Batman Fanfiction Continued Again

Dear Wal,

I promise this is the end. I realize I have been bombarding people with Batman related stuff..but, sadly, this is my life. Batman, horses and writing alternating is basically a fact of my existence. Also, yesterday’s post was the first post I presented to the public of google +, so that’s going to be an interesting experience. (I write these posts the day before I post them-so that’s why I’m saying it’s going to be an interesting experience. By the way, I got online today to find that it wasn't interesting at all. It was rather boring.) Anyway, I haven’t talked about the villains yet. Because I’m me and I like to mess with stuff, they aren’t the same as they are in the DCU. I haven’t me-ified all of them, but I have done some things with the first few that show up in Jason’s story.

The Scarecrow

I tried to make him cooler than he is in the comics…because, let’s face it. Scarecrow can be pretty lame. (I don’t know-maybe I just haven’t read the right comics. Suggestions?) Scarecrow in the DCU is a psychiatrist named Jonathon Crane who goes crazy and goes after Batman with fear gas. Because, when anyone goes crazy in Gotham City, they instantly dress up in a costume and go after Batman. It’s a law of the universe.

Anyway, I tried to make him better. It didn’t work to well. Let’s just say he’s still a work in progress. The first thing I did to make him better was re-name him Scream (and now I realize there are what, four of those movies?) because it’s a lot scarier that Scarecrow. Scarecrows are things you would be afraid of as a small child.  Then I took the little scene in The Dark Knight where Scarecrow was selling his fear drug as an actual drug on the street and expanded it. So in my world Crane came up with his fear gas and then promptly became Carmine Falcone before he went crazy and became a supervillian. As I said before, he’s a work in progress. At this point, his costume consists of a trench coat. It’s depressing.

The Joker

There is no Joker in my universe. (DUN DUN DUUUUUUN!) This operates on the logic that there isn’t much point to a Joker without Bruce Wayne as Batman. Think of Terry from Batman Beyond. It doesn’t work as well when Batman is hilarious and bouncy. Bruce just can’t take a joke-let’s face it. As Superman said in Public Enemies in reference to Bruce’s lack of a sense of humor: Do us all a favor and buy one.

But you see, Jason has to have some sort of arch nemesis. So I did some fiddling with the major differences that spawned all the other changes in my universe. As you should understand by this point, Batman didn’t exist to stop people like Scream/Scarecrow when they showed up, so the city fell into decay and spawned the supervillian crime wave. Oh, the irony. (Why is it ironic? Because in the comics there’s always been a theory that Batman’s appearance was what created the Joker and all the other supervillains. When you think about it, it makes sense.) That, basically, changes the entire story.

The second big difference is that there’s an extra character that isn’t in the DCU. A character of my own design. This character used to be Tom, until I took the leap of pulling him out of this fanfiction and putting him into his own story. Alright, Joker origin time. He was originally this guy called the Red Hood, and he got into a battle against Batman in Ace Chemicals. He ran out onto a walkway and became tangled in his cape, and fell over the railing into a vet of toxic waste. Batman wasn’t fast enough to catch him. And of course, no one knew who the Red Hood was (because…well, he wore a red hood) so no one knows who the Joker is. Ignore Tim Burton’s version. It’s wrong.

In my world there was a Red Hood, but when he was battling Batman (Jason Todd Batman-gosh, this is complicated) in Ace Chemicals he was shot by this cop before he fell in the toxic waste. Now, I know in the normal DCU that wouldn’t stop him from coming back to life and becoming the Joker. In my world you get superpowers/mutations if you fall in toxic waste, but if you get shot and then you fall into toxic waste, you’re dead. It’s a law of the universe people. Anyway, the cop who shot the Red Hood is my extra character. Somehow he is going to be involved with Jason’s arch nemesis. I haven’t decided yet.

Mister Freeze

I’ve always felt bad for Mister Freeze. I came to know of Mister Freeze through Batman: The Animated Series. A very good way to be introduced to Mister Freeze, by the way. He was a molecular biologist named Victor Fries who specialized in cryogenics, and his wife-Nora-had this terminal disease (it’s not really specified) so he froze her to keep her alive until he could find a cure. But everything goes wrong and there’s an accident (of course) in which he’s mutated so that he can’t survive outside of a special suite in anything but sub-zero temperatures. His wife is eventually shattered by the mob.

In the animated series, he’s a very tragic character. I’ve always felt bad for him. A victim of circumstance. So, naturally I made his life better. His wife survived her terminal disease due to a treatment developed by Wayne Enterprises (because, since Bruce wasn’t off becoming a ninja he actually had time to set up programs for that sort of thing) and they lived happily ever after. Victor Fries retired his molecular biology stuff and became a professor at Gotham University, where Jason happened to be going at the time.

Eventually something even more tragic does happen to him, and he becomes Mister Freeze, but I haven’t figured out what yet. There are so many gaps in this story that I haven’t decided/figured out yet. It’s sad.

Catwoman

Now, we all know about Catwoman. Catwoman-Selina Kyle, master thief. I think I may have messed up her character a little. Lack of research, what can I say. I need to explain Jason’s origin before I go on to her first, because otherwise this won’t make any sense. Just roll with it.

Jason is basically a science experiment-he can shapeshift, he has nightvision and telepathy. Woot. What happened was, he was in the process of stealing a tire off of as-yet-undecided supervillain’s car when the car’s owner showed up and got an idea. So, the supervillain took Jason and did experiments/ had experiments done on him to give him superpowers and teach him awesome martial arts/detective skills and things. He’s like Jason Bourne/Wolverine. I used the same experimentation concept for Catwoman. She’s actually a cat woman, or woman cat. Whatever. Everything else about her is essentially the same.

….And that’s pretty much it. I can’t believe I finally got to the end of this explanation.

/endrant