>>108116662I like that Terry is a Bruce clone desu. Not really in the context of the DCAU but more in the overall canon or mythology or whatever the fuck you want to call it. We keep seeing over and over again that, sure, anyone can be the Batman, but actually BEING the Batman takes such a psychological toll that it either breaks every individual who tries, either physically or emotionally. There always has to be a Batman, and it always has to be Bruce. One of the n52 annuals shows us a future where every Batman wakes up to an older version of themselves immediately after his parent are killed. The older Bats acts as a sort of Alfred or mentor to the new one until he dies, and then that one gets old and wakes a clone and it goes on and on forever.
But with Terry we get that Batgod/Wayne-Magic stuff and we don't actually just have to do Bruce again, or deal with the baggage of the Robin legacy. Also, all other major candidates for Batman II have either had the mantle and gave it up, or we've seen why they shouldn't have the mantle in the case of Damian.
The only other logical choice is Tim but then you run the risk of redundancy because when you really think about it, Terry is DCAU Tim and the actual DCAU Tim is Jason.
tl;dr the clone thing is neato
