The Batman landed in cinema on Friday, with Robert Pattinson putting on Bruce Waynes iconic cowl and brutalizing Gotham Citys crooks in an extreme adventure set early in his career as vigilante. In writer-director Matt Reeves movie, Batman takes on against the Riddler (Paul Dano) as the extremely weird, puzzle-obsessed supervillain targets the citys elites.
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Teaming up with Selina Kyle (AKA Catwoman, played by Zoë Kravitz) and GCPD Lieutenant James Gordon (Jeffrey Wright), our hero unravels Riddlers dark plot to expose the depths of the citys corruption. Its a twisty-turny tale, so lets take a better take a look at the ending, a few of the significant discoveries, that cooling cameo and follow up possibilities.Be alerted, SPOILERS are about to swoop in.Gotham underwaterThe Riddler allows himself to be detained after exposing the depths of Gotham Citys corruption, but just so he can view his schemes final act play out from the security of his cell in Arkham Asylum. A series of trucks are rigged to explode the seawall around the city, flooding its streets and forcing everyone to get away to the place where brand-new mayor Bella Reál (Jayme Lawson) is commemorating her victory.A lot of the villains online followers wear his Zodiac Killer-inspired outfits like his and penetrate the event. They open fire on the trapped crowds, however Batman, Catwoman, Gordon and the citys polices stop them in a quite legendary action sequence.The Riddlers endgame sees Gotham City flooded.
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Stunned after getting shot at point-blank range, Batman jabs himself with adrenaline and practically beats one of the goons to death however is stopped in the past he goes too far.” Me, Im revenge,” he responds, mirroring Batmans motto and making the hero recognize hes been a bit too dark and broody in his technique to crime fighting.Batman leaps into action to stop people from getting electrocuted in the flood waters, then rescues the brand-new mayor and a bunch of others who got trapped under debris. The Bat and the Cat have a fiery alliance.
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With the city flooded and under martial law, Selena informs Batman shes going upstate or to Blüdhaven (a close-by city that, in the comics, is generally stomping ground of Batman ally Nightwing, however that character hasnt been established in this universe). She tries to encourage Batman to go with her so they can be broody vigilantes together, but he decides to stay in Gotham.Joke( r)s on youStuck in Arkham, Riddler is not surprisingly disturbed that his dreadful plan didnt play out completely.” We do not have an image of Barry Keoghan in The Batman yet, so here he is looking extremely un-Jokery at the Eternals premiere.
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” Riddle me this: the less of them you have, the more one deserves,” he asks Riddler, playing into his shtick.” A friend,” the Riddler responds. Yay, bad guy friends.Keoghans character is credited as Unseen Arkham Inmate, but hes probably this universes Joker. Its unclear if hes experienced Batman yet or why hes in Arkham, however this seems setting some kind of supervillain teamup in a follow up or at least hinting that our hero will face a new type of danger in this universe. This film is supposedly the first of a trilogy, and two HBO Max shows (a cops procedural set in the GCPD and a Penguin-centric criminal offense series) are relatively in the works.Gotham conspiracyThe mayor, cops commissioner and district attorney suffer horrible deaths as part of Riddlers insidious plot, due to their functions in a conspiracy to bust criminal activity employer Sal Maroni. The villains puzzles send out Batman and Gordon on a hunt for an unidentified informant called El Rata Alada– Spanish for The Winged Rat. Which sounds like its describing a bat, but its revealed that Riddler is hunting for a snitch whose name is derived from a bird– the incredibly sleazy mobster Carmine Falcone (John Turturro). Carmine Falcone is the rot at Gothams heart.
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With Maroni off the streets, Falcone took control of his drug operation. Those who assisted him or looked the other method got paid, and everyone won. Except Gotham, which became even more of a cesspool. So Riddler chose to expose the depths of the citys corruption as he relayed his killings online. Before Batman and the GCPD can take Falcone into custody, Selena challenges him with the revelation that hes her daddy and prepares to eliminate him. He turns the taunts and tables Selena by admitting to strangling her mom as he chokes her but is come by Batman. Penguin may be Gothams new kingpin.
