Is Batman in love with Wonder Woman?

Answer 1

It all depends on your source of information. If you're following paper comics, the only writer to really address the relationship is Joe Kelly. He plays around with it, but decides, in the end, to leave it alone.

He was probably trying to develop a story that was first brought out in the DC Animation Continuum (DCAU). If you don't know what that it: it's the Batman, Superman, Justice League Cartoons that ran for about five or six years before Warner Brothers lost permissions to make the shows. Bruce Timm and Paul Dini were the creative forces behind these shows and they pretty much build around one world of superheroes- DC based. Wonder Woman comes in with the Justice League shows, but Batman had been around for a while (and so, it was also the case in the continuum). With one episode in the first year of Justice League, "The Brave and the Bold," Wonder Woman tries to stop a missle and gets buried in the process. Batman touchingly/fruitlessly tries to dig her out before she emerges on her own. During all of the cheering at a day saved, she notices his gloves torn from the digging and then kisses him on the cheek.

The fan response was huge, so the writers decided to play around with the story of a relationship between WW and BM. A chief writer on this storyline is Dwayne McDuffie- creator of Static Shock and one of the larger story arches for the DCAU. Notable episodes where WW and BM hint at something happening are, "Maid of Honor," "Starcrossed," "This Little Piggy," "A Once and Future Thing, Part 1," and "Kid's Stuff." In the first of these, Diana and Bruce have a lengthy dance and flirt before getting around to saving the day. In the end, Diana guesses that Batman is Bruce W, but he plays it off. In "Starcrossed," the Justice League shares their identities before separating to rendevous at a later point & Diana & Batman go their own way. To avoid capture, they "pretend" make out.

In "This Little Piggy," BM and WW discuss dating. While talking to the super heroine about saving WW, Batman admits to something going on between the two. With "A Once and Future Thing, Part 1," Green Lantern/ John Stewart gets at Batman about his dating WW and while trying to play it off, Batman is "caught" by WW. And last, the writers had fun with the superheroes as children in "Kids Stuff." Little girl Diana has a "crush" on little boy Bruce that's pretty funny.

In all, the DCAU played with the possibility without letting it distract from larger stories. The main writer in these, McDuffie, has said in an interview that something may yet be written on this storyline. And it seems to be a fan favorite.

Answer 2

It depends. In the Justice League animated cartoon, it was heavily implied that Wonder Woman was in love with Batman. In the comics, it depends on who is writing. Some authors write Wonder Woman as being in love with Batman, and others write them as just being good friends.