Throughout the stories published in DC Comics and in adaptations in other media since 1939, the
Batman
character has accumulated a number of recognizable
supporting characters
. The first Batman supporting character was Commissioner James Gordon, who made his first appearance in the same comic as Batman (Detective Comics #27), and is Batman's ally in the Gotham City Police Department. Robin, Batman's sidekick, was introduced in the Spring of 1940 and Alfred Pennyworth, Batman's butler, was introduced in 1943. Batman also forms strong bonds or close working relationships with other superheroes, including Justice League members Superman, Black Canary, and Green Arrow, as well as members of the Outsiders superhero team. Others such as Jason Bard, Harold, Onyx, and Toyman work for him. In addition, Batman has perhaps the most well known rogues gallery in fiction, including The Joker, Catwoman, and The Penguin.
Gotham City Police Department
Main article: Gotham City Police Department
The most notable member of the GCPD is
Commissioner James Gordon
, the police commissioner of Gotham City. Appearing alongside the main character in his first appearance, Gordon was the first Batman supporting character. Batman has a strong (though secret and unofficial) working relationship with him. Gordon, like other characters, has changed considerably over the years. Of particular note, is that in the early days of the characters, Gordon was not allied with Batman, and was more antagonistic towards him. However, he was a friend of Bruce Wayne. In "Batman: Year One", Gordon is portrayed as one of the few honest, non-corrupt Gotham cops. During "No Man's Land", Bruce offered him the knowledge of his secret identity, but Jim (still angry for Batman's early abandonment of Gotham in the days near the beginning of NML) refused to look and find out, hinting he may already know. Jim retired several months after NML, but returned to duty in the One Year Later storyline.
Members of the Gotham City Police Department have played prominent roles in Batman's extended 'family.' The GCPD were featured in their own series: the limited series
Batman: GCPD
and the ongoing series
Gotham Central
, in which they investigate the unusual crimes that plague the city, in a personal effort to minimize Batman's involvement.
Gotham Central
series ended its 40 issue run in 2006.
Batman Family
"Batman Family," is the informal name for a group of characters closely associated with Batman, generally costumed vigilantes who either have been trained by Batman or operate in Gotham City with his tacit approval. The group functions like a tactical unit of similarly-minded superheroes who operate in and around Gotham, with Batman as its team leader and, in many cases, its dispatch. Various members of the group are usually seen interacting with one another and assisting in each other's cases, even within their respective series. Although some members occasionally resent Batman’s intrusion into their lives, all respect him as a legend within the superhero community and rarely dare to challenge his authority. Most of the members also have a strong rapport with the Dark Knight due to their long and close relationships with him over the years, and consider him a close friend and ally, and acknowledge that he most likely shares that sentiment, no matter how adverse he is to actually showing it. In a 2002 storyline in which Bruce Wayne is accused of murder, Batman's friends gather to prove his innocence. It has also been implied through Batman's history that this network serves as a surrogate family for Batman and keeps him from slipping too far into his ruthless vigilante persona.
Current members
Batman
(Dick Grayson) – An orphaned child acrobat who originally served as Batman’s first sidekick, Robin, and became Bruce Wayne's ward and later adopted son. As an adult, he took up the identity of Nightwing, and served as protector of Blüdhaven, Gotham's ugly sister city to the south. In the wake of Bruce Wayne's apparent death, he is currently serving as the new Batman.
Alfred Pennyworth
– The Wayne family butler and confidant to the Batman Family raised Bruce Wayne after his parents were killed.
The Outsiders
– Becoming fed up with the politics and practices of the Justice League, Batman formed the Outsiders to have his own unit to perform on his terms. Drifting through various incarnations, Batman restarted the team and operated as its leader until his death in
Final Crisis
. In the wake of his death, he charged Alfred with assembling and maintaining a new team of Outsiders in an attempt to replace all of the individual skills of Batman through the various members.
