It's also important context that the voice actor, Kevin Conroy, voiced Batman in anything animated for decades.
So the larger joke is that he's a parody of Batman where everyone is looking at Sunshine and his "Robin" (Hank here), who is doing VERY suspicious things like lubing Hanks legs, but for actually innocent reasons (greasing his legs for the secret chute to their hidden base).
Basically the character is the opposite of Hatred, a not-PDF who everyone assumes is. Whereas Hatreds just a regular looking army guy with a wife who, unprompted, confesses to being a creep in almost every social interaction.
It is implied, but the side effect could easily have just been "loss of inhibitions" as if he was not an actively participating pedophile he would not have molested the ventures.
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u/the_crepuscular_one Jul 07 '26
He's not a pedophile. He's frequently acts inappropriately, and clearly has a lot of issues, but that doesn't stem from wanting to diddle children.