Meet our story tellers for today’s episode: Nick, Carrie, and Matt. It wouldn’t make sense for that sort of character to appear in this show, but “Legends of the Dark Knight” is going to try. He was a violent, no compromises, sort of take on the character who after decades of doing things mostly by the book has had enough. That Batman was one of the main influences for Tim Burton’s take on the character and was hugely popular in the 1980s. Of all the stories in the comic books though to essentially feature an alternate universe Batman, by far the most popular is The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller. The movies basically all exist on their own, which is why Christopher Nolan was able to end his Batman movie trilogy with what is essentially Batman’s retirement. Had Bruce Timm and Paul Dini wished to end the series with the death of Batman and a passing of the torch, they might have been allowed to do so (spoiler alert, that’s not the direction they’ll go).
Sure these characters bare many similarities to what came before, but they also exist in their own bubble. This very show is basically one such version. You don’t kill the golden goose.Īs a way to work around those limitations, many writers over the years have done stories outside the normal Batman continuity. The same is basically true of any popular comic book character and is why characters like Superman and Captain America never stay dead. Sure, it can be teased here and there and made to even seem happen, but it’s not something that will ever stick. Batman, for instance, is far too profitable to ever die. Anyone who is tasked with writing and drawing an official Batman story inherits quite a responsibility, and since this character is so popular and so special they’re also limited in some capacity. Batman is a cultural touchstone, a character owned by DC and Warner Bros. It might seem odd on the surface as to why there would be numerous versions of Batman, but one only needs to think about it briefly to realize why. Over the years there has been a lot of Batman and a lot of Batmen.
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