shaxper
04-20-2008, 11:42 AM
I don't know if this has ever been officially established, but I'm trying to determine how fast time progresses in the DCU compared to the real world. Naturally, there needs to be some suspension of disbelief, but I think I've figured out that if the DCU ages one year for every four years that pass in the real world, most things work out.
Batman will have been fighting crime for 17 years. If he started in his early twenties, this now places him around 40 years of age -- still athletic and able, but beginning to show signs of slowing down. This would be a good reason for replacing or killing him in Batman R.I.P.
Superman and Wonder Woman will also have been around for two decades, but Amazons don't age (or at least age slowly), and Superman will still be able to perform efficiently well into his 80s so long as he is nearly invulnerable and possesses super strength.
Hal Jordan, Ray Palmer, and the rest of DC's surviving second generation would have been fighting crime for approximately 12 years. Depending upon how old they were when they started, this could make them anywhere in their 30s or 40s.
Dick Grayson (and the rest of DC's third generation) would be in his mid twenties now. He would have started the original Titans when he was 14 and the New Teen Titans when he was 18.
Tim Drake (and therefore all of DC's fourth generation) are a bit of a problem here, though. In Batman: Year Three, we see a young Tim Drake watching the flying Graysons perform when they are murdered. If Dick was 8 when this happened, this puts less than five years' distance between Dick and Tim. That makes Tim 19 or 20. I believe he's only supposed to be 16.
Well, what do you guys think?
EDIT: I just remembered that, post-crisis, Dick Grayson was 12 when his parents were murdered. This could make Tim Drake as many as nine years younger than him, which makes Tim approximately 16 years old. It works.
Batman will have been fighting crime for 17 years. If he started in his early twenties, this now places him around 40 years of age -- still athletic and able, but beginning to show signs of slowing down. This would be a good reason for replacing or killing him in Batman R.I.P.
Superman and Wonder Woman will also have been around for two decades, but Amazons don't age (or at least age slowly), and Superman will still be able to perform efficiently well into his 80s so long as he is nearly invulnerable and possesses super strength.
Hal Jordan, Ray Palmer, and the rest of DC's surviving second generation would have been fighting crime for approximately 12 years. Depending upon how old they were when they started, this could make them anywhere in their 30s or 40s.
Dick Grayson (and the rest of DC's third generation) would be in his mid twenties now. He would have started the original Titans when he was 14 and the New Teen Titans when he was 18.
Tim Drake (and therefore all of DC's fourth generation) are a bit of a problem here, though. In Batman: Year Three, we see a young Tim Drake watching the flying Graysons perform when they are murdered. If Dick was 8 when this happened, this puts less than five years' distance between Dick and Tim. That makes Tim 19 or 20. I believe he's only supposed to be 16.
Well, what do you guys think?
EDIT: I just remembered that, post-crisis, Dick Grayson was 12 when his parents were murdered. This could make Tim Drake as many as nine years younger than him, which makes Tim approximately 16 years old. It works.