#simon stagg

We get several looks at Lex Luthor and his company within the trailer, which has forgone the usual LexCorp name for LuthorCorp instead. Now, there are several versions of the DCU that have LuthorCorp rather than LexCorp (such as Smallville), but usually this is done to emphasise that Lex inherited the company from his father rather than being a self-made man who created it from whole-cloth.

Considering how many in real life billionaires tend to either inherit their wealth from their parents (or were provided the resources and starting capital to make their fortunes by their wealthy parents), this could potentially play further into deconstructing Lex's common skepticism and anger over Superman's "privilege" over having been born with superpowers instead of "earning" then like many Lex's make the pretence of having done.

In terms of other billionaires, Superman is also shown to be inside one of the buildings of Stagg Industries, a corporation owned by Simon Stagg, the father of Metamorpho's love interest, Sapphire Stagg. Not really clear what relevance SI has to the plot, with it maybe tying into Metamorpho's involvement too?

But Season Two can't begin with him. I think a good season opener would involve Simon Stagg and Sapphire Stagg, who've both become pretty irredeemable. Over the course of a couple episodes in the first half of the season, Metamorpho learns that Sapphire isn't the woman he first fell in love with. And Simon Stagg begins supplying money to a project designed to create a new element being, one who can take down Batman and Metamorpho. That storyline would run through a couple episodes, but it'd end with Simon Stagg and Sapphire Stagg both in jail this time.

Some other villians would pop up in the first half of Season Two, of course. But the big plotline involves a recalled mayoral election that's taking place in gotham. Nobody pays any attention to the election, and the whole first half of the season we'd be deliberately underselling it. But the two leading candidates in the election are both puppets of Two-Face. Two candidates backed by his two personalities, but he'll win no matter the result. So while Batman and The Outsiders deal with a full slate of villians, Two-Face is orchestrating his grand return to public service.

In the end, our big finale would come when Two-Face has the new mayor resign and hand over massive power to him at gunpoint, allowing him to come in and rewrite all the laws on the books. Gotham becomes a town of multiplicity. On one side of the city, everything is polished and pristine, but hiding a cruel veneer. It's a police state, basically. But on the other side, rampant violence and lawlessness runs wild. That side has no police whatsoever. Two cities in one, the same way there's two minds in harvey dent's body. The only problem? Neither mind is any better than the other.

So Harvey's unstable madness drives Gotham to ruin. But Batman gets trapped in the lawless part of town, surrounded on all sides by his old enemies. Meanwhile, Katana and the others are stuck in the police state side of things, forced into dealing with Mayor Dent's reign of terror. This allows for me to introduce the only robin who might be possible in this dark and moody of a show: Jason Todd. Batman gets saved from the mob by Jason, and then the two of them sort of begin leaning on each other to survive. Jason has no parents by the time Bruce meets him, so they already have something in common there. A sense of mutual loss. But because Jason helps Bruce stop Two-Face, he ends up becoming Robin (or something approximating that).