Current Events > Thinking about it, Dick Grayson's backstory is extremely weird.

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The more modern, realistic version on Titans made me think about it. You couldn't write a storyline today where a wealthy middle-aged bachelor manipulates the system into letting him quickly adopt a pre-pubescent kid after his parents are murdered.

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But why? That kind of thing happens more frequently than you'd ever want to know in the real world. When you have the wealth, you can get away with pretty much anything. The concept of "laws" and "morality" become more like suggestions, ones which you're not required to abide by as long as you're willing to throw enough paper at anyone who has a problem with what you're doing - or have them silenced.

Bruce would never use his wealth for anything unscrupulous beyond vigilante crime fighting, but it's pretty easy to say he could persuade an adoption agency to stamp some papers. Hell, that even helps to make Gotham look more seedy and corrupt, which is kind of the whole idea.

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That was kind of my point. It's just so very seedy that I don't think you could actually use that concept today without it being grandfathered in like with DC.

I wonder if there's ever been a storyline somewhere where Glorious Godfrey points out how creepy it is to draw attention to Bruce Wayne.

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Well, it is a world with a plant lady, a shape shifter made out of clay, and a crocodile man.

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Robin only fits in the Batman stories because we know him as Batman's sidekick.

It's only not creepy when Damien Wayne is both his son and Robin. Of course the circumstances of Damien existing is creepy in itself.

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