So here's the new Batmobile

[doctorbadwolf]

I wonder if this Batman is gonna be less ridiculously wealthy than we're used to seeing?

I very much doubt that, but he may have more limited access to his wealth.

 

[Undrave]

I very much doubt that, but he may have more limited access to his wealth.

Batman started out owning a nice two-three story house and was the son of a rich Doctor, and now he's one of the world's richest man just so he has enough means to make gadget that lets him punch gods...

I think they can afford to scale him back a LITTLE. Like, he doesn't have his own experimental VTOL plane shaped like a bat.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Batman started out owning a nice two-three story house and was the son of a rich Doctor, and now he's one of the world's richest man just so he has enough means to make gadget that lets him punch gods...

I think they can afford to scale him back a LITTLE. Like, he doesn't have his own experimental VTOL plane shaped like a bat.

They could afford to, sure. I’m saying that I am nearly 100% certain that they won’t.

Part of what people didn’t like about Snyder’s movies was that he was interested in reinventing characters, rather than just telling new stories about the characters that we all know. I remember a comics writer criticizing BvS by saying that they’d “misunderstood these characters on a molecular level.”

Now, making Batman simply wealthy, rather than absurdly rich, isn’t that big of a deal, but I doubt they’ll change something that is that much a part of the DNA of the character now. Few people know, or care, what he was like when introduced. People care who and what the character has been during the years in which they’ve known and loved him.

 

[MarkB]

One thing about it is that, if it's not already notorious in-universe, it's something that could actually be driven around town without immediately standing out as a heromobile. Add some throwaway false body panels, and it might even be covert - by superhero standards, at least.

 

[Beleriphon]

I kind of like it. It looks like a genius working in his garage built it rather than a genius working Wayne Enterprises' industrial manufacturing facility built it. Several of the Batmobiles, including some of the current comics, feature a more or less normal car body with some crazy, crazy, stuff inside. There's a great Jim Lee two page spread from the Hush arc where Nightwing and Batman are heading out and Dick suggests they take "the car" to with Bruce replies "Which one?" over top of every single version of the Batmobile.

What's interesting is The Batman is an out of sequence film, occuring sometime before Justice League.