"Damian looks exactly like Talia!"

That's exactly my problem with it. A few months ago we had that whole Knightfight thing and honestly a lot of the fandom posts kind of rubbed me the wrong way.

"Jason looks way more than Bruce than his actual biological son!"

"Damian looks like Dick's bio son! Not like Bruce's!"

...okay...this feels very dismissive of Damian's actual parentage? Or like "looks like Bruce equals better character/closer relationship to Bruce"

A lot of it felt simply weird? Idk.

Also why do people keep shitting on Damian and his importance to Bruce when even in 2026 the main Batman writer is very comfortable shitting on Damian, the relationship between Bruce and Talia and the father-son-relationship of Bruce and Damian?

Okay, this is worse than I thought? How old is she? 12? I don't see how she can meaningfully take Alfred's place when she is younger than Bruce and maybe even Dick?

You could argue she is more for Damian, but how? Damian doesn't need a big sister, he has two already - Stephanie even criminally underused.

From the looks of it, this is just a cheap way to add more blond blue-eyed eye candy under the pretense of "oh, but she has a super important job to do".

The best we can hope for is that she is a mole/a traitor which will give her an interesting function.

Like is she also an (ex)-agent like Alfred considering that she avoided all the security? Society of the Midnight Key sounds suspicious. Plus if I went through all the trouble to become a highly trained agent I would not throw that all away to serve as a butler just because my great-uncle out of all people wants me to (plus it's been ages since Alfred's death...why is she only showing up now?). With Alfred he at least inherited the position from his own father.

Damian finds his father easily, but dislikes his values, morals, and what he stands for, so he resides in a long abandoned, random apartment complex while he plans for where to go next and how.

While waiting, he notices an attack planned and executed by Poison Ivy. After this he studies older files on her and stalks her, deeming her “worthy” for being a sort-of mentor figure/caretaker after noticing that, like him and the rest of the Al Ghul’s, she is also an eco-terrorist.

While Poison Ivy is put off by his initial behavior and his tendency to stalk her and multiple others, she quickly grows fond of him and agrees to take him in as long as he isn’t “too childish”.

What? Hold on, pause for a second. What?

In fact, when stating “Thalia took Bruce’s DNA”, I even referenced another popular character who is a mix of DNA: Kon. Kon is a popular “test tube baby”, as he is a mix of DNA between Superman and Lex Luthor, which helped inspire this AU I thought of.

Damian finds his father easily, but dislikes his values, morals, and what he stands for, so he resides in a long abandoned, random apartment complex while he plans for where to go next and how.

While waiting, he notices an attack planned and executed by Poison Ivy. After this he studies older files on her and stalks her, deeming her “worthy” for being a sort-of mentor figure/caretaker after noticing that, like him and the rest of the Al Ghul’s, she is also an eco-terrorist.

While Poison Ivy is put off by his initial behavior and his tendency to stalk her and multiple others, she quickly grows fond of him and agrees to take him in as long as he isn’t “too childish”.

What? Hold on, pause for a second. What?

Damian finds his father easily, but dislikes his values, morals, and what he stands for, so he resides in a long abandoned, random apartment complex while he plans for where to go next and how.

While waiting, he notices an attack planned and executed by Poison Ivy. After this he studies older files on her and stalks her, deeming her “worthy” for being a sort-of mentor figure/caretaker after noticing that, like him and the rest of the Al Ghul’s, she is also an eco-terrorist.

While Poison Ivy is put off by his initial behavior and his tendency to stalk her and multiple others, she quickly grows fond of him and agrees to take him in as long as he isn’t “too childish”.

What? Hold on, pause for a second. What?

Damian finds his father easily, but dislikes his values, morals, and what he stands for, so he resides in a long abandoned, random apartment complex while he plans for where to go next and how.

While waiting, he notices an attack planned and executed by Poison Ivy. After this he studies older files on her and stalks her, deeming her “worthy” for being a sort-of mentor figure/caretaker after noticing that, like him and the rest of the Al Ghul’s, she is also an eco-terrorist.

While Poison Ivy is put off by his initial behavior and his tendency to stalk her and multiple others, she quickly grows fond of him and agrees to take him in as long as he isn’t “too childish”.

What? Hold on, pause for a second. What?

Batman #11

she was lit minding her own business, bruce was the one who brought up 'complicated relationships', also complicated relationships means that yes there was some bad but also good, THAT PANEL DID NOT FUCKING SHOW ANY GOOD JUST..KEEP ON STACKING SHIT ABOUT TALIA..