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Sundancer

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Other than Alfred and the Robins, who knows anything about Batman's personal life at all in the Bat-universe? (not the whole DC one)

For example, what does the Joker or Catwoman really know about Batman?
 
Catwoman knows Batman's identity as he revealed it to her during the Hush storyline. Sasha Bordeaux also knows as well as Leslie Thompkins.
 
Some people believe that The Joker knows (because of his knowledge of Jason Todd), but just doesn't care.

The Riddler discovered his identity in Hush as well. However, later on he went into a coma and upon awakening, he no longer seems to remember.

Batman has speculated that Jim Gordon is too good of a cop to have not figured it out, but nothing is official there.

Others...
Ra's
Talia
Barbara Gordon
Cassandra Cain
Bane
Hush

There are others, but those are the most notable off the top of my head that haven't been mentioned.
 
there's also Silver St. Cloud and Shondra Kinsolving. and David Cain. Shiva knows as well, doesn't she?
 
there are at least 30 persons who know his secret. ;)
 
Mister J said:
The Riddler discovered his identity in Hush as well. However, later on he went into a coma and upon awakening, he no longer seems to remember.

When did this happen? Dini's Detective run?

As for the topic, it seems that many in the hero community knows. Atleast most of the ones that have been in the JLA (those involved in Identity Crisis and in the indentity revealscene in JLA#50 atleast).

All the villains I can remember have already been mentioned.
 
its the worst kept secret in the dc universe.he should be getting attacked dailey .
 
TheFalcon said:
When did this happen? Dini's Detective run?
Yeah, part of Dini's great run (Detective 822). Bruce's inner monologue said that Riddler had spent most of the last year in a coma and that "when he came out of it, he barely remembered his own name, let alone the small fact that [Bruce was] Batman".
 
Mister J said:
Yeah, part of Dini's great run (Detective 822). Bruce's inner monologue said that Riddler had spent most of the last year in a coma and that "when he came out of it, he barely remembered his own name, let alone the small fact that [Bruce was] Batman".

Thanks, I've been waiting on the tpb of his run so I haven't followed what's happened in it. Hopefully Dini will set the Riddler back on track instead of giving him another stupid makeover like the LODK arc he was in last year.
 
Yeah whatever happened to that make over? Was it retconned?
 
TheFalcon said:
Thanks, I've been waiting on the tpb of his run so I haven't followed what's happened in it. Hopefully Dini will set the Riddler back on track instead of giving him another stupid makeover like the LODK arc he was in last year.
It'd be an excellent pickup.
Cobblepot said:
Yeah whatever happened to that make over? Was it retconned?
It seems they just dropped it (thankfully). Might have had something to do with the coma. Dini had him looking and acting like the old Riddler. There wasn't an abundance of riddles, but it was Nigma as I recognized him, not some WTF? version.
 
Sundancer said:
Other than Alfred and the Robins, who knows anything about Batman's personal life at all in the Bat-universe? (not the whole DC one)

For example, what does the Joker or Catwoman really know about Batman?

A couple of months ago I was over on the Batman board at DC's own website, and someone had started a similar thread. By the time I came along, an awful lot of names had already been suggested by various people, but they weren't in any sort of order. I said to myself, "Hey, someone ought to organize these alphabetically to make it easier to see which names are missing and still need to be mentioned!"

So I ended up doing it myself. I posted a copy of my "first draft" of the list on this forum too, and the following day, partly from suggestions by others and partly from some additional research of my own, I posted (in the same thread) an updated "second draft" with more details on just when various people seem to have "first found out" the secret.

If you follow this link and scroll down to Post #20 in the thread, you'll see the "extended version" that I posted back in November. One of these days I'll do another update of the list.

Who Knows Batman is Bruce? (Very rough draft of a master list)

Notes: I include people who, at any time in the Post-Crisis continuity, "used to know" the secret but have since had that knowledge wiped out somehow (maybe -- in a few cases, it's not absolutely clear if they still know or not). Also, I see you say you're only interested in the Bat-universe -- supporting characters who mainly appear in Batman's own titles (and Robin's, and Nightwing's, and so forth, I'm guessing?). I didn't draw a line that way -- I just listed everybody in the DCU that I or anyone else could think of. Naturally you're free to go down my list and cross off any names that you don't think are really regular faces in the "Bat-universe" in particular!
 

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