Unlike his peers from DC Universe, like Superman, Flash, Green Lantern etc., Batman never had an official single love interest, but several of them in its publishing history.
Bruce Wayne's love interests •
Selina Kyle (Catwoman): • Catwoman is the most enduring romantic interest of Batman/Bruce Wayne. In
All Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder Batman's feelings towards her are based on the fact that she is sort of a female version of himself: another dark, beautiful creature that prowls in the night. In the current timeline, Batman and Catwoman became romantically involved during the
Batman: Hush story arc. Batman ended the relationship because he was afraid if they had a relationship that Hush would use her to get to him and also doubted her loyalty to him questioning if she was part of the plot to destroy his life. Even when their romance rekindled later on, Batman still suspected that Selina's reformation could be a result of a personality-altering mindwipe by
Zatanna. Later in
Batman: Heart of Hush in an attempt to kill Bruce, Hush kidnaps Catwoman and cuts out her heart, when Bruce returns the heart he admits to Selina that she really was the only woman to have held his heart and that he would always love her. • In
Pre-Crisis continuity, the
Earth-Two versions of Batman and Catwoman were shown to have married in the 1950s, and later Selina gave birth to a daughter, Helena Wayne (alias
Huntress) in 1957. • In
Tim Burton's film
Batman Returns, Selina (played by
Michelle Pfeiffer) seems to be the true love of Bruce's life, as not only their costumed identities but also their disturbed psyches are described as similar. Their relationship becomes intensely dramatic towards the end of the movie, to the point where Bruce actually implores her to abandon her vendetta against Max Shreck and come and live with him in
Wayne Manor. She was set to reappear in
Batman Forever, portrayed again by Pfeiffer, but
Joel Schumacher scrapped the idea. • In
Christopher Nolan's film
The Dark Knight Rises, Selina Kyle (never referred to as Catwoman in the film) is portrayed by an actress
Anne Hathaway as she is in the comics as a thief who aids
Bane in hopes of obtaining the "clean slate" drive to erase her criminal record and to see the rich and selfish of Gotham suffer. She later aids Batman in stopping Bane after realizing her mistake of betraying him to the terrorist, giving up her own chance to escape Gotham and leave him behind. At the film's end, she is seen in Italy wearing Martha Wayne's necklace (which she stole earlier on in the film) and dating Bruce Wayne, who has retired from the mantle of Batman. • In
Batman: The Animated Series, Bruce Wayne regularly dates Selina Kyle. In
Batman Beyond, Bruce hints at a relationship with Selina in his past, as well as comparing that relationship with Terry's and the current Ten of the
Royal Flush Gang. As in comic books, the sexual tension between their costumed characters is a major story point in
Batman: The Animated Series. In the comic book adaption
Batman: Gotham Adventures #33, the
Phantom Stranger shows Bruce a world where he never became Batman, married Selina and had two sons. • In
Batman: the Brave and the Bold, Batman and Catwoman marry in an alternate future and she is the mother of Damian. However, this future is later revealed to have all been a story written by Alfred Pennyworth. • After
The New 52, as it is Selina's early days as Catwoman she does not yet know Batman's identity, though it is evident they engaged in
sexual intercourse. • In
Gotham, a 14-year-old Selina Kyle witnesses the murders of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Because of that, she stays at Wayne Manor to be protected, where she befriends the young Bruce Wayne. She saves him from a gang of hired killers and gives him his first kiss. Since then, the young Bruce and Selina have formed a very close relationship. •
Talia al Ghul: The daughter of the
supervillain,
Ra's al Ghul, Talia's father has encouraged the relationship in hopes of recruiting Batman as his successor. Unlike Catwoman, Talia is more than willing to play second-fiddle to Bruce's mission. • The two are at odds, as Talia has been brainwashed into hating both her father and Batman; however, she claims to be the mother of his son Damian, introduced in
Batman #656. However, after Damian is murdered by a clone created by her, Batman is no longer affectionate towards her as he was in the past due to her indirect involvement in their son's death, making him increasingly vengeful. • In the now out-of-continuity
graphic novel Batman: Son of the Demon, Talia bore his son (later named ''
Ibn al Xu'ffasch''). • In Earth-22's
Kingdom Come, Talia admires Batman in his drive, determination, and nobility, but is always torn between him and his love for her terrorist father. • In
Christopher Nolan's film
The Dark Knight Rises, Talia is played by actress
Marion Cotillard. In the film, she is incognito as philanthropist and socialite Miranda Tate (a ploy used by her father with his false identity of Henri Ducard) and begins an affair with Bruce Wayne as well as becoming a Wayne Enterprises executive. Talia has assumed control of the League of Shadows and plans with Bane, who saved her as a child, to kill Bruce and destroy Gotham to fulfil her father's mission and have vengeance for his death. •
Julie Madison: • In the earliest Batman comics, Bruce Wayne dates the often-imperiled Julie Madison, an actress and socialite. The two eventually separate and Julie weds into European royalty, much in the manner of
Grace Kelly. • In the New 52, Julie appears in a flashback-dream sequence as Bruce's college girlfriend. She reappeared later, this time in the present time, as she has moved back to Gotham and wants to be reunited with Bruce. Alfred imagines what it would be like if Bruce and Julie got together and made a family, having a life without Batman. Unfortunately, Bruce could not meet with Julie because he was busy with crime fighting, much to Alfred's displeasure. In
Batman #43, Julie is the head of a clinic for underprivileged youth that Bruce Wayne is helping to finance and manage. After the events of
Batman: Endgame, Bruce Wayne has begun a relationship with Julie and works for her in the clinic. • In
Batman & Robin,
Elle Macpherson plays Julie, Bruce's girlfriend, though the character seems to have little in common with her comic book self. The character adds little to the plot, and many of her scenes were edited out of the film's final cut. •
Vicki Vale: • In several 1950s stories, a reporter for the
Gotham Gazette newspaper Vicki Vale, was shown as an occasional romantic interest of Batman. Vicki Vale returned in the early 1980s, brought back by
Doug Moench. • Vale appeared in the second of Columbia's Batman serials,
Batman and Robin, portrayed by
Jane Adams. •
Kim Basinger plays Vicki in the 1989 film
Batman. In the movie, she has come to Gotham City to do a story on Batman, but she soon becomes romantically involved with Bruce Wayne, unaware that he and Batman are the same person. Eventually, Vicki does learn Bruce's secret identity. At the end of the film, Alfred Pennyworth chauffeurs her to Wayne Manor to await Bruce's return once the night's crime fighting is done. In
Batman Returns, it is stated that she eventually left Bruce because she could not cope with his double life. In the early scripts of
Returns, she was set to reappear, but
Tim Burton scrapped the idea. • In the animated film
The Batman vs. Dracula, Vale is romantically linked to Bruce Wayne, even going as far as to mention the kind of impact the death of his parents could have on him, hinting that Vicki may know he is Batman. • In the video game
Batman: Arkham Knight, Vicky apologizes to Bruce Wayne about a news article, apparently published by Jack Ryder, and asks "Brucie" to call her back. When talking to Jack Ryder as Batman, he reveals that Vale is dating Bruce Wayne, although Wayne never mentioned this in the game itself. •
Katherine "Kathy" Webb-Kane (Batwoman) • In the original Pre-
Crisis continuity, Kathy Kane is a wealthy Gotham City heiress and former circus performer who decides to use her skills and resources to become a costumed crimefighter. This is partly out of altruism and partly to attract the romantic attention of Batman. While Batman wished for Kane to retire from crimefighting due to the danger, she remained his ally. Kathy was romantically interested in Batman but Batman remained aloof until her death at the hands of
Bronze Tiger. In the New 52's title
Batman Incorporated, it was revealed that Kathy was recruited into a covert spy organization called Spyral and as part of her first assignment, Kathy was tasked with tracking down Batman and discovering his true identity. Donning a female variation of Batman's costume to gain his attention, she embarked on a career as a costumed crime-fighter while attempting to get close to Batman. Her plan succeeded but the two fell in love with one another, despite Kathy legally being Wayne's aunt through her marriage with his mother's brother, the late Nathan Kane. As a result, she refused to reveal his identity to her superiors at Spyral. Later, Kathy was threatened by Dr Dedalus to expose her to Batman unless she continued her mission. Heartbroken, she broke off her relationship with Bruce to save him from Dedalus' plan. Kathy reappears alive in the concluding issue of
Batman Incorporated, in which she shoots Talia al Ghul dead in the Batcave, saving Batman's life. Identifying herself as St Hadrian's headmistress and requesting Batman not to go looking for her, she thanks Batman for leading Talia into her trap. • In a Pre-
Crisis Earth-Two, Kathy, who is a middle-aged woman, is still in love with the now-deceased Commissioner Bruce Wayne. • In
Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, while investigating the identity of Gotham's newest masked
vigilante, Batman develops an affection for one of the suspects,
Kathy Duquesne, daughter of
mob boss Carlton Duquesne. •
Linda Page: • Linda appeared during the
Golden Age of Comics after Julie broke her engagement off with Bruce. A former socialite, she dedicated her time as a nurse for the elderly, instead of falling into the stereotype that rich women were spoiled and lazy. She dated Bruce for two years, but broke up with him when he would not explain why he seemed to be wooing another woman (trying to reform a disguised Catwoman). • Linda appeared in the first
Batman serial (1943), portrayed by
Shirley Patterson. •
Silver St. Cloud: A storyline in the late 1970s featured Silver St. Cloud, who managed to deduce the secret of Bruce Wayne's alter ego, but she could not handle being involved with someone in such a dangerous line of work. The two parted ways; 2005 six-issue miniseries
Batman: Dark Detective features a return appearance of Silver St. Cloud, although the romance has not been rekindled. In
Batman: The Widening Gyre, she and Bruce rekindle their romance on an island beach her family owns. Shortly after the two become engaged, Silver is murdered by the disguised villain
Onomatopoeia by slicing Silver's throat and mimicking the sound of the blade. • In
Gotham, a young Silver, the step-niece and ward of corrupt billionaire Theo Galavan, befriends and later starts dating the young Bruce Wayne, who is immediately smitten with her. Unbeknownst to him, Silver is helping Galavan in the
Order of St. Dumas' plan to kill Bruce and take over Wayne Enterprises. Bruce plans a fake abduction of Silver and himself to make her reveal everything she knows about his parents and her uncle's plan. The plan works and Bruce finally sees Silver for who she really is, leaving her behind stunned and tearful. Later on in the series, Theo breaks into Wayne Manor and kidnaps Bruce. Silver, not wanting to witness Bruce's death, pretends she's feeling unwell. Theo accuses her of being weak and tells her to make Bruce fall in love with her again to prove she is worthy of the Dumas' name. She has a change of heart and tries to help Bruce escape, but their attempts are thwarted by Theo, and they're both jailed. Bruce, knowing about Silver's initial motivations, kisses her in front of Theo and forgives her. Bruce is then tied to a stake, where Father Creel prepares to kill him.
