Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24099946-20131201223438/@comment-1639863-20140922011137

We're forgetting that, even if Batman were gone forever, Gotham would still have plenty of vigilantes to take over for him. Everybody would probably work a bit harder to make up for the loss of Gotham's "true" hero. No body necessarily needs to take up the cowl like we've been thinking. Bruce usually uses the motto, "Gotham needs a Batman", but that's not entirely true. I'd prefer to believe that Gotham needs a hero, and that can be anybody: Nightwing, Batgirl, Batwoman, even Ragman.