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what y’all think of all my Batman stuff?

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2024/03/20
02:51 UTC

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Worst Batman Family character to run into

Imagine this scenario. You are a normal criminal in Gotham, maybe you are member of the local Italian Mafia, a Latin American Cartel member or some other organized crime group and you see on the news that the Justice League needs to leave Earth for what might be an extended period of time to fight yet another possibly world ending alien menace and Batman is there next to Superman who is telling the world about what is going. Its very important that they leave but Superman assures the world that the Justice League will win this fight.

Unsurprisingly lots of other criminals will use this as an opportunity to just go out and do their thing because you all know Batman will be out of town for a while. You head to a local convenience store that did not pay this week's protection money and as you are about to have a word with the owner, you have a run in with one of Batman's many proteges.

Which Robin or other characters affiliated with Batman do you think will give you the worst beating of your life and who will probably leave you with the least lasting injuries?

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2024/03/20
02:48 UTC

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First attempt at a 3D printed and painted batarang.

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2024/03/20
00:50 UTC

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An attempt

Kinda messed up

2 Comments
2024/03/20
00:32 UTC

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Happy Birthday, Batman - Art

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2024/03/20
00:27 UTC

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BTAS animation

So after taking a hiatus from it, I finally got back to watching Batman: The Animated Series on Amazon Prime Video and I've gotten to the episodes with the Superman animation style. Y'all were right, there is definitely something missing from these episodes in regards to the atmosphere

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2024/03/20
00:26 UTC

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Favorite "Lesser Known" Villains?

I've recently gotten back into the Arkham Games, and I noticed that theres a lot of characters, villains specifically, that we just never see. It got me thinking, what villains do you love, but they're rarely mentioned?

My man Ratcatcher

1 Comment
2024/03/20
00:25 UTC

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The Dark Knight (2008) “You’ll find Harvey Dent there…”

1 Comment
2024/03/20
00:12 UTC

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The Caped Crusader

Artist: Giovanni Zelaya @g_sketch86

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2024/03/20
00:02 UTC

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i can’t figure out how many people live in Ghotam city

After seeing Batman TAS, Nolan’s trilogy and Robert Pattinson’s Batman, i still don’t get where the people are, what they are doing and why there is no light

ps Batman Beyond on the other hand is full of people

2 Comments
2024/03/19
23:49 UTC

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My drawing Batman Assault On Arkham Killer Frost

0 Comments
2024/03/19
23:25 UTC

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How Would This Go?

24 Comments
2024/03/19
23:05 UTC

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My drawing Batman Assault On Arkham Harley Quinn

1 Comment
2024/03/19
22:14 UTC

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In an alternate reality I think Bryan Cranston made an awesome Batman in place of Michael Keaton

I also wouldn’t mind seeing him play an old Bruce Wayne in a Batman Beyond story

42 Comments
2024/03/19
21:19 UTC

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Guys wich Batman game shloud i play?

Lego or Arkham? Well now I just have to add fluff Here I was gonna ask just that question but the post needs 150 characters which are absolutely fucking absurd And i have to now just add shit for a simple question istg some of yall mfs

8 Comments
2024/03/19
20:55 UTC

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The Batman: Part II - Anyone else have a wary feeling about it maybe not happening? Or at least not happening for a long time?

Now, don't get me wrong. I like The Batman (2022). I want to see this series flourish. But part of me has gotten a little worried.

I've been around long enough to not trust WB. At all. They've made some pants-on-head dumb decisions.

With the new Gunn-led DCU - The Batman just seems like it does not fit in with their intended goal. And I don't think having two live action Batmen is something WB feels particularly good about, especially after The Flash bombed.

Does that mean I think WB might cancel The Batman: Part II? Not necessarily. But I can see how it might make them apprehensive and that it could cast some doubt.

If WB were to wait to bring out their live action Batman until Reeves has finished with his trilogy - which at the rate Reeves takes - will be around 2030/2031 when the third film releases...that could put the DCU Batman debut all the way to a decade from now. I don't know that WB wants to wait that long.

Not to mention the film is delayed until late 2026. That's a long time - and it was already impacted by the writer's strike.

And with a looming possible film crew strike? I worry that production and such could be pushed even further - and we may be staring down the barrel of a 2027 release date.

I do worry about the public's interest, too. In today's market - 4 or 5 years is a long time for a sequel. And while The Batman did good - it's also much more niche than your average franchise, and as good as it did - it didn't necessarily light the world on fire. I felt bummed at how everything seemed to move on within a month of release.

I can see WB going "Well, it's the first sole Batman-property film to not make a billion since Batman Begins" (Joker, TDK/TDKR all made a billion) and thinking it's more expendable to the DCU's more wide appeal potential.

It feels like there's been radio silence on its development, and with the looming strike, the delays, the DCU kinda clashing with it - I am keeping myself a bit prepared if this film stays stuck in development-hell for a lot longer or maybe never sees the light of day.

I also don't want Pattinson's age to become an issue that changes the story. He's supposed to still be Year 2 'young' Batman but the guy is about the same age as Bale was in Rises. I don't want a time-jump for the sake of covering for that fact.

