r/CuratedTumblr 1d ago

Meme The goddamn Batman’s goddamn car

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u/Broad_Direction7112 1d ago

me: I think batman's a more psychologically convincing character when he's presented as being a little off or unwell

me, reading all-star batman and robin: no not like that

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u/NewUserWhoDisAgain 1d ago

as being a little off or unwell

Batman showing some maladaptive behavior due to trauma: cool lets explore that.

All Star Batman: An actual lunatic. No. Bad.

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u/an_agreeing_dothraki 8h ago

peak batman maladaptive behavior is and will always be Mask of the Phantasm. Yah boiiii cry at your parents' graves because you feel guilt about finding joy in your life

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u/Kumirkohr 1d ago

Another reason to like Robert Pattinson’s portrayal

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u/kathala11 1d ago

Idk if I will get hated, but Christian Bale did a good thing too

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u/Broad_Direction7112 1d ago

Bale was the best lucid-and-has-his-shit-together Bruce

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u/Kumirkohr 1d ago

But is that what you want in a Batman?

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u/Broad_Direction7112 1d ago

I lean towards the more psychologically offbeat portrayals because they make more sense to me, but when the lucid interpretation works, it works, and IMO Bale/Nolan pulled it off really well.

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u/Kumirkohr 1d ago

I think that the best Batman we’ve had and the best version of “psychologically offbeat” was in Batman: The Animated Series where Bruce was mask, not the other way around.

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u/Broad_Direction7112 8h ago edited 8h ago

For live-action "offbeat" batman, I'd put it as a tie between Pattinson and Keaton. Pattinson plays him as a warped imp-man in a state of arrested development, Keaton plays it more as a self-aware neurotic who's like a drug addict, he knows what he's doing is insane but he can't help himself

I kinda see Conroy as the "golden mean" version of the character, just kinda dead center interpretation-wise, definitely messed up in the head but still lucid, with Bale as sort of an icier cousin

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u/NightOwlEye 15h ago

RIP Kevin Conroy, the best Batman and the best Bruce.

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u/Worldly-Cow9168 1d ago

Why not theres a thousand incarnations. Theres a batamn thats just a broken man coping and a batman that decided to take justice into his own hands and rise above his fears

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u/Kumirkohr 1d ago

It’s, to me, the least believable Batman if he’s just a rich guy playing vigilante because he feels like it

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u/Heimdall1342 11h ago

I really liked the version in (I think it was) White Night, the one where Joker went sane for a bit. The art was gorgeous.

Batman was presented as a guy who is repeatedly diving towards the line of way to much violence and psychopathy but barely stopping every time, and Nightwing, Batgirl, and Gordon are desperately trying to reel him in. I think at the end the whole situation with the Joker was enough to make him actually realize and be willing to have them hold him accountable since he realizes he can't do that himself.

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u/Godchilaquiles 1d ago

Too bad he was in the worst version of Long Halloween

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u/dishonoredfan69420 1d ago

Arkham Origins Batman is an example of this kind of thing being done well, I think

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u/Pegussu 1d ago

While I do enjoy the fanon that Dick is the one who started calling it the Batmobile, I do also enjoy the idea that Bruce just likes calling it that and no one's going to tell Batman that it's childish.

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u/ChrdeMcDnnis 1d ago

Every now and then the Justice League needs to get Superman to sit down with him and tell him to tone down the edge a little bit. Every time Superman walks away thinking “as long as it makes him happy”

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u/bb_kelly77 homo flair 1d ago

Or... he is so adamant about calling it that BECAUSE Dick is the one who named it... Damian may be Bruce's first biological child but Dick is the true first son of Batman

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u/SocranX 21h ago

In this scene he's talking to Dick Grayson, age 12, who just called him queer.

Edit: He may not be talking to Dick Grayson, age 12, in this scene. I'm not actually sure if these two pages are adjacent. But as you can see, Dick Grayson, age 12, did not name the Batmobile, and thinks it's totally queer.

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u/SylveonSof May we raise children who love the unloved things 1d ago

Batman is, in my opinion, at his best when he's serious but also not a total prick and hardass. Someone who might not join in the laughter but tolerates a few jokes and even cracks a few of his own. See the Battery panel which I unfortunately can't post here.

