this comic is everything I’ve ever wanted
Commissioner Gordon is the best Batman character, and I will allow no argument on this matter.
Damn right. He’s ALWAYS known.
Something that annoyed me in The Dark Knight Rises (One of the many things that annoyed me) was Gordon being fuckin SHOOK that Batman was Bruce Wayne because like…
Bruce Wayne
Is very obviously Batman
Hell in a recent issue of Snyder’s All Star Batman, Alfred flat out says that MOST people in Gotham (The ones who aren’t so fuckin weired they dress up like birthday clowns or like they’re off to see the wizard) probably “Know” that Bruce is Batman but it’s just that Bruce has made it impossible to PROVE it so no one can do anything legally and anyone who tried to print it would get sued for libel/slander so fast their head would spin so everyone just has to kind of…PRETEND they don’t know for sure
Gordon knows Bruce is Batman
Gordon’s probably always known
Like
Bruce Wayne’s parents are killed by a criminal
Bruce Wayne inherits LOTS OF MONEY
Bruce Wayne dissapears for over a decade
Bruce Wayne comes back and suddenly someone is beating the shit out of criminals using high tech gadgets only someone with lots of money could afford
And tech that looks suspiciously exactly like the tech that gets designed by Wayne Enterprises, the company Bruce Wayne now owns
Even Inspector Clouseau could join the dots on this one
Okay but reblogging this again because…
If you headcanon or take it as given that a large section of the population has that figured out, including Bruce’s socialite ‘buddies’ because like… they know how many kids he has… they know how many bat sidekicks there are… the time when Bruce suddenly gets a new kid corresponds very closely with when a new Bat kid shows up…. they know.
So if you take that as given, but then think about him putting on his ‘Brucie’ face at parties and to the public, and think about all of those other rich people just freaking like… playing along???? trying not to laugh at his nice act if they’ve ever seen his ‘batman’ voice???? totally confused as to how he does that with his voice?
And secretly they’re like “omg fucking batman came to my party last weekend!”
“He was on my yacht!”
“No wonder the Riddler tried to crash our charity event – Bruce actually RSVP’d as coming!”
“Well he didn’t show up.”
“Didn’t he though?”
And like…
“so which one of those kids is the red one and with one is the robin?”
“Do you mean Red Hood and Red Robin or regular Robin?”
“How many kids does Bruce have now?”
“Didn’t one of them die? The numbers don’t add up.”
Borne Ceaseless 