justice (Tim, Conner, Bart, Cassie, Mgan, and Artemis Crock) and what I call Justice Titans (new timeline first line up; Nightwing, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy and Cyborg) and finally besides Nightwing, Kori, Rachel, Gar and Vic get solo books.

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Originally posted by muvana

You mean, NOT write 19 bat centric books?! BUT HOW WOULD THE WRITERS SURVIVE?

It’s ironic because, DC did a voting poll pitting a bunch of unique ideas against the concept of a Robins book and everything lost to it.

And then fans who talk nothing but bats and who shit actively on other books NOT bat related and want them to get canceled, pulled this:

Originally posted by herhighness-thequeenofhearts

at fans not voting for other unique titles.

It’s just…the lack of self awareness truly isn’t there, is it? Lol.

@fireflyxrebel-writes

Oh to add a bit more for this opinion:

Clois marriage is intact and Jon Kent is a thing

Dickkory wedding is proceeding without interruptions

Justice Titans book has two HQs for them: A Titans Tower in Bludhaven Bay and one in Earth’s orbit

Barbara Gordon is still Oracle, whether she can walk or not

Rachel and Gar are now a tad bit older in age

Marv Wolfman is put in charge of Justice Titans as writer while Jim Lee is artist

NO EVENT COMICS OR CROSSOVERS FOR A FULL YEAR AND A HALF

and finally

Everyone’s suits have variety and traditional colors as opposed to the New 52 attempting to make everything either armor or a combo of black and red

*Jon Kent is also still a child.

**Dick and Kory STAY married and eventually have Mar'i.

***Rachel and Gar are Dick & Kory’s ages and they might be dating.

The rest is good. 😂 I’d read it!

@fireflyxrebel-writes

Also also,

Dick was not just taken in by Bruce as a Foster child at age 8 instead of a Ward but was confirmed being fully adopted as by 10-12 years, formed the first Teen Titans at 14-15 with Kori, Rachel, Gar and Vic, transition to Nightwing is essentially like it was Pre Crisis (ie just a realization of growing up and needing his own identity) albeit with some minor additions ala inspiration for the new Discowing suit being from both the circus and Superman’s tales of the Nightwing entity from Krypton.

Court of Owls are introduced as Titans Villains instead of Batman/Nightwing villains

Damian is still on good terms with the rest of the Batfam but like as of now is traveling worldwide in his current suit, I dub him Robin Grey

Related to the above, Tim meanwhile is firmly Robin, working alongside both Bats and his YJ team

Wonder Woman is written by Gail Simone and retains her classic/Rebirth characterization

Rachel Roth lives with her aunt and extended family whenever on days off

All books are biweekly

Books are available to buy in book stores, comic shops and general stores to extend our audience reach

At this point, should I just stop now?

I like Gail, but Rucka’s Diana is top notch, nothing comes close. 😛

But yeah, I can dig it!

@fireflyxrebel-writes

Very quick final touches for now,

The Batman himself…..not a jerk, moody and prefers peace and quiet yes but not a jerk at all

Superman is of course his lovable, decent and just a chill guy to hang out as always, though arcs were he isn’t taking on major world scale supervillains/disasters he tackles social issues and what can be improved in vein of his Golden Age roots

Red Hood is stayed clear from writing by Scott Lobdell….period

Jessica Cruz Still exists

The core Justice League line up is Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, Green Lantern John Stewart, Barry Allen as the Flash, Hawkwoman, and Martian Manhunter

Doom Patrol book…nuff said

Red X Canonized….as a partner to Jason Todd instead of being Jason himself

No numerous super secret organizations and agencies, just these but That’s it: Project Cadmus led by Amanda Waller (mostly the good), League of Shadows led by Talia Al Ghul (the bad), The Court of Owls and the Light aka Secret Society of Supervillains (Lawful and Neutral Evil respectively)

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Now that we’re back to this thing, time for a little addition…

(Clears Throat)

After about a year or two within this hypothetical reboot and since all books are bi weekly, meaning in we have preferably 25 issues worth of story and natural uninterrupted character development for all our heroes, THEN we can try just ONE event comic 

