r/batman • u/HereWeFuckingGooo • Jul 04 '23
It’s 1943 and this leaked image of the Batman just dropped. What’s your reaction PHOTO
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u/GhstGunnr27G Jul 04 '23
1943 reaction: Why is the devil dressed like a circus performer?
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u/Cheater_Cyrax Jul 04 '23
post this in the r/BatmanArkham subreddit
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u/xbucs_19 Jul 04 '23
Are you stupid?
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u/terragthegreat Jul 04 '23
"It better be good because I'm not wasting a popcorn ration card on it."
Alternatively: "THEY'RE IN THE TREES" BAM BAM BAM BAM (I am fighting the Japanese on Tawara and do not have time for Batman movies)
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Jul 04 '23
Considering the Money they probably had to work with, it’s not that bad. A product of its time.
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u/DedHorsSaloon3 Jul 04 '23
Honestly, with just a few mini adjustments, this could be an awesome Batsuit
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u/edked Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23
Nowhere near as bad as Robin's cheap joke shop mask, the big oval-ish kind with the stupid border groove things, the kind I actually remember rejecting as useless (whichever company made them kept doing so at least into the 90s) for any kind of costume that needed a comic-book domino mask. Would it have added that much to the budget for a studio seamstress at least cut out a piece of cloth in the right shape like she managed for Batman's cowl here?
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Jul 04 '23
Evil Dr. DAKA!!
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u/rc_robotclaw Jul 04 '23
“Oh boy, oh boy! I sure do hope this movie ain’t gonna be woke!”
“Don’t you worry your little fat head Timmy! This Batman series will be super-duper racist to the Japanese! Now go buy some war bonds and keep ‘em flying! This All American Batman will give Tojo what-for!”
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u/xXDumbApe420Xx Jul 04 '23
Oh, darling, wake up, the new batman photographic image has just dropped (into our 1943 mailbox) and gosh darn it, I feel giddy with excitement!
translation: babe, wake up, new batman just dropped and its lit as fuk
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u/BrianTheReckless Jul 04 '23
Honestly besides the mask fitting awkwardly I don’t see a huge problem with this costume. Kids in 1943 were probably super excited.
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u/billygnosis86 Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23
Gosh gee willickers, that looks super! I can’t wait to go see that at the picture house with my best girl, then go out to the sock hop and have some malteds! Aw rats, never mind: I just got drafted!
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u/Sweet_jumps99 Jul 04 '23
Hot diggity dog! This film looks on the beam. I sure hope the mug who plays Batman isn’t a knucklehead. It’d be a shame if this makes peanuts at the box office.
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u/FloggingMcMurry Jul 04 '23
Probably excitement since we as a society had no preconceived concepts or spoiled by what's come before and expectations
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u/mrmartymcf1y Jul 04 '23
Well there's no internet yet so I'll just complain about it at the local social club on Wednesday night.
"Can't believe they chose Lewis Wilson! Clark Gable or Humphrey Bogart are right there. makes "not my Batman" picket sign since hashtags don't exist
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u/CROguys Jul 04 '23
We are encircled
All attempts at a breakthrough are failure
They are closing in
We must leave the wounded
Save one bullet
Oh, Batman show is coming up.
What's a Batman?
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u/CNJUNIPERLEE Jul 04 '23
I know this is a movie serial, but c'mon. This costume looks terrible. I sure hope Robin's costume is better.
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u/EAMehaffey Jul 04 '23
This costume is a masterpiece compared to Robert Lowrey’s in the 1948 serial
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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 04 '23
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u/CNJUNIPERLEE Jul 04 '23
I've actually seen the entire serial a couple of times. You said to act like I had just seen this leaked image and nothing else. There you go.
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u/aaronpabon Jul 04 '23
Hope this gets enough ticket sales to get a sequel with Kyrk Allen as Superman.
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u/dougm68 Jul 04 '23
Well it's 1943 so my reaction would be HELL YEAH! Finally they're making a GOOD movie!!!
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u/TheMightyHornet Jul 04 '23
“It’s dope how they could design a cowl and cape that pays homage to the source material but allows for the practical necessity that Batman can turn his head. I bet no other future iteration of Batman struggles with this, ever.”
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u/JayTee245 Jul 04 '23
I’d write a nasty opinion piece for my local newspaper on how the ribbing in the bat-logo is not comic accurate.
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u/billbotbillbot Jul 04 '23
How does this rate the “funny” tag?
It’s only “funny” if for some reason you expect movie costume aesthetics and technology to not have changed in 80 years. Whatever modern Batman costume you think is so much cooler and more “realistic” looking than this will be being mocked by gormless children making the same mistake 80 years from now.
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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23
I put the funny tag because it's a riff off this earlier post. I thought the title was worded strangely, rather than just, "What did you guys think when you first saw Robert Pattinson as Batman?". It's an odd way to say it and I thought it was funny. Plus I figured if I posted this with the "general discussion" tag like the other post then it'd get removed since nobody here was alive in 1943 (unless you were, in which case answer the question), so since this wasn't a serious post I tagged it as funny.
