Originally posted by tjcoady
I seriously don't understand what's confusing.I'm not trying to be pretentious here, regardless of the fact that I am an arrogant bastard, as the beer I'm currently drinking proclaims.
I seriously just don't understand what there is to be confused about. Batman comes under attack by a well coordinated strike by a powerful group of people, lead by a mysterious individual. Is it confusion over who Dr. Hurt is that is the problem?
It doesn't matter who Hurt is, as Morrison makes exceedingly clear- he could be the Devil, he could be Thomas Wayne, or he could just be some actor. All of these are possibilities, and none of them change how the story works. Hurt and the Black Glove soften Gotham's criminals so Batman begins to lose his edge, and then launch a psychic attack on Batman, which allows Morrison to go into a fun exploration of the idea of what actually BEING Batman would be like- a human, albeit a pretty damn impressive one, who experienced the seventy-plus years of insane adventures and tragedies he had would be fairly messed up. Simultaneously, he develops a relationship with Jezebel Jet, seeming to fall in love with her remarkably quickly.
The mental attack on Batman causes Batman to access a mental failsafe he created, because he's ****in* Batman and he prepares for everything. It's like starting your computer in Safe Mode after it has a crash. Batman turns the tables on the Black Glove, who planned to break Batman once and for all in Arkaham, revealing that his relationship with Jet was an act, and that while he didn't know exactly what the Glove would do to him, he was ready for freaking everything, because, again, he's the goddamn Batman, and that's just what he does.
Honestly, what's not to get? It's a story about how awesome Batman is, that even when faced with the ultimate threat, he somehow always finds a way to win. Perfect, chilling Batman story. How on earth could you find it confusing?
Originally posted by willRules
To be prepared enough to have a fail safe in case he went crazy is in itself.....crazy 🙂
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrazyPrepared
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Originally posted by dj slade
I know they never realy die in the comic world you can launch a missile up batmans ass and he still dosen't die because hes the batman lol.
No, I mean they never even had a death. Batman just got shot somewhere in the Multiverse. It's not like when Bucky died and get ret-conned back to life: Batman was shown not to have been killed in the next issue of the same comic.