Joker Actor Named for Next Batman Movie

[Klaus]

You never read DK2?

I envy you ever so much...

Now I just need to pretend All-Star Batman & Robin The Boy Wonder doesn't exist, either, and stick with All-Star Superman.

And anticipate the Marv Wolfman/Dan Jurgens run on Nightwing.

 

[Nightfall]

ANYWAY, I'm sorry I got on the tagent of Batman versus Supes, but I honestly think a good film treat can be done. That's all. It doesn't have to involve mind control, just has to be more like opposing idealogies of 'goodness'. But I do think the move Bruce made in the animated series for Lois was/is a good idea. I think that's something in a way that would be more like Batman, to play his enemy that way psychologically. But we'll see.

 

[Felon]

I'll have you know I just read a lot of Golden Age Batman recently, and he did shoot a criminal, in the heart, while he was helpless.

The criminal was a vampire, of course. It was a silver bullet. Golden Age Batman was pretty weird. Demiurge out.

Yep, Batman trying (and failing) to destroy The Monk was one of a couple occasions where he wielded a gun. Of course, dusting an undead is kind of like smashing a robot to pieces. Can you come up with any others?

IIRC the reason Batman first used guns was Bob Kane wanted him to be more like the pulp character The Shadow.

Well, the Shadow was the major inflluence on Batman's creation, so Kane experimented with the gun thing and then dropped it.

Granted I haven't read a whole LOT of golden age Bat-Man comics, but wasn't it pretty staple in the early golden age that crooks tended to get dead like, a LOT? Puched over cliffs, planes blown up, all that jazz?

To be sure, superheroes did not shy away from a "might makes right" mentality. Usually though, the hero did not set out to murder anyone; it's the villain's fault that he falls off a cliff or he shoots the plane's controls so that it goes into a nosedive. Actually, the climax of Batman Begins is very representative of this scenario--"I'm not going to kill you, but I don't have to save you!"

 

[Taelorn76]

Apparently no one saw 10 Things I Hate About You.

:shrug:

That is one of the few movies I can watch over and over.