DC Event: Battle for the Cowl

[Ginkasa]

Let's really not kid ourselves. Bruce Wayne'll be back in a year, if that.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Ginkasa

Let's really not kid ourselves. Bruce Wayne'll be back in a year, if that.

Well... i guess since Swanny already read.

Bruce Wayne isn't dead exactly.
He is suffering a fate far worse than death.

He is doomed to live out a life.. die and be reborn in a worse one.

[BreakABone]

Well just as a reminder, this technically begins tomorrow, but if you want a fun read. Check out Gotham Gazette from last week.

[Professor S]

I don't see this lasting. Batman is too tied to Bruce Wayne for any of it to stick. Batman IS Bruce Wayne, and vice-versa. Batman doesn't fight for an abstract concept, his motivations are personal, and to remove Wayne from the picture is to utterly create a different character,a nd not simply change an existing one.

They might call him Batman, but he'll just be someone else pretending to be him until Wayne steps back into the role.

[BreakABone]

Originally Posted by Professor S

I don't see this lasting. Batman is too tied to Bruce Wayne for any of it to stick. Batman IS Bruce Wayne, and vice-versa. Batman doesn't fight for an abstract concept, his motivations are personal, and to remove Wayne from the picture is to utterly create a different character,a nd not simply change an existing one.

They might call him Batman, but he'll just be someone else pretending to be him until Wayne steps back into the role.

I think that's the point.

No one can ever fill the shoes left by Bruce, but on the same hand would anyone want to?

I mean over time he became more jaded and isolated. Though, I think Batman Beyond proved.. at least to me that someone else can fill in the void of Batman because it isn't just about the costume, but the man inside of it.