Batman is a DC Comics superhero created in 1939 by Bill Finger and Bob Kane. He is known for his dark personality and lack of remorse when fighting villains. Batman is the secret identity of wealthy Bruce Wayne and uses gadgets, science, and fighting skills to defeat enemies. His origin story involves witnessing the murder of his parents, which prompts him to eliminate bad guys in the corrupt Gotham City. Batman has been recreated many times, with significant inconsistencies in behavior and appearance. The character has been the subject of films, television series, and graphic novels, with interest in the character reviving periodically.
Batman is a comic book superhero character created in 1939 by the writer/illustrator team of Bill Finger and Bob Kane. He is a DC Comics character, first appearing in Detective Comics #27. He has many characteristics that differ from other comic book superheroes, including an extremely dark personality who tends to show little remorse when exacting vigilante justice on various villains. Furthermore, so many people have “recreated” Batman over the years that there are significant inconsistencies in how the character behaves, feels and looks, and there are also many different interpretations of the degree or lack of participation that sometimes Batman’s sidekick Robin is involved in his story.
There are some aspects of Batman that remain consistent. He is the secret identity of wealthy Bruce Wayne, (usually now called a billionaire due to inflation). He has a butler, Alfred, who knows his identity and who was involved in raising Bruce after his father and mother were murdered. Batman doesn’t have superpowers, but he is intellectually gifted and makes use of gadgets, science and well-honed fighting skills, and physical strength to defeat his enemies.
All Batman origin stories tend to agree that the character was deeply hurt by witnessing the death of his parents at an early age. In many interpretations the killer was simply a robber. Tim Burton’s Batman movie differs in this regard by suggesting that it was the Joker who killed Batman’s parents. The loss of Bruce’s parents and the corrupt nature of Gotham City, where Bruce lives, prompt him to look for a way to eliminate the bad guys. Gotham City is often portrayed as intensely corrupt in nearly every aspect of its society. The police force cannot be trusted either, since many of them are trapped.
Batman’s origin story is the starting point for many different interpretations of the character. In the initial versions, he’s the inscrutable near-antihero, and in others, like the 1960s television series, he’s a much more level-headed boy living in a much less corrupt city. The 1960s series leaned heavily into the field and prompted some to think about killing off the character for good. However, interest in this superhero revived in the 1980s, first with Frank Miller’s popular graphic novel comic book series The Dark Knight Returns and then with Tim Burton’s 1989 film. Both Miller and Burton were determined to sending the image of the law-abiding television series superhero back to its much darker beginnings, even if Burton has done so with considerable humor.
A string of films followed Burton’s first, most of them of lesser quality. Interest in the character revived and also led to several animated television series. Once again, however, interest in Batman seemed to fade, particularly as the success of the films waned. However, interest spiked again with the 2005 film, Batman Begins, an attempt to reboot the series and launch it into perhaps its darkest tone yet. It focuses much more on Bruce Wayne’s athletic training, on his corrupt city’s search for redemption, but also on a more morally sound character than Burton’s films, who in some ways will echo the 60s TV character, minus the camp . For fans of the character, this recreation was very satisfying and fans eagerly awaited the sequel to Nolan’s first film, The Dark Knight, which premiered in the summer of 2008.
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