The Batman/References

* This version of the batsuit is said to take heavy inspiration from Lee Bermejo's "riot gear" design for Batman in works like *Batman: Noel* and *Joker*. The cowl's seams and nose patch meanwhile are influenced by Adam West's mask.
* The references to Martha Wayne's mental health issues manifesting from her witnessing a murder could be a reference to *Flashpoint*, in which she becomes the Joker.
* The film depicts Riddler as a serial killer, which borrows from *Batman: Earth One Volume 2* and *Batman: The Telltale Series*. Keeping with this theme, he is shown with a coffee cup that has the cream in the shape of a question mark, similar to a panel in the comic where the steam from the coffee cup in his hideout dramatically takes such a shape.
* Bruce is seen to be wearing black eyeshade when unmasked, referencing the previously non-diegetic makeup in previous live-action Batman films used to blend his skin into the mask, which would just disappear once he unmasked.
* Bruce is shown out of costume during daylight, but doing Batman stuff on a motorcycle and hiding his face with a helmet and scarf (and wearing eyeshade) at night, akin to *Batman: Year One* where he made a point of never wearing the Batsuit except at night.
* After Selina removes her wig during the scene where she tries to kill Falcone, the combination of her short hair and black leather corset recreate her dominatrix look from *Batman: Year One*.
* The scene where the Riddler is arrested at the diner takes some inspiration from the opening scene of *Batman: Arkham Knight*.
* Wayne Manor was donated to the city as an orphanage in the backstory, as in *The Dark Knight Rises*.
	+ Like in the events of *Batman Begins* and its backstory in *Batman Vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice*, Wayne Manor burned down at some point, and is in a rather derelict state upon being visited in the film.
* The simplified bat insignia on this version's batsuit, which omits the tail and head, harkens back to the original Golden Age suit.
* The movie uses the villains Riddler, Penguin, and Catwoman, three of the four villains who appeared in *Batman: The Movie*, which Reeves was a fan of as a kid. The fourth villain, the Joker, appears in a cameo at the end.
	+ A few of the guesses as to who "el rata alada" might be feel very much like knowing winks to the movie's signature Bat Deduction scene, in particular "a penguin's got wings, too". Even the correct answer, you are el rata alada==url rataalada.com, might as well have come straight out of the 60s.
* During his interrogation, the Penguin sarcastically calls Batman and Gordon "the world's greatest detectives".
* Selina in *The Dark Knight Rises* had a bee in her bonnet about privileged people from her youth in poverty. This version adds "white" to the criteria. In fact, one of the corrupt guys she's complaining about is her dad, making this something of a Freudian excuse. It's also been raised as a possibility in the comics.
* At one point, Batman attaches a grappling hook to a structure and walks down the side of a building, a lot like the famous building climbing shot from *Batman (1966)*.
* Selina wears a lot of wigs in this film. One is pink, which was her hair color in *Batman: The Dark Knight Returns*. Her corset-and-boots look strongly resembles her appearance in another Frank Miller Batman comic; *Batman: Year One*.
* In one of Riddler's videos, he strongly emphasizes the "HUSH" money Thomas Wayne allegedly paid. Combine that with his look, and his vendetta against Thomas Wayne, and you might start to see some bits of Thomas Elliot in there. Plus, the reporter who tried to expose the Waynes is named Edward *Elliot*.
* In the climax, a struggling Bruce injects himself with a green drug that gets him back on his feet, but briefly drives him berserk. It looks a lot like Bane's Venom. In the comics, Bruce briefly became addicted to the drug so he could better protect people before Bane was even introduced. The incident that triggered it? He couldn't lift an obstruction to save a kid. Guess what this Bruce does shortly after he takes the green drug?
* In *The Dark Knight*, Joker set up a fake sniper nest to distract the police at a critical moment. In this movie, the Riddler's sniper nest is quite real, and there's no distraction at all. He *wants* to be caught. Likewise, this movie also has Bruce showing up too late to save an ally from a bomb going off, although unlike what happened to Harvey and Rachel, Alfred is injured but lives.
	+ Like Joker in *The Dark Knight*, Riddler seizes the opportunity of a public funeral for one of his victims to make a show of potentially killing another high-profile figure. Unlike Joker, Riddler succeeds.
	+ Also like Joker, Riddler sends amateur footage of himself torturing and killing a man while addressing the public to the news, who broadcast it with a warning that the footage is disturbing.
* The bat insignia is shown to be the film's version of a batarang. In an episode of *Batman: The Brave and the Bold*, Batman's chest insignia is revealed to be an emergency batarang.
* The ending also draws from *Batman: No Man's Land*. A catastrophe — an earthquake in the comics, the bombing of a sea wall in the movie — causes a crisis and martial law in Gotham, opening up the city to (even more) crime, and implicitly giving the Penguin room to grow his criminal enterprise.
* The Riddler's *Saw*-style murder methods are reminiscent of the *Batman: Arkham Series*, which also had the character use Jigsaw-like traps on his victims. The neck bomb used to kill Colson is especially similar to the bombs he used in *Arkham City* and *Arkham Knight*.
	+ His motive of exposing corrupt officials is reminiscent of his goals from *Batman: Arkham Origins*. His MO of terrorism while idolizing Batman (but not Bruce Wayne) and thinking that the Caped Crusader would approve of his methods is reminiscent of Anarky from that game as well.
* Wayne Tower's library is shown to have a familiar Shakespeare bust.
* The Riddler laughs a lot like Frank Gorshin.
* Falcone recounts a time he had to go to Bruce's father, Thomas, for emergency surgery after being shot because he couldn't risk going to a hospital, while Bruce (as a child) was watching from the stairs above. This exact scene was depicted in a flashback in *The Long Halloween*.
* The general story very loosely follows *The Long Halloween*, beginning on Halloween and most of the victims being associates related to Falcone (in the comics, they're his blood relatives, but here they're just dirty politicians and police officers on his payroll), leading up to Falcone himself being murdered. Although, outside of beginning on Halloween, there's no holiday motif afterwards.
* A recording of Thomas Wayne announcing his investment into the renewal fund has him saying, "I believe in Gotham" which is the first line said in *The Long Halloween*, itself a shoutout to the first line said in *The Godfather*.
* Near the end, Falcone gains the scratch mark scars on his right cheek he has in the comics when Selina claws his face. The circumstances are a little different though; in the comic, she scratches him as she's fleeing from his home in an attempted robbery, but here, her clawing him was because Falcone tried to strangle her to death.
* Arkham Asylum is renamed Arkham State Hospital here, similar to *Joker (2019)*.
* Just like in *Batman: The Telltale Series*, Thomas and Martha Wayne have some dirty business that the villain tries to exploit, with Bruce being targeted because of the sins of his father. However, it turns out this Thomas was a good man who simply made a reckless choice to protect his family, and he didn't intend for his renewal fund to be used by corrupt officials and gangsters, in contrast to Telltale's Thomas, was really WAS a ruthless mobster who had Esther Cobblepot driven insane and committed to Arkham for her land.
* Wayne Tower is designed to be like its comic counterpart during Grant Morrison's tenure, with its spires emulating Batman's familiar silhouette.
* The film's version of the Batcave is shown to be an old train station underneath Wayne Tower. This makes it a fusion of Dick Grayson's Bat Bunker during his tenure as Batman and Batcave South-Central, which is a safehouse repurposed from an 1880s subway station.