15 Most Inappropriate Batman Storylines Of All Time

7. The Birth Of Bat-Baby

Babies should not be fighting crime. We can't believe that we just typed that sentence, but that's the unenviable position that DC have put is in. Another product of the lost bet pitching strategy, probably, was 1962's Batman #147, headlined by a story called "Batman Becomes Bat-Baby!" (they had very literal titles, decades before Snakes On A Plane). Try and guess what happens in it. If you guessed "Batman somehow gets turned into a baby" then congrats, you win! If you guessed anything else, we have had it up to here with your clever comments and you need to stay in your lane, buster. A criminal scientist manages to shoot some magic ray at the Dark Knight that turns him into a four-year-old, expect him to then abandon his fight for justice, but he was wrong. DEAD WRONG.

Or, well, tied-up-and-left-for-the-police wrong. Rather than settling into a quiet life of being sung to sleep by Alfred and looking up to Robin as his cool older brother, Bat Baby simply adapts his costume to his new size - also incorporating dungarees, because that is the requisite uniform of the toddler crimefighter - and just carries on doing the same stuff as before. Except he has stubby little limbs and some pudgy cheeks and oh isn't he just precious? Yes he is! Oh, yes he is! He also shouldn't be put in positions where criminals are brandishing guns at him, because he's LITERALLY A BABY. WHY IS THIS HAPPENING. IT IS SO INAPPROPRIATE. LITERAL BABY. At the very least Bruce Wayne should be taking this second change to live an actual childhood and not be, like, planning his ten year trip across Tibet to become a killing machine.