Gordon and
Oswald Cobblepot arrive with a group of henchmen and begin to fight the Order while Bruce is freed by
Alfred and
Selina Kyle. Theo and his sister, Tabitha, try to escape using parachutes. Before they go, Theo expresses his disappointment in Silver and appears as though he might kill her, but instead is knocked unconscious by Tabitha, who says she is tired of Theo's bullying. The women escape using the parachutes but leave Theo in the penthouse and he is then arrested by Gordon. •
Julia Pennyworth: The daughter of Alfred and a French Resistance fighter named Mlle. Marie, Julia was brought in by Gerry Conway in
Detective Comics #501 (1981) as a potential love interest for Bruce. In the New 52, Julia is a
Special Reconnaissance Regiment member and first appears in Hong Kong, where she notices the Batplane and seems not too pleased, fearing that Batman might ruin everything she has planned. Julia later meets Batman and tries to fight him off, telling him she has planned to take down the crime lord known as Shen Fang, whom Batman is also after. During the fight, Julia is impaled through the torso, so Bruce takes her with him back at Gotham. Initially dismissing Bruce as a useless fop and feeling that her father has wasted his life, once Julia learns about Bruce's life as Batman, she joins the team, basically taking on her father's role after Alfred is hospitalized by Hush's attack. She also assists the GCPD and the Powers Corporation when James Gordon temporarily became a corporate-sponsored Batman after the apparent death of the original Dark Knight. • Julia Pennyworth appears in
Batwoman played by
Christina Wolfe. • Julia Pennyworth appears in
Catwoman: Hunted voiced by
Lauren Cohan. •
Vesper Fairchild: Fairchild's relationship with Bruce Wayne was established during
Doug Moench's second run on
Batman in the 1990s. A radio show host who left Gotham after the "No Man's Land" crisis, Fairchild was later killed by
David Cain on orders from
Lex Luthor as part of Luthor's attempt to get revenge on Bruce Wayne for his involvement in thwarting his attempt to take control of Gotham after "No Man's Land" ended. • Vesper Fairchild is featured in the TV shows set in the
Arrowverse: • In the
Arrow episode "
Elseworlds, Part 2",
Oliver Queen reveals that he slept with Vesper to persuade her into leaving
Queen Consolidated out of her exposé on
white-collar crime. • Vesper Fairchild is featured in
Batwoman voiced by
Rachel Maddow. In the pilot episode, Vesper is first heard talking about "Batman's return" in light of Batwoman stopping the bomb plot of the Wonderland Gang. She is also heard talking about different things in Gotham City like different criminal activities. •
Jezebel Jet: A wealthy former supermodel of African descent. She is said to own an African province. Like Bruce, she lost her parents at a young age. Though she resisted Bruce's affections at first, she ultimately began a relationship with him. As a result, she discovered that Bruce was Batman just before
Batman R.I.P.. Later, she is revealed to be a member of the
Black Glove, a villainous organization aimed at defeating Batman. She was apparently killed by a flock of
Man-Bat Commandos created by Talia but was later hinted to have somehow survived in
Batman Inc. #8. Her death was confirmed in
Batman Incorporated: Leviathan Strikes! #1. • A character based on Jezebel appears in
Batwoman, portrayed by
Robin Givens.
Jada Jet is the
CEO of Jeturian Industries, an associate of the Black Glove Society, and the mother of Marquis Jet and
Ryan Wilder, the show's titular character. Due to the fact that Marquis at a young age has been attacked in the head by
Joker's joy buzzer which caused him to develop sociopath tendencies, Jada works to find a cure for Marquis even if she has to preserve him upon the perfection of the frozen serum that Black Glove work to recreate. •
Lois Lane: In the pre-
Flashpoint continuity, Lois knew Bruce Wayne was Batman and they still have a very close friendship. Lois also helps him keep an eye on the "reformed"
Penguin while at a party of Wayne's. • In an imaginary story, in ''Superman's Girlfriend, Lois Lane'' #89, Lois and Bruce not only were dating but they eventually got married. • In a
crossover between
Superman: The Animated Series and
The New Batman Adventures, ''World's Finest
, Bruce Wayne dates Daily Planet'' star reporter Lois Lane after meeting her at Metropolis Airport. However, she breaks off the relationship after she discovers that he is Batman. Bruce points out the irony to Superman that she likes Bruce Wayne and Superman, but not their respective
alter egos. •
Sasha Bordeaux: Assigned as Bruce Wayne's bodyguard, Sasha deduced that Bruce was Batman. She was framed for Fairchild's murder and later joined
Maxwell Lord's Checkmate organization. During
The OMAC Project, Bordeaux was turned into a cyborg
OMAC, but this incident has since been resolved. While Sasha and Batman kissed near the end of
The OMAC Project, their relationship seems to have passed on. •
Diana of Themyscira/Diana Prince (Wonder Woman): Diana and Bruce briefly dated within the pages of the
Justice League of America comics but nothing came of the relationship and the two remain friends. In
Blackest Night: Wonder Woman, their past relationship is referenced when Wonder Woman is able to use her feelings, for Bruce to throw off the influence of her Black Lantern ring and join the
Star Sapphires. • The mutual romantic interest is echoed in the
Justice League animated series and its
sequel series, but Bruce and Diana seem to grow very close in both shows and care deeply for one another, and even Batman hints at romance between them in the episodes "This Little Piggy" and "Once and Future Thing: Weird Western Tales", in the former episode however while she is interested in pursuing a relationship he is not and he says that he cannot be with her for the following reasons: dating on the team would lead to disaster (presumably referring to the ill-fated relationship between
John Stewart and
Hawkgirl), that they are very different people and his fear that Diana would end up becoming a target for his enemies who would seek to threaten him via a loved one in spite of her demonstrations of being perfectly capable of handling difficult situations. In the comic book adaptation of the DCAU
Batman Beyond Universe, however, revealing that she marries Batman's
Justice Lord counterpart, leaving him heartbroken of losing his chance with her. •
Dinah Laurel Lance (Black Canary): Although Black Canary has a relationship with
Green Arrow, she has shown an attraction to the Dark Knight and she and Batman have shared kisses from time to time. • In ''Thrillkiller '62'', Batman and Dinah Drake Lance share a kiss. • In
All-Star Batman and Robin the Boy Wonder #7, the two show more of an attraction to one another. As she watches Batman in action, she gets exhilarated. As the fight concludes, she leaps down and begins kissing Batman. The two maintain their passion for a short time until Batman decides it is time to leave. He offers to give Black Canary a lift home. •
Zatanna Zatara: In
Detective Comics #843-844, Zatanna and Bruce talk about the possibility of having a more meaningful relationship. But later they both understand that Bruce could not give her the relationship she wishes for due to his focus on crime-fighting. • In
Batman: The Animated Series, while a young Bruce Wayne studies escape artistry under
Zatara the Magician, he has a relationship with Zatara's daughter. When she later becomes the magician crimefighter, Zatanna, she and Batman maintain a working relationship. •
Bekka:
Orion's wife, she and Batman had a strong attraction to each other after she rescued him from
Darkseid's forces on the planet Tartarus. She was later murdered. • In
Justice League Beyond, when the new Batman, Terry McGinnis, visits
Apokolips and meets Queen Bekka, she makes a pass at him and it is alluded that Bruce and Bekka had a fling, with a now older Bruce not wanting to talk about it and Superman saying "it's complicated". •
Pamela Lillian Isley (Poison Ivy): Batman's attraction to Ivy is present in some way in several mediums in which the characters appear. There has always been a sexual tension between the two, most notably in their canonical earlier encounters. In her first appearance, Ivy is established as having an attraction to Batman, and tries to convince Batman to join her side and creates love potions that ensnare him. In the 1997 story
Batman: Poison Ivy, Christopher DeJardin tries to kill Ivy, and Batman takes the bullet. Batman, who was wearing body armor, knocks him out. Ivy considers his saving her from death as proof he loves her, though he responds that she does not know the meaning of the word. Her attraction is confirmed in
Widening Gyre. At first, Ivy's infatuation with Batman was one-sided; later stories presented the attraction as more mutual, but hindered by reluctance on Batman's part. She later kisses Bruce during a robbery, poisoning him; when she subsequently kisses a dying Batman, she unknowingly cures her intended victim and establishes a budding romantic tension between them. During the "No Man's Land" story arc, Batman comes to her rescue while she is held captive by Clayface, with Ivy remarking that she knew he would. In
