#they want the gritty realism but then realizes that reality would make bruce look pretty bad

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I'm sure it is closed off, but it's an old house that needs maintenance. I think it's the popular headcanon that Thomas and Martha had a full live-in staff, but Alfred let them go one by one after a couple were caught leaking info about Poor Little Bruce to the tabloids. But even if you kept the actual living area relatively small and manageable, a very old house of that size, packed to the gills with heirlooms and art, will need regular inspection and maintenance so nothing grows mold or gets infested or stolen or what not. Which is why a discreet temp staff would be necessary.

And uh, you can't actually be that rich without hoarding money. Bruce definitely gives a lot of it away and WE is clearly mad profitable but it's all sitting on like 150 years of generational wealth. Which we're also carefully Not Thinking About lmao. There was a story called Batman: Tenses where a young Bruce Wayne ruthlessly guts his companies to maximize profits to fund his crusade, and belatedly realizes the human cost of doing that.

I always wonder whether Batfam fans really get just how fucking rich the Waynes are. Like of course we shy away from thinking about the fact that we're talking Musk and Bezos money, and focus on how Bruce funds the freaking Watchtower and has what is functionally a high-tech military base and lab and the world's most expensive vehicles. But this is the one time you don't have to factor in the implications of wealth-hoarding, so there's nothing preventing y'all from understanding exactly how much money we're talking about here.

For instance, there doesn't seem to be any concept of how palatial Wayne Manor is, simply going by the outer facades of it that appear in the comics and movies. Or how decadent the lifestyles that accompany that kind of ancestral home. Alfred couldn't run that place on his own even if he had super powers, which is why even the movies occasionally show a rotating probably-temporary staff in the background. The house probably has like 3 hundred-foot pools. Their garden is a protected heritage park.

The Waynes are 10x richer than Crazy Rich Asians. They buy and wear the jewelry worth hundreds of millions that belonged to royalty. They own private islands. The art in the house alone is worth more than the GDP of a small country. They went to school with like every US President since Teddy Roosevelt and still think the Rockefellers are new money. They're personal friends with Beyonce and can get her to perform at private parties. They can rent out an entire three-star Michelin restaurant and fly out to one for every date. They have top-line penthouse apartments in every major city in the world. They can buy a luxury sportscar instead of hiring a vehicle anywhere they visit and then just toss the keys to the nearest person on their way out (Arab royalty is known for this appearently. There's been some very lucky parking valets in the UAE iirc).

Bruce is as rich as Ra's Al Ghul, regularly make social calls to heads of state and his family has a history of being king-makers. Every one of Bruce's children, from Dick to Jason to Cass, is poised to inherit one of the largest and most powerful fortunes in the world. That means every time Bruce adopts an orphan off god-knows-where, the entire global elite is thrown into consternation and horror. Even Tim is barely acceptable to these people because he doesn't have the pedigree. I don't follow the reboot comics so Idk if Duke is adopted, but it would be so fucking funny if he was because they'd react a lot like the British establishment did to Meghan Markle (except the family and WE would have Duke's back completely). As for Damian, the fact that he's not white would get him snubbed if everyone who's anyone didn't 100% know who Ra's Al Ghul is. And they're fucking terrified because, for maximum hilarity, they probably figure that Bruce doesn't.

I just find it incredibly fucking funny when I'm reading fics that the writers can only imagine Bruce and the kids's civilian privileges extend only to "big house", "a lot of cars" and "Gotham famous". Lol. Lmao even.

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5. Excessive "Families"The lineage of a hero moniker passing from a mentor to an apprentice is one of the more charming aspects of DC. Wally West stepping up for Barry Allen as the Flash, the comradeship of Batman's parade of Robins you cannot deny that these relationships are the backbone of DC's heroes. But, when one realizes that "loner" Batman technically has an extended Bat family of around a dozen heroes and that the Flash family is also around the same size, there's a point where it's just too much. These extensive families and their histories are something that unfortunately turn off many readers.

Sometimes, extended character deaths have weeded out this problem a bit, for instance Hal Jordon and Barry Allen. Unfortunately, DC has a bad way of handling the issue of sharing a mantle in these situations, unlike how cleverly Marvel handled Steve and Bucky sharing the Captain America mantle a few years back.

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Is there a simple resolution then? I'd say keep the farthest removed family members on the backburner and only bring them back into a story when they bring something to the table. And, when you retire a hero, let them freaking retire. Of course this excludes Bruce Wayne who can only take short breaks away from his cape and cowl.

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In the process of ending this bad trend and simplifying things in Infinite Crisis, multiple origin stories were just merged as they merged Earth 1 with primary Earth, and thus more character confusion! At present, DC readers are stuck with the entire DC universe being an alternate reality since almost every DC character was completely rebooted in the New 52 onto a new, different Earth 1. Good job DC, now we can't even go back home to our proper DC Earth. does anyone even know where the hell that would be anymore?!

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Almost all of the DC pantheon of characters have rebooted and started over as brand new heroes (other than Batman and Lantern Corps. which just kept going like usual in this new universe, sort of). It's a mockery for longtime fans to keep reading like nothing has happened to our beloved characters. It's akin to dressing up a random old lady like your grandmother and trying to love her like your blood relation. All we have now in DC are strangers wearing similar costumes to characters we've grown up with and learned to love. Or, in cases like Green Arrow, the doppelganger does not even share the most important physical feature of the original character! YES, I MOURN THE BEARD, DO NOT JUDGE ME.

1. The need to emulate Marvel At the heart of many of these issues, and in my opinion, the main reason for the New 52 in the first place is jealousy over Marvel's success. Marvel has consistently beaten DC in the top ten comic issue sales for many years. And while DC has had great success with many of their animated franchises, they do not bring in the money that Marvel's movie franchises or comics sales do. In the desire to pull in Marvel's fans, DC has gone to great lengths to emulate Marvel, and in the process, have forgotten what makes DC great.

Gritty and realistic are words far more synonymous with Marvel than DC, so with the high sales of the "realistic" Nolan Batman trilogy, and Marvel shining as an example of how to do "realistic issues" right, the New 52 reboot has brought an unfamiliar realism to its heroes. And by realism, I mean lots more sex, armor armor armor, and inept heroes in a world where society dislikes them. The problem is, with DC we want to LIKE and ADMIRE our heroes. If I want a hero with flaws and troubles I'll read Hulk or Ant man or Iron Man. Marvel has founded their company on this sort of character. Their "Earth" is full of angry, prejudiced citizens where this sort of flawed hero will face struggles that relate so on so on. But suddenly rebooting the DC franchise, having the Justice League come together and bicker almost identically to what was seen in the Avengers movie, just comes off as forced. Sure, they aren't all perfect heroes by any means.

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