Officer Wayne/Batman Musing

[jeriendhal]

So, assuming Bruce is eternally 35 in any baseline DC continuity, and his parents murder occurs when he was 8 as per the usual canon, that means the defining event happened in 1988, assuming "now" is 2015.

Exactly how many more Crisis reboots are going to happen before there's a storyline centered around Alfred's criminal levels of parental neglect for failing to get young Master Bruce proper psychological counseling after his trauma?

Comments

[rix_scaedu]

Or an explanation as why his hands were tied on the subject and who tied them...

[rix_scaedu]

*Goes looking for Obadiah Stone-type character in Wayne Enterprises.*

[seawasp]

If I were asked that as a comic writer, I would say that Alfred DID get him counseling. It just didn't change him. Bruce is a supergenius, far smarter than the counselors, and would play along with them until they decided he was okay. I'm not a qualified counselor, but one of my degrees *is* in psych, and someone a lot smarter than the counselors is capable of fooling them.

[seawasp]

Nit: Stane, not Stone.

In the comics, though, Obadiah Stane ran a separate competing company.

[rix_scaedu]

My bad. I was going from the Iron Man movie and I heard/remembered the name as Stone.

[shadur.livejournal.com]

How about whatshisface, the CEO from the Begins movie that tried to shunt Bruce aside the moment he found out the kid was still alive?

[rix_scaedu]

I haven't seen that movie but he sounds like an excellent choice for a villain.

[shadur.livejournal.com]

Hm, maybe the first one CPS sends in does so with spectacularly bad assumptions and winds up both misdiagnosing and badly poisoning the relationship, then unilaterally authorizing treatment that Bruce doesn't want, "for his own good".

Alfred gets wind of it and takes the matter to court, throwing money at the Wayne legal team as needed, but no one is going to have Young Master Bruce assigned to foster parents against the Young Master's wishes as long as there's one breath of life left in this gentleman's gentleman's body...

[shadur.livejournal.com]

... Thinking about it a bit more, that might work. Whatever psych got assigned to the case went with the assumption that a child needs a stable family to grow up in, tells Bruce that he/she will have no trouble finding a pair of new parents for him, and Bruce threw the nearest solid object at their face for even suggesting that his parents are so easily replaced...