The BATSUIT Thread

[Eddie Dean]

Kill me daddy

 

[Aximili86]

Heh, much as it's never ever gonna happen, I could totally get on board with seeing the original cowl shape on screen.

They're just never gonna do it.

 

[Invader Joker]

Heh, much as it's never ever gonna happen, I could totally get on board with seeing the original cowl shape on screen.

They're just never gonna do it.

I could get on board with it returning to the comics.

 

[Boy Scout]

Actually I like that, but instead of purple gloves. I'd like to see the inside of the cape dark purple. To enrich the costume and nod to the purple gloves.

I’d only be down for that if they went all the way and made the inside of the cape look like the interior of a bat’s wing. Go big or go home.

A bit of batman 1939.

I’d rather that cowl appear in a flashback or as one of his displayed, spare costumes. Don’t care to look at it for a two hour film.

 

[lujho]

Since this is early Batman we're talking about..

One can dream...

Faaaaark that's good. I'd totally take that without any alteration.

 

[Invader Joker]

A cowl like this...

 

[Invader Joker]

Something like this would be perfect as well.

 

[Marvel united]

Something like this would be perfect as well.

Well, that would certainly invoke the creepy imagery. Especially if those eyes are illuminated at night.

I kinda hope they go with the original cowl now

 

[Invader Joker]

Well, that would certainly invoke the creepy imagery. Especially if those eyes are illuminated at night.

I kinda hope they go with the original cowl now

Or if it's an expressive cowl.
Make the lenses the same material that is used for Spider-Man's lenses, then CGI to make it expressive in subtle enough ways and well, let's just say that criminals are definitely gonna be having nightmares.

 

[Marvel united]

Or if it's an expressive cowl.
Make the lenses the same material that is used for Spider-Man's lenses, then CGI to make it expressive in subtle enough ways and well, let's just say that criminals are definitely gonna be having nightmares.

This could work. And if they REALLY wanted to, they could totally do it practically

I think once we get the white eyes/expressive cowl and see it realized on screen and pulled off wonderfully-- People are going to look back at the old cowls and think they are the oddity. An inverse of how people react to the mere idea of Batman being more comic accurate in the cowl.

This is pretty much what happened with Spider-Man. After everybody kept saying the eyes would never work in live action. Now all of the past Spider-Men look bland in comparison to Holland.


Let's just say, if I was a criminal in an alleyway at night, I'd be terrified of an emoting mask because it is completely supernatural from my POV. It makes so much sense from a theatrical perspective, I have no idea why it has not been done yet.

 

[Invader Joker]

Man, this more classic cowl would REALLY differentiate Matt Reeve's Batman from other incarnation
And the expressive-white eyes work better on a cowl as demonic looking as that one because the entire thing looks animalistic enough that suddenly watching its eyes move and be entirely white doesn't feel out of place. Especially if they are the same material as Spider-Man's eyes.

I really, really want him to go in this direction. Reeeves did say he was a fan of Bob Kane/Bill Finger early work. I hope he takes the aesthetic...

 

[Marvel united]

Man, this more classic cowl would REALLY differentiate Matt Reeve's Batman from other incarnation
And the expressive-white eyes work better on a cowl as demonic looking as that one because the entire thing looks animalistic enough that suddenly watching its eyes move and be entirely white doesn't feel out of place. Especially if they are the same material as Spider-Man's eyes.

I really, really want him to go in this direction. Reeeves did say he was a fan of Bob Kane/Bill Finger early work. I hope he takes the aesthetic...

Reeves is a fan of the early Batman? That's certainly encouraging!

And I agree completely on the cowl

 

[Aximili86]

This could work. And if they REALLY wanted to, they could totally do it practically

Is that supposed to...look good, or something?

Why would Bats even need emoting lenses, if they go the lens route? The guy's about theatricality, sure, but that's taking it to an extreme. He's not going to bother engineering moving eyes into the damn thing just for...expression's sake. Let alone when they can see the bottom half of his face in the first place, a pretty big part of...you know, emoting.

"He's screaming in my face from three inches away while grabbing me by the throat! But I can't tell if he's angry with me, static eyes!"

 

[Invader Joker]

Is that supposed to...look good, or something?

