While “The Batman” is supposed to be set during Bruce’s second year donning the superhero mask, Reeves told CNET that his personal connection to “The Long Halloween” goes back decades. The film opens with a sweeping look at Halloween in Gotham, seeming to cite the 1996 limited comic book series “The Long Halloween,” which takes place during Bruce Wayne’s early years as Batman. Which Comics Were Referenced? “The Batman” Warner Bros. The Arkham family, however, has always been portrayed as suffering from mental illness in the comics, leading to the founding of the asylum where “Batman” villains are famously held captive. One comic, “The Flashpoint Paradox,” did capture Martha’s insanity, showing her as The Joker and Thomas as the original Batman. In the comics, Martha’s maiden name is Kane (after Batman co-creator Bob Kane), and her niece Kate Kane becomes Batwoman. Little did Bruce Wayne know, however, that his mother had a long history of mental illness and was the first patient at Arkham Asylum, where she was treated after witnessing her parents’ murder-suicide. The long-standing Gotham elites, the Arkhams and the Waynes, cemented their status as the wealthiest families in the city with Thomas and Martha’s marriage. Two decades after mayoral candidate Thomas’ death, The Riddler brings forth evidence that proved Thomas hired Falcone to kill a journalist who threatened to reveal the truth about Martha, whose maiden name is Arkham in “The Batman.” Keep an Eye on Bruce Wayne’s Family Tree “The Batman” Warner Bros./screenshotīruce’s parents Martha and Thomas Wayne founded an all-boys orphanage that fell into disrepair after their double homicide, allegedly on the order of mob boss Carmine Falcone (John Turturro). “This story of corruption goes way back and actually becomes something that touches onto Bruce’s past and becomes very personal,” Reeves said, citing Bruce’s “awakening” about his parents’ past that “shocks him to his core.” Kicking off with the murder of the mayor and eventually leading to the beheading of the District Attorney, The Riddler’s mission to right the past wrongs - or “sins of our fathers” - culminates in a reckoning for the Waynes. “In the wake of each of these murders, he leaves information about these supposedly legitimate characters and shows you how they are illegitimate, and how they’re corrupt.” “The crimes that The Riddler is committing, they’re all meant to describe a history of ,” Reeves told Den of Geek. It’s tempting to spot The Riddler’s motivation as a blood tie to the murdered newspaper reporter who threatened to dismantle the Wayne family name (bear with us here), but apparently all The Riddler - later learned to be forensics accountant Edward Nashton - wanted to do was to reveal all the lies within Gotham. The History of Gotham Is at the Core of “The Batman” “The Batman” Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection So, what questions are we left with after seeing “The Batman”?Ĭue up every rendition of “Something in the Way” and keep scrolling to read all the riddles we can unravel. The “B-verse” is expanding into an HBO Max spin-off series, with a rumored film sequel on the way before 2027. Nicholas Hoult Dropped Out of ‘Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’ to Finish ‘The Great’Īdd in The Penguin (Colin Farrell), The Riddler ( Paul Dano), Catwoman (Zoë Kravitz), and clues pointing to an anonymous El Rata Alada, or winged rat, and the world on offer in this film seems to be just the tip of the iceberg.
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