DC Event: Battle for the Cowl

[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.