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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big_daddy_d
2012-02-29 12:43 am UTC (link)

In support of the "it could be Damian" argument, they point out how the suit is familiar and to me the suit looks similar to the Batman 666 suit. As for the mother, well who says it has to be a Catwoman? Could be a different woman entirely. Maybe Bruce and Selina are Helena's grandparents (following the logic from Batman: The Brave and the Bold here).

Otherwise, I just think it's Bruce and the fact that they are saying that "a Wayne" is wearing the cowl is a weak attempt to throw us off. Then again, you never know.

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aeka
2012-02-29 02:26 am UTC (link)

Yeah I'm 110% sure Earth-2 Batman is still Bruce with a different personality to establish him as a separate character from the main DCU version. Considering this is Levitz who's rebooting Helena Wayne for the new DCU and he's her creator, I don't see why he would change her parentage, and even less so if he's planning on having the main DCU Bruce and Selina react to her being their daughter on Earth-2.

If this reboot has taught me anything at all about DC's marketing is that DC likes stirring the pot by planting seeds of uncertainty in their fans as a way to generate interest in their books. As I stated earlier, they did the exact same stunt with Huntress by suggesting she was still Helena Bertinelli even when all arrows were pointing in Helena Wayne's direction, and she still turned out to be Wayne. DC didn't sway me then, they're not swaying me now. Sometimes the presence of an elephant in the room is as obvious as it looks.

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