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Spoilers Batwoman - Season 1

Not sure I'm really digging it. On the one hand yes, if you're going to go for a TV budget batmobile some kind of muscle car is the way to go...but if it's going to be a batmobile made from a stock model instead of a full custom, you either want to go all style or all stealth, not this half-and half nonsense. So that thing either needs fins of the rear wheel arches and an afterburner, or it needs to loose the logo and markings altogether. As it stands it feels too timid to me.
 
I think if they dropped the bat logo and orange on the front fenders, the rest would work well. The bat logo is a little too Batman 66 which seems to be an influence.
 
The car is very fine and all but is that also the new hair and suit?

Ima need some CSI in here to enhance that quadrant. :D
 
I really like that design. We are calling it the Batmoblie and likely will be on the show. But we do not know it’s history. It might not have originated with Batman at all. The new Batwoman Ryan Wilder may have needed to create her own car from available resources. Either way it seems unfair to judge this based on previous expectations for a Batmoblie driven by Batman. This car is for a completely new character of a different gender. Who will have her own style.
 
As Batmobiles go, it's a nice one -- an understated, plausible one like the '40s models or some of the more subdued '70s and early '80s ones, and a refreshing departure from the fanciful, overdesigned Batmobiles we've gotten in the movies. A Batmobile that doesn't call too much attention to itself makes more sense than a huge sci-fi rocket car.

Although a part of me looks at it and feels it should have a snarky onboard AI called A.L.F.R.E.D.
 
Adam West Batman, we assume was a super genius, who had a degree in nuclear physics, or the education to have gotten a degree in nuclear physics, or he studied under an assumed name and has a degree in nuclear physics with that false identity... Or he farmed that #### out to Alfred.

The 60's era Batmobile was an electric car?

Point is, would you trust a hoodrat with an atomic pile?

(Is Ryan a Hoodrat?)

I barely trust Batman, and I know that that leaky stash of plutonium was more illegal than the crimes of any of the costumed weirdo's from 1967ish Gotham.

Robin had 13 toes.
 
That car is underwhelming. It reminds me of car customizes from the 70s who could not build their own Futura Batmobile, so they slapped red bats, pin-striping and fiberglass parts on it, but itstill looked like a stock sports car, not anything a superhero would drive.
 
Obviously a CW series isn't going to be able to go all out the way a TV series can, so I'm pretty happy with this as our Batmobile. It's got enough embellishments to be recognizable as a Batmobile, but within the TV budget limits.
 
Christopher said:
It's the Batwoman logo, which has already been established as red on black.
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I mean having the logo on the car is a little too "Batman 66" as in kind of campy, not that the logo itself is too derivative. I worded that poorly, I meant to convey "The bat logo (being displayed as it is on the batmobile itself) is a little too Batman 66 which seems to be an influence (of the Batwoman batmobile design details)."

Guy Gardener said:
The weird bit is that the 5 most common names for cars all start with "B".

My point is, is that Ryan may be genetically compelled to give her Batmobile a name of it's own, which would give it a secret identity, just like Batwoman.
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Of course, the car already has a name that starts with "B". ;)
 
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FormerLurker said:
With Robin saying "Turbines to speed" before they head out each time, I'm thinking no. It probably had a jet engine under the hood like the '89 Batmobile Keaton drove around.
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It's atomic powered.

Atomic energy heats water, creates steam, turns turbines, creates electricity, an adaptive energy that is used to turn the wheels rapidly or power the jet turbine.

That would be two sets of turbines?

Electricity generating turbines, and thrust generating turbines.

Although Doc Brown's Delorian has both a Mr Fusion, and an internal combustion engine.

Does the Batmobile require plutonium, does the pile in the cave charge the car's batteries with clean electricity, or does the car also need jet fuel for the jet engines?
 
JD said:
Obviously a CW series isn't going to be able to go all out the way a TV series can, so I'm pretty happy with this as our Batmobile.
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TV series--even kid's TV shows have paid for custom cars (or had them modified) that did not look like a barely embellished stock off of the lot. If the Kroffts' always low-budgeted Electra Woman and Dyna Girl TV series could afford to lease or build the vehicle for that 1976 series--
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--then the Berlanti series should be able to do something more imaginative than a barely modified stock car.
 
Mr. Adventure said:
I mean having the logo on the car is a little too "Batman 66" as in kind of campy, not that the logo itself is too derivative. I worded that poorly, I meant to convey "The bat logo (being displayed as it is on the batmobile itself) is a little too Batman 66 which seems to be an influence (of the Batwoman batmobile design details)."
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Not really -- the idea predates the TV series (where do you think they got it from?). The very first "Batmobile" in the comics had a bat-shaped hood ornament. The '40s and '50s Batmobiles had a large 3D bat head sculpture on the front, and one or two of the '50s ones had the Batman emblem on the side. The '60s models had a stylized Batman cowl shape painted or molded on the hood. If anything, this car reminds me most of the '70s and '80s comics Batmobiles, which tended to be sportscars with the Batman logo or a stylized Batman face painted on the hood.
 
Christopher said:
Not really -- the idea predates the TV series (where do you think they got it from?). The very first "Batmobile" in the comics had a bat-shaped hood ornament. The '40s and '50s Batmobiles had a large 3D bat head sculpture on the front, and one or two of the '50s ones had the Batman emblem on the side. The '60s models had a stylized Batman cowl shape painted or molded on the hood. If anything, this car reminds me most of the '70s and '80s comics Batmobiles, which tended to be sportscars with the Batman logo or a stylized Batman face painted on the hood.
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With the red trim lines and built up psuedo-fin spoiler I'm going to go with the Barris Kustom Batmobile being a major inspiration and having the logo on the car is still a bit too-Batman 66 for me, no matter who else did it (yes, believe it or not I'm aware of those). Just personal taste, man, you're welcome to feel differently.
 
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