I love the campy Batman from the sixties I didn't grow up with it but my dad showed it to me one day and I fell in love i love the episode when he's running around with the bomb on his head and people keep on blocking him
The 60's Batman series didn't almost ruin Batman. It's the reason why he, and the big four (Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, and Riddler) are so popular. Same with the '87 TMNT cartoon. The franchise is super memorable cause of the campy series.
Linklex7 he didn't say almost ended he said ruined if batman was like that nowadays it would most definitely be ruined because the camp series was shit
To be fair I think that Aronofsky's Batman movie would be good if they just renamed the characters, title, etc. so that it would be its own movie and not a screwed up Batman movie
That's the issue with many of these movies trying to "reimagine" set characters/movies/themes/whatever. Just make your own damn thing and leave the originals alone or just enhance or make a continuation or whatever. I don't care. Just don't give me a man who lost all his money, but then came up with a brilliant idea by taking scrap metal he find everywhere and then putting a bucket on his head... then painting the scrap metal all over his body and calls himself "Ironman" and expect it to be the same character/series and then wonder why people bitching at you. Hard.
The DKT gave me what I have always wanted; a BELIEVABLE Batman that could actually exist in reality. One of the best things about it was the notion that Bruce Wayne would want to hang up the cape and cowl eventually. Couldn’t imagine someone as intelligent as Wayne actually wanting to continue being a vigilante for the rest of his life.
I think Ace works as Batmans dog when you drop the mask and treat him like a regular guard dog like they did in Batman Beyond and Redbirth although Rebirth does have the mask, its not actually something the dog wears all the time and goes out in.
They made him fight Superman and let him win is a reason Batman has almost been ruined because his fanbase has gotten to believe he can beat anybody and thus some people are now seeing Batman as overrated and are now sick of him
Cygnus X-01 A classic piece of shit. I could handle the "fight" scenes, even the dancing...but the dialogue! God, it was criminal! I wanted to strangle Robin every time he opened his mouth. Not only due to the stupid shit he said, but because it would prompt Batman to say something equally moronic.
I have a theory on why Joker is alive despite, well, you know, THE DEATH PENALTY FOR REASONLESS SERIAL KILLERS. Bruce Wayne bribes the judge. As Joker said in the Dark Knight, they need each other. Just a theory.
Joker is always put in Arkham Asylum, as he is deemed insane. They hope to cure him, and then send him on his way. If he were to be thrown in jail, he'd probably either bribe the guards and escape, or bribe the judges. Bruce would not bribe the judges, because Bruce doesn't believe he needs Joker, but the Joker believes he does. Bruce wouldn't lose any sleep if the Joker were to die, just not by his hands.
Fun fact: Batman Triumphant was NEVER supposed to be called Batman Triumphant. From inception to cancellation the project was ALWAYS called Batman Unchained. When a producer was asked about the Triumphant name, he claimed the he had "no idea where fans got Triumphant from".
please make something other than batman, wolverine and spider man. what about focusing more on marvel or dc characters that aren't getting the attention that they need. you can even delve into indie comics!!! how about making a segment like the "superhero of the week" or "the team of the week"??
More like couldn't finish it how he wanted to, so tried to mesh Knightfall with No Man's Land and was somewhat successful. Aside from Talia Al Ghul shouldn't have been there at all. I really wish they would release that Lost Joker sequel script as a novel, comic etc
To be fair, was there really a Joker Sequel? All reports say otherwise. I think it comes from this idea of there being 2 'Dark Knight' Scripts, but has been pretty well debunked. There was not a script for Rises until after Ledger died AFAIK.
+Alec Pridgen Reports are ultimately meaningless as we will never know one way or the other. It's just a shame Nolan has never elaborated on the Joker sequel he intended to make. Personally I got the feeling the Joker story was done regardless by the end of Dark Knight. While not outright killing him as Burton did, it had a Batman '89 feel to it. Joker was going to Arkham, the end. Next villain.
That re-imagining of Batman sounds like the development hell of Superman Returns. One of which was a "more modern Superman" that doesn't wear a cape and doesn't fly and doesn't have the same costume, etc. Like those things about Superman or don't, take all that away and the question becomes "Who is he then?"
