We just received a pretty big update regarding the age of theDCU’sBatman, from James Gunn himself.
Spoiler alert in advance: this article contains pretty huge spoilers for the season finale of the DC animated seriesCreature Commandos, so don’t read anything further from this point if you’re not up to date!
So, last night we received the last episode ofCreature Commandos, titled “A Very Funny Monster”, and one relatively throwaway line confirmed something pretty interesting regardingBatman’sage in the DCU.
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At one point in the final episode, Doctor Phosphorus offhandedly mentions that the experiment that gave him superpowers occurred 15 years prior to the current day.
Now the interesting part of this reveal actually ties back to the previous episode, “Priyatel Skelet”.
If we assume that Batman was, at minimum, 20 years old at this point, that would put him at roughly 35 years of age in the current timeline.
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Of course, he could have been even older at the point he caught Doctor Phosphorus, so it wouldn’t be out of the question for him to be somewhere in his 40s either.
AsCreature Commandosis canon to James Gunn’s ongoing DCU, this means that we’re clearly getting a relatively established Batman - no origin story necessary.
The real question is whether or not Robert Pattinson’s Batman could still take over the role.
Topics:DC,Batman,DCU,DC Comics,Warner Bros
