{"id":363264,"date":"2025-12-22T07:37:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363264\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T07:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T07:37:09","slug":"superman-and-batmans-identities-are-leaked-in-a-mystery-dc-comics-has-to-explain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363264\/","title":{"rendered":"Superman and Batman\u2019s Identities are Leaked in a Mystery DC Comics HAS to Explain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, Batman<\/a> and Superman\u2019s<\/a> identities were just revealed to the world, and it seems like that would be a huge deal, right? After all, a hero going public is often the kind of thing that makes waves throughout the fandom (just look at the last time that Superman told the world he was really Clark Kent). And we all know that once a hero\u2019s identity is public, it puts their loved ones at risk, right? So why isn\u2019t it a big deal that the Dark Knight and the Man of Steel just had their identities leaked?<\/p>\n

Well, to be fair, it did just happen in Batman\/Superman: World\u2019s Finest. In case you\u2019re unaware, this book is set in the earlier days of the duo\u2019s respective careers (basically a modernized, Bronze Age affair). It reveals a bunch of surprising hidden adventures from the heroes\u2019 lives, many of which have come back to haunt them in the future, like their encounter with the Devil Nezha, one of the main antagonists of Lazarus Planet. Now a new wrinkle has been added to Superman and Batman\u2019s lore<\/a>, and I\u2019m wondering how DC is going to explain it.<\/p>\n

Joker and Lex Luthor Revealed Who Batman and Superman Were Years Ago<\/p>\n

In Batman\/Superman: World\u2019s Finest #46 by Mark Waid, Adri\u00e1n Guti\u00e9rrez, and Vincente Cifuentes, the unthinkable has happened. Joker and Lex Luthor have fused<\/a> into one twisted being thanks to a powerful alien relic known as the Absorbascon. Now, they are the Merger, a being that possesses Lex\u2019s ingenuity with Joker\u2019s twisted cruelty. To make matters worse, the Absorbascon gives them the full breadth of human knowledge, and the Merger can use the Absorbascon to spread the Joker\u2019s madness across the whole world.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s too much for Batman and Superman to handle individually<\/a>, and they figure the best way to deal with this situation is to fight fire with fire. So they seek out Green Lantern, hoping to use his Power Ring to recreate a trick they haven\u2019t pulled since the series\u2019 first arc and merge into the beloved combo hero, Superbat. It works, and Superbat heads out to stop the Merger\u2019s madness from infecting the innocent people of the world. Thankfully, Superbat can track down the source of the Absorbascon\u2019s broadcast and heads there to stop the Merger.<\/p>\n

The Merger hits Superbat with a blast of kryptonite, but Superbat manages to overcome it due to being only half-Kryptonian. Both amalgamations go for hand-to-hand combat, but unfortunately for Superbat, the Absorbascon gives the Merger all the knowledge of the world, allowing them to easily predict every move Superbat can make. Worse, the Merger also knows who Batman and Superman really are, calling both of the heroes by name. The issue ends with a hell of a cliffhanger as the Merger uses the Aborbascon to broadcast the information to the entire world, including Batman and Superman\u2019s closest allies.<\/p>\n

What Did Superman and Batman Do to Get Their Secret Identities Back?<\/p>\n

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As mentioned earlier, this book is set in the past of the Prime DC Universe, meaning countless people learned that Bruce Wayne is Batman and Clark Kent is Superman. That\u2019s a pretty big reveal to just throw out there, especially given how seriously DC Comics has treated both heroes when their identities were put at risk or revealed. Now obviously, it didn\u2019t last, because Superman and Batman\u2019s private lives are still private. But how in the hell did they get that genie back in the bottle, and is it something that\u2019s going to impact their future?<\/p>\n

Revealing that the World\u2019s Finest had their own \u201cOne More Day\u201d moment is a pretty big thing (though I\u2019m certain this wasn\u2019t rectified with a deal with the devil). I\u2019m a seasoned comic book fan, and I know this arc could easily be resolved by Batman and Superman using the Absorbascon to make the entire world forget what they just learned. But I also know that Waid is the type of writer who likes to revisit the things he includes in this book. Nezha came back for Lazarus Planet, and Boy Thunder came back to become Kingdom Come\u2019s Magog.<\/p>\n

Batman and Superman are 100% going to get their secret identities back, but I have a sneaking suspicion that there\u2019s going to be more to it than them just hitting the reset button. It could be that they had to do something to make the world forget. A dark secret in the past that could come back in the modern-day (say in Justice League Unlimited). I just hope that this isn\u2019t glossed over and that DC gives us a good explanation behind Superman and Batman\u2019s identities being leaked.<\/p>\n

What do you think about this strange turn for Batman and Superman? Let us know in the comments or share your thoughts on the ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, Batman and Superman\u2019s identities were just revealed to the world, and it seems like that would be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[20486,9417,88,206,128802,209],"class_list":{"0":"post-363264","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-batman","9":"tag-dc-comics","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-movies","12":"tag-regular-feature","13":"tag-superman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}