#especially considering it was Basil Rathbone's version of The Mark of Zorro the early comics claim Bruce saw with his parents that night

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Watching the new Caped Crusader series and it's good but unfortunately a franchise as big and as subject to reboots as Batman can't avoid comparison between versions. So what I'm getting is that this version of Bruce is as green and as grim as Pattinson's Bruce, with the established social persona of Bale's Bruce, and the overall tone is as dark as the Keaton movies. Obvs the vague time period setting allows it to take elements from the earliest comics and the art deco style of the 90s animated series, but it's also clearly inspired by the heavier noir & gangster films of the mid 20th century so it's altogether on that line between fantastical superhero story and realistic crime drama. With a couple of added twists to make it stand out as unique. It's a really interesting approach and I've still a lot to watch but it seems to be doing a better job of certain other grimdark Batman stories I've seen or read.