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The Dark Knight

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    True, I just don't see Batman working anywhere near as well in a fantastic setting than he does in a real-world environment.

    As for the Alex Ross pic, it shows age in the lines in his cheeks and around his mouth. He could pass for 35-50 or so. Any younger, though would be difficult with that face.

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  • spookymuffinspookymuffin ( ° ʖ ° ) Puyallup WA Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Alex Ross makes everyone look 50.

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Supes, Bats, and Shazam are all older, but they are all iconic figures of manhood by now. I just can't see that in a skinny guy in his late 20s/early 30s.

    He doesn't make Flash or Hal old looking though. They also don't have the associated masculinity to their characters.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    Keith wrote: »
    (also i think Batman in the comics being younger than 40 is bullshit)

    even the midnighter is 41

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  • Mai-KeroMai-Kero Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Servo wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    (also i think Batman in the comics being younger than 40 is bullshit)

    even the midnighter is 41

    and still manages to look better than Batman.

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  • bychancebychance Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I don't know if any of you have seen 10 Things I Hate About You (haven't seen it in so long) but there's a scene where Heath's character Patrick and Kat (Julia Stiles) are arguing as usual, and he says 'Oooh! It looks like someone's got their panties in a twist,' I'm telling you, I hear a little Joker in his voice. Which is interesting, because he is using his natural Australian accent in the film.

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  • ServoServo Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited August 2008
    I wouldn't want to see some broad commanding plants in a batman movie or see supes fly around.

    what the fuck kind of superman movie do you want to see, then? "Kal-El and the IRS Double-Check Their Numbers"?

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  • BionicPenguinBionicPenguin Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I think he means he doesn't want to see Superman in a Batman movie.

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I think he means he doesn't want to see Superman in a Batman movie.

    correct.

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  • jkylefultonjkylefulton Squid...or Kid? NNID - majpellRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    True, I just don't see Batman working anywhere near as well in a fantastic setting than he does in a real-world environment.

    As for the Alex Ross pic, it shows age in the lines in his cheeks and around his mouth. He could pass for 35-50 or so. Any younger, though would be difficult with that face.

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  • The Dark HillbillyThe Dark Hillbilly Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Motherfucking hilarious. The real life result of trying to be Batman.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    To be fair, Batman probably wouldn't announce himself.

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  • The Dark HillbillyThe Dark Hillbilly Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    To be fair, Batman probably wouldn't announce himself.

    Yeah, but how can a normal human being be constantly thrashing people with guns and never get shot ? I know it's a comic book, but in real life people can't dodge bullets. Seems like all the comic book bad guys go to Bad Guy Shooting School. The Punisher is ridiculously guilty of this. That man is in shit tons of firefights, only occasionally being shot, and never a serious crippling injury.

    I'd love to see a series of real life versions of comic book heroes.

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  • AngryAngry The glory I had witnessed was just a sleight of handRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    punisher max punisher gets shot all the time. also, he takes some pretty severe beatings in melee fights.

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  • The Dark HillbillyThe Dark Hillbilly Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Yeah, he does get shot and otherwise scuffed up. But he always comes out good as new. Like, the "In the Beginning" arc. He gets a rib blown out. That surely would result in some debilitating injury.

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  • SaphSaph Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    To be fair, Batman probably wouldn't announce himself.

    Yeah, but how can a normal human being be constantly thrashing people with guns and never get shot ? I know it's a comic book, but in real life people can't dodge bullets. Seems like all the comic book bad guys go to Bad Guy Shooting School. The Punisher is ridiculously guilty of this. That man is in shit tons of firefights, only occasionally being shot, and never a serious crippling injury.

    I'd love to see a series of real life versions of comic book heroes.
    The reason why they never do this is because it makes a shit story.

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
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  • BionicPenguinBionicPenguin Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I immediately thought of the same thing. I love Dr. McNinja.

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  • Robos A Go GoRobos A Go Go Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Stop disillusioning meeeeee.

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  • JayKaosJayKaos Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    I loved the alt text on that one:

    "How many times have frustrated Batman writers typed this out, stared at it for hours, sighed, and then deleted the script?"

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  • SalmonOfDoubtSalmonOfDoubt Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Y'know, that'd be a fucking awesome twist in RIP.

    Batman sorts his head out, stops jabbering on about Zurr-En-Ah, defeats the Black Glove, everything is fine and hunky dory He goes out on his normal patrol and gets shot in the face by some random mugger.

    Yes.

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    going out by a bullet from a nameless mugger and the bat-team never finding who it was would be a great way to put bats down.

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  • FaynorFaynor Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Both of you are crazy.

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  • ManonvonSuperockManonvonSuperock Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    ...or we could have him killed by a space-rock monster from the center of the earth with bone eyelashes.

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  • Sars_BoySars_Boy Rest, You Are The Lightning. Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    that last panel is done really well

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  • The Dark HillbillyThe Dark Hillbilly Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Dr. McNinja is just fanfuckingtastic.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    going out by a bullet from a nameless mugger and the bat-team never finding who it was would be a great way to put bats down.

    I heard this suggested a lot back when Joe Chill was just the alias of some random, unknown mugger, and loved the idea back then.

    But for some reason, now that Joe Chill has been fleshed out as an actual character, I don't like the idea as much. Without the Waynes' random death by a random schmuck acting as a mirror to Batman's only random, pointless death, I don't think it'd resonate as well.

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    So you're saying Batman should be killed by Joe Chill.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited August 2008
    in a swordfight

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    A bare-chested swordfight?

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited August 2008
    what other kind of swordfight is there?

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  • WildcatWildcat Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    That is a very very good point, sir.

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  • MunchMunch Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    All this talk of Batman's death, in conjunction with Batman RIP going on right now, reminds me of the "Death of Batman" anthology that DC was going to do a few years ago, before it was nixed by some higher-up. Here's the last page to Kevin Maguire's entry.

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  • The Dark HillbillyThe Dark Hillbilly Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Wait, did the Joker just kill Batman with a bus schedule ?

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Bwahaha!

    Just like in Mean Girls!

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  • AngryAngry The glory I had witnessed was just a sleight of handRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    the joker kills someone with a bus schedule in mean girls?

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  • smokmnkysmokmnky Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Angry wrote: »
    the joker kills someone with a bus schedule in mean girls?

    That would have made the movie so much better

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  • Garlic BreadGarlic Bread i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a bitch i'm a Registered User, Disagreeable regular
    edited August 2008
    smokmnky wrote: »
    Angry wrote: »
    the joker kills someone with a bus schedule in mean girls?

    That would have made the movie so much better

    There was nothing wrong with Mean Girls

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  • Bloods EndBloods End Blade of Tyshalle Punch dimensionRegistered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Keith wrote: »
    smokmnky wrote: »
    Angry wrote: »
    the joker kills someone with a bus schedule in mean girls?

    That would have made the movie so much better

    There was nothing wrong with Mean Girls

    Just because there was nothing wrong with it doesn't mean it can't be better.

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  • The Dark HillbillyThe Dark Hillbilly Registered User regular
    edited August 2008
    Bloods End wrote: »
    Keith wrote: »
    smokmnky wrote: »
    Angry wrote: »
    the joker kills someone with a bus schedule in mean girls?

    That would have made the movie so much better

    There was nothing wrong with Mean Girls

    Just because there was nothing wrong with it doesn't mean it can't be better.

    For example.....
    There's nothing wrong with the human body, but having some laser blasters built into our eyeballs would make us better.

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