I think the outroar of batman stop his vigilante actions, does have something to do with the end of dark knights metal. And it completely makes sense, I mean evil,murderous, and vile batmen and women show up for an entire alternative multiverse starting to metamorph gotham into hell on earth and take metropolis to the abyss of oblivion, then ya, you will get paranoid of people that dress as a bat....

However the uproar can also mirror what happened in the original watchmen And how the populis turned against the minute men (a group that later evloves into the watchmen) and made them go into hiding. And how those type if events are occuring on the prime DC earth as well.

Honestly now I'm really perplexed but also highly intrested into seeing want happens at the end of dark knights metal. Becasue not only is the batman identity facing a dillema but also Bruce Wayne. Apparently following some sort of backlash the company (Wayne enterprise) is being sold to LEXCORP. If that happens all sort of financial backing that batman had in terms of gadgets and weapons will be lost, and all he's gonna have is batarangs and smoke pellets

Doomsday clock is creating some BIG issues for the dark knight.