History Trivia / BatmanYearOne

** Prior to that, “Creator/Joel Schumacher” had wanted to adapt ''Year One'' when he was brought in to replace Creator/TimBurton, and even got Miller to help him write a draft. However, Warner Bros wanted something more family-friendly due to complaints from MoralGuardians, and we got ''Film/BatmanForever'' instead.

** Prior to that, Creator/Joel Schumacher had wanted to adapt ''Year One'' when he was brought in to replace Creator/TimBurton, and even got Miller to help him write a draft. However, Warner Bros wanted something more family-friendly due to complaints from MoralGuardians, and we got ''Film/BatmanForever'' instead.

** Prior to that, Joel Schumacher had wanted to adapt ''Year One'' when he was brought in to replace Creator/TimBurton, and even got Miller to help him write a draft. However, Warner Bros wanted something more family-friendly due to complaints from MoralGuardians, and we got ''Film/BatmanForever'' instead.

* FollowTheLeader: This storyline was so successful, it kicked off the various "Year One" storylines in DC, and [[Franchise/SpiderMan Marvel]].

** Prior to that, Joel Schumacher had wanted to adapt ''Year One'' when he was brought in to replace Tim Burton, and even got Miller to help him write a draft. However, Warner Bros wanted something more family-friendly due to complaints from MoralGuardians, and we got ''Film/BatmanForever'' instead.

** Creator/JeffBennett reprises his role from ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'' as Alfred, though his performance here sounds quite a bit different from his performance in ''Young Justice'', being gruffer than in ''YJ''.

*** From the ''Film/BatmanFilmSeries'': Jacques Ciron as Alfred.

*** From ''Film/Batman1989'' [[Film/BatmanReturns and]] [[Film/BatmanForever its]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin sequels]]: Jacques Ciron as Alfred.

*** From ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': In addition to Alfred and Gordon, Adrien Antoine as Batman/Bruce Wayne.

* QuoteSource:
** EvenEvilHasLovedOnes

* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: It took years for ''any'' kind of film adaptation of ''Year One'' off the ground, as the WhatCouldHaveBeen section in comics above can attest to. An animated film adaptation finally came out in 2011.

* RoleReprisal:

** Said script made Bruce into an outright maniac who wrote letters to his dead father, lived out of a garage owned by a black mechanic named Little Al (the script's version of Alfred), and had him [[MacGyvering MacGyver]] up all his crime-fighting gear from parts he bought at a local hardware store. It ended with Bruce inheriting his fortune and moving into Wayne Manor woth Little Al.

* RoleReprisal: In the French dub, several voice actors from previous adaptations reprised their roles here:
** From ''Film/{{Batman}}'' [[Film/BatmanReturns and]] [[Film/BatmanForever its]] [[Film/BatmanAndRobin sequels]]: Jacques Ciron as Alfred.
** From the Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse: In addition to Alfred, Jean-Claude Sachot as James Gordon.
** From ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'': In addition to Alfred and Gordon, Adrien Antoine as Batman/Bruce Wayne.
** From ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In addition to Batman and Alfred, Kelvine Dumour as Catwoman/Selina Kyle.

* The AnimatedAdaptation of ''Year One'' was released the same day as ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity'', the sequel to ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'', and shares a lot of the same voice talent: Music/GreyDeLisle (Barbara Eileen-Gordon and Vicki Vale) is Catwoman, Vicki Vale (again), Stacy Baker, and Martha Wayne; Creator/SteveBlum (Stan) reprising the role of Killer Croc and voicing Sickle; Creator/FredTatasciore (Flass and Johnny Vitti) reprising the role of Bane and voicing Solomon Grundy and Mr. Hammer; and Danny Jacobs (Flass's lawyer) reprising the role of Zsasz.

** From the WesternAnimation/DCAnimatedUniverse: In addition to Alfred, Jean-Claude Sachot as James Gordon.

* RealityIsUnrealistic: The plot point of the Gotham city police dropping a bomb on a building from a helicopter seems like the sort of outlandish thing you could only expect from a Frank Miller comic book, [[http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/05/13/406243272/im-from-philly-30-years-later-im-still-trying-to-make-sense-of-the-move-bombing?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_term=nprnews&utm_content=20170513 but it actually happened in Philadelphia two years before the comic was released.]]

* CreatorBacklash: David Mazzucchelli, the artist, has expressed distaste and regret, in an afterword to later collected editions of the story, for its controversial PostCrisis origin for ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} as a former sex worker. He now considers that it adds unduly sleazy and adolescent content to a genre essentially aimed at children. (Although this is a bit ahistorical, as Catwoman was created in the Golden Age at a time when superhero comics were intended for both a child and adult audience and often contained quite a bit of sex and violence, and she was ExiledFromContinuity for much of the Silver Age precisely because she was considered too sexualised for children.)

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/DarrenAronofsky and Creator/FrankMiller wrote the script for a very loose, R-rated live-action film adaptation of the comic, which was set to reboot the Batman film franchise after the failure of ''Film/BatmanAndRobin''. The executives ended up passing on the ''Year One'' script because they felt it would have been too dark and bleak for parents to bring their children to.

* HeyItsThatVoice: The AnimatedAdaptation has:
** Creator/BenjaminMcKenzie is Batman. He would later play Jim Gordon on ''Series/{{Gotham}}''.
** Creator/BryanCranston is Jim Gordon.
** Creator/ElizaDushku is Catwoman.
** Creator/KateeSackhoff is Sarah Essen.
** Music/GreyDeLisle is Barbara Gordon and Vicki Vale. The former would gain a sense of irony, as she'd voice Sarah in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''.
** Creator/JeffBennett is [[WesternAnimation/YoungJustice once again]] Alfred.
** RobinAtkinDownes is Harvey Dent.
** Liliana Mumy ([[WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}} Panini]], [[TheSantaClause Lucille Miller]]) is Holly Robinson.
** Alex Rocco ([[Film/TheGodfather Moe Greene]]) is Carmine Falcone.
** Jon Polito ([[Film/TheBigLebowski Da Fino]]) is Gillian Loeb.
** Creator/FredTatasciore is Detective Flass and Johnny Vitti.
** Keith Ferguson ([[WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends Bloo]], [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Marluxia]]) is Jefferson Skeevers.
** Creator/SteveBlum is Stan.
** Creator/StephenRoot is Branden.
** Danny Jacobs ([[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamSeries Victor Zsasz]], [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar King Juilen]]) is Flass's attorney.
** Creator/AndreaRomano is Barbara's obstetrician.
** Saratoga Ballantine ([[WesternAnimation/SpiderManTheAnimatedSeries Mary Jane Watson]]) is Skeevers's attorney.