10 Shocking Secrets About Batman He Would Rather You Didn't Know
To many people, Batman is the ultimate model superhero.
He abides by a strict moral code, often fights against villains who are well above his paygrade
in terms of their power levels, and successfully mixes brains with brawn in a way that few
other heroes can match.??But the Dark Knight isn't perfect - not by a long way.
There are many moments from his history and many facts about him that he'd prefer to forget
- and these include moments of embarrassment, stupidity and breaching his moral code - and
that's what this video is all about.??Here are ten shocking secrets about Batman, from
various forms of media, that he would rather you didn't know.
He Has Killed On Multiple Occasions For some strange reason, Batman has built
a reputation as an uncorruptable beacon of morality with a strict "no kill" code - and
this is in spite of the fact that he's actually killed countless people over the years.??We
could literally make several videos of Batman's kills, but here are just a handful of them:
In 1988's Batman #425 he dropped a stack of broken-down cars on top of a drug dealer.
In 1990's Detective Comics #613 he threw a pair of rival mobsters into a trash compactor.
In 2007's All-Star Batman and Robin #7, he brutally pummelled a group of thugs before
setting them on fire using a bottle of bleach.
We could go on, but you get the point.
His Sexual Exploits Batman's sexual exploits - or "sexploits"
if you like - haven't exactly been something to write home about over the years.
In fact, we're pretty sure that he'd rather you didn't know anything about them!
Let's just look at a few examples of why...
In the 2016 Batman: The Killing Joke animated movie, he impulsively had sex with Batgirl
- yes, the same Batgirl who is James Gordon's daughter, who is much younger than Batman
and sees him as a mentor.
He also got her pregnant in Batman Beyond 2.0, got Talia al Ghul pregnant after she
roofied him in Batman Incorporated #2, and he did the deed with Black Canary after he'd
set a group of thugs on fire using a bottle of bleach in the aforementioned All-Star Batman
and Robin #7.
Oh and Tentacled alien sex made him and Superman cry in World's Finest #289.
No, really.
He's Been Parodied In Adult Movies On a somewhat related note to the last point
about Batman's somewhat embarrassing sexual exploits, the Caped Crusader would undoubtedly
not want you to know about the fact that he is regularly parodied in the world of adult
entertainment.??Superhero-themed productions are a fairly regularly thing in the adult
movie world and Batman is one of the most often utilised characters in the genre.
The adult movies with Batman in them have had titles like Dark Knight XXX: A Porn Parody
and feature the Dark Knight indulging in coitus with parodied versions of the likes of Batgirl,
Catwoman, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn.
He Wore A Rainbow Costume When it comes to Robin, Batman is very protective
over the Boy Wonder - so it stands to reason that he would do anything required to keep
his real identity of Dick Grayson a secret.
But this.... this was just ridiculous.??When Grayson injured his arm saving a little girl
from some criminals, Batman came up with a stupid method of distracting the crooks from
connecting the injury to the Boy Wonder - he dyed all of his Batsuits different colours.
Ultimately, the story - which took place in 1957's Detective Comics #241 - finished with
Batman wearing a rainbow costume and saying things like "they'll find no gold at the end
of this rainbow...
only prison!"
All of which, we're sure you'll agree, is absolutely ridiculous.
He Sang Christmas Carols To say that Batman and the Gotham City Police
Department don't really get along with each other is something of an understatement - because
they really, really don't get along with each other as a general rule - so it was quite
heartwarming to see them coming together in perfect harmony in 1969's Batman #219.??That
being said, it was also pretty embarrassing for the Dark Knight - because the reason they
came together so harmoniously was to sing Christmas carols!
Yes, Commissioner Gordon convinced Batman to go caroling with the GCPD!
Batman got so into it that he didn't realise he'd been caroling all night, declaring "it�s
like the spirit of Christmas took hold on everyone.
He Got Turned Into A Baby One of Batman's most cringe-inducingly embarrassing
moment's came in 1955's Batman #147 - and it's definitely a moment that the Dark Knight
would prefer you not to know about.??The Caped Crusader found himself in the path of a strange
transmogrification ray that turned him into a small child - a small child that was labelled
"Bat-Baby" by some thugs he proceeded to deal with.
That's right, Batman continued to go about his superhero business even though he was
stuck in babified form.
In fact, the bad guys were still just as terrified of him as they would be on any normal day
- even though he actually DRESSED LIKE A BABY to embrace his new form!
Of course, he was returned to normal size in the end, but it was pretty humiliating
while it lasted.
Batnipples Back in 1995 and 1997 respectively, Joel Schumacher
took on the directorial responsibilities for two Batman movies - Batman Forever and Batman
& Robin.
One of the biggest sources of embarrassment and hilarity from those movies were the infamous
nipples on the suits of Batman and Robin themselves - and we're sure Batman would want you to
forget all about them.??The mid-90s might seem like distant memory - it was before the
age of the modern comic book movie, after all - but we haven't forgotten, Batman.
In fact, we'll never forget.
Your Batnipples were ridiculous.
He Went Surfing As fun as the series was at the time, looking
back at the camp Adam West Batman television show of the 1960s probably makes every other
version of Batman shudder to his very core.
A prime example of why that's the case happened in the 1967 episode entitled Surf's Up!
Joker's Under!??In the episode, Cesar Romero's Joker decided to try to take over Gotham City
by defeating Batman in a surfing contest - because that totally makes sense.
By winning over Gotham's most "radical" teens, the Clown Prince of Crime figured the city
would be his.
Batman donned his surf shorts to take on the villain on the waves - and he kind of made
an idiot of himself in the process.
Oh dear.
He Wet His Pants Give Kevin Smith the license to pen a Batman
comic and this is what happens - the Dark Knight literally peed his pants.
It happened in Batman: The Widening Gyre, which ran in 2009 and 2010, and it sullied
what was previously seen as an iconic moment from Batman's origin story.??In Batman: Year
One, the Caped Crusader had crashed a dinner party of Gotham's most dangerous criminals
like a complete badass and put an end to their nefarious ways but, under Smith's penmanship,
Batman reveals years later that he was so scared at that moment that he wet himself.
It came from a combination of nerves from being in the presence of so many bad guys
and the shock from the heat of the explosives he had set to go off to make his entrance
so awesome.
How embarrassing!
He Shared A Laugh With The Joker Of all the terrible and embarrassing things
Batman has done, this one might not seem too bad in comparison.
But trust us, Batman would never want anyone to know about it at all - because he shared
a laugh with his arch-nemesis, The Joker.??It happened in 1988's Batman: The Killing Joke
- which has now been turned into an animated movie - after The Joker had done some terrible
things, like paralysed Barbara Gordon by shooting her in the stomach, then parading her naked
in front of her father, which made it even weirder.
Right at the end, The Joker tells a joke, at which point Batman starts to chuckle along
with the villain.
Even though it seems quite trivial, it was arguably the most shocking moment in any Batman
comic ever.
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