What is your favorite and or most essential Batman gadget? To me, I think the grappling hook is more iconic than the Baterang
>>150273404My favorite is hands down the programmable batarang from the Burton movies. I thought that was the coolest fucking thing ever when I was a kid, and now I find it weird it never appeared in the comics far as I know. Arkham games kind of had something similar but not an exact copy.Grappling gun I don't even count as a gadget anymore, it's so omnipresent. It's like calling his shoes a gadget. It's just how he gets around. Gliding cape on the other hand is a gadget cause not every writer uses it.
>>150273404Shark Repellent.
>>150273553They like to waffle between>batman uses an enhanced batarang to pwn bad guysAnd>batman is just so good at throwing shuriken that he can bean 3 guys with one batarangPersonally I prefer both
>>150273404Always seemed t me like the tv shows and movies did way more for the bat themed gadgets than comics. Comics he had a few random things, and they largely looked normal. Movies gave every single gadget some kind of bat wing design on them and maintained a color scheme. At least until Nolan.
>>150273607I remember playing Arkham City and wishing I had a can of the stuff in the Iceberg Lounge basement.
The Batarang is the best and worst idea because just imagine after years how many of those fucking things are lying around Gotham and people getting beaned by them
>>150273404It's actually fascinating to me how the Nolan and Snyder ones very clearly take inspiration from Blade Runner guns. The Nolan one is near 1:1 with different colors and the serial numbers filed off. The Snyder one is kinda reminiscent of the old unused Syd Mead design, oddly. Never knew it had a wooden handle either. Huh.Also, the pic was clearly made early, but I love the Battinson ones being built into rails on his gauntlets and him using them more aggressively.
>>150273404Snyder
>>150274188With Nolan, I'm not surprised. He set up a screening of Blade Runner for the film crew before they started shooting Batman Begins to show them what he was aiming for with Batman Begins. Also not a coincidence that Nolan's OC love interest for Bruce is named Rachael.
>>150273404I totally agree with you there on the grappling hook. Though as cool as the movies designs were (especially Burton and Forever), I've always been more partial to the BTAS version. Sure, it looks weird to hold, but it's just so sleek and retrofuturistic.
>>150273607It's okay.
>>150273404They're all pretty tight.
>>150273553That's too much.
>>150273404My favorite when I was a kid is the explosive gel. Still like it to this day
>>150273404The Bat-Computer, that Nolan returned to the franchise to analyze bullet fragments.
>>150281731I think it had a dual purpose as an injection device, I think Batman used it to cure himself in Arkham City and patch up a bullet wound
>>150273404I've always been fond of the Glider from BTAS, and subsequently the glider cape brought over from Begins. It's always baffling that it took so long to solidify Batman being able to glide like his namesake on a regular basis, and it's always disappointing when its downplayed or just outright ignored.
Having the grapple gun fold out from the gauntlet in The Batman was a good idea
>>150282685>and subsequently the glider cape brought over from BeginsI liked the cape from the Nolan movies as well but the one issue I had with it was that there was no implied harness system. Like, the thing becomes rigid and all, but he's basically holding himself up with just his arms. And actual glider would need you to have your waist fastened to something so that you can maintain your body being horizontal. I always thought it couldn't have hurt to imply he had something more going on in the back to show that he had additional support for that. Otherwise it should've almost worked like a parachute rather than a glider.I still think the whole thing, despite that flaw, was rad as fuck though.
It's not very iconic, but I like the mini-laser. It's a nice subtle device when he needs to break something without making noise, and even in 2025 it still feels very high-tech.
Arkham Knight gave Batman a voice modulator device and I thought that was a nice fit for his arsenal
>>150283022Something something advanced suit. Personally, I still think it beats Pattinson's more mundane wingsuit. Once you make a superhero too grounded, you just kinda lose a lot of the magic. It's incredible that they allowed him to have grapple guns at all.
>>150282685>I've always been fond of the Glider from BTAS, and subsequently the glider cape brought over from Begins. It's always baffling that it took so long to solidify Batman being able to glide like his namesake on a regular basis, and it's always disappointing when its downplayed or just outright ignored.