Not trying to be rude - I am genuinely curious: How do you find a joke funny when it is used in every single Ben video? I want to understand. Why has the joke not gotten old? It is the same thing every time with minor context changes. It's as though he says "boobs" in the bathroom one week and everybody laughs, so the next week he says "boobs" again but this time he says it in the kitchen. Please explain. I need to understand. Personally, I stop watching videos at the exact point that he starts the hashtag.
well... there's a concept you may not be familiar with: Meme :o just kidding, but yeah it's a meme so it's expected, and the little variations make it funny. When and about what will he say it? I too would rather it wasn't in every single video, but it is funny when you accept it. What I don't like is the way he says "Neeeeerds" lol
Let's not forget Gotham High, a pitched animated series that would have re-imagined Batman and his rogues' gallery as high school students. Thankfully, it was never greenlit and not even a single episode was ever produced. However, there is a small handful of test images online if you want a glimpse of the nightmare that could have been.
That TV show made Batman what he is today as far as popularity. It brought Batman to thousands of people who otherwise wouldn't have had a clue who he was. Even after the show was cancelled thousands watched reruns. First time I ever saw Batman wasn't in a comic book it was on that show and then in the 1989 movie. For a lot of people, that TV show was the first time they ever saw a superhero in their life. So the first superhero many people knew was Batman. That made him a lot of people's favorite character for life.
I am glad that Batman Year One re-imagining never happened. It doesn't actually sound like a bad movie, but it flat out isn't a Batman movie. That would be like making a- actually you know what? I don't have a good comparison because that is literally the best example of how to completely remove every element from the source material and make it completely unrecognizable.
The 1966 Camp Batman did ruin Batman for years to come. Until 1989, no one believed that Batman was meant to be a dark hero character. Up to this day my mother thinks the camp Batman was the original Batman. 😑😭
Really, I don't think Bill Murry would've been an instant no sell as Batman. Keep in mind that everyone thought there was no way Keaton could convincingly play Batman with any degree of seriousness, and even wrote angry letters to WB Studios begging them to change their minds. But when the movie came out, Keaton surprised everyone with how well he played the roll. I think the same could've worked with Murry, had he been cast. I think Keaton got the part because he'd already worked with Burton, and Burton saw something in him, hence why he was cast.
I used to watch the Adam West series with my Dad growing up. Of course, they were all re-runs since I grew up in the 90's but nonetheless, I enjoyed it. I think the 60's series was campy because it was based off the Silver Age of Comics where excessive violence and darker themes were banned from comics
I have a hypothesis; there’s only 2 main differences between adaptions and ripoffs; all the names, and adaptions are judged by how accurate they are whereas ripoffs are judged by how original they are. Therefore, a good ripoff = a bad adaption and vice versa. (this is why Back to the Future is WAY better than the Guy Richie version of The Time Machine). The Street Urchan Batman, if you just changed all the names, might have actually made a pretty good original movie, but suck as a Batman movie.
if they had made the aronovsky concept as a new ip I would actually really want to see it. it's a shit idea for batman but it does sound like a really cool concept
I love Bill Murray as an actor. One of if not my favorite actor of all time but he would have been a shitty Batman. Both Bill and the franchise dodged a big one there.
If they were to have made a sequel to Batman & Robin, Schumacher said he'd go back to the basics of Batman, it wouldn't be like Batman & Robin. The fifth movie probably would have been a dark movie, or they'd have rebooted it with Year One, which is what Schumacher wanted to do.
I get about villains returning but the writer did have a point that it makes basically every super hero inept at his job well except Punisher and maybe WW but her villains have a way of returning from the dead
With Batman Unchained Schumacher had intended to return Batman to darkness. Hell before the 2 Batman films most Schumacher films were incredibly dark and seedy, take 8mm as a good example. There has never been a Batman film that dark.
It's not really a reimagining since the harley quinn character was actually around before the tv show. Except she was the jokers daughter and she was a teen titan before harley quinzel was even imagined.
@Pedro Morales J.R. - I agree with you about Madonna. I remembered her pathetically embarrassing moment when she talked about HER start in the music business instead of paying tribute to the late Aretha Franklin.
Good who else just imagined a world where Batman exists, but is just a small side character who’s unpopular and only ever briefly talked about in the way people do about Squirrel Girl and Whizzer
I sometimes don't like Ace the Bat Hound, the Batman Beyond version is much better than the lame one Nick Cage as the Scarcrow sounds interesting pick Oh and Bat-Cow for the win
Just think, the only reason the campiness existed was because the first foray of translating Batman outside of comics two decades earlier was hilarious to the production and writing staff of the 60s show.
