pre-dawn thoughts of EEEEEEE
May. 28th, 2004 05:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
buggerySo I was looking over my icon set, with thoughts towards making room for new icons, and got to thinking about this one. (Picture me pointing at the icon.)
The Wall of Sidekick Doom. (TM Te, I think?) It's such a very, very Bruce thing to do. His life is a monumemt to the people he's lost, and he likes to surround himself with reminders of that fact. (His parents, of course, but all the mementoes of them are up in the house proper, their memory unsullied by the things the Batman has to do. But the others...) Whether his former partners died or retired, Batman lost them just the same. All of the people who worked closely with him, if we look at the Bruce/Batman at the beginning of Batman Beyond.
Which brings me to...
Alfred.
We've never seen a suggestion to this effect in canon (or I haven't, though with a canon as vast as the DCU's I could always be mistaken), but somehow I wouldn't be surprised if, after Alfred eventually passes, Bruce installs a new case in the Cave with one of Alfred's butler-tuxes in it. Maybe a silver platter, too.
Alfred knowing Bruce the way he does, of course, he may have provisions in his will to pre-empt just that sort of Battishness. "Really, Master Bruce, I should think a modest portrait to be hung in the Manor would be much more decorous..."
People who were reading around the time of the "Death of Superman" arc (I can't remember exactly where it fell in regard to Gotham titles' issue numbers, aside from a vague recollection of Tim sporting a black armband in some of the early Robin issues) -- did we get to see at any point whether Bruce had one of Big Blue's costumes in the Cave? Something for him to brood in front of and/or obsess over a la the scrap of cape in (JL's) "Hereafter"...?
And now dawn has come: grey, foggy, Gothammy.
The Wall of Sidekick Doom. (TM Te, I think?) It's such a very, very Bruce thing to do. His life is a monumemt to the people he's lost, and he likes to surround himself with reminders of that fact. (His parents, of course, but all the mementoes of them are up in the house proper, their memory unsullied by the things the Batman has to do. But the others...) Whether his former partners died or retired, Batman lost them just the same. All of the people who worked closely with him, if we look at the Bruce/Batman at the beginning of Batman Beyond.
Which brings me to...
Alfred.
We've never seen a suggestion to this effect in canon (or I haven't, though with a canon as vast as the DCU's I could always be mistaken), but somehow I wouldn't be surprised if, after Alfred eventually passes, Bruce installs a new case in the Cave with one of Alfred's butler-tuxes in it. Maybe a silver platter, too.
Alfred knowing Bruce the way he does, of course, he may have provisions in his will to pre-empt just that sort of Battishness. "Really, Master Bruce, I should think a modest portrait to be hung in the Manor would be much more decorous..."
People who were reading around the time of the "Death of Superman" arc (I can't remember exactly where it fell in regard to Gotham titles' issue numbers, aside from a vague recollection of Tim sporting a black armband in some of the early Robin issues) -- did we get to see at any point whether Bruce had one of Big Blue's costumes in the Cave? Something for him to brood in front of and/or obsess over a la the scrap of cape in (JL's) "Hereafter"...?
And now dawn has come: grey, foggy, Gothammy.
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Date: 2004-05-28 05:21 am (UTC)The only thing that Bruce seems to have to brood over is A PIECE OF KRYPTONITE (Lex's ring?), that Clark gave him so he could be stopped if necessary (see also "The Trust", at the end of Alex Ross' "Mythology"). There are various bits of Batfamily angst in "World Without A Superman". I'll deal you the crack on scans_daily.
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Date: 2004-05-28 06:32 am (UTC)*loves alfred*
and you just KNOW that batman would keep the entire JLA in little glass boxes if he could get away with it...
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Date: 2004-05-28 03:49 pm (UTC)My work is done here...
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Date: 2004-05-28 07:15 pm (UTC)If this were so, surely he would be actively annoyed at an impression of post-humous approval of the Batcave, rather than the grudging aid he currently gives.
He might, like, haunt Bruce. In a butler-ly fashion of 'this is not appropriate, Master Bruce!' :)