It's Cass Cain's Birthday!

[espanolbot]

To celebrate, here's a nice scene between her and Tim after they move to Bludhaven following Steph's and Tim's dad's deaths...











And then Slade killed every new friend and ally Tim and Cass made in Bludhaven, just to spite Dick Grayson, the end!

Comments

[silverhammerman]

I can only recall ever seeing Batman slowing his heart through meditation or masking it with chemicals, and that strikes me as is slightly more plausible than just flat out stopping it, which is just kind of an odd and vague skill(?) to throw out free of context.
I've wondered about the Cass-Bruce skill discrepancy a bit before and I think it comes down to a matter of exposure. I've read a fair bit of Batman, I've seen him fight superhumans and thugs and generally be awesome, so wherever a comic makes a claim about or an allusion to his badassery, I remember that stuff and so I know that Batman is indeed the badass that they're saying he is. With Cass though, I have very little experience with the character, I've read maybe one or two storylines with her, and when I see a story talk about how hardcore she is, it's like they're telling me instead of showing why she's a badass, which makes Cass' skills seem less earned I think. With Cass it's like I'm just being told that she's a really great badass, but with Bruce I've actually seen it.
I mean, that's how I think of it, I'm sure other people might have different problems with it.

[espanolbot]

Yeah, it kind of makes more sense as something she could do in the context of her own series... I do see a lot of people who object to her doing things because "she's a munchkin", or "she's a Mary Su!", both terms I despise, while allowing it for Batman just BECAUSE he's Batman with no further explanation.