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New made-up villain = blegh. But the Joker has been done to death and Mark Hamill is 'retired' from voice acting. Is Paul Dini writing for this one, too?
It is possible for them to come up with a new iconic villain. For example, Harley Quinn was invented for the animated TV show.

Honestly Harley Quinn is shit. Not even a proper villain in her own right just a trumped up moll for the joker. And, again, mostly for masturbatorial purposes.
She's like the perfect model of Stockholm Syndrome. Love it.
 

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New made-up villain = blegh. But the Joker has been done to death and Mark Hamill is 'retired' from voice acting. Is Paul Dini writing for this one, too?
It is possible for them to come up with a new iconic villain. For example, Harley Quinn was invented for the animated TV show.

Honestly Harley Quinn is shit. Not even a proper villain in her own right just a trumped up moll for the joker. And, again, mostly for masturbatorial purposes.

Not sure what is so masturbatory about Harley Quinn. She's completely messed up in the head, wears stupid outfits, and has the mental age of a child.
 

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Hot blonde with huge rack? Yeah... they don't sexualize her at all amirite? Clock King is a more interesting villain.
 

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Harley's purpose is to be a foil for the Joker and Batman (and Ivy rarely). She works well in this role. I don't know if she would work on her own, but a talented enough writer could figure it out I'm sure.
 

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Hot blonde with huge rack? Yeah... they don't sexualize her at all amirite?
A sexualized cartoon/comic book character? You don't say! Especially during the 90s!

Shouldn't you be jacking off to Skyrim porn? Anyway, I would rather see any two-bit one-of throwaway villain over Harley Quinn in any form of Batman media. And that counts the shitty ones from the Adam West live action series like Egghead, Shame, and Louie the Lilac.

Even this guy:

 
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I like Harley Quinn as a character in her interactions with the other characters from the universe, particularly the way she's torn between The Joker and Poison Ivy. And yes I've fapped to her my fair share of times. What I don't really like is her as a "person," clearly being a desperate, abused, pathetic excuse for a woman, someone that absolutely nobody should ever look up to, which makes it particularly disturbing the number of girls you see who act like Joker/Harley is the "ideal romance" or something, or at the very least are clearly so attached to trying to be Harley Quinn that they don't even realize how much of a shithead she really is.

So like I said I think she's a good character but a terrible person, and it's pretty disturbing how many girls seem to think she's some kind of role model.
 

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You are upset that she accurately represents a large slice of the female population?

Why must every female character be a role model? Where is the public concern that too many males are treating the joker as a role model? Can only men differentiate fact from fiction?
 

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There are plenty of those too, and I didn't say she was supposed to be a role model, I said it was disturbing the number of girls who seem to treat her like one. I also said I liked the character.
 

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How exactly did Batman's father know he was going to die soon? Was he 70 years old? Why the last will? DOes not make sense.
Perhaps Thomas Wayne updated his will every 5 years with an unnecessarily long text detailing his current plans and hopes for Bruce

("Dear Bruce, as I passed away before your first birthday you have no memories of me. But don't worry my son, because here follows a ten page autobiography of Thomas Wayne, the best damn surgeon in Gotham City".)
 

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It's actually pretty common for people who have that much wealth to prepare/update wills quite frequently.
 

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It's actually pretty common for people who have that much wealth to prepare/update wills quite frequently.

I was about to say that. If you had that much money you'd be obsessed with making sure it went to the right place in case anything happened to you as well. Realistically he could have recorded that just after Bruce was born, as it would have been applicable for the rest of Bruce's young life.
 

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It's actually pretty common for people who have that much wealth to prepare/update wills quite frequently.
Source?

Common sense? The character of Thomas Wayne isn't like an average Joe who leaves his family a house and some money in a bank account. The dude had billions wrapped up in a lot of ventures. It's called estate planning. Some lawyers make a career out of it.

THe will is formulated like it is adressed to a young boy. imagine a 50 year old bruce wayne reading that.

And I'm sure he would have updated it accordingly through the years had he lived.
 

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