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One thing I did like about the ending of Gotham War is that I feel like there's some potentially interesting analysis of Bruce's character to be had here, because I find this whole thing 1000% more interesting viewed through the lens of Bruce backsliding on his core classic issue: He's terrified out of his mind at how much he loves these people around him and he struggles with having relationships with people who have fundamental differences to him. I keep thinking of that Tini Howard quote about this arc and about how it's not about whether or not Bruce and Selina can get together, but that he doesn't really know how to agree to disagree with someone he loves when it comes to something deeply foundational to him. And I think that's the entire point of including everything with Jason--that it's Bruce at a low point, after too much stress coming too quickly, too many major psychological pummelings over the last several arcs, and hitting a point where he can't deal with shoving aside his fundamental disagreements with Jason anymore. But he can't just write Jason off either, because Jason is his son, so his ten simultaneous mental breakdowns all get together and decide that the only option he can live with, is to try to force Jason out of this life. That's why he tries to talk himself into forcing Dick and Tim and Damian to be caught by the police, so they'd be forced out of this life. That's why he crumbles in an alley and tries to talk himself out of loving these people. Because he doesn't know how to agree to disagree with them and still keep loving them, keep having a relationship with them.
Because everything that happened with Selina, that he really let himself believe that he could be with her, marry her, and still be Batman, that really fucked him up and I think Gotham War is more of the aftermath of that. That's how I'm (admittedly doggedly) interpreting the bit about Selina and him being the "parents" of this group, despite that Selina was never in that role--I think Bruce wanted them to be the "parents" of the group and let himself believe in it and, when it went pear-shaped, something in him backslid terribly and now we're all here. "I'm okay with me not having happiness." is a direct call-back to Bruce in the car with Alfred on the way to the wedding, asking with surprising vulnerability, "Am I allowed to be happy?" He opened his heart and got hurt again and it's been stewing for awhile and so much has happened since then--Zur-En-Arrh, Tim getting his throat cut, Dick coming to cheer him up after Selina and getting shot in the head and Bruce almost losing him, Failsafe, Insomnia, everything that's going on over in Gotham Nocturne, etc.--that it fractured something in him and the cracks have finally grown deep enough that it fell apart in this story. So now all of this is just mounting tragedies to him. Which means he can't stay connected to it because he's too afraid of losing them and he's unwilling to try after what his fracturing led him to do. He can't stop them from living this life, despite everything he tried. He can't stop loving them, despite how hard he tried. So, all he can do is walk away before he gets hurt again, trying to leave everything in Dick's hands. Dick who is "better than Batman", who is better than Bruce. That he wants Dick and Barbara to be the "parents", because that's what he was trying to be and felt he failed at it, like to me this ending isn't really resolution, this is a low point for Bruce as a character in his bigger arc, because I think Batman's character arc always has to come back to his trauma of losing his family when he was young, working to let a new family in, coming to love them, and struggling against how much it terrifies him that he might lose them, too, because he doesn't think he can survive that kind of pain again. He'll still be in Damian's life, still be Batman and Robin there, but I think he's making an exception there because so much of it comes back to being able to live with fundamentally disagreeing with someone--Dick and Jason and Tim are adults, he can't tell them what to do anymore. Damian is young enough that, even if they clash, he's still directly in charge of raising him.
Zur-En-Arrh does hang over this entire storyline, he's part of what's taking up too much space to allow Bruce any mental breathing room, but fundamentally I see this storyline as part of Bruce's issues: That he's terrified of losing those he loves, but he can't control them, he desperately tries to and it doesn't work, and he can't live with them taking different paths from his ideals, so he walks away, rather than get hurt further. Bruce is probably going to dig himself further down into this hole and he's being incredibly dumb about it, but I can see how this fits all things that he has always struggled with--and sometimes he loses that fight against himself. This event wasn't really about fighting with Selina or Vandal Savage or even his kids--this was Bruce's love versus his fears, and today his fears won.
