Transmedia and transfictional “re-writings” typically play off the general characteristics of a source text or else offer various rupturing effects which either subvert or celebrate canonical elements whose very status implicitly sets up the rules of transtextuality. But what happens when the materials that trigger this productivity are less clear-cut, less obvious, less canonical, whether they be found in a single instant, a single gesture, or an image that darts out from the various stations of a narrative? We remember how young Bruce Wayne found his calling as a schizoid masked vigilante in the murder of his parents and how the pearls from his mother’s broken necklace were sent flying in the air, filling the panels of the page. It wasn’t long, however, before those pearls also began roaming, formally and figuratively, the entire Batverse. But what exactly are those “moving” pearls : traces? A form of archive? A memory? An obsessional figure? This essay examines how the study of figures and how the reuse of micro-textual and local motifs can contribute to a generative process whereby images feed a specific form of reflexivity through the epic intermedial corpus known as Batman.