After all these years and issues, I'm a little iffy on what his character is. By that I mean, does he have a code of honor, or is he "it's all fair in war" attitude? Is he truly cold and detached? Sure, he cracks a joke once in a while, but he's the kind of person who'd miss his kid's birth and not really be interested until they hit a certain age. Does he prefer blondes over others or whatever?
I'm just looking for those little tidbits and funfacts of pesonality, because I'm still in the early stages of my reading.
He doesn't really start to develop his moral code until a year into having Robin, as he kills and even lets Robin kill a few times and is still on-and-off portrayed as wanted by police until Batman #7. He's pretty reckless too in these early stories, like when he basically exposes his secret identity to two strangers or gets out of his car (in full costume) to ask for directions.
The dead parent and undying vow are there, but the full-on angst doesn't begin until the late 60s.
Josiah Lopez
Yeah I know, but that's not what I meant. I was talking about lesser known fun facts. For example, Doctor Doom watches Star Trek, Tony Stark read Arthurian Legends as a kid, Superman listens to Metallica, that stuff. Past his love for Zorro, I'm not aware of anything else, and I figured I'd ask here.
Josiah Scott
Fuck off casual.
Kevin Clark
>you need to know every single thing about every single character Fuck off faggot. You're trying way too hard to fit in.
Daniel Nelson
Depends on the writer, it varies wildly.
Jordan Morgan
There was that one issue of JLA that implied Batman watches Sailor Moon.
Fuck off casual you're talking about fucking Batman not hawkman.
This thread will absolutely morph into "so why do people think they can complain about Batman if there's no consistent Batman"
Dominic Wright
Oh, fuck off cunt. Have you read Batman/Deathblow and can memorize every line from it? Christ...
Jackson Ross
The fact that both Batman and J'ohn watch SM is funnier when you start to realise that J'on probably does because it involves Mars in some way while Bats does probably because of Tuxedo Kamen.
Luis Smith
>but the full-on angst doesn't begin until the late 60s. It is in certain stories all the way back to the Golden Age. The first appearances of Joe Chill and Lew Moxon are angsty to the core (and have aged extremely well imo).
Brody Russell
Well, the Ruby Idol story does have Bruce mention he likes to write stories. Bruce Wayne: Crime Novelist might make for a cool job for him in some AU where he isn't as rich.
Jaxon Young
R-rated animated Golden Age Batman movie when?
Ryan Butler
Movie Batman kills people more of then than not. I imagine Pattinson's will. Personally I want an R-Rated Court Of Owls flick ala Eyes Wide Shut, with Batman going ballistic and burning them to the ground.
Caleb Powell
Why do people on Yea Forums and the internet in general talk about the Golden Age like it was only the first few months of [insert character]'s appearances? Batman and Superman were both mostly campy by the time America entered WWII.
David Young
He's familiar with Sailor Moon as mentioned, and he trolls on the internet (because of pragmatic purposes rather than just for the lulz, though).
That's the not same as asking general questions about Batman you fucking New52fag
Michael Sanchez
It's comics. These characters are written by dozens (maybe even hundreds) of different people over timespan of almost a century. Make a story in your head that makes sense, you like, and explains these things.
I always have a laugh when someone describes a writer as writing someone "out of character". And then when a new writer takes over and describes "character development". Both of these things are for the most part the result of a new creative team. It's comics.
Mason James
Batman has the strictest code of honor that he holds all other people to as well including aliens on their own worlds.
Except when someone has had enough of Joker's shit and wants to kill him. Batman will break every code to make goddamn sure Joker lives.
William Gonzalez
He did not really evolve into an emotionless justice themed robot until the 90s
