With the announcement that the next Batman movie will feature four bat-villains, I am really hoping that at long last Man-Bat gets to have his shot at the big screen. I guess it depends on how street level Matt Reeves want his version of Batman to be, as this tale will take place earlier in the caped Crusader's career. Personally, I think it's high time that more powerful characters like Man-Bat and Clayface are included.
Man-Bat could sustain a good quality TV series on his own.
ReplyDeleteRoss and others, which Clayface would you most like to see on the big screen?
Matt Hagen or the B:TAS version
ReplyDeleteMe, too! :-)
ReplyDelete"craven" means "coward", so...
ReplyDelete'Koward the Hunter'?
^_^
I agree that a live-action Man-Bat is long overdue, but if The Batman takes place early in the Caped Crusader's career, I don't think it should feature anyone very far into the "weird science" category. On the other hand, I think he'd fit quite well into the (hopefully) upcoming Batwoman series.
ReplyDeleteAs for Clayface, I've been setting out a "season plan" for a hypothetical Batman TV series (just a mental exercise, mostly), and I'm setting up to get all of the comic-book iterations of Clayface. The first started with no super-powers, and would work quite well in the first or second season among the gangsters, corrupt businessmen, mundane serial killers, and the like. Then, as "weird science" creeps into the show, the legacy expands....
If we only get one Clayface against either Batman or Batwoman, I'd vote for a revisitation of the B:TAS version.
I really happen to like Man-Bat as a hero for Langstrom's flaws. I'll always hold dear his team up with the Demon in Batman Family ages ago. "What ever happened to heroes that look like heroes? Those two are the ugliest suckers I've ever seen."
ReplyDeleteBob G, I appreciate most of what you have written, but please think before you write "mundane serial killer". Nothing is ever mundane about murder. There are possibly victims of it reading this blog. (It's a great blog.)
ReplyDeleteLast anon: "mudane" as opposed to "superpowered." These things do tend to be relative (in the same way that there are likely no actual murder victims reading this blog).
ReplyDeleteI did not mean actual murdered people, obviously. More their families, friends, communities. The timing of Bob's comment struck me, coming so soon after the Christchurch massacre. But given the frequency of school massacres in the USA, and terrorist attacks around the world, I'd be surprised if there was no-one reading the blog who has been affected by the most evil of crimes at least indirectly. One of the reasons I love this blog is its escapism, and seeing all the comments from others who prefer comics not to be to grim and gritty. Even occasionally comic!
ReplyDeleteSorry about being all serious about this myself.
"Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive."
ReplyDelete---Bugs Bunny.