Bruce Wayne's Goodbye Message in Gotham Knights Raises a Suspicious Question

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Gotham Knightshas already stirred loads of speculation about whether Bruce Wayne is truly dead or not. Because of how frequently characters’ lives are at stake or how often characters’ deaths are reversed in comic book media, it is best to keep an open mind and engage with the material at face value to experience the story the way it is intended. Unfortunately, many players are still not sold on Bruce’s death in Gotham Knights,and for good reason. Either way, Gotham Knights’ primary focal point will hopefully still be Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin, and Red Hood.

However, there is a clue buried in Gotham Knights’ announcement trailer that seems to reveal more than it lets on. Jason Todd, Barbara Gordon, Tim Drake, and Dick Grayson all receive Bruce’s encrypted Code Black message. The message is a video diary log Bruce recorded to impart final words to the Bat Family and rally them as Gotham City’s last hope in his absence. So if it is to be believed that Bruce knew his life was in danger, there is one important question to be derived from the Code Black message: why did Bruce Wayne not warn the Bat Family?

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One key piece of dialogue from Gotham Knights’ cinematic announcement trailer seems to directly infer that Bruce knew he was going to die, or that his death would have to be faked. Bruce mentions that the Code Black message was automatically triggered when he “destroyed the cave and everything it contained.” Bruce could have plausibly recorded many similar messages in the event of his unprecedented death, but if he knew to preemptively destroy the Batcave to preserve his identity and erase his resources, then he must have known his life was in some sort of imminent danger.

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