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Falcone is then led outside to be jailed, where the Riddler guns him down from afar– the supervillain wanted to get the mobster into the open so he might kill him. This leaves a power vacuum in Gothams criminal underworld, which will most likely be filled by Oz (AKA Penguin, played by Colin Farell). Throughout one of Riddlers broadcasts, he reveals some of the darkness in the Waynes past.
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Martha obviously discovered stability when she married Thomas Wayne and had Bruce, however Thomas decision to run for mayor of Gotham led press reporter Edward Elliot to dig into the familys past. This threatened to expose Marthas story, and Thomas went to Falcone for help (because going to a mobster for help constantly ends well) and Elliot ended up dead. Falcone tells Bruce that Thomas had him kill Elliot, however Alfred provides a different variation of occasions: Thomas asked Falcone to terrify Elliot off the story, but Falcone eliminated the press reporter and Thomas stated he was going to admit everything to the authorities.
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Lieutenant Gordon and Batman discover an extreme conspiracy as they hunt the Riddler.
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The Waynes were eliminated quickly later– the murder stays unsolved in this continuity– leaving the charity fund Thomas developed to renew Gotham to be taken by the citys corrupt elites. This left Gothams bad in worse shape than ever, but none more so than young Edward Nashton. The super-smart orphan grew up in squalor, and seeing Bruce making the citys sympathy after Matha and Thomas were eliminated filled him with a jealous rage, reasoning that the Wayne household fortune made losing his parents simpler than had been for others. And so Edward matured to be the Riddler.We get another dose of the Riddlers creepiness after the credits..
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Post-credits Easter eggThe Batman does not have a post-credits scene, but there is one last recommendation to the Riddlers campaign– we see a typed “?” followed by “GOOD BYE” and www.rataalada.com appears to flash up on the screen for the briefest of moments. That URL brings you to a viral marketing site where you answer a series of the bad guys questions.Comic inspirationThis film is conceptually and tonally similar to renowned 1996 story The Long Halloween, which sees Batman attempting to deduce the identity of a serial killer who kills people on vacations. He likewise deals with Gordon and DA Harvey Dent to avoid a gang war between the Falcone and Maroni criminal activity families.The Long Halloween is amongst the most beloved Batman stories of perpetuity.
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The concept of the Riddler flooding Gotham mirrors the exceptional 2013 story Zero Year, which takes location at a likewise early point in Batmans career.In an interview with CNET, director Reeves kept in mind that 2000 story Ego influenced the films method to Bruces inner battle.” It got into the psychology of the beast within being Batman, this drive for vengeance, this instinctual side,” he said.In the 2011 comics story Gates of Gotham, Edward Elliot was one of the people accountable for the building and construction of Gotham City in the 1800s (along with Bruces ancestor Alan Wayne and Penguins ancestor Theodore Cobblepot). Elliot is the forefather of Thomas Elliot, a youth friend of Bruce whose jealousy led him to end up being the supervillain Hush and release a campaign against Batman.
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They open fire on the trapped crowds, but Batman, Catwoman, Gordon and the citys cops stop them in a quite epic action sequence.The Riddlers endgame sees Gotham City flooded.
With the city flooded and under martial law, Selena tells Batman shes going upstate or to Blüdhaven (a neighboring city that, in the comics, is typically stomping ground of Batman ally Nightwing, however that character hasnt been developed in this universe). She tries to encourage Batman to go with her so they can be broody vigilantes together, but he decides to remain in Gotham.Joke( r)s on youStuck in Arkham, Riddler is naturally disturbed that his horrible strategy didnt play out totally. The concept of the Riddler flooding Gotham mirrors the excellent 2013 story Zero Year, which takes location at a likewise early point in Batmans career.In an interview with CNET, director Reeves noted that 2000 story Ego affected the films approach to Bruces inner battle.” It got into the psychology of the monster within being Batman, this drive for vengeance, this instinctual side,” he said.In the 2011 comics storyline Gates of Gotham, Edward Elliot was one of the individuals accountable for the construction of Gotham City in the 1800s (along with Bruces forefather Alan Wayne and Penguins ancestor Theodore Cobblepot).