As many of you know, the holiday you know as Groundhog Day played a very significant part of Pittsburgh Weatherman Phil Connors life. For one year on that festive holiday he found himself reliving the same day over and over again, waking up at the same time in the same condition no matter what happened to him. Not even death could permanently free him from this temporal recursion. Eventually his tale has a happy ending, for after falling in love with his producer Rita and becoming a better person, he was finally freed from his endless cycle.
What many of you may not know was the version of Phil Connors who had that experience in the DC Universe emerged with a most peculiar ability. He could choose to relive any day he wished as many times as he wished. Just like that fateful Groundhog Day he would wake again as healthy as he was the first time he lived that day. And should he die unless he specifically wishes not to he loops back to the beginning of the day, with no need to consciously will himself to do so. Only his girlfriend/producer Rita knows he possesses this power.
And it is a good thing he's got this power too, for a year later Phil, Rita, and cameraman Larry find themselves in Gotham to cover the its famous Groundhog Gus Festival due to Punxsutawney Phil having been kidnapped by Deathstroke earlier that week. Unluckily for the trio this was the day a number of Gotham's villains decide to enact their plans and unleash mayhem on the city. What's worse is that the city's regular protector, Batman, is caught in a trap so intricate and complex that it will take him 25 hours to escape.
With Batman nowhere to be found, and the city facing a carnival of chaotic calamity, it falls to Phil Connors to save the citzens of Gotham. Of course he doesn't stand a chance the first day, but luckily he has potentially infinite do-overs. Whether he eventually saves everyone is a certainty. How many iterations of the day it takes him and what tactics and strategies he employs to successfully do so are less determined.
And thus the question I pose to you all...
What If Phil Connors Protected Gotham During Groundhog Day?