Batman Beyond/Headscratchers: Difference between revisions
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** Step 3: ???
** Step 4: Batman
*** I think we all know what [[Step Three: Profit|step three]] [[South Park|is...]]▼
* Perhaps that's the real reason Waller didn't try again with a different assassin after the first one got cold feet. She realized it was a stupid idea that would never work.
** Or maybe the fact that she'd asked a hardened killer to do something and they couldn't do it because it was too immoral made her reconsider the path she was taking. While she ''sounds'' very pragmatic and matter-of-fact discussing the whole thing, that's just Waller... she's human too, and she does feel things, even if (like Batman) she does her very best not to show it.
▲** I think we all know what [[Step Three: Profit|step three]] [[South Park|is...]]
* It's possible that Waller was planning to either arrange for social services to ask Bruce if he'd be willing to take in the orphaned Terry, or that Waller was planning to ask Bruce herself, thus guaranteeing that Terry would end up in Bruce's care from a young age. Of course, Waller obviously wouldn't tell Bruce that she herself had caused Terry to be orphaned. But even if Bruce found out, it's very possible that the now-elderly [[I Did What I Had to Do|Waller would be perfectly fine with that, knowing that even if she was punished, Terry would already be under Bruce's tutelage and on the way to becoming Batman.]]
* Maybe Waller was planning to take Terry in herself, or have a third party in her employ do it, to subtly exercise the sort of psychological influence that would be required to set Terry on a similar emotional path as Bruce.
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