And here’s my idea for such an occasion, 

- In the build up within the pages of Justice Titans (the book starring NIghtwing, Starfire, Beast Boy, Raven and Cyborg), Green Lanterns (starring John Stewart, Simon Baz, Jessica Cruz and Tai Pham, usual bad guy here being Red Lantern leader Atrocitus) and others which had an arc or even a one shot on such, we cut to the Planet Tamaran, birth world of Starfire and most important for this event, her older (usually wicked) sister Blackfire as she ascends into being the Grand Empress of Tamaran. As she finally claims the throne by the time of this event, she notices something within the boundaries of the Vega system….massive, frightening, and heading right straight for them. Whatever this force is, within the Green Lanterns book, those of all Lantern colors caught within its path are lost in contact, entire planets either go dark or if anything is coming from them, indicating being outright destroyed. Most of the intergalactic heroes believe this being the work of Darkseid. However, we are given one of the most important revelations….he merely gave this force that can even beat the Green Lantern Corps and even the Reach (Blue Beetle scarab creators) an a-okay to go ahead but otherwise was not involved. 

 - We begin things proper with an Issue #1 of this event released on Free Comic Book Day, in which Blackfire herself pays a visit to the Planet Earth, in particular the Justice Titans Tower in Earth’s orbit. She requests an assembly of the finest heroes, tech experts and magic users her sister can gather in a short notice and whatever they can’t get on time, Blackfire’s forces fill in the gaps with some of the more cooperative super villains. With their numbers up to 20 total members, she fills both our characters and us the audience on what the threat is.

 - Basically, the force that by now has invaded Tamaran and required Blackfire to assemble the teams she has is an ancient and once- dormant alien empire from the outer rims of the Andromeda Galaxy. Think of these guys as basically a combination of The Dominion from Star Trek, the Covenant from Halo and perhaps most overtly the Dire Wraiths from ROM Spaceknight with their leadership patterned after the Skeksis from the Dark Crystal for good measure. Utilizing a combination of sorcery, advanced tech and a sheer fanaticism within all branches of their military, this empire, whom we can officially name the Supreme Divine Commonwealth have waiting countless millennia developing their spells, tactics and technology, even after enduring multiversal crises to match the likes of the various Lantern Corps and other alien empires including the Kunds, the Reach, and even to an extent New Genesis and Apokolips in a bid to, of course, take over the universe.  

 - Within the past in-universe year, the SDC as they’re nicknamed have finally took the opportunity to strike, very quickly carving a path of conquest and destruction all across first Andromeda followed by any galaxy nearby. As stated, all Lantern Corps have been pushed back relentlessly and the planets who hadn’t simply gone dark via being subjected to their will are flat out destroyed, either via core destruction or simply their planetary surfaces reduced to glass. That brings us to Issue #1 of this reboot’s first true event comic in which by now, the SDC have reached and begun a massive inavsion of Planet Tamaran due to the planet’s people fighting back. The Tamaraeans even made a truce with their hated arch-nemesis the Gordanians to push back the SDC but as Blackfire can attest, it only be at most an week before Tamaran falls. Once it does though, Earth will be next. What’s more, if all is lost, Earth will face the biggest of all invasions from the SDC since it’s considered a Crown Jewel on this alien superpower’s crown. 

- Blackfire’s plan is for our collection of heroes and villains to form 4 teams and spread them out to open up battle fronts against this hostile alien power. They are divided by colors based on temporary uniforms gifted by Blackfire’s forces so they can coordinate based on such;

First up is Red Team (Led by Starfire; members include Jon Kent aka Superboy, Megan Morse aka Miss Martian, Red Lantern Atrocitus and the alien starfish Starro the Conqueror) which is sent to Planet Tamaran itself to act as basically the front line against the invasion.

