Is Absolute Batman ACTUALLY Batman? 

I agree with this a lot. Especially about how Batman doesn't need to be rich at all, going forward after the Pattinson Batman movies that really explore the economic complexity of Batman. After that has concluded I think going forward making Batman someone who is not rich would be very interesting. Like imagine that Alfred adopts him after his parents are killed because he was like the Wayne's neighbour in crime alley or something, that's more of the approach I'd have preferred over this, but it will be interesting to see Batman with a mother alive.

I mean you can say the same about Spiderman and uncle Ben's death. And Ultimate spiderman is working well for all I know

Batman vision from tim Burton, is Batman. "The Batman" from Robert Pattinson movie is! Batman! Those, they kept the original raise from character. Out of THIS. There's not batman.

I’ve been thinking it basically doesn’t sound like Batman ever since they announced what absolute Batman would be. If somebody word to describe the character to me without telling me his name I would’ve never thought that’s Batman 🤣

Naw Batman is an angry rich dude able to live out childhood power fantasies. Especially if you read his comics in the 70s. Without the money the character is just another costumed vigilante - he might as well be the Equalizer.

Tbh I haven't read Absolute Batman, but if Bruce in the Absolute Universe is just a poor kid growing up and the Wayne's are just some destitute family struggling to get by with Batman no longer being an orphan with him struggling on the streets to support his family with Batman's first traumatizing memory being his poor family getting beat up by cops and his mother OD'ing AND rides motogp motorcycle AND IS AN ENGINEER, THAT AIN'T BATMAN THAT'S JASON TODD.

I'm actually looking forward to this one (And Absolute Superman, too.). I think that Snyder should have left Batman after Endgame (Where he killed off both Batman and The Joker.), and that his writing lost its luster after that. But it sounds like he's reinvigorated now and he seems really excited with this project. Hopefully he's as good as he was when he first started writing Batman. I can see where you're coming from. I think that this is going to be interesting, though. Fingers crossed.

Thing is: The "What if...he wasn't rich" was already explored in-depth in the abadonded script to "Batman: Year One" by Frank Miller and Darren Aronofsky. What Snyder did with "Absolute Batman" is creating a Batman for the Twitter Left.

I think the only thing that makes Batman rich cool is the Batcave and the gadgets, him basically being the love child of Sherlock Homles and James Bond of superheroes

Not gonna make a decision until I've actually read it..but being a billionaire absolutely contributed greatly to him being Batman.. to travel the world, recruiting people to train him in various skills (thievery, fighting, deduction, etc) that takes money 💰..let alone his gadgets, cars, jets..you get the picture.. though I am excited to see where they are taking this character..

They already sort of did the whole "not a billionaire" story with Joker War. Granted he didn't grow up working class, but you get to see the fun elements with him having to do things on a budget. The reason him not being a billionaire makes for good story is because it makes him more of an underdog. In the context of DC at large, he's still an underdog even with his money. He's a normal human going up against things that can bench press planets, they money just lets him slightly level the playing field. I the context of just a self contained Batman story, the money can be a bit much. It becomes a very powerful tool that he can use to leverage pretty much anything to suit him. He's always got a solution for any problem because he can brute force it with money. The best elements of Batman imo are his strategising, detective work and his obsessiveness. Which is why the absolute best live action version we've had was Reeves. it's the only film version that put the detective element above the punching bad guys element. A good version of Batman will accentuate all these elements above just the standard fighting, because they're equal parts virtue and fault. His obsessive need to have a contingency for every eventuality was core to one of the best Batman stories in Tower of Babel, but counter to that, it's a character trait a lot of his friends and teammates rely on in other stories. Exploring the downsides of the elements that make him remarkable are some of the best stories for characters like this.

Any other Batman logo already has an ax design, to any iteration of him. This is the worst chest logo they have given Batman.

I love What-if alternate reality stories. But this guy is not the real Batman.

Yes

Same

The parents are probably gonna die later

He's Batman if the owners of the IP say he's Batman. That's really 'end of', imo. I'm not impressed and won't be reading it, but there are lots of people who are and will, and that's pretty cool

You are so right, I agree with everything said 💯

Wait what. I'm pretty sure they said he's still an orphan

I agree with you, Batman can still be Batman without being rich. An excellent example of this is in an episode of Justice League where the team accidentally create an alternate reality. They soon Discover that Bruce/Batman still exists. However, he’s not rich and is blind. He was still able to become Batman. All be it with different difficulties and more of them. his core character was still there, so it was still Batman. An important note to make is that he still became a child orphan.

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