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hate bane. such a boring villain. glad that nolan didn't feel constrained by his appearance in the comics.

he could've been constrained by a flamboyant top to show off those muscles, though, eh? /tuomas

I think the idea has some merit, but actual comic stories with the dude are not that interesting

constrained by a flamboyant top

Unlike most super dudes, Bane actually has an in-story explanation for those ridiculous muscles, so I think it's fitting he wears a rather flamboyant top to show them off.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 10:10 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

the only super-dude whose muscles make no sense to me is skeletor. why's a walking skeleton got to be jacked? preposterous.

the thing about bane is he was created for a specific storyline, and nobody could really figure out what to do with him after that story was finished - so as a regular of bman's 'rogue's gallery' hes not so great, but for a one-off story (like a movie) he could be really effective

http://www.denofgeek.com/comics/746701/bane_the_man_who_broke_batman.html

Never forget:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lw3tmqrIIV1r7gxb3o7_500.jpg

so he's genius + psychotic + super-roids? the shots of him in the trailer show him flanked by soldiers (as guards?), i wonder if there will be a 'military experiment' angle to him

i'm p curious as to what sort of origin this version of catwoman gets to have, if any

it'd be funny if she was just an eccentric stripper

Maybe it will be revealed she's called catwoman because she can lick her own butt, who knows!

dramatic arts grad concerned for the 99%

i think it's just anne hathaway

she's using the same voice as from rachel getting married, if that gives a hint to what this catwoman will be all about.

Being boring?

The Pet Shop Boys as a very elegant Batman and Robin, this is a vision.

I would buy tickets for that.

my guess is that batman is captured, and that catwoman and JGL step in somehow?

There are at least two shots in that trailer of it looks like Batman being thrown down a well.

oh, so John Kerry is in this?

so is JGL supposed to be Robin or something? idgi

it turns out he's bat-mite

my money's on a nightwing type character, skipping robin altogether

oh please let him be Clitoris Red Hood

this movie totally needs Bat-mite to liven things up

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4Zn2a7jAz98/ScRaRHmZhbI/AAAAAAAAAP0/Igky76eu6Js/s400/bat+mite+(2).jpg

Maybe JGL is Damian al-Ghul/Wayne.

or... maybe he's TALIA al-Ghul

who is left in the inception cast that isn't in this series, now? is it just juno and caprio?

Maybe he's the cro-mag Bat-Man from Neal Adam's series. Or, even better, the evolved raptor Robin.

Evil Transformer Batbot

money is on Bane's "grows up in a prison" story somehow linked to Ra's al Ghul, either him being responsible for it or Bane recruited after that

who is left in the inception cast that isn't in this series, now? is it just juno and caprio?

um, Dileep Rao?

Ken Watanabe?

he's in the first one! "the decoy"

(spoiler)

Oh shit yeah, I forgot

who is left in the inception cast that isn't in this series, now? is it just juno and caprio?

― Philip Nunez, Tuesday, May 1, 2012 3:27 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

funny enough, if you were shooting frank miller's the dark knight, ellen page would be about right for the robin part.

Trailer looks great. Though I'm a bit surprised that Nolan seems to have taken those overblown, editorially-driven "big event" storylines from the 90s (Knightfall, Cataclysm) as the main inspiration for the story.

The Pet Shop Boys as a very elegant Batman and Robin, this is a vision.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 19:56 (Yesterday)

it happened!

http://i2.fastpic.ru/big/2011/0513/65/4f96c9aa402d2489ed9d70c01279e565.jpg

Hahah, that's right!

my money's on a nightwing type character, skipping robin altogether

I thought about this too; if Gordon-Levitt is supposed to be a version of Dick Grayson/Nightwing, maybe the movie will end with Bruce Wayne dying/becoming paralyzed and Gordon-Levitt's character becoming the new Batman, just like they did with Dick Grayson in the recent "Batman RIP" comic book storyline. (IIRC, didn't Dick become Batman for a while in the original Bane story arc too, after Bane broke Bruce's back?) That way they could do both the "Bruce Wayne sacrifices everything" story and end the movie on a hopeful note, as well as set things up for the future Batman movies.

I thought they were rebooting the franchise. So basically they could have Batman die and the world explode in a nuclear blast and it wouldn't stop the fact that in 5-6 years we'll be plunking down $$$ to see a new version of the Batman origin story.

maybe JG-L is just like his character in Inception where he doesn't really do much of anything but Nolan wrote him a part because he wanted him in the ensemble

He's be tossed around by Bane in zero gravity.

I thought about this too; if Gordon-Levitt is supposed to be a version of Dick Grayson/Nightwing, maybe the movie will end with Bruce Wayne dying/becoming paralyzed and Gordon-Levitt's character becoming the new Batman, just like they did with Dick Grayson in the recent "Batman RIP" comic book storyline. (IIRC, didn't Dick become Batman for a while in the original Bane story arc too, after Bane broke Bruce's back?) That way they could do both the "Bruce Wayne sacrifices everything" story and end the movie on a hopeful note, as well as set things up for the future Batman movies.

this is pretty much what everyone seems to be saying.

i suppose ultimately only one gravelly voice can prevail.

short of something that played out the whole Grayson/Nightwing arc over a couple movies (and even that would have to be done really well to work), the idea of a Batman movie with someone other than Bruce Wayne under the mask can fuck off imo

Reboot, remember?

Re boot

you know who they should make Batman, is Alfred