Bruce Wayne, impressed by the orphaned young man, invites him to stay at Wayne Manor, but Dick is a rebellious motorcycle freak who wants outta there - until Wayne shows him his collection of bikes, including priceless oldHarleys and Indians. His family is killed during this process. At the circus, young acrobat DickGrayson ( Chris O'Donnell) saves the crowd by rolling Two-Face's TNT bomb into the river. What's new in 'Batman Forever' is that Batman himself( Val Kilmer) has to do a little seduction. This theme - the girl in love with the image but not the reality - is also standard in the Superman series, where Lois Lane chases the Man of Steel, but rejectsClark Kent. She's powerfully attracted to Batman the moment she meets him, and wonders what he's looking for in a woman: Would it help, she wonders, if she carried a whip? She's thrilled that Batman reads her books ('Not every girl makes a superhero's night table'), but less than thrilled when her date for the Gotham Charity Circus is boring old bachelor Bruce Wayne.

ChaseMeridian, who sounds like a bank, but is, in fact, a student of abnormal psychology. Batman would be a sensation in any leather bar, but 'Batman Forever' is at pains to show that he has heterosexual tastes.

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