Bizarre Ways Batman Kept His Identity A Secret

Batman's secret identity is the most closely guarded secret in the DC Universe. No one must ever know well, except Alfred, of course. And all the Robins. And Batgirl. And Superman, and the Justice League, and probably Commissioner Gordon. No villains, though except for Ra's al-Gul, and Talia, and Catwoman, Hush, Dr. Hurt well, you get the idea…

The Bodyguard | 0:31
Batman Incorporated | 1:35
Evil Twin | 2:14
King Batman the First | 2:58
Bat-Ventriloquism | 3:44
Literally Nothing | 4:44

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[spiritp]

Batman: Do you want to know my secret identity?
I AM

[JeremyWS]

You forgot that he disguises his voice as Batman. This means that Bruce Wayne and Batman don't have the same voice, which can make it a bit harder to connect the dots. So why was that left out? It's kind of important.

[sloodgamer]

“Ways Batman kept his identity secret” “number one his body guard found out he is Batman” wtf that’s not anywhere close to him keeping it secret

[chrisdaily]

I mean there are the many times Batman had his secret identity found by Dr. Strange (aka Professor Hugo Strange), a villain so obsessed with Batman his goal is to use his identity to ruin Batman's life and then usurp the "throne" if you will. Strange tricks Bruce Wayne to going to a psychology session (with Strange as the psychiatrist) and tries to kill him. Bruce escapes becomes Batman and ties up Strange (to which the latter claims this proves Bruce Wayne is Batman). Batman ignores him gets into the Batmobile (with Nightwing and Robin watching from a distance) when the Batmobile explodes.

Nightwing is furious at Strange but (surprise, surprise) Bruce is not dead. Except there is one problem, Bruce does not remember anything about Batman, anything, even is shocked when he sees the Batcave under Wayne Manor causing Nightwing and Robin to believe Batman is truly dead. Things go even worse when Bruce Wayne is kidnapped by Hugo Strange (dressed in a Batman costume). The two are caught in order to Strange’s lair and are tortured to admit Batman is Bruce Wayne but both agree Bruce Wayne is not Batman.

This infuriates Strange who decides to do a test and has Nightwing and Robin and Bruce in the same room and has his men fire on the count of three. Strange figures Bruce (as Batman) would save his partners. But when his men fire, Nightwing and Robin dodge and take the men out while Bruce hides behind a column. Shocked, Strange in his costume asks if Bruce is Batman to which Bruce replies he believed Strange was Batman. Strange now believes he killed Batman (except in his mind he is Batman, but he killed Batman, except he is Batman, etc.) causing Strange to suffer a mental breakdown.

Back in the Batcave, Bruce is getting his wounds treated with Nightwing trying to convince Bruce he’s Batman and says one of Bruce’s quotes on crime. Bruce suddenly in his Batman voice thanks Dick explaining that he had installed a post-hypnotic suggestion in his psyche in order to cause him to have amnesia after he got out of the Batmobile and the Batsuit. The quote was a trigger phrase that Batman was certain Dick would say. He did this knowing not only would it protect his secret identity but defeat Hugo Strange. Dick and Robin comment that this was clever and manipulative and quite scary at some points. Batman responds that Bruce Wayne was merely a shell that none of them had any relationship with and finally says, “And frankly, neither do I.”

[BatPierrot]

You gotta admit the Hush scene with Riddler was awesome anyway

[thenextshenanigantownandth]

Bruce Waynes secret Identity is batman, not the other way around.

[kirbymarchbarcena]

@3:14..."when he accidentally became a king"?
When Bruce punches someone out of the blue, that's an accident.

[kali]

Now, you're not fair to Riddler, here. Riddler's main shtick is that HE must prove that HE is more intelligent than Batman. Figuring out Batman's secret just proved that TO Riddler. BUT, if Riddler lets out that he knows, a) Riddler will be target one for all the criminals and b) Ra's al Ghul will find out, and Riddler used the Lazarus Pit without Ra's knowing. The dialogue makes this clear: If Ra's finds out, he will NOT be happy, and Ra's still controls the League of Assassins.


In the end, Riddler's more in danger if the secret gets out than if he keeps it. Batman knows this, and he just gave Riddler a terror attack.


Giving him amnesia later is taking the easy way out. Riddler worked better knowing the secret (and not being able to tell) than returning things to the status quo.

[Henrique_Henriques]

The story arc of Batman's bodyguard, and "Bruce Wayne Murderer?" Were REALLY GOOD. I think Wayne Tec and Lucious Fox hired Bruce a Bodyguard due to the previous story with Dr. Hugo Strange.

[jayazathoth]

If Sasha Bordeux was introduced today, the comicsgate geeks would spontaneously combust.

[Dawn_Of_Justice]

Just get Martian manhunter to shape shift into you for a day. Case solved....

Actually don't worry about it. The D.E.O & A.R.G.U.S covers up the Heroes secret identities. Just ask Amanda Waller.

[ScreamingScallop]

4:29 Alfred's done it a LOT. More than once on Adam West's show, at least once in the '40s serials, and a couple of times in the comics.

[harveyk]

3 batman related videos in a row looper just discovered the dark knight XD

[albangarepresentAR]

Bruce Wayne is a billionaire who has companies EVERYWHERE in the world, has a mansion, expensive cars, owns his own business, gets girls ETC

And u gon say he is the same guy who wears a cape and cowl every night to scare criminals, the worlds greatest detective, runs on rooftops, save the day, ETC who would believe that???!

But the thing that doesn’t make sense to me is that Batman’s tech, suit, car, airplane ETC that he got would cost BILLIONS of dollars and Bruce Wayne has the most money outta EVERYONE to afford it in Gotham so why wouldn’t they guess it’s him just by that

[MissLetCupcake]

Help a friend out: Please tell me the comic numbers for the bodyguard and the riddler :)

[fidgety]

You forgot one, the Joker Or at least 1 of them knows anyway (DC when are you going to actually get to the conspiracy of the 3 Jokers?)

[swiftswalow]

"it's pretty worthless to solve a riddle if nobody else knows you done it" that's a lie, plenty of people enjoy just reading riddles to figure out the answer just because they think it's fun, no need to share it, and, in fact, it's even better if you know the answer but nobody else does! makes you feel smarter than the others and Riddler is ALL ABOUT him feeling smarter. than the others. The comic is right, Nygma wouldn't let the opportunity of knowing an answer to a riddle nobody else knows, the feeling of mental superiority is far better than any other reward for him.

[funnyblog]

Actually Alfred is a pretty tough war vet. He is highly trained in hand to hand combat and has taken down bad guys before.

[greninjastorm]

"J.J. Jason". Is someone trying to copy J. Jonah Jameson?

[skoolsux]

I can’t wait for the Batman hush movie