"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
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"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown Wiki, My Batman Universe Reviews, Stephanie Brown Discord
I don't think it being manipulated is the reason why he wanted to break it up, it was because Bruce was still planning to be Batman while married, and that's the thing Thomas wants more than ever to stop. Even in the issue he tells him to go off and marry Selina, but to throw off the cowl for good and leave the city to him.
It's the twisted, crazy sense of father knows best, that you need to punish your son, break his toys, and make him more miserable, so that he can be happy "the right way."
"read the entirety of the first post of the thread": "But on the whole, I think there should be a place for people to talk about the book which isn't just a bunch of "King is a hack" "I hate this" "A new low for this book" etc."
You came into the thread, posted exactly that, and are now surprised.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
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Take him down to the "studs" to rebuild him better is what is my rational for BatDad.
I hope King ends Thomas real good; because he is the anthesis of Bruce. Thomas is so weak that on multiple occasions he breaks his principles because of the people he lost: first Bruce, second Martha, and lastly Selina. Yet, Bruce has lost everything on multiple occasions and never broke and I love that King is totally play that up especially with "I'm still here"
Go be an ass elsewhere, follow the thread rules.
Last edited by charliehustle415; 12-05-2019 at 11:22 AM.
While I pretty much agree with your response, the only reason I'm trying to communicate with the negative posters right now is that with the end of the run coming, I want it to be as clear as possible that this is not the thread for fights about whether the run sucks or not. I'm hoping that the message is clear now, and people who hate the run will go to the weekly threads, or create their own thread. Hopefully we can avoid getting dragged into arguments with people who miss the OP.
I am very curious to see how BatDad goes out. I still think Nain Pit is the best, but it seems to be going in a different direction.
"We're the same thing, you and I. We're both lies that eventually became the truth." Lara Notsil, Star Wars: X-Wing: Solo Command, Aaron Allston
"All that is not eternal is eternally out of date." C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
"There's room in our line of work for hope, too." Stephanie Brown
Stephanie Brown Wiki, My Batman Universe Reviews, Stephanie Brown Discord
I just don't want Thomas to follow a similar path to The Batman Who Laughs, where he becomes overexposed and I end up bored of him, or that he falls into the category of an irrelevant Bat-villain like what happened to Hush. I have liked the few times I've read something with the character (Knight of Vengeance, Flashpoint, despite not really enjoying the overall story, and the current Batman run), so I wouldn't want to become disenchanted with FP Batman
"The Batman is Gotham City. I will watch him. Study him. And when I know him and why he does not kill, I will know this city. And then Gotham will be MINE!"-BANE
"We're monsters, buddy. Plain and simple. I don't dress it up with fancy names like mutant or post-human; men were born crueler than Apes and we were born crueler than men. It's just the natural order of things"-ULTIMATE SABRETOOTH
He called it a false love in this or something along those lines which to me could only be in reference to it being orchestrated by Bane. It was Bane decision or will not Bruce's. He wants Bruce to make the decision to embrace happiness of his own free will.
I believe he wants Bruce to choose a Happy Batman free life with selina himself. That makes it 'real' and reduces the chances of Bruce going back to his old lifestyle.
so he's going to help him make him make that decision by punishing him, breaking his toys, and making him see how miserable being Batman is.
This is kind of tangential to the idea that Bruce was manipulated into proposing*: What happened in Arkham while Alfred was supposed to be monitoring Psycho Pirate's "healing" of Claire? There are four basic possibilities for Claire that I see:
1. Claire was in on it from the beginning (including letting Psycho Pirate screw her up, having her parents killed, etc), so PP's healing in Arkham was merely part of the plot to restore her to her generally evil-ish self
2. Claire is cured during I Am Bane, but Bane offers the opportunity to join him in return for the reveal in The Price, that her brother might be brought back
3. At some point between I Am Bane and The Wedding, Claire is re-manipulated by Psycho Pirate off screen
4. Alfred somehow failed in getting PP to heal Claire during I Am Bane.
I don't entirely like any of these (3 and 4 happening offscreen is poor storytelling, 2 happened during a non-King story, and 1 just makes me sad for liking Claire so much in the beginning). Any other ideas?
*Was Claire manipulating Bruce into proposing in 24 with their chat about happiness? If not, it's hard to imagine that Bane did something to take Bruce over the top on proposing (rather than it being something he did on his own or something he chose to do because of interacting with his dad in The Button).
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