There were some really amazing tags that I had to add onto this because I loved them a lot: Via @kaosvrow: #Long Post#DC#DC Comics#Gotham War#Bruce Wayne#Real. Like.#To add even more textual evidence for this splendid reading is that Bruce's nightmare from /Page 2/ of Zdarsky's Batman run has been#Alluded to through Zdarsky's writing and can be seen even in the last pages of Scorched Earth‚ with Bruce still afraid of the /notion/ of#The Joker killing his entire family. It's LITERALLY Page 2 of Failsafe Arc. The ENTIRE Page 2. Just for that nightmare that still echoes on#Considering this‚ tracing Bruce's general thought pattern becomes even clearer. Controlling them didn't work. Forcing them out didn't work.#Him being around won't help them. Hence further isolation as perhaps another attempt to make sure that nightmare doesn't come to pass it is#(Another detail of that nightmare is that it depicts three Jokers. Three DIFFERENT universe Jokers. Which is ominous by itself)#(Which I also have thoughts about‚ but that's for another post to tag ramble in)#Except further isolation WILL fuck him up even worse‚ be that by Gotham's hand‚ or Zur's hand‚ or even his own non-organic hand#Likely his own hand seeing that one of the few things he has left to lose (besides his family dying) is his secret identity‚ which. Yeah.#Mindbomb is going to be. Rough.
Via @jacquelindelas: #long post#omg though... that last line about this story being fundamentally about Bruce's fears vs his loves and the fear won out this time?!#i kinda... yeah i have issues with Gotham war and this is in many ways an extremely unsatisfying ending#and comics being how they are most likely all these threads will be left untied#HOWEVER#the flip side of that is that like op says#this story can very much be liked at as the culmination of all the different traumas and stresses Bruce has faced#stretching all the way back to his parents of course because it always goes back there#but all of the things with his current family as well#i don't know i think it IS actually kind of satisfying in a twisty kind of way if you look at everything leading up to these decisions#any time you make decisions based on your fears and trauma#the results are going to be less than ideal#for yourself and the people around you#and like#i just saw a post about how the basis of a good tragedy is 'so close but just out of reach' or the inclusion of hope#that makes it so painful when it fails...#Bruce has been so. close. recently before this event and even during this event to making better decisions#and leading with love instead of fear#learning to lean on his family and allow himself to heal and live in the present#(throwing the batarang for Dick and Tim to escape and before that in Knight terrors talking to his younger self about his found family)#and all the way back in urban legends there's several scenes that come to mind#but the hits just kept coming and he backslid into fear#I'd be happier about this ending if i knew it was going to eventually be resolved fully#but that's not how comics work#so I'm just going to enjoy lumi's amazing meta#and the fics that i know are going to result from this event#overall though i was actually pleasantly surprised? i feel like the stakes haven't been this high for a loooong time#and it was nice to actually be on the edge of my seat wondering what was going to happen for once#batfam#bruce wayne
Yes! I get why this arc was unsatisfying to a lot of people and I have to admit that I'm not wild about it in the sense of how I think Bruce is fundamentally at his least interesting to me as a character when he's doing the grimdark loner thing, I find him far more fascinating in relation to his loved ones. But I also think that, in order for the good moments in his story to have more impact, there have to be bad moments, too. And it's comics, they're cyclical and unending by nature, things have to keep in motion, the pot has to keep churning because they need to keep selling more comics, it's just in the nature of what Batman comics are. I have no idea how charitable I'm being here versus how much this is genuinely what was intended, but I do think both Zdarsky and Howard had reasons behind why the characters were behaving the way they did in this arc, and I like this interpretation reasonably well, it feels like there was a point to all of this to me, given the nature and structure of Batman comics. (ie, wait five years and things will again be entirely different and it'll feel like nothing matters or has impact, because it's just Constant Motion) But I like looking at this story through the interpretation of it being about Bruce's dwindling emotional resources to deal with things in a healthy way and so he tries all these stupid, awful things to force his loved ones down paths that he thinks will be more comfortable for him, that he feels he'll be able to live with, and it blows up in his face, so he doesn't know how to go back, he doesn't have the brain space to live and let live on the fundamental things that define him and I think it's going to make him worse, "Mindbomb" is going to be rough for him, I suspect. I like looking at this decision as one Bruce made out of fear because he's had too much piled on him mentally lately, the whole point of the set-up of the early issues of Gotham War was to make sure we knew Bruce was running on so few fumes that he was unconscious for eight days (while Zur-En-Arrh was rattling around his head the entire time), like he was already at a breaking point after Insomnia and Failsafe and everything with Dick and Tim and Selina and Gotham lately. Because, yeah, Bruce Wayne is terrified of losing people and when he's tired and stressed, he shuts everyone out from that fear and, right now, not even Selina or Dick or Tim can reach him. Because Dick, the usual Bruce wrangler, is halfway reaching out here at the end, but even he thinks that some space is necessary because Bruce has to want to come back out of the dark and, right now, Bruce is retreating into the dark and nothing and no one is going to make him come back out until he's ready.
Love this recurring theme happening over and over in comics--Bruce loses his shit and everyone immediately looks to Dick because he's their resident Bruce Whisperer who'll get him back out of the dark.