Cartoons That Made Us Gay: The Creeper Arrives in Gotham City (Patreon)

“Beware the Creeper”  (November 7, 1998)

For our third look at the 90s animated Batman series, we focus on The Creeper, a lesser-known DC hero who at one point was considered for inclusion in this show’s “bat-family” alongside Nightwing, Robin and Batgirl. That didn’t happen, and in fact this one episode is all we see of The Creeper in this series. But what we get is really interesting, as he’s fairly gay-coded for someone who ends up hitting on Harley Quinn. We do talk around that as well as get into what Creeper’s function can tell us about the sexual dynamics going on between Batman and the Joker.