An attempt at a Man of Steel 2 edit from me, combining BVS with Josstice League. Beginning with the great debate about Clark’s place in the world, removing the Doomsday fight after the nuke goes off, and omitting Clark’s revival by the Motherbox (he just gets better on his own), I also moved “the world is introduced to the Superman” to after the funeral for some late additional context to Bruce’s motivations.
Hope you enjoy
When a villain cold to the touch and a woman who’s kiss is lethal to the touch cross paths with Batman and Robin, emotions flare and tension heats up. Will the dynamic duo go into meltdown?
Intention:
I believe it was Akiva Goldsman that said it best in the documentary/retrospective for the movie, “there are different lenses with which to see the world”, and likened Batman and Robin to one of the more traditional silver age stories where good overcame evil and there was a modest and wholesome message as well as a true feel of family.
This is not a hard edit by any means, I’ve left the third act completely intact, but I’ve scaled back the more farcical aspects of the Batman and Robin arguing, the trust issues are more prominent than the bickering over Ivy, and both fights dovetail into one another with organic ease. No, there’s no bat-credit card, no there’s no Robin being thrown into a vat of goo either. No “Mr. Frosty” singalong, there is an attempt to scaling back Freeze’s ice puns etc.
Cuts and Additions:
– Cut Museum fight, film opens with Batman and Robin in flight, escaping the rocket and pursuing Freeze
– Removed Ivy and Bane’s origin. We first meet her at the Observatory
– Freeze is no longer interupted when he’s watching his home movies
– Bat-Credit card and the dynamic duo’s bickering over Ivy removed
– Some of Freeze’s jokes when locked up removed
– Bruce and Dick’s conversations about Ivy while investigating Freeze’s hideout removed
– Bruce and Dick’s fight over Ivy and Dick falling into the vat of goop removed.
– More of Bruce and Dick’s arguing after seeing Alfred has been minimised
– Third act remains intact
– Post-Credit Scene added.
The New Batman Adventures “Chase Me” short is a lovely little piece with some priceless Bat/Cat moments, but it down end on a bit of a downer.
This edit, utilising footage from The Long Halloween, doesn’t change much in the way of that, but it does give the thing a bit more of a bittersweet, ye more hopeful ending for our favourite rooftop romance
One of the irritable things about the later out-of-continuity DC movies that make use of the voice cast from the DC animated universe of shows…is that it often brings up the question of why don’t they just make a continuation? Surely it can’t be that problematic? Whatever their reasons, I feel like they waste big opportunities….and whenever they do go back to the DCAU, it’s largely for shits and giggles (Batman and Harley)
Anyway, The time has come to see if I can do something different with the Dark Knight. The goal here is to adapt “The Killing Joke” but give it more of a DCAU vibe, i.e, follow the continuity of Batman TAS/New Batman Adventures, include characters like Nightwing and Catwoman etc.
I am also creating a whole new sub-plot to replace the one with Batgirl from the first half of the movie…one that involves Bruce and Selina from Batman: Hush. I’m still working out the kinks in how to approach this, it might not be much due to Hush having it’s own thing going with it.
Obviously with Babs still being paralysed here, it’s not taking into account Batman Beyond…the reasons for that is my headcanon theory that when John chose Vixen over Hawkgirl in JLU, coupled with Bruce’s ongoing foreknowledge of the future, that timeline was pretty much erased. It is with the “Vixen Theory” in mind that I approach this edit, where things are now much different. I’ve also been influenced a great deal by the mammoth Bat/Cat push orchestrated by writer Tom King at DC (thanks for ruining it for the rest of us)
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The New Batman Adventures never had a ‘proper’ climatic episode in the way that Superman: TAS and Justice League had, so I’ve considered an attempt at remedying that. My Batman Killing Joke edit (due out soon), is one possible elseworld take on that, but here I’m thinking of structuring a TV-length episode that can plug that gap.
To this end, you need to make use of the flashbacks from Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker and the prologue of The Killing Joke.
Timeline
1. New Batman/Superman Adventures Intro
2. Begin with Tim’s capture
3. Flashbacks proceeds as normal until Joker dies and Tim breaks down
4. Switch to Killing Joke footage, Babs trying to talk to Bruce, Bruce cuts himself off, Babs almost loses it, quits being Batgirl, alter her narration to exclude a reference of ‘weeks’ passing
5. End with the pre-title scene of Batman Beyond Episode 1.
6. Credits
The animated movie Superman/Batman: Public Enemies neatly condensed into a small half hour episode, complete with the opening and closing of my custom Superman TAS sequences that I used for Risk and Revelation
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At the moment, these test samples (all but one) do not represent the final product and are just for fun.
Here are video samples
Alternate Barry recruitment (will be in finalised edit)
password: flash
Luthor and Deathstroke Meeting Inserted Into Movie
Password: luthor
“Farm Ending”
password: farm
MORE SAMPLES COMING SOON
BATMAN BEYOND:
EVERYTHING TIPS
WRITTEN BY ZARIUS
NOTE: This contains spoilers for BATMAN AND HARLEY
Commissioner Barbara Gordon was waiting patiently for a phone call; she didn’t have much time for a call of any other kind.
But, sure enough, there he was, his colossal Batmobile hovering outside, its pilot perched atop it in an upright position, arms folded.
“She’s picked them up. Thought you’d like to know” the pilot said.
”Bruce keeping track of police bail out records McGuiness…or you?” said Barbara.
