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[[File:smartbombstudios-justice.jpg|frame|What indeed.]]
* Type in "Batman and Robin" to google images. On the first line of pictures there will be a picture of the two making out. That says it all really.
* Lord knows [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=32&Itemid=50 where] they got it [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=32&Itemid=50&limitstart=72 from] but many people interpret ''[[Batman]]'' as having plenty of [[Ho Yay]]. One [[Moral Guardians|Moral Guardian]], Frederic Wertham, famously claimed that it was "homosexual propaganda". Some later writers intentionally joked around with this.
** Among other things, [[The Joker|Joker]] is occasionally thought to have feelings for Batman that go beyond simple obsession and into romantic obsession. In one scene, he tortures [[Lex Luthor]], and Lex Luthor asks him if he is upset that Batman loves Catwoman more than him. Joker looks almost adorably bewildered for a moment before flying into a rage and jacking up the torture level.
{{quote|"Joker, does it ever bother you... really bother you... that Batman will always like Catwoman better? Blow up his city all you want, he'll never take you to the prom!"}}
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*** Dini has confirmed their relationship as romantic and sexual. Not that [[Word of God]] was needed in this case. Unless you were denser than lead.
** That's nothing, look at [http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=387:oracle-and-black-canary-get-all-wet&catid=32:seduction-index&Itemid=36 this.] Batgirl is basically made of [[Les Yay]]. [[Fan Service|Not that I'm complaining...]]
*** [[Gail Simone]] agrees. She's [[Word of God|stated]] that far as she's concerned, [[Black Canary]] is a non-practicing [[Bi the Way|bisexual]]. And the above panel is from ''before'' she took over ''[[Birds of Prey]]''.
*** The Bat and the Cat storyline from ''Batman Confidential''. Long story short, Batgirl and Catwoman chase each other all over Gotham for possession of an important notebook. And at one point, [http://tytempletonart.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/batgirl-2.jpg this] happens. It certainly does look like angry sex.
** 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.
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*** 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?
*** Basically the entirety of ''[[Batman and the Outsiders|Outsiders]]'' (the [[Judd Winick]] one), with a few coy references in ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Titans]]'' (the Devin Grayson one).
*** 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.
*** Also, during this arc, Strange is depicted as extremely, y'know, ''[[Villainous Breakdown|crazy]]''.
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