scans_daily: Earth-2 Batman and Robin: Before and After

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aeka) wrote in

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@ 2012-02-28 10:55 am UTC

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char: batman/bruce wayne, char: huntress/robin/helena wayne, title: earth 2, title: world's finest

Earth-2 Batman and Robin: Before and After

DC Source released character sketches of Earth-2 Bruce and Helena, and lets just say....things definitely changed from the original pre-Crisis Earth-2.

So do we remember pre-Crisis Earth-2 Bruce and Helena? Yeah E2 Bruce started off killing people at first, but then stopped doing this and became more of the strict "no-kill" anti-gun hero we know so well.

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And then there's his daughter Helena who, despite also following the strict "no-kill" rule back in the day, showed that she didn't concern herself too much with foe circumstantial deaths.

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And then there's the fact that Daddy Bats didn't allow her to fight crime in a costume.

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So what changed in the new DCU? In a word? PLENTY!

From DC's the Source:

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“Who will Batman kill to save his own daughter?” asks EARTH 2 editor Pat McCallum. “Right out of the gate that should tell you we’re dealing with a different kind of Dark Knight here. More ruthless, dangerous…the costume is familiar and yeah, there is a Wayne under the mask, but we’re looking at a man desperate to save the only family he has left. EARTH 2 is about to become a very bad place to be a bad guy.”

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“Helena Wayne has been taught how to be the perfect Robin,” said James Robinson, writer of EARTH 2. “Assured as a detective, fighter, scientist, pilot and all around crime-fighter she’s been groomed by Batman to be the perfect caped manhunter (or should we say manHuntress) when she grows up.”

“Before coming to the main DCU Earth and taking up the mantle of Huntress, Helena Wayne fought crime alongside her father as the Robin to his Batman on Earth-2!” said WORLDS’ FINEST editor Wil Moss. “But how did she come to be on this Earth? And why did she decide to become Huntress? You’ll get some clues in next week’s HUNTRESS #6, but for the real scoop, pick up WORLDS’ FINEST #1!”

Holy fuck. At this rate I'll be acquiring

icon_uk's Robin fetish only with girl Robins in my case. On that note, I think this means there's no longer an Earth-2 Dick, and Helena is her father's first Robin.

May please come fast! XP

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	no subject aeka 2012-02-28 05:08 pm UTC (link)
	Read my above comment on why I think Damian is unlikely. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 4 comments) (Show 4 comments)

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pyrotwilight
2012-02-28 05:11 pm UTC (link)

Oh I saw them but I still have the gut feeling it's Damian. Especially since they keep making sure to refer to Batman as Batman or a Wayne. The fact they've yet to call Batman Bruce Wayne means there's something going on here. Though some have suggested Batman might even be Thomas Wayne similar to his Flashpoint self which would be amusing but less likely.

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aeka
2012-02-28 05:17 pm UTC (link)

Or this is DC simply loving the teasing and speculation that they're deciding to keep E2 Batman a mystery by suggesting he might be someone other than Bruce. They did the same thing with Huntress by suggesting she may still be Helena Bertinelli despite all arrows pointing in Helena Wayne's direction.

Basically, I'm not buying that this is someone other than Bruce and this is nothing short of a marketing tactic to generate interest in the Earth-2 books.

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	no subject filthysize 2012-02-28 05:18 pm UTC (link)
	Even if it is not Bruce, I think it's much more likely that he's Richard Wayne instead of Damian. (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent) (Thread) (Hide 1 comment) (Show 1 comment)

	no subject icon_uk 2012-02-28 06:50 pm UTC (link)
	Agreed (Reply to this) (Thread from start) (Parent)

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