Okay, a little backstory: in ‘The Gift’ story arc, Booster caught wind that Batman and Catwoman we’re getting married, and, getting inspiration from Superman’s ordeal with the Black Mercy, thought the best wedding present to get them would be to stop Bruce’s parents from dying in Crime Alley, which caused the world to end up terrible and wrong so Booster could then fix things and say to Batman that he’s right to be Batman because Batman makes everything and everyone better. In this new timeline, Catwoman was a serial killer who could only say “meow”, the Joker took out the Justice League and spread a deadly Joker virus around the continent, and Dick Grayson was an anti-heroic Punisher-esque Batman. However, this timeline’s Bruce Wayne was perfectly happy both not being Batman and having his parents alive. Booster ended up trapped in this timeline for around a year or so, causing a bunch of shenanigans along the way (like mistakenly unleashing serial killer Catwoman on the Waynes, killing them all over again) until he eventually got the means to time travel again... but his correction of time accidentally exposed new-Bruce to their murder in Crime Alley, causing new-Bruce to kill himself. The whole ordeal traumatised Booster so heavily that he was checked into Sanctuary, setting up his role in Heroes in Crisis.
I bring all this up because a dozen or two issues after #50, that’s revealed in passing that this was all part of Bane’s diabolical plot to break the Bat, too: he got the Riddler to reprogram Skeets to plant the idea of this particular ‘gift’ in Booster’s head, so as to further convince Bruce that he can’t be Batman as long as he’s happy and vice versa.
... how did a guy from the 21st century manage to reprogram a droid from the 25th? ... actually, y'know what, never mind. Sure the answer will just be irritating.
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I bring all this up because a dozen or two issues after #50, that’s revealed in passing that this was all part of Bane’s diabolical plot to break the Bat, too: he got the Riddler to reprogram Skeets to plant the idea of this particular ‘gift’ in Booster’s head, so as to further convince Bruce that he can’t be Batman as long as he’s happy and vice versa.
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... actually, y'know what, never mind. Sure the answer will just be irritating.
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