I'm not a huge fan of Selina as a dominatrix either.

And I generally like Batman: Year One

For catwoman stories that give her justice and are great reads try the Brubaker runs (Detective 759 - 762) and Catwoman v3 1-37.  I believe that would be the direct influence on Nolans decision, and even highlights the goggles.

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I'm not a huge fan of Selina as a dominatrix either.

 

And I generally like Batman: Year One

I just have a lot of respect for professional dominants and women who make a career in kink. It seemed like it fits Kyle's character perfectly and puts her on more than equal ground with both Batman and Bruce Wayne.

By the way, I just read Gotham by Gaslight 2: Master of the Future, and I was thinking that the Master of the Future would be a great villain for a future bat-film. The concerns that had the original 19th century Master up in arms are only ever more urgent today in the era of climate change and economic collapse. He seems like he'd make for a very enigmatic and timely adversary for Wayne to tackle. Sort of like Ra's in Begins, but just one man against the world without a league to back him up.

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With the caveat they leave out the S&M stripper outfits spray-painted on to every single female character.

What, you didn't like dominatrix Harley Quinn?

I'm not against people with kinky professions in the real world either. I just think turning Selina into a dominatrix is way too on-the-nose for me.

Urghhhh....Harley in Arkham City...

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I'm not against people with kinky professions in the real world either. I just think turning Selina into a dominatrix is way too on-the-nose for me.

 

 

 

 

 

Urghhhh....Harley in Arkham City...

My favorite though was Gordon, who looked ripped enough that he looked like he was going to a fight club that night after work.

And I loved Arkham Asylum and City. Just some of the character designs were...unfortunate. My dream is to have the same two games(Asylum and City) and have them look like B:TAS.

There's a rumor that the next Batman game from Rocksteady is going to be based on Batman's Silver Age stories and sport cameos from other superheroes. And considering how I basically played all of Arkham City in the Neal Adams style outfit, I can live with that.

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For catwoman stories that give her justice and are great reads try the Brubaker runs (Detective 759 - 762) and Catwoman v3 1-37.  I believe that would be the direct influence on Nolans decision, and even highlights the goggles.

You know, I certainly wouldn't mind someone adapting that Darwyn Cooke one-off from Batman: Ego. That'd be pretty cool.

I'm going to try to find that in my boxes and reread it.  I don't actually remember it.  I do remember really like Selina's big score, which was included in the hardcover, but I believe I have the individual soft covers.  I overloaded on Batman for awhile.  I would actually read 10 comics a night before bed, and I was doing the 13 titles a month as they came out, plus all the one shots (I was single and traveled for work, which left me in many small town hotels, with a lot of free evenings to do a whole lot of nothing.  In 5 years I read most Bat stuff from 53 on, but my memory sucks and I forget a lot of the stories.

2016, folks. And no origin story!

Batman of Zur-En-Arrh and Batmite are getting action figures, high time they get a movie too.

I'd watch it.

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How amazing would it be to have a live-action Kevin Conroy play old Bruce Wayne? 

GIVE US THAT VOICE!!!!

It'd never happen, but DAMMIT.

Also, anyone who hasn't already should listen to Kevin Smith's interview with Conroy.  A totally inspirational man.

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How amazing would it be to have a live-action Kevin Conroy play old Bruce Wayne? 

GIVE US THAT VOICE!!!!

 

It'd never happen, but DAMMIT.

 

Also, anyone who hasn't already should listen to Kevin Smith's interview with Conroy.  A totally inspirational man.

That'd be great, but this man exists

Powers Boothe. That is all.

Conroy would be nice, but

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Conroy would be nice, but

 

 

Fuck. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!

Sadly, I doubt a Batman Beyond film is even likely at this point.

Jackie Chan was Batman????

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I'd watch it.

I KNEW IT!

To be fair I'd probably watch any Batman movie.

I still contend that you could take elements from Batman Beyond, graft them onto a JGL-led flick, dial down the grimness a bit and do a soft reboot and everyone's got what they want--more fun Batman, without completely saying "We'll always have Paris" to Nolan's films.

