“You want to hurry up, Clark? I need to make a call.”
I don’t hate the Christopher Nolan films, but outside of making some of his gadgets more believable having a “grounded in reality” Batman takes all the fun of Batman out of it for me. Superheroes don’t exist in this world, outside of a small group of people who like to dress up and help others community action style because it makes the experience more fun for everybody. Plus do you want to mess with the guy in the padded suit just in case he CAN kick your face in? It’s that unreality that makes superheroes more fun to watch, and through that enjoyment I see what it takes to actually be a hero not because of what toys Bruce Wayne bought but what he does with them.
However, the idea that superheroes need to be grounded in “reality” (read “cynical and depressingly violent”) seems to be prevalent in not only Hollywood but increasingly in the comics. I reject this and two videos by Matthew “MatPat” Patrick and his team over at The Film Theorists kind of prove that Batman can’t exist in reality. This wasn’t his intention of course. Like his other fictional theories this was meant to put the fake world of Gotham City through the real spectrum and see the differences to learn about science, economics, and the legal system. However, the guy who knows parts of every martial art on Earth, numerous languages, and trivia that would ordinarily serve nobody who isn’t playing the hard edition of Trivial Pursuit while having more money than some nations surprisingly isn’t “realistic” at concept. Let me show you.
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I wrote the following in the comments: I’d also make the case that the dark and gritty deconstruction has been done. Constantly. The big epic adventures where the fate of all creation (or the hero’s corner of it) has become the norm. Short adventures with a recurring subplot is no longer the norm. EVERYBODY is trying to make the next Watchmen or Dark Knight. Stop looking at what comics were when you were reading it and see what they are now. You aren’t doing something new, you’re doing what every other writer is currently doing.
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Posted by ShadowWing Tronix on May 25, 2023 in Comic Spotlight and tagged comic writers, Comics By Perch, commentary, writing tips.
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