Officer Wayne, Justice League thought

[jeriendhal]

So who would take the World's Greatest Detective's role in the JL, if Bruce never became Bats? Because the only other candidate that comes close from what I remember of DC's cast is The Question, and that would make for some interesting dynamics on that team.

"Please, I look through everyone's garbage."

Comments

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Urgh, that's going to take some doing to fit in, unless this becomes a mini-series.

[seawasp]

If I were doing it, I'd be planning it as a mini or even full-blown series, not as a one-shot. One-shots are okay as sorta-jokes, but this has potential of a completely different, yet familiar, DC universe. The Batman is one of the pivotal figures of that universe. Changing his life this drastically -- yet believably -- can have almost limitless interesting repercussions to explore, WITHOUT having to do stupid cosmic rewrites or reboots of everything.

You could just tell the story of how Dick became Officer Grayson, or modify your prior stuff and remove "Officer Grayson" for use later, or have "Officer Grayson" be Dick's father... who gets killed later, along with his wife, and Bruce adopts Dick because of the resonance between his childhood and Dick's. Then Dick can either decide to follow Bruce's footsteps, or secretly become the Batman himself, any of which would be quite a change.

There's many routes