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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& #39;t fit my conceptual image of the character.
There& #39;s a lot of baggage tied up in Batman as a character and a symbol, but I& #39;ve always envisioned him as being more in line with what they do in B:TAS. Granted, that& #39;s a kid& #39;s cartoon meeting TV standards, but that Batman wasn& #39;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& #39;s the kind of Batman I want to see on film. Punchy-kicky is fine, but it& #39;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& #39;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& #39;s this scene from Justice League. This is what I want Batman to be: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOooJW5SSDA">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