Next is Yellow Team (Led by Troia aka Donna Troy, the first Wonder Girl; members include Raven, magic hero Zatanna, John Constantine the Hellblazer and finally resident Lord of Chaos Klarion the Witch Boy), their mission is to head to the Planet Hako on one edge of the Andromeda Galaxy, home of the SDC’s mystic arts academies, who train their empire’s magic users in the art of war. They must shut down their magic at all costs. 

Another is Orange Team (Led by Cyborg; members include Gizmo the bratty tech expert of the HIVE Five, Robin ‘Grey’ aka Damian Wayne, Wally West aka the Flash, and Harley Quinn of all people) whom will go the opposite edge of the Andromeda galaxy to the Planet of Bulhilu, basically the large scale factory of the SDC’s advanced tech and science laboratories. As with Yellow Team, their mission is to shut down what goes on this planet at all costs to halt the SDC war machine. 

And finally, we have Blue Team (in a surprise move, Blackfire gives leadership of this team to Nightwing, making herself second in command instead due to Dick’s leadership skills and her own self doubts; the other members here include Lex Luthor, Beast Boy and fianlly Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke the Terminator). While all other teams either focus on a key part of the SDC invasion, Blue Team will go behind enemy lines and head to the Capitol Planet of the SDC itself, The White Nova, and take on it’s leadership directly. Should they overcome and overthrow the leader of the Commonwealth, the Scared Divine Empress, it’ll put the empire into immediate disarray and stop the invasion in its tracks once and for all. 

- As such, with their missions, our heroes leave Earth, the heroes left behind, prominently other Titans, the Batfamily and the Justice League being now on alert until the heroes return….Issue #1 ends with one lone SDC supercruiser, a ship with enough manpower, tech and magic users to subjugate an entire solar system within a month that just jumps out of hyperspace right past the Earth’s orbital defenses, right over the city of Gotham…just when Superman is about to approach the ship, it unleashes a Kryptonite beam that knocks him right out of the sky and almost immediately he’s captured. The battle for the Earth itself has just begun…and the heroes left on Earth are already losing….badly. 

- This event follows a weekly schedule, meaning starting with Issue #1 released on Free Comic Book Day, the next issue is released the very next Wednesday. In total, it has 8 issues, taking only 2 months to complete.

-Each issue post-Free Comic Book Day costs only $0.99 (plus tax) 

- All other titles in the entire line are put on hold until this event concludes meaning they resume the week after this event releases its final issue

- Writing duties are handled by a trio of Scott Snyder, Gail Simone and Mark Waid. 

- Since this books follows a weekly format, the artists’ issues follow one issue for each, as such; Bruno Redondo on Issues #1 and #5, Francis Manapul on #2 and #6, Marcus To on #3 and #7 and finally Patrick Gleason on #4 and #8. 

- The end result of the book does not result in any reboots or retcons but instead new status quos for the characters involved once normal scheduling resumes. Books that will keep the same creatives teams for sure once the event ends are Justice Titans, Nightwing, Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, Action Comics, Detective Comics and the Wonder Woman solo. All other books can either keep their creative teams from before or change them depending on fan reaction to them pre-event. 

- Finally for this event’s title:

 DAWN OF FIRE

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But what about my favorite hero? Jaime Reyes “Blue Beetle” and his friend, Bart Allen “Impulse?” Are they on Earth?

@mothnem

Yep, and by the time the main heroes arrive back on Earth by issue #7, Blue Beetle and Impulse are among the very few heroes alongside Robin/Tim Drake, Superboy Red/Conner Kent, Wonder Girl/Cassie Sandsmark,Black Bat aka Cass Cain, Oracle and Wonder Woman who are active in fighting the invasion of Earth. All other Earth-bound heroes by this point are either captured or missing in action ever since that supercruiser arrived on Earth. Needless to say, things weren’t looking very good. 

So it’s basically Young Justice and Wonder Woman defending the earth. Where are the Amazons and the Atlantians? Have they fallen or are they fighting alongside Wonder Woman and Young Justice?

Also, suddenly everyone is happy that Batman is so paranoid and obsessively plans for everything. There are batcaves with tech and weapons all over the planet. And Tim knows where each and everyone is.

