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Lego’s New Joker Manor Set Includes a Working Roller Coaster

If you thought Lego would dial it back after releasing a 7,541-piece, $800 Millennium Falcon, this 3,444-piece version the Joker Manor from The Lego Batman Movie, available starting on November 24, says otherwise. Among the many upgrades the Joker made to Wayne Manor in the movie—and have made their way to this set—are a giant … Continued

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Harley Quinn Puts the Joker in His Place in New Batman: The Enemy Within Clip

“Stay out of this, puddin’. Grown-ups are talking.” Looks like a different clown-faced criminal is the alpha in the Telltale video game version of the Batman mythos. Good news first: you can see the first glimpse of Batman: The Enemy Within’s re-imagined Harleen Quinzel in action in the teaser above. The bad news is that, … Continued

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Batman Uses His Clown Fighting Experience on Pennywise in Masterful Fan Trailer

Batman isn’t a stranger to clown problems. If you want anyone on your side when the inevitable clown apocalypse rains down from the heavens in garish rainbows, it’s ol’ Bruce Wayne. This masterfully edited fan trailer, courtesy of YouTube channel Adeel of Steel, shows exactly why. Using footage from Batman v Superman spliced with 2017’s … Continued

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Open Channel: Which Batman Is the Best Batman?

Because it’s her 25th anniversary, this year’s Batman Day has been hijacked by Harley Quinn. While the rest of the world is obsessing over a lovable maniac with a lapsed medical accreditation, we wanna revisit the question that always pops up when you think about how many versions of Batman there are. Throughout the 78 … Continued

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A Hot Toys BB-8 of Your Very Own, and More of the Loveliest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s regular roundup of the toys most likely to threaten our personal savings this week. We’ve got even more Star Wars, a wonderfully specific Spider-Man, and honestly, the world’s most adorable Godzilla action figure. Check it out! Hot Toys Star Wars: The Last Jedi 1/6-Scale BB-8 and BB-9E If you’re … Continued

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11 Superhero Costumes That Deserve to Be Seen in Live-Action

We’re inundated with comic book movies and TV shows these days. But for a decade now, we’ve been in the age of the “practical” hero look. And that was fine in the beginning, when everyone was worried about getting regular people to take this genre seriously. But we are far past that point now, and … Continued

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On Gotham, the Biggest Threat to the City by Far Is Jim Gordon

And it’s not even close. Last night’s season four premiere was, for Gotham, oddly sedate. The reveal that the Penguin has taken over all crime in the city—and been issuing licenses to commit crimes—doesn’t even crack the top 20 of the show’s most bananas ideas. In fact, for Gotham City, it might be the best … Continued

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Christopher Priest Is Taking Over DC’s Justice League Comic This Winter

Christopher Priest has written some of the most imaginative thrilling comics of the past thirty years and starting this winter, he’s bringing all of his talents to DC’s flagship Justice League series with a new story arc titled “Lost.” Beginning issue #34 out this December, “Lost” finds the Justice League in a state of disarray … Continued

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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Has the Only Batman Romance That Ever Needed to Be Told

As a grim, obsessed loner dedicated to fighting crime in all its forms, Batman is supposed to have no time for love, yet somehow nearly all his live-action movies have had a token love interest. However, the animated Mask of the Phantasm revolves around the idea that Bruce Wayne had a fleeting yet meaningful chance … Continued

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Batman’s Horrifying Identity Crisis Is the Heart of Dark Nights: Metal

DC Comics’ current crossover event is Dark Nights: Metal, a Batman-focused affair filled with melodramatic pseudo-science about the threats coming from an evil alternate multiverse. The second issue is out this week, and it’s setting the bar for a whole new level of crazy. In the real world, we know that Dark Nights: Metal is … Continued

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A New Book Will Tell You If Your Favorite Hero Should Actually Be Dead

We’ve all watched a movie where a character gets hurt and thought “They’d never survive that in real life.” Well, a new book will put that to the test with some super gruesome and awesome drawings. It’s called Ain’t Got Time To Bleed and it’s written by Andrew Shaffer. He takes 29 of your favorite … Continued

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Artist Turns Gotham‘s Heroes and Villains Into Batman: The Animated Series Legends

Batman: The Animated Series recently celebrated its 25th anniversary, and right on its heels comes the fourth season premiere of Gotham. The Baby Batman prequel doesn’t exactly hold a candle to one of television’s greatest animated series—but, thanks to one artist, it kind of looks like it does. Artist Rick Celis has created a series … Continued

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Even More Wild Star Wars Figures And More of the Coolest Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly roundup of the coolest collectibles around. This week: Star Wars! Sure we just got a whole bunch of them last Friday, but somehow the world managed to make space for even more Star Wars toys. Can you believe it? But there’s more than the galaxy far, far away … Continued

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Postal Apocalypse: What Happens if Justice League Bombs?

Greetings and/or salutations, people! Welcome to io9’s (occasionally weekly) mail column, where I solve the mysteries of the world of nerd-dom to you, both fictional and otherwise. This week: What was Elektra’s deal in The Defenders? Is an evil BB-8 droid a good thing or a bad thing? And, most importantly, who’s to blame for … Continued

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These Early Designs for Batman: The Animated Series Are Simply Gorgeous

Yesterday marked the 25th anniversary of Batman: The Animated Series’ television debut. All sorts of intriguing details have emerged in the wake of the anniversary—but so has some beautiful art, in the form of Kevin Nowlan’s early concept designs for the look of the show. Revealed as part of an extensive Q&A with Nowlan over … Continued

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How Batman: The Animated Series Changed the Way We Think About Superhero Adaptations

It’s not an exaggeration to say that, 25 years ago, a cartoon about Batman transformed the boundaries of what was considered possible when bringing a comic-book hero to a new medium. A quarter of a century ago, on this date, Batman: The Animated Series made its debut on TV screens across the world. I remember … Continued

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Tim Curry on Why His Joker Was Scrapped From Batman: The Animated Series

One of the most adored Batman adaptations in the world, Batman: The Animated Series, turns 25 today—but while fans will remember the iconic work of Kevin Conroy as the Dark Knight and Mark Hamill as the Joker, Hamill in particular almost never had the chance to become the animated clown prince of crime: Tim Curry … Continued

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Weep at This Superhero TV Show From a Video Game Where Nazis Won World War II

He’s not Superman or Batman, that’s for sure. Wolfenstein: The New Colossus is the sequel to 2014’s excellent Wolfenstein: The New Order, a first-person shooter set in an alternate reality where Nazi Germany emerged victorious from World War II. A new teaser video shows what the pop-culture entertainment looks like in the totalitarian gameworld, in … Continued

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The Joker Figure of a Thousand Faces, And More of the Most Wonderful Toys of the Week

Welcome back to Toy Aisle, io9’s weekly round up of the coolest toys and merchandise floating around the internet. This week, we’ve got a festive Lego set, an obscenely over-the-top Nerf cannon, and yes, a Joker figure just resplendent with different emotions. Take a look, and prepare to hide your wallet somewhere safe. Batman: The … Continued

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Here’s the First Glimpse at the Batman: Gotham by Gaslight Movie

Warner Bros. announced that the next DC animated movie would be an adaptation of Gotham by Gaslight, the classic Victorian alt-reality tale drawn by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola. Now, we’re getting a preview of what that film will look like. The eight-minute first look comes as a special feature on the Batman and Harley Quinn … Continued