chonaku-things replied to your photo “DC First: Batgirl/The Joker (2002) #1 “Batman doesn’t yell.” ...”
what are your favorite details of the old Bruce's characterization ? (sorry meta is always one of my guilty pleasure)
Bruce does not raise his voice, instead he uses silence and words convey his disappointment or anger (which is a THOUSAND TIMES WORSE if you ask his children).
No matter what was happening around him, Bruce would stop at anything to put a child first, including turning his back on his current enemies, just to ensure that a child was safe.
When thinking very hard, Bruce would bite his thumb.
Bruce did not sleep around, and in his long history (65 years), only had a fully developed romantic connection with Talia and Selina who he loved fairly equally and couldn't choose between (the old editorial mandate all the way until Morrison's run on Batman was that Bruce could not be shown as sleeping with anyone out of fear that it would open him up to sexualizing all of his relationships. Whether it's a mentality you agree with or not, it did make Bruce as a "male power fantasy" fairly unique among the highly sexual other male characters in comics)
Bruce used to sit on the Arkham Asylum board and did everything in his power to assist rehabilitation of all of his villains, including pushing for the release in patients he truly believed redeemed themselves (he was Harley, Pam, Eddie, and Harvey's biggest cheerleader in many ways).
He originally intentioned to be either a lawyer or a police officer, even beginning criminology courses at Gotham University, where he and Harvey met and were actually friends, but the corruption in Gotham was too much for Bruce to stand by and so he then began to train for being a vigilante.