Wonder Woman: There’s a batcave under Mount Etna?

Tim: Yep. It’s powered by hydro thermo turbines using the magma chambers with the side benefit of the heat masking our prescence.

Wonder Woman: It’s an active volcano.

Kon: Crazy genius, isn’t it?

Cassie: I mean it’s perfect. No one in their right mind would be there.

Bart: and it has a great sauna!

Batman needed Tim on earth to be the last, best line of defense along the other members of Young Justice. Batman may have his doubts about metas but he knows that not only is this team fought alongside each other for years, but that the members of YJ will keep Tim safe when Bruce can’t. He needs Tim’s strategic abilities to keep the fight to defend earth going long enough for the other heroes get back there for a final stand.

Adding to this, I think since it’s the Young Justice Crew, the Amazons, and the Atlantians defending Earth it could be an amazing opportunity to have Conner, Cassie, and Tim seen as a new age Trinity to the public as they coordinate with Wonder Woman and the Amazons, as well as the Atlantians.

I also think Young Justice working alongside the remaining heroes as they hold the line and stop the invasion before the Final Battle would be a great way of broadcasting that even with most of Earth’s mightiest defenders out of the way, the Earth is still not defenceless! I think this concept would also give Wonder Woman the chance to rally Earth’s forces with one of her epic speeches just before and then after the heroes arrive back on Earth.

A possible cool byproduct or plotline of this could be the Earth villains getting their hands on enemy tech and remaking it as a weapon. It can be left unclear if they plan to use it on the invaders during the Final Battle, or the heroes in the future post-crisis setting up a new plot back on Earth.

Somehow that sounds a tad bit better than mine LOL Especially the Post-Event mention of villains getting their hands on the invaders‘ tech

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Anyways, by the end of this entire silly silly thing, it all comes down to a Two Vs One Showdown:

Blackfire and Nightwing VS the last SDC Admiral on board the supercruiser above Gotham

Meanwhile on the below surface, Tim, Starfire, Donna, Diana and Starro free all the captured heroes and all together engage the invading forces in the city.

SPOILERS: The heroes win

However, Nightwing is punched in the chest by the Admiral so hard, it causes his heart to stop, leaving Blackfire to finish the fight but in a display character development for her, she spares the Admiral’s life once she triumphs in combat.

At first it seems poor Dick is pretty much a goner but out of gratitude and actual genuine concern for more or less her brother in law, Blackfire uses a Starbolt to act as a defibrillator to restart his heart. After three shocks, she successfully revives Dick.

Blackfire (panting out of exhaustion): “Well it seems you were technically dead for five of your Earth minutes.”

Nightwing (prone on the ground, weakly mumbling): “huh….no wonder why I saw Mom and Dad for a short bit…did we…?”

Blackfire: “Yeah, we won“

Nightwing: “Cool….wanna get some pizza? I know a good place at Otisburg”

So our event ends with almost all heroes and even some of the villains having a massive party at Wayne Manor (except for Lex and Slade, they were uninvited); enjoying that pizza Dick has talked about, Jon and Damian providing the music with Alfred on drums and Conner on Bass, and in the height of the festivities, Blackfire makes a grand speech in congratulating her allies, both those who came with her and those who defended the Earth especially, for the effort in repelling this formidable empire and officially declares Tamaran to be an official ally of the Earth itself, a mutual defense treaty shall be drafted starting the next day.

Just then before the party can resume, Dick steps on stage and calls for Kory. He tries making a fancy speech about her in a calm professional and friendly manner….before he starts losing track of his words, says ‘screw it’, gets on one knee in front of her, and pulls out something he’d been meaning to get out of his pocket right before this event even began….it’s a small silver ring with a bright emerald

”Princess Koriand’r of Tamaran….I love you. Will you marry me?”

This idea is epic.

A bunch of fans, who apparently know the characters better than the people being paid to write for them, putting thier ideas together on the fly have created something light years better than anything I’ve come out of DC in the last decade. My thanks to Paladin-of-nerd-fandom65 for starting this!

