Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?: Difference between revisions

 

Exactly what the truth of events is. It could all be a [[Dying Dream]], an actual dream, a psychic vision, pretty much any interpretation you can come up with is possible, though the book seems to subtly favour the [[Dying Dream]] position. This interpretation would make it so that the spirit's final speech to Batman reveal that {{spoiler|whenever Bruce dies, his soul is reincarnated as a new Bruce in a new universe to become Batman again, as something has deliberately set this up and stopped his soul from entering Heaven or Hell.}}

* [[Antagonist in Mourning]]: Played straight with [[The Joker]] and Ra's al Ghul. Hinted to a lesser degree/possibly subverted with Clayface and Mad Hatter. (Depending on how much the former is actually moved to change by Batman's sacrifice, or if the latter actually feels the death too much).

* [[Chronic Hero Syndrome]]: The cause of Batman's death in almost all the stories. Batman notes that Batman never gets to retire. He keeps fighting til it kills him.