I thought Rob was gay.
Does this mean Lothar is Rob?
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Since I'm going all fan boy on this thread, another Young Bruce Wayne story I'd like to read is a look at Batman's geneology. There is a line in DKR where the Waynes comment upon how fast young Bruce is. Thomas is a doctor. Martha's occupation is unknown. Were there Olympic athletes in the family tree which gave Bruce Wayne the genes to be the athlete he is? It'd be nice if Martha is actually shown to be a world-class gymnast or fencer.
Plus, where did the Wayne fortune come from? Wayne's wealth is described as old family money (in the movie, the mansion is described as being used to help escaped slaves in the US Civil War). Were the Waynes traders, or old European money?
This led me to the idea that Thomas Wayne might have had an ancestor who had a reason to leave England for America. It is 1835, the year of the appearance of Halley's Comet,the fall of the Alamo, the destruction of 530 buildings in New York City because of a fire that raged for several days and nights, the massacre of over 280 people in Africa by ten thousand Zulu warriors, and wars that erupted in Cuba, Mexico, Equador, Central America, Peru, Argentina, and Bolivia.
Colonel Sir Garnet Wayne, a wounded veteran of England's wars in Afghanistan, might have teamed up with a strangely energetic Greek woman named Hippolyta, and an Egyptian trader with apparently mystic powers named Abin Sur, to deal with a spirit of vengeance wearing a green cloak who is killing criminals around London's notorious Drury Lane (the location of the Muffin Man was actually one of London's most blighted spots for centuries).
During the episode, Sir Garnet saves a beautiful Italian heiress, Lady Selina Bertolini, who had sworn a vendetta against some London criminals who had killed her father. It was this vendetta that brought the attention of the spirit of vengeance to Drury Lane.
The experience shook up Sir Garnet and Lady Selina, and they decide to leave London together with their combined wealth for North America.
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Ah yes. Frivolous. Now I should go back to work.
