The Dark Knight Rises Anticipation Station

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Can't wait for that action figure.

 

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I thought that was the fall of the White Knight.

 

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Not as far as the people of Gotham know. Batman took the fall to preserve Dent's reputation and save everything that Dent had accomplished in Gotham.

 

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Kate Beckinsale for Catwoman, Stana Katic for Talia and Christina Hendricks for Poison Ivy. They kill Batman and then have an orgy at the end.

 

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Can we just skip the part where they kill Batman?

 

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^^YES!!

Now I want Steampunk Batman!

 

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Is there a Batman they haven't done an action figure of? Pimp Batman? Firefighter Batman? Doctor Batman? Drag Queen Batman? S&M Batman? Astronaut Batman? Wal-Mart Employee Batman? Has Batman ever been depicted as a black guy?

I could go on for hours like this.

EDIT TO ADD: The most obvious one of them all - Luke Skywalker as Batman!

 

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More like Chicago.

I like The Dark Knight Rises though.

I'm a fan of The Riddler but I don't mind him not being the villain.

 

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Have you read Gotham by Gaslight and Master of the Future?

 

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You mean they actually do comics featuring different variations of Batman? That's kind of cool. I always thought all the different Batmans were just an attempt to milk action figures.

 

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You mean you've never heard of Elseworlds? Gotham by Gaslight was the one that started it all, a one-shot graphic novel putting Batman in a 19th-century setting. It was so successful that DC decided to do a whole line of graphic novels called Elseworlds which put various DC heroes in various alternate-history settings or "What If?" premises.

I believe the "steampunk Batman" action figure depicted above is a rendering of the Gotham by Gaslight/Master of the Future version of Batman.

 

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Do a Google image search for batman steampunk. There's lots of interesting stuff out there. Here's a picture of a steampunk Justice League.

As for Elseworlds and different versions of Batman, my favorite is Speeding Bullets. In that story, Kal-El's ship lands just outside of Gotham City and he's found and raised by the Waynes. They name him Bruce and he grows up to be a super-powered Batman.

 

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That's really cool. Some of them look more Steampunk-ish than others though. For example, Batman still looks rather modern compared to his counterparts. Instead of a cape, I'd probably giving him wooden wings he could glide with. As for Medieval Batman, it needs to go more in a direction using clothing and armour used at the time, like metal helmet and chainmail. Then he'd look more like a crusader.

 

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Yep, it's the Gotham by Gaslight version. I was going to post the cover of Gotham by Gaslight, but I figured since Samurai posted an action figure, I might as well follow his lead.

 

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Steampunk Aquaman is awesome.

 

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^^^ WOW!!!!!!!!!!

 

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^ Well, he's played the Joker ...

 

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Which ocurred to me right after I wrote that.