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In 1998, the Czech hockey team went to the Olympics.

In 2014, a documentary was made about them.

And her mentioning multiple times wanting to give Ruby a "normal life".

She wanted Ruby to have a "normal Life". for Ruby's life to be normal. to give her a sense of normalcy.

That "normal life" is, by sheer coincidence, similar to the life of the average american citizen. For some reason, this life style is seen by Ruby's mom as more "normal" than the lifestyle of other krakens.

This is because the creators of the movie were americans. and they see this style of life as normal or the norm.

And this, I want to make clear, is not a good or a bad thing. I am not necessarily being critical or saying it is bad that the movie's lenses sees "normal life" as the life of a teenage american. (which you *can* be if you want to but I am not gonna).

In the August solicits for DC, Batman #12 seems to imply that a new supporting character related in some manner to Alfred Pennyworth (who is currently still dead) will be appearing to assist Bruce and the Bat Family.

There has been some speculation as to who this might be (including jokes that Stephanie Brown got fired from the Batgirl gig in the New Titans series and is their butler now), but there's not been any indication thus far who she might be.

One suggestion that I've seen is that she's a drastic reimagining of Julia Pennyworth which... no. For one thing she's neither white nor blonde, secondly she doesn't particularly like the Bat Family very much and only really interacts with them via Oracle, if at all, these days.

Barring some infuriating Arrowverse level whitewashing (in the Batwoman show they cast a white actress to play her because there was a scene where she impersonates the Kate Kane version of Batwoman... which is stupid as they could have just not had that scene? And while Alfred did originally have a white daughter called Julia, who went by her mother's name Remarque, she's not been seen since the 80s and THIS Julia is the one currently in comics), I think that there is another, more sensible explanation for who mysterious blonde woman is.

I think that she's Barbara Wilson, Alfred's niece from the movie Batman and Robin, where she became the Joel Schumacher films version of Batgirl, which is kind of confusing considering how Commissioner Gordon had been a fixture of the movies since the first Tim Burton one (with his films and Schumacher's holding a loose continuity between them).

Babs in the movie seemed to be under the impression that Bruce was holding Alfred prisoner in a lifetime of indentured servitude, which is a bafflingly childish idea of Alfred's job, even if he weren't involved in superhero shenanigans (bloke's making a mint running Bruce's house etc. for him, just saying).

This would also make her crossing over into the comics to be the replacement Alfred hilarious in this context.

If this were to be Barbara Wllson, this would be I think the second character brought over from the less well received 1990s Batman movies into the broader comics continuity, following Dr Chase Meridian (from Schumacher's Batman Forever) having previously crossed over as the lead doctor in the Arkham Tower facility several years ago.

In that lense, I think Barbara's issue and calling it "Indentured Servitude" make a bit more sense. It's not that she has an issue with people working as butlers, She believes Alfred should have retired already and can't understand why, coming to the conclusion it's because Bruce is forcing him to stay somehow.