Scene: The Chez Ritz, the fanciest restaurant in Gotham City. Harvey Dent is sitting at a table with a raven haired woman at his side. Harvey gets up to greet Bruce as he approaches
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I was looking at what would be *practical* to do. As you point out, there's pretty much no way that you could publish such a story where there was NEVER a Batman, but one could explore a lot of the potential of Officer Wayne and changing a lot of history before having the Batman (with whoever you wanted behind the mask) show up. In a way, that's an ideal story design. You have a ready-made way to "change it up" whenever you feel that the Officer Wayne material is starting to run thin. And if Bruce DOES go there, there's a whole SLEW of conflicts -- with himself, with others -- that he never had previously, because he never tried DOING it a different way before.
As you say, also Grayson as the original Batman might make sense. And then there'd be a lot of conflict when Bruce figured it out. Of course, the problem there is that if Bruce doesn't tacitly agree with the need for a Batman, even if he won't do it himself, he can really put a crimp in Batman's style just by making sure that Grayson doesn't have access to the resources to really DO "Batman".
Unless Grayson ends up independently wealthy somehow.
As you say, also Grayson as the original Batman might make sense. And then there'd be a lot of conflict when Bruce figured it out. Of course, the problem there is that if Bruce doesn't tacitly agree with the need for a Batman, even if he won't do it himself, he can really put a crimp in Batman's style just by making sure that Grayson doesn't have access to the resources to really DO "Batman".
Unless Grayson ends up independently wealthy somehow.
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