Batman Fanfiction

Dear Wal,

Since I seem to be on a streak of Batman themed posts, why not top it all off with the best? It's finally time to reveal why I tout my Batman fanfic as being completely, ridiculously awesome. First some Batman lore, because otherwise you won't understand what in the world I’m talking about. You just won’t. I’ve experienced this before, many times. Anyway.

Everyone knows Batman was created when Bruce Wayne’s parents were shot before his eyes one dark night in the heart of Gotham City. If you don’t, then you’ve just been educated. If it wasn’t for that night, Batman would not exist. It’s upon this principle that my entire fanfiction hinges. Because, in my parallel universe, Bruce Wayne isn’t Batman. He isn’t Batman not because his parents weren’t shot that night (that would be too kind >D), it’s because he was shot too. Don’t worry, he isn’t dead. He’s paralyzed. (I’m evil, I know.) Now, I didn’t just make this up from my mind. This is a reference to a certain Killing Joke.

The Killing Joke is a book written by Alan Moore, where the Joker shoots Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) to get at Jim Gordon. She ends up in a wheelchair and becomes Oracle, basically totally awesome tech support for Batman. In my world, Oracle basically came first, because Bruce couldn’t go out and fight crime as Batman. How is this possible you ask? Oracle is essentially Batman’s super computer version of Wikipedia. She can use her tech to find out whatever Batman needs to know in his crime fighting, so he doesn’t have to run back to the Batcave every time he needs to google something. Plus, she’s a hacker and a genius with computers. Need a computer virus to take out the massive evil computer network being used by Brainiac to take over the world? No problem!

So, since there isn’t any Batman in my world at this point in the story, Bruce Wayne is Oracle for the police. And the police don’t fail at life in my story. They actually win sometimes. Now you may ask, where does this leave Barbara Gordon in this strange parallel world of yours? Barbara Gordon is police commissioner of Gotham City, after her father Jim Gordon, who died in the line of duty. Don’t ask me how he died, I don’t know. All I know was that it was in the line of duty. Presumably it was partially because Batman wasn’t there to save him. Barbara Gordon as Commissioner is much better than Barbara Gordon as Batgirl.

Onward. My world does have a Batman, and-as we’ve now established-he isn’t Bruce Wayne. He’s one of the Robins, and he’s not the one you might think he is. You notice I say ‘Not the ONE’ suggesting that there is more than one. There is. Four of them to be exact (not counting TDKReturns and other non-continuity stories).

Dick Grayson

Dick Grayson as Nightwing

He was an acrobat in a circus. He belonged to a family of acrobats, actually. And they were all murdered before his eyes. Someone tampered with the lines during a performance where they were doing flips and things without a net, and his whole family ended up falling to their deaths except him. Bruce Wayne happened to be in the audience, and took Dick under his wing in order to prevent him from ending up like Bruce. Don’t worry, I don’t understand it either. Anyway, Dick Grayson became Robin and then became Nightwing after that. Nightwing is cooler than Robin.

Jason Todd dies

Jason Todd

He was a street kid living in Park Row, and eventually became Robin after Batman caught him stealing tires off the batmobile. His mother was a drug addict, and his father was a Two-Face thug. He wasn’t Robin for very long. He was a pretty sucky Robin. Anyway, the Joker killed him. And then he was resurrected by Ras al Ghul and became the Red Hood. He turned evil. It was bad.

Tim Drake as Red Robin

Tim Drake

He’s the son of Jack Janet Drake, another rich family like the Waynes. He figured out who Batman and Robin (Dick Greyson Robin) were. He also noted how violently out of control Batman was after Jason died, and decided to do something about it. In this way he eventually became Robin. (The “Batman needs a robin” reasoning comes from Tim.) His father and his girlfriend died (one of the batgirls-although I understand she came back to life somehow, CON-TI-NU-I-TY!) This was after he became Robin, for a change. And eventually became Red Robin. I dislike Red Robin. How unoriginal can you get? At least Dick did something creative.

Damien Wayne as Robin

Damien Wayne

And this brings us to the present. Damien is actually Bruce’s son, in a very sort of convoluted fashion. Talia al Ghul stole Bruce’s DNA and genetically engineered a child with his DNA and her DNA. Then she trained him to be an evil ninja assassin and showed up with him one day. He became Robin because there really wasn’t anything else for him to do. It was either that, or go out into Gotham on his own and murder people. He’s pretty dark. He’s also very short.

There you go people. That’s the basic run down of the Robins. All the parts that’re important to my parallel universe, in any case. (Things get complicated after Damien. You don’t want to know.) So, who is my Batman? He’s not Dick or Tim or Damien (Damien doesn’t even exist in this universe), he’s Jason Todd. I’m going out on a limb here, because for the most part in DC parallel universe stories (at least the ones I’ve encountered) Dick Greyson is the only Robin mentioned or used in the story. Jason Todd is usually just ‘the Robin that died.’

I decided to try to resurrect his character so he wasn’t evil. This was around the time that I saw Batman: the Red Hood the movie. That first scene killed me. And I knew what the plot of the movie was already. Anyway, Jason Todd is my Batman. And that isn’t all. He’s a wise-cracking, swashbuckling (NOT silver age style, people) Batman. At one point (day before yesterday-I changed things) he had powers but then I changed my mind. I’m still working the kinks out. Anyway, he’s all the Robins combined into a Batman. He has awesome fighting skills and acrobatic skills and deductive skills and just plain awesome. Bruce is his oracle/mentor person. Sort of like Terry McGinnis off of Batman Beyond. 

However, I haven’t left Dick and Tim out of my universe either. Dick became a master thief, because he fell in with the mob after his family was killed (because Bruce wasn’t there to help him) and went straight to the Nightwing stage. Tim Drake figured out who Nightwing was and decided to try to bring him back to the good side of the force. Batman runs into them eventually, I haven’t figured that out yet.

Now you’re familiar with most of my Bat-fam. 

I think I might turn this into two parts because it’s becoming so long. I’m not finished yet. Not even close.

/endrant

P.S. There was something I was supposed to add at the end of this post. I thought of it last night and decided to remember it by thinking "Terry needs to ______." However, I can't remember what he needed to do now.