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Great Character, Caped Crusader.

Would be interested to know the origin of this premise and whether an avid comic book reader of DC would agree with the idea.

Follow-on question ~ How many good guys know he's Bruce? I assume the whole Justice League. Batgirl, Gordon and Robin (all of them). Catwoman seems likely.

There must have been villains who battled other good guys that would know. Would they see the telling as inconsequential? Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Zod? All of them would be oblivious, hardly? All the gods Wonder Woman fought? Did the super-super and celestial foes of Hawkman, Manhunter and Green Lantern not see benefit in weakening an ally of the hero they each hated.

Given that, I kind of agree with premise. That a super enemy would give the info to the local bad guys. But like Two-Face, each would say that's a secret none of us want revealed. "We want him (Batman) to have something to lose." In the Heath Ledger adaptions this too was implied when Joker changes his mind about killing batman or revealing his identity on TV to public.

Batman = America's Hamlet, epically tragic, wholly the product of our cultural mythos, connecting gun violence and revenge.

Yours,