The bold decision to let the viewers decide the fate of the Boy Wonder surely sounds promising, but only time can tell if it will receive wide praise upon its release.īatman: Death in the Family will have the same actors from Batman: Under the Red Hood reprising their roles.

Like the comics, the first interactive movie from the DC Animated Universe might attract a lot of attention upon its release. In Suicide Squad (2016), the Joker and Harley Quinn confirm that they killed Robin, directly referring to A Death in the Family. In the DC Extended Universe, the death of Jason Todd was hinted in Zack Snyder‘s Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice when Bruce Wayne poignantly looks at a charred Robin costume inside a glass case with ‘HA HA HA! Joke’s on you Batman’ painted on it. Rachel’s death haunts Bruce Wayne which forces him to retire from his crime-fighting life. The art was darkly beautiful as well, and really added to the overall murky atmosphere of the story.Batman: A Death in the Family has been the inspiration behind Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight (2008), where Batman falls into the trap of the Joker and fails to rescue Rachel Dawes from a room filled with explosives. James Jr was an excellent villain as well (his habit of endless monologuing notwithstanding) and I thought the twist of him suggesting to the Joker to pay Babs a visit for that.certain something, suitably horrifying.

Loved his relationship with Babs and Gordon. He has a vulnerable, human quality that you barely ever see in Bat-God Bruce. I think this is the best that Dick Grayson has ever been and I really wish we could've gotten more of him as Batman. It's such a grim and twisted tale that could easily have veered off into misery porn but is kept compelling by the humanity of the characters. IMO Black Mirror is up there with the best of Batman tales, whether it's comics like Year One/Long Halloween/Killing Joke, movies like TDK, or the best of the animated show episodes. But yeah finally got around to it and boy was it something else. I don't know why it took me so long to get to TBM, as I've already read all of Snyder's work on new 52 Bats, as well as pretty much everything on Batman for 2 decades from 90s-2000s.

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