How DC Lied To You About Batman

DC has kept Batman's character pretty consistent over the decades, but if one character is going to lead more than 80 years of stories, you're bound to get a few contradictions. Sometimes, DC has even outright lied about Batman — through dead-end storylines, abandoned character quirks, and bizarre last-minute retcons.

When DC Comics and Grant Morrison decided to title a storyline "Batman R.I.P.," they had to have known they were entering some pretty loaded territory. And okay, so the story isn't called anything quite so direct as, say, "The Death of Batman" — but you can't really blame the readers who saw the words "Batman R.I.P." and assumed that Bruce Wayne's goose was about to be cooked. They were wrong, of course. As it turned out, it was up to fans to pay attention to the fine print. In 2009, Morrison told Comic Book Resources:

"This is an ongoing story, another chapter in the life of Batman."

And so Batman went on to survive the story arc that was literally named after his death. Funnily enough, Bruce Wayne does seemingly die in a comic published right around that time — but not in "Batman R.I.P." That death occurs in another Grant Morrison comic, entitled Final Crisis, in which a valiant but unsuccessful attack on Darkseid ends with the caped crusader reduced to a smoldering skeleton. While the image of an anguished Superman cradling the body of his fallen ally was pretty powerful, nobody really expected Bruce to be dead for long — and so even this eventual pay-off turned out to be kind of a dud.

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Batman R.I.P. | 0:00
Trippin' out | 1:29
His one rule | 3:02
World's greatest detective? | 4:16
Death and resurrection | 5:46
When Bruce met Selina | 6:42
The McGinnis conundrum | 7:57
City without Bane | 9:24
Batman's hidden creator | 10:31

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