Batman: Pavane (1989), while being interviewed as a potential candidate for the Suicide Squad, Pamela reveals to Inspector Stuart on how she became Poison Ivy. When she heard about Batman, she instantly fell in love with him—believing him to be the “perfect man”; going so far as to make a love shrine of him. With her goal set, she moved to Gotham, created a costume and renamed herself “Poison Ivy”; she then began committing crimes for the purpose of getting his attention in the hopes of them becoming the #1 crime couple. Unfortunately for Pamela, it did not work out the way she wanted it to, and so she was apprehended and sent to Arkham Asylum. In
Batman: Hothouse (1992), Batman gains an obsession with Isley. Later, she kisses him. Now completely deranged, Ivy thinks herself "
Titania, Queen of the May", and Batman her
Oberon - as Batman struggles with the hallucinations induced by the kiss, she pins him down and prepares to unmask him. With his last burst of strength, Batman kicks the greenhouse's sprinklers on, washing away Ivy's pheromones. The sobered Batman chases an increasingly desperate Ivy onto the greenhouse's catwalks, where he barely manages to save Ivy from falling to her death. Subsequently, Ivy is returned to Arkham Asylum, her twisted love for Batman now stronger than ever. In one of the annuals of
Batman: Shadow of the Bat, a mutual attraction between Poison Ivy and the Batman is obvious right from the start. Ivy considers Batman "the perfect man", and in a conversation with his butler,
Alfred Pennyworth, he admits to finding her attractive and more appealing than Catwoman. In
Gothtopia, Batman comes to her rescue when he realizes she was telling him the truth, even though he put her in Arkham. First, she punches him for not believing her claims, and then she kisses him for coming to her rescue, poisoning him with her mind control toxin. Resisting it, he warns that they would be best off helping each other for now. Thanks to her own resistance and the kiss he received, both Batman and Ivy become immune to the effects of the Scarecrow's fear gas. The relationship even briefly deviated from the Batman/Ivy relationship into a Bruce/Pamela one when, in the comic series
Batman: Gotham Knights, he helps her return to normal. In
The New 52, Ivy is shown to have some level of infatuation with Batman, even calling him "the only one" for her, though this is no longer apparent from
DC Rebirth onwards. • She is portrayed in the 1997 film
Batman & Robin by
Uma Thurman. At a charity ball, she unexpectedly appears to get the Heart of Isis diamond necklace. Blowing around a wisp of pheromone dust, she offers the auctioneers present a night with her. Batman and Robin, also hit by the pheromone dust, get in on the auctioning action themselves. • In
Gotham, a young Ivy "Pamela" Pepper (portrayed by
Clare Foley) is shown to have a crush on a young Bruce Wayne, in the episode "
Lovecraft". Later on, in "
A Beautiful Darkness", an artificially aged-up Ivy (portrayed by
Peyton List) kisses Bruce on the lips so as to hypnotise him, even though she could've done so by simply making him smell the scent of her perfume, like how she hypnotised everyone else. In "
The Trial of Jim Gordon", Ivy interrupts Bruce and Selina's date, having come to take Bruce to use him in her plan. She states that Bruce will love her, and after hypnotising him once more, kisses him again. •
Natalia Knight (Nocturna): Nocturna a.k.a. Natalia Knight. Created by
Doug Moench in the early 1980s. She was a jewel thief who briefly adopted
Jason Todd and knew that Bruce Wayne was Batman. She had a rare "light sensitivity" disease and her skin was bleached white. She disappeared during the last days of Pre-Crisis Batman after being stabbed by her step-brother Charles (originally known as the Thief of Night and then known as Night-Slayer), floating into the crimson sky of the Crisis in her balloon. •
April Clarkson (Midnight): A Lieutenant of the Gotham PD, who was against Batman and was taking credit for his work. April was working on the same case as Batman did, searching for the murderous villain, Midnight. During her investigation, she gets a visit from Batman and both are surprised by an unexpected attraction. In his civilian identity, Bruce begins to flirt with April, although being aware that she is working on the same case. She initially rejects him, but he becomes more attracted to her. Batman's attraction towards April is noticed by his closest allies, who warn him to be careful. In the end, April is revealed to be the psychopathic murderer. •
Jaina "Jai" Hudson (White Rabbit): The daughter of an American diplomat and a Bollywood actress, a charity fundraiser organizer who meets Bruce Wayne at one of her charity functions to raise funds for relief in Pakistan. During the event there was a flirtatious exchange between the two. They later began dating. During that time, Batman encountered a mysterious criminal called White Rabbit. Batman first meets her during the breakout of Arkham Asylum, where she teased Batman and the Gotham City Police Department before running off into the corridors. He later finds the alluring White Rabbit, responding to a tip off about the location of the Joker, but she only continues to tease him and asks him to chase her. Batman chases her for answers but when he finally finds her in a compartment, White Rabbit is seen lounging over the Joker (Clayface in disguise). After his fight with Clayface, White Rabbit sensually strokes Batman's face as she prepares to inject him with an unknown substance but is interrupted by the Flash. Later, White Rabbit leads Batman to a confrontation with Scarecrow and Bane. Escaping, White Rabbit returns to Jaina's home and they combine into a single person. •
Mio (Penumbra): A young assassin, working for Ra's al Ghul, who fell in love with Bruce Wayne during his training to become Batman. •
Madolyn Corbett: A close associate of Bruce Wayne, who was obsessed with him. Her fascination with him led her to begin stalking him outside his house. After he rejected her offer of marriage, she soon killed herself and tried to frame Bruce for it. •
Erin and Shannon McKillen: Erin McKillen and her twin sister Shannon were born into the McKillen crime family. When they were little, they attended school with Bruce Wayne and Erin used to steal kisses from him but Bruce was fonder of Shannon as they were very close and she also was the first person to make him talk about his parents after their deaths. Upon the death of their father, the two sisters took control of the McKillen family and with the pass of time they did not keep in touch with Bruce. They were eventually arrested and sent to Blackgate Penitentiary, betrayed by their defense attorney, Harvey Dent. With their escape from prison resulting in the death of Shannon, Erin decided to leave Gotham, but not before taking her revenge on Dent. When she returned to Gotham years later she confronts Batman who after a fight merely welcomes her back to Gotham, putting her in jail once again. In the jail Erin calls Bruce, who is unsure of why she called him at all. Erin responds that she had wanted to reach out to one of her oldest friends. Later Bruce moves Erin to the Wayne Manor to protect her from Two Face and anyone else who wants her dead. Recalling back to their childhood, Erin wonders which of the McKillen sisters Bruce liked more with him admitting it was Shannon. Before leaving the Manor, Bruce offers her a moral lesson of Cherokee origin as there is still hope for Erin, in his eyes. Later having saved her from both Two Face and the crime families who are after her, Batman asks her help in locating Dent who is in danger but she leads him on so he cannot prevent Dent's execution. Batman decides to eject Erin from the car, leaving her for the cops. •
Shondra Kinsolving: Shondra is a psychic and the half-sister of
Benedict Asp. She had a brief love affair with Batman, having been brought in to help him when he broke his back. Before Bruce could officially commit to her, Benedict kidnapped her and turned her abilities to evil use. Batman eventually defeated Benedict, but the damage to Shondra's mind was too great. As she healed Bruce's lingering injuries, Shondra's psyche regressed back into childhood. However, she made a cameo in
Batman: Hush as one of the doctors assisting in Bruce Wayne's operation, indicating she has much recovered. Prior to her abduction, Batman was about to propose her marry him and then retire from crime-fighting. •
Jillian Maxwell: In
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight Halloween Special #1, (reprinted in the trade paperback
Batman: Haunted Knight) during the beginning of his career, Bruce finds himself attracted to a woman who called herself Jillian Maxwell after meeting her at a costume party. However, Alfred's suspicion of her led him to checking her background, discovering a criminal record of a woman, whose description matches Jillian's, who used the aliases of Kathryn Cole, Christine Gherard, Diana Lopez, Pamela Weisman, and many other identities to seduce young wealthy men for their fortunes, then later arrange events that led to their deaths so she can have their wealth. After Alfred told Bruce of this, he was heartbroken, but Bruce kept an eye on the woman. When she used the identity Audrey Marguerite in Brazil, Bruce, as Batman, sent her a note, telling her to confess all her crimes. •
Rachel Caspian: In a 1987 storyline "
Batman: Year Two", Bruce Wayne falls in love with Rachel. Unfortunately, Rachel's father moonlighted as a murderous vigilante who committed suicide once losing a battle against a gun-wielding Batman. Discovery of her father's evils drove Rachel to pay her father's penance on his behalf by enrolling in a nunnery and breaking off her engagement with Bruce Wayne, who had prepared himself to end his crime fighting career to marry her. •
