Citations:Batman

noun: superhero

 * 1989, The Bulletin
 * “And then we disappeared again,” Peters says. “Vanished. Like Batman.” Warners planned no more TV advertising until the week before the opening. "There's a fine line that you have to be careful not to cross,” Warners' Rob Friedman says.
 * 2001, Greg Moody, Deadroll: A Cycling Murder Mystery, Velopress (ISBN 9781884737923):
 * The equipment he carried in his Batman-like utility belt jingled and shook with each step.
 * 2012, John Verdon, Let the Devil Sleep, Crown Pub (ISBN 9780307717924), page 383:
 * “A split second before you get your head blown off, I drop out of the sky to save you, like fucking Batman?” “No.” “No?” “I save myself. Or I don't.” “What are you, a one-man army?” “It&#39;s too damn iffy for anyone else to be involved.”
 * 2014, Anthony Daly, Dalo: The Autobiography, Random House (ISBN 9781448152513), page 123:
 * You could be on run number twenty and next thing the fucker would leap out of the trees like Batman – after sitting out the previous five – and bomb ahead of you.
 * 2017, Clare Furniss, How Not to Disappear, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781481421041), page 163:
 * I try to picture Dad as a teenager, on a bicycle wearng one of those black academic gowns that make you look like Batman. But I can barely even remember him as he was when I was a kid.
 * 2018, Jackie Ashenden, Total Control, Kensington Books (ISBN 9781496716354)
 * "And you already know why I'm following you otherwise you wouldn't have bothered making like fucking Batman and coming to skulk down the back of this alley."