Baronlando said:
Warbler said: But there are things you can't do, and one of them is depicting Wayne retiring and going away with Catwoman and leaving the crime fighting to someone else.
What is that, the law? You just made that up from thin air. But really, in 75 years nobody has lavished this kind of ambition and effort on the character (and may not ever again), so I can't see getting hung up on some arbitrary personal "rules" about Batman. This is why we can't have nice things, internet!
Besides which, he already hung up the cape and cowl in what is the single greatest Batman graphic novel, The Dark Knight Returns. So it was never a rule in the first place. It seemed a fitting end when it happened in that comic, and it seems pretty natural when it happens in its screen counterpart in The Dark Knight Rises IMO.