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Add another child ofBatmanto the list , as the boy of Bruce Wayne andCatwomanhas joined the DC Comics Universe . But there ’s more to this reveal than readers will grasp upon first reading , since the future of Batman ’s tyke continues to be a fog of alternate timeline , possible futures , and nightmare scenarios .
One of which leads to the birth of " Aion " - the name adopted by the biological Word of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle . That ’s allot to Bruce ’s current heir , Damian Wayne , who gets the first looking at at his future half - brother and competitor . Theprelude to Batman and Catwoman ’s weddingjust got a LOT more interesting .
To be clear , Bruce and Selina do n’t have a son , or any child in the current DC timeline . But with their marriage tight approaching , and a biography where Bruce Wayne retires from Batman looking more and more potential , a child could be in their future . But in his ownPrelude to the Weddingcomic , Damian Wayne learns the hard way that the son of Catwoman and Batman is a deathly ( and annoying ) combining .
After gravel the drop-off on Damian as he mentally prepares to reach a new Hi - Score on his pet arcade biz , Aion announce himself , whip in helping hand , cat emblem stitched across his black uniform along with a Bat - cowl to denote his stock . His combat skills also wo n’t let down either parent , yield Damian a engagement he is seriously not prepared for ( even after the expectancy of a phonograph recording - prepare game ofCheese Vikinghas sink ) .
Damian only get the upper hand and finishes the fight when he actualize it ’s his mental imagery and a sinewy psychedelic drug at work . Except … that ’s not the whole history . The battle is finally revealed to be a artifice by Damian ’s grandfather Ra ’s al Ghul , who has come to Gotham ahead of Bruce ’s wedding . The villain ’s name , ' Aion ' is a bit of a confidential information in this new setting : a term used by Carl Jung when discussing whimsy of the Self , apparently created by Damian ’s subconscious mind .
Or so he thinks . Because the future version of himself that Selina and Bruce ’s son shows Damian is n’t all a work of fabrication . The hallucination and insanity thrust upon Damian - explained aside by the drug he ’s been dosed with - will be recognized by fans as the destiny that really does look Damian Wayne , in the long - talk over future ofBatman#666 . And it ’s not the only prison term this nightmare time to come for Damian has resurfaced inDC ’s Rebirth .
It ’s not gentle to excuse the canon / non - canon position ofBatman#666 , in the beginning told by Grant Morrison and Andy Kubert . The first short story point Damian become Batman after the hero ’s death , shave his heading , make a deal with the Devil to sacrifice his soul for Gotham and immortality , and " put the apocalypse on hold . " Morrison ’s returns to this futurity made it excellently enigmatic , and whenthe succeeding Batman Tim Drake arrived in Rebirthto fix the future tense , it was suggested his world may be the one go through inBatman#666 .
Now , Tim Seeley and Brad Walker have break Batman and Catwoman ’s son to be merely an delusion … while linking him to this same dystopian time to come . Is it just a coincidence that Damian ’s delusion of a half - buddy also designate the antihero he becomes in the future - either this one , or another ?
Whatever the case , Helena Wayne now has company as the child Batman and Catwoman have raised in the comic , whether it ’s deemed " canonical " or not .
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