Title Characters in examples

Septimus Heap sent me here from Discussion.How To Write An Example.

Question re formatting for eponymous characters in a Character Title. What's the proper wording for this hypothetical example?

• In Batman Batman has a Cool Car. [It's repetitive.]
• Batman has a Cool Car. [Batman is the name of the book in which Batman the character has a car. The work doesn't have a car, the character does.]
• Batman has a Cool Car. [The source of the character Batman technically isn't stated. Batman appears in a number of comic books, but no specific work has been cited - Batman, Detective Comics, Justice League of America, etc.]

I've seen it all three ways and each seems wrong in different ways.

edited 2nd Mar '15 9:25:03 PM by randomsurfer

In perfectly canonical wiki writing, you would do it like so:

• Batman: Batman has a ton of cool cars. Specific ones are listed below.
  • Batman: Blah blah
  • Batman: The Animated Series: Do de doo.
  • Batman: And so forth.

edited 2nd Mar '15 9:29:26 PM by Fighteer

Thank you. Follow up: What if the title character in question doesn't have a Franchise/ article?

Then use the primary series as the top level bullet and list out subexamples.