Batman/Ho Yay: Difference between revisions

** Two throw-away characters in a Harley and Ivy comic (based on the animated series) are depicted as being gay themselves as a sort of joke, a pair of lumberjacks called Slash and Burn (Slash has chainsaws, Burn has a flamethrower). When they try to bring in Harley and Ivy, the two try to get them to let them go free by asking if they would do it for a pair of cute girls like themselves. The two just look at each other knowingly before jumping into combat.

** Reputedly, this (plus the spandex-clad TV series) is how the name "Bruce" became associated with homosexuality. Of course, his original ward's name is suggestive enough on its own.

*** Not to mention in a very similar case of taking over the asylum and having fun with [[The Creeper]], Joker mentions to him ''"That laugh of yours... It just makes me tingle all over"''

*** In the first issue of Harley Quinn's solo series, a theme park is opened, with versions of Batman and Robin. Robin is cast as a curvaceous, pretty young woman, which the producer explains that:

*** The relationship between Batman and his Robins is explicitly stated as being not ''quite'' father-and-son. Dick's affection for Bruce, in particular, is canonically judged by other characters as being, well, a little too much.

*** ... Issue numbers? Links?

*** During the Hugo Strange arc in Batman: Gotham Knights, Hugo psycho analyses Dick's feelings for Batman as being sexual in nature

**** To be fair, that arc was written by Devin Grayson, who has long held the view that Dick has a deep rooted sexual attraction to Bruce Wayne, his father figure who is not actually his father.

*** Superman/Batman [[Captain Ersatz|pastiches]] Apollo and Midnighter in [[The Authority]] were explicitly a gay couple.

*** There was an [http://scans-daily.dreamwidth.org/1280377.html?#cutid1 Elseworld comic] in which Kal-El's rocket landed in medieval Japan, and the medieval Japanese equivalent of Batman was a woman. The results were...predictable.

*** It probably is just something about Bats - being the archetypal [[Celibate Hero]], we know he's not likely to wind up with anyone (it'd cut into his brooding time, as [[Wonder Woman]] lampshades). [[Shipping Goggles|Still, it's fun to dream.]]

** The relationship between Tim and Dick lends itself plenty to this interpretation. On the one hand you've got [[Nightwing]], who's unbearably [[I Didn't Mean to Turn You On|friendly]], unbearably [[Chick Magnet|handsome]], and unbearably [[Big Brother Mentor|cool]]. On the other, you've got [[Badass Bookworm|Tim]], who once saw Dick at the circus when he was three and imprinted so much that he was [[Awesome By Analysis|able to recognize him]] solely by his acrobatics six years later, and who then [[Stalking Is Love|proceeded to stalk both his identities for several years]].

** Even ''Alfred'' has his moments. In ''[[All Star Batman and Robin]]'', there's a scene where, thinking to himself, he describes Batman as his "black-eyed, brilliant, willful angel". As if Batman's interactions with Robin weren't [[Squick|Squicky]] enough...

* [[Catwoman (Comic Book)|Catwoman]] and Talia's scene in "Hush", with Talia tied up in Catwoman's apartment with Catwoman casually circling around her, kind of gives off these vibes.