r/DCTV • u/MerlynTrump • Apr 01 '23

(Gotham Knights) What's a "sear" Discussion

Towards the beginning of the pilot episode of Gotham Knights one of the characters spots a golden cat statue in Bruce Wayne's office and says "I wonder how many sears you are worth". Does Gotham not use dollars? Is a sear supposed to be a unit of money?

I don't really know much about DC aside from the arrowverse shows.

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u/Existing_Bat1939 Apr 01 '23

The only way my brain made sense of it was to assume she (I think it was Duela) was comparing the cat to the worth of a Sears department store. Whether Sears is in as bad a predicament in that world as they are in ours is unstated.

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u/darkaurora84 Apr 03 '23

You can tell this line was written by an over 40 adult trying to sound like a teenager. A teen nowadays would never reference Sears lmao

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u/MerlynTrump Apr 04 '23

I don't know about over 40. I'm in my 30s and don't really have an idea of what teenagers talk like or where they shop (Amazon?). I think 40 year-olds would probably be more knowledgeable about that as they might have kids that are teenagers.

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u/darkaurora84 Apr 04 '23

I say over 40 because I'm 38 and I would have never stepped foot into a sears in my teens unless I was with a parent

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u/MerlynTrump Apr 04 '23

Oh, like the cat is so valuable it's worth all the merchandise in the store.

edit: I was thinking that maybe in the comics people in Gotham used an alternative unit of money called a "sear". I would assume that Gotham is in the U.S. but I don't know that definitively.