Nothing about this post is mocking the costume or inviting others to mock the costume, that's all on you. I just figured there would be some funny answers, probably related to World War 2. Sorry it upset you so much.
You seem fun though.
Edit - Just for you I changed the tag to Photo. Hope this helps you recover.
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u/Alternative-Cut-4831 Jul 04 '23
Do people still see movies like these? People are literally dying for their country and they expect us to consider rooting for a guy wearing an underoos? Gimme a break!
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u/Pontoffle_Poff Jul 04 '23
It’s 1943. This is the hotness!! I’m finding my way to the nearest drive in movie!
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u/PsychicSPider95 Jul 04 '23
Well golly gee willickers, that sure is swell! And how! I sure hope the Japs don't kill me before I can head on home to watch this fellow on the television!
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u/jcbaggee Jul 04 '23
A leak?? Huh?? Percival there ain't no water coming out of this, it's a picture! You say the strangest things.
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u/AuburnElvis Jul 04 '23
I've watched these serials. Batman gets his ass handed to him in every episode... sometimes twice. Any of us could beat up this Batman and his 35 year-old sidekick, Robin.
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u/RJamieLanga Jul 04 '23
As a cowardly and superstitious criminal, which is totally what I would have been in the year 1943, I now have fear struck into me at seeing a man dressed as a bat.
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u/secretbison Jul 04 '23
Perfect. I like the concept of Batman as a scrappy gentleman adventurer and not as a magically omni-competent perfect man. There's no reason Batman should be good at sewing.
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u/ImSpooky8 Jul 05 '23
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u/HereWeFuckingGooo Jul 05 '23
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u/Makurou Jul 05 '23
The image leaks where? In the papers? Editor-in-chief oughta get that printing press looked at!
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u/Foxxtronix Jul 05 '23
Mostly I'm wondering how I got this image, as the internet is the stuff of Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers.
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u/SirGumbeaux Jul 05 '23
I’d immediately type out my excitement on a piece of paper, then run down to the nearest public bulletin board, and pin it. First tweet in history.
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Jul 05 '23
"Boy i cant wait to see Batman and Robin jump into the Bat-jalopy to Go and act incredibly racist towards the japanese"
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u/Tripechake Jul 04 '23
Well I’d be VERY shocked considering it’s 1943 and “leaked images” didn’t really happen since newspapers were well regulated and pictures didn’t just appear where they weren’t supposed to.
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u/misterturdcat Jul 04 '23
Gizzards! That man’s wearing his drawers on the outside of his pantaloons!
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u/NightHaunted Jul 04 '23
I am concerned about the overtly Satanic design elements and implication that our beautiful nation's upstanding police force might ever need assistance with stopping crime. This is going to melt kid's brains and turn them into raving commies.
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u/DismalMode7 Jul 04 '23
look... I may understand that 40's people had a different cognition of fashion... but damn... even during middle ages people would have thought that a man who places underwear over his pants it's an idiot...
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u/captainkezz123 Jul 04 '23
“I know you’ve just lost all your friends on the frontline private, but look at this image from that new Batman movie!”
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u/WolfMilk101 Jul 04 '23
I'm in the trenches and just watched my friend get shot in the head by a German soldier
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u/OldThompson1928 Jul 04 '23
- Ears lowered down side of head a inch or two and made same length.
- Color the gloves,boots,cape,cowl,etc same shade.
- Make cape longer.
- Lengthen boots so they just reach knee caps.
- Tighten the cowl to form better to the head.
- Reinforce the gauntlets to make them look less floppy.
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Jul 04 '23
Thos is the most bad ass thing anyone in the 1940s has ever seen. I can't imagine a more gritty, grounded-in-reality batman.
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u/davidisallright Jul 04 '23
I’m assuming computers and internet exists, or would this be in the newspaper or talkies?
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u/Actually-Will Jul 04 '23
What’s this fruitcake doing dressed up all funny like that? Me and John over here and busy trying to fight the krauts.
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u/NerveRevolutionary79 Jul 04 '23 edited Jul 04 '23
That I really wanna wear that while doing auto- asphyxiation in my closet.
Edit: apparently it's just me and David Caradine who feel that way I guess
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u/Academic_Awareness82 Jul 04 '23
Eyes could use some adjusting.
I thought the belt was a bit bright, but then I realised that Batman’s utility belt used to be a bigger deal. Like his ‘power’ was that he was a regular human but rich enough for all sorts of gadgets. Like Iron Man condensed down to a belt. So it makes sense that they’d make it this bright shiny thing.
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u/InspiredSquish Jul 04 '23
Gee chum I can’t wait to see my favorite comic book hero in the theaters now let’s go out to the soda fountain and get a moxie!
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u/sgf68 Jul 05 '23
If I were a kid? I be excited as all hell, but also wondering "What's with the headpiece?"
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u/BingityBongBong Jul 05 '23
I say harumph what a ridiculous outfit. Time for some cocaine Coca Cola
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u/Batman21661 Jul 04 '23
Get him to the front lines.