Top Five Batman Nicknames
This week's Top Five List is the Top Five Nicknames for Batman!!
Just missing the list, due to a technicality, is "Dynamic Duo," as it is not really a nickname FOR Batman, but rather, for Batman AND Robin.
5. Bats
This nickname is down on the list, because it is less refined nickname, used more as a way to tease Batman. If you are not in the Justice League, you should not refer to Batman as Bats.
4. World's Greatest Detective
This is fairly low, because, well, let's be honest...who's to say that it is even TRUE? As fellow blogmate, Sean Whitmore, so aptly made reference to awhile back, nowadays, it often seems as though Batman's investigatoty skills rarely vary beyond beating up hoods to get information.
3. Masked Manhunter
I have not even really heard this one that often, but it does at least apply to Batman.
2. Caped Crusader
Here's a fun game, find out the last time that a Batman comic actually referred to him as a caped crusader!!!
1. Dark Knight (and the derivitive, Dark Knight Detective)
This is the clear winner, as Batman even has a comic NAMED "Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight," and "The Dark Knight Returns."
Great nickname, isn't it?
Have I actually missed any good nicknames?
Just missing the list, due to a technicality, is "Dynamic Duo," as it is not really a nickname FOR Batman, but rather, for Batman AND Robin.
5. Bats
This nickname is down on the list, because it is less refined nickname, used more as a way to tease Batman. If you are not in the Justice League, you should not refer to Batman as Bats.
4. World's Greatest Detective
This is fairly low, because, well, let's be honest...who's to say that it is even TRUE? As fellow blogmate, Sean Whitmore, so aptly made reference to awhile back, nowadays, it often seems as though Batman's investigatoty skills rarely vary beyond beating up hoods to get information.
3. Masked Manhunter
I have not even really heard this one that often, but it does at least apply to Batman.
2. Caped Crusader
Here's a fun game, find out the last time that a Batman comic actually referred to him as a caped crusader!!!
1. Dark Knight (and the derivitive, Dark Knight Detective)
This is the clear winner, as Batman even has a comic NAMED "Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight," and "The Dark Knight Returns."
Great nickname, isn't it?
Have I actually missed any good nicknames?
posted by Brian Cronin at 1:22 AM
15 Comments:
Flying Rodent
My favorite, though Ra's al Ghul is the only guy who's allowed to use it, is the simple "Detective."
I seem to recall Blech-man and the Boy-Blunder popping up somewhere...
David C said...
My favorite, though Ra's al Ghul is the only guy who's allowed to use it, is the simple "Detective."
Me too. That should edge "Bats" off the list.
The Creeper called Batman "B.M." once. Once.
Doesn't Batman have a few "official" nicknames that never quite caught on? Superman's actually got a bunch of those that hardly ever get used - "Action Ace" and "Metropolis Marvel" being just two.
Back in the '70s, Denny O'Neil used to always introduce Bats on the splash page as "The Darknight Detective" or "The Dread Batman".
Fleischer's Encyclopedia lists a bunch of alternate nicks, including The Black Knight, The Caped Crime-Buster, and The Masked Manhunter.
Did the Joker once refer to him as "Ol' Pointy-Ears"? Maybe that was on the cartoon series and not the comics, but I certainly remember one of Batman's villains refering to him with that nickname.
Gordon's pet vigilante springs to mind.
And I think he has been called the "Gotham Guardian" more than one time, though the details escape me. It could have been marketing material.
And more than the Joker has called Bats by the name of Pointy Ears. That was a JLI staple, though I think only the late, lamented Blue Beetle and Maxwell Lord used it.
i believe that bat man was origanally and alwayz called "The Batman" not by any of those nicknames.
what the fuck? am i the only one that remembers joker harley calling batman "batsy"? i think batsy is fuckin' bad ass name for him, don't ya think?
well it more of the dark night
Interesting article, added his blog to Favorites
Batman is the "World's Greatest Detective". Period.
i seem to recall harley refering to him as "b-man" more than once
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