Lorna Shore: In
Batman Confidential -
Lovers & Madmen, Bruce met a museum curator Lorna Shore during the beginning of his career. It was love at first sight as Bruce was able to find peace when he was with her for the first time since he was 8 years old after his parents' murder. However, after his encounter with the Joker and realizing that there will be more enemies like him, he broke off their relationship to protect Lorna. Lorna later left the city, feeling that Gotham is not safe anymore because of Batman and the Joker. •
Mallory Moxon: Mallory became involved in Bruce's life when Philo Zeiss wanted revenge on her father, Lew Moxon. Bruce has spent as a child a happy summer with her before his parents were killed. He meets her again years later in a reception to honor Moxon's return to Gotham City. The next night he dines with the Moxons, partly to renew his friendship with Mallory. However, he discovers that Mallory is as much a part of the criminal world as her father. She falls in love with Bruce and is protected by Batman. Mallory was still with her father during Bruce's conviction of being a murderer even though she knew what kind of man her father was. •
Amina Franklin: A doctor in Leslie Thompkins' clinic in Gotham City, she dated Bruce Wayne for a short time before she ends things with him. A Russian mobster targeted Amina as a means of avenging himself against her allegedly deceased brother Wayne but Batman arrived in time to prevent him from harming Amina. She was killed by her deranged brother Grotesk, who was revealed to be alive. •
Dawn Golden: One time girlfriend, fiancé and childhood friend of Bruce Wayne. When they first met, Bruce did not like Dawn too much but the two eventually grew closer and ended up dating until she apparently broke Bruce's heart in college. Years later, Dawn would grow into a Gotham socialite but mysteriously go missing. She was actually kidnapped by Killer Croc, hired by a vengeful Penguin whom she had humiliated along with her friends when she invited him in a dance where unattractive men would be their dancing partners. Dawn was eventually found by Batman, she was revealed to be placed in some sort of heating room, awaiting her death. Batman would also protect her from demons sent by her father, Aleister, to kidnap her. Dawn finally dies when her father stabbed her with a knife, completing a ritual that would grant him eternal life. •
Charlotte Rivers: A TV anchorwoman who's visiting Gotham City to cover gruesome slayings and has a romantic relation with Bruce Wayne. •
Natalya Trusevich: A Ukrainian accomplished pianist, and girlfriend to Bruce Wayne. She was killed by Mad Hatter after she refused to reveal Batman's identity, thrown from a helicopter with her body crashed into the Bat-Signal.
In alternate universes •
Laura Avian: In
Batman: Masque, Laura is a young and upcoming ballerina who is caught between her two loves, Bruce Wayne and the mysterious Phantom. •
Jessica Dent: In
Batman: Earth One, Jessica is Harvey Dent's twin sister and childhood sweetheart of Bruce Wayne. She was President of the Board of Supervisors who, along with her brother, investigated the rumored illicit activities of Mayor Oswald Cobblepot. She was appointed the new Mayor of Gotham City after Cobblepot's death. Jessica and Bruce grew closer and closer through the years and eventually begun dating, ignoring Harvey's dismay. After Harvey's death, Jessica's face was burned with acid and she began losing her mind. •
Glenda Mark: In
Batman/Demon: A Tragedy, Glenda was romantically involved with the wealthy eccentric Bruce Wayne in Gotham City. Unbeknownst to either of them, he was a human cage for the evil bat-demon Etrigan. Glenda worked to find a cure for Bruce's fake "allergy to moonlight". Glenda was disturbed that her research showed no record of Bruce Wayne's parents, and every portrait of his ancestors looked identical to Bruce. Etrigan threatens to kill Glenda, and Bruce has his memory wiped to protect her. Despite this, Glenda still dies and Bruce has no memory of ever loving her. •
Janifer St. Cyr: In
Batman: Reign of Terror, Janifer is the wife of Captain Bruce Wayne, the revolutionary masked defender of Paris.
In other media Film as Dr. Chase Meridian in
Batman Forever. •
Dr. Chase Meridian (
Nicole Kidman): Appears only in
Batman Forever as the female lead. Chase was created specifically for the film by screenwriters Janet and Lee Batchler, as they thought that would be more interesting to have
Bruce Wayne date a
psychoanalyst rather than plucking a typical socialite love interest from the comics.
Akiva Goldsman attempted to make the character sexier in subsequent drafts. Kidman described the character as a "criminal psychologist who happens to have sort of the perfect blonde hair and the red lips and wear these sort of tight black dresses. So it's a dichotomy - you have the criminal psychologist who dresses like
Jessica Rabbit".
Rene Russo was originally cast by
Tim Burton for this role whilst he was still the director of the film and when
Michael Keaton was still set to play Batman. However, when Burton was fired as Director and rehired as Producer, Keaton quit in disgust. Joel Schumacher, who Burton brought on board in his role as producer, decided to cast a younger Batman, eventually
Val Kilmer and decided Russo was too old to play opposite a younger Batman. During recasting,
Robin Wright turned down the role while
Jeanne Tripplehorn and
Linda Hamilton were also both considered. Chase is a psychologist working with the Gotham City police and falls in love with both Batman and Bruce Wayne. She assists Bruce in analyzing a series of befuddling threats sent to him by the
Riddler and also witnesses the death of Robin's parents by Two-Face. Later, she learns that Bruce is Batman after he invites her and tells her how he found the cave, and is kidnapped by the Riddler and
Two-Face in a trap designed to make Batman choose between her and Robin. In the Riddler's lair, she is chained to the sofa, struggling to escape, taunted by the Riddler before Batman arrives and then she says Batman will come for her, to which Riddler states that he is "counting on it". She and Robin are both placed in glass jars, bound and gagged, over a pit of water and metal spikes, with the Riddler able to release them at the touch of a button. He plans to determine whether Batman and Bruce Wayne can co-exist, will Batman save Bruce's love or the Dark Knight's partner. Batman saves them both after distracting the Riddler by giving him a riddle and breaking the device. Chase promises to keep his identity secret. She visits the Riddler after he screams in the asylum he knows Batman's identity, but when she asks him, he says "I am" and shows himself to have made bat-like wings from his clothes. Outside Arkham, Chase meets with Bruce and says that his secret is safe as they kiss. She then gets in a car with Alfred while Batman and Robin leave to patrol Gotham. Her name is a play on words; as a psychologist in love with Bruce Wayne / Batman, she is constantly "chasing" the psychological "middle" of her lover, seeking to reconcile his two halves into one complete lover. In an interview, Kidman commented that she enjoy playing Meridian as a
damsel in distress, as it gave her experience for similar roles in the future. • A version of Dr. Chase Meridian is introduced in the
DC Comics' mainstream continuity with the
Herded Limits storyline in
Legends of the Dark Knight during "
The New 52". The character is visually reimagined as a dark-skinned, red-haired woman to avoid paying Nicole Kidman for
likeness royalties. She returns in
Infinite Frontier event
Shadows of the Bat as a researcher at Arkham Tower under control of the
Psycho Pirate. • A version of Dr. Chase Meridian appears in the
Gotham Knights episode "More Money, More Problems", portrayed by Grace Junot. Harvey Dent goes to see her when he fears that he is becoming like his father where they both have a split personality disorder. •
Rachel Dawes (
Katie Holmes/
Maggie Gyllenhaal): In
Batman Begins, Bruce hopes to become romantically involved with his childhood friend, now an assistant district attorney. He saves her from an attack by a criminal sent to kill her to prevent her prosecuting. She tells him that she cannot be with him until the time Gotham no longer needs Batman. In
The Dark Knight, Rachel is in a relationship with Harvey Dent. She is about to agree to marry Dent and writes a note to Bruce Wayne telling him of her choice, reflecting that, while she believes there might come a day when Gotham will no longer need Batman, she no longer believes there will be a time that "Bruce" will not need Batman. However, the mob kidnaps both Rachel and Harvey, resulting in Rachel's death in an explosion while Harvey is accidentally rescued by Batman, as the Joker lies by switching the addresses for Rachel and Harvey, and Harvey's transformation to
Two-Face after part of his face is burnt. Alfred later burns the note so that Bruce will believe Rachel would have chosen him, reflecting that sometimes people need to believe that their faith will be rewarded, though in
The Dark Knight Rises, which is set eight years later, Alfred reveals the truth to a still-grieving Bruce in an attempt to get him to move on from Batman, which he eventually does by the end of the film beginning a relationship with
Selina Kyle. Rachel is said to be loosely based on Julie Madison.
