
He also tries to kill the Joker and succeeds, though not in a way he expected to - a move made to stop the Joker from escaping ends up killing him.
Anti-Hero: Batman is not a stranger to this trope, but unlike most other incarnations, Burton's Batman has no problem with killing a mook. Anachronism Stew: While the movie takes place more or less in the present day, reporters use very old fashioned cameras, and a lot of the film's elements seem to be from The '40s.yet Batman himself has very modern technology, far better than anything that existed when the movie was made!. Kuru is now known as a spongiform encephalopathy, a close relative of the Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and the mad cow disease. The word kuru translated to "laughing sickness," presumably because the victims died laughing. Spread by the consumption of raw brains (the Fore tribe ate their dead relatives), the disease was eradicated by Western missionaries and doctors. Perhaps the most well documented cases are from Papua New Guinea, where until the 1970s a rare disease known as kuru was relatively common. Aluminum Christmas Trees: There really have been cases of people being killed by laughter. Vicki Vale, meanwhile, also believes in Batman - or at least says she does - but still could qualify as an Agent Scully due to the "nerd / babe" dynamic Knox has with her. Agent Mulder: Alexander Knox, at least to his disrespectful colleagues, who joke that he must believe in Bigfoot as well. Producer Michael Urslan confirmed the man is indeed Joe Chill in a Reddit Q&A. Adapted Out: The Joker is the killer of Bruce Wayne's parents, rather than Joe Chill, the man who shoots them in the original comic books, although some think Jack's partner in the flashback is Chill. Adaptation Origin Connection: It turns out that The Joker is, in fact, the man who killed Bruce Wayne's parents, rather than Joe Chill. Actor Allusion: Downplayed, but at one point, Jack Napier does exactly the same "spin one card around the rest of the deck" move that McMurphy does when we first meet him in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. This arc was resurrected in the Batman '89 comics. Aborted Arc: Billy Dee Williams's version of Harvey Dent, as the role would be recast with Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever. #BATMAN FOREVER MOVIE SET DESIGN SERIES#
Michael Keaton will return to play this version of Batman once again in the upcoming The Flash movie set in the DC Extended Universe, which will focus on The Multiverse.ĭC started publishing a Batman '89 series in 2021, featuring the continuing adventures of the versions of the characters as seen post- Returns, while ignoring Forever & Batman & Robin. The universe of this film was featured in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) as Earth-89, with a cameo by Robert Wuhl as Alexander Knox. Not to be confused with Batman: The Movie based on the Television Series with Adam West.
Sequels included Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin.