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Had a peculiar thought when I woke up this morning.
Basically, Batman Crisis Crossover.
As in, every Batman (or most of 'em, anyway) team up from across parallel universes in order to some gigantic huge mega Bat-threat.
Featuring:
- Golden Age Batman (the one that sometimes would use guns and didn't have a problem killing people)
- Adam West Batman
- Micheal Keaton Batman
- The Batman
- Kevin Conroy Batman
- Christian Bale Batman
- Batman: The Brave and the Bold
- Terry McGinnis
- Modern Comics!Batman
And also at least a few Elseworld Bats, including
- Vampire!Batman
- Frankenstein's Monster!Batman
- Bat-Lantern
- Super-Batman
- Stan Lee Batman (pretty sure I saw something about that somewhere, if the link isn't right)
And one Original Generation Batman.
Thing is, gotta leave it up for adoption because I damn well don't have what it takes to write this.
edited 13th Dec '13 5:42:27 AM by EvaUnit01
I already did that. Meet Crisis of Infinite Batmans
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
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You forgot to put "Lyrical Magical" in the name of the AU!Batman in question when she's first mentioned in the narrative.
That said... 
I agree with the Justice Leaguers.
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SCM: Yeah, I remember reading that. It's also not the kind of thing I had in mind.
Barring the canon Elseworld Bats, there would be no non-Batman-related crossovers, it would be an expanded narrative instead of a oneshot, etc.
Think Spider Man Shattered Dimensions, but with a longer and more intricate plot, more than only four dimensions involved, and with Batman's franchise.
Batman The Brave And The Bold already did it, even if briefly.
Well, that's not entirely true, fearjunkie, I don't take sadistic delight in making a world so deep and beautiful that my readers will keep reading even when I start systematically slaughtering the cast of characters.
Christmas.
Peter Parker sat, alone and penniless, that morning of December the 24th, in a cheap cafeteria brooding over a handful of unsold photographies.
Once again, he was a failure. How did he expect to become a decent provider for Mary Jane, much less Mary Jane and Aunt May at once? A baby was obviously out of the question, even without bring the risks related to genetically altered blood.
He was aching all over from the prior night's fight. Who would have expected for a guy in such a stupid costume, and calling himself The Shocker of all things could be so tough? And of course, not only he couldn't afford himself the proper treatment, but he couldn't even let Aunt May see the bruises. Fortunately Winter season meant he could cover himself up to the neck and wrists, but other than that, the only upside was he had a healing factor that would leave him with only half a week or so of intense physical pain to hide.
He stared at his now empty cup of coffee and looked into his pocket. Just when he was about to curse his bad luck again, not to mention his lack of foresight on checking before leaving, the plump waitress dropped a full hot breakfast before him.
He looked up at her. "Um, Ma'am? Sorry, but I think this is the wrong table for—"
"It's on the house. The manager says so," the woman gestured with her head towards the counter, behind which a scrawny man with bottle glasses seemed to do his best at remaining unnoticed, pretending to look through the morning's earnings. "Says he recognized you from some day at the train... you know, that day, months ago!"
"You mean...?"
"Well, yeah, he always talks about that, about how he was there when that wacko with the tentacles almost killed everyone. A partner in ordeal, huh? Musta been a really bad time."
"Ah... Ah, yes. Yes, it really was."
He smiled.
"But maybe, after all, times are getting better."
edited 14th Dec '13 6:08:10 PM by NapoleonDeCheese
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
... <sniff> I like that manager... and I loved that part of the movie (one of the few parts that I got to see, actually; never got to watch the whole movie). Reminds of the New Yorkers' stand against the Green Goblin over the bridge in the first movie.
New Yorker on Bridge #2: Yeah, I got something for your ass! You mess with Spidey, you mess with New York!
New Yorker on Bridge #3: You mess with one of us, you mess with all of us.
Screw JJ and his slanderous articles; the people of New York know what Spider-Man really is, and it's not the menace that JJ is making him out to be.
... Speaking of which, how the hell does the Daily Bugle manage to break even in the movieverse? You'd think there'd be widespread popular boycotts of the newspaper in protest of their slandering of an obvious hero.
edited 15th Dec '13 12:09:04 AM by MarqFJA
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Because in the movieverse, it's obviously a tabloid, not a real newspaper.
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... That makes a whole lot of sense, considering that I just discovered that the original Daily Bugle of the comic books not only was inspired by famous New York tabloids, but was actually a tabloid-format newspaper in-universe.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
Not everyone was in that train car or that bridge, obviously.
The Cosmopolitan Fictioneer
Well, one can assume that the Daily Bugle's major competitors in the comic book 'verse (e.g. Daily Globe), who were quite pro-superhero in their coverage, may also exist in the movieverse.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
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Also, while the trilogy's not bad, the more recent Amazing Spider-Man film completely and totally blows them all out of the water.
edited 15th Dec '13 11:34:37 AM by EvaUnit01
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Yeah, I got a glimpse at the Lizard fight in the school; quite impressive, especially with Peter's switch to a more spider-like fighting style.
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.
It's not spider-like until the web is coming out of his butt.
On a side note, been working on a original novel in ebook form. You can find it here. It's free! Trying to put together elements of the stuff I like, like Kamen Riders, Nanoha, gunslingers, powered armor, steampunk, epic fantasy, etc, into a single work. https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/380166
edited 16th Dec '13 5:14:54 AM by SCMof2814
Christmas.
"Aizen Sousuke," the spectral form of Kaname Tosen warned him. "Tonight, you will be visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Heed their words, or you will be chained, just like me, for all of—!"
After giving him a short look that conveyed a slight, strange mixture of bemusement and annoyance, Aizen took hold of Kyōka Suigetsu, struck him down, and sat down to wait.
Maybe those three could be worth something as pawns...
Ghosts N' Stuff Remix
Speaking of Batman, this idea will not go away:
"One night, while escorting their son home from the theater, Thomas and Martha Wayne shot down shifty vagrant Joe Chill in cold blood. They escape, leaving a young Bruce Wayne the heir to Wayne Enterprises-and utterly shocked."
It's so simple, yet so clever!
"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy."
Well, Post Crisis, Pre-Zero Hour, Joe Chill had two children of his own. The boy became the second Reaper in the sequel to Batman Year Two. Maybe a variant of that happens in this case.
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Rich people will do anything for fun.
Ghosts N' Stuff Remix
Just reverse the Batman origin story! Here, Bruce Wayne's parents reveal themselves to be killers instead of Joe Chill killing them!
No, I don't know why they would do it.
We'll have to rewrite the rules, I suppose.
edited 19th Dec '13 1:04:49 PM by Jinxmenow
"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy."
The best explanation is Chill tried to rob them, Thomas was packing heat and was faster than Chill, killed him, the Waynes freaked out... but then, they wouldn't have any reasons to escape, since it was self defense and any jury will believe them.
If you're using the version where Lex Moxon specifically hired Chill to kill the Waynes, you could say Moxon had some dirt on them, and thus the Waynes couldn't risk going under an investigation.
Ghosts N' Stuff Remix
I want a story where Thomas and Martha Wayne somehow were the criminals in the Crime Alley encounter. Is that possible? How can we make a story like that happen?
"Monsters are tragic beings. They are born too tall, too strong, too heavy. They are not evil by choice. That is their tragedy."
Prometheus already kind of did that. His parents were criminals who were gunned down by police, so he swore to oppose every kind of law and justice.
You are the George R.R. Martin of Fanfiction- wait, no, you're not because you got it done.
We salute you!
edited 13th Dec '13 3:59:05 AM by fearjunkie