”I figure I’d finally get some practice in that regard, Bruce is still a little shaky from what the boss of those twin clowns put him through” Terry McGuiness, the Batman of this future time, replied.
“Well it’s good to know my sources still come from those close to my chest, even if they seek to tug a little bit at my heart in a more wrenching manner”
“I’m not here to argue…we just patched the family up” Terry replied
“Some of the family maybe…but that’s why you came isn’t it? To learn a bit more about the missing members…the pieces of the puzzle”
“Those twins grandmother was Harley Quinzel…you told me she went off the grid when The Joker died the first time. Fell off a building. Body wasn’t recovered. You lied” Terry revealed.
“Harley posed no threat without The Joker” Barbara insisted, taking a sip of her coffee.
“Her next kin proved just as volatile in place of her when he did show up again” Terry continued.
“Kids are a handful…Bruce should know by now. I never will”
“That a personal choice or something else happen?” Terry asked, doing exactly what Barbara had feared and taking shots where he could. He couldn’t help his impulsiveness; he had gone through a harrowing experience that had left a man close to him in a bad way.
Barbara put down her coffee and stood up, greeting Terry at the window and giving him her usual manner of composed ferociousness. Not raising a voice, but making sure her disappointment in him could be felt with each utterance of a collected word.
“Kid, if there’s one overriding emotion in this world, its guilt. Guilt can pull you away from so many people. So can insecurity. The closer you get, the scar tissue can be seen, you have to set boundaries for yourself eventually, make sure you take the time to enjoy a relationship, and don’t let it stray too far from your work. I know that’s hard to find in your line of duty, but find the balance…you’ve got plenty of guilt, so make sure you have plenty of love to go with it, and try to spread it around”.
“Are you married to your husband, or your job?” asked Terry.
Barbara felt the sting of the accusation, but chose to ignore it.
“You want to know why I lied. Because a little piece is what you and Bruce deserve, a little glimmer of a clear path down your journey into night. Besides, it was the best I could do for someone close to me”
“Who’s that?” Terry replied.
“That’d be me” said a voice from behind her. Barbara turned around; Terry looked on in shock as he recognized him.
“No way, is that…” Terry responded at the older man leaning within the frame of the doorway to Barbera’s office.
“So that’s Bruce’s new toy…he doesn’t look half chewed yet” the man replied.
“I told you to stay out the record” Barbara replied.
“Since when do I listen to the bats in my belfry Commissioner?” the man replied.
“Dick Grayson” Terry said in recognition, “I thought you were stationed in Bludhaven”
“I commute now and then, me and my wife like to check in on family…and I have more than one to take care of”
“Bruce and you parted on bad terms, I know that much” Terry said.
“Twice on bad terms, and yeah, the last sting’s kind of lingered in all that time, but what happened to him shook Barbara up, and anything that concerns her will always concern me”
“What does your wife have to say about that?” Terry replied, putting his deduction skills to visible use.
Barbara was fully prepared to end the conversation here and there, but the egos of both men were in lockstep. Neither would budge from their engagement in banter.
“My wife’s got her own cares in the world. Poisonous ones, but other cares. She understands”
“Does Sam?” Terry asked of Barbra. She stayed silent.
Terry began to clamber back into the Batmobile, giving the pair of them a glance.
“Guilt and love can’t be balanced this way. Eventually, everything tips. You know what it’s called then? Justice”
The Batmobile dashed off, becoming one with the night as it blended seamlessly into it.
The phone rang. Barbara looked over at Dick, Dick nodded, she picked it up.
“Sam…Hi, listen, I…have to work late tonight. Yeah, it’s the shift…it can be a dick” she replied, before hanging up.
“Come with me to the hospital, we can tell Bruce…” she began, Dick cut her off.
“He’ll flip if we tell him, and you shouldn’t let his kid pull at you like that. He’s got a lot of growing to do himself” Dick replied
“He tends to raise the blackest curtains Dick, he’s the best of us, what he’s done with Bruce is miraculous, I wish you’d let me show you” Barbara pleaded.
“Harley told me she was heading home in an hour after she and the grandkids spent some time with Ivy. She doesn’t see her half as much as we see each other”
“Funny isn’t it? How it all started between you two…her on the outs with The Joker, you wanting a little nugget of information, her just wanting a nugget off you…”
“She was having one of her on days…went back to Joker when she turned her inner light off, didn’t tell him about the bun she’d cooked in the oven just before they got back together…had to keep pretty quiet about that when I moved me and Stephanie to Bludhaven”
“You patched her up after that horrible night with Tim…Bruce was livid, but you knew without that clown’s influence, the light inside of her would come on again”
“It pays in more ways than one to have a lunatic with a lightswitch” Dick joked.
Barbara kissed him on the lips, wrapping her arms around him. After the embrace, they stared, out at the calm and still evening outside, holding their hands tightly together.
“Do you think everyone in this city comes to know some kind of justice in the end?” She asked.
“There’s other cares in this world Babs. As for Justice…that’s up to God”
“That’s not what Bruce calls himself in his sleep” joked Barbra.
“There’s a comforting thought” replied Dick.
Spent the last day or so editing the Ultimate Edition of Batman v Superman in the hopes of reining in some of it, try to make it more Clark’s movie for at least the first half an hour, before focusing on Bruce. Also I’ve minimised Diana’s role in events considerably.
Here are just a few samples of what to expect when I’m done
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