the BTAS batman is way more frightening
Because being calm like this -oooooh can’t be good
See this is why I really don’t like the new Batman movies;
Batman is a calm, stoic and logical character and he is, for the most part, ALWAYS calm in what he does and that is terrifying and he knows it’s terrifying - especially to the majority of the volatile villains who cannot find their calm most of the time. It’s also why he’s a great opposite to the Joker in that respect.
Christian Bale is a man in a Batman suit putting on a funny voice and purposefully angry voice, it’s not Batman and it doesn’t convey the feeling of eery calm that you get from a stone faced Batman locked straight onto you - it conveys an angry guy baring his teeth and shouting like he has a chest cold.
That’s also personally why I prefer Michael Keaton’s version of Batman; because he’s calm, collected and didn’t raise his voice the majority of both the Batman films he was in. He was the night! He was calm. Dark. Full of mystery and full of danger people couldn’t read straight away because of how calm he was. That’s what Batman is.
Okay, rant over, going to go draw. <3
I don’t mind the new Batman movies, I rather like them, but this is a good point too. BTAS is the first Batman I really remember getting into many, many years ago. And this post is right. He was really, really calm, and would kinda have a conversation in this calm voice like, “Alright. It’s you, me, and 30 stories,” like he was just saying something normal, like, “Alright, it’s you, me, and the coffee shop across the street.” Just calm, like nothing bad could happen, then the camera shows you the view below the bad guy and it’s like, “Oh crap.”
And yeah you know Batman doesn’t kill people, but the BTAS Batman would make you question it each time. Like you just know he isn’t going to do it, then he keeps talking and you’re like, “Weeeeeell… maybe he is… omg he is omg omg omg omg OMG OMG OMG BATMAN!!!” Then it’s like, “… oh… nevermind… but damn!”
I think the only thing more intimidating is when the bad guy would be like, “I’ll never tell never!” And Batman would be like, “Smirk.” Then he’d be like, “Alright, suit yourself,” then just let them go. Like JESUS! I mean he’d catch them, sure, but just that two second smirk like, “Well o.k. if you don’t want to tell me anything that’s fine,” then, “Just kidding gonna drop you now.”
He’d yell sometimes, but it was usually unexpected and justified, you know? Like when Harvey Dent became Two Face? And he reaches for him like “HARVEY!” Because that was his friend. And he sees his face and just shakes his head like, “No…” He’d yell over stuff like that. But even when you were arguing with him, he wouldn’t yell. Robin yelled about Tony Zuko and Batman was like, “You’re not getting involved,” and his voice got harder, but not loud, it was just that, “Batman out,” snap, and that’s it, don’t need to yell.
Randomly I’m really into Batman lately what is this?