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Batman Rewrite Dick Grayson Pairing Poll

fuck it, here goes

i have a rewrite where im combining as many dc medias as i can into a semi-coherant timeline. im also throwing in some original stuff for flair. Dick has had many a relationship over the decades, so i want to know:

Which Dick Grayson Pairing Should Be In My Rewrite?

Dick/Kory

Dick/Jericho

Dick/Wally

Dick/Roy

Dick/Kara

Dick/Babs

Dick/Zatanna

Dick/Garth

Other (put in comments/tags)

Voting ended onJul 21, 2025

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You are given the chance to completely revamp one (1) DC character. You may change whatever you want about them, along with their relationships with other characters, but only they and their relationships change. All other aspects of other characters, minus their relationship to the changed character, remain the same. Who do you change, what do you change, and why?

Bruce Wayne/Batman. Since he’s DC’s biggest character, outside of his Batman alter ego, he has a lot of elements that have been unchanged since his inception in the 40s. From his dead parents backstory, to being a Gotham billionaire, having a butler as his surrogate father and being a playboy in his civilian life.

I want to change the Bruce Wayne, since I believe Bruce should be a reflection of Batman, not a distraction from Batman. People these days really divorce Batman from Bruce Wayne entirely cos the idea of a playboy billionaire nowadays is just alienating to a lot of people. Maybe in the 40s this was acceptable but this is 2023. Bruce Wayne’s character really needs an update, since we need to feel like Batman is Bruce Wayne under that mask, not a completely different person wearing the cowl.

First off:

I would make Thomas and Martha Wayne neglectful parents. Keep the dead parents backstory, that’s important. But I like the idea of Bruce believing that his parents always loved him and puts them on way too high a pedestal. Like he would recount all the times his father took him to the local comic book store or his mother would shower him with hugs and presents. This is why Bruce holds them in such high regards and did crimefighting in the first place.

But during the first couple years being Batman, Bruce developed an obsession with keeping his parents’ memory alive by keeping his parent’s old bedroom just the way it was before they died. And he would often cry himself to sleep in the living room whenever he had failed to stop the Joker or any supervillain he had trouble dealing with.

Per Alfred’s request, Bruce goes into therapy. This is where we meet Leslie Thompkins (a recurring character in the Batman story) as his therapist where she helps him realise a lot of things. Bruce realised that whenever he remembered his stories, his view of his parents was always a blur and and aside from his stories, he didn’t know his parents that well. We realised from his repressed memories that it was actually Alfred who cared and raised Bruce since childhood. Alfred was just a butler for the Wayne’s but quickly became a surrogate father to young Bruce.

We (as the audience) finally see Bruce’s childhood, Thomas and Martha were actually neglectful towards Bruce. Sure they were respectful people in the Gotham community, but they were rich and constantly bought Bruce’s love with presents. They only saw Bruce as a future heir to Wayne Enterprises and a meal ticket. The only reason they went to the theatre with Bruce at all was because his fave movie was showing and he wouldn’t stop talking about it.

Alfred always wanted to tell Bruce it was he who actually raised him all this time but kept quiet cos Bruce always looked so happy talking about them and he was fighting crime everyday for them. But as soon Bruce realised who the actual parent in his life is still with him and has been with him all along, Bruce encourages Alfred to stop being his butler and be his full-time dad. To which Alfred replies: I always have been…Bruce.

Boom. You get an infinitely sadder and more sympathetic reason why Bruce is so obsessed with making his dead parents proud and you get him recovering from his neglect and being with a parent who has always loved him.

I would make Bruce Wayne a well off businessman instead of a billionaire. In light of billionaires like Andrew Tate and Jeff Bezos being scummy towards their employees and people setting up guillotines outside their mansions, it’s really not comfortable to show a billionaire in a positive light anymore, even if he’s progressive. Again, this isn’t the 40s anymore. It might have been quaint to see a billionaire actually care about the common people but after the two CEO twats I mentioned above, try telling a modern audience that you can make a billionaire sympathetic.