Animation •
Andrea Beaumont (the Phantasm): In the animated film
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, most of the relationship between Bruce and Andrea is told through
flashbacks. Andrea was a major factor during Bruce's struggle into becoming Batman. Bruce wanted to give up being Batman to be with her, but was ultimately forced not to after she and her father moved to Europe to avoid the Valestra mob. Later, she becomes the Phantasm to avenge the death of her father at the hands of the Valestra gang, primarily the member who killed her father and who would eventually become Batman's greatest enemy the
Joker. She next appears in the comic book sequel to the film, where she helps Bruce one more time in stopping Arthur Reeves who was rendered insane by Joker's toxin and then returns in the comic book series
Batman Adventures: Shadows and Masks where she tries to infiltrate
Black Mask's organisation on the secret orders of the
Red Hood (who would later have been revealed to be her supposedly deceased mother, Victoria had the storyline been resolved) and visits Bruce at Wayne Manor asking him not to interfere though he coldly rebukes her, calling her a killer and she later fights
Batgirl. She would return decades later, following Bruce's retirement from crime fighting, being hired by the latter's former associate from his Justice League days
Amanda Waller to help create a new
Batman by murdering
Terry McGinnis's parents. She initially agreed but backed down later on, angrily citing that doing so would dishonor all that Bruce stood for, although Terry still wound up becoming Batman. She later returns in the
Batman Beyond comic book universe in "Mark of the Phantasm", where she is hired by Waller again to kill Jake Chill a.k.a Vigilante (the great-grandnephew of
Joe Chill, who murdered Bruce's parents) the man who murdered Terry's father, Warren. She meets Bruce again and convinces him to tell Terry the truth. While Bruce admits that he had been searching for Andrea and tries convincing her that it is not too late for them, though she declines stating that she does things Batman is not willing to. •
Cheetah: In
Justice League, Cheetah was a member in a group of villains formed by
Lex Luthor that has captured Batman. She was left alone to watch Batman and she told him her origin, and how she sees herself as a freak. Batman told her that he sees a determined woman who's willing to lose everything for a cause she believes in; they then share a kiss. Batman was actually seducing her only to avoid the explosion of a bomb planted there by the villains, the bomb was exploded outside the station and for that Luthor accused her to be a traitor, showing to the rest of the group a tape of the holding cell with Cheetah and Batman kissing. Lex orders
Solomon Grundy to take care of Cheetah and he dragged her out of the room. •
Susan Maguire: In
The New Batman Adventures episode "Chemistry", Susan was first seen at Bruce's friend Veronica Vreeland's wedding. Bruce quickly fell for her and he proposed, even deciding to quit as Batman for her, despite scepticism from
Dick Grayson. After the wedding, on the honeymoon cruise, Bruce realized that Susan was too perfect and it turned out she was a plant-hybrid created by
Poison Ivy as part of a plan to kill him and other rich people and inherit their fortunes. When Susan attacked him he locked her in their room, and she most likely drowned after Ivy's ship sank. •
Margaret Sorrow (Magpie): In
Beware the Batman, Magpie attacks a scientist and successfully wipes his memories, catching the attention of Batman. Magpie attempts to goad Batman, declaring that they're very much alike due to the dark design of their costumes. Eventually, she is subdued and arrested by Batman. Magpie is revealed to have developed a romantic obsession with Batman, due to Batman secretly visiting her at Blackgate. Unknown to her, Batman empathized with how Magpie never received the psychiatric help she needed. Upon seeing Katana at Batman's side, Magpie believes that the two are romantically involved and resolves to kill Katana, so she can have Batman all to herself. Magpie is angered when Batman rebuffs her advances but she is later defeated by the duo. •
Bethanie Ravencroft: In
Beware the Batman, Bethanie was a psychologist who formerly experimented on rehabilitating criminals. Bruce Wayne became her patient, when he was trying to find information about a former patient of hers, Magpie, who abducted Bethanie but fortunately Batman saved her. Not being his psychologist anymore they began dating. She later lured Wayne into a trap by the League of Assassins and she was revealed to be in league with Silver Monkey.
Lady Shiva drained her soul and imprisoned it within the Soultaker Sword, leaving her alive, but a husk. •
Ava Kirk: In
Beware the Batman, a childhood friend of Bruce Wayne, Ava comes back to his life when an army of cloned super soldiers, the Manhunters, controlled by a mysterious organization called The council, try to abduct her to force her thought to be dead father,
Paul Kirk, who was the original Manhunter, to return to The council, so they can create more clones. After saving her from the first attack, Bruce asks Ava to stay at his home for the night so she can be safe but later the Manhunters succeed into abducting her from the Wayne Manor. Batman, Katana and Paul save Ava and later Paul says goodbye to his daughter as he leaves to find and stop the rest of the members of The council. Paul asks Batman to take care of Ava and protect her while he will be away. Later, Ava says to Bruce that he kept his promise to her father of being there for her when she was in need and that she is happy they found each other again as she believes Bruce is a unique person. Ava and Bruce begin dating and in one of their dates while they are ready to dance a group of thugs breaks in the restaurant but they are saved by a new masked vigilante,
Deathstroke. Later, Bruce as Batman, asks Ava's help to secretly treat a wounded Katana, in the clinic she is working in. •
Samantha Vanaver: In
Batman vs. Robin, Samantha is a wealthy woman whose family, like the Waynes, had positions of influence in Gotham for hundreds of years. She dates Bruce Wayne and while they have dinner, Bruce shows to her his plans to make Gotham City a better place. After their dinner, Samantha meets Bruce's son, Damian. On the way to another date with Samantha, Bruce is attacked by
white owl-masked people and brought before the
Court of Owls, who offer Bruce a chance to join them as a member of one of Gotham's wealthiest families. Later, Talon is revealed to be in a relationship with Samantha, who is secretly the Grandmaster of the Court of Owls. Despite their social class divide, Samantha wants to spare Talon from the ritual of being killed and later be revived as an undead assassin, much like the other Talons. Together they plan to have Robin instead, take his place in the ritual to become the Court's new Talon, which is also part of their plan to destroy Batman, while he will stand by Samantha's side leading the Court. When Talon introduces Robin to the Court of Owls and Damian reveals himself to the Grandmaster, Samantha realizes that if Robin is Bruce's son, then Bruce must be Batman. Ordering Talon to kill Damian and promising they will find a replacement for the ritual, Talon instead turns against the Court of Owls, murdering every member, including Samantha. After he kills her, Talon says he was never one of them, and that Samantha would eventually have done the same to him. •
Barbara Gordon: In
Batman: The Killing Joke, Batgirl has an unrequited crush on Batman that turns physical after a frustrated Batgirl initiates a minor altercation between the two (note that this is a mutually accepted interaction, as Batman reciprocates by kissing her back). It was also confirmed by Barbara herself in
Batman Beyond that the two had briefly dated some time after Dick Grayson left Gotham following
The New Batman Adventures (her attraction to him is evident in the film
Mystery of the Batwoman, which Bruce is uncomfortable about and Alfred and Tim tease him about it), but the relationship ended badly and Barbara began holding a grudge towards him in the future because of this, it is later revealed in
Batman Beyond 2.0 comics that Barbara was pregnant with Bruce's unborn child, until she had a miscarriage following a crime fighting related accident and when Dick found out the truth from Bruce, it worsened his already strained relationship with the latter and cut ties with his former mentor and Barbara as well, leading to her marrying Sam Young.
