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Could Columbo figure out that Bruce Wayne is Batman?
- Thread starter Jintor
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100%, but I think he'd be respectful about it. Like, he'd make sure they knew, but he wouldn't tell Bruce himself directly, but maybe he'd sneak in a sly comment to Alfred "Y'know that Batman guys awful familiar..." and a sly smile.
Columbo would not only find out Batman is Bruce Wayne, he'd manage to find out the Joker's actual origin story.
You don't fuck with Lt. Columbo. Ever.
You don't fuck with Lt. Columbo. Ever.
Of course, he doesn't work that hard hiding it. It's more people don't really bother to figure out his identity. I mean as a kid, Tim figured it out
In one day. As soon as Bruce got home from the crime, Columbo would already be there, scratching his nose and talking about his wife.
Can't comment about Columbo, but it really depends on Harry's stats. I feel like high logic and conceptualization would really do some heavy lifting.
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god inland empire would be freaking out the entire time in gotham
I actually don't know with this one. The Bruce Wayne persona, cocky rich playboy is getting chewed up by Columbo. But that's not the real Bruce Wayne, it's an act. The fact that he's putting on an act and pretending to be something he isn't would probably tip Columbo to the fact there is more going on...but I don't know what evidence he would find. Bruce is an obsessive, paranoid weirdo. And Columbo isn't gonna openly break the law to get evidence.
It's a draw. Bring in Doomsday so they can beat him together.
It's a draw. Bring in Doomsday so they can beat him together.
Good point actually. Columbo rarely faced off against anyone who was actually intelligent about covering their tracks. I definitely think he'd suspect him but there's absolutely no way he'd be able to get Bruce to slip.
Harry DuBois would get an important clue from his necktie within minutes and spend the rest of the week trying to prove it wrong.
Timmy Drake figured it out; that's how he got the Robin gig. You think Columbo is a worse detective than an untrained Tim Drake?
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depends on the story arc tbh. if court of owls is any indication they just pull them out of a hat whenever they need more
At the end of the episode Columbo would act like it was the one mystery he couldn't solve and secretly reveals to Bruce he knows and the episode ends.
Lol, Bruce Wayne is Batman? Yeah, right!
EDIT: I wanted to see if Adam West ever guested on Columbo for some reason. Googling it gave me this:
Hang this in the Louvre.
need something for Columbo to press him on.
lets say Batman finally kills the Joker, leading to a barely visible change in the Bruce Wayne persona, but *just* the kind that Columbo could notice.
now, why does batman kill the Joker? maybe something to do with the bat family, such as kidnapping one of them while they are in civilian mode, but its quite public and they can't suit up. something that would really send him over, and Columbo finds himself interacting with each of them over the course of the investigation.
lets say Batman finally kills the Joker, leading to a barely visible change in the Bruce Wayne persona, but *just* the kind that Columbo could notice.
now, why does batman kill the Joker? maybe something to do with the bat family, such as kidnapping one of them while they are in civilian mode, but its quite public and they can't suit up. something that would really send him over, and Columbo finds himself interacting with each of them over the course of the investigation.
Pretty much. Columbo would be investigating someone trying to plant a murder on Bruce Wayne, and Columbo would always just come in the room as Bruce was trying to escape to the Bat Cave. Columbo would also get real Bruce Wayne, not the persona.
I feel like the people who get close to figuring it out are either close to Bruce or try and track Batman.
Columbo starting off on a train and Joker attacks so Bruce has to quick change to save people, I think he'd narrow it down fast enough. If he meets Bruce and Batman separately, he'd figure it out. If he was just hired by the cops to figure out who Batman is, with no leads to go on, I don't think he'd figure it out in time. I don't imagine he can track Batman back to Wayne Manor, or any of his mini-caves, and if he's never in a situation requiring a quick change he wouldn't consider Bruce an option. Plus if Bruce is onto him he can play Bruce all day and let Clark or Dick be Batman to be in two places at once.
