Year One started the trend of infantalizing her and her Batgirl years. Burnside continued that but it was also a necessary tonal break from Simone's run which went too far in darkening her character.
Babs was only called BatGIRL because the Batwoman name was already taken. She was always meant to be a more mature character. Guys like Killer Moth were standard Batman villains of the time not toned down threats/joke villains for her to fight. I remember Dini talking about her DCAU incarnation and how they didn't want to tone down the level of threat she faced and sure enough she is helping Batman fight killer robots, Two Face, a corrupt DA, Catwoman and Roland Daggett on the show. Anyway, I don't mind her wearing the Burnside outfit and even some humor and lightness in her stories, so long as the character is taken seriously and she is facing the threats that are the same level as what Batman usually deals with.
I'm surprised she's purple considering the trend of Bat-media in live action for the past 20 years has been black or grey.
I think it may have been a deliberate play to move away from the ultra-dark tone of the early DCEU stuff. I don’t expect a fluffy movie by any means but the costume has me thinking it’ll be more lighthearted than something like BVS or the Reeves Batman movie.
So Bruce Wayne is going to be older than Commissioner Gordon in this new universe. Weird.
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How would that be possible when Jeffrey Wright is 20 years older than Robert Pattinson. This isn't like casting an actor in their mid-20s as a high schooler. Wright is 56, whatever they did to try to make Gordon look younger since he isn't a commissioner yet, he can't logically be younger than Bruce.
Last edited by Johnny; 01-16-2022 at 05:54 AM.
This whole Batman confusion has got me craving for a flashpoint reset or just crisis everything together into something that makes sense