Dick Grayson's love interests •
Barbara Gordon (Batgirl/Oracle): When Barbara started her career as Batgirl working with Batman and Robin, she and Dick began to grow closer time by time and eventually they began a romantic relationship. This relationship became a longtime on-and-off relationship continued even after Barbara's retirement and even after she was paralyzed in
The Killing Joke. The two grew closer after the events of ''"
No Man's Land"
, and became engaged before Infinite Crisis'', but they later broke it off when Dick left to help Batman rediscover himself, with Barbara telling him they were not ready for marriage. Both still show feelings towards each other, but are no longer together. Barbara reacted jealously when seeing Dick and
Helena Bertinelli kiss, but later kept an eye on Dick while he recovered from
Penguin's control and being shot by the new
Black Mask (
Jeremiah Arkham). In
Convergence Nightwing and Oracle #2, Pre New 52 Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon are married. Following the events of the "City of Bane" storyline, Dick and Barbara adopt a puppy together and shortly thereafter, the two restart their romance. • In the movie
Batman & Robin, Dick meets Barbara Wilson, Alfred's niece, who later becomes Batgirl. In the film, they have the same relationship that Dick has with Barbara Gordon in the comics. • In the cartoon series
Batman: The Animated Series, Dick meets Barbara Gordon, as Batgirl. Both were shown to have similar history as their comic versions. The two have an on/off again relationship. In the comic
Batman Beyond 2.0, it is revealed that Dick and Barbara were in a relationship and Dick was going to propose to her, until he learns of her and Bruce's relationship following his departure from Gotham and ultimately cut ties with both of them. • In
Young Justice, the two are childhood friends, with both having crushes on each other as teenagers. The tie-in comic series shows that they have a mutual romantic interest (and implied sexual relationship) with each other as young adults. However, Barbara does not believe that Dick is ready for a serious relationship yet. In
Young Justice: Outsiders, Barbara is Oracle, and is in a relationship with Dick Grayson. • In the
Batman: Arkham Unhinged comic tie-in for
Batman: Arkham City, it is mentioned that she and Dick had secretly dated. In promotional screenshots for
Batman: Arkham Knight, she is seen wearing a
Flying Graysons necklace. However, in the game, she is romantically involved with Dick's successor as Robin, Tim Drake. • In the
Earth 2 comics, Dick and Barbara are married with a son, Johnny, in Chicago. It is implied, however, that neither have any association with Batman. • In the
Smallville tie-in comics, Barbara Gordon (who is Nightwing) tells Bruce about her acrobat boyfriend "Richie". Later on, she arranges a meeting between Bruce and Dick. • In
Batman: Nine Lives, Barbara is private detective Dick Grayson's secretary. She has a romantic crush on him, though Dick says he does not like to date his employees. • '''Koriand'r (
Starfire)''': Dick Grayson's longest lasting relationship was with the alien princess Starfire. They dated for 12 years (or 5 years, in comics time). They were also engaged to be married, but their teammate
Raven, who had turned evil, blew up the priest before he could announce them husband and wife. The relationship was already on unsteady ground, with Kory fearing Dick was rushing into marriage. They eventually broke up. They remained best friends with a few tense moments and kisses in between. It is clearly stated that they still have feelings for each other, but do not want to risk messing it up again. • In "
Titans Tomorrow", a storyline of a potential future,
Batwoman (
Bette Kane) stated that Starfire would have a wonderful future with Nightwing. However, it is later implied during
Infinite Crisis that Dick Grayson is deceased in this timeline. • The half-blood Mar'i Grayson (
Nightstar) was born from their marriage in the
Kingdom Come timeline. • In the
Teen Titans animated series, the two of them are shown to be having romantic feelings for one another, but are afraid to act on their feelings fearing one will reject the other, which even other individuals like
Cyborg notice. They however finally confess them in the film
Teen Titans: Trouble in Tokyo. •
Bette Kane (Bat-Girl/Flamebird/Hawkfire): Bette has appeared many times as a love interest for Dick Grayson both in comics and in other media. • During the Silver Age when Dick was Robin and Bette was Bat-Girl, sidekick to her aunt
Batwoman (
Kathy Kane), Bette developed a crush on the Boy Wonder which he seemingly reciprocated unlike his mentor who did not return Batwoman's feelings. • In the comic book tie-in of the TV show
Young Justice, Bette spent a night with Dick, whose name she had forgotten. Dick revealed to her that not only he was a little younger than her but in fact they both went to Gotham Academy. Bette said that she wanted to stay with him longer, but she had to go to work. •
Alia (Agent 8): In the comic book
Grayson, Dick shares a one-night stand with fellow Spyral agent Alia. •
Bridget Clancy: Bridget Clancy was Dick Grayson's superintendent when he moved to Blüdhaven. The two of them shared a romantic interest, but it never developed into anything. She is Asian in appearance, but has an Irish accent. •
Catwoman: In the
Batman Beyond universe, the new Catwoman of Neo-Gotham has teamed up with Dick and Terry McGinnis (Batman) several times. She is last seen in Dick Grayson's bed. While Dick chooses to re-enter the superhero life, she does not. •
Cheyenne Freemont (Nightwing): Cheyenne was a famous fashion designer and at some time a model with an equally famous reputation for her romantic liaisons who first met Dick when they had a one-night stand together. The two formed a purely casual and sexual relationship with her with a "no strings attached" agreement for a while. The relationship did not last long due to Cheyenne wanting to start life for herself and to avoid the metahuman brothers tracking her. She is a closet metahuman who can discharge a mysterious blue energy from her hands. •
Daphne Pennyworth: Alfred's niece, Daphne is an actress and was used by the Old Avon Players to gain the trust of the residents of Wayne Manor and the affections of Dick Grayson to obtain an original copy of
Romeo & Juliet which was in Wayne's possession. •
Deborah Poulos: A librarian working at the Museum of the City of New York, Dick meets Deborah while doing research as a museum curator. They have a healthy relationship that ends on friendly terms when Deborah decides to move to San Jose to get away from the violent events that had been occurring in New York. •
Emily Washburn: Emily was a young woman in Gotham City who in three years time had lost three husbands to freak accidents. Nightwing believed she was a black widow and decided to stop her from killing any more men. Thinking he could be her next target, he approached her in his civilian identity of Dick Grayson. The pair became close and Dick proposed. The two were wed in a fake ceremony that Dick staged. During their honeymoon in Hawaii, Dick and Emily ran into Emily's best friend Annelise. Annelise attempted to kill Dick but he was able to overpower her. It turned out that Annelise was attempting to punish Emily by killing any man she fell in love with. Dick learned that Emily's father had gotten Annelise's father arrested and she was trying to get revenge. After Annelise's arrest, Dick revealed his plan to Emily. She was upset that Dick deceived her but grateful that he had cleared her name. Dick then offered to make a life with Emily and her son but she declined stating that Dick had other secrets he could not share with her. •
Helena Bertinelli (Huntress): Dick and Helena had a one-night stand while out patrolling together, to solve the murder of an undercover cop. Dick wanted to start a serious relationship but Helena refused, since then the two have maintained a personal and professional friendship together. Helena reveals that she initially slept with Dick to get closer to learning some of the Batman Family's secrets, but had begun developing feelings for him. After Dick became Batman, the two kissed to blend in at a party while following Thomas Elliot (
Hush), resulting in an awkward silence. In the New 52, Helena is considered to be dead in the public while she has been working as a spy in the secret organization known as Spyral. She recruits Dick in the organization too, after he also faked his death, and becomes his partner. During the time the two work together Helena often flirts with Dick, even though it is not permitted by Spyral for its members to become too involved with each other. In the ''Future's End
tie-in issue of Grayson'' (which occurs five years later), the two are in a romantic relationship. •
Helena Wayne (Huntress): The daughter of Bruce Wayne in the
Earth-Two parallel universe. She and Dick become partners after her father's death, with them sharing a seemingly platonic relationship. However, later, it is revealed that she has been secretly in love with him. •
Jesse Chambers (Jesse Quick): Introduced to the Titans team by
Wally West, Dick and Jesse share several flirtations early on. When teased by Wally however, Dick states that there is nothing going on between him and Jesse. They do continue to work together, and Dick helps train her. •
Liu: One of Dick's earliest relationships was with a slightly older woman named Liu. The romance was cut short, when she destroyed him emotionally when he found out that she was just using him to get to Bruce. •
Kara Zor-El (Supergirl): Supergirl has been shown to have a strong one-sided crush on Dick, both as Nightwing and Batman, even going as far as kissing him out of surprise. Dick, however, seems to view their relationship more as platonic. • In
Justice League of America (vol. 2) #52, a
black kryptonite infected version of Kara, called Dark Supergirl, when confronted by Dick, as Batman, who tells her to choose a side between the Justice League or the Crime Syndicate, Kara responds by kissing him. •
Kate Spencer (Manhunter): In the backup story to
Batman: Streets of Gotham, she flirts with, and agrees to go out on a date with Dick Grayson. •
Lori Elton: As a student at
Hudson University, he had a relationship with fellow undergraduate Lori Elton, the daughter of a police chief. But when she saw his cold reaction to a classmate's murder, she stopped the tension. •
Rachel Roth (Raven): Dick shared a brief romance with his Teen Titans teammate Raven, going as far as kissing her passionately. It was revealed that Raven mistakenly believed she was in love with Nightwing and unintentionally used her powers to make him reciprocate. Their relationship ended after Starfire explained to Raven the difference between romantic and platonic love. •
Raya Vestri: Raya was a childhood friend to Dick, a trapeze artist at Haly's Circus as well as his first crush, the two began dating even though Raya at first wanted only a sexual relationship. Later, Raya allied with Saiko to kill Dick at a Haly Circus tribute to the Flying Graysons (Dick was present there for a memorial speech), but when she found out Saiko was trying to kill every member and audience of the circus, she betrayed him and turned herself over to the police. Later, the
Joker freed Raya from her cell in
Blackgate Penitentiary, poisoned her with Joker venom, and forced her to fight Nightwing. Dick injected her with the antidote and Raya died in Dick's arms, telling him she was sorry for everything she had done. •
Selina Kyle (Catwoman): • In
Nightwing (vol. 2) #52, Nightwing and Catwoman run into one another when Catwoman is attempting to steal a rare diamond. In the process, she kisses him, and flirtatiously suggests that they do not tell Batman. Nightwing deduces that she is trying to make Batman jealous, and has a laugh out of it. • They had a flirtatious team-up in the
Batman: The Animated Series episode,
"You Scratch My Back", where Catwoman tried, unsuccessfully, to get Nightwing to run away with her after stealing a famed emerald from Argentina. This episode marks one of the few times in Batman history where Catwoman and Nightwing have shared a kiss. •
Shawn Tsang (Defacer): A former graffiti artist and supervillain in Gotham City, Shawn Tsang later relocated to Blüdhaven and became romantically involved with Dick Grayson in the
DC Rebirth run of Nightwing. •
Sonia Zucco: Sonia is the estranged daughter of Tony Zucco, the mobster who murdered Dick Grayson's parents. Trying to step out of her father's shadow by being a legitimate businesswoman, she heads the GGM bank. She was personally involved in the process of approving a GGM loan to Dick Grayson and during their business discussions, Sonia and Dick began a relationship. However, this relationship was strained when Sonia revealed to Dick that her father is still alive. Eventually, Dick shows an interest to re-connecting with her, but is captured by the Crime Syndicate in
Forever Evil.
