Batman RIP – Who Dies, And Whodunnit?

The final chapter of the controversial Batman RIP storyline hits comic stores this Wednesday – And if rumors are to conceive , the biggest controversy may have been saved for last . But before we find out once and for all who ’s test to make Bruce Wayne rest in peace , let ’s make like the world ’s greatest detective and look at what we ’ve check so far , and try and forge out why everything may not be as it seems . pillager – or , at least , rumor and guess that have as much chance of being right as being entirely wrong – await . For those who have n’t been following the storyline , this is what you ’ve missed : Bruce Wayne ’s girlfriend , the wonderfully - named Angelina Jolie stand - in Jezebel Jet , works out that he is , in fact Batman . At the same metre as tell him that such behavior is n’t levelheaded , she also unveil that she has been contacted by a grouping call itself “ The Black Glove ” – a mathematical group that has also been making various moves against Batman over the retiring few months . We see that the Black Glove is headed by a man call off Simon Hurt , and that their goal is the complete and utter destruction of Batman … which they apparently succeed in , by kidnapping Bruce Wayne and , in a plot growing that skirt the “ awful / insane ” edge multiple clock time , aim him insane by getting him addict to “ weapons - mark diacetylmorphine . ”

Only trouble is that Batman was already insane , and had plan for something like this to happen . Batman ’s sanity is not in doubt in this storyline ; we are distinguish , multiple times , that Batman is distinctly insane and unhealthy , and that ’s bring home when the broken Batman is replaced by an all - newfangled personality that Batman himself had create as a mesmerizing failsafe in case of emergency : The Batman of Zur - En - Arrh . This personality , which is the personification of the unstoppable Batman of myth , return to face not only the Black Glove , but also the Joker ( released from Arkham Asylum by the Glove ) . As the Batman of Zur - En - Arrh realizes that he ca n’t win , and becomes plain old Bruce Wayne again – before blacking out – we ’re left with a revelation and a potential cue as to who ’s behind it all : Jezebel Jet , it ’s revealed , is apparently part of the Black Glove . Except … that ’s a little too easy , harmonize to a rumor that ’s going around the internets . That hearsay say that , although Jet is part of the bad hombre , she ’s not the bad guy – because that ’s Robin , the Boy Wonder . No , really . As ridiculous as it sound , there are a duet of clues that point to this being more than just wild speculation . The first is from the close of the previous chapter , where the lector ’s attention is drawn ( by both the Joker and Batman himself ) to the colors ruddy and black ; this may be point towards Jezebel Jet ( a shameful woman with dye cherry hair’s-breadth ) , but it could also be directed towards Robin , whose costume is red and black , and whom , we were told originally in the chapter , has not been captured like all of Batman ’s other sidekicks ( “ Well , little red Robin ’s proving to be a more … tricky client than we expected ” ) . We know fromupcomingsolicitationsfor Robin ’s own comedian that 2009 will see “ an all - new Robin , ” and thecover of last month ’s issueof the Robin comic did say that the end was near … But what kind of end is that , precisely … ? ( To total entirely specious fuel to the fire ; it ’s never been revealed what madewriter Chuck Dixon leave DC Comics so suddenly this past June , just prior to the launching of Batman RIP , but as the author most credited with the development of this current Robin , the possibility of his leaving in protest over hear that the theatrical role was going to be unwrap as the character trying to take down Batman once and for all is an interesting one . ) While Robin ’s sudden turn to the dark side would be a surprising one in more ways that one , it ’s definitely a revelation that fit writer Grant Morrison’spromisethat the baddie ’s identity will be “ possibly the most lurid Batman revelation in 70 old age . ” But where does this leave Batman himself ? Not dead numb , apparently ; Morrison has alsosaidthat the storyline will terminate “ Bruce Wayne as Batman ” but that “ it ’s so much proficient than death . multitude have killed theatrical role in the past but to me , that sort of end the story ! I care to keep the level torture and turning . So what I am doing is a fate bad than death . ”

Uberfan Omar Karindu has acompelling disceptation as to what that circumstances may be :

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Batman Will drop dead At the End of “ Batman R.I.P. ” This does n’t have to mean that Bruce Wayne dies in the flesh , or even that he no longer wears the costume and fight the fight . It means that Batman as a character , as the ‘ literal ” soul where Bruce et al . are merely mask and tools , has to die . The Black Glove has acquire by exploiting the snag that permit Batman take on all the irrationality and suffering of Bruce Wayne , baby victim of criminal offense and traumatized orphan , making the rent expand and multiply . So how does Batman advance ? By fixing the split , by unifying the personality again , the whole personality . By letting Bruce Wayne live , and suffer , and be a little irrational when it ’s human to be so , and ultimately , by killing the need for Batman . Batman will go ; Bruce Wayne will live . Bruce Wayne will no longer be “ a daytime masquerade for the Batman , ” but rather “ Batman ” will either cease to be or will become simply a mask Bruce Wayne finds utilitarian in uttermost setting . Let ’s face it , you do n’t have to wear the symbolisation of your don - as - desperate - idealistic and your puerility fear wrap up into one Bat - allegory to fight criminal offense , help criminal offense victims , do to and avenge your parent ’ storage . In fact , what Batman has done is to desegregate the impossibly perfect memory of Thomas Wayne with the impossibly innumerable well of fright and suffering of that shuddery cave of bats and that terrible dark in Crime Alley , tp the point that the heroic paragon Thomas Wayne can also be the murderous psychopath Simon Hurt . think in absolutes about veritable hoi polloi gives you God and the Devil all in one … What if Bruce Wayne puts himself back together to the point that he does n’t need Batman any longer ? Would that be the destruction of Batman ?

( The entirity of Karindu ’s post is well deserving reading – It plunk into Batman ’s insanity as hyperrationality and the way in which all of Batman ’s familiar from Wayne himself to Alfred on down are enablers , and therefore accomplice of the Black Glove . ) Is cure Bruce Wayne ’s insanity a fate regretful than death ? Potentially , for Batman ( and for rooter who wish their Batman to be driven , haunted and a little on the nuts side himself ) ; it would unquestionably suit in with what we ’ve seen in RIP up until this point , which has often commented on the broken mind of Bruce Wayne … as well as fulfilling ( famous rooter of the more sane , groovy 1960s Batman than the Dark Knight variant of the character ) Morrison ’s intention of providing something more shocking than death – What if Bruce Wayne just … gets good ? We ’ll incur out whether either of these speculations are correct on Wednesday , when Batman # 681 – part six of Batman RIP hits stores .

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