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Warning : contains spoilers toBatman : Urban Legends # 8 !
A flashback toBatman ’s childhood just bring out that rather than identify himself for the bats that terrified him as a kid , Bruce Wayne should have become Wolfman , the predatory animal of Gotham ’s Scheol . While insight into Bruce ’s puerility often focuses on his parents ' murder , Bruce’spursuit of Professor Pygtriggers a memory of his father reading the faery narrative of theThree Little Pigs . As the modern - day Batman tracks down Pyg , the young Bruce reveals that he not only empathize with the Big Bad Wolf , but that he could have been just as terrific as Wolfman had he adopted that visage or else .
In the story by author / creative person Christian Ward and letterer Steve Wands , Batman learns that a young daughter has been kidnapped by Professor Pyg , the deranged psychopath and surgeon whose obsession with flawlessness see him kidnap people to metamorphose into " Dollotrons . " While Batman learns of three possible den for Pyg fromvarious individuals in Gotham ’s underworld , his journeying is narrated by Bruce ’s memory of his father Thomas reading him theThree small Pigsand their issues with the tale ’s baddie , the Big Bad Wolf .
As Batman leaves behind a trail of injured and unconscious collaborators mean to procrastinate him while Pyg function on his latest dupe , young Bruce voice his criticism after hearing how the Big Bad Wolf was defeated by the Three Little Pigs , precipitate down the chimney of the Third Pig ’s star sign into a boiling pot where he was afterward eat as dinner party . " That was dazed , " says Bruce , the future victor of percolation . " The wolf should have been better machinate . I ’d have been better prepared . "
This alarming identification with the Big Bad Wolf suggest a potential futurity in which Bruce continued many of the same activities he does as Batman but under a different namesake . emblematic loners who actually live in packs ( much as Bruce has accrued a huge " Bat - Family " around him ) , wolves predate on vulnerable creature but can also challenge or dominate other predators , alike to Batman ’s crusade against the superstitious and cowardly malefactor of Gotham while protecting his territory from foes like Joker and Bane . masher also enjoy nocturnal activity , furrow down fair game , and are even associated with the glowing light of the moon , suggesting an even moreappropriate cast of the Bat Signalas an artificial full moon smoothen over Gotham .
It ’s ironic that Bruce Wayne could have become the Wolfman if he ’d permit himself to be inspired by this positively charged childhood memory rather than the traumatic experience he had with the colony of cricket bat beneath Wayne Manor , since he ’s presently face off against the genuine Big Bad Wolf over inBatman vs. Bigby : A Wolf in Gotham , which star an alternating - existence Bruce Wayne alongsideFables ' lupine hoagie . It seems that wolves stalk Bruce ’s spirit , even providing a link to his father , and yet he was never entice to declare,“Yes , founding father , I shall become a wolf . "
Although it would have been interesting seeing the shock Wolfman would have had on Gotham and the DC Universe overall , Bruce found his genuine brainchild with a bat and the relaxation is comic book history . As he closes in on Professor Pyg , Ward smartly shows how the past influences the future tense , withBatman ’s tank - like Batmobile interrupt Pyg ’s procedure . As his entry leaves Professor Pyg babbling , Batmancan’t help but show a rare smile as he quotes the Big Bad Wolf , let the little fuzz know that some fairy story do n’t have a happy endings , peculiarly those that play out in Gotham .
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