I was shocked to realize that Tom Holland"s Spider-Man and Robert Pattinson"s Batman share a controversy that plagues both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and The Batman"s Elseworlds DC Universe. While there have been many live-action Batman actors, Pattinson"s performance as Bruce Wayne in 2022"s The Batman helped him become one of my favorites to have ever donned the coveted cowl. While I am disappointed that it is taking so long for Matt Reeves to get The Batman 2"s story right, I"m excited about where the franchise could go, though I have one issue with the overall story.
Recently, I came to notice how my one problem with Pattinson"s Batman extends itself to Holland"s Spider-Man. While I could not possibly be more excited about what Spider-Man: Brand New Day"s story and cast could look like, I think the MCU has dropped the ball with the hero in one key way after the franchise"s latest project. Pattinson"s Batman and Holland"s Spider-Man are two of the most popular versions of their iconic comic book heroes, so I hope Marvel and DC come up with a satisfying way of making up for how they were part of a similar controversy.
Robert Pattinson’s Batman Did Not Stop Gotham’s Gang War The Batman Universe Has Expanded Into The TV Realm Close While The Batman 2 has been delayed multiple times, now set to arrive in 2027, the franchise has already released a new chapter after its original installment. Instead of a movie with Pattinson"s Bruce Wayne as the lead, The Batman franchise"s second release was The Penguin, the prestige HBO series that followed Colin Farrell"s Oz Cobb as he worked his way up in Gotham City"s criminal underworld. After Carmine Falcone died in The Batman, I was interested to see how the franchise would explore that power vacuum, and The Penguin did so with a major Gotham gang war.
Oz orchestrated a war between the Falcones and the Maronis, roping in other Gotham crime families. While I was thrilled by The Penguin"s dark storyline, one aspect of it held the show back in my point of view. That would be Batman"s absence. Despite Gotham being in the midst of a gang war, which included several deaths and a major explosion in the city, the only inclusion of Batman came at the very end, with the Bat-Signal lighting up the sky after Oz became Gotham"s new crime boss. The Penguin promo teased that Batman might not have been in Gotham.
Tom Holland’s Spider-Man Did Not Show Up When Kingpin Took Over New York The MCU's Street-Level Corner Has Been Thrust Into A Major Event Close Tom Holland"s latest MCU appearance came in 2021"s Spider-Man: No Way Home. The MCU"s Peter Parker will next be seen next year, with the hero expected to appear in Avengers: Doomsday, even though he has not been announced yet, and confirmed to star in Spider-Man: Brand New Day. However, while Spider-Man"s MCU future is exciting, I can"t help but think of how the hero would have been perfect for a 2025 Marvel project he was even mentioned in but never showed up. Disney+"s Daredevil: Born Again season 1 completely changed the landscape of the MCU"s street-level corner.
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