As DC Studios prepares for its first entry into its own cinematic universe with James Gunn’s Superman releasing July 11, 2025, audiences have often debated whether or not Robert Pattinson’s Batman from Matt Reeves’s The Batman should be retroactively added to the DCU as the franchise’s ultimate version of Batman. Yet, there are quite a few reasons why the DCU and The Batman Epic Crime Saga should remain separate.
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Matt Reeves’s busy and private schedule with his work on The Batman: Part 2, set to film in the Summer of 2025, should remain a separate idea, allowed to breathe outside of the potential stories that could arrive in the DCU. While some might want David Corenswet’s Superman and Robert Pattinson’s Batman to be the World’s Finest, here are a few reasons not to merge the DCU with The Batman.
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A Fresh Chance for a High-Tech Ninja Batman
A Batman More Aligned with Comics and Games Over Realism
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Everyone loves Batman, and it seems everyone wants to play Batman. So far in live-action, there hasn’t exactly been a bad portrayal, and each Batman takes inspiration from different aspects of the 85-year-old character. As such, it’s time to embrace the full comic book nature of Batman, more specifically the type that features in the beloved Batman Arkham games for his plethora of gadgets, fighting styles, costumes, and villains.
If The Batman were to join the DCU, audiences would have a harder time believing that Robert Pattinson’s Batman is suddenly able to remove his emo persona to carry absurd sci-fi gadgets and fight assassins and other criminals all night without some sense of realism kicking in. The DCU can easily flesh out a new Batman that can be the most accurate yet.
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It Puts a Time Limit on Bruce Wayne as Batman
Robert Pattinson’s Age and Projects Might See Him Retire
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By the time The Batman: Part 2 hits theaters, Robert Pattinson will be 41 years old, which is just 3 years younger than Ben Affleck when Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice came out in 2016. Considering Ben Affleck was considered a gritty Batman over a decade into his crime-fighting career, it makes it a tad unbelievable that Pattinson is a Batman in his second year despite being near enough the same age, which adds further restrictions to his abilities.
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Firstly, Robert Pattinson might not want to dedicate his career to a cinematic universe and instead would want to pursue other projects that interest him, like Mickey 17 and the upcoming Christoper Nolan take on The Odyssey. It feels rather unfair and silly to keep Pattinson’s schedule open for potential spin-offs and sequels for a Batman that deserves plenty of interactions with the Justice League, Superman, and Bat Family members when it’s clear that those things aren’t what attracted him to play the character in the first place.
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The Bat-Family Needs Its Own Space
Pattinson’s Batman is Just Beginning, Whereas the DCU Batman Has a Whole Family
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With the DCU’s announcement of The Brave and the Bold, audiences can expect an established Batman that already has a Bat Family. This means the likes of Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Tim Drake, and more, could very well already be allies in Batman’s war against crime, and the Bat Family most definitely deserves its chance to shine in live-action after almost exclusively treating Batman as a lone wolf.
Considering the DCU plans to introduce the Bat Family, Robert Pattinson’s version of Batman seems unfit for the task, as not only is this a Batman in his second year of crime fighting, but it also doesn’t seem like the kind of Caped Crusader who would happily fight crime with Robins and Batgirls, and just randomly discovers he has a son so early into his career. Logically, it wouldn’t make sense, even with an unjust time skip.
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Two Batmen is Something Audiences Are Okay With
Robert Pattinson Deserves His Separated Gritty Emo Batman
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While The Flash (2023) might not have been a fan favorite, no one can deny the excitement that was established for seeing two iconic Batmen on screen (albeit not together). Considering the concepts of the multiverse and Elseworlds are commonplace for general audiences of today, it’s entirely believable and acceptable to have two separate Batman movies that feature in different universes.
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Robert Pattinson deserves to continue playing his evolving, gritty, and realistic Batman, whereas the DCU deserves a new Batman that can embrace and make those fantastical elements believable. The DCU shouldn’t be scared of continuity and confusing general audiences to force them to merge two universes that tonally clash and in a way, breach the creative freedom of possibilities.
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The DCU Needs Fantastical Whereas Matt Reeves Needs Realism
It Would Remove the Grounded Elements of Matt Reeves’s World
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One of the greatest aspects of Batman’s lore is his incredible cast of villains. Not only does Batman have one of the greatest nemesis in fiction with the Joker, but he also has an incredible Rogues Gallery that deserves the fullest attention in all their fantastical glory. The DCU needs those villains to come to life and truly make the world feel grandiose and immersive, as characters like Poison Ivy, Mr. Freeze, and beyond, simply wouldn’t work without a level of realism and changes involved that betrays what makes their characters unique in the first place.
Considering Matt Reeves’s realistic approach to Batman to the point where he needs a squirrel suit to glide instead of just using his cape, it proves that the attention to realism is the focus of The Batman Epic Crime Saga, and that’s more than okay, but just provides even deeper reasons why the DCU should go all out on fantastical to help separate the two.
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The Batman Epic Crime Saga Should Grow Its Personal Stories
Individual Stories for Penguin, Catwoman, and More Showcase a Unique Gotham City
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Part of the greatest aspects of The Batman is its incredible character studies of Batman and his conflicted villains. His chemistry with Catwoman is top-notch, and learning more about the Penguin as Oswald Cobb in his own HBO series shows that The Batman Epic Crime Saga is more than just a three-part trilogy about Batman and that there is room in Gotham City for all these stories to come to life.
While realism may prevent some fantastical villains from hitting the scene, a Gotham where psychopaths and a criminal underworld mix to create potential spin-offs for HBO, MAX, and the big screen prove that The Batman Epic Crime Saga should stay in its own separate Gotham that is not actively involved in a DCU, as it’s hard to believe Oswald Cobb waddling away from a Justice League when its obvious the series deserves grit and edge.
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