Since we're skipping Batman's origin story do you think they should...

...Recount Batman's origin story in flashback form during a solo Batfleck movie? Or should Warner Bros. get together with DC Comics and create a graphic novel or two based upon Batfleck's origin story? Or even better, should Warner Bros. contact their animation house that's doing these DC New52 direct-to-video films like Justice League: War and have them make an animated Batfleck origin story that connects directly to the DC Cinematic Universe?

Because I'm always interested in origin stories and Batfleck's origin story has obviously got to be different from the Christian Bale's Batman's origin story.

I think they're better off skipping it altogether. Like Superman, everyone knows Batman's origin story. There's only so many different times you can tell the same origin story. The 1989 Batman movie didn't tell his origin story and it worked out fine there. Batman was more scary when you knew barely anything about his history.

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Originally Posted by ToriJ

I think they're better off skipping it altogether. Like Superman, everyone knows Batman's origin story. There's only so many different times you can tell the same origin story. The 1989 Batman movie didn't tell his origin story and it worked out fine there. Batman was more scary when you knew barely anything about his history.

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But surely there wouldn't be any harm in doing a one-off canonical graphic novel about it, would there?

how about this time they have joe chill kill bruce wayne's parents in an alley and then little bruce is scared of bats and becomes the batman

There's no reason to tell it, really. We have it with Nolan's series and we certainly have it with Gotham. It would be a waste of screentime to do another take on his origin story.

Origin stories are boring and everyone knows them. I like seeing alternate realities of characters based on the same events that happened to him; seeing a different sort of person Bruce became because of his childhood trauma would be interesting.

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Originally Posted by Johnny_10921

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Originally Posted by ToriJ

I think they're better off skipping it altogether. Like Superman, everyone knows Batman's origin story. There's only so many different times you can tell the same origin story. The 1989 Batman movie didn't tell his origin story and it worked out fine there. Batman was more scary when you knew barely anything about his history.

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But surely there wouldn't be any harm in doing a one-off canonical graphic novel about it, would there?

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Pretty sure Batman Year One has that covered.

Yeah, skip the origin stuff. MCU is skipping origin stuff now. I think Dr. Strange will be the frst character movie to do so. Batman doesn't need one either.

The turn-around between reboots and new actors taking the helm (or mask, ha!) for superhero franchises is becoming so small that origin stories are becoming increasingly useless and annoying. Batman doesn't need one. Spiderman doesn't need one. Enough with the origins.