In other media •
Pamela Isley (Poison Ivy): In the live-action film
Batman & Robin, at a charity ball Poison Ivy unexpectedly appears to get the Heart of Isis diamond necklace. Blowing around a wisp of pheromone dust, she offers the auctioneers present a night with her. Batman and Robin, also hit by the pheromone dust, get in on the auctioning action themselves. Later on, Poison Ivy focuses on Robin, who is easily swayed by her charms. Batman tries to get Robin to come to his senses about what Poison Ivy is doing to the both of them, but Robin refuses to listen, believing that Batman is jealous and just wants Ivy for himself. Robin later shows up at Poison Ivy's hideout, where she lures him to her private plant-like throne to kiss her. When Ivy tells him of her and Mr. Freeze's plan, Robin realizes he has to stop them but Ivy gets him to kiss her before he takes off, assuming that he will die. Unfortunately, the kiss has no effect, as Robin wore a protective sheath on his lips. Then Batman shows up, ready to take Poison Ivy in. •
Zatanna Zatara: In the TV series
Young Justice, Dick flirts with Zatanna when they go on a mission to rescue
Red Tornado after she is introduced to the team by her father
Zatara. In a later episode Dick explains how he got a magical necklace from Zatanna without her asking questions saying "we have a history". The tie-in comic shows that they had dated, and broken up in the five-year time gap between the two seasons. However, they remain on very friendly (and flirtatious) terms. •
Raquel Ervin (Rocket): In the tie-in comic for
Young Justice, Raquel gives Dick a birthday kiss. Zatanna comments on how Dick manages to stay friends with all of his ex-girlfriends, implying that Raquel is one of them. •
Harleen Quinzel (Harley Quinn): In the animated film
Batman and Harley Quinn, Nightwing tracks down Harley Quinn and finds her supposedly reformed and working at the restaurant Superbabes. After a brief fight, Nightwing is knocked out and tied to her bed, and the two are implied to have had sex off-screen.
Terry McGinnis' love interests •
Dana Tan: A student at Hamilton Hill High School, Dana was Terry McGinnis' girlfriend, and later fiancée. •
Melanie Walker (Ten): Melanie is the youngest member of the futuristic version of the
Royal Flush Gang who has occasionally dated Terry McGinnis. • In the parallel Earth of the Justice Lords, Terry McGinnis is in a relationship with Melanie and they are both members of the Jokerz. •
Mareena/Marina (Aquagirl): Mareena was the only member of the Justice League who was friendly to Terry when he was first introduced to the team as, after they met, she invited him for a swim. The two are implied to have feelings for one another. •
Catwoman: A new Catwoman, not related to Selina Kyle, appears in the
Batman Beyond comics. Her real name is not mentioned, but she reveals that she is the daughter of the villain
Multiplex and inherited his self-duplication abilities.
Barbara Gordon's love interests •
Dick Grayson (Robin/Nightwing): When Barbara started her career as Batgirl working with Batman and Robin, she and Dick began to grow closer and often flirted. The two started a relationship after the events of ''"
No Man's Land"
, and became engaged before Infinite Crisis'', but they later broke it off when Dick left to help Batman rediscover himself, with Barbara telling him they were not ready for marriage. Following the events of the "City of Bane" storyline, Dick and Barbara adopt a puppy together and shortly thereafter, the two restart their romance. •
Jason Bard: Bard was a former GCPD detective who was force to retire after knee injury. He became a private investigator, and struck up a romance with Barbara. They were engaged to be married, however Barbara broke it off when she was shot and paralyzed by the Joker. She would later team up with Bard on cases as Oracle in the first
Birds of Prey series. •
Ted Kord (Blue Beetle) In the first
Birds of Prey series, the two flirted over instant messaging, not knowing who the other was. They met up on a date and quickly deduced the other's identity. After another date, they decided to just be friends. Black Canary later claimed Barbara "cyber did-it" with Blue Beetle, which Barbara denied. •
Charles Dante (Spellbinder): It was revealed in
Batgirls #3 that Barbara had an ex who was now the supervillain Spellbinder, though Babs claimed they were "never official". •
Ethan Cobblepot (Blacksun): In an arc spanning from
Batgirl (2015) #7-11, Ethan charmed Barbara into the date, and she then learned he was the son of the Penguin. Eventually, Ethan became the supervillain Blacksun and Barbara had to take him down as Batgirl. •
Luke Fox (Batwing): Luke Fox and Barbara Gordon had a short fling in
Batgirl (2015) #44. •
Steven Harris: In a possible future presented in ''Batgirl: Future's End,'' Barbara marries a cop named Steven Harris. However, Barbara's brother
James Gordon, Jr crashes the reception with a gun, and tells Steven to jump off the high building or he will harm Barbara. Barbara charges at James, certain she can take him down before he hurts her or Steven, but Steven jumps in the seconds before she gets there. Barbara is devastated and breaks ten of her brother's bones in a rage. After this, she quits being Batgirl, allowing
Stephanie Brown,
Cassandra Cain and Tiffany Fox to take over as the League of Batgirls. She reinvents herself as Bete Noir and mentors them.
In other media •
Sam Young: In the
Batman Beyond animated series, Barbara is married to Gotham City District Attorney Sam Young.
Kate Kane's love interests •
Renee Montoya (The Question): In Kate' Kane's debut appearance, it was revealed that former police officer Renee Montoya was her ex. Kate met Renee when the officer pulled her over for erratic driving, and the two struck up a romantic relationship but later broke up after an argument where Renee accused Kate of having no direction in life. The two of them would later frequently team up as Batwoman and the Question. •
Maggie Sawyer: Maggie Sawyer is a Metropolis police officer who first shows interest in Kate when she dances with her at a charity ball and asks for her number. She is Kate's love interest in the
Batwoman Rebirth series and Kate eventually reveals her identity as Batwoman to her and proposes to her in costume. •
Sophie Moore: Sophie was Kate's roommate and girlfriend at Westpoint, but they had to keep their relationship a secret due to
Don't Ask, Don't Tell. However, Kate was found out, and refused to lie about her sexual orientation, though she did not out Sophie. Kate resigned from the military, but Sophie stayed and eventually became a colonel. She got a teaching job at Gotham Military Academy and had a friendly, but slightly awkward, reunion with Kate at a carnival. •
Mallory Kimball: Doctor Mallory Kimball is Kate's former friend and lover. She first shows up in DC's
52 series. •
Safiyah Sohail: Safiyah was established as Kate's former lover in the Batwoman Rebirth series. She keeps the pirate nation Coryana in check. •
Quinn Nash (Enigma): Kate and Quinn meet in the story "Riddler on the Roof" in the Twas the Mite Before Christmas Special. Kate is battling the Riddler, and decides to outsource riddle-solving to Quinn, a cryptography expert, and she takes her on a date. Quinn solves the riddles and they bond. At the end of the story, Batwoman learns Quinn is the Riddler's daughter, and Quinn's previous hero codename Enigma is referenced.
In other media •
Julia Pennyworth: In the
Batwoman TV series, Julia is portrayed as Kate's former lover.
