The costume was always supposed to be scary in a lot of incarnations and look terrifying to criminals. Like that's a huge part of it being "Bat"-man.
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Matt Reeves shows off new Batsuit for The Batman
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Yup. I'm really into the "Creature of the Night" vibes that I'm getting from this suit. Hopefully the ears are long enough!
That's supposed to be part of the character but has never really been the case. Not sure I've ever seen a Batman comic where he appears scary. But if I was living in Gotham and almost any version of Batman popped up behind me in the dark, I'd lose my shit regardless.
Chest was awesome, getting Arkham Knight game series vibes there. The mask/cowl though, something is off... I don't know if it's the lighting, but looked like a skinny Robocop mask... I'll reserve my judgement for a clearer future reveal...
Woooow, that's what it is. Never knew I wanted a daredevil style batman but shit I'll take it.
no that was some nonsense people made up after the fact to excuse how terrible it looked
There's something about this cowl that looks much better than the designs other people like Bosslogic did, but I'm not sure what it is.
The ears and their positioning, I think?
I love the cowl. Sort of like a serious version of the Adam West one.
I've never really been a big fan of the stilted rubber ones they used in most movies. This seems far more practical from a realism point of view.
I've never really been a big fan of the stilted rubber ones they used in most movies. This seems far more practical from a realism point of view.
I don't really like when they make Batman too armouredy, look wrong.
I need to see the full suit to really render an opinion though.
I need to see the full suit to really render an opinion though.
Those nubs are too small and round for my liking. Makes his appearance less menacing.
It's gonna be a really bad for WB and Reeves if they whitewash Damian.
I'm surprised no one has tried to a design mock-up that is inspired by the classic 1939 cowl. I feel like there's some influence of that in the cowl tease
There are multiple things wrong. Biggest other than the tiny ears is how forward facing and prominent the forehead is. That's generally a very female and child-like head structure, adult male foreheads slope back. Also seems like the main shape continues to roll back and down rather than being higher in the back or squaring off which usually the big ears help accomplish.
It'll probably look better when he's not pressing his chin down against his body like that but this cowl ain't it.
Batman is supposed to be visually terrifying to most, that's kind of the point. Alfred's reaction to Bruce pulling on the cowl for the first time in Mask of the Phantasm is great example and Alfred knows Bruce and was expecting it.
The trade off is that he's never been scary to the reader or viewer though. Intimidating, imposing, but never really visually frightening. We like the idea he instills fear but we don't want him to look like leatherface. At least the majority of people don't.
The Bosslogic ears are goofily slanted too far forward. It looks like a parody mask.
I think the comparison to Leatherface is a laughable extreme so I don't really agree in the first place.
The leatherface bit is obvious hyperbole but the rest stands. He's never meant to scare the viewer or make them uneasy in his appearance. This design is definitely more in the unease side of things, or just aesthetically displeasing.
Sounds more like a personal issue as I'm not sure why the actual make of the mask is supposed to inspire unease any more than the leather jacket I've got hanging on my coat rack. His eyes being nigh unreadable and the shape of his forehead and skull in the mask, those elements combined with the darkness do much more than the stitching you can barely make out at the moment.
It's a matter of opinion so of course it's a personal issue lol. Tiny ears, bulbous forward facing forehead, stitching and leather appearing or actual leather material. It's a combination of things that make it a creepy mask.
We haven't even seen the ears yet, all those mock ups are entirely fan made.
mask is too high
hide more of his face
twilight guy isn't as pretty as Christian Bale. don't need to see his face so much
I think this suit is really one of those that need to have the white eyes
the eye holes seem to big and therefore draws attention to the eyes more so then the other parts of the mask
the eye holes seem to big and therefore draws attention to the eyes more so then the other parts of the mask
Doesn't look like it has big ears as he's coming towards camera in the official camera test. Maybe the focus on his face and that creepy ass mask is making it worse in my mind because the ears aren't being shown at the same time.
Yeah it's perfect to me. And the Arkham Knight influence was exactly what I wanted.
They probably wanted to put something out before the suit's seen out in public filming.
It looks more practical and eerie/darker to me. BVS Batman looked absolutely ridiculous. I would be open to a more comic booky Batman but Synder's version just wasn't it for me.
We haven't answered the most important question yet though, can they move their head during fight scenes?
We haven't answered the most important question yet though, can they move their head during fight scenes?
It was designed by Coulson to look old-fashioned. That was in the movie.
Yeah it's crazy how changing that forehead angle affects the entire thing so much.
tweaked the weird mushroom head and beefed up the neck, this looks more classic Bats to me
The mask is very much the Lee Bermejo design, and the costume looks like the Arkham Knight armor.
