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Originally Posted by Jason Abbadon

While I totally agree, it's kinda required- Dc curently has Bruce wayne at 40 years old- meaning he's been Batman about fifteen years- same with Superman.
Even if you stretch that to 20 years worth of career (meaning Bruce started at Batman at the unlikely age of 20) that would require an Arkham asylum every week, a major riot monthly, major disasters on a yearly basis, grisly murders nightly and non-stop kidnappings, serial killer sprees, robberies, rapes and monsters throughout Gotham City and Bruce working 24/7.

No one in their right mind would live in Gotham! It would be like Detroit from Robocop but with bodies in the streets.

Really, everyone in Marvel and Dc would be suffering from extreme PTSD, but in DC it would be far far worse. Consider that Gotham's sister city, Bludhaven was utterly destroyed in a chemical attack- total populace wiped out.
Gotham had a major earthquake, followed by a plague. The Earth of DC has suffered four major worldwide alien invasions, Nuclear terrorist attacks, Amazons attacking the United States, two massive temporal/ reality warping events and a worldwide uprising of zombies.
oh, and Lex Luthor was the United States president for a year. I shit you not. Lex freaking Luthor got elected President.
At that point, I'd let the zombies have the planet and bug out to the JLA satelite or Oa or wherever.

Yeah, sometimes a reboot is the only way to get past their past!

That's exactly my point about legacy heroes and mantles though. If they used what they claimed, the de-aging wouldn't be needed at all. At least some of the slowed aging they rationalized out, like the JSA, among others including Clark. Bruce on the other hand, well you may as well just use the Lazurus pit or some such staying young by proximity to the magics keeping others young.

As for Lex, yeah, that arc has been ongoing for awhile. Then again though, he's alsoo had his own stories to his deaging. Like the cancer, clone bodies, etc.

The reboot/relaunch on the other hand creates new issues too.
If Nightwing is in his 20s, and Bruce in his 30s. How does that work if they were former partners?

It just feels with nightwing especially, they are using too many movie nods. He's got a very Batman Forever/Batman and Robin vibe going on.

The GL costumes are reverting to more towards the movie costumes. Which for stel is awesome, since his movie look is extremely close to his alpha lantern look like the C&C figure. (They have a carded version of his normal lantern look in one of the GLC waves. Seen below, alpha lantern stel is what the C&C is.)

Superboy looks all kinds of weird, superman does too, Supergirl and red robin are awesome though.

I included images of Stel pre-alpha lantern figure, as well as what I was talking about with nightwing.