You know what would be awesome in Batman 3?

[seriousfic]

Aside from the first five minutes being Harvey Dent escaping from the asylum Batman and Gordon stashed him in? A new maniac named Harley Quinn has become the Susan Atkins to the Joker's Charles Manson. She continues to carry out his terrorist attacks and read his messages on the air, while he's tucked away in Arkham. It gets so bad that Batman goes to confront the Joker (who up to this point hasn't been seen).

A Dr. Quinzel leads Batman through the rogue's gallery of baddies (Y HELO THAR CILLIAN MURPHY), giving him the Hannibal-the-Cannibal spiel about how he can't touch the Joker, can't approach the bars, hey remember that time he ate a nurse's face, etc etc. Finally Batman is in front of Joker.

"I came here to talk."

There's a sort of battle of wits, with the Joker mostly in the shadows. And he's completely the killer from Seven (not Kevin Spacey, just someone that'd make you go "HOLY SHIT, IS THAT JOHNNY DEPP?" or whatever). There's been no publicity about this scene, it should be the equivalent of Nick Fury in Iron Man. Eventually Batman gets a vital clue and leaves. Then Dr. Quinzel comes in and begins taking off her glasses, pulling her hair into pig-tails, her voice getting more and more high-pitched until she calls the Joker "puddin" and you realize, HOLY SHIT, IT'S HARLEY QUINN!

The only other thing I could see would be to wait twenty years and bring Joker back as a Dark Knight Returns sorta thing.

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[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Also: Talia shows up to Have Words with Bats.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

It's funny, because both yours and black13's suggestions show up in my ongoing Batman Begins fic.

Course, you could name any Batverse character and I could say "Yup, in the fic."

I guess what I'm getting at is, Nolanverse!Talia would be utterly badass when compared to Comicverse!Talia.

Batman: Let me guess. This is the part where you waffle around before deciding to run back to your father.

Talia: You killed my father.

Batman: Oh. Guess I'm shit out of luck, then.

Talia: Quite.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Actually, according to the Nolanverse interpretation of Ra's, Talia would now BE Ra's.

Which is why I long for her more than I do Catwoman, or even Huntress(babs is kinda the main reason I got into DC comics in the first place, so, you know...) because, by the rules he created, she'd be the badass supervillain with hordes of minions.

[seriousfic.livejournal.com]

You know, I get what you're saying, and it would be cool to have ninjas again (since they're the only guys who can canonically stand a chance against Batman... other than dogs, I guess) but without the X-TREME SHAKYCAM ACTION!!!! but all I can think about is that one episode of Batman Beyond where Ra's Al Ghul transferred his mind into Talia's body.

Terry (Nuevo Batman): Lady, you are seriously creeping me out.

Old Bruce: You? She kissed me.