The Dark Knight Rises The TDKR Batsuit Discussion Thread VI

[Godzilla2014]

I can't believe some her want the briefs.

I know. The trunks are better off gone.

 

[DaveMoral]

How do people feel about a black utility belt such as those depicted below?

I like it, and I think it would be a great replacement for the trunks on a gray and black movie Batsuit.

I actually prefer the brown, big pouched utility belts over all the yellow and capsule tech type utility belts.

 

[BatFan88]

The batsuit will be the same as in TDK i think,but i still like the suit from BB more

 

[BatScot]

I can't believe some her want the briefs.

I prefer boxers myself.

 

[BatScot]

i prefer all black...and like the begins suit...think with the proper adjustments it could be the perfect suit...but heres a thing that people dont get...
trunks wouldnt transfer for batman...maybe superman...but not batman...the GA would laugh like crazy if all the sudden after all these awesome all black costumes were on screen they decide to add trunks...and dont bring up arkham asylum the game...its a game...

First off, I get. Secondly, they would. Thirdly, the GA for the most part wouldn't give it a second thought as they've proven time and again that they'll pretty much accept anything. Fourthly, they'd be fine with a grayish costume also. WE are the ones that get all hung up in these sorts of things. What people don't get is the bigger picture... I'm not suggesting they should have put the DE suit on Bale but if they had we would have all gone and seen the film anyway and if that had been the only thing about Begins that was different the film itself would have largely been received with the same response, especially from the GA—a pretty goddamn good Batman film. And in any case, it's not like Batman is going to be posing on screen like MJ in a friggin' Hanes commercial! Done right the trunks would be only slightly more noticeable than any other blackish part of the suit. Hell, take two or three pieces of rubber off the TDK suit (from around the naughty bits) and you'd have something that in effect resembles trunks and the GA—and everyone here—would still have gone and seen the film, the film would still have made it's money, and no one would be complaining about the TDK suit looking like underwear.

 

[batsone]

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

I like the color concept but I still don't like the suit.

 

[BatScot]

Even so, tidying up the manssiere alone improves the appearance of the base TDK suit tremendously.

 

[JBElliott]

The trunks would work perfectly if done well. The trunks just look better.

If the GA accepts a guy wearing a cowl with pointy ears and a cape, they'd accept the trunks as well. Are trunks really sillier than a cape?

In the 1970's and 1980's people routinely work gym shorts over sweat pants while working out. When's the last time a lot of people wore capes? Given that, how can anyone expect the GA to accept capes on superheroes? Or accept superheroes for that matter.

 

[Majik1387]

No, they don't.

And there's a reason no one wears shorts over sweat pants while working out anymore; they realized they did nothing and they looked stupid.

 

[DaRkVeNgeanCe]

No matter how they make them look, I never care to see the trunks done on film, the comics that's another story. Let me ask what practical purpose do the trunks serve? As far as I know they serve no purpose whatsoever except for how batman was originally drawn at the time when all superheros visually had them.

 

[Majik1387]

I could care less about their practicality or purpose, they don't look good. They never did.

 

[TheBatman072]

The trunks would work perfectly if done well. The trunks just look better.

If the GA accepts a guy wearing a cowl with pointy ears and a cape, they'd accept the trunks as well. Are trunks really sillier than a cape?

In the 1970's and 1980's people routinely work gym shorts over sweat pants while working out. When's the last time a lot of people wore capes? Given that, how can anyone expect the GA to accept capes on superheroes? Or accept superheroes for that matter.

Are you positing that capes are silly?

 

[BatScot]

No matter how they make them look, I never care to see the trunks done on film, the comics that's another story. Let me ask what practical purpose do the trunks serve? As far as I know they serve no purpose whatsoever except for how batman was originally drawn at the time when all superheros visually had them.

What "practical" purpose does the chest logo serve?

 

[BatScot]

Are you positing that capes are silly?

Capes are silly.

But the goddamn Batman wears a goddamn cape... perhaps to conceal that fact that he's wearing trunks???

 

[TheBatman072]

I like that we're comparing the importance of the trunks with the importance of the cape and chest emblem.

 

[BatScot]

I could care less about their practicality or purpose, they don't look good. They never did.

Yet there was no uproar, from either the GA or fanboy camps, regarding the 'trunks' that, for example, Night Owl wore in the Watchmen film. No one complained of impracticality, or questioned the purpose, or the look. In fact, that costume was generally well received.

 

[regwec]

I think that Batman ought to wear a huge, curved codpiece. That would scare the criminals.

 

[BatScot]

I like that we're comparing the importance of the trunks with the importance of the cape and chest emblem.

That's what happens when you start talking about practicality... it is rather fun though, isn't it.

 

[BatScot]

I think that Batman ought to wear a huge, curved codpiece. That would scare the criminals.

To the left or right?

 

[TheBatman072]

That's what happens when you start talking about practicality... it is rather fun though, isn't it.

Yeah, logical fallacies are great fun.

There's nothing really practical or impractical about the trunks. They just look dumb. Whether they're in trunk form like how Darwyn Cooke draws Batman sometimes, or they're in brief form, or they're in manties form. They would just look stupid.

Neither the cape nor the chest emblem look dumb.

 

[Majik1387]

Yet there was no uproar, from either the GA or fanboy camps, regarding the 'trunks' that, for example, Night Owl wore in the Watchmen film. No one complained of impracticality, or questioned the purpose, or the look. In fact, that costume was generally well received.

Considering they make fun of the costumes themselves in the movie and the fact that Watchman picks apart superheroes, that's not quite a good example to use.

 

[BatScot]

Yeah, logical fallacies are great fun.

There's nothing really practical or impractical about the trunks. They just look dumb. Whether they're in trunk form like how Darwyn Cooke draws Batman sometimes, or they're in brief form, or they're in manties form. They would just look stupid.

Neither the cape nor the chest emblem look dumb.

The TDK logo looks dumb.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Spoiler

I like the larger chest emblem; the one thing I hated the most about the TDK suit was how tiny--and basically invisible--the bat logo was.

As for the grey, the only good purpose it serves to me is to contrast with the bat on his chest. Other than that, I see no reason why his suit should be grey.

 

[TheBatman072]

The TDK logo looks dumb.

No it doesn't.

I like the larger chest emblem; the one thing I hated the most about the TDK suit was how tiny--and basically invisible--the bat logo was.

As for the grey, the only good purpose it serves to me is to contrast with the bat on his chest. Other than that, I see no reason why his suit should be grey.

It wasn't tiny.

Look at it in relation to the size of the chest.

It was just the same color as the rest of the suit.