Why would Bats even need emoting lenses, if they go the lens route? The guy's about theatricality, sure, but that's taking it to an extreme. He's not going to bother engineering moving eyes into the damn thing just for...expression's sake. Let alone when they can see the bottom half of his face in the first place, a pretty big part of...you know, emoting.

"He's screaming in my face from three inches away while grabbing me by the throat! But I can't tell if he's angry with me, static eyes!"

Eh. By instinct, people look at the eyes. If a big black bat creature is grabbing you, with completely white eyes that on top of that gesticulate looking angry, that's gonna give you like a trillion reasons to think it's a demon creature and not a dude in a costume.

 

[Marvel united]

Is that supposed to...look good, or something?

Why would Bats even need emoting lenses, if they go the lens route? The guy's about theatricality, sure, but that's taking it to an extreme. He's not going to bother engineering moving eyes into the damn thing just for...expression's sake. Let alone when they can see the bottom half of his face in the first place, a pretty big part of...you know, emoting.

"He's screaming in my face from three inches away while grabbing me by the throat! But I can't tell if he's angry with me, static eyes!"

It's all part of the illusion. If a criminal is staring into huge white eyes and they blink right back at him, that's going to create a very creepy, uncanny valley effect and this is the entire point as Bruce Wayne is suppose to appear as MORE than human. The "You're just a man in a mask" deconstruction no longer works because the mask is no longer a "mask". It's an organic part of this "Bat creature" that swoops criminals up in the dead of night.

The same reason why he puts ears on the cowl. He does it to envelope the Batman within the illusion of the supernatural. I can EASILY see a scenario where Bruce wants to go all the way with it. In a world where technology is getting more and more advanced and people's bar for the uncanny gets higher every few years - a guy in a static rubber mask would logically scare no one anymore.

 

[Aximili86]

I dunno. Guess I always just took it more as that if you get a good look at him, you'll know it's a guy in a suit. Close-up,having a conversation with him.

Whereas, you know, if he come sout of nowhere in the shadows and is pummeling you, those ears and the swirling cape are going to be enough to get stories/rumors/myth flowing around. I don't know that Bats has gotta be monstrous-looking enough that you'd literally think he's some bat-demon creature if he's standing a few feet in front of you holding a conversation.

Just...enough that if you get a glimpse of him in your periphery as he's beating you up, or see him from a distance grappling-hooking up a building, your id mind's going to start conjuring up some crazy thoughts/possibilities. While I guess lenses sort of add to that in a sense rather than no lenses at all, I don't see why they've gotta be able to widen & narrow with this own facial muscles, or mechanized to mimic that. It's just so overkill - they do it in cartoons because it's stylized and you get more expression from the character that way, but that becomes moot in live-action.

If he's sharing a light-hearted moment with Gordon or Alfred, he can just freakin' smile. Or if he's intimidating mafia scum, he can snarl & scowl & bare teeth. Message gets across all the same. Aside from being better able to breathe that's probably the whole reason the bottom of his mask is open.

 

[2kt09]

Aside from being better able to breathe that's probably the whole reason the bottom of his mask is open.

Let this be the first to fix that.

 

[Infinity9999x]

I actually quite like the second one. I wouldn't mind a suit inspired by Bob Kane/Bill Finger at all. It's fitting considering this is Batman in his early years
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(I actually own this figure btw)

I love the cowl and bat symbol on the original design

Ah, I guess this makes more sense. But then again, Begins had a full torso sculpt View attachment 21491

I think it could have also been the fact that his cape envelops his body. Maybe we weren't meant to see the sides or back.

The tech had evolved for BB. The B89 suit was notoriously heavy despite not being a full body sculpt. Keaton hurt his leg when doing the opening kick on the thugs in the beginning of the film because of how heavy the suit was.

I agree that B89 has one of my favorite silhouettes, and I wouldn’t mind something similar, but they have to go with something that allows for more movement. They did a good job of building in the lack of mobility into the style of Batman’s movement in 89, but the action scenes were severely lacking because of how heavy it was.

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Plz daddy

This isn't a fetish thread. Cut it out.

 

[Eddie Dean]

waaaaaaaaaaaay too busy

 

[Eddie Dean]

This isn't a fetish thread. Cut it out.

 

[Invader Joker]

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A lot of people in this thread would hate it but I'd love a suit like that.

 

[Eddie Dean]

Batman shouldn't look like a robit.

 

[2kt09]

It's too Black Panther-y.