Not really big invested in all these DC reveals, but I saw a clip from the Robert Pattison Batman where he just absolutely, gratuitously whales on some random criminal, and that doesn't fit my conceptual image of the character.

There's a lot of baggage tied up in Batman as a character and a symbol, but I've always envisioned him as being more in line with what they do in B:TAS. Granted, that's a kid's cartoon meeting TV standards, but that Batman wasn't primarily violent.

That version of Batman never called Harvey Dent "Two-Face", only "Harvey". That version of Batman offered an genuine embrace to Babydoll when she was at her lowest and most fractured. That Batman only used violence surgically, and never as a first resort.

That version of Batman got in a chicken-race with Roxy Rocket and made her blink, forcing her to confront her self-destructive impulses with pure psychology. That's the kind of Batman I want to see on film. Punchy-kicky is fine, but it's not the sum total of the character.

Batman is so much more interesting when they lean into the idea that bag guys are "a superstitious, cowardly lot". It's so much cooler for him to trick, hoodwink, and frighten enemies into submission than to go off on them like that kid who snaps in A Christmas Story.

And, of course, there's this scene from Justice League. This is what I want Batman to be: