History Headscratchers / BatmanReturns

* If the sewer water is supposedly toxic, then how can The Penguin's... well... penguins swim in it without suffering any effects whatsoever?

** (Looks at [[DonaldTrump who's]] in the White House right now.) Well, this is HarsherInHindsight.

** See the headscratcher above.

** By this point in the series, he wasn't quite regarded as the hero that we the viewer regard him. He hadn't quite reached the level of celebrity that he did in BatmanAndRobin. So he stopped the Joker but is it implied that anyone other than Commissioner Gordon and a few top city officials knows for certain he's one of the Good Guys?

** That's an in-manor system he has in place to alert him of the real Bat-Signal.

** It's been ages since I read the film's novelization, but I do recall that theres was a brief explanation for it. Basically, the Penguin got the blueprints from Max Schreck. As how Max got them, he simply found which company built the Batmobile and then bribed one of the designers.

* Why on earth would the circus people ''stay'' with the Penguin? They should hate him! He cost them their jobs; he makes them live in a freezing, smelly sewer; he sends them out to commit mindless acts of violence that never seem to involve theft or any other profitable crime; and [[BadBoss he hits them or even kills them whenever he gets angry]]. And why would they decide to follow a disfigured young boy in the first place?

** Odds are that what was left of the Red Triangle Gang, was rounded up and testified against the penguin as well as most of the other crimes they helped him commit. Penguin died so they weren't afraid of his wrath anymore.

* Why on earth does the police open fire on sight at Penguin after his bombed speech? Yes, he lost his temper and shot at the crowd, plenty of reason for an arrest, but since when have police officers tried to shoot a limping man in the back?

*** Did you not notice that Chip Shreck wasn't exactly 20 even? Or Shreck's white hair? It's more than possible Shreck lead the company then to,he was certainly old enough

* If the sewer water is supposedly toxic, then how can The Penguin's, well, penguins swim in it without suffering any effects whatsoever?

* She saw the woman as her old self when she was being taken advantage of by everybody and demeaned by Max. I guess her criticism/scolding of the woman would be that she should stand up for herself and not rely on men to bail her out. I mean there’s a reason why Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman became a feminist icon because she was very fierce, believed in independence, and ending the male dominance of Gotham.

* This is more of a ''Film/BatmanForever'' headscratcher, but since it doesn't have its own page - why is everyone completely okay with Batman again by the beginning of ''Forever?'' The only person who could have spoken for him being innocent to his kidnap and murder charge was the Ice Princess, unfortunately said murder victim.

** Also, Shreck can tell anybody he wants, but they may not believe him. We saw with Oswald how fast public opinion can turn, and if the dirt on Shreck gets out, a crazy story about his tense and obstructive business partner Bruce Wayne being Batman and eloping with his secretary (who he claims is Catwoman) could seem like his attempt to use sensationalism to shift media focus from the accusations against him.

** They're being led by the Penguin, who is a childlike monster who is essentially working through his anger at his parents by punishing dozens of other children, and treating them to the same thing. It's Penguin's plot all along, after all - his plan in Gotham is merely to use Shreck to gain access to places like the Gotham Hall of Records, take notes on that year's newborn children, and dump them in the sewer when the time came; He restarts this plan when his mayoral run gets derailed.

* Why did Bruce unmask himself in front of Shreck? It's not like prison will stop him from telling people Bruce's secret. Did Bruce knew he was there?

* Why did Bruce unmask himself in front of Shreck? It's not like prison will stop him from telling people Bruce's secret. Did Bruce knew Shreck was there?

* Shreck telling Selina she's fired at the end seems almost comical for so many reasons. Wasn't she pretty much already fired when he pushed her out of the window?

** I'd assume the plot was changed somewhat when they changed characters.

** Or maybe he just lets people think he's a bit of a Batman ''spotter'', innocently keeping track of the mysterious vigilante's appearances from the sidelines. It'd be a bit odd for the son of murder victims ''not'' to at least '''notice''' that there's some weirdo in a costume beating up criminals in his home town.

* This is more of a ''Film/BatmanForever'' headscratcher, but since it doesn't have its own page- why is everyone completely okay with Batman again by the beginning of ''Forever?'' The only person who could have spoken for him being innocent to his kidnap and murder charge was the Ice Princess, unfortunately said murder victim.

** I thought they have a newswire

* Why did Selina react so histrionically to Max's attempt to murder her? I understand that going through a window and hitting the ground several stories below would be, to say the least, an experience that would leave one badly shaken; and I'm certainly not trying to excuse what Max did. But, really...it's not like Max raped Selina or anything. It wasn't personal. You'd think Selina would just be happy to be alive and confident that she could bring Max to justice. She could have easily shown to the police her cuts from going through the glass, not to mention the bruises on her body she almost certainly sustained when she hit the ground. And she knew about Max's motive for the murder attempt, so she could have told just about anyone and gotten him investigated.

* " ''And Bruce Wayne, why you dressed up like Batman?!'' " I...I, how could you even... Just why?

** For that matter, did it ever occur to them what was in store for them if Cobblepot had actually been elected mayor? Shreck would have gotten his power plant, and Cobblepot would have access to all the fame and riches and women he could ever want...but what would his gang get out of it? Since the Cobblepot campaign was solely on an anti-crime platform, ''at best'' they'd all be arrested and locked up for years or even decades. Or Cobblepot might even decide to have them executed in a "Night of the Long Knives" reenactment. On the other hand, if they got lucky, Cobblepot would seize dictatorial powers and make them his personal death squad - and, let's be honest, that just wouldn't work. What chance would a band of carny sandinistas with ''some'' military-grade weapons have against the National Guard? Or the U.S. Army? Or even a U.N. peacekeeping force, if it had to come to that? Unless the Penguin has been running a secret terrorist cell somewhere, his reign of terror would be a very short one.