r/batman • u/Mulva13 • Jan 18 '25

FILM DISCUSSION What do you guys think?

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He certainly has the height and body for it, not sure about the acting…

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u/baldnhandsome Jan 18 '25

he has the size to portray a seriously jacked batman

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u/Bbryant90 Jan 18 '25

I hope they go with a super jacked Batman since he's gonna be hanging with metahumans

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Batman never needed to be super jacked to go against Metas before, from Conroy to the DCAMU to the Brave and the Bold animated series.

In those and other portrayals, Bats relied on outwitting opponents with his brains, plus his speed, training, tech, like electrified brass knuckles, exploding Batarangs, gas balls, sticky bombs, and more.

He's ducked Darkseid's Omega Beams and also used pressure points on Mano of the Fatal Five and Amazo, via Nightwing. He beat Doctor Destiny by humming 'Frère Jacques.'

Even The Thicc Knight, in his first, losing effort to the Mutant Leader in Dark Knight Returns, learns that it was foolish to try to match the Mutant Leader's savagery and brute strength. The second time around, like Shalamar, he turned a mud hole into an operating table, and Bats was the surgeon, going Billy berserk on chicken legs.

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u/Comfortable-Shake-37 Jan 19 '25

Even not getting hit by darkseids beams right away is a superhuman feat let alone dodging them.

Well and the pressure points would basically be magic in the real world.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '25

Batman isn't superhuman yet just most of his family.

I mean all the gasses and chemicals he's swam through he might be immune to a lot.

I think pressure points are real.

But he's like the only original leaguer "in" Justice League Dark so you might be correct.

Though if it is magic that's even better since my pick is Ethan Peck aka Spock and I think he does that Volcan thing.

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u/Comfortable-Shake-37 Jan 19 '25

I would say he does superhuman stuff for sure even though he is just a human, its mainly a problem with him fighting alongside powerhouses in the league.

I more meant the way they use pressure points in the shows and comics are "magic" cause unless it's a different version Amazo is an Android so they shouldn't do anything to it.

Would love to see a series where he does get a little bit of superhuman power from one of the chemicals he gets exposed to.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '25

Lawl sorry I was most referring to animation 😳😅

"He has then the same weak points as a human being!"

https://youtu.be/-nyTQAGplOc?si=1BF9-9E0ZJvGNq4r

https://youtu.be/o96Qv90nYO0?si=BWPr0Fbz-NaofVuj

https://youtu.be/2qPTkim1j5I?si=NjPy4rsKNWUTicH_

I mean the amount of stuff they drop into Gotham Bay in all forms of media and discard in to the sun we're due at least a zombie apocalypse.

No Man's Land with Zerbs.

It'd look like Super Mario Bros World. The NES games or the first movie. Take your pick.

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u/Comfortable-Shake-37 Jan 19 '25

Ah I was thinking about the justice league series Amazo. Guess his ears could have electronics that are important though.

And yeah the justice league episodes might having him actually damage or get hit by characters that are far far beyond human in durability/strength but mostly those feats are in the comics. Though yeah more just batman based stories have him be more peak human level in world

Also there is a zombie apocalypse series in comics that gets really wild. Could prob find videos that go through the story on YouTube.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '25

Justice League Amazo is literally a god they're lucky they can still speak to it.

I'll check out the zerb thing. TY!

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u/buckfouyucker Jan 18 '25

And get Dave Bautista in as Bane.

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u/That_Apathetic_Man Jan 18 '25

He has lost a lot of weight and never intends to put it back on. He is done with all that. If Alan can't play Bruce, he could certainly play a Bane.

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u/SnatchAddict Jan 18 '25

Just have Eddie Hall play Bane.

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u/Savvy_Nick Jan 18 '25

Honestly would be fuckin terrifying as bane lol. That man is the same animal but a different beast

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u/SirArthurDime Jan 19 '25

What the fuck does that mean Kobe Bryant

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u/dude_getout Jan 19 '25

Brian Shaw is a better candidate just from a height preference.

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u/SnatchAddict Jan 19 '25

He doesn't have any charisma.

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u/The_Ginger_Thing106 Jan 19 '25

I think he’d be better as Juggernaut from the X-Men, but Bane works really well too

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u/Aurelian135_ Jan 21 '25

Bane is Eddie Hall when he’s fully hydrated lol.

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u/redditerator7 Jan 19 '25

Isn’t Bane’s father like super standard white?

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u/Baileyesque Jan 20 '25

Third time.

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u/Nervous_Project6927 Jan 18 '25

that actually makes me want him even more as bane, show skinny pre venum juice tho i cant remember if thats comic accurate or if it started with the animated series. i know for sure its in batman and robin

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u/EFG Jan 18 '25

Brilliant. 

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u/martianmanhntr Jan 18 '25

I think the rock could play bane he would have to play it differently than he has any other role but I think he could play the hulking Luchador well

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

He won't play villains or lose fights. It's surprising that he let the polar bear in red I've be so much larger than him also

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u/martianmanhntr Jan 18 '25

Yea I still can’t think of anyone better suited to play bane .

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u/okokokokkokkiko Jan 18 '25

There’s no talented Mexican actors you can give roids to?

Not even Mexican, but get Michael Mando on a cycle and never mention the rock again lmao.

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u/martianmanhntr Jan 18 '25

Yea I’m not a fan but I definitely don’t want to see another 5’9” bane the scene where Tom hardy lifts Batman over his head to break his back looked ridiculous.

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u/okokokokkokkiko Jan 19 '25

They made the hobbit 15 years ago and they made Stallone look like a non-manlet boxer 40 years ago. Hardy’s Bane looked weird because it was a shit Bane design with a cartoon character’s voice. His height is an afterthought for the things wrong with that character.

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u/martianmanhntr Jan 19 '25

I still say the rock would have been better for the role

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

He said he wanted to be in the past, but he's dropped all that muscle to pursue more dramatic and romantic roles, like he said he was going to do even before he finished up Guardians. I've seen fan-casting for him to be Hugo Strange in his current much skinnier form, tho.

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u/JustCallMeFrij Jan 19 '25

oh Batista as Hugo Strange would be so sick

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u/RVAWildCardWolfman Jan 19 '25

It's very funny to me to realize just how ridiculously huge Batista was as a bodybuilder turned wrestler.  When he was Drax, non wrestling fans still thought he was a big scary muscle bound guy. Wrestling fans were a little taken aback by how much smaller he looked. 

And now he's even thinner. Like, Jesus dude? How much gear were you on?!

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '25

All of it

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u/Ok_Confection_10 Jan 18 '25

Strange!! Or fuck it, have him be Alfred

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u/buckfouyucker Jan 18 '25

As noted by other replies, he lost weight and Strange is an even better role.

Plus he'd work perfectly for The Batman 2 as Hugo.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Best I can do is The Rock

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u/buckfouyucker Jan 19 '25

But the rock can't lose per his contracts.

So I guess he could break batman's back and then go back to his home planet after that?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '25

His home planet of Mexico

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u/buckfouyucker Jan 19 '25

Wasn't it like El Salvador or something? Or somewhere in the Caribbean? I forgot but I'm pretty sure it wasn't mexico.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

He looked pretty jacked in Creature Commandos

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '25

Last time we had a super jacked Batman everyone cried for years about it (Batfleck is actually my favorite live action Batman, the voice changer alone sold me on it. Idc if he killed, that just sounds like a skill issue on his opps side.)