Batman: Pennyworth R.I.P.

[Gotham citizen]

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How do we fix Alfred now? How do we bring him back in a year or two without cheap tricks, and still making Bruce someone not so depensant of him?

Easy. Bane killed a clone and imprisoned the real Alfred.
Bruce marries Selina and is now dependent on her instead of Alfred. Problem solved.

Almost.
Alfred IS Bane!
And the dead guy was a Joker wannabe, infiltrating the Wayne family.

It was an actor hired to replace Alfred by Norman Osborn that was killed!

No, Bruce Wayne had a car crash and went into a coma, so the entire King's run was a nightmare.

[Jackalope89]

No, Bruce Wayne had a car crash and went into a coma, so the entire King's run was a nightmare.

Wish I could say the same for the Superman run, but it would take more than a car crash to put Clark into a coma.

[Tzigone]

Wish I could say the same for the Superman run, but it would take more than a car crash to put Clark into a coma.

Well, there are a few villains than can put people into hallucinatory states/false realities, aren't there?

[Gotham citizen]

Wish I could say the same for the Superman run, but it would take more than a car crash to put Clark into a coma.

He was hit by a meteorite containing some Kryptonite.

[Aahz]

Wish I could say the same for the Superman run, but it would take more than a car crash to put Clark into a coma.

That Nightmare was created by Doctor Destiny.

[Sergard]

No, Bruce Wayne had a car crash and went into a coma, so the entire King's run was a nightmare.

I don't need Bruce to have a car crash to know that King's run was a nightmare

[Gotham citizen]

That was an involuntary pun.

[Jackalope89]

He was hit by a meteorite containing some Kryptonite.

That Nightmare was created by Doctor Destiny.

Yes to both.

[Zaresh]

Easy. Bane killed a clone and imprisoned the real Alfred.
Bruce marries Selina and is now dependent on her instead of Alfred. Problem solved.

And Selina was a clone too! Ha ha!!

Almost.
Alfred IS Bane!
And the dead guy was a Joker wannabe, infiltrating the Wayne family.

Oh, the twist! Or, better yet: this Alfred was a bad guy pretending to be him since the previous time he was dead and came back as a bad guy (that happened, right? A long time ago?). But! But the twist of the twist was, that OG Alfred was actually a bad guy himself, a double agent for the Ghouls (or something). And now, Talia gfts Bruce a new, younger Alfred, with, er... With the memories of the second Alfred that in the end grew fond of the family, with a clone of the OG Alfred. Who happened to be exactly the same as the second, because he was a martian all along!

It was an actor hired to replace Alfred by Norman Osborn that was killed!

You know, jokes aside, the easy way would have been having Clayman replace Alfred by Bruce hand. But they want Alfred to be dead, so I guess they disregarded that plot. Now* it's not a choice, because clearly it wasn't something planned by any of the bats.

[Zaresh]

No, Bruce Wayne had a car crash and went into a coma, so the entire King's run was a nightmare.

Ah, the classic "It was a dream all along."
I think this could have worked for Nightwing if the writers were more subtle and allowed/willing to experiment with the story and the format of the comic. Or if Dick were drawn out of any other interaction with the other characters in other books before he would've waken up from the coma, with or without remaining dissociation problems.

And then, you could have used Scarecrow for this for example (I know the post was talking about Superman):

Well, there are a few villains than can put people into hallucinatory states/false realities, aren't there?

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I don't need Bruce to have a car crash to know that King's run was a nightmare

Good one XD.

[Sergard]

You know, jokes aside, the easy way would have been having Clayman replace Alfred by Bruce hand. But they want Alfred to be dead, so I guess they disregarded that plot. Not it's not a choice, because clearly it wasn't something planned by any of the bats.

Or ... Bruce staged Alfred's death and Alfred is now undercover as double agent while the rest of the family is mourning him.

[dietrich]

Oh, okay. I thought you meant something from current continuity.



I.

Accurate objective citation needed plz.

[Zaresh]

Or ... Bruce staged Alfred's death and Alfred is now undercover as double agent while the rest of the family is mourning him.

That could be too.
Not like it wouldn't be even the first time in the most recent years.

[Sergard]

Accurate objective citation needed plz.

For what exactly?