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Drake’s Robin had an intense and passionate friendship with Connor Kent, aka Superboy, for years. Despite what the neckbearded citizens of the internet say, Batman was always intended to be children’s entertainment.
However, whenever something aimed at kids gets a little too glam, the villains come out of the woodwork.
Holy Moral Panic, Batman!
As with the Hays Code in Hollywood, there was an attempt to censor comic books with a similar outcry of “won’t someone please think of the children!”
The Comics Code Authority was created in 1954 as an alternative to government censorship to ensure no little minds were corrupted.
As Harley moved more into the comics, she was teamed up with Ivy more and more often. After working in administrative theater for a year in New York, he started as the Weekend Editor at CinemaBlend. Quinn became an overnight sensation with fans. While helping prepare meals for first responders, Conroy was encouraged by one of the cooks to do his “Batman voice.” The mess tent was treated to bellowing from behind a curtain:
“I am vengeance!
Kate Kane would later begin a relationship with Maggie Sawyer, a police captain, because I guess Batwoman has a thing for cops. Quinn and Ivy first teamed up in the animated series’ first season, and the sparks between the two were obvious.
This example is especially powerful in contrast to the Batman/Joker ship.
Making the Ivy and Harley relationship a healthy, supportive, and loving one showed that the creators listened to fans.
That includes the infamous Bat-nipples, as well as multiple close-up shots of the heroes' butts.
Giving the two title characters realistic-looking nipples was something that nobody was asking for, but they did end up being iconic... These choices, including the addition of sculpted nipples to the Batsuit worn by Val Kilmer and later George Clooney, amplified perceptions of homoerotic imagery, drawing comparisons to drag aesthetics and BDSM elements in the portrayals of Batman (Clooney) and Robin (Chris O'Donnell).[23] Schumacher's direction emphasized emotional dynamics between Batman and Robin, such as Dick Grayson's (O'Donnell) adoption into Wayne Manor and tensions over independence, which some interpreters framed as suggestive of a closeted mentor-sidekick romance, echoing earlier comic subtexts.[24]Critics and audiences at the time noted the films' overt playfulness, with Batman & Robin's script including lines like Robin's quip about Batman's "trouble down there" during a freeze scene, fueling debates over intentional queer coding.[25] However, Schumacher, openly gay since the 1990s, repeatedly denied embedding homosexual intent or portraying Batman and Robin as gay characters, stating in a 2019 Vulture interview, "No.
One writer who was instrumental in our modern view of Batman and Joker, Frank Miller, saw the lover’s/adversaries’ relationship as part of the twisted way they both view the world. There is no need for a rubber bodysuit or a pair of Bat-cuffs.
As much fun as that sounds. I’m not using gay in the pejorative sense, but Batman is very, very gay.
Writers from Alan Moore to Frank Miller to the creative minds behind Lego Batman have hinted that there is something there.
Even if only Joker is aware of the romantic spark.
Self-identified fans kept crying “just make new characters!” or “stop forcing diversity!” but as Rucka pointed out, when they did make a new character with Kate Kane, people still clutched their pearls.
Under all of the growling intensity and cold calculation, Bruce Wayne is a man who doesn’t want anyone else to experience what he did on that fateful night when his parents were murdered.
There has always been a dash of queerness in comics like Batman because we can all relate to having a secret identity. After getting cast as Batwoman, she realized kids like her will now be able to “watch this growing up and relate to it and feel empowered and think they can be a superhero.”
In her 60-plus years as a crime fighter, Batwoman has endured dastardly plots and difficult trials—including being erased from existence.
Remember how Batwoman was created to make Bruce Wayne seem straight? And speaking as a nerdy kid from the '90s, I'm not the only one of my peers who shares the same connection to Joel Schumacher's delightfully bonkers classic.
The Tim Drake reveal was interesting because it didn’t feel out of the blue.
Frank Miller may have become a problematic figure in recent years, but he was right about allowing characters to be open with their sexuality.