Later in the season finale of Season 2, Gordon came to the show as one of the few people who believes in Batman.

He soon finds himself longing for greater challenges and thrills, and dons the guise of the Riddler to challenge Batman, who he believes could possibly be a worthy adversary for him.

The interviews also reveal he believes Batman is actually a criminal who steals from the criminals he defeats and that Commissioner Gordon is covering it up ( his reasoning that this is how Batman is able to afford all his high-tech gadgets ) because in his mind no person can truly be selfless.

She then contacts Batman and tells him where she believes his hideout may be.

Later, in Detective Comics, uncertain if she should pursue her " relationship " with Batman, Selina talks with Bruce about Jezebel Jet, his current girlfriend, and then has a pep talk with Zatanna, whom she believes is also courting Bruce.

Learning of Bruce Wayne's resurrection, Ra's muses that his next confrontation with the Detective will be particularly interesting as he believes that Batman has at last had a taste of the immortality that Ra's himself enjoys.

In the Batman Beyond episode " Out of the Past ", an elderly Bruce Wayne believes Ra's to have died after the Near-Apocalypse of ' 09.

In the Arkham game universe, Batman is unaware of the existence of the Lazarus Pit, but believes Ra's does not lie to him when he claims he has lived for over 600 years.

Zatara trained Bruce Wayne in the art of escape ; and Bruce and Zatanna were childhood friends ( although Batman believes that he has never met in her Justice League of America # 51, and her only memory of meeting him is while she was disguised ).

And he reappears in Gotham City in Batman # 354 ( December 1982 ) to reluctantly aid Rupert Thorne, who believes he is being haunted by Hugo Strange.

Trying to convince Batman ( Dick Grayson ), Booster is horrified to learn that, thanks to Max, the world believes Ted Kord committed suicide.

When the Joker traps Batman in an explosion, he believes that he is finally rid of his arch-foe.

Hush is seen as the main antagonist in the side plot The Identity Thief in the 2011 video game Batman: Arkham City, where he hires men to kill innocent civilians known as Political Prisoners, who are innocent Gotham politicians that were sent to Arkham City for being politicians, and Batman, after looking for clues from four dead political civilians ( while each time a witness says they saw Bruce Wayne ), he finds a trace of what he believes to be Hush's blood, and then discovers the location of Hush, who used to be Waynes's friend but is now both an enemy to Batman and Wayne.

In Superman & Batman: Generations-an AU where all heroes are shown aging in real-time -, Sinestro attacks Earth to try and eliminate Hal Jordan-who here went into politics rather than heroism, rising to the position of President in the 1980s -, but is defeated when Jordan dons Alan Scott's ring, having realised that the rings actually have no vulnerabilities except what the user believes they possess.

Other characters include Ethan Bennett ( voiced by Steven Harris ), a cop who believes The Batman is needed in Gotham, and at odds with Chief Angel Rojas ( voiced by Edward James Olmos in his initial appearance, Jesse Corti in all his subsequent appearances ), who has no room for vigilantes, and Ellen Yin ( voiced by Ming-Na ), Bennett's partner who is torn between her belief in law and order and her personal feelings toward the Batman.

She informs her friends Terry McGinnis and Dana Tan that she believes that Batman is a new person in the old suit, and is somehow connected to their school.

Terry, as Batman, discovers that Max is a specific target and mistakenly believes that it is because of her computer program.

The alliance starts out on a sour note, as Barbara never fails to take Terry's juvenile record into account and believes he is too reckless for the role of Batman.

Because of this fact, Terry believes he'd been cursed with the fate of becoming Batman since he was born.

Barbara Gordon uses it in one episode to contact Batman in " Heart of Steel " when she believes that an impostor has replaced her father.

After the two engage in a fight near the end of the story arc, Cain believes that Batman is indeed worthy and turns himself in to clear Wayne's name.

The bodyguard, who was really Batman, beats Alberto so severely it almost kills him, but Gordon stops him.

Later Gordon and Batman discuss what Two-Face might have meant, since Alberto has confessed to all the Holiday murders.

During the events of Batman: The Long Halloween ( to which Dark Victory is a sequel ), Batman captured and imprisoned Alberto Falcone, the serial killer known as Holiday who murdered members of the Maroni crime family on holidays ( although Harvey Dent's wife Gilda claims to have been the first Holiday, and technically, by murdering Alberto's father, Carmine Falcone, in the final issue of The Long Halloween, however, Dent himself is the final Holiday killer ).

* Janice Porter-The no-nonsense District Attorney appointed after Harvey Dent, she was responsible for arranging Alberto Falcone's release from Arkham and had a distrust for Batman, believing that his presence contaminated cases.

This is because her paralysis was a ruse, in order to appear weak and avoid being a suspect in the Hangman murders ( interestingly in issue # 8, " Battle ", the Joker deduces this, but is ambushed by Alberto and then Batman before he can truly test his theory ).

* 1939 – DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics # 27 ; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

Andy Medhurst wrote in his 1991 essay " Batman, Deviance, and Camp " that Batman is interesting to gay audiences because " he was one of the first fictional characters to be attacked on the grounds of his presumed homosexuality ," " the 1960s TV series remains a touchstone of camp ," and " merits analysis as a notably successful construction of masculinity.

Will Brooker argues in Batman Unmasked: Analyzing a Cultural Icon, that a queer reading of Batman is a valid interpretation, and that homosexual readers would naturally find themselves drawn to the lifestyle depicted within, whether the character of Bruce Wayne himself is explicitly homosexual or not.

In the April 2012 issue of Playboy, long time Batman writer Grant Morrison said that " Gayness is built into Batman.

I ’ m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay.

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* The present-time scene where Batman / Bruce is cornered by Detective Bullock's SWAT Team adheres to a similar setting from the graphic novel as mentioned above ( the abandoned tenement fire from issue # 3 ).

* The role of Jim Gordon in Batman Year One being one of the few who doubts that Batman is a threat and is replaced at first by Ethan Bennett.

* There are also a few scenes in Seasons 1 and 2 as well as The Batman vs Dracula film where Batman / Bruce is being hunted down and then cornered by the GCPD's SWAT Team in an abandoned building.

* Christian Bale's ' street attire ' in Batman Begins mimics the clothes in the first issue of Batman: Year One when Bruce is walking down the Lower East End.

This is taken from the final act of the graphic novel when Batman does the same thing at the abandoned tenement fire.

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

2, with the character of Bill noting that Superman was not born into his alter ego ( Spider-Man was " Peter Parker " first, Batman was born " Bruce Wayne "), using the blanket he was wrapped in as his costume, and Clark Kent is a collage of mankind's less impressive traits meant to blend in with other humans ( as well as a device to pursue Lois Lane's affections ).

Daniel Robert " Danny " Elfman ( born May 29, 1953 ) is an American composer, best known for scoring music for television and film and creating The Simpsons main title theme as well as the 1989 Batman movie theme.

He is known for his roles in two Batman movies, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and has had minor roles in Saved by the Bell, Ally McBeal, McMillan & Wife, and various other series since the 1970s.