Batman/Characters/Supporting Cast: Difference between revisions

* [[By the -The-Book Cop]]: While he does allow a vigilante to patrol the city, he will absolutely not tolerate said vigilante killing anybody.

* [[Anti -Hero]]

** [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|Type IV]].

*** [[Anti -Villain]]: We can never figure out which side she's on.

**** [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Villains|Anywhere from Type I to Type IV]]. Yeah, Selina's kind of... complicated. Though she has settled down since the 90's as an ally.

* [[Blonde, Brunette, Redhead|Brunette]]: To Ivy's Redhead and Harley's Blonde in some cases.

* [[Depending Onon the Writer]]: Her relationship with Batman is this, especially now that they're together. Her and Bruce have been depicted as star-crossed soul mates, each other's booty call, and everywhere in between.

* [[Form -Fitting Wardrobe]]

* [[Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!]]: Next to Dick, she's probably the one most able to call Bruce out and bring him back to his senses when he's gone over the edge. Most of the time, anyways.

* [[Licked Byby the Dog]]: In "Hush", and by Superman's dog, no less.

* [[Most Common Superpower]]: They're always well endowed. I guess the difference is how big''ger'' they are or not. It just [[Depending Onon the Artist|depends on the artist]].

* [[Rape Asas Backstory]]: Several Post-crisis origins.

* [[WomaninWoman in Black]]

Catwoman's pal Holly Robinson first appeared in ''[[Batman: Year One]]'' as a child prostitute who lived with Selina Kyle. Later, Holly returned as Selina's [[Girl Friday]] in [[Ed Brubaker]]'s relaunch of the ''Catwoman'' title. Over the course of the series, Holly worked as Catwoman's spy on the streets, learned boxing moves from Wildcat, got a nice girlfriend, and became a den mother to a bunch of street urchins. Holly later became the second Catwoman when Selina temporarily retired.

* [[Put Onon a Bus]]

* [[Series Continuity Error]]: Holly was killed during a 1988 storyline in ''[[Action Comics Weekly]]''. [[Ed Brubaker]], unaware of said storyline, brought her back. This was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in a short story he later wrote titled "Why Holly Isn't Dead", in which Holly complains about [[Canon Dis ContinuityDiscontinuity]] and Selina suggests [[Continuity Reboot|Continuity Reboots]] as an explanation.

Batman and Catwoman ''finally'' confessed their love for one another, then got married and had a daughter. The daughter, Helena, had all the benefits of being rich (an excellent education, etc.), was trained by her parents to be an excellent athlete, and joined Dick Grayson's law firm. However, tragedy struck and Selena was blackmailed into donning the Catwoman suit for one more heist, which led to her death. Swearing vengeance on the blackmailer, Helena Wayne became the costumed heroine, the Huntress. No, this was not a badly written fan-fic, this was what happened on Earth-Two, during the [[Pre Crisis]] era. Even after her father, the Earth-Two Batman, died in battle with a villain after coming out of semi-retirement one last time, she continued crimefighting with Dick Grayson (''still'' going by Robin even though he was well into middle age), and joined the [[Justice Society of America]]. Then ''[[Crisis Onon Infinite Earths]]'' happened, and all of the Earth-Two characters "never existed".

...until the 'New 52' reboot, where Earth-Two is not the previous Earth-Two. In the New 52 Earth-Two, Helena Wayne was trained by her father to be the perfect Robin. Somehow or another, she ended up in the main 52-verse, where she took on the identities of Huntress and Helena Bertinelli.

The [[Post -Crisis]] version of the Huntress. Her name is Helena Bertinelli, the daughter of one of the Gotham's major Mafia families. At the tender age of eight, she was forced to witness the brutal massacre of her entire family. After spending years training (one of her masters was Richard Dragon, who trained the Question and Barbara Gordon), she returned to Gotham to become the costumed vigilante, the Huntress. Unlike most members of the Bat-Family who eventually built a level of trust with her, Batman held a deep distrust of Huntress for a long time, believing to be too much of a loose cannon, although he eventually trusts her enough to sponsor her for the Justice League (her original JLI membership apparently having been forgotten).

*** And the fact that Huntress spent a good deal of the beginning of ''[[Batman: No MansMan's Land (Comic Book)|Batman No Mans Land]]'' using the Batgirl identity.

* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: In her early appearances, Huntress really wanted Batman to acknowledge her as being as good a hero as him. She's gotten over it for the most part, but a bit still lingers as seen in ''Hush''.

