Batman #45

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Comments

[lego_joker]

I'd love to see this too, but it's probably not feasible as long as Ra's remains an iconic part of the Bat-mythos.

This is probably the main reason I hate Ra's, now that I think about it. As soon as he stepped into the game, Batman stopped being just a Concerned Citizen Adventurer whose existence may OR MAY NOT be a good thing for Gotham in the long run, and started being a capital-S Superhero literally the entire world owe their lives to. It's a Grade-A nuance-killer in multiple directions, ESPECIALLY "World without Batman" yarns.

[obsidianwolf]

I'm not sure I buy that. Frankly the idea that only Batman can contain and stop RA's is a ridiculous idea to begin with. If Ra's was really such a game breaker then he'd have achieved his goals centuries ago but he hasn't. The only reason Ra's is used as such a unstoppable threat in these things is it is useful to push the Batman is so awesome narrative.

I mean really in universe Batman has been around 13 or so years and we're supposed to assume that just these thirteen are the critical ones for a several hundred year old master of a huge order of assasins it is a joke.

So either Ra's has to be a typical comic book super villain that other heroes could stop in different ways or he's a lazy plot device meant to make another character look more awesome because only they in their thirteen years of heroecs can stop.