15 Most Inappropriate Batman Storylines Of All Time

10. How Many Ways Can A Robin Die?

It's pretty messed up that killing women is such a common trope in superhero comics. What could be worse than that, eh? Killing kids. Killing children would be pretty bad. How about we base an entire issue of Batman around that? Please stop pitching these ideas. You know that we lost a bet and now we're duty-bound to publish everything you come up with. We never should have placed that much faith in your inability to get that beer mat off the top of your glass without touching it. That's the scenario we have imagined in our collective heads to explain why all of these totally inappropriate stories got told in Batman comics, with How Many Ways Can A Robin Die? being a particularly egregious example.

Once again, the cover is where the real meat of the awfulness can be found. Batman opens a door to a darkened room, shines a torch on the legs of his sidekick, who has clearly been hung from the rafters with a noose. "Oh no, not again!" he yells. That's because in the story itself there isn't a constant stream of new Robins being recruited and just as quickly being bumped off - thankfully, else this'd be the number one most inappropriate Batman storyline of all time - but a series of life-like mannequins being concealed throughout Gotham, all trying to distract the Caped Crusader from the impending murder of the real Robin. Which is still pretty gross cos, y'know, he's a kid.