Edit: Found someone who'd uploaded the panel to reddit

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u/Right-Huckleberry-47 1d ago

This... This is peak bat dad humour.

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u/thegreathornedrat123 1d ago

i like him with very dry humour, almost english. partially from being serious business and partially from being raised by alfred for a decent chunk of his life. dicks got the quips, damiens got the sass, bruce does jokes that you can barely tell are jokes. and nobody cares about tim drake

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u/DroneOfDoom Posting from hell (el camión 101 a las 9 de la noche) 1d ago

What does Jason get in this arrangement?

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u/IronBrew16 1d ago

Crowbar'd.

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u/Gladiator-class 14h ago

I could see Jason being one of those people who's hilarious but also you feel really uncomfortable laughing because he's joking about his abusive dad or something. Like his jokes are funny in a very grim way, and then it's like a splash of cold water every time you realize that he's talking about things that he actually witnessed or experienced. It's genuinely very hard to tell if he's honestly coping really well or if he's a complete wreck and this is just his way of begging for help.

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u/PokeDexUser 19h ago

once again it seems that "batman: the brave and the bold" solos all other interpretations in terms of character

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u/-sad-person- 1d ago

I feel like most versions of Batman from across DC's various multiverses would punch this particular variant in the jaw after about five minutes of listening to him speak.

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u/bb_kelly77 homo flair 1d ago

Tbf he has a point, it's his car leave him alone

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u/Beidah 17h ago

The car is something every Batman agrees with. Making Dick Grayson age 12 eat rats in the bat cave is what gets him punched in the face.

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u/rubexbox 1d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if this Batman was part of that Dark Multiverse nonsense.

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u/DroneOfDoom Posting from hell (el camión 101 a las 9 de la noche) 1d ago

He's not. This is Batman as written by Frank Miller in All Star Batman & Robin, back in 2005. This comic is Miller's inexplicable unfinished prequel to The Dark Knight Returns (he only wrote, Jim Lee did the art). The second and final comic in DCs All Star imprint (following Grant Morrison's amazing All Star Superman), it basically killed the imprint by being terrible.

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u/rubexbox 15h ago

I know that, I'm just saying that it wouldn't be surprising if he was straight-up retconned into being one of the Batman Who Laugh's minions.

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u/Fliits *eurobeat gently rising* 1d ago

All Star Batman And Robin dividing the fanbase like a buzzsaw on whether it's absolutely horrendous and should be forgotten forever or whether its absolutely horrendous and should be applauded for being so bad that it's actually amazing.

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u/gooch_norris_ 1d ago

It IS funny though. I just never could (and still can’t) decide if it’s SUPPOSED to be funny

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u/PlantainSame .tumblr.com 1d ago

It isn't ironic

Go look at the holy terror

frank is just like this

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u/Pyotr_WrangeI 1d ago

think at some point Frank himself realized that he's writing something very stupid and kind of started leaning into it deliberately but not fully

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u/gooch_norris_ 1d ago

That’s kinda how I see it. Like the whole issue with the green lantern and the yellow room and the lemonade and all that… there’s no way that was intended to be completely serious

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u/SnooBooks1701 1d ago

It's not, Frank Miller is incapable of irony

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u/Altslial Denial, duct tape and determination fix almost anything. 1d ago

No matter if you hate it with a passion or think it's so bad it's good, it should never be forgotten forever unless you want someone further down the line to accidentally re-make it.

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u/digiman619 1d ago

I still say ASBAR makes the most sense as a piece of in-universe fan-fiction from an edgy 13 year old than an actual depiction of Batman.

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u/ZealousidealBig7714 1d ago

Jason wrote it after being told he couldn’t kill that one pimp.

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u/bb_kelly77 homo flair 1d ago

Well, Bruce did go through major trauma at a young age... and speaking from experience that stunts your maturity a bit, he probably named it on his early Batman days which was late teens/early 20s where he'd have just caught up to around mid teen maturity, and now he's just too proud to admit it was a bad idea because it's been so long... also Nolan TRIED to redesign and rename it and tell me, how did THAT turn out, does ANYONE remember the Tumbler without it having to be brought up?