Jason Todd's love interests •
Rose Wilson (Ravager): In
Red Hood and the Outlaws, part of the
New 52 run of the
DC Comics, Jason confirms that he and Rose had a one-time fling. In the 2018
Titans TV series, Rose appears in the second season, and has a romance with Jason for part of it. The two become romantically involved in
DCeased: Unkillables before getting married prior to the events of
DCeased: Dead Planet. •
Essence •
Isabel Ardila •
Artemis of Bana-Mighdall: Wonder Woman's fellow Amazon sister Artemis and Jason both became attracted to one another while he worked alongside her and other outlaws. •
Carmen Ortega Tim Drake's love interests •
Ariana Dzerchenko: A Russian immigrant who moved to Gotham City with her family, making their home in the Little Odessa neighborhood. She met Tim when he rescued her father, who owned a printer shop, from a gang. A second attack on her father was successful and resulted in his death at the hands of
KGBeast, and she moves in with her uncle Vari and aunt Natalie. Tim's relationship with Ariana is one aspect of his life that is normal for a teenager, but his secrecy and preoccupation frustrates her repeatedly. Ariana is forced to break up with Tim after her uncle finds them in a compromising position and transfers her to an all-girl school, but they later get back together. Tim becomes involved with Stephanie Brown during their relationship, and he decides to break up with Ariana to be with Stephanie, only for Ariana to break up with him first because she thinks they're too young for a serious relationship. •
Stephanie Brown (Spoiler/Robin/ Batgirl): Stephanie adopts the moniker of Spoiler to capture her criminal father the
Cluemaster, and she assists Batman and Robin in his arrest. When Stephanie and Tim team up to stop the Cluemaster a second time, she saves his life and he gives her a kiss in thanks, which sparks her romantic interest in him. After that, she regularly patrols the city with Robin, and they develop a mutual crush even though he is dating Ariana (which Stephanie does not know). They start dating after Tim breaks up with Ariana, but he doesn't reveal his real identity to her, causing tension between them. Batman ultimately reveals Tim's real identity to Stephanie, which upsets Tim, who storms out on them when he finds out. Regardless, they continue dating until Stephanie fakes her death at the end of
Batman: War Games. Later, when they're Red Robin and Batgirl, Tim tries to restart their relationship, but Stephanie rejects him because he wasn't good for her. During
Batgirl: Convergence, the pre-"Flashpoint" versions of Tim and Stephanie get back together. During Rebirth and Infinite Frontier, the two officially re-enter a relationship, but Tim eventually breaks it off while trying to figure out his sexuality. In the film
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000), the producers believe the older Tim Drake's blonde wife to be Stephanie. •
Cassie Sandsmark (Wonder Girl): Tim and Cassie briefly enter a relationship in the wake of Superboy's death, as they are both mutually grieving him, but they break it off later. In the
Titans Tomorrow alternate future storyline, in an attempt to alter Batman's memories, Cassie kisses Tim, though it enrages Conner. Cassie and Tim are in a relationship eight years later. In the animated show,
Young Justice, Tim and Cassie form a relationship at the end of the second season, after Wally West's death gave Cassie the courage to kiss him and after Tim leaves the team at the beginning of the third season by joining Batman Inc., Cassie tries to patch things with him. • '''
M'gann Morzz (Miss Martian)'
: In the Titans Tomorrow'' alternate future comic, Tim although he is in a relationship with Cassie also has an affair with M'gann while they are colluding with Lex Luthor. •
Zoanne Wilkins: Zoanne was Tim's classmate and girlfriend. Their relationship was a little rocky, as Zoanne once got mad at Tim for falling asleep on a roller coaster. Tim starts becoming more withdrawn and obsessed as a hero, and breaks up with Zoanne in Robin (1993) #183 •
Bernard Dowd: In
Batman: Urban Legends, Tim (as Robin) rescued his friend Bernard from kidnappers, and Bernard, not realizing Tim and Robin are one and the same, confides to Robin that Tim helped him come out. This causes Tim to realize he himself is bisexual, and later he and Bernard enter a relationship. The two grow close enough that Bernard starts to grow suspicious and angry with Bruce about how Tim is always injured during his "trips" with Bruce Wayne. •
Jubilation Lee (Jubilee): In the
DC vs Marvel (aka Marvel vs DC) comic
crossover series Tim Drake is paired against Marvel's Jubilee from the
X-Men to fight one another. They have instant chemistry and reluctantly fight each other to save their respective universes, but not before sharing a kiss. After the fight, where Drake won without hitting Jubilee the couple begin their relationship in
Venice. In the following
Amalgam series the two are combined into one person to become
Sparrow, Dark Claw's (an amalgamation of Batman and
Wolverine) sidekick. Then in the All Access series that followed, the two are reunited where Jubilee wants to continue as a long distance relationship across universes but they realize the impossibility of it and Drake is already dating someone else. They then finish with a goodbye kiss. Since the DC/Marvel universes has not crossed over again the relationship has never been rekindled and the characters have evolved substantially in their current timelines. •
Tam Fox: In the
Red Robin comic, Tim and Tam are involved in a relationship after her father sends her on a quest to find him and after being attacked by multiple assassins she falls deeply in love with Tim.
In other media •
Barbara Gordon (Oracle): In the
Batman: Arkham series, Tim and Barbara are shown to care deeply for one another as seen in
Arkham City and
Arkham Knight, the latter game in which Tim is shown to be very distressed after Barbara is kidnapped by Scarecrow. The two eventually get married at the conclusion of the game, presumably sometime after Batman's apparent death.
Cassandra Cain's love interests •
Kon-el/Conner Kent (Superboy): The two heroes kissed in
Batgirl (2000) #39, and went on a date. However, Cassandra realized she was just lonely rather than really in love, and they broke it off, deciding to be friends instead. • '''Tai'Darshan (Black Wind'''): Tai'Darshan, a metahuman who could control tornadoes, was part of a faction fighting against the Tarakstan government. Cassandra met him in
Batgirl #39 and heavily disapproved of his methods (which included killing) but the two had romantic tension regardless, to the point it made Batman angry with the boy. Tai'Darshan eventually sacrificed himself. •
Zero: Zero was a boy who was a love interest for Cass from
Batgirl #63-#66. He had a concerning habit of stalking Cass, but the two nevertheless enjoyed a dance together at a rave, and before Cass left on the journey to find her mother, she took Zero on a date and kissed him. Batgirl #73 revealed Zero was killed alongside many others when a nuclear bomb dropped on Bludhaven.
Stephanie Brown's love interests •
Tim Drake (Robin III/Red Robin): Stephanie adopts the moniker of Spoiler to capture her criminal father the
Cluemaster, and successfully arrests him with the aid of Batman and Robin. When Stephanie and Tim team up to stop the Cluemaster a second time, she saves his life and he kisses her in thanks, which sparks her romantic interest. After that, she regularly patrols the city with Robin, and they develop a mutual crush even though he is dating Ariana (which Stephanie does not know). They start dating after Tim breaks up with Ariana, but he doesn't reveal his real identity to her, causing tension between them. Batman ultimately reveals Tim's real identity to Stephanie, which upsets Tim. Regardless, they continue dating until Stephanie fakes her death at the end of
Batman: War Games. Later, when they're Red Robin and Batgirl, Tim tries to restart their relationship, but Stephanie rejects him because it isn't good for her right now. During DC's Rebirth era they re-enter a relationship, but later break up again. •
Dean: Dean is Stephanie's ex-boyfriend and the father of her child. Dean is shown on a date with Stephanie in
Batman: Huntress/Spoiler: Blunt Trauma, and when the earthquake happens, Stephanie tackles him out of the way of falling rubble. When Stephanie expresses that she wants to stay and help people, Dean dismissively asks her if she thinks she's some kind of hero, and abandons her. Later, Stephanie realizes she is pregnant and Dean is the father. When asked if she told him, she states that she couldn't get in touch after he abandoned her, and she doesn't think he would care. She's proven correct in
Robin #80. Dean comes to see her, and when Steph confirms the baby was his and she gave the baby up for adoption, Dean shows no interest and instead says there's no reason they can't get back together now. Stephanie very forcefully rejects him. •
Kyle Mizugochi: Stephanie develops a crush on Kyle in the
Batgirls (2022) series, and the two go out on a date. Stephanie claims it was platonic, but nobody believes her, and she continues to have a crush.
In other media •
Harper Row: In the
Gotham Knights TV series, Stephanie comes out as a lesbian and enters a relationship with Harper, who is bisexual. •
Luke Fox: In the
Batwoman TV Series Stephanie aided Luke in finding her father, and kisses him goodbye. They later go on a date, though Stephanie gets frustrated with Luke and leaves early.
Damian Wayne's love interests •
Nika (Flatline): In the 2021-2022 DC comic series
Robin, Damian meets Flatline while attending the Lazarus Tournament. While the two characters start off with a competitive relationship, they grow closer over the course of the tournament. This budding relationship culminates into a kiss in Issue #11.
In other media •
Rachel Roth/Raven: In the
DC Animated Movie Universe films
Justice League vs. Teen Titans,
Teen Titans: The Judas Contract, and
Justice League Dark: Apokolips War, the two form a romantic bond. In the comic books, they are separated by a large age gap, with Raven being roughly Dick Grayson's age.
Duke Thomas's love interests •
Isabela "Izzy" Ortiz (Robin): Izzy was a fellow Robin with Duke during the
"We Are Robin" movement, and the two became closer and started dating. Izzy still works with Duke as Signal as seen in the Batman & The Signal, being his main support operative while he's in the field. •
Claire Clover (Gotham Girl): Duke and Claire are presented as married in a potential future presented in
Batman #5 (2016), but haven't been in a relationship otherwise.
In alternate universes: •
Ana: In the
Wayne Family Adventures webtoon, Duke develops feelings for his classmate, Ana, and goes on a date with her. Ana later breaks up with him because she feels the relationship isn't working. ==Supporting characters==