Anonymous #1 5w

Fr like man I love The Batman because it leans into a part of Batman that no other film adaptation has really placed emphasis on, which is the “World’s Greatest Detective” bit

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Anonymous OP 5w

Burton’s Batman leans heavily on the “crimefighter in a doomed city” part of the character, Nolan’s Batman leans heavily on the “extremely well-equipped billionaire” part of it, and Reeves’s Batman focuses on the “traumatized but brilliant detective” aspects of his character, which I think are the best aspects of his character, though they’re the least flashy.

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Anonymous OP 5w

I’ve always held the opinion that Nolan’s Batman ruined the character. It gave a whole generation the impression that he was this gritty brute who would rather punch his way to the answer rather than do real detective work. Now that people like Reeves and presumably Gunn when he gets around to it are going back to a more comic accurate Batman, that generation is complaining that it’s “not the real Batman”.

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Anonymous #1 5w

Well, Nolan’s Batman seems to lean heavily on Frank Miller’s interpretation of the character, which is simultaneously probably the most iconic comic book version of Batman, but also probably the worst interpretation of the character especially in Miller’s recent work

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Anonymous #1 5w

Matt Reeves made the great decision to adapt Frank Miller’s story of Catwoman from Batman: Year One, but also move the timeline to where Batman is acting more like himself from Year Two, which was not a Miller book.

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Anonymous OP 5w

Yeah I own one Miller book and compared to all the other Batman comics and graphical novels I own there’s a huge contrast. Though funnily enough The Dark Knight Returns is the only comic I’ve read where Robin’s involvement is considered child endangerment. Anyways, Miller’s version always felt like an alternate version of the character to me because of the contrast.

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Anonymous OP 5w

Frank Miller really pisses me off because how are you gonna write some of the best stories of all time for not only Batman, but also Daredevil, and then just fall off entirely because you decide to go full “2Edgy4U” mode and inject explicitly reactionary politics into every comic you ever write afterwards. Like damn, how did the same guy do Batman: Year One and Daredevil: Born Again, and then also do All-Star Batman & Robin, the worst Batman comic book of all time?

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Anonymous #1 5w

Yeah, the only Miller Batman who’s actually like every other author’s Batman is the one in Year One, since that is THE definitive origin comic for Batman across pretty much every continuity since. And the Bat is a little more brutish in Year One than usual, but Miller actually frames that as a flaw to do with his inexperience, rather than as a virtue like in his later work.

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Anonymous OP 5w

The only thing worse than the whole “Batman is a brute” angle is the writers that keep trying to make Bruce and Barbara a thing. She’s the same age as Dick it’s creepy!

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Anonymous #1 5w

To be fair, there is at least one banger "hulking brute who beats the shit out of things" iteration of Batman

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Anonymous ratdealer 5w

This is also an elseworld storyline with a completely different Batman from the usual one

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Anonymous ratdealer 5w

Yeah but he at least has a reason to be considering how fucked up the world is.

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Anonymous #1 5w

lol yh

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Anonymous #1 5w

That’s also what excuses TDKR, it’s in an alternate universe where shit is just objectively worse

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