In The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Bruce did not wear a mask during the masked ball scene. This is because he considers Batman as his true identity and "Bruce Wayne" as his disguise in public. When Selina asked him "Who are you pretending to be? " he replied "Bruce Wayne, eccentric billionaire".

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image showing In The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Bruce did not wear a mask during the masked ball scene. This is because he considers Batman as his true identity and "Bruce Wayne" as his disguise in public. When Selina asked him "Who are you pretending to be? " he replied "Bruce Wayne, eccentric billionaire".

P0rtal2 on October 22nd, 2020 at 03:35 UTC »

Which is why Lego Batman says that Bruce Wayne lives in Batman's attic.

darthmaverick on October 22nd, 2020 at 04:09 UTC »

Wasn’t there a similar “reveal” in a episode of Batman Beyond, where Bruce knew right away a voice in his head was someone messing with him, and not a sudden onset of insanity?

HogPigman13 on October 22nd, 2020 at 04:29 UTC »

Nice!

This reminds me of a Batman Beyond episode (Ep. 7 “Shriek”) wherein a villain was transmitting sound into Bruce’s head to make him think he was having psychotic thoughts. Part of what helped Bruce figure out what was going on was that the voice kept referring to him as “Bruce,” and he refers to himself in his inner monologue as “Batman.”