There may not be any bat signals in the sky, but Toronto has at least one Dark Knight watching over us — all in good fun of course.

In a hilarious video that’s gone viral since its release Friday, a man dressed in a full Batman costume is seen around the city – on the subway, outside City Hall, in a Starbucks — asking (rather, screaming) at passersby : “WHERE ARE THEY?!”

Presumably “they” being the bad guys.

At the climax of the video, Batman gets a beef jerky stick (“original, not spicy”) and screams about his parents being dead while two excited girls hug him outside the Eaton Centre.

The man behind the mask is Toronto resident and stand-up comedian Alex Brovedani, who can switch between his normal voice and Batman’s deep, throaty growl at a moment’s notice.

Brovedani, who grew up in Woodbridge, first donned the suit in 2005 for Halloween. In 2006, he was in Los Angeles and started busking on Hollywood Blvd. In 2009, he was back in Toronto and currently busks at Yonge and Dundas and sometimes the Air Canada Centre.

He was also in Vancouver for the 2010 Winter Olympics.

“It’s more of a fun thing,” Brovedani said. “People started calling me an ambassador of Toronto. Maybe a local nut, a few of them, granted.”

For Brovedani, being Batman is a way to make money and choose his own schedule.

And yes, the suit gets hot.

“I got used to it,” he said. “The hottest part is actually the chest.”

Turns out, being Batman isn’t as easy as Christian Bale makes it look.

“I got a Batman tan around my face,” Brovedani joked.

The man behind the camera is Sean Ward, who runs the experimental media studio Harth TV.

Ward posted “Batman’s Night Out” on his YouTube page on Friday. Since then, the video has more than 35,000 views.

Many viewers have taken to the comments section to post their love of Toronto and even Canada, which Ward said surprised him.

“It’s all been focused on this whole Toronto pride thing,” said Ward, who met Brovedani in the line-up for The Dark Knight Rises IMAX prologue. “That’s just been the best part of it for me, to arouse that level of passion.”

So who does Batman — er, Brovedani — say is Toronto’s most wanted bad guy?

“Oh, without a doubt Rob Ford.”

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Ward said with the popularity of this video, more will soon be in the works.

But will there be a Robin cameo?

“I don’t want to spoil any surprises, but between [Brovedani] and I and our network we know a lot of the Toronto costume character scene,” Ward said. “So stay tuned.”