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78 unusual facts about Batman


Adrienne Roy

Nevertheless, she is predominantly known for her work on the Batman books: Batman, Detective Comics, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, Batman: Gotham Knights, and Robin.

Alyas Batman at Robin

Alyas Batman at Robin is an unauthorized 1965 Filipino Batman comedy-adventure film produced by the low-budget D'lanor Productions.

AmerTek

AmerTek's branding is found on Deadshot's bullet shell in the trailer for the video game, Batman: Arkham Origins.

Animal Icons

This program tells us about fictional animals from franchises that include Garfield, Godzilla, King Kong, Batman, Spider-Man and Bugs Bunny.

Antonis Fotsis

He goes by the nickname of "Batman" since his adolescent years, when his co-players at junior national teams named him after the well-known comic-strip figure, because of his tendency/ability to be an overwhelmingly gliding presence above the basketball rim.

Barry Bradfield

In 1998, Bradfield created Batman: The Animated Homepage which featured information and images from Batman: The Animated Series.

Batman 2

Batman: Arkham City, the 2011 sequel to the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum

Batman Animated

Batman Animated also goes over the creation of the two animated spin-off films, Mask of the Phantasm and Sub-Zero.

Batman: Arkham City Lockdown

The voice cast includes: Kevin Conroy (Batman), Mark Hamill (The Joker), Tara Strong (Harley Quinn), Fred Tatasciore (Solomon Grundy, Mr. Hammer), Troy Baker (Two-Face, Robin), Corey Burton (Hugo Strange), Larry Grimm (Deathstroke), Amy Carle (Poison Ivy) instead of Tasia Valenza.

Batman: Arkham Unhinged

Hugo Strange's Tyger guards have succeeded in apprehending every "outlaw" in Gotham City, except for Catwoman, Two-Face, and Batman.

Batman: Castle of the Bat

Thomas Wayne: Bruce's father, a highly reputed doctor who believed there was no nobler profession.

Written by Jack C. Harris with art by Bo Hampton as the artist and Tracy Hampton-Munsey as the letterer.

Batman: City of Crime

They compared to other highly praised Batman titles, such as War Games.

Batman: Contagion

The governor sent in the National Guard.

Batman: Dark Knight Dynasty

Sir Joshua Wainwright, a crusader for the Knights Templar in the year 1222, battles the evil Vandal Savage, who steals a shipment of gold and tries to bring a mysterious meteor crashing to Earth.

Batman: Dark Tomorrow

Players would also be able to patrol Gotham in the Batmobile, Batplane, and Batboat.

Batman: Dark Victory

The story takes place during the events of Dark Victory, between Valentine's Day (when Catwoman leaves Gotham) and Thanksgiving.

Batman: Dead White

According to Gordon, crime lord Carmine Falcone was rumoured to have disappeared during Ra's al Ghul's attack on Gotham with many of the other inmates of Arkham Asylum, but he is said to be spending time in prison, tying into Sal Maroni and Gambol fighting for underworld control in The Dark Knight.

Batman: Digital Justice

It was written and illustrated by Pepe Moreno entirely using computer hardware, software and techniques.

He is aided by a self-aware computer called the Batcomp, programmed by the late Bruce Wayne, and a robot called Alfred (after Wayne's also deceased butler Alfred Pennyworth), both residing in the Batcave under a now long-abandoned Wayne Manor.

Batman: Earth One

He has a daughter living in Seoul, South Korea with her mother, where Alfred had previously worked at a security firm.

Batman: Gotham County Line

Batman: Gotham County Line is a three-issue American comic book limited series written by Steve Niles, known for his series 30 Days of Night, and illustrated by Scott Hampton.

Batman: In Darkest Knight

Batman: In Darkest Knight is a one-shot comic book, published in 1994 and written by Mike W. Barr with art by Jerry Bingham.

Sinestro swears vengeance on Bruce before he is banished to Qward.

When one of them, Katma Tui, says that Bruce is their hero, he gives her Sinestro's power ring before returning to Oa.

