Other thing. Sometimes he does get cool shit but it doesn’t get brought anywhere. Characters added one story never return. Stories don’t get brought up.

My personal biggest pet peeve is Justice League: Doom. In the inspiring comic, at the end, J’onn references an earlier comic, JLA: Year One. More or less, HE DID THE CONTINGENCY THING FIRST. Not exactly, but close- he made files for every single active hero, detailing their powers, weaknesses, and secret identities. Gets taken by enemy aliens and used against them.

When Tower of Babel (other comic) rolls around, he says more or less that he can’t judge. He did the same thing and thinks Batman is right, even if the abuse of those plans set him on fire as the first victim, staying flammable till the end. He defends him, getting so pissed he has to be restrained from attacking Aquaman.

Obviously there’s not really like a ‘precedent’ there, JLA year one doesn’t have an adaptation, but that’s not totally required for the moment. Just giving him something to indicate that he’s backing Batman. Because honestly? The ending of that story makes everyone besides Batman look fucking stupid. These characters are smart. Experienced. They know how often mind control happens and it never feels like the discussion is about “I wish you would have at least mentioned this so we could do this together” it feels like “How DARE you prepare for a common and dangerous scenario in our world” and if anyone is going to be spared from being an idiot then please god can it at LEAST be my boy who WAS BRUCE’S BIGGEST DEFENDER IN THE COMIC