First, Batman is too dominant as a character to include in the CW Arrowverse. His presence would divide the audience into two camps: Those who would be thrilled to see Batman on the shows (or a separate CW show) and would care only about Batman, to the detriment of every other character or team.
Disappearance. Sometime around 2015, Bruce left Gotham City, also leaving behind his identity as Batman. Wayne Tower vandalized after the company burnout. At some point after his departure, Bruce's board of directors accepted get-rich-quick deals, but were scammed, causing Wayne Enterprises to go bankrupt.
Affleck's Batman appears in The Flash's opening act, working to stop bank robbers on a highway just outside Gotham. He's a mentor, sending Barry on another mission but still coaching him with Alfred's help in the field.
Ezra Miller plays The Flash's two main characters, the Barry Allen from the present and the one from the past. But The Flash also features four versions of Batman: Ben Affleck's, Michael Keaton's, George Clooney's, and a fleeting cameo by Adam West's.
If The Flash takes place in 2023, its events would chronologically occur 31 years after the events of Keaton's last appearance as Batman. This would make Michael Keaton's version of Bruce Wayne around the age of 64 in the new film.
By movie's end, the preexisting DC continuity is restored and these figures fade back into multiverse hypotheticals … with one startling exception: George Clooney's Batman is back, baby.
The Flash establishes very early on that Michael Keaton's Batman retired after ending crime in Gotham. The Flash director Andy Muschietti later added that the real reason Bruce stopped being Batman in this universe is that he killed a criminal in front of their son.
Having saved her cousin's life and found her place on Earth, Kara decides to use her powers to fight for altruism; under the alias of Supergirl, and she is met with applause by Wonder Woman, the Amazons, and finally Batman.
David Ramsey talks about John Diggle's Green Lantern arc and why the Arrow hero never got his ring, as well as his future in upcoming DC projects. According to David Ramsey, Green Lantern John Diggle was initially meant to happen post-Arrow.
They are, however, occasional friends who do work well together whenever it comes to saving people. That is why both Batman and Green Arrow have been featured in the same DC medias, that has them teaming up or simply cross paths with one another.
One character that Smallville failed to properly introduce during its TV run, however, was Batman. Due to Warner Bros. ' ambivalence to allow disparate versions of the Dark Knight to appear in live-action, Batman never came face to face with Tom Welling's young Clark Kent.
On August 1, 2022, it was announced that The Flash would be concluding with its upcoming ninth season, which also acted as the conclusion of the Arrowverse, due to Superman & Lois having been confirmed to take place in an adjacent universe.
Why was Superman and Lois removed from Arrowverse?
This wasn't meant to alienate us from the Arrowverse, but because a lot of the other shows are sadly no longer going to be on the air, it felt like the right thing to do.” “We have to think about this as a separate Superman, a doppelganger of the one who was in the Arrowverse,” he added.
Although Joker hasn't physically appeared in any capacity, his actions set up the entirety of the series; he is inadvertently the one responsible for Beth Kane going missing and transforming into Alice, his involvement in the Kane family's car crash inspired Jacob to create Crow Security, he pushed Batman so far to ...
In a January 2022 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Affleck revealed that he was ready to move on from Batman following his "nadir experience" filming the 2017 "Justice League" movie. "Not blaming anybody, there's a lot of things that happened. But really what it was is that I wasn't happy.
Robert Pattinson and Zoë Kravitz will be reprising their roles as billionaire socialite Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, and Selina Kyle, aka Catwoman, in The Batman Part II, it was confirmed at CinemaCon 2022.
It's quite likely that Clooney's appearance is nothing more that a fun, comedic button meant to signal that “The Flash” signifies the beginning of the end of the DC cinematic universe that has existed since 2013's “Man of Steel.” But given the metaphysical rules of the multiverse established earlier in the film, ...
Flash's super speed would give him the advantage in a fight against Batman. Many fans believe Batman's victories are due to plot armor and preparation time. Some argue that the outcome depends on the writers' preferences. The debate between Speed of Light and Prep Time continues to rage on.
It turns out The Flash's actions created another new reality, albeit one where Clooney's Bruce is Batman. Barry seems baffled by the entire situation and forces a smile before his tooth, which he superglued back on earlier in the movie, falls out.
Despite his gadgets and his brilliant mind, the Dark Knight is still merely human. Flash, on the other hand, can not only move at near-light speed but also think just as fast – which should mean he can outthink even the World's Greatest Detective.
Bruce Wayne's race has been defined, he's a white male and has been for over 80 years. Why change that now? You can definitely have a black Batman but not Bruce Wayne, he shouldn't be changed.
Bruce Wayne's full name was revealed a couple of weeks ago, in Batman #20 under the Rebirth banner. This is the first in-canon confirmation we have for Bruce's middle name, and it's Thomas. After his father.
