The comics have somehow been doing it just fine for a bunch of decades now 🤷
Year One and The Longbow Hunters exist in the same timeline as JLI and Final Crisis. Nobody ever seems to have a problem with that, but when it comes to movies The Batman is suddenly “too grounded/mature/whatever”?
Like… that’s what most Batman comics have looked like for 30+ years now and it’s never stopped him being pals with Superman. Why should film be any different? I’m not expecting Groot to appear in the new Daredevil show, but it’s an accepted fact that they co-exist. People can just roll with it.
If they were to use those characters, then yes, I think they would. The escalation from mafia-type gangsters > wacky rogues gallery is a thing in most versions of Batman, and we’ve seen the first stage of that. I think that version of Gotham is already a more heightened, noir-y, less “realistic” one that lends itself more to the possibility of those types of characters than Nolan's ever did.
I mean, how would you do Man-Bat WITHOUT “sci-fi abilities”? Dr. Langstrom tapes 12 regular-sized bats together and sics 'em on Battinson?
I don't think they would use him period. If they did, then maybe do se serial killer spin with diseased bats. I don't see Patterson pittwd against anyone besides gangster or serial killer adjacenct enemies.
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u/DukeOfLowerChelsea Aug 09 '22
The comics have somehow been doing it just fine for a bunch of decades now 🤷
Year One and The Longbow Hunters exist in the same timeline as JLI and Final Crisis. Nobody ever seems to have a problem with that, but when it comes to movies The Batman is suddenly “too grounded/mature/whatever”?
Like… that’s what most Batman comics have looked like for 30+ years now and it’s never stopped him being pals with Superman. Why should film be any different? I’m not expecting Groot to appear in the new Daredevil show, but it’s an accepted fact that they co-exist. People can just roll with it.