Batmans Identity Isnt As Secret As He Thinks

Batman’s Identity Isn’t As Secret As He Thinks

In the latest issue of DC’s Batman: Detective Comics, a careless moment in the Dark Knight’s past has potentially compromised his secret identity.

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Batmans Identity Isnt As Secret As He Thinks

Warning! Spoilers ahead for Batman: Detective Comics #1040

In the latest issue of Batman: Detective Comics, a careless moment in the Dark Knight’s past has made his secret identity not so secret. As recent issues have seen Bruce Wayne implicated in the murder of some of his neighbors, he’s elected to turn himself in so that his name can be cleared. During his time behind bars for a weekend, Bruce Wayne finds himself talking to a man who apparently knows that he and Batman are one and the same, and it’s all thanks to one of Batman’s most classic conflicts with the Joker.

Since it’s rather hard for Batman to work when both he and his secret identity are wanted by Gotham Police, he elects to get his name cleared by spending time in jail while Oracle complies all the necessary pieces of evidence for the investigators to clear Bruce’s name. In the meantime, the GCPD puts Wayne in a holding cell over the weekend in the latest issue of Detective Comics, from writer Mariko Tamaki and artist Dan Mora. In lockup, Wayne was sitting next to a rather inebriated man who dropped the bombshell that he knows Bruce Wayne and Batman are the same person.

Apparently, this random Gothamite had spent a night drunk and alone years prior when he bore witness to Batman fighting the Joker, wearing his older blue and grey costume while thwarting the Clown Prince of Crime’s classic Laughing Fish scheme. The aftermath saw Batman on the very same rooftop as this drunk, though Bruce had no idea he was there. This led to a moment of carelessness on the Dark Knight’s part, exposing and compromising his identity due to one of Joker’s weirdest plans (trying to copyright poisoned fish with his face on them).

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However, it seems as though this rather intoxicated man isn’t much of a threat to Batman and his secret identity being exposed. Not only was it several years ago, but he was drunk that night as well. Combined with his inebriated state behind bars, it doesn’t appear as though he has a lot of credibility and he himself expresses doubt about what it was he saw. Furthermore, once Monday arrives, the man has sobered up and has no idea who Bruce Wayne is or what they even talked about.

However, the man did say that it made sense that Bruce Wayne would be Batman. In his mind, horrible things have happened to Bruce Wayne his entire life and he “seems like the kind of guy who’d make it so that horrible things keep happening.” In his drunken state, this man seemed to imply that the Batman persona is a self-inflicted curse, and there may be a ring of truth to that perspective. Bad things do happen to the Dark Knight on a fairly consistent basis.

In any case, whether he was compromised or not, the fact that it was Joker’s Laughing Fish scheme that exposed the Dark Knight’s identity is definitely a wild addition to one of the most classic and ridiculous Batman: Detective Comics stories.

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