"Noooo," Virgil said. "He's pretty real. In my world at least." Of course, if there were people from Star Wars, Harry Potter, Pokemon, then that meant his world could be fictional too...

But Tim and Kon weren't from his world, and they knew Batman was real. Unless they really were all comic book characters, and he'd been retconned or something. But there was no way they'd retcon a superhero as awesome as him. Maybe he just came from later in continuity.

"Look, you're sure? Look, if Batman's fictional, you'd know stuff about him no one else would know, right?" He lowered his voice. "Like his secret identity?"