Originally Posted by
Tzigone
I feel like modern Batman is far less emotionally mature (and far more emotionally stunted) than golden age Batman. I prefer pre-COUE in that regard - where he's an emotionally well-adjusted adult when he becomes Batman. Where, within the fiction, becoming Batman was a rational, reasonable decision. And he was motivated by the murder of his parents, but not consumed by it.
I feel like both Bruce and Divk are often somewhat infantalized in more modern stories (in very different ways), and I don't like it.