15 Most Inappropriate Batman Comics Storylines Of All Time
12. And The Time Batman Was A Baby
On a completely different tip, but equally as distressing, is 1961's Batman #147. That's the story where Bruce Wayne gets turned into a toddler and decides to carry on fighting crime, albeit wearing an adorable set of black dungarees and a modified cowl that barely fits over his darling chubby cheeks.
Batman should not be adorable. He is vengeance. He is the night. He's not somebody who's still waiting on completing his course of toilet training. That's what happens in “Batman Becomes Bat-Baby”, though, as a rogue scientist called Garth – now there's a villainous nom de plume – turns the Dark Knight into a four-year-old.
Robin being coerced into risking his life fighting dangerous criminals is one thing, but at least Dick Grayson was a) A trapeze artist, and b) older than four when he put the domino mask on. The sight of a rotund, chubby little Bat-Baby swinging into a warehouse full of gangsters firing pistols at him is profoundly disturbing in a Baby Geniuses sort of way.