" [‘Gravity’] is the story of how George Clooney would rather float away into space and die than spend one more minute with a woman his own age."— Tina Fey at the 2014 Golden Globes.
Dorothy Wynant reported her father missing after only a month, and one of the greatest cinematic detectives blew her off because the father was eccentric, so I don’t see this as a stretch.
Batman is real in all universes. Why? He’s Batman!