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Poet Chris Tse looks into the hidden and not-so-hidden subtexts of comic books, and shares the role superheroes — particularly Catwoman in Batman Returns — played in his own journey. When I was a young boy, my pulse quickened every time I came across a naked male torso in a magazine, on greeting cards in the mall gift shop, or on TV. Sometimes, it felt safe to marvel at these displays of the male physique because it was a sports game or a TV show I was watching with my family or friends. As a kid, my younger brother was a big wrestling fan.

In part this is due to the fact that the movie focuses on the early years of the Caped Crusader. It seems like a stale old joke, albeit one that can still produce a smirk in the immature. Yet the gayness of Batman has been a topic of serious debate over for nearly 70 years now. The history of this idea shows how once-marginal notions can quickly become mainstream.

The podcast that I co-host, The , will be looking at Batman and Robin this weekend. It is a fun discussion, well worth a listen, and I hope you enjoy. However, I had some thoughts that I wanted to get down before specifically about the film. However, it is somewhat unfairly vilified.

This wonderful article is not about that. This is about things in the Batman and Robin relationship that everyone takes for granted, but are actually exceptionally strange, when you stop and think about them. If anything, the messiness of the Batman and Robin relationship makes it more fascinating, from a storytelling standpoint, because it muddles with the boring portrayal of Batman as perfect. In fact, as we shall show, the man who dresses up as a bat every night is a total weirdo.