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Batman ’s problem in Gotham ca n’t be work as well as visit theJustice League . For many , it ’s perplexing to see Batman carrying outhis mission to save Gothamlike a one - man army when he ’s a card - carry Justice League founder . sure enough , he has the Bat - Family to help , but whenDC ’s quintessential super - teamis a suffering call away , that should presumptively doctor all the metropolis ’s trouble in one fell slide .
Batman : Dark Age#5 by Mark Russell and Michael Allred goes a long way toreiterate how and why the Justice League can not be the Dark Knight ’s - or any superhero ’s - one - stop store to lick their own personal problems . Batman comes to the League plead with his friend for help in Gotham , and because there are more pressing topic at hand , the Justice League is forced to turn their friend down .
Multiple metropolis in the DC Universe are force to take a backseat to the Justice League ’s affairs becauseJustice League affairs are galaxy - wide , and they ca n’t put their focus on just one city on Earth .
The Justice League Tells Batman They Can’t Save Gotham - It’s Too Small
Batman: Dark Ages#5 by Mark Russell, Michael Allred, Laura Allred, and Dave Sharpe
By the the fifth military issue ofBatman : Dark Age , the Caped Crusader has been put through the wringer in a conflict with Ra ’s al Ghul . In this universe , Batman ’s feud with Ra ’s led the latter to fire down Arkham Asylum - where Bruce ’s mother was once a patient- in an detonation that killed the love of his life . His contention with Ra ’s was arduous enough that not only did Bruce Waynefear he could n’t beat him , but about put down his hood over the ordeal .
His last repair to save Gotham City was to go to the Justice League for help . In the Hall of Justice , Batman address the League , express his grievances and vexation about Ra ’s Al Ghul , and practically begs for their help to save Gotham City . However , his call to legal action falls on distracted spike , not inevitably due to deficiency of interest group from any of the heroes , but because something much fully grown transpired while Batman was away and focusing on Gotham .
The preview for Batman : Dark Age # 1 shows off Gotham City ’s groundbreaking new invention with fly railway car and a retro - futuristic landscape .
After speaking to Brainiac , the Justice League now knows that the Anti - Monitor is about to drain the entire cosmos into antimatter . But before that happens , Brainiac plan to disrobe the Earth of its biosphere . In short , the Justice League has big thing to worry about , problems that affect the intact galaxy , and they do n’t have meter to focus on just one city on one planet . Batman ’s business concern about Gotham have to waitress , and if he ca n’t wait , then he is on his own to stand for Gotham by himself .
Gotham Isn’t the Only City Left Behind by the Justice League
Just Ask Black Lightning in the Suicide Slums
Gotham City is n’t the first urban center in the DC Universe that ca n’t have the Justice League ’s undivided attention , and it believably wo n’t be the last . Another instance come in the grade of Metropolis ' Suicide Slums , now rebranded as the Southside Heights neighborhood . Readers familiar with Jefferson Pierce will withdraw that a major reason why he becameBlack Lightningis becauseSuicide Slums was once the area of Metropolis that all the superheroes dismiss , including the Justice League .
Black Lightning is currently star in his own miniseries as part of DC All In . suss out outBlack Lightning#1 by Brandon Thomas , Fico Ossio , Ulises Arreola , and Lucas Gattoni , available now from DC Comics .
While there is obviously more toBlack Lightning ’s origin storythan that , the fact of the matter is that the Justice League failed the Suicide Slums . At a clock time when crime was rampant in the neighborhood , superheroes passed over the area every time . However , like with Batman , it was n’t a personal dismission - it ’s just thatthere are always more urgent , often Crisi - level trouble elsewhere . Metropolis itself is rearing with Superman ’s rogues verandah , a radical filled with intergalactic threats that will always take precedence over the street villains within the Slums .
The Justice League Is an Intergalactic Super-Team, Not a City-Wide Task Force
Batman Learned Their Priorities the Hard Way
There ’s a understanding why Metropolis matters are solely Superman ’s responsibleness - until a potentially global terror record up , like Doomsday , that is . There ’s a reason why the Flash Family takes care of issue in Central City , while the Justice League does n’t have a presence there . And backtracking to earlier , that ’s why Black Lightning makes the Suicide Slums his obligation , despite it being a neighborhood within Metropolis . Even Metropolis is too big for Superman to cover the entirety of it by himself , but all theother League heroes are also busy taking precaution of their own citieswhen they ’re not deal with League stage business .
TheJustice League call for to first prioritise the biggest threat that regard everyone in the world .
Batman surmise it better when he says that trying to liken his Gotham problems to the intergalactic crisis at hand was like"a military personnel in a burning menage trying to bluster out a candle . “As braggart as they are as a unit , the Justice League ca n’t be in more than one place at once . It ’s not a affair of neglect but more of a subject of clip and endeavor without risking drain . TheJustice Leagueneeds to first prioritize the biggest threat that affect everyone in the universe , so if that have in mind put Batman ’s Gotham on the back burner , then so be it .
Batman : Dark Age#5is available now from DC Comics .
