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Spoiler warning for Batman : Urban legend # 18
Batmanhas develop a lot of immature heroes over the years , and now his brother can never break away some of his great weaknesses . This is specially true ofthe Signal , one of Batman ’s recent protégés , who lately has been overworking himself and refusing to ask for help . Anyone who ’s familiar with Batman ’s working style will recognise this unhealthful rule and fuck that Duke Thomas is the next person to go down fair game to Batman ’s weakness .
Like many of Batman ’s young trainees , Duke Thomas ’s story is a tragic one . Though adventuresome in spirit and eager to defend Gotham , Duke get with a lot of emotional luggage . His parents were poisoned by Joker toxin during an attack on the city , and there is yet to be a therapeutic for them . Meanwhile , during theDark Nights : Metalevent , Duke get word he is , in fact , a metahuman with wakeful abilities , a trait he apparently inherit from his mother . While the mystery of his parents is on-going , Duke string under Batman and the senior member of the Outsiders , including Black Lightning and Katana .
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Duke has a luck to balance between attempt to save up his parents ( especially his female parent , who has apparently been omit ) , beinga committed fellow member of the Outsiders , and being a full - meter student on top of all that . InBatman : Urban Legends#18 , Duke ’s exhaustion take the spotlight in a story by Brandon Thomas , Alberto Jimenez Alburquerque , John Kalisz , and Steve Wands . Black Lightning in fussy grows touch on for Duke , who can barely happen the time to sleep . Black Lightning approaches Batman for assistance , saying that they need to " show [ Duke ] that it ’s o.k. to accept that help . " When Batman starts to say that Duke has n’t asked for service , Jefferson respond : " And he never will . Just like you would n’t . But that does n’t intend he does n’t necessitate it . "
Batman is intelligibly a great wise man — one needs only front atthe likes of Nightwing to know that — but training with him also comes with its downfall . The youthful hero sandwich that take care up to him as an influence , like Duke Thomas as the Signal , also pick up on his faults , even if they do at first to appear like independence . In this story fromUrban legend , Duke falls dupe to exploit and isolation , even if he is working on the neat movement of find his female parent . But Batman himself knows these things to be weaknesses , despite them being his own ; by the death of the story , Batman takes it upon himself to team - up with Duke and the Outsiders in purchase order to search for Duke ’s female parent and ease his heavy burden .
Batman has had innumerable sidekicksafter 80 - plus years of vigilantism , and almost all of them have start up mimicking some of his slap-up weaknesses — especially the inability to require for help . Duke Thomas has always plume himself on his independence , but now that independence is backfiring on him as he overworks himself and refuse to ask his mentor for help . Butthe Signalis Batman ’s protégé , and that means Batman will always have his back , even when the problem isBatman’svery own impuissance .
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