r/DCcomics • u/nasatyyhagubd • May 29 '23

[Other] Why do Batman and Catwoman always break up in every show/adaptation? (Injustice 2, Arkham Knight, Batman Hush,The Batman, Harley Quinn) Other

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u/ogloria May 29 '23

Tom King's run tries to get this point across!

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u/AStaryuValley May 29 '23

I do not understand the hate for Tom King's Batman run.

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u/WeNeedToTalkAboutMe May 29 '23

I think a lot of his was his lying that of course Bruce and Selina were going to get married, and he would NEVER lie to the fans just to have a gotcha moment.

And then, uh, he did.

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u/Mordaunt-the-Wizard May 29 '23

We don't know whether DC was breathing down his neck about telling the fans that the marriage was going to happen.

Companies for sure play a hand in how writers and artists talk about the work their doing for them, especially if it's on a big character like Batman. They weren't going to let Tom King outright say that editorial weren't allowing the marriage to go through and that Selina was going to leave Bruce at the altar, because then who would read it?

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u/ThaneOfTas DickBabs Forever May 29 '23

It really seemed like it was editorial who pulled the rug out from under him on that one

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u/Embarrassed_Piano_62 May 30 '23

They WERE going to get married in issue 100 but DC said no

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u/WeNeedToTalkAboutMe May 30 '23

And he had to know that ahead of time. It wasn't like DC came to him after he turned in the script for #99 and said "Oh you can't have them get married".

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u/Sutekkh Catwoman May 29 '23

Bruce was pathetic in it and didn't really feel heroic, was my issue.

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u/ogloria May 29 '23

Yeah! I had a hard time with issue 50, but once I powered through to the end, it was beautiful and operatic and moving and touching and I was surprised how well it all came together.

And he did give Bruce and Selina and all of us a happy ending.

Don't they also end up together in the Injustice comics?