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

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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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pyrotwilight
2012-02-28 05:16 pm UTC (link)

Well depends how you see it. There's a lot of dramatic potential with her meeting Damian then. Seeing your father as a kid would be very awkward. And seeing a Batman and Catwoman who are highly unlike your parents would be pretty surprising for Helena as well.

As for three that's assuming Catwoman is Selina here. Who knows who she might be here.

As for four they've kind of thrown out the real draws to E-2 already so very little would surprise me in regards to changes. Especially since a lot of fans are still bothered by Helena Wayne using the name of Bertinelli.

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

To quote Paul Levitz:

“Nrama: That name Bertinelli in there is a fun tease, but this is Helena Wayne, right?

Levitz: We will ultimately know that she’s Helena Wayne of Earth 2, but whether Bruce will know that she’s Helena Wayne, or how Bruce or Selina Kyle will come to know that and react to that, we’ll see. I’m still working out all the dramatic potential in it. Obviously, there’s enormous pent up possibility in those moments, and you want to make all that drama work. And you don’t want to do all that in issue #1, panel #1. You want to take people on an interesting ride.”

I think this alone pretty much suggests (if not outright confirm) that Helena's Earth-2 parents are Bruce and Selina, and everyone looking for subtle hints to the contrary are looking too far into things.

I know this is a reboot, but like I said, I don't think DC will stray too far from the concept of the character. I also think that it if they're going to establish Earth-2 versions of the Trinity, it would make sense to make Earth-2 Bruce a different character from the main DCU one.

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