Batman

INTRODUCTION

Bruce Wayne, aka Batman, is a superhero based off of a bat and is based in the fictional town of Gotham City. He is partnered with Robin, aka Dick Grayson, who is his sidekick. His archnemesis is The Joker, a clown-like villian bent on destroying Batman and Gotham City.

WEAPONS/POWERS

Batman`s main weapon and most popular is his Batarangs, of which are bat-shaped boomerangs that, when thrown, will give the same result as a boomerang. He is equipped with many other weapons though, and he also can come in a variety of suits. As of 2012, only one of Batman`s suits has appeared as a physical minifigure (the Electric suit, which came as the exclusive minifigure in Lego Batman: The Visual Dictionary. He comes in many styles, as seen here:
 * Comic Suit
 * 1989 Film Suit
 * Classic Comic Suit
 * 2008 Film Suit
 * 2011 Comic-Con exclusive The Dark Knight Rises Suit
 * Blue Super Heroes Suit
 * Super Heroes Suit with Jetpack
 * Black Super Heroes Suit
 * Electro Suit
 * Black Super Heroes Suit with Jetpack (2013 variation)
 * 2013 The Dark Knight Rises Suit
 * White Batman Suit

COSTUME SUMMARIES

Comic Suit: The comic suit was first released in 2006 within three sets, and later in KC7782 The Batwing with Joker Key Chain in 2007. This variation resembles Batman's appearance in his current appearances. This variation is made from five pieces; headgear, head, cape, torso, and legs. Batman`s headgear is a black, bat-shaped cowl with two holes for eyes, a rectangular section cut out for his mouth, a nose which juts out, and two "bat ears". Batman`s head is Light Nougat with two eyes, a frown, and a white headband above his eyes. His cape is also black like the cowl and has five triangular points at the end. The torso is Medium Stone Grey(with black hands) and has a printed pattern of a black Bat Logo, toned core muscles, and a yellow utility belt with square packets that have triangular flaps. His legs are unprinted, medium stone grey, and have black hips.

1989 Film Suit: The 1989 Film Suit was first released in 2006 within three sets and a Comic-Con Exclusive. This variation resembles Batman's appearance in the 1989 movie Batman and its sequel Batman Returns. This variation is also made from five pieces; headgear, head, cape, torso, and legs. Batman`s headgear is a black, bat-shaped cowl with two holes for eyes, a rectangular section cut out for his mouth, a nose which juts out, and two "bat ears". Batman`s head is light nougat, with two eyes, a frown, and a white headband above his eyes. His cape is also black like the cowl and has five triangular points at the end. The torso is black and has a printed pattern of a curved Bat Logo against a warm gold oval, toned core muscles, and a Warm Gold utility belt with ovular packets and a square buckle. His legs are black and left unprinted.

Classic Comic Suit: The classic suit, released in 2007 and made to resemble Batman's appearance in comic books from the Silver Age of Comic Books, has appeared in two sets and is once again made from five pieces. Batman`s headgear is an Earth Blue bat-shaped cowl with two holes for eyes, a rectangular section cut out for his mouth, a nose which juts out, and two "bat ears". Batman`s head is light nougat with two eyes, a frown, and a white headband above his eyes. His cape is also Earth Blue like the cowl and has five triangular points at the end. The torso is Medium Stone Grey (with Earth Blue hands) and has a printed pattern of a black Bat Logo, which is larger and more angular than that of the modern comic suit, toned core muscles, and a warm gold utility belt with two whole large square packets that have triangular flaps. His legs are unprinted, medium stone grey, and have earth blue hips.

2008 Film Suit: The 2008 film suit has appeared in three sets and made to resemble Batman's appearance in the recent movies Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. This variation is once again made from five pieces; headgear, head, cape, torso, and legs. Batman`s headgear is the same black, bat-shaped cowl with two holes for eyes, a rectangular section cut out for his mouth, a nose which juts out, and two "bat ears". Batman`s head is light nougat with two eyes, a frown, and a white headband above his eyes. His cape is also black like the cowl and has five triangular points at the end. The torso is Dark Stone Grey (with Black hands) and has a pattern of a black Bat Logo, which is more square than that of the Comic Suit, have a grey armour printing rather than muscles, and a warm gold utility belt. His legs are unprinted, dark stone grey, and have black hips.

