You thought you knew Batman. Apparently the billionaire playboy turned crime fighter is a southeastern city in Turkey. Mayor Hüseyin Kalkan is suing Christopher Nolan, the director of the “The Dark Knight” and “Batman Begins” for infringing on the city’s name.
“The royalty of the name ‘Batman’ belongs to us … There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us,” said Kalkan to the Do?an news agency. He claims citizens are not able to use the town name for businesses.
Kalkan likely has no merit, one because he is suing Nolan, not DC Comics, who own the copyright and trademark on Batman, or Warner Bros. who made the movie; and two because local regions cannot be registered as brand names in Turkey. Though I do think local businesses should be able to use their town name without legal threats from DC (only one account this might have happened), this is more an example of a major overstating intellectual property rights and suing the wrong person.
Eager to earn a share of the money Superman’s creators were getting, Bob Kane, employing the help of Bill Finger, created the entire opposite of Big Blue. Batman hit the stands as a superhero that any person could imagine being. Batman had no superpowers. He utilized his intelligence and strove to reach top, physical condition through constant training. Since his inception, Kane added to the basis for superhero clichés with secret lairs, wealthy playboy secret identities, gadgets and vehicles, etc. Batman’s rogue gallery has also set the standard with the Joker, Catwoman, Mister Freeze, and Two Face showing how important the villains are to a hero. For one, Batman showed Superman was no fluke. Secondly, Batman broadened the identity for superheroes that allowed for more than planet moving knock offs. Creativity was key.
wife and kids (this is the Wally West Flash, Barry Allen’s unlockable). Key battles pit you against teamed up villains for high pressure boss battles.
One of the most popular trends during the Golden Age of comics was giving superheroes a teenage sidekick. This appealed to the youthful readers who dreamed of being superheroes themselves. Robin, Batman’s sidekick, became the most popular and only one to last past the fifties, let alone until the present. The relationship of Batman and Robin set the cliché of superhero sidekicks that went on to be imitated and spoofed in hundreds of sources. Almost all superheroes during the 40’s and 50’s had sidekicks. Robin inspired the trend what became a staple in the medium.
50,000 letters of protest and disgust landed on Warner Bros. doorstep after announcing Michael Keaton would play Batman in the new movie. Fears of a new camp fest like the Batman TV consumed the comic book community as Keaton was known mostly for comedy roles, but director Tim Burton had other plans. He had worked with Keaton on Beetlejuice knowing the actor could be just as sick and twisted as Batman needs to be. Once fans saw the dark, brooding adventure, the criticism subsided and fans saw the first great film Batman.
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Resident Evil 3 ending with a painful cliffhanger. Sony Pictures announced three more Spider-Man movies. And while there’s no X-Men 4 announced, let’s be certain it’s happening. Yet should these sequels be made? When do these franchises run out of stories? Or are the replacement actors an embarrassment to the originals you love and adore (Roger Moore’s James Bond still gives me nightmares)? But I think wanting these franchises to end too early might deprive us of something amazing: the endless debate.
Sometimes a franchise is, however, built on the skills of one actor rather than the character. Take Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean. I would agree Depp would be near impossible to replace. When I think of Captain Sparrow, I only think of Depp. Spider-Man, James Bond, and Batman all existed in my mind before any actor on the screen. If an actor tries to replace Depp, they will spend more time imitating Depp than being Sparrow. It is not impossible to replace the original actor, but it takes time. Steve Martin has been an acceptable Inspector Clouseau in the recent (and soon-to-be-sequel) Pink Panther movie, taking the reigns of the character almost 40 years after Peter Sellers created the character. Sellers died in 1980 after making six Pink Panther films (include one released after his death made using deleted scenes). I do not mean to say death is the only way to replace to a character, but that this example shows even a character created and perfected by one actor can be evolved to fit a new actor.
getting slapped by the Queen. Thus his career in buttling was realized in the sitcom the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, providing the Banks family with much needed sarcasm.
In 1960, DC Comics realized if you add popular characters together, they equal a more popular comic book. With all new versions of their staple characters like the Flash and Green Lantern, DC Comics decided to join them with Superman, Wonder Woman, and Batman for the juggernaut of all super-teams. Gardner Fox wrote the Justice League of America and their adventures fending off foes that each hero couldn’t handle on their own. The result was a massive success leading DC’s publisher Jack Liebowitz to brag to the Martin Goodman, the publisher of Marvel Comics. Goodman then charged write and editor Stan Lee to create Marvel’s own super-team. And well, 
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