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Message: <blockquote data-quote="WayneLigon" data-source="post: 2612905" data-attributes="member: 3649">I currently read a lot of comics though I seldom pick up a Batman title unless Robin or Nightwing feature prominately in the issue or something else catches my interest. It could go one of several ways. (1) He chalks it up to anger or loss of control and redoubles his efforts to never cross that line again (2) He goes over that line more and more until Robin or Nightwing drag him. (3) He retires but it doesn't 'take', and he becomes the new Oracle. The rest of the DC universe would be content to let him go into retirement or go underground. I don't think they'd force an arrest on him because of all he's done in the past and because it would blow his secret ID. Blowing Batman's secret ID automatically blows at least Tim and Dick's ID, and nobody wants that, and probably more as well.All of that said, the Joker would be back. He 'died' in his very first appearance, and he got better. There is no logic behind permanently getting rid of such a major character.  Dick might be a good Batman but he doesn't have the intensity or single-minded drive that has made Bruce so effective. He has a life outside the costume. So, we have a less-effective Batman in some respects, or someone else we don't know takes up that mantle (an even worse choice in my mind) or we wait for Tim to grow up. I can't see him ever retiring. He's too control-oriented. He might be forced into retirement by massive physical injury but he'd find some way around it. Dick would also resent The Bat always looking over his shoulder; so would anyone else.Now, all of these assume that we have a writer/editor/senior staff that gives a damn about actual continuity and the integrity of a character. As we've seen so often, that ain't always so. I assume any change could happen at any time, regardless of how logical or stupid it might be. I dunno. I've purposefully stayed away from all fan speculation about Infinite Crisis, 52, and One Year Later (or whatever it's called where the DCU advances one DCU year at the beginning of this year, I think). In practical terms, I don't think it's possible as a company for them to do that with any of the 'Holy Trinity', or any other first-stringer on a permanent basis. They can get away with it for people like Flash or Green Lantern since they're second stringers to the world at large. I'm honestly surprised that Barry has stayed dead as long as he has despite some recent cheating to let him appear a couple times over the years. I'm surprised Hal was gone as long as he was. But everything eventually changes, or changes back. I just assume now that if something happens I don't like, eventually it'll be changed.</blockquote>

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