Pitch me your dream Batman show

Pitch me your dream Batman show

Batman rapes the Joker

2d show were batman fights criminals like in BTAS, c listers like magpie, orca, and eraser are in it, and later seasons deal with him having to deal with larger multiversal threats with help from other heros.

Two hours of dolphin porn

Gordon, do your fucking job. Do you know how many rapes you couldve stopped in the time youve shitposted on a vietnamese animation board?

Spiritual successor to The Animated Series. Different continuity, but clear inspiration in terms of art direction and tone

Make it a serial that follows a strong episode-to-episode continuity instead of unconnected episodes like most Batman shows
A tad darker than the animated series. Don't be afraid do show death on-screen

Incorporate famous Batman storys into its continuity. Something like an 3 episode arc adapting The Killing Joke, or stories like A Death in the Family. Maybe an arc adapting Arkem Asylum. Also light incorporation of other DC heroes. Don't make it intrusive, but an adaptation of The Dark Knight Returns or Flashpoint seen from Batman's perspective could work.

Huge batfamily presence. Idealy the show would go on for quite a few seasons. Over that time introduce the batfamily and have it change and adapt as appropriate.

Dark blue for Batman. I'm getting sick of Batman only wearing black. Time to bring back the blue

>Batman does actual detective work (i.e take forensic samples, follows blood splatter patterns, displays an understanding of chemistry, etc), talks to police and crime scene witnesses to learn more about the crimes.
>Violence committed by villains should be given complete freedom to be as brutal as possible when the story calls for it, we're talking Glenn's head being smashed in walking dead levels of brutality. Furthermore a greater emphasis on more psychologically messed up characters like Scarecrow, Two Face, Pyg, Dollmaker, etc
>There should be moments where Batman considers breaking his no kill rule. He should suffer anxiety attacks when really put through the ringer. He should be shown to suffer from his injuries in meaningful ways (His arm gets broken and he ends up having to take that into further fights in later episodes.). He should not be someone who heals up quick and has to rely on adrenaline and grit to push through.
>Focuses almost entirely on Batman, not Bruce Wayne.

>Additionally there should be plots that explore Batman/Bruce's views on the judicial system and his own personal belief in even the most depraved criminal being entitled to rehabilitation to become productive members of society again. There should be episodes where Batman talks people out of commiting horrible crimes instead of beating them up. There should be moments where he says something like "I know Joker can't be saved, but there's always one part of me deep down that holds out hope he can change". There should be a lot of emphasis on how he cares about the people of gotham, how he wants to stop people's lives being destroyed and when they are wants to help them mend it.

Forget it, user. It's Gotham.

Shit, forget my idea, I put my vote behind this

too bad the execs at Warner wouldn't. It's too smart for their tastes.
Basically look at comic where he talks the black into putting the gun down and turn that live action.
My idea for a Batman TV series is more or less my ideal interpretation of him.

For example in vol 1 of Batman Black and White there is a short story "perpetual mourning" about Batman examining a body in the morgue. He monologues about how the woman got her wounds from a mugging gone wrong. He goes to a diner and talks to the last person the victim saw and tries to get a better understanding. It's one of the most realistically written stories he appears in

I think what a lot of people forget that Batman's greatest strength isn't how hard he can punch the joker, not his gadgets, not his "indomitable will" but his belief that people can turn over a new leaf and become good. Joe Chill may have kickstarted his crusade on crime but it's his drive to save people from crime that defines him.

Batman is forced to kill someone
Alfred is dying in a hospital bed. He has a terminal illness and doesn't want his last days on Earth to be in agonizing pain so he asks Bruce to euthanize him with an overdose of morphine however Bruce feels like he cannot fulfil his friend last request.

Batman leaves a criminal brain damaged and in a vegetative state after knocking him out.
While Batman is struggling with the fact he's essentially ended a man's life he discovers the man missing from his hospital room.
Before the plug was pulled on the life support system Joker kidnaps the brain dead thug and strings him up like a puppet to taunt him.

It's revealed Joker was responsible for the man's condition. After Batman fled the crime scene to avoid the police, Joker happened across one of Batman's victims and delivered a viscous blow to his head.

just some ideas I had floating around

>It is a post WWI era, the great depression has just begun to impact North America. A sepia toned montage set this up, as news real footage type narration plays underneath the opening title credits.

>For the first scene, we open to a darkened alley adjacent to a Pantages movie theater, a criminal with a gun comes upon the Waynes, who are walking to their car. He kidnaps Bruce, takes him to the docks, where a waiting boat takes him to the sub-saharan desert. We are then treated to a montage of Bruce silently attempting to break his bonds and dispite repeated taunts and mistreatment, shedding not even one manly tear, albeit he blinks a lot.