But mostly because I loved the final moments of TDKR and really love the idea of JGL taking up the reigns.

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Conroy would be nice, but

 

 

Can we get Aaron Paul as Terry McGuiness?

Sure he's already had a slice of the bat-pie (Kinda), but:

That's kind of an awesome suggestion as I have JUST NOW finished getting through Blade Runner for the first time.

I hope it's not Batman Beyond.  Batman should remain...Bruce Wayne!

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Sure he's already had a slice of the bat-pie (Kinda), but:

 

Nah, but Joker, though...

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I still contend that you could take elements from Batman Beyond, graft them onto a JGL-led flick, dial down the grimness a bit and do a soft reboot and everyone's got what they want--more fun Batman, without completely saying "We'll always have Paris" to Nolan's films.

 

But mostly because I loved the final moments of TDKR and really love the idea of JGL taking up the reigns.

Seconded. Give me Batman Beyond-style follow up with JGL taking on, say, Professor Pyg and I will be more than happy. Which is funny, because time was I would never have accepted anyone other than Bruce Wayne as Batman but I've completely mellowed regarding that and really loved that for once, Bruce Wayne got a happy ending and moved on with his life. Now I just find the thought of him waging war forever, especially as a grim, miserable old man, utterly depressing.

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Nah, but Joker, though...

Holy shit. Rutger Hauer as an aging Joker is inspired. It'll never happen, but that's a fantastic idea.

I don't expect it this time (and maybe it won't even happen in my lifetime), but I really hope someday there's a Batman movie that's fun and captures the spirit of '50s/'60s Batman the way the cartoon series "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" did, while still being modern. I don't think having a lighter tone automatically has to mean a Batman movie is lame and sucks. It all depends on the director/writer(s). Get people who are smart for those roles, and they can make something cool, even if it isn't all dour.

I still love "Batman: The Animated Series" more than any other interpretation of Batman (and any other TV series, live action or animated, for that matter), and I consider "Batman: The Brave and the Bold" to be the most logical and worthy follow-up to it. I'd like to see something like that happen with live action movies.

I'm afraid what's more likely to happen is something like the 2004 series "The Batman", which came across more like a watered down variation on the landmark achievement that preceded it. Of course it was vastly different from "Batman: The Animated Series" in many aesthetic ways as the villains and characters in general looked very different and it was less grounded in reality, but the tone made it feel pretty damn derivative. I think what's best for this franchise is something that goes in the other direction, without taking it too far like Schumacher and Akiva Goldsman did.

Also, even though I'm using animated shows an example of how to do things right, I contend that directly converting an animated property to live action is an awful idea. Especially "Batman Beyond", which I didn't much care for. I believe that show was done about as well as a show with its premise could possibly be done (of course it was, how could it not be when it was put together by the crew with the Midas Touch behind all the DC Animated Universe properties from '92-'06?), but it was in my opinion the weakest of the DC Animated Universe properties.

The main reason I didn't like it was that I found its premise fundamentally flawed. It was an admirably radical, outside-the-box concept, but I could never really get into it. Maybe I'm just too much of a traditionalist, but I just want to see Bruce Wayne as Batman. I found the speculative in 1999 future world of that show silly and the costume even worse.

To be fair, they told some great stories (i.e. "Meltdown", "Return of the Joker"), but I was glad when that series ended and its producers went back to doing what they do best, with the more traditional "Justice League", which was able to come up with surprising and intelligent character and story arcs while still being less of a disappointing departure from the spirit and premise of "Batman: The Animated Series". I personally think any revival of "Batman Beyond", live action or otherwise, would be disastrous.

Can this be opened to larger Justice League movie fanwanking discussion?  Because I'm stuck on the idea of Tom Hanks as a superhero.  Something like Silver Age Superman, or Jay Garrick Flash.

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Can this be opened to larger Justice League movie fanwanking discussion?  Because I'm stuck on the idea of Tom Hanks as a superhero.  Something like Silver Age Superman, or Jay Garrick Flash.

Maybe veering off subject even further than the Justice League, but always thought he'd make a killer Reed Richards.