You’re very welcome friend ;-)

But really you should thank @fireflyxrebel-writes for answering my question in the first place LOL

Now that I has been at month or two since I last wrote an idea or few for this sill, silly, stupid thing that is My Unpopular Opinion for How I would Reboot/Relaunch DC Comics Had I Been Editor In Chief, I feel a need to once more to spit something out on said silly stupid thing. 

- As by now so far we have the following titles at the hypothetical launch:

– Action Comics 

– Detective Comics 

– Wonder Woman 

– Justice League

– Justice Titans (* Each Member getting their own solo title) 

– Titans (Troia, Red Arrow, Tempest, Omen, Bumblebee and Jericho) 

– Young Justice (Robin [Tim Drake}, Superboy Red (Conner Kent), Impulse, Wonder Girl, Miss Martian, Artemis with The Flash [Wally West] acting as their coach] ) 

– Green Lanterns 

– Doom Patrol 

– Nightwing* 

– Starfire*

– Raven*

– Beast Boy* 

– Cyborg*  

- Here are the rest of the launch titles: 

– The Flash (Adventures of both Barry Allen and Wally West) 

– Superman solo (While Action Comics focuses on Clark and his family with Lois, Conner and Jon [aka Superboy Blue] in the present day, this book explores his earlier adventures) 

– Batman solo (Similar situation with Action Comics; within the first 12 issues, we focus primarily on Batman’s first years of crime fighting in Gotham, back in the days where there was no Batsignal, his Batmobile being just a regular plain car, the only gadgets he had being a grapple gun and a sound device that can literally call bats, his Rouges being mere thugs and crime bosses instead of actual super-villains and the only two people besides Alfred in the entirety of Gotham that can confirm The Batman even exists are GCPD Captain Jim Gordon and DA Harvey Dent, otherwise he is an urban myth, a bedtime story that frightens kids to behave lest they face him. Things change though with issues #13 - #25 the former issue kicking it off ….one fateful night….a performance by the famed Haly Circus with their starring attraction…The Flying Graysons) 

– Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy (Harley retains an updated version of her classic Clown Girl outfit as opposed to the controversial redesign we got in the New 52)

– Shazam (Billy Batson and his extended family retains their Classic Characterizations)  

– Aquaman 

– Birds of Prey (Composed of Black Bat [Cass Cain], Black Canary, Lady Blackhawk, Huntress, Misfit [Charlotte Gage-Radcliffe], Spoiler, and led by Oracle) 

– Task Force X (The ‘military arm’ of Project Cadmus under the command of Amanda Waller; comprised of Captain Rick Flag, Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Captain Boomerang, King Shark, Killer Frost, Ratcatcher 2, Polka Dot Man, Lady Shiva, and Peacemaker) 

– Super Sons (Robin ‘Grey’ [Damian Wayne] and Superboy Blue [Jon Kent]…nuff said) 

– Static Shock

– Blue Beetle (In this rebooted timeline, Ted Kord is still alive but essentially passed on the mantle to Jaime Reyes and now acts as the latter’s superhero coach; supporting regular being of course Booster Gold) 

– Swamp Thing 

– Legion of Superheroes, and finally,

– What I like to call Titans of the Multiverse; a selected group of Titans from across the DC Multiverse are assembled by a cosmic being who appears no older than an average teenager. Yet, his power matches that of both The original Monitor and Anti-Monitor from Crisis on Infinite Earths combined, for good reason since he’s the original Monitor’s son, created and meant to awaken when it his turn to catalog and record events in the greater multiverse. That time has come though as the Multiverse itself begins to change, various timelines and alternate worlds are thrown off kilter by the recent cosmic shift (i.e. the recent Reboot) and now The Monitor’s Son must find a means to fix all that and restore various worlds to their rightful state. It turns out while growing up under his father and the previous timeline’s various other Monitors, he became a huge fan of the team known as the Titans, hence the team he has selected for this mission. The Titans selected for this team are: 

   + Nightstar (Mar’i Grayson, daughter of Nightwing and Starfire) from Kingdom Come 

