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Canon blood types: Gotham

Note that the following information is not medically accurate and should not be taken as any kind of medical advice. Copious amounts of comic book medicine and biology abound here.

The Joker is a compatible blood donor for Alfred Pennyworth. —The Brave and the Bold (1955) #141

Bruce is a compatible blood donor for Andrew Bennett. —The Brave and the Bold #195

Kirk Langstrom and Francine Langstrom have the same blood type. —Detective Comics #429

Helena Bertinelli has a rare blood type, the same as Guido Bertinelli. —The Huntress (1989) #6

In the DC Animated Universe, Dick has O+ blood. —Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero

In the DC Animated Universe, Barbara Gordon has AB- blood. She has the same rare blood type as Nora Fries, wife of Mr. Freeze. —Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero

In the New Earth timeline, Dick Grayson is a compatible blood donor for Bruce Wayne. —Batman/Nightwing: Bloodborne

Crystal Brown is a compatible blood donor for Stephanie Brown. —Batgirl (2009) #24

Jason Todd has O- blood. —Detective Comics #1032

In the Prime Earth timeline, Dick Grayson has O- blood. —Nightwing (2016) #124

All blood types can help save lives. Consider seeing if blood donation is possible for you. (And like. Don't feel obligated to use blood type superiority to hype your blorbo.)

Bruce Wayne

Batman (2016) Annual #3 possibly suggests (but does not confirm!) that Bruce could have type O- blood.

Batman (2016) Annual #3, written by Tom Taylor - Batman is seriously wounded in the field. Alfred performs a blood transfusion with a supply of type O- blood.

Type O- blood can be donated to patients with any blood type. Batman might be keeping a supply of O- blood not for himself specifically, but for anyone in need of an emergency blood transfusion. We can't conclude that Bruce must have O- blood.

The Brave and the Bold (1955) #195, written by Mike W. Barr - Batman donates blood to his friend, a heroic vampire named Andrew Bennett, who shielded him from a silver bullet.

Dick Grayson

In Batman/Nightwing: Bloodborne, we learn that Dick Grayson can donate blood to Bruce Wayne.

Batman/Nightwing: Bloodborne, written by Kelley Puckett - Batman is infected with a deadly virus and then taken captive. To save him, Nightwing takes an dangerous experimental vaccine that prompts his body to produce virus-fighting antibodies. Hours later, after Nightwing finds Batman, Nightwing undergoes a "complete blood transfusion" to deliver his antibody-rich blood into Batman's body, while Nightwing receives Batman's virus-laden blood.

In Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero (part of the DC Animated Universe), Dick has O+ blood. O+ is the world's most common blood type; about 40% of the population has O+ blood. O+ blood can be donated to people with any "+" blood type (including A+, B+, AB+, and O+)—about 85% of the total population. O+ patients can only receive blood transfusions from O+ and O- donors.

According to Nightwing (2016) #124, Dick has the universal donor blood type, O-.

Jason Todd

In Detective Comics #1032, Hush finds that Jason Todd has O- blood.

Detective Comics #1032, written by Peter J Tomasi - Hush captures several Batfamily members, and attempts to steal and sell their organs as revenge against Bruce. Hush begins with Red Hood, and confirms that Jason has type O- blood.

Type O- blood is the universal donor type. This kind of blood can be donated to patients with any blood type. (Recall Mad Max: Fury Road.) People with O- blood can only receive blood transfusions from other O- donors. About 6.6% of people in the USA have O- blood.

Barbara Gordon

This canon is valid for the DC Animated Universe. Barbara may or may not have a different blood type in the comics.

Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero - Barbara Gordon is listed as having AB- blood in Gotham General Hospital's database of blood donors. She is also a compatible organ donor (HLA match) for Nora Fries; and so Mr. Freeze kidnaps Barbara in hopes of performing a life-saving heart transplant for Nora.

For the sake of the plot, Nora needs a transplant from an organ donor with her same rare blood type. In real life, an AB- patient could receive organs from a donor with AB-, A-, B-, or O- blood, as long as the HLA typing matches (read more about that here).

