Since the eighties, there has been a very strong tendency to treat Batman as a loner.
However, there is a reason that this facet of Batman has been downplayed in the popular imagination in recent years. Anybody with even a passing familiarity with Batman understands the importance of the family.
LEGO BATMAN MOVIE ROBIN SERIES
Batman: The Brave and the Bold is a series that is quite literally about how awesome Batman is and how many super-friends he has from Aquaman to Green Arrow to Metamorpho. Batman: The Animated Series did an excellent job cultivating that expanded family across its run. Batman! focused on “the dynamic duo” and introduced the entire concept of Batgirl. This idea of Batman constructing a family spilled over into other media as well. This is to say nothing of peripheral supporting characters like Alfred Pennyworth or James Gordon or Azrael or even Superman. This is particularly true within the source material, in which Batman has assembled an entire “Batfamily” that is comprised of multiple characters carrying the “Batbranding.” Over the years, there have been dozens of Robins, quite a few Batgirls, a couple of Batwomen. To be fair, this is hardly a provocative or insightful observation about Batman as a character. For all the character’s lauded darkness, The LEGO Batman Movie celebrates the hope at the heart of that mythology. The LEGO Batman Movie offers a very compelling portrait of Batman as a man so traumatised by loss that he never allowed himself to grow up, while somehow subconsciously cultivating a family around himself. This allows The LEGO Batman Movie to be explicitly about Batman in a way that few Batman stories can be.Īs such, The LEGO Batman Movie offers a very broad summary of the Batman mythology and characters, surveying decades of printed and screen material to reduce Batman to his most simply and essential qualities. The script is crammed with references from the length and breadth of the character’s publication history, from “Bat shark repellent!” to particular costume styles to minor villains to musical cues to fourth-wall-breaking references to other media that has inspired various interpretations of the Caped Crusader. The framework of The LEGO Batman Movie allows the characters and the script to comment upon the Batman mythology.
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