The DCFU Batman has been doing the hero thing for over twenty years.
Which means his experience is basically maxed out.
He works mainly in the city of Gotham, and he became a hero because his parents were murdered when he was small.
Put kindly, Batman is a hero. Put unkindly, he’s a vigilante — no different from any other lunatic out there. He wrestles with that, and that’s what makes him interesting.
The line of his that stays with you here is “he (Superman) was more human than I am.”
He’s thrown himself into war and crime for so long that he’s mentally worn through.
Straight out of the cinema programme: he carries the guilt of having killed Superman, the symbol of hope, in BvS.
But that smile when Superman finally turns up at the end was lovely.
No solo film in the DCFU, and you still feel for him. Good casting.
All sorts of talk going around about whether Ben Affleck will keep playing Batman, which worries me.
What struck me here is that Batman plays dirty!! (compliment)
Dropping the name of Steve Trevor, Wonder Woman’s dead love, right in front of her. Keeping Lois Lane, Superman’s partner, in his back pocket as the trump card. He goes straight for the soft spot every time, exactly like the comics. Wonderful lol
In the comics too, Batman builds the Justice League and quietly prepares for the day the members turn on him — kryptonite for Superman, and so on. It gets found out at one point and costs him their trust.
The back-and-forth with Alfred, butler and man in the chair, was great too.
Whichever version you pick, Alfred is snide and still the person who cares about Bruce Wayne more than anybody.
By rights the man in the chair should be Oracle — Batgirl, Batman’s partner, left paralysed from the waist down after the Joker shot her.
Barbara Gordon est bel et bien Oracle dans le DC Extended Universe | COMICSBLOG.fr
Wonder how they’ll handle all that.
Bane’s scar
There’s a scene partway through where Batman takes his shirt off. And there’s a horrible scar across his back. It could be from the fight with Superman, but my money is on Bane putting it there years ago.
So who is Bane?
Outwitting Batman takes a serious villain. And anyone with the power to take over the Gotham City he protects, break his spirit and destroy him completely is far more than a serious villain. It takes a terrifying mind, a terrifying will and monstrous strength. Only one man has all three. His name is Bane.
Bane, pumped full of the strength enhancer Venom, has both fearsome power and a fearsome brain. He is an excellent strategist as well, and single-minded about proving he is stronger than anyone alive.
Bane | Batman Wiki | FANDOM powered by Wikia
As you can see, Bane is very sharp indeed, and monstrously powerful on top of it.
In the comics he broke Batman’s back and forced him into retirement.
A closer look of Robin’s suit in BVS — WB Games Community
Robin is the collective name for Batman’s partners.
Sad to say, there’s a famous comics story in which the second Robin is killed by the Joker.
Batman v Superman has a shot of that Robin costume, so the films look to be following the comics here.
And the programme states outright that Robin was killed.
A slight aside: after he dies, the second Robin is brought back by a magic spring called the Lazarus Pit, loses his mind, and becomes a villain called Red Hood.
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No idea whether this Robin becomes Red Hood, but this is the first screen Batman to be carrying the Robin business around with him, so there’s a lot to hope for.
Oh, and — anyone who likes Batman absolutely has to play Arkham Knight!!! One of the greatest games ever made lol
The word “Penguin” comes up in one scene, and yes, that’s the famous villain.
Come on now — a villain all-star roster in his past, a DCFU Batman film… the wait is unbearable.
What was that message from the future??
Partway through Batman v Superman there’s a scene where the Flash calls out to Bruce from the future.
Anyone who has seen this film will have spotted that the Flash’s costume is different and that there’s no scene of him travelling to the past, so it’ll presumably be explained in Flashpoint or Justice League 2.
Barry Allen / The Flash — played by Ezra Matthew Miller
Plenty of people will already know this, but the actor playing Barry was Credence Barebone in Fantastic Beasts.
The Flash here follows the second Flash of the comics.
Same as the Barry Allen of the hugely popular TV series The Flash, currently airing.
Kept the same so viewers don’t get confused, maybe?
The TV Flash is ridiculously good as well, so that comes recommended too!
The sheer number of villains a film could never fit is part of the appeal, and between the interior lives of the characters and the storytelling, it’s the best thing on television (seriously)
In the film he’s a bit socially hopeless and never stops talking, which makes him the perfect lubricant in a Justice League full of grown-up, serious people.
The Flash says something about being able to talk to gorillas — is that Grodd?? lol
A solo Flash film is coming in a few years. That one runs long, so it goes near the end of this piece.
