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No, I mean... You're a man, who dresses like a bat, and your name is... Well, don't you think that's a bit lazy?
Invincible poking fun at the Vigilante's name.

A Bat-Caped Vigilante with a strange resemblance to Darkwing and a bat motif patrols the streets of a certain city from another world.

History[]

Little is known about the Caped Vigilante's backstory, but it is known that at one point he adapted a bat motif after starting his acts of vigilantism at night.

One day, a portal from another dimension opened up, with it the arrival of another superhero from that world, Invincible. The two have a conversation about his name's originality. Despite this little argument, it is implied that the Vigilante helped the inter-dimensional hero find another portal to return to his reality.

Trivia[]

  • The Caped Vigilante is very obviously a stand-in for the DC character Batman.[1]
    • During his brief cameo, the song playing in the background is quite similar to Danny Elfman's 1989 Batman theme.
    • Batman had actually appeared as a cameo character in Issue #33 of the Invincible comic series, which I Thought You Were Stronger adapts. Because of legal issues, he was replaced by the Caped Vigilante.

References[]

  1. "Listen, I think that sequence might seem to imply a certain thing that isn’t there. That’s not Gotham City. That’s not Batman. That’s a completely different bat character that Mark is referring to. If the audience is inferring a certain thing from it, I don’t have control over that. The audience gets to take from it what they will, but it was never our intention to imply anything remotely close to the Batman character." -Robert Kirkman, S2 finale Variety interview
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