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Nowhereman said:
The very basis of Batmans psyche would make him be oposed to any form of registration.
Please try to remember, that to him Wayne is the mask, not the Batman!




That's a valid point. However, if it nothing but a mask, a tool, and if Bruce was convinced that it was no a longer necessary tool and, in fact, that he'd be more effective without it, who is to say he wouldn't be pro-registration?

As you, yourself, note:


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If he were to have his identity revealed on a large scale, he would either never take the costume off



Yeah, that ties in with what I'm saying: that it would be a nice twist if Bruce said "this allows me to be Batman 24/7 with no more foppish playboy BS. I'm in."

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uperman on the other hand, views himself as Clark first & foremost,



Okay, and Clark has spent his entire life zealously, some might say to the point of paranoia, guarding his secret. If he registers, he might think, then Clark is effectively dead because people will realize that Clark is an alien who was born Kal El of Krypton.

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[He] has always tended to be about "truth, justice & the American way".
To go against the government would be going against the three things he stands for.



But if Clark decided that, finally, the government had gone too far, why couldn't he change his mind?


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The reason that its always been portrayed this was is thats part of their characters.




Hold on. Its also part of Clark's character for nearly seventy years to be incredibly paranoid about his secret ID and to be constantly concerned that revealing it would endanger his loved ones. And that's something that has been pretty consistent regardless of which version of Superman you're talking about: Golden Age, Silver Age, Post Crisis, even the first Reeve film (remember pa telling Clark they were always afraid that people would come and take him away from them if they knew what Clark could do?).

At the same time, its been part of Bruce's character to work with the police and to be a little cavalier about his secret. He didn't really care that Ras figured it out, or Talia by extension, or the Riddler, or Catwoman, or Bane, or any number of his friends. We're supposed to believe that Batman is obsessive about his privacy after that? Or after he was the member of the JLA who got so offended at the idea of mindwipes?

I appreciate what you're saying. Its also a valid interpretation of these guys. However, given the somewhat sloppy continuity at DC, either interpretation could be given validity, based on the various, sometimes conflicting, ways that B and S are portrayed in continuity.

All I'm saying is that there is enough there to work with that it wouldn't be any more out of character to make Batman pro-registration and Superman anti-registration...but it would be a nice twist on the way the writers normally shoehorn them into these types of stories.