I feel like we need more suave businessman side of Bruce Wayne. Outside of the BTAS and the 60s Batman show, we don’t see a lot Bruce being a cunning yet reasonable and tactical guy. I know his alter ego is the World’s Greatest Detective, so he can’t be too smart to give the game away, but at least have him roasting the hell out of greedy corporate bosses and giving his employees good pay and advocates against sexual/racial harassment in the workplace. I know it’s a romanticisation of businessmen and bosses but hey it’s better than romanticising the morbidly rich. Just write a good businessman who cares about his employees and respects women.

You can still have Bruce well off in terms of wealth, just not isolated mansion with 100 acres of inherited land levels of rich. Heck, you can just have the Batcave be a hidden cavern Bruce found nearby when hiking and spends a good chunk of his inheritance building it. Maybe it would be an abandoned railway which would be how the Batmobile would find a connection to the main roads of Gotham.

Maybe he can give the rest of his wealth to charities, the city so they can refurbish the more worn down streets. I’m just spitballing here

Finally:

In terms of personality, I liked Bruce Wayne in the early seasons of BtAS or the Batman 2004 series. Snarky, witty and playful as Bruce, but is cunning and serious. He does have that brooding energy when he’s donning the Batcape but he’s not an angsty asshole (cough cough unlike the TNBA Batman cough). Maybe this is why, as Batman, he’s always very moody and stoic. Because he knows that he became Batman in the first place to avenge two parents who didn’t even love him in the first place and now has to live with this being his second job because he’s saving people and that’s what matters to him. He’s very kind and caring to everyone (this ties into him caring for kids who are orphaned like him like Tim Drake or ones who are abused/neglected like Jason or Barbara.) but carries off this mysterious vibe.

I like the idea of Bruce being very cool and suave to the public, but is still a loner and even his employees don’t know him. He wants to open up to people but after how his parents treated him and doesn’t have that many people in his life, he keeps people away in fear of rejection and abandonment. (Even in childhood, Bruce never had friends that stayed longer than a day, cos they were all paid to play with him.) He has very nerdy side he doesn’t show to a lot of people. He reads old 50s comic books, he even has lunch that Alfred always makes him. Cos why bother with high class cuisine when you can have your dad’s home cooking?

Also have Bruce be a friend to all animals. I want him to adopt a bunch of bats he found in the cave and he names them after all his fave comic book heroes. Also have him be in a romance with Clark Kent. I need my Superbat

And finally: Make Commissioner Gordon Bruce/Batman’s rival

I know Commisoner Gordon is Batman’s ally and all that but I always thought he was just Alfred 2.0 and it’s not fair that a lot of the interesting stuff regarding Batman’s care and concern for others always falls to Gordon or his daughter when you got Bats’ surrogate dad standing RIGHT THERE. Also much like with romanticising rich people, Commissioner Gordon isn’t helping with his whole “NOT ALL COPS ARE BAHHHD!!” schtick when the GCPD is the most corrupt police force in all of fiction.

So I would have Gordon be like the J Jonah Jameson of Gotham. He hates Bruce Wayne for being a spoilt brat busybody and constantly makes fun of him. He knows he can’t arrest Bruce Wayne without good reason but that doesn’t mean he won’t give him parking tickets for no reason or rant about him on Twitter. Bruce in public would shrug and be above it all. But when the cowl comes on…shit goes down.

Gordon doesn’t know Batman’s identity so Bruce can intimidate him as much as he likes and can get away with it. Gordon can’t refuse Batman’s help cos he needs him to take down the supervillains. So it’s wonderful catharsis for Bruce.

Heck, Bruce can learn about how neglected and miserable Gordon’s daughter Barbara is and inspires her to take up a course in coding, which leads her into become Oracle (her lone hero identity when she’s old enough would be Batgirl)

I could go on forever about all sorts of changes but those are the main ones I would change to make Bruce Wayne a more interesting character, so when he puts on the cowl, we don’t just see Batman, we see Bruce Wayne

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