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Looks more like Arkham High.

Was a canceled animated series that was planned.

A pic showing more of the characters:

The problem with a Batman-in-high-school story is that there's, like, three or four well-known good guy characters in the Bat Family (Batman himself, Robin, Batgirl, Alfred, and now we're already scraping around for different versions of Robin), and then lots and lots of well-known villains. Usually in high school dramas you've got the main character and their two-ish friends, a similarly sized clique of bully nemeses, and then lots of other characters who can appear as antagonists or protagonists depending on the needs of the current plot. Catwoman, Two-Face, and Freeze can at least flip-flop, but still, it's going to have trouble escaping the vibe of "Bruce's friends vs. the world" when half the cast are in the "bully nemesis" bucket.

Also, does Gotham High have no teachers? Teachers who are cruel, helpful, or eccentric are a pretty critical component of the high school drama.

Let's see, I'm not a huge Bat Family nerd, but there's Dick, Tim and Cass, off the top of my head. There's also Damien, but he could be difficult to fit into "Batman in High School," given that in the normal canon he's Bruce's son. In "Batman in High School," you could maybe make Damien Bruce's younger brother. Yes, Dick, Tim and Damien are various Robins/former Robins, and Cass is a Batwoman, but they're characters that a person only tangentially into Batman might recognize.

So you've got Bruce, Babs, Dick, Tim, Cass, and maybe Damien, which is a good number of protags.

A lot of Batman rogues actually have pretty sympathetic depths if the writers care to include them. Selena, Harvey, Harley, Croc, Riddler, even Bane, Clayface and Ivy can be your "sometimes antagonist, sometimes protagonist" characters. Freeze, too, but I personally think Freeze would be better in the teacher role. You can include Jason Todd/Red Hood as a flip-flopper, too, as a former Robin who now in the comics is a bit of a flip-flopper, since he's basically "Batman, but willing to kill" as Red Hood.

I would say you could delineate Joker, Oswald, Black Mask and Zsasz as your core "always antagonists" characters (tho, Zsasz needs to be altered for a High School setting...).

Make Freeze, Hugo Strange, Ra's, Calendar Man, Cluemaster, James Gordon, Kirk Langstrom (Man-Bat) and maybe Mad Hatter, Arnold Wesker (Ventriloquist), and Maxie Zeus your core teacher cast, and you could make it work.

Scarecrow could go into any group and work well.

Could have also had Tommy/Hush as on the surface Bruce's friend but has been talking shit about him behind his back.

Definitely. I meant to include Hush in there, but forgot, I guess.

Looks dumb.

I'd prefer this premise to Gotham's travesty.

Prak wrote:and Cass is a Batwoman

Batgirl actually. The modern Batwoman (last time I checked, they keep changing this sort of thing) isn't connected with Batman, just was inspired by him. She's now got her own TV series starring Ruby Rose, so maybe she'd have name recognition? There was another Batgirl after Cassandra that nobody much liked.

I might add Huntress to that, but she actually is a school teacher, might keep her as staff instead. In the Birds of Prey TV series from way back, Barbara Gordon was the teacher, again might be worth keeping her as that, she also got to be a mentor figure in the Birds of Prey comics.

You could have the Gotham City Sirens (Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy and Catwoman) as the cool/mean girl clique which you have to have in any high school thing, without them being really evil.

Thaluikhain wrote: Batgirl actually. The modern Batwoman (last time I checked, they keep changing this sort of thing) isn't connected with Batman, just was inspired by him. She's now got her own TV series starring Ruby Rose, so maybe she'd have name recognition?

Nope they using DC Rebirth version, Ruby Rose is playing Bruce Wayne's cousin Katherine "Kate" Kane.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batwoman_(TV_series)

Ah, thanks, didn't know that.

Oh, Rachel Skarsten (who was in Birds of Prey) is Alice.

The very cliquishness of highschool means that you could do Gotham High with different groups of villains being different cliques. Evil science nerds, evil jocks, evil drama club, and evil stoners all kind of populate themselves.

Like, you have the evil jocks get out of football practice and Bane, Croc, and Mark Desmond start pushing people around. And then you have the evil science nerds of Victor Fries, Pam Ivy, Hugo Strange, and John Crane pull some stunt. And then you have the evil drama club start some trouble with Joker, Scarface, and Clayface doing shenanigans. And of course your evil student government of Harvey Dent, Oswald Cobblepot, Hamilton Hill, and Rupert Thorne.

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Did anyone watch DC Super Girls? More than one or two minutes and then getting fed up, I mean. Similar premise, I think, or at least it seemed to be for the first one or two minutes.

I think that DC Super Girls was... Maybe for a kid audience, not a high school audience. I watched it when I was in a very particular mood because it was too much for 99% of the time. I don't remember (but I really could be wrong) liking shows that spastic when I was in high school.

(While I am not recommending the show, I did think it was kind of awesome that they picked Eartha Kitt's Catwoman for the all of two or three episodes she shows up in.)

I need bleach for my brain...

I'm sure that's someone's horrifying fetish.

Am I the only person that thinks the "your" is the worst part of that?