![]() ![]() Here, we look back at how Batman’s two most identifiable traits evolved from Batman Begins, where they were choices, to The Dark Knight, where they were emboldened to the point of transcendence. And imitators big and small also followed - look no further than CW’s Arrowverse for proof. Swipes by the competition were made in jest. After the film’s release, “grimdark” became a mode. ![]() The Dark Knight offered physicality in excess.īale’s Bat-voice - derided though it may be by the best Batman of them all, Batman: The Animated Series voice actor Kevin Conroy - and The Dark Knight’s high-tech take on the Batsuit in particular may have been, along with Nolan’s midnight-seeped visuals, the most influential aspects of the film. While Michael Keaton’s hauntingly obsessive take on the character - who got a wardrobe upgrade to galvanized rubber armor - in Tim Burton’s Batman and Batman Returns was a blessed relief, the World’s Greatest Detective got goofy again under Joel Schumacher’s watchful gaze, which gave us Bat-nipples and Robin-nipples.īatman Begins delivered a Bat-voice that launched a thousand memes, but only three years later, with The Dark Knight, did Nolan and Christian Bale’s take on a tortured, noble, super-rich vigilante, who terrified the world’s worst villains while clad in para-military gear and growling through his perfect teeth, catalyze the creation of an entire cottage industry. In the 1960s, Batman, the world’s most popular hero, was a camp icon portrayed by Adam West, whose Caped Crusader spent his days cruising around in a gray fabric suit sporting underwear outside his pants as the Boy Wonder cracked wise beside him. He’d get there by 2008’s The Dark Knight would get him there - but the climb to the era of Peak Superhero was steep. as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting.” ![]() “As a man, I’m flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed,” he says in Batman Begins. This is the retrospective you deserve and the one you need right now.Ĭhristopher Nolan’s Bruce Wayne wanted to inspire the people of Gotham - but he couldn’t do it himself. Why so serious? Because Christopher Nolan’s Bat-sequel gave us lots to talk about. On the occasion of The Dark Knight’s 10th anniversary, Polygon is spending the week investigating the comic-book blockbuster’s legacy. ![]()
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