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The best Batman ever is Kevin Conroy, but if live action, then is a very close call between Adam West or Michael Keaton.
Nailed it right here. West was a perfectly good Batman for his time, but Keaton is fantastic and aged well. No one else comes close.
Keatons Batman was a very believable detective.
All of Kevin Conroy’s stuff was great, but I think TAS is my favorite.
Kevin Conroy was a pretty kick-ass live action Batman, too.
Lego Batman
Will Arnett
That movie is just so much better than it should be
A seemingly unpopular opinion, but Christian Bale’s Batman is my favourite live action version of the character.
Same. Lego is a close second.
Michael Keaton. I like the campy nature in general of the Tim Burton era.
However I will say, that I find later villain depictions to be excellent. Ledger’s Joker, and Colin Farrel as Cobblepot are two examples that quickly come to mind.
Those campy villains were amazing though - Ledger was an amazing Joker but so was Nicholson and so was Hamill… Carrey as the riddler was also amazing!
Honestly I think part of the appeal of Batman now is that the characters are archetypes and each portrayal shows how the universe might unfold slightly differently based on the specific personality traits involved. Will we have a lone ronin Joker like Ledger? Will it be Nicholson’s charismatic mafioso? Phoenix’s debilitated martyr? Hamill’s obsessed moralizing sadist?
Each one shows an interesting twist on the central character and gives a fresh story that, while great on it’s own, really shines when viewed through contrast.
Nicholson and Ledger were supremely competent agents of destruction - Hamill and Romero seemed entirely focused on their arch to the point of their own destruction - meanwhile Phoenix was utterly incompetent and gained notoriety only because he was a useful idiot latched on to by a society in deep pain (@see the rise of right wing dictators).
It’s fucking awesome. Batman is essentially new media’s Arthurian Cycle.
Visually, Batfleck is the best live-action Batman. He really pulls off the imposing look since he’s actually a pretty huge dude. As for the character itself, any of them who actually does some detective work instead of just punching people for answers.
Oddly, I hated Batfleck in the Joostice League but loved him in the Snyder Cut. He was so much more badass in the Snyder Cut.
Batfleck is probably in the worst position to be admired simply because the movies were so generally disliked and went against the cultural zeitgeist (Marvel cool - DC bad was a really common meme in that era).
Well I say that but the most awful baggage reward probably goes to Batooney - the be-nippled bat suit is a meme that will never die and tends to abort any consideration of anything else.
Agreed. It also didn’t help that the Joostice League was terrible and Batfleck tried to be funny vs dark and serious like he was in the Snyder Cut. That one scene difference I always think of is when he’s in the crawler going up the wall to help Wonder Woman. Joostice League he says ‘i didn’t bring a sword’ in a dad-joke way and Snyder Cut he says, ‘my turn’ super serious and it just fits so damn well. I can watch the Snyder Cut over and over without getting bored. I literally can’t watch Joostice League more than once.
I thought it was kind of hot.
The dark, haunted, mentally broken, detective Batman will always be my favorite version of the character.
So, somewhere between Affleck and Pattison is where my favorite Batman exists. Still haven’t seen him on screen yet.Kevin Conroy and Adam West are both awesome Batmans, but Lego Batman isn’t bad either.
Batmen?
That weird one from 1966
It’s not at all weird if that tbe Batman you grew up with. I think all these “dark” and “serious” Batmans are silly.
Nah I’m quoting the lego batman movie lol
Lego
The one from The Batman Animation Series from the 90s
Nolan’s
The bumbling fool he is in Harley Quinn. Fits the character so well, given his ridiculous persona in his older material.
Batman brave and the bold
Legit answer. I like how BATB acknowledged the Silver Age and the weirdness of the DC universe without becoming a complete farce. It poked fun at all of it, yes, but it did afford it some dignity as well.
And the same can be said about its incarnation of Batman.
Yeah it felt like they did a great job of bringing the comics to tv, bringing in more obscure characters, and making it very enjoyable. I watched this with my son growing up
Pete Holmes did it best
Yes, but Josh Ruben did it a thousand times mucher.
There was a nice series in the 2000s called “TheBatman” and it featured a young Bruce starting out as the Bat. He’s kinder, more naive, makes plenty of mistakes, but you see traces of the Knight he is to become.
It has a kickass intro, and possibly one of the greatest villains ever concocted (albeit for a single episode), the ClockKing. How do you fight someone who has seen every move you will ever make?
