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What if Batman Was All in Bruce’s Head?


This is a great mashup of a bunch of Christian Bale movies, (what no Matrix Equilibrium? pfft), exploring the concept of “what if Batman was just a figment of Bruce Wayne’s imagination?”

I give you the brilliant “The Batman Complex”.

The gist of the idea revolves around a few fun topics, mainly the whole “what is real?” train of thought, and also every fans desire, deep down or upfront, to be Batman at least once in their lives. And so, I tried to craft a story where we see what happens when someone takes their dream of being Batman a little bit too far. An idea, after all, is a truly resilient parasite.

While some of it is still left a bit ambiguous both unintentionally and intentionally – while there’s only so much that can be strung together – I often like to leave a little bit open so as to see what fellow fans are able to imagine/create. One aspect I tried to hint at was the paralleling descent of both Bruce and Cobb. As Cobb and the team go deeper into Bruce’s mind, they start to encounter the truly dark issues that his subconscious houses. As a result, Cobb himself gets caught up in the obsession of all that lingers in the mind of a Batman. There are a couple fun things in there that are best left to surprise, but all in all, I’m relatively happy with how it turned out. It’s fairly fast paced and doesn’t leave much room to breath, which helps amplify the tension I think. But that’s just me.

Video below.

This goes out to Batman-comics.com who showed me that Batman fetishes go hand in hand with bondage bracelets.

Source: igeektrooper via themanbatman

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