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* [[Anti -Hero]]: Played straight. Michael Lane [[Sliding Scale of Anti -Heroes|ranges from Type 3 to Type 4 all the way to Type 5]].

* [[Anti -Hero Substitute]]: Michael Lane tried to be this during the ''Battle for the Cowl'' event where he was first introduced (''[[Long Title|Batman: Battle For the Cowl: Azrael: Death's Dark Knight]]''. Dark Knight?). It didn't work out.

* [[Ax Crazy]]: Micheal Lane slowly got more and more [[Ax Crazy]] as his series wound down to a close. {{spoiler|He got better (slightly) [[Back Fromfrom the Dead|after he came back from the dead]].}}

* {{spoiler|[[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: On the third day, no less.}}

* [[Deus Angst Machina]] / [[Death Byby Origin Story]]: This happened to Michael Lane in a degree that rivals Tim Drake's [[Deus Angst Machina]]. His son was hit by a car and died at age three. His wife committed suicide within a year. Only six months after her death, Michael's two siblings (his last living relatives) were murdered by an apparent [[Religion of Evil|Satanic cult]].

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything|Does This Remind You Of Anything?]]: A lot of people have noted that Michael Lane's costume looks like something out of ''[[Assassin's Creed (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]''.

* [[Doing inIn Thethe Wizard]]: Completely [[Averted Trope|averted]] in Michael Lane's series, where the Suit of Sorrows is only described as "cursed" or "magic."

* [[Dual -Wielding]]: Michael Lane carries ''two'' flaming swords; one red and [[Technicolor Fire|one blue]].

* [[Friend Onon the Force]]: Pete Farrelli, probably Mikey's only real friend in the world, since Father Day is pretty much using him to accomplish the ends of the Order of Purity, and {{spoiler|Adrian Paratino is actually working for Ra's al Ghul}}.

* [[Mission Fromfrom God]]: Mikey is convinced that he's on one of these, though considering how around the bend he is, thanks to the Suit of Sorrows...

* [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: Has happened to poor Mikey a few times, him being crazy and all.

* [[Voice Withwith an Internet Connection]]: Adrian Paratino again.

* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Michael Lane had this with his sister-in-law, Jenny Lane. {{spoiler|[[They Do|They did]] it in a flashback from issue 16}}.

** According to this book, ''faith'' is the eighth deadly sin. Which makes no sense at all when you take a look at Hebrews Chapter 11, in [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]]. Yeah, you'd think they'd want to take a look at that thing before going around bashing Christianity.

Perhaps the most controversial member of the Gotham Police. He has a reputation for taking bribes and wrangling Miranda Rights, yet Commissioner Gordon and his partner Renee Montoya trust him unconditionally. Bullock was a "bishop" in the government agency [[Checkmate]], but eventually returned to Gotham. He was one of the few who stayed in Gotham during No Man's Land. After Jim Gordon retired after being shot during the storyline ''Officer Down'' - when the man who shot him [[Off Onon a Technicality|walked free]] - Bullock killed the culprit and left the force. He became a PI.

* [[Dirty Cop]]: [[Depending Onon the Writer|Can be at times]].

* [[Donut Mess Withwith a Cop]]

* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: With Montoya, he was the bad cop.

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Noble Bigot Withwith a Badge]]: "Noble" may be a stretch. Not entirely loathable, at least.

* [[Perma -Stubble]]

The events of ''[[Fifty Two|52]]'' reveal that she has become [[The Question|the new Question]] after the death of Vic Sage, where she saved her friend (and ex), wealthy socialite Kate Kane, the new [[Batwoman]].

* [[By the -The-Book Cop]]: When partnered with Bullock. She [[Character Development|changed]].

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: From ''[[Batman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]].''

* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: She was the Good Cop to Harvey's Bad; partnered with Cris Allen, she played more often the Bad Cop.

* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Her confrontation with Two-Face left her with a scar running along her right cheekbone and a confrontation with [[The Flash|Flash]] villain Dr. Alchemy burned the double Venus symbol into her collarbone.

* [[Distressed Damsel in Distress]]: Many of his appearances involve him getting kidnapped or threatened in some way.

One of Batman's earliest love interests, Vicki Vale is a skilled and determined reporter for the ''Gotham Gazette''. Her typical subject of writing is Batman: she reports on his exploits and occasionally tries to puzzle out his real identity, but she's always foiled. She has a hidden crush on Batman, and less so on Bruce Wayne, creating a [[Love Triangle]] [[Two -Person Love Triangle|out of two people]], though she sometimes suspects that they're one and the same...

