You can redo any storyline in DC comics history. Which is it and what do you change?

Nightwing getting shot in the head in Batman and the whole Ric Grayson thing. Heres how l would change it.

KGBeast actually shoots a helmet-less Luke Fox, putting Luke in a coma.

Lucious Fox distraught and unable to help run Wayne industries is frequently absent at work. Even though Luke is being treated he still blames himself for not being more involved with his son. Bruce being good friends with Lucious, helps him while he greaves and asks him if there’s anything that he can do to help him. Lucious says “just get the son of a bitch who did this to my son and make him pay”

(cheesy. i know i know)

here we can literally just slide everything that Tom King did with Batman hunting down KGBeast. Meanwhile in Gotham, Luke gets better but starts to have memory lapses. He’s acting differently, he’s less serious, more sarcastic and quippy and more of a dick to his father. Which in a way makes sense as a motivator since his father was a workaholic who often ignored his son.

Luke pretty much begins to hate Nightwing because of how better his relationship to Bruce is vs his own to his biological father. Part of this angst is whats fueling him to act cold and distant towards his father and the rest of the bat family whos slowly starting to notice his absence, and aggression towards them. He’s been crime fighting post head injury against his fathers and batmans wishes and despite knowing this the rest of the batfamily/the outsiders allow him to engage in their street level operations. but they slowly begin to doubt their decision to do this once they notice how badly he does and how his mental illness and condition puts the rest of the team in danger. they decide that Lucious and Bruce are right. And try to get him to take off the Batwing suit. Lucious refuses and flys off in a fit of rage. While alone he catches Black Spider committing a contract murder.

(who now fits his Young Justice depiction of essentially being an evil spider-mans)

Disillusioned by his anger and mental illness. Luke kills Black Spider and the man who black spiders contract demanded he killed. He panics. Doesn’t know what to do. So he takes both bodies to a safe house that he was staying in. The trauma of all of his actions plus his mental insanity causes him to strip black spider of his armor and decides he’ll fill in as him. Becoming him. His science and mechanical engineering background allow him to strip and fuse parts of Black Spiders armor and gadgets with those that batman gave him. He uses this to fill in Black Spiders roll, in his mental insanity he trys to convince himself that not only is Black Spider alive but that everything that he did under his mental instability was actually done by Ric Grayson. (A new name that he uses for Dick because his of his mental instability and amnesia post head injury by KGBeast)

Batwing goes missing and the Batfamily is constantly on the look out as what happens starts to slowly unravel. Mean while David Zavimbe decides to contact Bruce once again, telling Bruce that he’s been able to overcome part of the trauma that cause him to pass the mantle over to Luke. He’s once again ready to become the “Batman of Africa”. Bruce travels to africa and unlocks the secret hideout that David and his old partner used. David regains his mantle and begins operations in african once again. Luke becomes an assassin as black spider while battling his mental demons that constantly mess with his perception and reality of what really happened post head injury. Because of this, his personality reflects Peter Parkers, but evil instead of good. He becomes Nightwing, Red Robin, and the Teen Titans greatest enemy/rival and is usually the type that can keep up and sometimes over power most street level heros. Although they all seem to have trouble capturing him as he’s always able to escape.

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