Hmm...how about ten awful comic book characters made great through rewrites/retcons? Like Mr. Freeze before "Heart of Ice" or Sabertooth back when he was an Iron Fist villain?
The fact that there are so much annoying fans who think that Batman can take on any character in existence and the fact that DC milks the fuck out of him over other characters sort of ruins him abit for me. He's still a good character though.
Well I hated him a bit when he didn't come to Damians birthday and when he cut Jasons troath with a batarang to save Joker!Come on man those are your sons!And then he asks himself:"Why do my sons hate me?"🤔
Don't forget the biggest mistake of all: Bob Kane's original vision for the character, which was a guy in red tights, a domino mask, and Leonardo da Vinci style bat wings. Fortunately, Bill Finger was there to suggest the familiar color scheme, cowl, bat ears, cape, detective angle, shadowy / nighttime motif, and Commissioner Gordon. Later, Bill Finger was also responsible for Robin, the Joker, and Batman's origin as a victim of crime. Without Bill Finger, there might have been a character named "Bat-Man", but he would have been one of the many many forgettable / stupid characters of the 1940s that is mentioned only on sites devoted to laughing at how dumb comics can be. Everything that made Batman a compelling character is Bill Finger's doing. If Batman were real, he would have seen to it that Bill Finger got all the credit and royalties he was due.
Adam West Batman was awesome, cheesy as all hell, but awesome all the same. Infact I don't think Batman would be as popular today if it weren't for the 60's tv show, so treat the show with the respect it deserve.
Joker isn't THAT big of a deal. I mean, consider best Batman stories out there - in most, Joker plays tangential or small role at best. Many of the best Batman stories: Long Halloween, Year One, Dark Victory, Hush, Black Mirror, Batman RIP, Cult, Knightfall - feature little to no Joker. Batman would easily survive without Joker (though recurring villains ARE nice).
Keep in mind that many of the goofier things on this list arise from an era when there was huge censorship pressure on comic books. Batman couldn't be dark. Criminals couldn't be horrifying or deranged. So we get a goody-twoshoes in a vaguely bat-like costume lightly sparring against aliens and contrived villains... Also, we have to do something about a couple (or *couple*?) of grown men keeping company with a teenage boy! Getting the boys distaff counterparts / love interests (Batwoman and the original Bat-Girl) wasn't good enough, so they killed off Alfred and replaced him with an elderly blood relative of Robin.
Nic Cage as Scarecrow........
I can't even begin to imagine the memes that would have given birth to
War Horse Mumbles I mean....he was caster as superman at one point..
War Horse Mumbles NOOOOOOOOO
What abut Cage as a wicker man?
I want to see it so much now
Just look up "Superman lives". It's a cancelled superman film starring nic cage 😂
Kite man is Awesome his secret identity is Charlie Brown 😂😂😂
He got tired of being made fun of as a kid and decided to take revenge on Gotham
Kite man is such a pimp!
Jacob Johnson good grief. lmao
Did you read the last issue of Batman? It gives Kite-Man quite the origin story.
Kite-Man! Hell yeah!
66 Batman was the best Batman.
he was so powerful he was able to create words out of thin air!
Imagine if that sort of thing could be done in real life? People would be beating each other up and laughing their asses off simultaneously.
That Depression Era re-imagining sounds pretty good actually--not as a permanent Batman as an alt-Batman.
They could bring it back as part of some alternate universe cross over story line.
Maybe.
5:00: wait, so the Batman from ASBAR really is Crazy Steve.
I love the campy Batman from the sixties I didn't grow up with it but my dad showed it to me one day and I fell in love i love the episode when he's running around with the bomb on his head and people keep on blocking him
I'm glad I'm not the only one who enjoys it. Most people who complain about it just need to calm the fuck down.
The 60's Batman series didn't almost ruin Batman. It's the reason why he, and the big four (Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, and Riddler) are so popular. Same with the '87 TMNT cartoon. The franchise is super memorable cause of the campy series.
because in the comics Batman was dark
he wasnt always dark
ahmed maklad after dark knight returns
Linklex7 he didn't say almost ended he said ruined if batman was like that nowadays it would most definitely be ruined because the camp series was shit
BurningEagle you do realize this shit series is what propelled batsman into mainstream appeal right?