Type AB- blood is the rarest ABO/Rh blood type worldwide; only 0.6% of people have this blood type in the USA. People with AB- blood can receive any Rh negative blood (including A-, B-, AB-, and O-); about 15% of the population has Rh negative blood that can be donated to AB- patients. People with AB- blood can only donate red blood cells to people with AB- and AB+ blood—about 4% of the population. However, type AB is especially valuable as the universal blood plasma that can be donated to patients of any blood type—and so people with type AB blood are often urged to consider donating blood plasma.

Stephanie Brown and her mother, Crystal Brown

Batgirl (2009) #24, written by Bryan Q Miller - Batgirl (Stephanie Brown) is poisoned with Black Mercy spores. She wakes up days later in West Mercy Hospital. Her mother, Crystal Brown, a nurse, donated her blood to help flush the spores from Steph's system.

We know that Crystal can donate to Steph, but we don't know whether Steph would or wouldn't be able to donate to Crystal. Parents and their children don't always share the same blood type. (This also means that Damian doesn't necessarily have the same blood type as Bruce.)

The Joker and Alfred Pennyworth

The Brave and the Bold (1955) #141, written by Bob Haney - The Joker tricks Alfred Pennyworth into drinking exploding juice. The Joker drinks anti-exploding juice. Batman forces the Joker to donate his anti-exploding clown blood to Alfred.

Helena Bertinelli

The Huntress (1989) #6, written by Joey Cavalieri - Helena Bertinelli has been captured by villains who wish to open the locked vault of her late father, Guido Bertinelli. The lock can only be opened using a sample of Guido's blood type. This blood type is so rare that the villains could not find any in the local blood bank at that time—and so they decided to capture Helena as their "fresh supply".

Helena possibly has AB- blood, the rarest blood type. This is the same blood type that Barbara has in the DC Animated Universe.

In the 1990s, Helena's father's name was retconned to be named Franco Bertinelli. Then Huntress: Cry for Blood revealed that Helena's biological father is not Franco, but instead Helena's mother's lover from the Cassamento crime family. In the end, all our information about Helena's blood type may be invalid and apocryphal.

The Langstroms

Detective Comics (1937) #429, written by Frank Robbins - Francine Lee Langstrom has transformed into She-Bat after secondhand exposure to her husband's bat serum and then being bitten by vampire bats in a cave in Nevada. Her husband, Kirk Langstrom (Man-Bat), says his blood type is the same as hers, and so he offers to donate his blood to help treat her.

Helpful references

Stanford Blood Center

UC Davis Health Transplant Center: "Matching and Compatibility"

American Red Cross Blood Services

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Just Apollo and Midnighter stealing the spotlight in I, Vampire #12 (2012)

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SHOCKER!

Joe Kubert

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When I hosted the Boogeyman QA I told the producers "you need to put that guy in the movie based off this comic. You'll have a hit." One of them actually made a note in his phone. DC needs to let this happen. They told me if it happens they'll have David kill me in it. So....universe...make this happen so I can die a bloody death at the hands of Dracmalchian in the guise of Andrew Bennett who deserves WAY more love in the DC universe. You owe it to yourself to read I, Vampire by the way.

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ANDREW BENNETT/I, VAMPIRE in JUSTICE LEAGUE DARK (2018)

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The greatest crossovers that never happened

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DC Comics on sale in October, 1982.

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DC vs. Vampires #1, 2021 James Tynion IV, Matthew Rosenberg, and Otto Schmidt

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I, Vampire #0 (November 2012) cover by Clayton Crain.

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Especial Edições: Andrew & Mary

Decidi fazer essa ediçãozinha deles porque a música Vampire não sai da minha cabeça e combina com eles hehe

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Something something vampires have no reflection so he can't even try to see his brother's face anymore when he looks into the mirror

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“Unforgettable”

Joe Kubert

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I can now fade away into secrecy as long as you all have dark mode enabled. if you don't I will take it personally. hey. hey you. you shouldn't be able to read this. jerk

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ANDREW BENNETT/I, VAMPIRE & TERRENCE “TERRY” THIRTEEN/DOCTOR THIRTEEN in TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED (2006)

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"How can you like these very toxic and horrible characters that have done despicable and unforgivable things?" oh it's quite simple actually, this is fiction and I think with my dick.