>In the sub-Sahara, he is repeatedly tortured and then mind-wiped and frozen cryogenically. Every few years, he is taken out and given training and special programing. Another montage here shows him being trained by ninjas.

>At age 18, he is released on the world as the Fist of the Demon. On his first mission, he's supposed to go after someone known only as the Red Hood, who gasses him, ties him up, and drops him into a vat of acid and then sends the very dead body back to the sub-Sahara.

~fin

Not my dream show, but a No Man's Land cartoon would be pretty neat.

I wouldn't call it a "dream", but I'd like to see a heavily serialized Batman show, which Beware tried to be, but with TAS's setting and tone and closer adherence to the comics of the 70's and 80's.

Or maybe based on 90's Batman arcs by Dennis O'Neil, Alan Grant and Marv Wolfman.

A short what if comic, Bruce becomes the Batman even though he isn't rich. It would show the difference of Bruce's experience as Batman without the money.

>The Wayne family lose their fortune from a villian (Penguin?).
>Bruce gets taken hostage after watching the movie.
>Gets tortued/beaten and his parents can't afford to pay the ransom.
>Parents murdered after giving all the cash they could.
>Bruce escapes.
>Gordon gets sent to the same orphanage Selina Kyle goes to.
>Alfred adopts Bruce after years of being seperated.
>It's harder to for Bruce to be Batman due to not having the high tech gear, advanced training, and Batmobile.
>Story focuses on Bruce avenging his parents and regaining his fortune.

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New Batman And Robin
Entire show is mostly original stories with some Morrison adaptations in between
First 2 Seasons feature Bruce/Damien from Season 3 on Bruce passes the mantle to Dick

Batman dies in the first episode and the show is about the rest of the family.

That could be dope if handled correctly.

Batman: Legacy

I'd have him die before the first episode though. Nobody wants to see that on screen and too much of season one would be characters mourning

Nah, audiences would spend all their time bitching about not seeing it and wondering what happened. Better to show it and get it over with.

How bout make it some big mystery for the viewer. Reveal it in a season finale or something

Pretty much 'Gotham'.

A 4 hour long action animation where Batman and Robin kick and punch the shit out of giant robots and evade bombs, dynamite, C4. Let's not forget the soundtrack from the game.

World finest.

just like Brave and the Bold, with the first 3 minutes being a season long building up to some crisis, first half of the show is about superman and some A-lister random adventure, and the secon half is about Batman and some C or D lister adventures around the globe following a storyline, while superman will be just random stuff with no season long story

>your dream Batman show

Damian as Batman in that shitty future.

>Batman
>dealing with multiversal threats

So modern DeeCee has pretty much ruined fan's perception of their characters.

Why does everything have to be "OMGHUEG MULTIVERSAL"? What's wrong with a nice, subdued street level story?

This is fucking good.

This is very important, most versions focus on big, scary menace to criminals way too much.

Ideally, Batman cares about the criminals, a great deal. He has hope for all of them, but he also has compassion and genuinely wants them to get better.
BTAS handled that very well.

Look at Harvey's face, Gordon. It takes a lot to get to him, but even he knows you've crossed the line and are never coming back.

Batman and the Outsiders

Basically a sequel series to Beware the Batman, with the Outsiders rosters starting from where it left off (Batman, Katana, Alfred, Oracle, Metamorpho, Man-Bat).

They could start off with them being pariahs from the city since Batman never got to clear his name. Have them try to slowly win over the public and police over the season, while Batman does that as well.

Have the roster rotate throughout the season. Have some members leave, others like Black Lightning, Creeper, Black Orchid, etc. come in.

Have a more lighter, adventurous tone. Something more in line to JL/JLU or EMH. Deal with the Gotham threats that Beware teased (Penguin, Two-Face, more Anarky), but later move on to more global threats around the world.

Finally, a crossover with GL:TAS.

I think this is good, but I wouldn't cut out Bruce Wayne, though let's be clear Bruce Wayne is Batmans secret identity not the other way around.

Just make Gotham Central into a tv show

>and later seasons deal with him having to deal with larger multiversal threats with help from other heros.
No

this is what I mean. So for example I saw this idea on a forum somewhere:
>Batman is on the trail of a mystery person who's going round planting bombs and hiring villains to do his dirty work to try and kill one other guy.
>Batman goes to defend the other guy, gets put through the ringer a few times, is run ragged but ultimately foils the plot.
>There's a showdown where Batman stands between the original person and the target. The target turns out to be a child abuser and the his attacker is the father of one of his abuse victims.

