10 Things DC Comics Want You To Forget About Batman

6. The Existence Of Bat-Mite

A heck of a lot of goofy things happened during the Silver Age of Batman stories (roughly 1956-1970), and all that lunacy was epitomised within the character of Bat-Mite. The equivalent of Superman's Mister Mxyzptlk, Bat-Mite is an interdimensional being who...well, just kind of bugs people. He never did anything particularly villainous, just played pranks on people. You know, the way you'd spend your time if you were an enlightened life-form from the fifth dimension. Bat-Mite - along with other extended members of the Bat Family, like Ace the Bat Hound - has been totally written out of continuity, occasionally cropping up in Elseworlds tales (which aren't considered canon) or as an hallucination that Batman has when he's near death, or had his mind broken, as in Grant Morrison's Batman R.I.P. Which is probably a sort of meta-commentary on the mental state of whoever came up with the annoying imp in the first place.