Batman: Leatherwing

In Final Crisis Secret Files #1, it was revealed that on the Nazi-dominated Earth-10, a member of Overman's Justice League is Leatherwing, an alternate version of Batman.

Batman: Masque

As Batman chases after the third, the fight moves to the Gotham City Opera House, where a performance of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death" is being held.

Batman: Nine Lives

Batman: Nine Lives is an Elseworlds graphic novel published by DC Comics in 2002, written by Dean Motter, with art by Michael Lark.

Though Batman still exists, members of his rogues gallery appear as normal criminals rather than mutated, disfigured or technologically enhanced characters, a similar approach to that of Christopher Nolan's Batman film series.

Batman: Revenge

With the use of the Batmobile and the Batplane (Batwing), the Caped Crusader must again defend the people of Gotham City against the question-marked villain and his gang of henchmen.

The plot features Doctor Burton, the psychiatrist from the Batman Forever film.

Batman: Son of the Demon

DC Comics published a new printing of Batman: Son of the Demon in 2006 featuring new cover art by Andy Kubert for the first time in standard comic book size with a cover price of $5.99 US, tying in with the "Batman & Son" arc.

Batman: The Caped Crusader

Batman; The Caped Crusader is an action adventure game developed by Special FX Software (Jonathan Smith, Zach Townsend, Charles Davies, and Keith Tinman) and published by Ocean Software for the 8-bit home computers such as the ZX Spectrum and Commodore 64 and by Data East for other platforms such as the Apple II, Commodore Amiga and PC in 1988.

Batman: The Man Who Laughs

Hilary Goldstein of IGN Comics said that The Man Who Laughs "lacks the smooth pacing and adept dialogue of Moore's The Killing Joke, but this is a worthy companion to the classic Joker tale."

Batman: The Man Who Laughs is a one-shot prestige format comic book by Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke, released in February 2005, and intended as a successor to Batman: Year One.

Batman meets with Gordon on top of police headquarters and unveils to him the new Bat-Signal.

While Bruce is researching in the Batcave, the Joker appears on television again to make a similar threat, this time on Jay W. Wilde.

Batman: Year 100

Editor Lynda Barry wished to include an excerpt from Batman: Year 100 in The Best American Comics 2008 but was denied permission by DC Comics for unstated reasons.

Batman's Hill

The site now forms the eastern border of the Melbourne Docklands (a precinct of the Docklands development is also named Batman's Hill) and is dominated by Southern Cross Station and the Collins Street bridge built in 2002 to replicate the original curve and shape of the hill.

Batman's Treaty

Arthur was not pleased with the Association's actions, and wrote to the Governor of New South Wales, Richard Bourke.

Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity

In the Batcave, Batman informs Superman that the man behind The Purge is Ra's Al Ghul, an eco-terrorist.

Bibleman

The Fibbler A green-haired evil clown (resembling the Cesar Romero Joker from the Batman) who influenced one of the Church singing group children into lying.

Blanche Fury

This film marks the first film appearance of Gough, probably best known for portraying Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth in Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin.

Bud and Lou

They both also appear in Batman: Arkham City where The Penguin has them killed and stuffed in his museum as an exhibit prior to the events of the game.

Cold, Cold Heart

During the credits of the 2013 video game Batman: Arkham Origins, the Joker, voiced by Troy Baker, can be heard ominously singing an a cappella of this song while being returned to his cell at Blackgate Penitentiary.

Cornelius Stirk

Stirk makes a brief cameo in the beginning of the four-part storyline The Last Arkham, where Jeremiah Arkham, Arkham Asylum's new director, utilizes more barbaric methods to "cure" him.

Doluca

Doluca, Batman, a village in the district of Batman, Batman Province

Fight Batman Fight!

Fight Batman Fight! is an unauthorized 1973 Filipino Batman action-fantasy film produced by Pacific Films (Philippines).

