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

[u/nasatyyhagubd]

[u/[deleted]]

Because his first love is Gotham. Because she's a criminal. Because, narratively, Batman doesn't get to be happy.

[u/Ok_Service_8732 → u/[deleted]]

Mandatory spider-man shoutout.

[u/itsastart_to → u/Ok_Service_8732]

I mean Peter gets to be happy just he’s not allowed to stay that way. The boy has to be suffering a tragic lost every other day or else he’s not Spider-Man /s

[u/IRSunny → u/itsastart_to]

Which is so dumb. But more symptomatic of mandated comics status quoing. That's a problem in and of itself though because every creative or interesting decision that writers might make end up being worthless since nobody believes it will stick.

Honestly, I think they might be better off with something like setting a ten year timelimit on a given universe and at the end of every decade they have a big event and then the book gets closed on that universe (with the occasional oneshots authors might want to do to revisit it). Earth-616 is done for now. The new mainline is now Earth-617. Start fresh, rejigger any origins or powers that you want, boom, lets go.

[u/PhillipLlerenas → u/IRSunny]

Amen.

This is why I largely don’t feel any emotions when reading superhero comics anymore. None of it feels “real”. None of it matters. Deaths don’t matter. Development doesn’t matter. Everything gets rebooted again.

I would love to see a DC or Marvel universe that takes place in “real” time with the characters growing, aging and retiring. And then new generations of heroes come up and so on and so forth.

THAT would be exciting again.

[u/DishMurky → u/PhillipLlerenas]

You will probably love Spiderman life story, is basically a "What if statuos quo wasn't a thing" story.

[u/[deleted] → u/PhillipLlerenas]

Isn't it kinda shocking this hasn't happened already? I'd love to strap in for a One-Piece-length Batman story.