The Weirdest Batman Comic Book Stories Of All Time

Every couple years, this Tumblr post resurfaces, where blogger "raptoriffic" imagines Bruce Wayne deflecting suspicions that he's secretly Batman by posting ridiculous conspiracy theories, most memorably circling images of Bruce and Batman's butts (obscured by a coat and cape, respectively) with the text "THE BUTTS MATCH!!!" to turn the whole possibility into a joke.

But what "raptoriffic" either didn't know or didn't mention is that when they posted, this had already been canon for five years.

Bruce Wayne, of course, wasn't dead, just rocketing through time in "The Return of Bruce Wayne" as a caveman-pirate-cowboy, as one does. He comes back with a mission: to make his war on crime bigger than ever, and in "Batman Incorporated," we see what that looks like.

In Vol. 1, #6, Grant Morrison and Chris Burnham show Bruce Wayne publicly declaring he'll be funding the new super-team. Back at the Batcave, Dick and Damian find him hunched over the computer, with an expression that looks an awful lot like the contemporary "trollface" meme, anonymously announcing his secret identity in a chatroom. "Attempts will shortly be made to expose the secret identities of Batman and his allies ... When they happen, they'll be lost in a blizzard of rumor, denial, and misinformation." Within seconds, the chatroom proves him right, flooding with all three of those things. Nothing about the butts matching, unfortunately.