The Official "Dark Knight" Discussion -- SPOILER ALERT IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT!

jbadamantium · 07-27-2008, 02:56 PM

I doubt it will be Penguin or The Riddler. I say this because both are just too campy and goofy for Nolan's crime drama approach. Don't get me wrong, I love both characters, but they wouldn't fit in the vision that Nolan has established. The Riddler is....well, he's The Riddler. Penguin is pretty goofy all around, but let's face it, an army of trained pengiuns? Not going to work in Nolan's "Batman 3." He needs another dark character with no "super powers" to speak of. My money is on Black Mask.

Peter Marlowe · 07-27-2008, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by jbadamantium

I doubt it will be Penguin or The Riddler. I say this because both are just too campy and goofy for Nolan's crime drama approach. Don't get me wrong, I love both characters, but they wouldn't fit in the vision that Nolan has established. The Riddler is....well, he's The Riddler. Penguin is pretty goofy all around, but let's face it, an army of trained pengiuns? Not going to work in Nolan's "Batman 3." He needs another dark character with no "super powers" to speak of. My money is on Black Mask.

Interesting...I guess I can see your point, but wasn't the Joker just as "goofy" as those other characters/villains? There sure are ways to make Penguin dark and sinister without adding the goofy trained penguins -- just because Burton went with that doesn't mean Nolan has to; there has been plenty of "character bending" and "altering" already, hasn't there? So what's the harm in introducing a character like the Penguin without all that fluff with the penguins carrying rockets, etc? Just my two cents; I think it would be a cool idea -- Penguin could definitely be twisted to a real dark image in the hands of Nolan. But you're right -- perhaps Black Mask or someone more sinister would be more in line of what Nolan wants...as for the Riddler, I think this could also be created into a dark character in Nolan's hands...it's all how it's handled by a director and his team...the issue then becomes...who plays Penguin other than De Vito and who plays Riddler other than Carrey......

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jbadamantium High Definition is the definition of life. Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 127	I doubt it will be Penguin or The Riddler. I say this because both are just too campy and goofy for Nolan's crime drama approach. Don't get me wrong, I love both characters, but they wouldn't fit in the vision that Nolan has established. The Riddler is....well, he's The Riddler. Penguin is pretty goofy all around, but let's face it, an army of trained pengiuns? Not going to work in Nolan's "Batman 3." He needs another dark character with no "super powers" to speak of. My money is on Black Mask.