Gilda Dent

Due to the success of The Long Halloween, the events of the story have generally been accepted into continuity as the "official" story of Batman's early years, given that Zero Hour retconned the events of Batman: Year Two and rendered them non-canonical.

In the "One Year Later" story arc Batman: Face the Face, Dent mentions Gilda when recalling his past life, but the Two-Face persona states "No, Harvey. She's gone now".

Hiroshi Morioka

Primarily working alongside director Koichi Mashimo at Bee Train animation studio, he's come on scene in his work with some notable productions by Bee Train including the anime adaption of Clamp's Tsubasa Chronicle and the third segment Field Test in Batman: Gotham Knight.

Johnny Jacobs

Throughout his career, he occasionally acted in television shows, making guest appearances on Batman(episode 3), Leave It to Beaver and The Munsters.

Johnny Lightning

Also they make a lot film-inspired cars, like the Ghostbusters Cadillac, the Green Hornet's Black Beauty, Batman's Batmobile, the James Bond Aston Martin, Dukes Of Hazzard-related models, etc.

Johnnys

# Batman * used as the theme song for the Japanese airing of the television series Batman

Kasnia

In Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, a faction of the Kasnian military attempts to purchase a large number of high-tech weapons from Gotham mobsters The Penguin, Rupert Thorne, and the assassin Bane.

Meg and Mog

The film is to be directed by Brandon Vietti, whose other works include Batman: Under the Red Hood and television series Batman: The Brave and the Bold and has been scripted by David Koepp.

Michael Akins

Akins's tolerance of Batman was further strained during the "War Games" story arc, when Batman assumed control of the GCPD, causing heavy casualties to the police.

Panchito Alba

He was frequently cast as an authority figure such as a policeman, a politician, a father-of-the-family, and memorably, as the hula skirt-clad music teacher of Jaena High School in the Joey de Leon-Rene Requiestas starrer Elvis and James (1989) and as "Paenguin" (a parody of Batman's arch-nemesis The Penguin) in the comedy-spoof Alyas Batman en Robin (1991).

Quakemaster

For a brief time, the name Quakemaster is used by fellow villain the Ventriloquist during the Gotham City disaster known as the Cataclysm.

Rusty Mills

Mills' additional television animated credits included Garfield's Thanksgiving in 1989, Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, Pink Panther and Pals, and The Replacements.

Shane McCarthy

McCarthy later was responsible for a reinvention of the Riddler character in the five-part Riddle Me That beginning in Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight #185 (2005) and followed it up with Victims in Detective Comics #816 (2006), pitting Batman against Zsasz.

Spencer Street, Melbourne

The home of John Batman was built on nearby Batman's Hill where he lived until his death and the early camps of Captain William Lonsdale and Charles La Trobe were located along the street.

Stan Woch

His credits as an inker include the Airboy series, Batman: Shadow of the Bat, the 1993 Black Orchid series, the 1980s version of the Doom Patrol, and the Robin continuing series.

Susan Eisenberg

Her breakout role was that of Wonder Woman in the acclaimed Justice League and Justice League Unlimited television series, as well as the direct-to-DVD films Superman/Batman: Apocalypse and Justice League: Doom.

The Batman Chronicles

With a larger page count than typical comics of the time, most issues contained three separate stories, with Batman usually featuring in at least one of them, and others featuring Batman's friends and foes.

The Daddy of Rock 'n' Roll

Many of his compositions are very similar, a fact that is highlighted by scenes of him recording songs such as "I Whipped Superman's Ass", "I Whipped Spider-Man's Ass" and "I Whupped Batman's Ass", which are overlaid to highlight their similarities.

The Damned Things

A previously unreleased song by the band, "Trophy Widow", was released on the soundtrack of the video game Batman: Arkham City on October 4, 2011, while the game was released two weeks later, on October 18.

The House That Dirt Built

The album's songs were used for several video games and films; "Short Change Hero" was featured in the 2010 movie Faster, a trailer for the 2011 video game Batman: Arkham City, later opened the 2012 video game Borderlands 2, and the trailer for Season 2 of Longmire.