To be fair I think that Aronofsky's Batman movie would be good if they just renamed the characters, title, etc. so that it would be its own movie and not a screwed up Batman movie
Cillian Brouder the movie idea is great only not as a batman movie
That's the issue with many of these movies trying to "reimagine" set characters/movies/themes/whatever.
Just make your own damn thing and leave the originals alone or just enhance or make a continuation or whatever. I don't care.
Just don't give me a man who lost all his money, but then came up with a brilliant idea by taking scrap metal he find everywhere and then putting a bucket on his head... then painting the scrap metal all over his body and calls himself "Ironman" and expect it to be the same character/series and then wonder why people bitching at you. Hard.
The 1960's TV show and movie has it's own charm. Sure, it's campy, but it's still highly enjoyable.
Nicholas Cage and Madonna in a Batman film? No thank you
The DKT gave me what I have always wanted; a BELIEVABLE Batman that could actually exist in reality. One of the best things about it was the notion that Bruce Wayne would want to hang up the cape and cowl eventually. Couldn’t imagine someone as intelligent as Wayne actually wanting to continue being a vigilante for the rest of his life.
Every time they show Batman dancing, I die a little inside
DONT YOU TALK SHIT ABOUT ACE THE BAT DOG
Lest Damian comes up and shanks you from the front...oh
darkhorseman90 wtf does he care about a dog? he has Goliath.
exactly, never badmouth a wayne dog
that dog was the best in batman beyond.
Him as a "sidekick"'s pretty stupid, but come on, Ben, Ace is pretty ace.
Especially in Batman Beyond.
1966 batman rules.
I liked Ace in Batman Beyond, gives Bruce someone to relate to.
Everette Bradfute Good bad dog.
Everette Bradfute watch the epilogue episode of justice league it makes the name ace more significant and very sad
I think Ace works as Batmans dog when you drop the mask and treat him like a regular guard dog like they did in Batman Beyond and Redbirth although Rebirth does have the mask, its not actually something the dog wears all the time and goes out in.
what about bat-cow?
true
Ray Thesane
Nice
That was meant to be comical and it for the tone of the comic imo
They made him fight Superman and let him win is a reason Batman has almost been ruined because his fanbase has gotten to believe he can beat anybody and thus some people are now seeing Batman as overrated and are now sick of him
Clicks video
Hears Ben
Is happy
Batman is still the best
Ben's wankers moment is the best
bill murray as batman no but as the riddler i can see
777JAYLEE777 could also kinda see him as the joker
The 1966 batman series was realy great, I love it. It's so entertaining. Adam West was great. Rest In Peace Adam West.
Hey! The 60s show is a classic!
Cygnus X-01 A classic piece of shit. I could handle the "fight" scenes, even the dancing...but the dialogue! God, it was criminal! I wanted to strangle Robin every time he opened his mouth. Not only due to the stupid shit he said, but because it would prompt Batman to say something equally moronic.
You obviously don't get the point.
I have a theory on why Joker is alive despite, well, you know, THE DEATH PENALTY FOR REASONLESS SERIAL KILLERS. Bruce Wayne bribes the judge. As Joker said in the Dark Knight, they need each other. Just a theory.
uhhh...that's why theorizing shud have a license
James Tamblyn Or it may be due to him being insane. Or that Gotham may not have a death penalty.
Joker is always put in Arkham Asylum, as he is deemed insane. They hope to cure him, and then send him on his way. If he were to be thrown in jail, he'd probably either bribe the guards and escape, or bribe the judges. Bruce would not bribe the judges, because Bruce doesn't believe he needs Joker, but the Joker believes he does. Bruce wouldn't lose any sleep if the Joker were to die, just not by his hands.
There is no need for a theory. It's unethical to murder someone for having a mental disorder, and in the comics Gotham doesn't have the death penalty.
Charley Newman So what was "Devil's Advocate" about? ...no, not the movie with Al Pachino and Keanu Reeves.
#ShitRe-imaginingThatDefiesWordsForWankers
RIP Adam West
What are you talking about ALMOST?! He is RUINED!!!!!!!
"... killing him off altogether." Okay. "Killing him off."
Fun fact: Batman Triumphant was NEVER supposed to be called Batman Triumphant. From inception to cancellation the project was ALWAYS called Batman Unchained. When a producer was asked about the Triumphant name, he claimed the he had "no idea where fans got Triumphant from".
