Bruce Wayne/Batman. Um...it kind of depends on which Batman you're talking about. Because the Batman that I grew up with? Totally honorable and would never even consider using something so despicable to protect his city. He deserved the nickname "Dark Knight," because he really WAS rather knightly. He would have gone the Faramir route.
But the darker Batman from the 1990s and 2000s--I see him fighting it and eventually deciding that he had no choice but to use it against the Joker. And he would end up falling to the Ring, becoming not a Dark Lord but a grim, implacable Dark Judge.
And if it was Frank Miller's Goddamned Batman, Kidnapper of Dick Grayson, Aged Twelve...he'd fall immediately. And he would end up muttering to himself in a cave somewhere.
The modern Dick Grayson would, I think, believe that he could never do as good a job at destroying it as Bruce, but he would try anyway. And he would get almost to Mount Doom before he fell.
Barbara Gordon/Oracle/Batgirl. Barbara would study the Ring. She'd want to know how it affected people the way that it did and if there was any way to prevent it from doing so. I don't see it having a lot of power over her. (In the Silver Age, Barbara and Dick Grayson canonically overcame SATAN. Not an imaginary story, either. If these two could beat the Devil himself, they can take it to Mount Doom.)
Cassandra Cain. Early Cass would have just seen the Ring as a tool and would have used it. Current Cass would react like Gandalf--she wouldn't touch it because the Ring would remake her into the kind of person she didn't want to be.
Stephanie Brown. I think that she would try to get it to Mount Doom to prove to Bruce and the other Bats that she was worthy to be part of the Bat-family (even though she has been for some time), and, although she'd get close to Mount Doom, I don't see her being able to give it up--partly because it saved her life along the way. If Cass comes along and plays Sam, though, everything works out fine.
I don't really have an opinion about Tim Drake or Jason Todd, because I've never seen them.
Damien Wayne...LET US WELCOME OUR YOUNG DARK OVERLORD.
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Bruce Wayne/Batman. Um...it kind of depends on which Batman you're talking about. Because the Batman that I grew up with? Totally honorable and would never even consider using something so despicable to protect his city. He deserved the nickname "Dark Knight," because he really WAS rather knightly. He would have gone the Faramir route.
But the darker Batman from the 1990s and 2000s--I see him fighting it and eventually deciding that he had no choice but to use it against the Joker. And he would end up falling to the Ring, becoming not a Dark Lord but a grim, implacable Dark Judge.
And if it was Frank Miller's Goddamned Batman, Kidnapper of Dick Grayson, Aged Twelve...he'd fall immediately. And he would end up muttering to himself in a cave somewhere.
The modern Dick Grayson would, I think, believe that he could never do as good a job at destroying it as Bruce, but he would try anyway. And he would get almost to Mount Doom before he fell.
Barbara Gordon/Oracle/Batgirl. Barbara would study the Ring. She'd want to know how it affected people the way that it did and if there was any way to prevent it from doing so. I don't see it having a lot of power over her. (In the Silver Age, Barbara and Dick Grayson canonically overcame SATAN. Not an imaginary story, either. If these two could beat the Devil himself, they can take it to Mount Doom.)
Cassandra Cain. Early Cass would have just seen the Ring as a tool and would have used it. Current Cass would react like Gandalf--she wouldn't touch it because the Ring would remake her into the kind of person she didn't want to be.
Stephanie Brown. I think that she would try to get it to Mount Doom to prove to Bruce and the other Bats that she was worthy to be part of the Bat-family (even though she has been for some time), and, although she'd get close to Mount Doom, I don't see her being able to give it up--partly because it saved her life along the way. If Cass comes along and plays Sam, though, everything works out fine.
I don't really have an opinion about Tim Drake or Jason Todd, because I've never seen them.
Damien Wayne...LET US WELCOME OUR YOUNG DARK OVERLORD.