Batman/Gordon Plot Element Grab-Bag

[cimorene]

(I figured once I'd gone to the trouble to type this up, I should post it.) Almost any Batman/Gordon plot can by typified using the codes from this schema:

1. H/C from Batman to Jim:
1a. Batman rescues Jim daringly
1b. Batman takes Jim to the Batcave
1c. Batman bandages Jim's wounds

2. H/C from Jim to Batman:
2a. Jim rescues Batman daringly
2b. Jim takes Batman to his house
2c. Jim bandages Batman's wounds

3. Bruce Wayne and Jim
3a. Bruce Wayne flirts with Jim
3b. Bruce Wayne takes Jim out on a date
3c. Bruce Wayne invites Jim to a fundraiser/gala/party

4. Jim discovering Batman's identity
4a. Jim notices something familiar about either Bruce's or Batman's mouth
4b. Jim doesn't buy Bruce's playboy act
4c. Jim discovers Bruce/Batman's identity during sex

Comments

[cobweb-diamond.livejournal.com]

It's probably due to the limit of characters, plus the fact that AU just doesn't work. There are only so many ways you can get two characters to interact when one of them only gets about 10 minutes of screentime per movie. ;)

[cimness.livejournal.com]

It could be why, but it's not true that there are only so many ways to get them to interact. If you survey most fandoms of any variety - movie, television, science fiction or otherwise, rps, anime, comics - you find a pretty wide range of plot devices ranging from the clichéd to the completely wtf-inducing. Fandom doesn't lack for imagination, and a lack of canon precedent has never stopped it before.