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Riddler is on a killing spree, and his body count includes city officials like cops and even Gotham’s previous mayor Don Mitchell, Jr.
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The trailer clearly wants us to get that impression, but why hide Edward Nashton’s face? Is this actually another familiar villain Batman already helped apprehend in the past? For all we know, this could even be the Joker.īoth trailers paint Riddler as a Zodiac Killer-esque criminal mastermind. To be clear, we don’t see the character’s face here, so we can’t be 100% sure Batman is talking to Riddler. Whatever that message is, ol’ Batsy clearly isn’t happy. He clearly wanted to get caught and pass a message to Batman. He even confirms as much when he tells Batman “I’ve been trying to reach you.” At this point, Riddler is wearing a uniform with the word “hospital” on it, so he may be in Arkham Asylum or another psychiatric institute. If we’ve learned anything from modern blockbuster movies, it’s that getting captured is all part of the villain’s master plan. The trailer opens with a SWAT team arresting Paul Dano’s Riddler, who seems happy to turn himself into police custody. Or it could be a souvenir of his military past. And if Alfred’s own forehead wound is any indication, Andy Serkis’ Alfred may be taking a more proactive role in Batman’s crusade than in previous movies. This doesn’t appear to be a man who plans for a future beyond Batman.Įven Alfred seems genuinely worried about the path Master Bruce is walking. More disturbingly, Bruce himself says “I don’t care what happens to me.” He’s clearly got a few screws loose, and he may be so consumed by his vigilante crusade and thirst for revenge that he has an actual death wish.Įven as Bruce, he has the look of someone teetering on the edge of sanity and maybe not showering quite as often as he should.Īnother shot shows some of the physical scars Bruce has accumulated in his two years on the job. Let’s just hope no one aims for his face. Like Michael Keaton’s Batman, he may also be trying to create the illusion that he’s not human and bullets can’t hurt him. He’d rather fight aggressively than use stealth and darkness to his advantage. It could be that this younger Bruce Wayne is just cocky. This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a bulletproof Batsuit on the big screen, but even Ben Affleck’s Batman didn’t particularly enjoy getting shot. We see multiple shots of Batman shrugging off gunfire in the trailer, including one where the Dark Knight nonchalantly absorbs a volley of machine gun fire. Clearly, Batman is at a stage in his career where he’s hellbent on eliminating crime, even if he has to savagely pummel every criminal in the city into submission. Oswald Cobbplepot thinks he’s destroyed Batman, only for the Batmobile to rise from the flames and slam into its prey. Later, we see a car chase involving Colin Farrell’s Penguin. "He wants to inflict his kind of justice," said Pattinson. Pattinson even acknowledges this rage in a FanDome interview leading up to the trailer's debut, hinting that the Batman role is rapidly consuming Bruce's life. The look on Pattinson’s face here suggests Bruce is struggling to contain what may well be murderous rage. We even see him bust out a Bat-taser to deal with one of his foes. As before, we have to wonder if this gang is somehow connected to the Joker, or if they’re a prelude to the rise of Gotham’s worst supervillain.Įither way, Batman is really going to town on these poor saps. The new trailer shows us an extended look at a familiar fight sequence between Batman and a group of hoods in clown makeup.