9 Comments
2024/03/19
20:51 UTC

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Cillian Murphy would be an amazing joker

8 Comments
2024/03/19
19:53 UTC

7

How do you think Batman would deal with Omni-Man?

If Batman existed in the Invincible universe, how do you think he would deal with Omni-Man? In a straight up fight with no prior knowledge, I think Batman is just instantly dead, but what about with prep time?

21 Comments
2024/03/19
19:52 UTC

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Do you think Batman and Gordon are a more entertaining partnership when Gordon knows who he is?

10 Comments
2024/03/19
19:39 UTC

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Did Gotham Necessarily Need to Adhere to the Comics?

I’ve been going through a rewatch of Gotham, and, having just finished Season 3, am left with the intriguing question of whether or not this series necessarily needed to be married to its source material so strictly.

I want to clarify, when I say “adhere to the comics”, what I mean is a general adherence to many traditional Batman comics and media where there exists the notion of an adult Batman engaged with a fully realized rogues gallery and supporting cast. Even by the end of this series, that always was the creative choice and endgame for Gotham, that everything was building up to a payoff that bears a surface-level resemblance to many comics and media we already know and love.

Most fans I’ve spoken to about Gotham are content with recognizing it strictly as a sort-of “Elseworlds”-type story but I was never convinced that the show itself was angling for that direction. Right from the get-go in Season 1, Gotham has always struck me as a series with an identity crisis: a story that cannot decide whether to be a more grounded police drama shying away from the more fantastical elements of the Batman mythos, or to be a flashier and action-oriented story with prototype rogues and a proto-Batman all mucking about. All the while, both the series’ showrunners and cast members have been overt with remarks and commentary over the years about their intentions to please fans of the comics and stay truthful to that source material in a broad sense.

At the end of Season 3 though, I have to wonder: why? I’m not making the point that one approach is superior to another, but I do wonder why, in a show that has taken such tremendous liberties with the Batman mythos anyway (killing off the major mob bosses before Batman’s debut, Poison Ivy’s and Mr. Freeze’s characterizations, the Valeska brothers, the spider-web conspiracy to assassinate the Waynes), Gotham always seemed insecure still with really embracing the idea that the show could veer off into any direction it wanted.

That desire to stick to the intended payoff of what I laid out above has resulted as well in the show tripping over itself consistency-wise with its subplots over the years. For example, in Season 3, a very contrived set of circumstances leads to Ed Nygma shooting Oswald Cobblepot point-blank in the stomach and pushing him into the bay where he most surely would have drowned or bled out from the dire wound. Instead, because Gotham needs a fully realized Penguin to be around by the time Batman shows up, Oswald miraculously is able to survive this, when, in a more tightly-written script, the creative choice could be made to either kill Oswald for good right then and there, or at least to conceive of another way for this scene to play out to make Oswald’s survival more plausible.

Another example is the Valeska brothers. In a mad dash by Gotham to once again please fans of the comics, the show contrives Jeremiah Valeska in Season 4, and kills off Jerome Valeska, who, though never referred to in-canon as such, was widely regarded by fans as a prototype version of the Joker. Leaving aside the fact that the Gotham showrunners and writers were not allowed by Warner Brothers to use the name “Joker”, this was a very baffling revelation from a writing standpoint. Why Gotham couldn’t leave Jerome’s story open-ended and on a more ambiguous note is beyond me, especially when Jeremiah comes onto the scene, and he too is never referred to on-screen or in-canon as “Joker”. Viewers of the show are astute enough to put pieces together and make inferences; if you’re unable from a legal standpoint to use a certain character’s name or to utilize iconic features like the green hair, there are still creative workarounds for this that don’t necessitate you contrive a twin brother no one has heard about or referenced before – one with a completely distinct and separate personality – and thrust onto them suddenly all of the traits that made Jerome iconic.

’ll highlight as well a point Quinn Curio made in her Gotham videos regarding Poison Ivy. By the time Season Three came around, it became apparent that the showrunners had grown bored with Ivy Pepper (the prototype for Poison Ivy) as a character. Rather than shelf the character until they could conceive of something to do with her, it was decided that Ivy, still a young child, would make contact with one of Hugo Strange’s monsters (introduced coincidentally at the same point in S3) that can accelerate aging so that Ivy could be “fast-forwarded” into a character more akin to what Poison Ivy generally resembles from the comics. On top of that, Ivy somehow just naturally becomes accustomed with how to maintain, dress and acclimate to an adult body and there’s never breathing room in the season to really dig into her character and explore how she’s reeling from this pretty existential development that’s just been thrust upon her physically. It comes across more like the show just wants to play around with a femme-fatale-esque character, and are more interested in the surface-level features of Poison Ivy, rather than who she is personally.