Hey the 60's where not that bad
please make something other than batman, wolverine and spider man. what about focusing more on marvel or dc characters that aren't getting the attention that they need. you can even delve into indie comics!!! how about making a segment like the "superhero of the week" or "the team of the week"??
I'm not trying to be rude, but the answer to your question is "nobody cares."
I think it's a good idea, were kind of overwhelmed with popular character facts.
You should include that Zack Snyder said his Batman movie would have had him being raped in prison. Seriously Zack, what is wrong with you?
Well that and Dr. Manhattan penis in Watchmen says he has issues...
Or like the time Chris Nolan didn't want to finish his trilogy so slapped The Dark Knight Rises together. ZING!
More like couldn't finish it how he wanted to, so tried to mesh Knightfall with No Man's Land and was somewhat successful. Aside from Talia Al Ghul shouldn't have been there at all.
I really wish they would release that Lost Joker sequel script as a novel, comic etc
To be fair, was there really a Joker Sequel?
All reports say otherwise.
I think it comes from this idea of there being 2 'Dark Knight' Scripts, but has been pretty well debunked. There was not a script for Rises until after Ledger died AFAIK.
+Alec Pridgen Reports are ultimately meaningless as we will never know one way or the other. It's just a shame Nolan has never elaborated on the Joker sequel he intended to make.
Personally I got the feeling the Joker story was done regardless by the end of Dark Knight. While not outright killing him as Burton did, it had a Batman '89 feel to it. Joker was going to Arkham, the end. Next villain.
It is a fact though.
People may still say it...but It is wrong.
Alec Pridgen that might be true but I'm sure Nolan was thinking of a story with the joker in it long before Ledger died
That re-imagining of Batman sounds like the development hell of Superman Returns. One of which was a "more modern Superman" that doesn't wear a cape and doesn't fly and doesn't have the same costume, etc. Like those things about Superman or don't, take all that away and the question becomes "Who is he then?"
Ben's hashtags are my favorite part of these videos!
Not trying to be rude - I am genuinely curious:
How do you find a joke funny when it is used in every single Ben video? I want to understand. Why has the joke not gotten old? It is the same thing every time with minor context changes. It's as though he says "boobs" in the bathroom one week and everybody laughs, so the next week he says "boobs" again but this time he says it in the kitchen. Please explain. I need to understand.
Personally, I stop watching videos at the exact point that he starts the hashtag.
well... there's a concept you may not be familiar with: Meme :o
just kidding, but yeah it's a meme so it's expected, and the little variations make it funny. When and about what will he say it?
I too would rather it wasn't in every single video, but it is funny when you accept it. What I don't like is the way he says "Neeeeerds" lol
Frank Miller actually recently told me he loves Ace the Bathound lol
Let's not forget Gotham High, a pitched animated series that would have re-imagined Batman and his rogues' gallery as high school students. Thankfully, it was never greenlit and not even a single episode was ever produced. However, there is a small handful of test images online if you want a glimpse of the nightmare that could have been.
That TV show made Batman what he is today as far as popularity. It brought Batman to thousands of people who otherwise wouldn't have had a clue who he was. Even after the show was cancelled thousands watched reruns. First time I ever saw Batman wasn't in a comic book it was on that show and then in the 1989 movie.
For a lot of people, that TV show was the first time they ever saw a superhero in their life. So the first superhero many people knew was Batman. That made him a lot of people's favorite character for life.
I am glad that Batman Year One re-imagining never happened. It doesn't actually sound like a bad movie, but it flat out isn't a Batman movie. That would be like making a- actually you know what? I don't have a good comparison because that is literally the best example of how to completely remove every element from the source material and make it completely unrecognizable.
“AND WE DON’T WANT THAT.... /rainbow monster/....
/Kite man./“
Yes. Correct. Very true.
great channel and video themes. but, how about a Spawn video? i know he's from Image comics, though i'd say well known enough, and not many out there.
The 1966 Camp Batman did ruin Batman for years to come. Until 1989, no one believed that Batman was meant to be a dark hero character. Up to this day my mother thinks the camp Batman was the original Batman. 😑😭
Really, I don't think Bill Murry would've been an instant no sell as Batman. Keep in mind that everyone thought there was no way Keaton could convincingly play Batman with any degree of seriousness, and even wrote angry letters to WB Studios begging them to change their minds. But when the movie came out, Keaton surprised everyone with how well he played the roll. I think the same could've worked with Murry, had he been cast. I think Keaton got the part because he'd already worked with Burton, and Burton saw something in him, hence why he was cast.