Diana Prince / Wonder Woman — played by Gal Gadot
The Amazons from the previous film, Wonder Woman, stand out far more than expected, which made me happy.
The sadness in “there was a man once who loved to fly” was lovely.
Victor Stone / Cyborg — played by Ray Fisher
A tragic young man fused with artificial parts by the power of a Mother Box.
His teenage anguish about being a cyborg is right there on the surface.
He can’t seem to warm to Aquaman, and then hearing what Aquaman really feels on the jet seems to do it.
And at the end his chest transforms exactly like on the poster lol
His potential is still an unknown. Wonder where he goes from here.
S.T.A.R. Labs
Cyborg’s father works at S.T.A.R. Labs, researching alien technology and the like. It turns up briefly in Man of Steel and Batman v Superman as well.
If you watch The Flash on television, S.T.A.R. Labs is the outfit that backs the Flash up.
There’s another organisation called A.R.G.U.S. too, which turned up in Suicide Squad. That one is more like S.H.I.E.L.D. in the MCU.
Arthur Curry / Aquaman — played by Jason Momoa
Looks to be a superhuman on Wonder Woman’s level.
Born to the queen of Atlantis and a human man, with a claim to the throne, though he lives in the human world for now.
Privately he’s frightened, which made him feel human.
His solo film arrives at the end of 2018.
Looking forward to seeing him grow up a little more.
Clark Kent / Superman (Kal-El) — played by Henry William Dalgliesh Cavill
Expected a long, laboured business about scrambled memories, and it moves briskly instead. Good.
The grave marked for Superman is buried in flowers, while at the grave marked for Clark Kent, by contrast, it looks like only his mother and his girlfriend ever came.
And in the end it isn’t the voices of the world that bring Superman back to the fight, it’s his girlfriend and his mother. Loved that.
Strongest weapon on the board lol
The fight with Steppenwolf was an even match, if not better.
But put his weakness, kryptonite, in front of him and he’s useless, so that’s probably how the next one goes lol
Steppenwolf
He turns up hunting the Mother Boxes, with a horde of Parademons behind him — zombie-like things made out of corpses.
Raw strength is his weapon, and he fights best with an axe.
At the end his axe gets broken and he is, in all likelihood, eaten alive by the Parademons.
He is Darkseid’s right hand.
More on Darkseid below.
The Mother Boxes
The equivalent of the Infinity Stones in the MCU.
Supercomputers holding power no human being could comprehend.
Steppenwolf once tried to terraform Earth using three Mother Boxes. Zeus, Ares, a Green Lantern and company stopped him lol
Wonder how they tie into what comes next.
The thief at the start
Holt McCallany — IMDb
That thief’s face in the opening scene — I’ve seen him somewhere~~~~ and it kept nagging, until digging through some English sources finally cracked it!
An actor called Holt McCallany, who is also in Fight Club, a great favourite of mine.
But! That still didn’t settle it, so the digging continued! He played the culprit in Monk, season 2, episode 11 — the one about the odd pair of brothers.
Ahh~~ so glad that finally clicked lol
Monk is a hugely entertaining show as well~~
Lex Luthor Jr. — played by Jesse Eisenberg
Lex Luthor: main villain of BvS, and Superman’s great rival in the comics.
At the end of this film he breaks out of prison and recruits Slade into the Injustice League.
Easy enough to guess he’ll come at Superman with kryptonite lol
Main villain of Justice League 2, then…
Deathstroke / Slade Joseph Wilson — played by Joseph Michael Manganiello
Deathstroke — Wikipedia
Deathstroke, or rather Slade, the one everyone knows from Arrow!!
Finally in the DCFU!
His abilities: superhuman physical power and the craft of a killer!!!
The Forever Evil storyline
Forever Evil appears to be the fight against a team of villains Lex Luthor puts together.
Forever Evil | DC Database | FANDOM powered by Wikia
The enemy of Justice League 2 is surely either Darkseid or the Injustice League.
The Injustice League, as far as I can tell, is a Justice League built out of criminals and organised by this world’s Lex Luthor and company, put together to stand against the Crime Syndicate — the evil Justice League from another dimension, whose members include an evil Superman.
Since they end up fighting for this world in order to face the Crime Syndicate, that puts them somewhere in dark-hero territory?
Reference
Forever Evil — Aniota Wiki (atwiki)
Good and evil joining forces against an enemy from another dimension is enormously appealing, but the DCEU hasn’t laid its foundations yet, so the odds look slim?
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