History Characters / BatmanBatFamily

Alfred is, if necessary, the only person who can tell Batman what he can and cannot do. This makes sense as Alfred is the person Batman trusts the most. Has also, on occasions, wielded a shotgun.

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[[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Batman]] ([[Characters/BatmanBruceWayne Bruce Wayne]])\\\\

[[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Batman]]\\

However, not being a superheroine and just being a tennis prodigy with perfect grades and lots of money got boring after a while, so she attempted to reignite her Flamebird identity. Her initial attempt was through trying to recreate the Titans West, such as in the 1990 ''ComicBook/HawkAndDove'' Annual, to no success. However, through Nighwing's attempt to get her to quit, Bette gained a strengthened will to continue being Flamebird out of spite.\\

* RedHeadedStepchild: [[spoiler: One of the biggest signs that Bruce was his biological father. Since Mary and Warren [=McGinnis=] were red- and light brown-haired respectively, only one of his grandparents could have had black hair. Meaning it was a serious genetic stretch for Terry to have it, let alone his little brother too.]]

* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: Comparisons can be drawn between him and Spider-Man 2099, both being a LegacyCharacter to a present day superhero in a cyberpunk future setting. Moreover that Batman and Spider-Man were one of the handful of direct crossovers between the two companies. Like how 2099 is a stoic character to contrast Spidey's chattiness, Terry is snarky much like Peter when Bruce was usually stoic.

Ahh, UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}. In this era of lightheartedness, sidekicks were abound, both human (or at least humanoid) and animal. Over in the Superman titles, ComicBook/KryptoTheSuperdog had made his debut, so a question was raised, "Why can't Batman have a canine sidekick as well?" And so Ace the Bat-Hound was born.

* RaceLift: Or Breed Lift, as the case may be. He's a German shepherd in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, while his ComicBook/PostCrisis version is a puggle. Titus is a great dane/German shepherd mix.

Probably the most famous butler in existence (even though he's often closer to being a valet), in current continuity Alfred and his ancestors have served the Waynes for generations; when Thomas & Martha Wayne were shot, he was the one who raised Bruce. (In UsefulNotes/{{the Golden|Age of Comic Books}} and [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Ages]], Alfred joined the Wayne household shortly after Bruce had started his Batman career.) It seemed natural, then, that Bruce trusted him the most. From the start, Alfred knew that Bruce was Batman - in fact, he has often assisted his master with his latest experiments/inventions, even though he sometimes wishes that his master will settle down and live a normal life. He serves as Bruce's best friend, father figure, and eternally loyal companion.\\

Come UsefulNotes/{{the Modern Age|of Comic Books}}, Kathy has been revamped as Katherine "Kate" Kane, a lesbian and a Jew who is much less of a DistaffCounterpart to Batman. During the series ''[[ComicBook/FiftyTwo 52]]'' (following ''Infinite Crisis''), she filled in for the Caped Crusader while he went on his self-discovery journey. She became the star of ''Detective Comics'' after Batman's "death" in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''. The first issue sold out despite the notoriously low popularity of female-headed superhero comics and [[HideYourLesbians the old claims that gay characters don't sell]].\\

* ThouShaltNotKill: Averted. He respects his master and the family's no-killing rule to the point of following it most of the time, but he personally has no issue with breaking it. He also doesn't share their no-firearms rule, so he's perfectly willing to pump any villain who tries to break in full of lead. Bruce generally lets him get away with it since it's the only way Alfred could realistically defend himself when he's in danger.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' reveals that Duke is a metahuman with the power to... do some ''very'' vague things. Brian Hill's run on ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders2018'' attempts to rectify this by having his ambiguous light-based powerset be corrupted by one of Ra's Al Ghul's enforcers, causing Duke to develop a much more clear cut style of [[CastingAShadow Darkness Manipulation]] in its place.

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: ''ComicBook/DarkNightsMetal'' reveals that Duke is a metahuman with the power to... do some ''very'' vague things. Brian Hill's run on ''ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders'' attempts to rectify this by having his ambiguous light-based powerset be corrupted by one of Ra's Al Ghul's enforcers, causing Duke to develop a much more clear cut style of [[CastingAShadow Darkness Manipulation]] in its place.

[[Characters/BatmanBane Bane]] | Characters/{{Catwoman}} ([[Characters/CatwomanSelinaKyle Selina Kyle]]) | [[Characters/BatmanClayface Clayface]] | Characters/HarleyQuinn ([[Characters/HarleyQuinnTheCharacter Harleen Quinzel]]) | [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] | [[Characters/BatmanLadyShiva Lady Shiva]] | [[Characters/BatmanLeagueOfAssassins League of Assassins]] ([[Characters/BatmanRasAlGhul Ra's Al Ghul]] | [[Characters/BatmanTaliaAlGhul Talia Al Ghul]]) | [[Characters/BatmanMrFreeze Mr. Freeze]] | [[Characters/BatmanThePenguin The Penguin]] | [[Characters/BatmanPoisonIvy Poison Ivy]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler The Riddler]] | [[Characters/BatmanTheScarecrow The Scarecrow]] | [[Characters/BatmanTwoFace Two Face]] | [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart1 A-H]] | [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart2 J-R]] | [[Characters/BatmanRoguesGalleryPart3 S-Z]]\\