The Trouble with Mr. Bean

Bean arrives at the dentist's office, where he cannot find anything in the waiting room to read except for a Batman comic book with The Road Warriors on the back cover, which a young boy is already reading (he brought the comic from home).

Toshiyuki Kubooka

Batman: Gotham Knight (Segment: Working Through Pain; Animation director)

Toyoo Ashida

Batman: Gotham Knight (2008) (production coordination on the segment "In Darkness Dwells")

Warlock's Daughter

When the Batman storyline "War Games" starts, a rival gang attacks Darla's car and pulls her out of it.

Where the Bullets Fly

Different dialogue appeared in the American print that had much less of the opening Parliamentary satire and the word "Biggles" is replaced by "Batman" when Seraph is talking of his excitement at visiting Secret Service headquarters.

Yağmurlu

Yağmurlu, Batman, a village in the district of Batman, Batman Province, Turkey

Yolağzı

Yolağzı, Batman, a village in the district of Batman, Batman Province

Yvonne Craig

Craig felt some connection to the character and complained to DC Comics about her fate after Barbara Gordon was shot/paralyzed by the Joker in the 1988 graphic novel, Batman: The Killing Joke.

Zero Hour: Crisis in Time

Finally, contributing to a plot point not fully explored in Batman: Year Three, Dick Grayson was legally adopted by Wayne.

In this version, Batman never caught or confronted the killer of his parents (thus rendering Batman: Year Two non-canonical), and more importantly, Batman was thought of as being an urban legend.


Batman and the Mad Monk

It is the second part of Matt Wagner's two part Dark Moon Rising series, which are expanded and modernized versions of Golden Age Batman stories.

Bayırlı

Bayırlı, Hasankeyf, a village in Hasankeyf district, Batman Province

Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero

Becoming Batman: The Possibility of a Superhero is a 2008 science book by neuroscience professor E. Paul Zehr.

Brian Forster

Forster is the stepson of actor Whit Bissell, step-grandson of actor Alan Napier, who portrayed Alfred the Butler in the Batman television series (1966–1968), and the great-great-great-grandson of author Charles Dickens.

Captain Action

Captain Action was an action figure created in 1966, equipped with a wardrobe of costumes allowing him to become Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, Captain America, Aquaman, the Phantom, The Lone Ranger (and Tonto), Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers, Sgt. Fury, Steve Canyon, and the Green Hornet.

Separate Superman, Batman, Lone Ranger, The Phantom, Flash Gordon, Captain America, Sgt Fury, Steve Canyon and Aquaman costumes (with accessories) were available; the next wave (1967) added Spider-Man, Buck Rogers, the Green Hornet, and Tonto, with a Blue Lone Ranger variation (matching the still popular Clayton Moore series) and collectible flicker rings in each box.

Champions of Angor

Subsequent appearances include "When You Wish..." in Justice League Quarterly #3, the "With a Vengeance!" storyline in Superman/Batman #20-24, and in the new Lord Havok and the Extremists series.

Charles Plymell

Plymell made experimental films which were accepted at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, and collages which were exhibited on the black walls of the Batman Gallery, along with works by Bruce Conner and Plymell's friend from his Wichita days, Bob Branaman.

Christmas With the Joker

As they enter the Batmobile, Robin makes a deal with Batman that if they search the city and find no sign of crime, then they will watch It's a Wonderful Life.

DC Universe

In general, DC Comics has led a parody of its own teams and organizations after the Watchmen storyline and Batman run from a dark humor style which began during the 1980s and ended in the early 90s.

DC: The New Frontier

Stories included a Batman vs. Superman that revealed that it was not until the mid-1950s that Superman and Wonder Woman met Batman, a post-New Frontier story where Robin teams up with Kid Flash for the first time as well as a Mad Magazine style story between Wonder Woman and Black Canary.

