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Batmanhas fought C of baddie over the decades , and every single one of them has tried unique way to kill him . Batman has managed to overcome all of their malevolent plan , but now , one major baddie is strain something different - giving him the chance to in the end retire and enjoy life , all without sacrificing his deputation .
Recently , Batman has been battling against Zur - En - Arrh , a " staring " version of Batman who cares only for the commission and nothing else . After failing to take over Batman ’s body , Zur - En - Arrh has taken over the android Failsafe , creating an utterly dedicated Batman with an unstoppable android body . Now that Zur is a disjoined being from Bruce , he gives Bruce an offer that no baddie ever has , as seen inBatman # 141by Chip Zdarsky , Jorge Jiménez , Tomeu Morey , and Clayton Cowles .
Zur - En - Arrh offers to replace Batman and but let him retire . Zur specifically tells Batman that now they ’re separated , Batman can retire and live life as Bruce Wayne , while Zur - En - Arrh goes on and stay on being Batman and fighting crime constantly . While Bruce turn down and fight back back , he accommodate that his centre decamp a beat at the possibleness .
As Batman , thanks to his new enemies , is banished from Gotham and his legacy erased from the city , Batman ’s home becomes a " strange utopia . "
Zur-En-Arrh Offers to Let Batman Retire
Batman Admits He’s Tempted to Surrender the Cowl
From killing his class to stealing his wealth , villains are always assay to find a way to make Batman give up , but so far nothing has stopped him for long . Not even his alt - universe father , the Flashpoint Thomas Wayne , was capable to convert Bruce to give up the mask . However , now Batman fights a threat from within his own mind . Zur - En - Arrh understands both Bruce ’s consignment to his delegacy and his desire to experience a normal life story , leave him to actually allure the Dark Knight to surrender . The only thing that holds Bruce back from take on is that Zur - En - Arrh does n’t have his sense of constraint .
Zur - En - Arrh is a pure version of Batman created as a back - up personality in case of psychical attack . However , Zur is a introductory construct that is n’t meant to take ascendency for long . Zur deal nothing for the Bat - Family or anyone else in Batman ’s life ; all he cares about is stopping criminals . While Zur has so far well-thought-of Batman ’s ' No Kill ' rule , he ’s also far more brutal to both villain and rival heroes . Recently , Zur even push Batman torewire Red Hood ’s brainiac , paralyzing him whenever his adrenaline spikes , as well as seek to shatter the Joker ’s backbone so he can never escape Arkham again . While Brucedoeswant to go to bed , he wo n’t impart Gotham in the custody of such a roughshod protector .
Zur-En-Arrh Is Batman Unbound
Bruce Is Fighting the Purest Version of Batman
The pass to relinquish everything to Zur - En - Arrh is the most tantalizing one Bruce has ever get because it comes from himself . Zur - En - Arrh is Bruce ’s idea of a pure Batman with no distractions . This is n’t the same as being replaced by any other vigilance man , including his children . This is the estimation of Batman himself extend to free Bruce from his mission . It ’s a moment that exposes the dichotomy at Bruce ’s affection - he truly want to escape his aliveness of violence and pain , but he ’s also so committed to it that he set plans in motion to keep oppose forever : plan which have now consecrate Zur - En - Arrh an invincible , perpetual novel consistency . at last , Bruce Wayne ca n’t give up beingBatman , but the enticement he feels shows how personal his war against Zur - En - Arrh is go to be .
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