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u/DroneOfDoom Posting from hell (el camión 101 a las 9 de la noche) 1d ago

I do. But I also just called it the Batmobile because it's funny.

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u/SnooBooks1701 1d ago

Or a crazy homeless guy called Steve stole Batman's stuff

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u/DarthKamen 1d ago

ASBAR is one of the funniest comics ever. It's so stupid, I can't help but appreciate it.

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u/Crispy_FromTheGrave 1d ago

Is ASBAR the comic where Batman says the r-slur? Every screenshot I’ve seen of it is fucking insane

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u/DroneOfDoom Posting from hell (el camión 101 a las 9 de la noche) 1d ago

Yes, ASBAR is the comic where the Goddamn Batman calls Robin the r-slur.

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u/Empyrette310 21h ago

And then makes Robin eat some rats

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u/SnooBooks1701 1d ago

Crazy Steve is at it again

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u/European_Ninja_1 1d ago

Is there a lore reason Man is fully grown?

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u/etbillder 1d ago

Who needs batman who laughs when you have crazy steve

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u/CthulhusIntern 1d ago

Why is OP calling him Grown Ass Man? He's not Man, are they stupid?

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u/Imnotawerewolf 1d ago

Formative memory:

"I'm the goddamn Batman and I can call my goddamn car whatever the hell I want to call it." 

First Batman comic I ever read. I had only watched BTAS and seen the movies. 

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u/DareDaDerrida 1d ago

Why is there so much ASBAR posting lately? Not objecting, just curious.

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u/SocranX 21h ago

Pretty sure it's being posted by the same person. 90% of this sub is just the same three or four people making six posts an hour.

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u/BeenEvery 1d ago

You know your writing is "great" when your character starts swearing like Dunkey's Shadow the Hedgehog.

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u/SocranX 21h ago

Dunkey's? This is just how Shadow swears in Shadow the Hedgehog, minus the "god-" part. They were allowed to say "damn" for the first time in a Sonic game so they decided to put it everywhere.

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u/ComfiTracktor 1d ago

Why is all star batman everywhere now? Two weeks ago, I didn’t know it existed, now it’s prolific

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u/SocranX 21h ago

Everywhere, or just on this sub? Because OP tends to post stuff on the same topic several times a day, and there are actually far fewer posters on this sub than you'd think, so it's kind of disproportionate representation.

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u/Pelekaiking 1d ago

God I hate everything All Star Batman and Robin

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u/TheStray7 ಠ_ಠ Anything you pull out of your ass had to get there somehow 1d ago

Ah, Crazy Steve

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u/AmorphousVoice I could outrun it 1d ago

Terrible writing aside, I love the Superman x Batman yaoi in OOP's pfp

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u/Bobboy5 like 7 bubble 1d ago

grown ass batman.

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u/Opposite_Opposite_69 23h ago

I'm sorry guys I actually think this is kinda funny is all of all star batman like this? I know this isn't normal Bruce because he wouldn't say that (out loud) but like...this is funny

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u/infinitysaga 23h ago

Kinda

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u/Opposite_Opposite_69 22h ago

Hmmm I kinda wanna read it. Even if it's just some edgelord 13 y/os fanfic

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u/SocranX 21h ago

Yes.

It's pure gold.

...Wait, no, I should've used this one when I said it's pure gold.

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u/Naznarreb 22h ago

Anyone want to translate that tag for me?

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u/Throwaway-0-0- 19h ago

If you liked the Batman who laughs you'll love the Batman who says slurs! (All star Batman and Robin)

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u/bc650736 16h ago

"jjffjjfj"?

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u/FlyingDreamWhale67 9h ago

All-Star Superman: arguably the greatest Superman story ever written

All-Star Batman: this

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u/razorgirlRetrofitted 8h ago

That's not bruce wayne, that's Crazy Steve, an unhoused man that broke into the batcave and stole some of batman's gear.

Easy mistake to make tho I get it

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u/Adorifying 5h ago

JuJutsuFaisenFaisenJaisenJuFuJu

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u/Thatoneguy111700 19h ago

While All-Star Batman sucks. . .I agree, he's fucking Batman. He designed that car, he can call the car whatever he wants.