I mean, yeah, I know there was a Crisis storyline where Bruce Wayne was married to and had a kid with Selina Kyle (Helena Wayne, a/k/a the Huntress), but what about in the canon DC storylines?
I mean, let’s face it, Bruce is getting laid on a pretty regular basis… Selina Kyle, Vicki Vale, Selina Kyle, Talia, Selina Kyle…
and what about during the “lost years” while he was away from Gotham, getting an edumacation and lots and lots of martial arts training? Surely a red-blooded young aspiring crime fighter would have met somebody he liked enough to get into bed with, wouldn’t he?
So, are there any Batkids running around out there that I should know about?
Actually, the Huntress’s first appearance was in the midseventies and her father was the Golden Age Batman (i.e. the Earth-2 version). Right up until the Crisis mass-retcon, she was about as canon as you can get.
Thanks for clearing that up, Bryan. The Batman sites I’ve run into seem to gloss over the issue of the Huntress’s paternity- they seem to have the attitude that “DC retconned it, I believe it, that settles it”, and don’t go into any real details about Helena Wayne/Bertinelli’s background. I was tooling around a couple of sites that touched on the issue briefly, and was left with the impression that Helena Wayne was the product of a Crisis intervention. Or something.
And really, what was the point of retconning the origins of a fairly long-standing character? I mean, retconning Jason Todd, I can see, since he seems to have started out as Dick Grayson redux, which is kind of lame, really, but why Helena?
The current DCU Huntress, Helena Bertinelli, is not related to the Earth 2 Huntress (the Batman/Catwoman daughter) at all. Helena Bertinelli was related to some Italian mobster-types in Gotham City. Other than their names and black/purple color schemes, they’re completely different characters.
In the GN Batman: Son of the Bat, he fathered a son by Talia, who promptly parked him with a foster family. When Denny O’Neil became the editor of the line, he decided the story never happened, because Batman is too responsible to ever father a child out of wedlock. But the kid turned up in Kingdom Come and, thanks to the magic of Hypertime!, actually came into our pristine canon universe for a little while. His name is Xuffrich, he’s a crime lord in training and a fairly decent detective in his own right, and had a Kingdom one-shot called Son of the Bat.
Well, in the Superman and Batman: Generations AU series, I’m pretty sure that Batman ends up with kids. (And Grandkids, and so forth.) Don’t know who the mother is. I’d guess Selina Kyle, but I haven’t read them myself.
You know, to be really prepared, you’d think that Bruce would just have a vasectomy.
Oh, yeah, right, let’s sterilize the Batman. That way, if some enterprising young DC writer in the future decides it would be a cool idea for Batman to feel that biologically-driven urge to contribute to the gene pool, has a woman in his life who’s willing to help him with that (let’s face it, Bruce looks hot in Spandex, and there are women whose reaction to a really hot man in tights is “I want to have his baby!!” ) there would have to be a storyline where is sidelined while Bruce Wayne develops a close relationship with a bag of frozen peas after the surgery to reconnect his plumbing. Of course, first we have to have a storyline where Batman is sidelined while Bruce Wayne develops a close relationship with a bag of frozen peas after the surgery that disconnected his plumbing in the first place.
