The DCU Animation Thread.

[RogueDK]

I liek the show, I just don't like the references to the old 60's Batman show... I mean, that's what ruined Batman for 40 years up to Batman Begins... I have a hard time convincing people comics aren't for kids when they remember "BAM! POW! BIFF!"

The Schumacher films did more to damage Batman than the 60s show ever could. I'm not sure why Adam West & Co. get all of the hate; the show was awesome for what it was.

I love Tucker's references, in this incarnation, to it.

 

[Anubis]

This has a nice mix of the 60's and the modern if you ask me. Even a loser villain like Crazy Quilt got a little edge added to him. For all intents and purposes, Robin should have been dead after he knocked that building on him, then blasted it again with the Rainbow cannon. I mean, I actually got the feeling he was really trying to kill the little bastard.

Also, to add to the Nightwing thing, Earth 2 robin never went the nightwing route, he kept the Robin persona for the rest of his career. Even after he went off on his own. I mean technically, Robin is his creation, not Batman's. I always wondered why Dick never made a real fuss about Bat's giving his mantle to random kids.

 

[RogueDK]

This may already have been posted elsewhere here but the trailer for the dtv Batman/Superman PUBLIC ENEMIES is now up. The style is very Ed McGuiness looking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_OvtI_qMig

 

[Hush]

That looks pretty ****ing sweet!

 

[RogueDK]

That looks pretty ****ing sweet!

And Conroy is supposed to reprise his role as Bats. Hopefully Clancy Brown and Tim Daly will return to their respective roles as well. I wish.

 

[RockSP]

George whathisname would probably return before Daly.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Newbern.

I didn't really like the Batman and Robin episode of Brave and the Bold. Dick never really got good to me until he became Nightwing. Plus, I always thought the Earth-2 Robin costume looked really, really stupid. And Dick was super-whiny, which irritated me. I don't mind the retro style or tone of Brave and the Bold, but when they start taking whole schticks from the '60s TV show, it becomes annoying.

 

[RogueDK]

I don't mind the retro style or tone of Brave and the Bold, but when they start taking whole schticks from the '60s TV show, it becomes annoying.

No it doesn't. But I can understand your misgivings. If you were never a big fan of the 60s show, then I can see this being somewhat grating for you.

I love the mixture of new and old.

 

[04nbod]

Also, to add to the Nightwing thing, Earth 2 robin never went the nightwing route, he kept the Robin persona for the rest of his career. Even after he went off on his own. I mean technically, Robin is his creation, not Batman's. I always wondered why Dick never made a real fuss about Bat's giving his mantle to random kids.

I know, its weird its become Batman's legacy character when really its Dick's. I also find it weird that no-one appreciates Robin as a single heroic identity with as much history and significance as the Batman himself. Its not like they called him Bat-boy like they probably would from the 50's to today, they made a separate character. In a lot of ways the old comics are so much better for character than today.

 

[bryanss3]

This may already have been posted elsewhere here but the trailer for the dtv Batman/Superman PUBLIC ENEMIES is now up. The style is very Ed McGuiness looking.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_OvtI_qMig

I wish Doomsday stuck to the source material as much as this looks like it is.I wish they'd redo Doomsday but I wouldn't want that to take away from another character getting a DTV

 

[BlueLightning]

It would have been worse if they did Doomsday closer to the source, it is way to complicated.

 

[bryanss3]

good point, but they could have made it make a little more sense. there was a lot of good stuff there it just didn't feel like what it was supposed to be to me and a lot of people.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I just wish they'd found a way to incorporate Steel, the Eradicator, Superboy, and Hank Henshaw into Doomsday. The Death of Superman story was pretty boring, but those four characters made the aftermath work. I actually liked them.

 

[Hush]

Speaking of Superboy, Public Enemies will be the first time we see him get animated, that I know of.

 

[KBX]

You positive SuperBoy will be in Public Enemies?

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, that's an awfully big assumption considering any other chance they had to use him they, you know, didn't.

 

[BlackLantern]

the only other characters I saw were Lex and Major Force

 

[Hush]

Im not positive but it is the scene where its revealed that Hawkman is actually Batman. So im assuming that they kept it in. This would also mean that we maybe get a Nightwing, Robin, Huntress and Steel appearance. Oh and that wierd Supergirl.

 

[KBX]

Its going to be interesting to see what they cut out. If Superboy does show up, if they keep the Hawkman, Captain Marvel fight, what are they going to do with Supergirl? A lot to happen in a 75minute movie....

 

[BlackLantern]

Im not positive but it is the scene where its revealed that Hawkman is actually Batman. So im assuming that they kept it in. This would also mean that we maybe get a Nightwing, Robin, Huntress and Steel appearance. Oh and that wierd Supergirl.

but those are two different scenes that come together....the Bat and S families are really only involved for like 10 minutes....Ill take the fight between Batman/Superman v Hawkman/Captain Marvel if they decide to leave everyone else out of the white house raid scene

 

[Hush]

See i might say that expect i really want to see all those characters animated again.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

It would be great if the ancillary Superman and Batman characters showed up. Kara could always be substituted for Cir-El. It's not like the story has to be 100% faithful to the comic.

 

[Hush]

Yeah that would be nice but i get the feeling they may show us the ship opening at the end of the movie to tease us.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I just hope Captain Atom kicks some ass. Dude never gets any respect.

 

[BlackLantern]

I just hope Captain Atom kicks some ass. Dude never gets any respect.

He got some love in JLU