Batman fans can\u2019t decide the worst lore addition in the series DC ComicsReddit users are having a jovial discussion about Batman\u2019s worst lore, but some of the stories highlight just how unsettling the Dark Knight actually is. The Batman Reddit is where users go to discuss all the newest news and hottest takes. The community is now at odds with the franchise\u2019s most cursed lore, though. The conversation started from a popular meme that has been circulating Reddit communities. It asks what specific bit of lore about a community means you\u2019re \u201cin too deep\u201d and \u201ccan no longer reverse the massive psychic damage you have inflicted on yourself.\u201d For the Batman Reddit, there are plenty of examples, and fans can\u2019t seem to decide which route is the worst. Batman Redditors discuss the Dark Knight\u2019s silliest lore The top comments all focus, in a sense, on the death of the second Robin, Jason Todd. However, they\u2019re more focused on how Joker escaped Batman\u2019s vengeance in that instance. \u201cJoker briefly became the ambassador of Iran,\u201d user AshamedFish2 points out. \u201cAnd it was the only reason Batman didn\u2019t kill him after he killed Jason.\u201d user Mineformer follows up. \u201cHe literally couldn\u2019t, at risk of starting a war.\u201d Others pointed to a largely forgotten aside from the story Batman: Widening Gyre. Written by Kevin Smith, the maxi-series is notable for never having its final six issues published after prolonged delays. As user g1SuperLuigi64 pointed out, though, Widening Gyre dramatically changes a key Batman moment. \u201cThat, if we take Kevin Smith\u2019s word for it, Batman pissed his pants when he blew up the wall for his \u201cNone of you are safe\u201d speech in Year One,\u201d he said. Another user, android151, added, \u201cIt is amazing that [Kevin Smith\u2019s] Green Arrow run is so good considering how bad the Widening Gyre is. Not only does it give us this, but it also never finished, and it killed off Batman\u2019s TRUE BEST LOVE INTEREST.\u201d Batman\u2019s darkest lore may be its most disturbing Some users took the assignment a little more seriously, though. Many of the instances brought up are genuinely haunting pieces of Batman lore. \u201cBatman once made Robin\u2019s girlfriend his new Robin to piss off actual Robin but didn\u2019t bother training or informing her properly because she was basically just a footnote in a childish pissing contest with his teenage sidekick.\u201d user SwingsetGuy brings up. \u201cShe got tortured to death, but Bruce didn\u2019t memorialize her and mostly ignored that it had happened at all.\u201d Many also pointed to infamous DCAU events, like Warner Bros nixing a joke about Batman performing oral sex on Catwoman for the Harley Quinn cartoon or the story that paired up Batman and Batgirl. \u201cA comic depicted Bruce and Barbara having an affair while the latter was dating Dick; Barbara got pregnant and lost the baby. And I think Dick found out and beat the shit out of Bruce.\u201d user MisterVictor13 said. \u201cFuck, who thought that was something any Batman fan wanted to read?\u201d Other users pointed to the multitude of stories in which Nightwing is implied to have been raped, events which are now largely ignored in the comics but a major source of contention among die-hard fans. \u201cPretty sure Tarantula raped him too during one of the Nightwing runs after killing Blockbuster.\u201d user Oop-pl1 mentioned. \u201cThere\u2019s also an instance where Mirage pretends to be Starfire and has sex with him. And then everyone blames HIM for it.\u201d said user sleepy_shh. There are plenty of other incredibly dark stories in Batman\u2019s past that are no longer discussed, fans point out, including the dubious circumstances of Damian Wayne\u2019s conception. It\u2019s only a matter of time, though, until a writer takes another swing at these moments or tries to come up with their own equally shocking Batman moment that can be the next community-destroying piece of unsettling lore. For more DC Comics and Batman news, be sure to follow all of Dexerto\u2019s coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Batman fans can\u2019t decide the worst lore addition in the series DC ComicsReddit users are having a jovial discussion about Batman\u2019s worst lore, but some of the stories highlight just how unsettling the Dark Knight actually is. The Batman Reddit is where users go to discuss all the newest news and hottest takes. The community […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}