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* TheTeam: Bruce Wayne/Batman is TheLeader and later the BigGood of the Batfamily, mostly levelheaded and mastermind type. [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson/Nightwing]] is TheLancer, his cheery personality as a child and charisma as an adult make him a foil to the brooding Bruce, and a much more respected leader whenever he takes charge. [[ComicBook/BirdsOfPrey Barbara Gordon/Oracle]] becomes MissionControl and TeamMom feeding others intelligence reports from afar. Jason Todd/Red Hood is the TokenEvilTeammate as a FallenHero that is sometimes on their side but just as likely a villain. [[Comicbook/{{Robin}} Tim Drake/Red Robin]] is a GadgeteerGenius variety of TheSmartGuy, and generally Bruce's NumberTwo since Dick usually rides solo or leads a second group. [[ComicBook/RobinSonOfBatman Damian Wayne/Robin]] is the YoungGun and current KidSidekick, who's dark, overly ambitious and still adjusting to Bruce's code. [[Comicbook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain/Black Bat]] is TheQuietOne and TheBigGuy despite her small stature, and [[Comicbook/Batgirl2009 Stephanie Brown/Spoiler/Batgirl]] is the most upbeat and hopeful of the family. Alfred is consistently in the background as OldRetainer TeamDad and occasionally BattleButler. Selina Kyle/Catwoman is the most recurring SixthRanger bouncing back and forth between heroic and villainous.

->''"I'm '''not''' [[Franchise/{{Batman}} him]] -- I'm a lot '''more''' -- [[BadassBoast and a lot]] '''[[BadassBoast worse.]]'''"''\\

Azrael first debuted in 1992 with the ''Batman: Sword of Azrael'' miniseries. The reason Azrael was created was to introduce a replacement for Franchise/{{Batman}} during the ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' arc.\\

* {{Expy}}: Of [[Comicbook/IronMan Tony Stark]] in ''Rebirth'', complete with a car that contains his armour, which Tony had used a year before. He's a flashy, charismatic inventor superhero with a penchant for power armor and being smug.

* TenMinuteRetirement: At the end of ''Comicbook/RobinWar''.

** However, in the ''Comicbook/TheNew52FuturesEnd'', he officially became Robin after Damian's death.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Before Duke was officially inducted into the Bat-Family, Bruce had a hallucination during ''Comicbook/BatmanEndgame'' that showed Duke as a costumed hero named Lark.

* RedHerring: When Duke was first introduced, it was heavily hinted in stories like ''Comicbook/TheNew52FuturesEnd'' that he would become the new Robin. While he did become ''a'' Robin, it was after Damian Wayne had already been resurrected, and never in any official capacity.

In The Comicbook/{{New 52}}, she's Matron, a secret agent working for Spyral in the ongoing series ''Comicbook/{{Grayson}}''. She recruits [[ComicBook/{{Grayson}} Dick Grayson]], who is [[FakingTheDead believed to be dead]], to be her partner. After the events of ''Grayson'' and after Helena Wayne has departed for Earth 2 (the place, not the comic), Helena Bertinelli leaves Spyral and adopts the identity of the Huntress.

[[folder:Bat-Girl / Flamebird / '''Hawkfire''' (Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Kane[=/=]Betty Kane)]]

During Pre-Crisis, Betty Kane was the niece of Kathy Kane and dressed up along with her aunt in order to meet their heroes (and potential love interests) Batman and Robin. She was routinely turned down by Robin, as seen below, but that didn't deter her! That is, until the [[CrisisCrossover Crisis on Infinite Earths]] occurred. Post-Crisis, Mary Elizabeth "Bette" Kane (pronounced the same way, mind you!) was a teenaged tennis prodigy who, after becoming infatuated with the red and green fellow with a cute butt and a domino mask, decided to become a superheroine herself. From there, she created the identity of [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Flamebird]], making a metajoke on "Nightwing and Flamebird," a Kryptonian superhero legend that there really wasn't a way for Bette to know about.\\

She was part of the Teen Titans for a while and did her best to attract that cutie Dick Grayson, eventually failing and giving up on the whole superheroine thing. However, not being a superheroine and just being a tennis prodigy with perfect grades and lots of money got boring after a while, so she attempted to reignite her Flamebird identity.\\

In the New 52 (and Rebirth), how much of Bette's history is still intact is left vague. She is the cousin of Kate Kane, who treated her as a rookie who needed lots of training, although Batman implied in his study of Kate that Bette had been first on the scene. When Kate tried to fire her for her own safety, Bette responded by taking to the streets to prove herself. Her uncle Col. Jacob Kane promised to train her if she still wanted to be a vigilante after she was gravely injured and rendered comatose by the villain Hook. Under the tutelage of Jacob and his Murder of Crows, she became Hawkfire and successfully took down Hook. After being badly injured again soon after this, she took a break from vigilante work. As of the Rebirth era she had enrolled at the United States Military Academy, seeming to be in her second year.\\

See the Characters/{{Batwoman}} character page for her tropes.