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As much as I love the Batman mythos, it really doesn't fit in with the rest of the DC Universe at all. I mean, how exactly does the Justice League sleep at night knowing that there's a city that's literally less than a minute's travel away (for most of them) constantly under siege by psychotic mass murderers and crooked cops and ruthless mob bosses? And while it's true that Superman, Wonder Woman, Flash, Green Lantern, et al, all have their own problems to deal with in their own cities, it's not like they couldn't take shifts. Batman may be a total control freak and more often than not a massive dickhead to his fellow superheroes, but he'd be an idiot for refusing the kind of super-powered help the JLA could bring.
That's why the more I think about it, the more I kind of wish Gotham would just be retconned out of the regular DC Universe and placed under the Vertigo label or something. Batman's a great hero, but he really only works if he's the only hero in town.
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