The other day I watched the Rifftrax movie Lady Mobster. It's from the early-to-mid-80s and it's about a girl who gets adopted by a mob family after her parents are murdered. She becomes a lawyer and when the family starts having problems, she steps in and eventually takes over. It's basically like if The Godfather had been about Tom Hagen taking over the Corleones instead of Michael.
The murder of her parents got me thinking this could be a good premise for a Batman Elseworlds story. (It might already exist; maybe Arion or Laplume can correct me if I'm wrong.) The idea would be that after Bruce Wayne's parents are killed in a mob hit, he's adopted by the Falcone family. Bruce studies to be a lawyer or whatever at his adopted father's behest but when the family starts being hassled by another family (or maybe the Penguin or Joker or whatever) he starts dressing up in a costume to take out the family's enemies.
In the end he finds who killed his parents and takes revenge. Then he becomes head of the Falcone family. Throw in a love interest and there you go, pretty solid premise.
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Sounds like an interesting premise. I'm not sure if there's a story like that in Elseworlds...
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