Robin
(Damian Wayne) – The biological son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al Ghul. In
Battle for the Cowl
, Damian has been placed in the care of Dick Grayson by his mother, who apparently continues to keep a distant eye on him. After Grayson takes up the mantle of Batman, he chooses Damian to be the new Robin.
Red Robin
(Tim Drake/Wayne) – Another teenage crime fighter who took-up the mantle of Robin to assist Batman after the death of Jason Todd. After the last of his living family is murdered, he is adopted by Bruce Wayne at the end of the Batman story arc "Face the Face." In the aftermath of Bruce Wayne's death and Damian taking up the mantle of Robin, Tim takes the identity of Red Robin to begin a global search for evidence of Bruce Wayne still being alive. For a long time, Tim was the only hero in the DC Universe that believed Batman survived his encounter with Darkseid. However, when trying to resurrect the body left behind at the conclusion of
Final Crisis
, at least Dick Grayson and Damian Wayne have also adopted this belief.
Oracle
(Barbara Gordon) – The original Batgirl, daughter of Gotham police commissioner James Gordon. After she was left paraplegic by the Joker, she became Oracle, the information broker to the DC Universe, and founded a covert team of female operatives called the Birds of Prey.
Catwoman
(Selina Kyle) was one of Batman's early adversaries. In later years, she becomes his frequent love interest and defender of Gotham City's East End. One year after the events of
Infinite Crisis
, she retired (allowing Holly Robinson to take the mantle of Catwoman) and gave birth to a baby girl named Helena. Batman calls her out of retirement to infiltrate an Amazon sect. Following a series of kidnappings of her baby, Catwoman gives her daughter up for adoption.
The Huntress
(Helena Bertinelli) is the daughter of a slain mafia family. She rejected crime and took to patrolling Gotham as an antiheroine. She serves as an agent of Oracle, one of the Birds of Prey. While her relationship with Batman has been tenuous, she recently earned his respect.
Batgirl
(Stephanie Brown) was the daughter of the criminal Cluemaster and became a teenaged superhero. She was Tim Drake’s love interest. Upon Tim's retirement as Robin, she replaced him as the fourth hero to use the name. Stephanie was fired for failing to follow Batman's orders. As Spoiler, she was tortured by Black Mask and apparently dies as a result of this. Having revealed to Batman and Robin that she faked her death on the request of Dr. Leslie Thompkins, she returns to Gotham and begins fighting alongside Batman and his team once more.. In the aftermath of Cassandra Cain abandoning the role of Batgirl, Stephanie takes up the costume in the midst of trying to live a "normal life" and fights crime as the new Batgirl.
Batwoman
- A wealthy heiress who became a superhero, Kate Kane appeared after the timeline-altering
Infinite Crisis
in the pages of
52
. For a portion of
52
, she fought alongside Dick Grayson as Nightwing. In the wake of Bruce Wayne's apparent death, Batwoman was the feature character in
Detective Comics
for several months.
Status unclear
Batman
(Bruce Wayne) – The "patriarch" of the team, young Bruce Wayne witnessed the brutal murder of his parents as a child, and used this trauma and his vast personal wealth to travel the world and acquire the skills needed to wage his war on crime. Apparently killed by Darkseid's Omega Sanction, the "death that is life," Batman's body is vaporized leaving only his costume and a human skeleton. However, the Omega Sanction apparently does not actually
kill
its victims: instead, it sends their consciousness traveling through parallel worlds. Although the presence of his corpse would seem to indicate that he is dead, at the conclusion of
Final Crisis
, it is revealed that Batman has been sent to the distant past and watches the passing of Anthro. It is unclear if and how he will resurface, but the DC Universe as a whole immediately believed Bruce Wayne to be dead. In the midst of the
Blackest Night
, the Black Lantern Corps and Black Hand raid Bruce Wayne's grave and use the skull as a receptacle for the creation of new Black Lantern rings.
Cassandra Cain/Wayne
– A martial arts prodigy and daughter of the assassins David Cain and Lady Shiva. Batman and Oracle trained her as the next Batgirl. After aband
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