I used to watch the Adam West series with my Dad growing up. Of course, they were all re-runs since I grew up in the 90's but nonetheless, I enjoyed it. I think the 60's series was campy because it was based off the Silver Age of Comics where excessive violence and darker themes were banned from comics
That re-imagining sounds interesting... street urchin who uses stuff... if not Batman... they should make a super hero with that...
I have a hypothesis; there’s only 2 main differences between adaptions and ripoffs; all the names, and adaptions are judged by how accurate they are whereas ripoffs are judged by how original they are. Therefore, a good ripoff = a bad adaption and vice versa. (this is why Back to the Future is WAY better than the Guy Richie version of The Time Machine). The Street Urchan Batman, if you just changed all the names, might have actually made a pretty good original movie, but suck as a Batman movie.
HEARD YOU TALKIN SHIT ON ACE THE BATHOUND, M8
How about Christopher Nolar giving Batman a voice that makes him sound like he has a bad cold? ;P
if they had made the aronovsky concept as a new ip I would actually really want to see it. it's a shit idea for batman but it does sound like a really cool concept
So you mean just make it an original character instead of saying it's some version of Batman? That might actually be interesting.
I love Bill Murray as an actor. One of if not my favorite actor of all time but he would have been a shitty Batman. Both Bill and the franchise dodged a big one there.
I could see him playing a villain, but not a superhero.
C'mon guys... the trailer for Netflix's 'Defenders' dropped last night. That's got to warrant a review, surely?
Title should have been "10 Terrible mistakes that almost ruined Batman forever"
Am I the only one who likes bat mite
No, I like him too. Anyone who hasn't seen Paul Ruebens play him on the Brave And The Bold cartoon should go and watch one of his episodes right now.
rocketcon
Oh Brave and the Bold, that was my Batman. A character capable of holding their own in both fun stories and more dire situations.
Yes
If they were to have made a sequel to Batman & Robin, Schumacher said he'd go back to the basics of Batman, it wouldn't be like Batman & Robin. The fifth movie probably would have been a dark movie, or they'd have rebooted it with Year One, which is what Schumacher wanted to do.
I get about villains returning but the writer did have a point that it makes basically every super hero inept at his job well except Punisher and maybe WW but her villains have a way of returning from the dead
And so in an alternate universe, Joker never got revived and Batman got cancelled... what a sad world that is....
With Batman Unchained Schumacher had intended to return Batman to darkness. Hell before the 2 Batman films most Schumacher films were incredibly dark and seedy, take 8mm as a good example. There has never been a Batman film that dark.
Kite-man is the most psychotic, most intelligent, strongest Batman villain of all time !!!
I like him, but this was sarcasm
It's not really a reimagining since the harley quinn character was actually around before the tv show. Except she was the jokers daughter and she was a teen titan before harley quinzel was even imagined.
Alfred's original last name wasn't Pennyworth, fun fact. HIs name was originally Alfred Beagle.
Madonna as Harley? Eww
Madonna in general? EWWWWW!!
I liked her in Dick Tracy, but she would've made an awful Harley.
@Pedro Morales J.R. - I agree with you about Madonna. I remembered her pathetically embarrassing moment when she talked about HER start in the music business instead of paying tribute to the late Aretha Franklin.
Adam west batman was not a mistake...is was a blessing
Good who else just imagined a world where Batman exists, but is just a small side character who’s unpopular and only ever briefly talked about in the way people do about Squirrel Girl and Whizzer
I sometimes don't like Ace the Bat Hound, the Batman Beyond version is much better than the lame one
Nick Cage as the Scarcrow sounds interesting pick
Oh and Bat-Cow for the win
Maim the focus group!
Preach on, brother.
Terrible mistakes that almost ruined Spiderman? Clone Saga, Norman x Gwen and Sony studios.
Li-Li Mandragon Batman does NOT even have a Nickname!!!!
Just think, the only reason the campiness existed was because the first foray of translating Batman outside of comics two decades earlier was hilarious to the production and writing staff of the 60s show.
Can you imagine if Batman’s archival was Kite-Man
"Kite Man. Hell Yeah."
Kite Man is really Stone Cold Steve Austin!!
Or how about All Star Batman And Robin?
"I'm The Goddamn Batman!!!"