   + Superboy-Robin (’What if Tim Drake was killed off so his best Friend Conner Kent took over the Robin Mantle) from the Superboy storyline ‘Hypertension’ 

   + Dark Flash (an altrernate version of Wally West from as the name implies a darker string of events) 

   + HawkBeast (a combination of Hawkman and Beast Boy) from the Superman/Batman storyline ‘Mash Up’ 

   + Knight-Wing (Clark Joel Wayne, Grandson of Clark Kent and adopted son of Bruce Wayne, Jr.) from Superman & Batman Generations 

However, this team here is merely an initial line up since unlike the majority of other team books, they are not safe from the possibility of actual death with each mission, especially with said missions having a strong chance turning everything you’re familiar with about the mainstream DCU its head with one twist or another. The possibilities are practically limitless. Especially when one discovers…there’s more than just 52 Earths. 

Writing duties for this book are handled by Devin K. Grayson and Ann Nocenti while artwork is provided Meghan Hetrick***

And yes, it’s takes heavy inspiration and basically a DC counterpart to the classic Marvel series Exiles

*** Recent Addition as of 10/8/2022: Recently I have considered another candidate for the main writer of this book, Brian Michael Bendis

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paladin-of-nerd-fandom65 asked:

Hey remember that crossover between Miraculous and Teen Titans?

Well here’s a sort if follow up to that; Hawkmoth decides to switch up his strategy somewhat. He’s made the realization that utilizing average citizens of Paris as potential targets for his akumas only limit the chances the akumatized individual has before the need to replenish his powers for the day. If he are going to bring a person to seize the miraculouses, he might need someone who has the combat experience, knowledge and will power that can actually be a legit challenge to teenage superheroes without eh need of an akuma.

He one day looks though archival footage of one particular person who has fought against the American based team known as the Titans to a stand still numerous times and not only survive but even eludes capture from them to the present day.

With one quick phone call across the dark web, Hawkmoth is able to meet with this one super criminal who also acts as a mercenary and has a simple offer; being him both Ladybug and Cat Noir directly to him alive and their miraculouses intact and he’ll be handsomely rewarded

This individual, a Mr. Slade Wilson, is intrigued…I’ll let you take it from here

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(This would probably be better if I’d watched the movie where the rest of the world’s superheroes come in, but whatever! Here I go!)

OKAY so initially I was picturing cartoon Slade (competing with Hawkmoth in classic-villain serious-business hamminess) but then I thought, 80’s/90’s comics Deathstroke… with all his brutal pragmatism and the snark for days… how glorious would it be, thrown into the Miraculous world, experiencing the over the top campiness and having a lot to say about the genre conventions?

Like picture this guy

If he has a lot to say about Gotham’s colorful villains and the boy-scouty Titans, picture him meeting the ML squad

And maybe you were thinking ‘Hawkmoth hires Slade for money’ but my immediate thought was ‘two big villains trade arch-enemies to take them all by surprise’ (Maybe Slade’s end of the deal was ‘take care of the Titans for me’)

Now for the first showdown!

• So Ladybug and Chat Noir are targeted by an actual mercenary and they have no idea. They’d break his sword, guns, and whatever else he brought (which Slade is naturally delighted about) trying to find the akuma and keep coming up empty handed.
• I fully see that Ladybug is out swinging a yo-yo and Slade’s trying to shoot her.
• It’s a tossup whose scheme would succeed when Slade ‘90% brain function usage’ Wilson meets Lady-‘crazy contrived Lucky Charm solutions that somehow work’-bug. Maybe Ladybug and Chat Noir win the first round from having the element of surprise.
• Slade would get away un-deakumatized and Ladybug and Chat Noir would have to face the possibility there’s a new supervillain in town.
• I see Slade leaving the battle being glad he managed to destroy Chat Noir’s staff and being surprised and mildly impressed these kids don’t care the three of them managed to destroy the Eiffel Tower (of course) and two other national monuments in the fight… only to see LB regenerate everything via a cloud of pink confetti and go “…Really?”
• Meanwhile, let’s say in San Francisco, Hawkmoth holds up his end of the deal and the Titans have to fight an onslaught of new transplanted supervillains (which are incredibly colorful and kind of cheesy-looking. This one guy’s motif seems to be pigeons, that lady fights from atop an entire musical pirate ship, and that other guy’s just a giant snowman made of ice cream?), and fight them in measure of the power they seem to have, only for them to revert to civilians afterwards, and maybe the Titans are met with public scrutiny when the media makes it seem like they used undue power in regular people, and disoriented French tourists to boot?