The post suggested that even though Batman now knows the target is a deplorable child abuser, he would stop the father from murdering him to A) make sure the molester faces due process in court and get his sentence rather than get a bullet in the head and B) make sure the father doesn't cross the line and actually become a killer. Batman would care about both individuals equally. Very few writers would have the balls to put that into a comic though. Can you imagine the outrage DC would get with "Batman saves a pedo"?

I'm the person you quoted, but I have to say, I strongly, STRONGLY dislike if the sympathy angle of the villain/antagonist comes from them seeking retribution against unquestioningly evil folks, like child abusers. It's such a cheap cop-out.

It can be overdone of course.
But what it does highlight is that it doesn't take much to push someone over the edge.
I know a lot of people like to use the killing joke as the definitive example of someone trying to make Gordon, a perfectly law abiding officer of the law, turn bad, but imo TAS series did it better in the episode where Barbera dies and Gordon goes after Batman.

I'm aware that episode was a dream sequence thing.

I want a comedy spin off of Bruce Wayne the billionaire playboy and his wacky shenanigans with a bitter sweet twists as he struggles with his identity as the Batman.

Of a spinoff of Alfred and how he has to deal with all the crap Bruce puts him through.

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A Nezha is also fine.

Really anything other than the US IP of the avenger-archetype.

>Batman decides to house the most insane criminals at house he made, and tells them one of them is going to be able to go free, if they pass the trials. Like a game show

>Batman realizes that guns don't kill people, so he starts shooting perps.

I like this a lot, though I think it could be good to still focus on some Bruce Wayne moments, they're really good when done the right way.

Batman leads his own Batman League with Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Batgirl, Spoiler, Orphan, Red Robin, Batwing, Duke, Harper Row, Batwoman, and Clayface. Also Harold helps.

Episodes have different members of the team working together. Many different villains. Some villains (like Ra's, Strange, and Joker) are saved for big two-part big episodes and alluded to for episodes. Penguin would be a big recurring villain. The Batman League would also take on Task Force X at one point.

That show that almost happened where Batman and Superman are roommates

I've never been able to forget about that

I want to see it

Batman disappears and Robin has to do all the work by himself. Can he kick ass? Can he figure things out? How will the pressure affect him?

so, The Batman (2004) ?

Legends of The Dark Knight
Each episode is set during a different era of Batman. Some are Golden Age and have a 40s setting, where he fights mad scientists and mobsters. Others might be more modern and have more advanced plots. Every so often, do something crazy like have it set in an Elseworlds story, or even make up a new one.

It would be a lot of fun for me. You'd never know what you're going to get with any given episode.

Rough adaptation of Grant Morrison's Batman run with a slightly greater focus on martial arts (Cassandra Cain and Lady Shiva should be main characters, as well as Bronze Tiger and even Richard Dragon in some important roles) and a greater focus on each individual member of Batman Inc.

My point is mostly, it diminishes the heroicness of the hero (heroicness in spirit).

Like, batman finds guy who tries to kill his former abuser (or his child abuser, whatever), talks him out of murder, gets abuser in jail, person copes with their issues and moves on. Yeah, batman talking someone out of seeking vengeance is good, but

batman finds genuine psycho. Keeps digging to find shreds of goodness in them. Tries again and again to reach out to them.

Much more powerful, when the bad guy doesn't have such an obvious , easy and relatable reason. I'd understand and sympathise with such a guy. Batman has to be able to reach out to people I wouldn't. To not give up on them where I would.

Because he's a hero and I'm not.

>Alfred adopting Bruce on his own accord instead of basically inheriting him
>Bruce and Selina sharing some of the same upbringing, possibly even inspiring one another down the paths they'd eventually take
>Bruce becomes more justified in his brooding after losing his youth to tragedy, and spending years earning back his fortune $crooge McDuck style (and not just because "muh parents")
>AND THEN he becomes Batman
That sounds fucking cool. A low-tech Batman would be interesting, too, especially if he's played as an "urban legend" type of character instead of some armored fuck with a Batman™ logo on everything he owns and wears.

I would be interested in a story where Batman catches someone like a murderer or a child abuser and after making sure they go through due process and completing their sentence and are released, drops in on them to make sure they're staying straight. The plot could focus on how the perp is trying their best to do so amid scrutiny from everyone. Even Alfred and Gordon are sceptical. But then its up to the writers to decide if they fail Batman and go back to their old ways.