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Batman Reboot Concepts

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Batman - All Media Types
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Tim Drake (DCU) Damian Wayne Cassandra Cain Jervis Tetch Temple Fugate Jonathan Crane Oswald Cobblepot Selina Kyle Nora Fries Victor Fries Pamela Isley Harleen Quinzel Baby Doll Clayface Harvey Dent Duela Dent Edward Nygma Deirdre Vance Nina Damfino Stephanie Brown Joker (DCU) Waylon Jones Manny | Manbat Original child(Ren) of Selina Kyle and Oswald Cobblepot
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No Dialogue Kid Cassandra Cain Mute Cassandra Cain Cassandra Cain is Batgirl Bruce Wayne is Cassandra Cain's Biological Parent Tim Drake is a Menace (DCU) Bruce Wayne is Damian Wayne's Biological Parent Protective Damian Wayne Damian Wayne Has a Heart Damian Wayne is Robin Good Sibling Damian Wayne Bad Parent Talia al Ghul Neglectful Parents Jack Drake and Janet Drake Bad Parents Jack Drake and Janet Drake Though I see them as legitimately attempting to be loving but very very unskilled at parenting Ferrets I gave Tim a pet ferret named Puck — feel free to use the concept oh and Gotham Bug is free to use as well Hyperemotional Pseudobulbar Affect Disorder | Gotham Bug (Batman) Author Doesn't Know DC Comics Canon The Rogues Gallery as Family (Batman) literally! (Go to chapter 3 for that one)
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on AO3 · updated 13 Mar 2026
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1,600 words3 chapters 2 sparks0 comments0 bookmarks13 readsUpdated 13 Mar 2026
Summary

A place to describe my ideas for a Batman reboot, with the hopes of eventually turning them into a long-form fic.

Chapter 3: Rogue Families

I love found family tropes, but my version of the Batman universe needs more healthy bio family examples to balance it out lest it becomes 'friends are your real family so dump your birth fam'. I hate that trope.
Which isn't to say that all of the following are healthy, just a good deal of them.

Buckle in, kiddies, because this gets a bit complicated...

Jervis Tetch and Temple Fugate are brothers.

Temple has a wife whose name he took (hence why he's Fugate and not Tetch). Despite being waaay too old to be having their first kid, Temple and his wife have only recently had a young daughter.

The Tetch brothers' parents were good people who raised them well — this did nothing to prevent their sons' mental issues and criminal careers, but is probably why they both remain decent people.

 

Jervis is dating Jonathan Crane. Neither has any offspring.

Jonathan was once known as Jonathan Keeny and was raised by his great-grandmother; she was a vile woman who abused him greatly.

Jonathan's other relations include a bond to a field Spirit named Corvin and a distant but treasured relation to Harleen Quinzel.

 

Temple and Jervis are cousins to Oswald Cobblepot.

Oswald is married to Selina Kyle, and they have three children: their eldest is a daughter named Kitrina (who is dating Jason Todd), the middle a daughter named Skylar, and their youngest a son named Adrien.

Adrien and Kitrina inherited a more extreme version of their mother's connection to animals, with Adrien able to talk to cats and Kitrina able to talk to birds. None of them really inherited their father's physical issues beyond a few weird fingers, a fact for which he is forever grateful.

Kitrina is following in her parents footsteps as the young supervillainess Kittyhawk, flamboyant Skylar is enthusiastically focusing on one day running the Iceberg Lounge instead, and Adrien has a quiet interest in fashion design.

 

Oswald is the brother of Nora Fries, who is of course the wife of Victor Fries.

The brothers-in-law have bonded greatly in their quest to save the woman they love, though Oswald can't really do much more than fund things and make sure Victor has a place to do his research/store stuff/etc.

Victor and Nora have several children and grandchildren.

 

Pamela Isley is dating Harleen Quinzel. Neither has any offspring.

 

Mary Dahl befriends Clayface, bonding over acting. Somehow, she eventually gets mutated in the same way as he did, letting her finally have an adult form and leaving her free to pursue a romantic relationship with her best friend. She is then known as Lady Clayface and Clay Doll, rather than Baby Doll.

Maybe they have kids? I'm not even sure that'd be possible... Eh, maybe eventually. He needs help with his identity issues and she needs to learn how to actually live as an adult, first — they aren't gonna age, they've got plenty of time :)

 

Harvey & Harv Dent have a daughter named Duela Dent-Gold, who is in the custody of Harvey's ex, Gilda Gold. Harvey & Harv are dating Edward Nygma.

 

Edward's neglectful mother and abusive father both died in a carcrash during his mid-teens, after which he was sent to live with his aunt and her then-girlfriend now-wife: Deirdre Vance and Nina Damfino. They raised him well, mitigating the damage that was already done.

Edward has an adopted daughter (though I'm toying with the idea of making her his biological daughter that he didn't know about) named Stephanie Brown, now Stephanie Greene/Nygma (she's dating Tim Drake).

 

Joker has a wife/widow he can only sometimes partially remember, named Jeanie Napier. They have a son he doesn't know about, named Jack Jr.

Joker is dating Bruce Wayne.

 

I haven't made any relations or relationships for Waylon Jones or Manbat yet.

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