>>150286720On one hand, it's a shame they got rid of this feature in the Schumacher films. On the other, apparently Batman can't take fall damage in those films. Like in Forever, there's a part where Batman leaps off the GCPD building, falls straight down and lands in the Batmobile. As if the Batmobile just completely broke his fall. In Batman & Robin, Batman ejects himself from the Batmobile during a chase and just smashes into Mr. Freeze's vehicle fistfirst. Immediately after, we just see him posing dramatically with Freeze utterly dazed and tied up.
>>150286685>Something something advanced suitOnly in it's protectiveness. Remember, neither the suit nor the fabric were made in conjunction for one another. They were separate projects that Wayne Enterprises came up with when they had military contracts. And even the TDK/Rises suit can't be handwaved either since Bruce designed it as just more segmented plating to enable him to have greater mobility and flexibility. Fox even points out that it'd make him more vulnerable.>I still think it beats Pattinson's more mundane wingsuit.I agree. But at the same time, what could they do? The electrofabric was something the Nolan movies came up with. Any attempt to do something similar would've been seen as directly or indirectly ripping that off. Especially when they were already trying to go with the grounded take again.>It's incredible that they allowed him to have grapple guns at all.I'm no engineer, but I could honestly see that as something that could exist in real life more than the glider-cape.
>Swinging from grappling hooks>Gliding >Jumping from rooftops What's your preferred form of non-vehicular bat travel?
>>150286800No, that thing's just as bad as the glider-cape.First off, it would be extremely difficult, and outright impossible with current tech, to create a tool that's both that small and also capable of firing a grappling hook attached to a rope with that kind of force. The grapple guns are far, far too small to accomplish this. Furthermore, there's no way to fit a line that long in such a small amount of space. And even if you could get past the technical issues of the grapple gun itself, Bruce would be dislocating his shoulders every time he used the thing to swing around. To say nothing of how utterly unreasonable it is for him to so accurately fire the thing at whatever he's pointing it at and always be able to grapple onto something capable of supporting his weight.
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>>150276465I also enjoy the Telltale one, because it looks less like a gun and more like a blocky apparatus that can only belong to Batman
>>150273404it's always been the cape turning into a glider for me. I thought it was cool as fuck in the Nolan films, and Arkham Asylum solidified it for me. though I agree with >>150283022 in that there should be a way for his waist and legs to stay strapped to the glider, especially if there was a remote way to detach them at will so he could pull off those glide kicks like in the games. I'm hoping the Battinson sequel brings back the glider-cape, the wingsuit is cool in theory but he should have a tech boost by the second film
>>150276465Similar to the Batmobile, can't beat a big boxy design when it comes to suspension of disbelief
I have a question, do you enjoy a mature batman story when you know it's about a guy in Halloween costume with cute pointy bat ears?
>>150287699yes
>>150287726Do you take it seriously?
>>150287897if it's written well then yeah why wouldn't I?
>>150273553In Hush he uses guided batarangs.There are probably other instances I'm not thinking of.
>>150273404I don't understand how you even hold the 1995 one.
>>150287976?? there's a normal handle on the left that you grip on, I'm more confused by how the 1989 one is supposed to have Batman hold onto it while zooming up buildings considering how thick and stubby the grip is
>>150287906I had a beef with anon who said I shouldn't be taking seriously well written story in videogame about faux WW2 where dog people attack cat people country and their tanks have cute dog ears. I was wondering if his argument has any merit to it
>>150288131like everything it boils down to a mix of quality of the content and personal taste, among other factors. I would also normally find humanoid cat people a stupid concept but on the other hand I fuckin love the Kzinti from Ringworld so there's that
>>150288234Both dog and cat races were created by humans with an use of a mcguffin which made them humanoid but still have animal traits Batman's pointy ears doesn't work up close, but from far away in shadowy areas they might inflict fear in criminalsdog ears on tanks might signify they are doing hunt , a visual signal , that would be my explanation
>>150288289*instill. Not inflict, my bad
>>150288131you sound idiotic and that sounds retarded furshit
>>150288322Okay, won't delve further.
>>150288289People paint pinup models on fighter jets, the romans had the nipple armor, and knights had massive codpieces, people are capable of putting ridiculous crap on.
>>150286720The flash movie was shit, but I liked the Batman fight scenes, he could glide well there.
>>150288442Oh forgot about all these, thanks!
>>150273404Explosive Gel
>>150287699Sure
>>150288443which Batman, Affleck or Keaton?
I liked that bat radar that summons a fuck you sized swarm of bats from Begins. I wish he used it more often
