Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-7823447-20140825190027/@comment-1639863-20150517202853

Tupka217 wrote: Also, he hasn't got many friends. Every time you think he builds up a friendship, some writer decides to make him an alienating asshole again.

Not entirely on topic, but that sentence made me think of Natalya Trusevich. Not necessarily a superpal like you guys are talking about, but a love interest that meant absolutely nothing to writers outside of The Dark Knight Vol 2.

While doing research on Tweedledum and Tweedledee thanks to Rab's tremendous synopses [ ;) ], I found that the writers of that series tried to make her seem like such an important love interest, complete with a whole "oh, she was the one" conversation. But, alas, she made less appearances in other Bat books than I can count on one hand.

Bottom line, writers do what they want with relationships and friendships. If they want Bats to friggin hate every Green Lantern in the universe because Hal's nose is too big, they'll do it to fit the story.