The Lego Batman Movie

If it's canon with The Lego Movie, no way that could be true anyway. It's just a joke.

Also, Lego!Alfred fought in World War 2.

If you think about it, Lego Alfred (who did raise Bruce, who has been fighting crime since the 60s) could reasonably have fought in World War I. Lego Batman isn't the only one who has aged phenomenally.

Could Lego Alfred be the mustached Scottish soldier we seen so often in the Wonder Woman trailers?

I always thought Alfred was English, not Scottish, but now you have me wondering as well. Particularly in a universe where Wonder Woman has been around that long, that would be a neat connection to make.

I highly doubt that it's him. If any WWI veterans are still alive today they would be nearly a hundred years old or more. Certainly way beyond an age where they could satisfactorily perform the duties of a butler.

It was a joke, and centered around the LEGO versions to boot.

Actually, right now I don't think there are any veterans of WWI who are still living, at least in the US, England, and Canada. WWI started 103 years ago, so any veterans would be more than 115 years old, which isn't impossible, but is unlikely. Anyhow, yeah, it was a joke on how well preserved Batman, Alfred, and the Joker are, when the Joker purports to have been doing his thing for 75 years.

Now I want to know what the Lego version of the events in the DCEU looked like. In fact, I'd like lego versions of all the Batman movies. Except that I can't imagine Lego Batman being homicidal.

Well Lego Batman is more Ron Burgandy than The Punisher.

I can. Why restrain his level of violence when people can just be put back together again? In the games, Robin was once decapitated with a manhole cover. They stuck his head right back on and he was fine.

I could totally see, for instance, Lego Batman shoving Lego Harvey Dent off that building and then, as he's dangling, we see Harvey being peeled off the ground below and loaded into a squad car by lego cops.

edited 21st Feb '17 11:29:33 AM by TobiasDrake

Bale Voice: . . . So . . . Can we put Rachel back together too?

Except that Bruce and Dick are orphans, so lego people aren't that indestructable. Who knows how lego people biology is supposed to work?

Lego people die when the person playing with the Legos say that they are dead. That's how Vitruvious's death worked.

Quite. There's not really any consistency to what kills a lego person. For instance, being decapitated may have been fatal to Vitruvius, but Metalbeard once escaped that same tower with only his head intact.

MST3K Mantra is in full effect.

That also applies to who and who doesn't become a ghost presumably.

Except that the recent(Dark Knight Saga, DCEU) movies are not for kids, so who is making the movie up? Are the legos alive or do they exist in imagination land?

From what Alfred says (i.e Batman has moody phases) I see the LEGO The Dark Knight having Rachel not actually die. Batman just convinces himself that she did to angst and brood about and absolutely every single character in the movie points out to him Rachel's right there, alive and well and he just ignores everyone so he can brood and talk about how "THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY ARE READY TO BELIEVE IN GOOD".

That's a complicated question that The Lego Movie never really answers. The fact that Emmett can move under his own power while in the real world throws a huge wrench into what would otherwise be a world clearly representative of a child's imagination.

The indication seems to be that the Lego world is real, but also that it's a product of imagination. As though the imagination isn't just making stuff up, but looking through a window into a parallel reality. I've heard people describe writing as such in the past.

edited 21st Feb '17 3:18:37 PM by TobiasDrake

Easy answer for that: Finn has telekinesis.

edited 21st Feb '17 3:20:40 PM by LordVatek

Does anyone remember how long that initial "You're not my greatest enemy," talk took? I'm wondering if it counts as an example of Magic Countdown. I don't recall how much time was left on the bomb before that whole conversation, but I do remember Bats reaching the bomb with 17 seconds to spare afterwards.

So I saw this film last weekend.

I thought it was okay overall, but I gotta say, it got progressively worse the more it veered away from comedy toward sentimentality. I kinda wish they'd just have dispensed with all the lesson-learning and just made this a pure comedy and complete piss-take of the Batman mythos with no attempt at sentimentalism at all. When the film starts going on about the importance of family, it comes off as really heavy-handed, and it doesn't help that it's one of the most overused stock morals out there.

Except that I can't imagine Lego Batman being homicidal.

Well, we've seen he isn't above turning the Batplane's turbines on approaching villains, and fire should be able to melt a LEGO down.

Hell, pretty much every LEGO Batman feature has harped on the 'Bruce, you should trsut family/friends/other superheroes' message over and over. Which kinda falls flat as an argument when most of the other LEGO DC heroes, Superman especially, tend to be either unreliable morons or pricks full just as full of themselves as Batman himself, if not more.

edited 21st Feb '17 4:48:36 PM by NapoleonDeCheese

I feel like the sentimentality and comedy go hand in hand. This is Goddamn Bat-Sue taken to his logical conclusion, an utterly miserable narcissist.