godisawesome
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You’re right about what I want; I want a Batman who’s taken hits and had to fight for control of some situations, so that even though he dominates most encounters with strategic forethought and preplanning... sometimes $#!+ happens.That sounds more like someone who had moderately good training in the police force and then the military, vs someone who trained with the League of Shadows. The impression I'm getting here is that you want a rough, battle weathered Batman who takes a beating from criminals and comes home barely clinging to life after a long night's work.
The thing is, Batman should still be good enough to not have to resortt to getting into a slugfest with some brute or being able to dodge gun fire to avoid getting shot in the chest.
We've always seen Batman portrayed on film as a human being grounded in reality
I want it to be that, sometimes, Penguin actually got clever and planned a good enough trap that Batman had to improvise and overcome some long odds, and couldn’t just dodge gunfire or be out of the villain’s sights. I want him to be someone who might actually bare a few scratch marks from... less than cordial interactions with Catwoman. I want him to have a few bullet wounds from Two-Face having drawn him in when Harvey was fighting for control.
I want him to be a guy who actually had to have a drawn out fight with Croc or Clayface, and maybe sometimes took a few hits when taken down a whole crew of mooks.
All Batmen in the movies thus far have taken on large groups of thugs, and handled them... but also gotten shot, stabbed, and hit pretty hard. And even the OTT Batman from the Arkham Games canonically takes a beating... and they even incorporate all that into the regular damage his suit tales in each game - and those are the kinds of armored up looks that I kind of want to see.
HOWEVER!!!
...I will also say that I don’t want a dumb thug or pathetic seeming Batman - stuff like the Earth One Batman falling into a pile of trash is going a bit too far for me, and I really, really want the kind of fantastic elements like glowing eyes.
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