Tossing this back to you*, how do both superhero parties find out what happened?

(*Also opening this up if anyone wants to join in!)

Beast Boy of course would be so utterly confused upon seeing the akumatized villains revert to their civilian forms and once the media catches wind but misinterprets the situation, he’d be like “Wait….we’re the good guys here. This is must be some sort of mistake”

Cyborg can provide some footage his arm computer can record to prove their innocence but the scrutiny might still be present in one form or another.

It’s via looking through this footage that Nightwing is able to spot what are apparently black-purple butterflies escape from their hosts which are those civilians. Suddenly he actually remembers the time when one of those butterflies came to him in a moment of pure grief, anger and sadness when Starfire was critically injured during a fight against the HIVE Five in Paris. With that info in hand, he makes contact with Ladybug (who had her image not appear until she put her spots on to maintain her secret identity though Nightwing found out about it not too long ago).

She’d tell him about this heavily armed thug that attacked her and Cat Noir after he lured them to the Eiffel Tower with a flare that had their symbols and would’ve taken their miraculouses had it not not been for some quick thinking, the element of surprise and frankly good luck

Nightwing is now intrigued about which person can this possibly be especially once Ladybug points out she could t find any Akuma on him, as if he functions even without one. Thankfully, she has a civilian friend (Alya) who captured that battle on her podcast and while the image was blurry at first, the resolution is cleared up….Nightwing’s fist clenches tightly to the point of tearing the fabric of his glove, a glare comes up on his mask in pure fury and his teeth grit as he snarls.

Ladybug: “Um..Nightwing? You know him don’t you?”

Nightwing: “…………..Slade”

@the-lighthouse-lit

Yay the power of journalism and international teamwork!

• Okay so now the gig is up, both superhero teams are in the know, so what are our villains gonna do to stay ahead?
• I feel like at least part of the Titans team could go to Paris to collect their mercenary (Nightwing would want to go, Starfire would go to keep Nightwing at bay, and at least BB, Rae and Cy would go to keep Star from actually committing murder so her man doesn’t have to❤️), and Ladybug and Chat Noir could use the horse Miraculous to jump to San Francisco and get their confused countrymen, catch the butterflies (maybe sweet old Raven already caught them with dark energy and kept them in a magic box for their convenience), clean up the battle site and explain the situation to the media/authorities (I see Chat Noir translating for all parties and halfway through he starts to butcher English to hide that Adrien speaks it perfectly).
• Back in Paris. I feel like Hawkmoth could be subdued by the Titans + local superheroes, but Slade? He’s made his provisions. The bad guys might lose the battle, but I think Slade turned the mansion upside down while Hawkmoth wasn’t looking and figured out his identity and motivation, because again, 90% brain function guy (Can you tell I freakin’ love Slade?).
• Now, Slade’s a man of his word, and he can’t be the most expensive mercenary in the world if people start saying he doesn’t fulfill his contracts, so he’s GOING to get those miraculouses like they agreed. But if Hawkmoth can’t hold up his end of the deal? He can say goodbye to his secret identity.
• So now Hawkmoth has to come up with something to keep Slade from blowing his life up. And what Gabriel Agreste has is connections: say he has reach in the US and makes sure that as hard as the Titans try to clear up the media situation, they can’t. What would’ve been a one-day fake news report taking advantage of the Titans’ image to sell outrage is now a real agenda to keep the truth from coming out. Our favorite cyborg’s invaluable footage is ignored and discarded. Now suddenly the Titans may not be allowed back in their country, even if they do catch Slade.
• So while Ladybug and Chat Noir are in San Francisco trying to fix international relations, who’s aiding the Titans in Paris? Enter the more darkhorse couple of the ML universe, Kagami and Felix (freakin’ love them too) and let’s face it, the ML show if Kagami and Felix had taken the mantle of Ladybug and Chat Noir from the beginning would’ve been half a season.
• Do they join the Titans (maybe from the shadows as is kinda their style) and save the day, or do you wanna throw another complication their way?

