I would love to continue this, but first I have to wrangle a plot out of the rat's-nest of ideas and snippets I have floating around.

If you look at him from the perspective of people naturally inclined to distrust everyone and assume a hidden motive behind every action, then yeah, Bruce Wayne looks questionable as hell. And of course Batman confused Solo and Clark, that was the one thing I knew absolutely had to happen. And then Batman punches Solo for it, because that's how Batman deals with making a fool of himself. Oops.