2011 Comic-Con Exclusive Batman Giveaway: Batman uses the same black, bat-like cowl and five-pointed cape as all other variations, with the exception of the Classic Variation which included those parts in Earth Blue. Batman's new head is slightly different, with more of a scowling mouth. The eyes and headband are virtually the same as previous variations. Batman's torso, arms, hands, and legs are all black with printing on both the front and back of the torso, which is an updated print of the 2008 Film Suit torso. His utility belt is still warm gold, but is now much more detailed than the previous variation. The armoured printing on the torso is also much more rounded than that of the previous variation.

Blue Super Heroes Suit: Batman's hips, hands, cowl, and cape are Earth Blue like the Classic Comic suit which most of his printing resembles, but with the logo from the 1989 Film Suit, but against bright yellow rather than warm gold. His utility belt also resembles that of the Comic Suit, but without the triangular flaps. One side has a large smirk, while the other has a more serious expression similar, to the The Dark Knight Rises film suit, but with cheek bones.

Super Heroes Suit with Jetpack: This version of Batman is available in 6858 Catwoman`s Catcycle City Chase. It is the same as Batman's blue super heroes variation, but instead of a cape, he has a dark blue bat-winged jetpack. Once again, he has the same face as the black and blue Super Heroes variations.

Black Super Heroes Suit: This version of Batman is a redesign of 2006's 1989 Batman film suit. It has the same logo and shape as the Blue Super Heroes variation, but against a black torso. In suit, Batman's hips, hands, cowl, and cape are also Black. His utility belt is now much larger than the original '89 Film Suit and clearly has a large, yellow buckle, similar to the Classic Comic suit, but not in gold and reversed. There are four rectangular packets on the belt. Batman's face is the same one used on the Blue Super Heroes Suit.

Electro Suit:

Batman's Electro Suit is one of his super suits from Lego Batman 2: DC Superheroes, which will be physically released in Lego Batman: The Visual Dictionary.

Batman has the redesigned cowl which has been appearing in 30160 Bat Jetski and other Super Heroes sets from more recent production runs. His face will be slightly different, as the new cowl doesn't match up with the other Super Heroes variations' heads. Batman's torso is black with the bat-logo used with his first comic book variation, but in silver. This is the only known difference to date between the physical variant and the video game version, where in LEGO Batman 2, the bat-logo is in blue but with silver outlining. It also has a blue/silver belt, again similar to the comic suit's, but without the flaps. There are two silver circles on either side of his chest about halfway up which are connected by a silver line that runs across. A similar pattern runs down his legs. There is backprinting that contiues both the belt and lines (with two lines instead of one) from the front, He also has arm printing on both arms detailing a line with a circle at each end in light blue. He has silver boot "toes" on the bottom of his feet.

He has no cape, like in the video game. In the video game, he has two black cylinders on the back which are capped with blue pieces, but the official minifigure does not have them.

Black Super Heroes Suit with Jetpack: Batman's 2013 variation features his black Super Heroes suit from the previous year, but the cape is replaced with wings.

2013 The Dark Knight Rises Suit: Another 2013 variation based on The Dark Knight Rises features Batman in an updated version of his 2012 film suit variation. Batman uses the same black, bat-like cowl, five-pointed cape, head, gloves and hips. Batman's torso, arms and legs are now grey instead of black with printing on both the front and back of the torso, which features the torso design which is identical to the 2012 version, but now in a more greyer tone and the utility belt is warm gold.

White Suit: One of Batman's 2013 variations depicts him with a white cape, gloves, cowl (the newer variety), tights, utility belt, and batsignal oval. His face seems to be the same.

PHOTO GALLERY



Batman in the Comic Suit.



Batman in the 1989 Film Suit.



Batman in the Classic Comic Suit.



Batman in the 2008 Film Suit.



Batman in his 2011 Comic-Con Suit.



Batman in 6858 Catwoman`s Catcycle City Chase.



Batman in the Electro Suit from Lego Batman: The Visual Dictionary.



Batman in the White Suit.



2011 San Diego Comic-Con Exclusive Batman Giveaway.



Bruce Wayne (Batman)



The Joker



Robin, Batman`s sidekick and Bruce Wayne`s adopted son.