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hear me out

in Gotham, multiple people start training to become batman

They all become just as good as bruce
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OP invented the Bat-Family and really thought he had a banger idea
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>>154198251
no

these are random people not related to bruce
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>>154198180
>in Gotham, multiple people start training to become batman
>They all become just as good as bruce

And then?
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>>154198275
>these are random people not related to bruce
So the Bat-Family
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>>154198316
well

they (let’s say 10 of them) build their own bat suits, gadgets and everything, they show up when the bat signal is shined in the night sky

they all gang up to fight the rouge gallery and beat them with ease

The real batman isnt able to track any of his copycats because theyve become THAT good
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>>154198275
That is literally the Bat Family and Batman Incorporated, i know you mean something like a special police unit or even a task force to act as Gotham's ninja protectors or whatever but that has ALSO been done before (especially in Elseworlds).
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>>154198180
But do they wear hockey pads?
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well lets, say bruce ends up fighting one of these copycats and loses

what would that mean for him

does he continue fighting or would he stop and these other batmans take over his job

remember, they are essentially good, just like bruce
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>>154198401
uh, its nothing like that

in my story, these other batmans dont answer to bruce

theyve all trained themselves in every facet to become him
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these other batmans dont even speak when confronted by bruce because they know hes recording their voices and use use his database to match their personal records
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>>154198392
>The real batman isnt able to track any of his copycats because theyve become THAT good
Sounds stupid.
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>>154198180
>>154198392
You're kind of talking about Batman Inc. but I assume you mean this all takes place in Gotham. From a story perspective they need to do something different otherwise they are all just Nightwing, the Robins, The Batgirls with extra steps. You could argue they're the human version of the Bat Knights from Kingdom Come. Or Batmans punk gang from the Dark Knight. Now that I think about it it's what makes Batman Beyond so interesting because the "Bat Army" seems like the inevitable conclusion to the way he runs things or his mindset.

>The real batman isnt able to track any of his copycats because theyve become THAT good

Again if they're within Batman's parameters in terms of behavior does it matter. If they're just 10 more Batmen cleaning up the streets who cares, Batman just folds them into his operation. To be "interesting" there needs to be some conflict between them and the original Batman.

Or maybe the problem isn't a "Batman" problem. It's a Gotham finally has too many vigilantes (but all the vigilantes that are already there, yea Iknow). The problem is 11 total effective Batmen essentially crash all trust in the police force or governments ability to keep Gotham safe and kickstarts a rise "just" lawlessness. The people of Gotham subconciously and collectively come to the conclusion that cops are a waste of time and vigilantism is the answer and nearly every able bodied person steps up and tries to stop crimes on their own. And this is what the Batmen have to address. Them being a bad influence or throwing the balance between Law& Order and absolute justice out of line.
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>>154198180
>They all become just as good as bruce
they let criminals live so they can keep doing fucked up shit to innocent people?
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>>154199185
in my comic, they all dress up as batman, and essentially become him, and bruce knows it

also, they figure out that bruce is batman through the joker. so, they begin to track bruce throughout the day, which leads them to the batcave

now, they dont steal anything, because they dont need what he has. They ultimately believe they are better than the real the batman, since the real batman needs an extraordinary amount of money to maintain his vigilantism while they have nothing but sheer determination
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>>154199535
Sounds pointless and retarded. Don't quit your dayjob.
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so, what these other batmans do is, empty bruce wayne’s bank account and spread his wealth over the world

they want to see if the real batman can operate like them with no money backing them up
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the answer is basically no, because bruce admits he grew up rich and has no idea what its like be poor

All that money was his safety net

all that money also secured his friends political seats
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bruce comes to the realization that these other batmans are better than him, and the reason why he wants them to stop is because they are killing his alter ego

Yes, it’s an ego thing. Bruce admits only he can be batman because without it, hes nothing, and Bruce doesn’t want to be nothing
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And of course, these other batmans do kill because they know by letting the criminals live, the system eventually frees them, allowing them to hurt and kill innocent people

they bruce “how many people has he killed by letting the joker live”

bruce doesnt answer, because he doesn’t know the answer

one of the Batmans gives the answer

Its approximately 10 thousand people around the world, mass deaths included
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>>154199963
they ask bruce*
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The other Batmans confide in Bruce that the reason why he lets the joker live, is because bruce gets be Batman for another day
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in the end, bruce admits that the other Batmans are correct

but he ends up putting on the cowl anyway
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the other Batmans remove their cowl and reveal who they are

they are essentially nobodies

just random people who work mundane jobs

No criminal history whatsoever

after revealing who they are, they walk away and never return to being batman
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>>154198180
How is it there are not more metahumans in Gotham with the vast amount of chemicals and poisons being released in the water, the river, the air, and in various populated areas, giant super weapons being set off on a semi-frequent basis, and chemical plants being blown up at least twice a year?

You would think between the common everyday antics of Joker, Ivy, Freeze, Raas, and Bane, nearly everyone in town should have died of super cancer by now, the survivors being mutated into monsters or getting superpowers.
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>>154198180
>>154198392
They are not that dedicated, have dayjobs, and cannot really commit that much time to training. Nor can they afford useful gadgets.

So best you get are Mystery Men.
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>>154198392
Anon is reinventing Gotham City Imposters.
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>>154200946
why did you use the live action adaptation picture instead of the original comic?
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>>154200946
lets say bruce spent ten years learning how the fight. you dont think a group of people can’t do the same while practicing on each other?