Dodge Avenger

Another television spot likened the Avenger to the "superhero" vehicle for the everyman, depicting a driver piloting his Avenger through Gotham-like streets and alleys, speaking to the MyGig entertainment system in distinctly Batman-reminiscent tones, to arrive home, pull into a two-car garage and open the rear door to a sleeping child in the rear car-seat.

Fight Batman Fight!

It stars famous Philippine actors such as action star Victor Wood as Batman, Rod Navarro as Joker, comedians Roderick Paulate as Robin, German Moreno, Ike Lozada, drama actresses Gloria Romero, Rosemarie Gil, Lotis Key as Cat Woman and Pinky Montilla as Bat Girl.

Ged Kearney

On 31 May 2013 she indicated she was considering nominating for Australian Labor Party preselection for the seat of Batman in the Australian House of Representatives, to contest the 2013 federal election (at that time scheduled for 14 September).

Gürgenli

Gürgenli, Sason, a village in the district of Sason, Batman Province

Halloween on Franklin Street

Notable costumes from the 2008 celebration included the Joker from the popular 2008 Batman movie, The Dark Knight, and a Tetris-themed group costume.

Harry W. Gerstad

Gerstad's editing work spanned more than 40 films, including The Spiral Staircase (1946), Crossfire (1947), Rocketship X-M (1950), Batman (1966), The War Wagon (1967) and Walking Tall (1973).

Hot Off the Griddle

Batman and Robin ask gossip columnist Jack O'Shea to pen a fake story about a rare canary at the Natural History Museum in order to snare her.

Hugh Ferriss

Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City (the setting for Batman) and Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Jim Lefebvre

Lefebvre had roles on several television shows including Gilligan's Island and Batman.

Joe In The Future

After this, Weisfeld continued to develop more Joe in the Future material with Koch and, in the early 1990s, commissioned 3 pages of comic artwork from acclaimed Batman illustrator Trevor Von Eeden for what would become the first episode of Joe in the Future in Heavy Metal Magazine.

Kryptonian

In the Superman/Batman: Apocalypse movie, a mix of gibberish and Esperanto is used to depict Kryptonian dialog spoken by both Superman and Supergirl.

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen

Other reviews commented that the film is not about Chen Zhen, but a Hollywood-style superhero film; a combination of 007, Spider-Man, and Batman.

Live action

Adaptations from comics include live-action film versions of Marvel Comics' Spider-Man and X-Men, DC Comics' Superman and Batman, or manga such as Death Note, Detective Conan and Great Teacher Onizuka.

Lords of Chaos and Order

The Lords of Chaos and the Lords of Order appear in the Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode "The Fate of Equinox!" with Typhon voiced by John DiMaggio and Nabu voiced by James Arnold Taylor.

Lost Heroes

The episode was part of the Justice League season in which Batman would team up with another hero in the fifth season.

Man of Steel, Woman of Kleenex

In Frank Miller's comic Batman: The Dark Knight Strikes Again, Superman touches on the theme of the essay when asked about sex by Lara, his teenage daughter by Wonder Woman.

On Leather Wings

Back at the Batcave, Batman analyzes the list of components that Langstrom used to create the giant bat and develops a way to reverse the process.

Rupert Thorne

He is shown incarcerated in Blackgate Penitentiary when Doctor Phosphorus makes an attempt on his life, one that Batman prevents.

Sarge Steel

Luthor appoints Amanda Waller as his successor until Luthor was re-exposed as a criminal in the events of Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.

Showbag

Common themes for showbags include confectionery brands, trademarked toys such as Barbie, The Simpsons, G.I. Joe and Batman, broad areas of children's play interest such as "cowboy" or "pirate", and sporting teams.

Steve Plytas

Film roles include: A Night to Remember, The Moon-Spinners, The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Theatre of Death, Oh! What a Lovely War, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Revenge of the Pink Panther, Carry On Emmannuelle, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Batman.

TDKR

The Dark Knight Rises, the 2012 finale in Christopher Nolan's Batman film trilogy

Wong Yuk-long

He provided the art for Batman: Hong Kong, which was written by Doug Moench.