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One of my favorite burns Bruce has ever given Joker was in Tell Tale, where he has the option to insult Joker for thinking he's special to Bruce by calling him just another lowlife.
And the Joker's reaction is priceless. I love it when Bruce can be more savage than the Joker.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Tough on crime is a issue that zig zags for progressives work with two variants:
- Criminals are victims of poverty, racism, and social injustice
- Criminals primarily prey upon the poor
I think the funniest thing about the Barbara impregnation plotline is that it's widely associated with Timm but from what I remember it was another writer who wrote that plot.
So he got misblamed for it, presumably because Timm's involvement on the Bruce/Barbara romance in the Killing Joke.
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Yeah, I remember another troper spreading that misinformation as well as the fake news about Dick Grayson being the father of the Dee Dee twins.
It's that widespread.
Edited by RedHunter543 on Jan 6th 2025 at 11:24:32 PM
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Re: Joe Chill- the best twist regarding his meeting Bruce was in Batman Adventures.
Joe Chill read in the newspapers he'd killed important people and spent the rest of his life paranoid Bruce Wayne— not Batman— would find out and destroy him. He became so paranoic he began hallucinating Bruce Wayne hounding him everywhere. At one time he runs into Batman and accidentally unmasks him— seeing Bruce Wayne's face he thinks he's gone off the edge and jumps off a rooftop killing himself. Batman himself is puzzled why this random punk freaked out like that and never finds out who Chill was...
Please remember that, ultimately, fictional works of entertainment are just that.I still think "he isolated himself after Tim's ordeal" is a good enough explanation for why he ended up alone. Maybe Barbara stayed for a while, but he withdrew from the League to focus on Gotham, never let anyone else into his life, and once Barbara was gone, he had nobody else left to hook up with. If he'd even want to by that point.
Then again, there's the implication that Tim's torture happened sometime during the Justice League unlimited run, so there's that.
I heard there was an interview that indicated Batman Beyond is a possible future, not THE future of DCAU Batman.
But I can't find a source for that.
"The Black Rage makes us strong, because we must resist its temptations every day of our lives or be forever damned!"Back in the day Alfred was so popular he got his own backup stories
◊ called "The Adventures of Alfred."
I kinda miss those.
The Protomen enhanced my life.I believe Word of God is that the ROTJ flashback is the last thing to happen in the "present" of the DCAU.
Yes to all of that, except the treaty being to stop an invasion. The Lordsverse Earth had had a civil war between Supes and Bats, with each having their own Wondy and all other heroes fucking off in disgust. Eventually Lord Wondy murdered Batman, League Wondy killed her in retaliation (and her lasso crumbled afterwards), and to end the war she agreed to marry Lord Superman.

What? Ridiculous. He's gotta be a complete asshole, who treats both his allies and other heroes like crap, and is hated both for being a jerk and being a rich white man who beats up poor people!
That's the proper Batman.
.....Now that I've gotten that out of the way, it's also important that he not be Batgod. Cause that's going too far in the other direction. You need a nice balance.
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