If anything, theyd become efficient at a quicker rate. And as far as gadgets goes, like damn, Lucious fox isn’t the only genius who lives in Gotham

maybe one of the batmans has access to military weaponry
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i think itd be cool to see bruce wayne witness another person as batman take down criminals in the same fashion as he would do it
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>>154198180
Wait, so "Three Jokers" but with Batman?
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>>154198180
It won't be an overnight thing, but yeah. It happens all the time actually.
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>>154201261
No, so it’s ten ordinary people within Gotham who trained themselves to become batman.
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bruce wayne learns he isn’t as special as he thinks he is
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>>154198510
If one of them beat Bruce's ass it'd just be like when Azrael replaced him all over again. Bruce'd have a montage and then get his win back and be top dog again.

I'm sure DC tried to Miles Morales Batman but it's not working.
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its like this, you admire a certain mma fighter and you think he is the best, unbeatable. But its not until you learn how to fight yourself is when know now that you can stand a chance at beating him

this is how these ten people must feel after training to become batman
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>>154199963
>And of course, these other batmans do kill because they know by letting the criminals live, the system eventually frees them, allowing them to hurt and kill innocent people

You know what's really wild to me? GCPD's had the Spectre on the force for a while. Either because the Spectre found a new host in a GCPD detective or they made the OG host a GCPD officer in modern day.

And yet, somehow, the streets of Gotham were not running with the blood of the wicked.
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>>154201294
So it's Ten Jokers.
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>>154198180
And then Batbaby shuts them all down because no one plays in HIS playpen without his permission. If you want to play with Baby Brucie's toys, you obey his rules.
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>>154201448
>Batbaby home-grows his own line of Bat-men because he's tired of the accusations his powers do all the work
>Siccs them on the Bat Family in a grand battle royale that's more like one big puzzle fight than the deathmatch it's billed as
>At the end they're all unmasked and it turns out he swapped competitors' costumes before the fight
>The 'thought bubbles' and 'internal narration' were just Batbaby doing a voice the whole time to hide it
>Now thoroughly confused, he lets them all go with one get-out-of-cliche'd-evil-twin-fight card free for each
>[Spoiler]And gives the real Batman who's been tied up in the cuck chair watching the whole thing a trophy with Steve Harvey's face on it
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>>154201574
Batbaby is the real Batman. Bruce Wayne is nothing but a spoiled manchild in a very expensive onesie who just wants to keep playing with his toys forever and ever.
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Yeah, the ten batmans that show up and does a job just as good as the real batman proves bruce Wayne doesnt have to do the job anymore, but he still does it out of egoistical necessity

he knows hes gothams superstar and he plans on staying that way
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>>154201619
He sees Gotham as HIS playground and the people living in it as HIS toys. He just doesn't want his playtime to end. That's it.
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>>154198180
One of them is dirt poor so he makeshifts everything batman has from trash and stuff. I.E Batrang from Boomerang materal instead of metal. Handmade Batclaw with nylone rope. Cycle with Gear mechanix instead of batpod.
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>>154201736
this is more in line of what im talking about

they don’t have access to the top grade materials in assembling gadgets, so they have to make due to whats available to them
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>>154201574
This just sounds like a BatMite story.
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bruce has an array of vehicles that allows him to travel with ease

the ten batmans do not

so itd make sense to have ten of these guys patrolling sections of Gotham
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so its confusing at first when people hear reports that batman is in two places at once

it starts to make sense when they learn there are multiple batmans
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>>154201448
You don't even need Bruce to act in this weird scenario, if anyone got too bold with his persona Bane and Ra's would step in and since they don't play by rules for anyone but Bruce they're going to take heads.
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and when bruce wayne sees how these copycats move, hes straight up shocked because they all move and fight the same way he does

at first, hes thinking its members from ras al ghul, but they declare it isnt them

next, he notifies nightwing, maybe he was the one who thought these new guys how to fight. Nightwing says its a good idea and that he should’ve done something like that a lot sooner so he can then retire

theres even a moment where the bat signal is shine onto the night sky and real batman shows up to meet Gordon only to see that he is already talking to a batman copycat
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>>154198180
>multiple people start training to become batman
Catman and recently The silver ghost(which started before Bruce)
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>>154198392
>what if 10 psycho billionaires start beating up poor people and "accidentally" creating supervillains

what if you pay taxes and shut the fuck up
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>>154198180
Bruce? Bruce Wayne? he's not Batman you Schizo
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>>154198251
OP is talking about a Bat Army. The Bat Family is a gay concept.
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>>154200946
Kinda
But also minus the cool bulletproof cars, grappling hooks, and all those expensive tech gadgets that cost more than their homes, plus the computer and lab that is the main reason Joker plots are foiled, means they are never going to be half as effective as Bruce. They will just be slightly more effective thugs on the street.
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>>154198350
Like only 5 can be considered his kids. Everyone else is some teenager or young man who said "Call me in coach!"
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>>154201619
>>154201640
Gay, Batman tolerates Vigilantes as long as they show ability and they don't fuck it up.
He told Orpheus that, as long as he didn't cross the line, he won't go against him. Same case with him training Spoiler and Signal.
At best, Batman will feel better they are doing his job and scaring criminals enough to lower crime. Just don't be surprised when Ra's begins killing them
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>>154205614
Pretty much this.

Batman does not stop the villains in Gotham by being the top kick ass kung fu man. He stops the villains by being the smart analytical genius that does detective and CSI work, then goes back to his lab in the Bat cave to whip up an antidote to whatever poison Sarecrow or Joker spread around this week. He generally needs the help of his garage of flying and underwater vehicles to accomplish it too.

He's not Iron Fist and spends his nights beating up on gang members. If anyone else in Gotham wants to be helpful then they need to be more like Ted Kord, and start by being rich so they can fund their themed hovercrafts.



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