Aug
16th
2014
Possibly wrote myself into a corner · 11:53pm Aug 16th, 2014
Title says it all.
See, I have Dark Knight starting about seven years before Mare of Steel. However, Blueblood was shipped off to prison in the griffon kingdoms and impersonated by Zod five years before Mare of Steel.
My problem is this: what about the two years before that?
If I stick to my current path, expect filler. Lots of filler. Filler that is not the best for superhero stories. My other option is to go back and revise that note saying that this story takes place seven years prior, which is probably the easier option. The worst that happens is that I get a blow to my pride for thinking that was a good idea to begin with.
My pride is very fragile.
Thoughts?
I think the appropriate question is this; by changing it from 7 years to 5, how else does that affect the story? Does it at all? What really changes?
Ah, but you've forgotten about the 3rd option. The Timeskip. The 3rd way to move with the Dark Knight. Now bear with me, but here's an idea.
How about you continue with the path taken by Blueblood, but instead of the gangster griffin succeeding in his attempts on blueblood, he fails, and this failure is what convinces blueblood to begin his training to become the world's greatest detective? We then get some time montages of Blueblood slowly developing his combat skills and other skills like escape artistry, all slowly building himself up to become something more. (beginning to take up the cowl at this point is not necessary, but possible depending on how fast you want the training to go) However, after 2 years of this training, then Zod makes his move. That gets Blueblood sent off to the prisons, where he finds it...difficult to escape. And even if he does, he realizes via the Batman Begins route that he needs some time away from Trottingham, try to figure out how to serve it differently. Perhaps Silversmith could have taken away his company in the time it took him to escape the prison, so he has to build himself back up from the bottom to reacquire it in other places under other front companies. Perhaps his capture by Zod will give him even more distrust of others, hence the front of distrust and fear he has for Rainbow Dash when they first meet.
After years of slowly building up a company from nothing and finding his way again, he hears of Zod's defeat by Supermare, and finally returns to trottingham the dark knight it deserves. He realizes that in his years of absence, the costumed freaks have begun taking over (the jokers, the 2 faces, the penguins, etc), and after bringing down the crime lord who started him on this path, begins his great quest to clean up his city in the light and the dark. (the butler of course would always know the truth about zod, and so resign rather than serve an evil tyrant) He'll make the batpony name famous, beat some criminal scum, and then have his meeting with supermare be the lead in chapter to tie him into the wider universe. Or, perhaps darkseid was behind the corruption in some way? Maybe have his own G. gordon corrupting the city for his own purposes?
Just, think about it. You can find a way to harmonize between the 2 paths. I'm sure of it.
I'll admit to not having read this story, so maybe that's why I don't quite understand the problem. If it starts two years before Zod switched places then isn't the story what's happening in the two years before? Or am I missing something. The other option is to bust out the ol' comic standby, a retcon that makes no sense. Or it's all because of Silverspoon's Dad from an alternate dimension's son dicking around with the multiverse or something, never got around to reading/tryingtomakesenseof infinite crisis.
2375838 I like this idea. Might make a few changes, but it works pretty well.
2375832 In the long run, it doesn't; the only really major event is something (what, I'm not sure) that causes Blueblood to consider taking up the fight against crime, and that can happen before he runs into the Falcon and his goons
simple all you need to do is KNEEL BEFORE ZOD!
2375838 The Darkseid aspect is kind of interesting; it'd kind of be a first, since he's usually so much more interested in corrupting Metropolis than Gotham.
From the sound of things, it's a small technicality. Either use a small retcon, or some months-covering montages. Either way should work fine.
2377008 Well think about it. Metropolis and Gotham are two sides of the same coin. Both represent mighty cities in the DC universe. The only problem is that while Metropolis was corrupted by white collar crime and science nuts, gotham was hit hard with urban decay. Both of them are powerful and influential cities. It's just that in normal comics, everyone goes to metropolis instead, because of the obvious corruption present in gotham. My thought was that Darkseid purposefully caused the corruption of Gotham in order to weaken the planet before his invasion.
2397603 True, but on the other hand, he'd have had to have started pretty early. Because that city's been its own worst enemy since....well, just about ever. Reports of the evil permeating the area of Gotham go back as far as forty millennia.