Reverse!injustice Bruce and Clark have been giving me brainworms all week and then I saw your art of it on my dash so now I'm making it your ask box's problem, hope thats okay.
One of the concepts that makes me insane is the idea that for Clark, his snapping point is his family being murdered, but for Bruce, his snapping point (as he keeps telling everyone) would be committing murder. So I keep imagining an utrh au where Bruce actually does kill the joker when jason begs him to, and that's where it all goes wrong. Just. Bruce having a moment of weakness at exactly the wrong time and killing the joker for what he did to jason and then its just. It's over for him. Next thing you know, the Riddler's dead. Then Bane. Then Lex Luthor for being in the wrong place at the wrong time during a superbat team-up. The batfamily are freaking out. Superman and the Justice League are convinced there's mind control going on. By the time they all realise what's happened, it's too late. Congrats Jason, you got exactly what you wanted all along. Now live with the consequences. (Disclaimer: I do love him and I totally get that he's traumatised and all that but that doesn't make him objectively correct)
The transition from the Batman the world knows to a man who can and will take the world by the throat and squeeze to get the peace he so desperately wants for the world might start slower, more subtly, but once the batfam, superman or the Justice League realise what's happened, that Bruce was right all along and he could never stop at just the joker, once they try to intervene, it's too late. Bruce has been preparing for years to take down his allies should they ever turn dark, they wouldn't stand a chance if bruce himself decided to start a war.
Clark, with his self-sacrificing streak, his unbreakable belief that Bruce is in there somewhere? It's only a matter of time before he's captured or turns himself in to save the Rebellion or whatever innocent civilians he can. And Bruce has never been one to let an opportunity go to waste. He'll be determined to make Clark "see reason". All it would take is the right application of pressure, and enough time.
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