Columbo starting off on a train and Joker attacks so Bruce has to quick change to save people, I think he'd narrow it down fast enough. If he meets Bruce and Batman separately, he'd figure it out. If he was just hired by the cops to figure out who Batman is, with no leads to go on, I don't think he'd figure it out in time. I don't imagine he can track Batman back to Wayne Manor, or any of his mini-caves, and if he's never in a situation requiring a quick change he wouldn't consider Bruce an option. Plus if Bruce is onto him he can play Bruce all day and let Clark or Dick be Batman to be in two places at once.
thats the kicker
and the richer you are, the more columbo goes after you
I feel like Harry would figure it out but then reveal it in such a strange, disjointed way that people wouldn't take it seriously.
If Columbo can figure out how Frasier Crane did it, remasking Bruce Wayne's real identity will be no problem.
A villain frames Bruce Wayne for murder to draw out the Bat, but Columbo figures out the truth and saves the day (with a little help from Batman).
A villain frames Bruce Wayne for murder to draw out the Bat, but Columbo figures out the truth and saves the day (with a little help from Batman).
Easily. Bruce gets home to find a flustered Alfred apologizing for their guest who insisted he'd only need a moment.
Bruce finds him smoking a cigar in the parlor, admiring a picture of his parents, "ah, sorry to bother ya sir, y'know, and I hope ya don't think I'm speakin' outta turn, but my wife adored Thomas and Martha. Any time a documentary or a book comes out she's gotta read it. My condolences, er... *Pulls out a notebook* you'll excuse me, I gotta write everything down these days... Uh... It's in regard to a recent car accident you reported. Uh, well sir, I don't know if you recall the surgeon who operated on you afterwards-"
"Tommy Elliot," says a stoic and slightly annoyed Bruce, "a family friend, finest neurosurgeon on the east coast."
"Ah, a friend... Well sir I don't know how to tell you this but Dr. Elliot was shot this evening after attending a play..."
Bruce playing it cool, "oh god....I'd heard on the radio a clown attacked the play... It was that horrible Joker, wasn't it??"
"Er, well yes and no and perhaps, sir."
"What do you-"
"It was a former psychologist who interrupted the show in a- *checks notes* harlequin costume. But we did find the Joker outside with the smoking gun as they say..."
"Hopefully he's put away for a long time."
"He insists he's innocent."
"Just another bad joke."
"Aren't you at all curious, sir?"
"Who knows how that twisted mind works."
"No sir, about Dr. Elliot's condition."
"What? But he's-" Bruce is momentarily caught off guard.
"He was taken to Gotham general but I haven't heard if he'll pull through..."
"I thought he was-"
"Ah well, I understand, you weren't there, and you hear about the Joker, of course you'll assume the worst."
Bruce finds him smoking a cigar in the parlor, admiring a picture of his parents, "ah, sorry to bother ya sir, y'know, and I hope ya don't think I'm speakin' outta turn, but my wife adored Thomas and Martha. Any time a documentary or a book comes out she's gotta read it. My condolences, er... *Pulls out a notebook* you'll excuse me, I gotta write everything down these days... Uh... It's in regard to a recent car accident you reported. Uh, well sir, I don't know if you recall the surgeon who operated on you afterwards-"
"Tommy Elliot," says a stoic and slightly annoyed Bruce, "a family friend, finest neurosurgeon on the east coast."
"Ah, a friend... Well sir I don't know how to tell you this but Dr. Elliot was shot this evening after attending a play..."
Bruce playing it cool, "oh god....I'd heard on the radio a clown attacked the play... It was that horrible Joker, wasn't it??"
"Er, well yes and no and perhaps, sir."
"What do you-"
"It was a former psychologist who interrupted the show in a- *checks notes* harlequin costume. But we did find the Joker outside with the smoking gun as they say..."
"Hopefully he's put away for a long time."
"He insists he's innocent."
"Just another bad joke."
"Aren't you at all curious, sir?"
"Who knows how that twisted mind works."
"No sir, about Dr. Elliot's condition."
"What? But he's-" Bruce is momentarily caught off guard.
"He was taken to Gotham general but I haven't heard if he'll pull through..."
"I thought he was-"
"Ah well, I understand, you weren't there, and you hear about the Joker, of course you'll assume the worst."
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