Batman’s body during Blackest Night was not actually Bruce Wayne’s real body; it was a fake Batman corpse/cloned body tied to the events after Final Crisis. In the story, the body that gets reanimated is generally treated as Batman’s, but later continuity makes clear it wasn’t Bruce himself.

What that means

  • The Black Lantern Batman was using a body that the heroes believed was Bruce Wayne’s remains.
  • Later stories show Bruce was alive and that the “corpse” was one of Darkseid’s Batman clones.
  • That’s why the Blackest Night version of Batman is part of a continuity twist rather than Bruce Wayne literally being dead.

In context

This is one of those DC cases where the in-universe appearance and the later retcon don’t line up perfectly. Fans often refer to it as Batman’s body during Blackest Night , but the cleaner answer is: it was a clone/fake body, not Bruce’s true body.

TL;DR

Batman during Blackest Night was using a fake/cloned body , not Bruce Wayne’s real corpse.