What I hope I’m articulating at the end of all of this is that Gotham as a show, in an effort to appease comic fans and nail the payoff in the form of an adult Batman interacting with fully-realized villains, actually trips over itself and opened the door to a slew of a writing contrivances over the years all so that it can adhere to that thinly-veiled endgame. But ultimately, I don’t believe that it needed to do that. Gotham, as a standalone iteration and adaptation, could have done virtually anything it liked. Fans, myself included, are absolutely content with regarding Gotham as an “Elseworlds”-type story, but Gotham never seemed to realize that itself and fully exploit that.

4 Comments
2024/03/19
19:39 UTC

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Hello batman community. I wanna share the Italian intro version of batman of the future, And a write your opinion on the comments.

I hope you liked

1 Comment
2024/03/19
19:33 UTC

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Progress on my Pattinson suit. Still need the cowl and cape to arrive. I have the belt, but not all of the pouches yet!

2 Comments
2024/03/19
19:31 UTC

186

This comic has been made non-canon, right? RIGHT? (PLEASE TELL ME YES)

94 Comments
2024/03/19
19:30 UTC

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I'd love to see Batman get his own Sinister Six

I don't know if he's got one but I'd love for a team of lesser known villains to be assembled and to actually be a threat to Batman. Putting him on the run and for him lose. Ideally it wouldn't have the more popular villains and the number would differ from Spiderman's group like Seven instead of six. I'd prefer villains who aren't seen that much so for the roster I'd have 10 Eye'd Man (reimagined as a blind fighter with cybernetic eyes capable of hacking surrounding security cameras), Copperhead spliced with a snake's DNA to be deadlier, Deadshot, Clayface, Rat Catcher, Mad Monk, and Dr. Death.

I can see them being brought together by another villain not seen in a while like Rupert Thorne. He's a old favorite from the 90's animated series. He'd be perfect as I can picture him wanting revenge for being put in prison and run out of Gotham by Batman. I also like the idea of Dr. Death acting as team leader and being made into a more nefarious mastermind.

I'd like for it to not be a gauntlet but rather a onslaught. A plot where the concept of Batgod and Prep time are just decimated and done away with. By which I mean I'd love it to be a challenge where Batman is just constantly on the run and is outwitted and out gunned in ever respect. Mostly due to the group actually forming a cohesive team and having prepared and learned from each of their past experiences.

I'd have it end with Batman captured by them taken to Rupert Thorn who explains how he had know desire to take over Gotham or anything grand like that. Rather his goal was simple revenge and for that to be what all unites all the team members. Then to add some more despair for Batman, Thorne tells him he arranged for the Bat Family to be preoccupied with a crime spree in their own cities and all around Gotham so no one would come to save him.

After which the group and Thorne take turns beating the shit out of Batman and livestream it. With each beating Bruce feels just a bit more fear of death coming closer. Despite his bravery it would still show and towards the end Rupert Thorne takes out a gun and whispers that he knows who Batman is then asks, "Does this gun look familiar?" Then Bruce realizes it's the gun that Joe Chill used to kill his parents and he's not outright showing panic but is clearly afraid.

Before Thorne pulls the trigger a small army of police, raid the compound led by Gordon causing most of the team to scatter. Gordon barely saves Bruce and their are flashbacks of when Gordon saved Bruce when he was young. Then later Bruce is seen in the Batcave ruminating over the damage done as it's revealed he's going to be out of commission for a long time and that the livestream destroyed any fear the criminal element had of Batman making things worse than ever. Then the Bat Family is shown trying to restore control over Gotham but failing miserably as the criminals no longer fear them and are coming at them even harder than before forcing them to retreat.

3 Comments
2024/03/19
18:58 UTC

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Batman and Wolverine both possess exceptional combat skills, strategic intelligence, and a dark, brooding demeanor. Who wins?

225 Comments
2024/03/19
18:50 UTC

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Do you guys think Bruce wears bulletproof suits like John Wick? You know just in case.

99 Comments
2024/03/19
18:31 UTC

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I Actually Liked The show Gotham...

"Gotham" is a gritty and captivating television series that offers a fresh take on the iconic Batman universe. Set in the dark and crime-ridden streets of Gotham City, the show serves as a prequel to the Batman mythos, delving into the origins of some of the most iconic characters in comic book history. What sets "Gotham" apart is its unflinching portrayal of the city itself as a character. The atmospheric setting, with its looming skyscrapers and shadowy alleyways, creates a palpable sense of dread and intrigue. It's a city teetering on the brink of chaos, where corruption and crime run rampant, and every corner hides a new threat. But what truly elevates "Gotham" are its complex and compelling characters. From the idealistic detective Jim Gordon to the enigmatic Penguin and the tortured young Bruce Wayne, each character is given depth and nuance, making them feel like real people with their own motivations and flaws. The show's ensemble cast delivers standout performances, bringing these characters to life in a way that is both captivating and haunting. At its core, "Gotham" is a story about the battle for the soul of a city. It's about the struggle between light and darkness, hope and despair, and the choices that define us. With its rich storytelling, stunning visuals, and unforgettable characters, "Gotham" is a must-watch for fans of the Batman mythos and anyone who appreciates a dark and compelling drama.

27 Comments
2024/03/19
18:18 UTC

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