The comic Batman: Jekyll & Hyde has moments such as Two-face tenderly caressing Batman's cheek ◊.And spends a lot of time well inside Batman's personal space.īane: (a limp Batman in his arms) Tell me, Batman. There's also a twisted tension to him constantly attempting to break Batman's mind down through fear and expressing a dominant nature in Batman: Arkham Asylum. Batman is the only thing that scares him anymore and so he keeps fighting him so that he can feel that sweet taste of fear once again. Scarecrow pretty much has a huge fetish for fear.In the Terror storyline of Legends of the Dark Knight, he is in a "relationship" with a female mannequin wearing lingerie and a cowl like Batman's. Hugo Strange gets plenty of subtext with Batman throughout the years.It helps that he was wearing a "Kiss the Genius" Apron too. When Batman tracks him down, he hears screaming, bursts in - and finds the scream came from the lobster the Riddler was cooking for him ( along with a steak). One of the clues he left was 'Next time, lives will be at stake'. The DCAU-based Batman Adventures Vol.2 #11 involved him, having sort-of-reformed, trying to get Batman to match wits with him. This can apply to The Riddler as well.Superman and Batman have a lot of Ho Yay with Superman hinted at being Ambiguously Bi partly due to some of his actions towards Batman.Hush: I'm staying here to watch as the heartbeats slow and end. Some of his lines exemplify it even more: He seems to obsessively stalk Bruce and even got plastic surgery to look like Bruce, as well as directing crazed ex-girlfriend-esque slurs towards Bruces lovers. Bruce's childhood friend-turned-villain Thomas Elliot, who became Hush.In Shortpacked! it's mentioned "Even straight dudes dig Batman.In Death of the Family, Batman has an internal monologue about how the Joker's eyes never change, never revealing anything about his thoughts or emotions.He outright says Batman has a cute little ass in Arkham video games. Several canon Batman comics have the Joker professing a sexual fascination with Batman, to nightmarish extents. The pages are lined with homoerotic content and an unnatural level of sexual tension. In the macabre Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth, which is a canon Batman comic, Joker slaps Batman on the butt and continually hits on him throughout the comic. Harley and Ivy both think that the Joker only has eyes for Batman (and Harley is in love with the Joker) and the Joker has often professed affection towards Batman (complete with moments of desperate attention-needing).He's been romantically involved with multiple women, but also attracts a lot of Foe Romance Subtext with his male enemies.