What with being a blatant [[Plagiarism]] of the [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] comic books who appeared primarily during Batman's [[Dork Age]] in [[The Interregnum]], Vicki seldom shows up today. She disappeared in 1963, resurfaced in 1977 (and was promptly forgotten by the editors), and finally resumed love interest status in [[The Eighties]]...right before the [[Crisis Onon Infinite Earths]] wiped her history from existence. [[Post -Crisis]], her appearances are primarily limited to [[The Cameo|the occasional cameo]]. She's done better in alternate continuities and media, having featured in ''All-Star Batman and Robin'', [[Batman (Filmfilm)|the 1989 film]] (in which she was intended to be 1970s love interest Silver St. Cloud, whose name was deemed too silly), and ''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman vs Dracula]]''. She also has an [[Expy]] in the form of [[Batman: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Summer Gleeson]].

Again, only appears as [[The Cameo]], if ever. Writer / Artist Matt "Grendel" Wagner has done a fair amount of work with the character in a pair of excellent Batman mini-series exploring the time period during the [[Batman: Year One|Year One]] era, just before the "first" Joker story, "The Man Who Laughs" and [[The Long Halloween]] arc.

You might (but probably don't) remember her from ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|Batman and Robin]]'', where she proudly continues her tradition of being Bruce Wayne's <s>[[The Beard|beard]]</s> <s> arm candy</s> loving girlfriend and having virtually no personality or plot-relevance. [[Pink Floyd|Shine on, you crazy diamond]].

* [[First Girl Wins]]: [[SubvertedAverted. Trope]]Bruce Wayne rarely has a successful love life, but when he has children they''hard''re never with her.

{{quote| '''AKA:''' Robert Kirkland "Kirk" Langstrom}}

* [[Mad Scientist]]: In ''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman]]'', Kirk Langstrom is crazy and became Man-Bat voluntarily. {{spoiler|Though he eventually does a [[Heel Face Turn]].}}

* [[Super -Powered Evil Side]]: Man-Bat could be seen as this when Kirk isn't in control.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjRCUhds0hU Poor Batman.]

** When Hush posed as Bruce Wayne in the comics following Batman’s apparent death, Batman's friends and allies displayed a "show of force" to demonstrate how easily they could stop him if he tried anything. Most of them just block his path when he tries to escape ([[Batman and Thethe Outsiders|Katana]] going so far as to hold a sword to his throat), but the Creeper ''picks him up like a doll and throws him across the room''. Later, he's seen in disguise personally babysitting Hush at work.

* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: In spite of his assholish tendencies with his fellow reporters, he’s shown to genuinely care where it counts when ex-girlfriend Vicki Vale approaches him for advice on whether or not it’s ethical to publish an incriminating story that could ruin someone’s life.

* [[Large Ham]]: He purposefully invokes this in his original Ditko incarnation, in order to terrify criminals into submission. {{[[Flanderization |All subsequent versions}}]], though, have portrayed the Creeper persona as being [[Cloudcuckoolander|genuinely out of his gourd]].

* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: [[Depending Onon the Writer]], his laugh can range from a deadly sonic weapon to [[The Hyena|just plain annoying]].

* [[Split Personality]]: Suffers from this [[Depending Onon the Writer|depending on the story]].

* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Played straight with his DCAU counterpart and Harley Quinn, who he’s hopelessly infatuated with despite her hating him.

Colin was a ten year old orphan with a history of claustrophobia, chiroptophobia, abandonment issues, paranoia and violence. He had spent time in several foster homes, and underwent therapy sessions at the Children's Hospital. He was introduced to superheroes by George, a janitor at one of the orphanages he grew up in. He started collecting newspaper clippings, which was everything he had ever owned, along with his teddy bear Rory.

After the hospital, Colin was placed in St. Aden's Orphanage. He was still suffering from side effects of the Venom-treatment, and when he concentrated, he could activate it, changing into a giant behemoth. He decided to use this nearly indestructible form to fight crime, but knew he didn't look the part. He donned a trench coat and a hat, and ordered custom-made brass knuckle dusters that carried his new name: Abuse.

** [[And the Fandom Rejoiced]]: DC artist Dustin Nguyen said he had a lot planned for Colin that wasn't able to be fit in the original arc, but to ''keep an eye on the reboot''. People are really hoping it happens.

* [[Heartwarming Orphan]]: With his parents dead and moving from foster home to foster home, he's had to mature quicker than others. It doesn't stop him from being nice to other children and doesn't let his neuroses get him down.