TO BE FAIR
Nick Cage as Scarecrow would have been the greatest thing ever
I actually read the script for Batman year one and it is quite good tbh
I know it would probably suck, but I just wanna see Nic Cage as Scarecrow. Just once, just to see it with my own two eyes
If Joker had died maybe we would have gotten Strange as Batman's main villain
Hmm...how about ten awful comic book characters made great through rewrites/retcons? Like Mr. Freeze before "Heart of Ice" or Sabertooth back when he was an Iron Fist villain?
TheBlues32 'Heart of Ice' MADE Mr Freeze.
The fact that there are so much annoying fans who think that Batman can take on any character in existence and the fact that DC milks the fuck out of him over other characters sort of ruins him abit for me. He's still a good character though.
Christian Bale's ridiculous 12-pack-a-day voice in The Dark Knight
I have that 60's comic where Alfred returns! It may be minor, but I have a pretty small collection...
5:17 - I like it when he says it FOR REAL!
7:24 "The Zebra Batman". LOL.
Ben, please don't leave
Holy shit, so many bullets dodged. Street Urchin Batman what the actual fuck.
Shit re-imagining that actually defies words for wankers#shitReimaginingThatActuallyDefiesWordsForWankers
Well I hated him a bit when he didn't come to Damians birthday and when he cut Jasons troath with a batarang to save Joker!Come on man those are your sons!And then he asks himself:"Why do my sons hate me?"🤔
Why so serious? I'm not, I'm bill frickin Murray
Don't forget the biggest mistake of all: Bob Kane's original vision for the character, which was a guy in red tights, a domino mask, and Leonardo da Vinci style bat wings. Fortunately, Bill Finger was there to suggest the familiar color scheme, cowl, bat ears, cape, detective angle, shadowy / nighttime motif, and Commissioner Gordon. Later, Bill Finger was also responsible for Robin, the Joker, and Batman's origin as a victim of crime. Without Bill Finger, there might have been a character named "Bat-Man", but he would have been one of the many many forgettable / stupid characters of the 1940s that is mentioned only on sites devoted to laughing at how dumb comics can be. Everything that made Batman a compelling character is Bill Finger's doing. If Batman were real, he would have seen to it that Bill Finger got all the credit and royalties he was due.
Ace the Bat-hound was awesome in Batman Beyond!
That depression era reimagining sounds like it would have been better of it it completely different property.
Adam West Batman was awesome, cheesy as all hell, but awesome all the same. Infact I don't think Batman would be as popular today if it weren't for the 60's tv show, so treat the show with the respect it deserve.
bat-mite and mxyzptlk are boys though..
What would've happened of Joker was truly killed off? Well, the second greatest villain would take over: The Outsider!
bill was right and wrong at the same time he didn't want the revoling door that arkham has become
The last two lines got me :D
Bill Murray as Batman sounds both awesome and ridiculously terrible at the same time.
Joker isn't THAT big of a deal. I mean, consider best Batman stories out there - in most, Joker plays tangential or small role at best. Many of the best Batman stories: Long Halloween, Year One, Dark Victory, Hush, Black Mirror, Batman RIP, Cult, Knightfall - feature little to no Joker. Batman would easily survive without Joker (though recurring villains ARE nice).
shinobody I dunno for me it's hard to imagine Batman without Joker to me they are essential to each other but I do agree with what your saying
Lists like this make me sure comic book writers were the least creative people in the world... "Kiteman"
I couldn't imagine life without the bat
Keep in mind that many of the goofier things on this list arise from an era when there was huge censorship pressure on comic books. Batman couldn't be dark. Criminals couldn't be horrifying or deranged. So we get a goody-twoshoes in a vaguely bat-like costume lightly sparring against aliens and contrived villains...
Also, we have to do something about a couple (or *couple*?) of grown men keeping company with a teenage boy! Getting the boys distaff counterparts / love interests (Batwoman and the original Bat-Girl) wasn't good enough, so they killed off Alfred and replaced him with an elderly blood relative of Robin.
Joker and Batman didn't get a room and Batman wasn't the catcher? The horror,
Honestly, Darren Aronofsky's Batman: Year One sounds like a decent Elseworlds story.
Make him Puerto Rican then it would be the same as the trio of Mega64 videos from a few years ago.
so Miller one of the reasons Batman has become so gritty and dark wanted a Batman movie with nothing resembling Batman?