Hmmmmm……well to make things fun and tragic about that whole ‘Slade more or less holding Hawkmoth’s secret identity to ransom’ idea, he even figured out where Emile was out in place but Nathalie catches him and demands he’d stay away from her ‘tomb’. Slade knows though she has the Peacock Miraculous on hand thus he aims a sword directly at the control panels. One swift and it’s over for Emile.

With heavy reluctance but a dedication to her boss’ goals and thanks to Slade’s persuasion despite herself, Nathalie hands him over the Peacock miraculous. And what’s more, Slade had a secret akuma inside one of his pouches that didn’t get him transformed

Instead he fuses it with the raw Peacock Miraculous, and with his own willpower, he supercharges the mystic item to do his budding without needing to completely transform, yet still have control over a new army of sentimonsters. In particular, Sentimonster clones of the other miraculous wielders

@the-lighthouse-lit

(Ooh, Slade has an akuma in his power because akumatizing him would be the first thing Hawkmoth tried in retaliation when Slade turned on him, you’re right!)

• Here’s a small twist for you. Maybe when Slade found out about Emilie two things happened: 1. it reminded him of Adeline, and it gave him motivation to fulfill Hawkmoth’s quest beyond the financial reasons (OR he convinced himself it did, and used the feeling of connection to justify using excessive force to fulfill the mission, you know how he is*) and 2. He realized the potentialities of Hawkmoth’s plan of joining the Ladybug and Chat Noir’s miraculouses together. More on that later…

*: depending on the writer

• By now I’m thinking Ladybug and Chat Noir are back in Paris with the deakumatized citizens, so it can be all hands on deck to stop the villain alliance for good!
• On their end, Kagami and Felix have managed to like, conspicuously hack into US media and clear up both the villain’s plan and the media cover-up. (Or you know, Red Robin was about to do that and right then he has a beautifully edited video exposing Slade’s plan and Gabe’s manipulation dropped into his corner of the dark web.) Maybe no one finds out they did this, ever. Nightwing assumes it was Tim. Alya wants to know how things got solved and Marinette has no answers for her.
• (For the ending I have in mind though, Slade IS defeated, maybe captured, but he escapes custody, and goes for a final audience with Hawkmoth…)

The villains meet face to face in light of these set backs however, Slade has led Hawkmoth unbeknownst to the latter to Emile’s chamber.

There they can compare notes about where their respective goals are once the Ladybug and Cat Miraculouses are gathered and fused. To that end, Slade reveals the senitmonsters he forged via fused his single akuma with the Peacock Miraculous. Hawkmoth is skeptical but Deathstroke points out that if they have any chance of succeeding now that the heroes are United against them. This’ll be their chance. They first need to capture and replace the Miraculous wielders to throw off any suspicion.

Though, during Hawkmoth’s offer and plan, Slade spots a familiar red, yellow and green blur in the rafts above them. It’s Robin!Tim who quickly made a run for it before Slade can fully spot him.

Tim makes it quickly back to his brother and their Miraculous holder Allies with what he can gather. He didn’t stick around long enough to find out about Emile since her ‘casket’ was closed but he was able to see the sentimonsters take on the forms of Ladybug and her Allies and their plan to capture the Paris bound heroes once they would’ve gone on patrol or the like to search for the escaped Slade

To that, Nightwing suggests playing into the villains’ plan, making them think it’s going on without a hitch and wait till later for the chance to strike

The ball is in your court now, my friend ;-) @the-lighthouse-lit