“After the economy crashes, destroying his family fortune, Bruce Wayne is forced to fire Robin and hire an undocumented worker as his side kick”

I love the original idea and all the other ideas in between the last. Would make great comedy. I'd go and see it for sure. :-)

Just a possibly irrelevant side note on deus ex machina in Comedy: In the movie Dodgeball, if you look closely in the finale when Peter (Vince Vaughn) brings out the trunk of cash he's gained from betting on Average Joe's to win, you can see the trunk is marked on the front with 'Deus Ex Machina' --

The point I guess, is that the wackier the comedic premise the more obvious deus ex machina you get away with..

Anyway -- best of luck with this Richiev... had me chortling at work all day!

Nice, I agree.

(That spider man one just wasn't that funny)