Batman, a genius in various fields, has never truly mastered magic. Despite encountering and facing off with it, Batman is aware of the dark influence it would have on him, leading him to refuse power even when offered directly to him. He is too involved in the methodical scientific method, often teaming up with mages rather than using magic himself. Batman knows and uses a ton of magic, but he doesn’t tell anyone about it.
In Batman: The Knight 7, Bruce Wayne discovers why Batman can’t ever learn magic. He faces down Devil Nezha who corrupted his son Damian, who in turn corrupted the rest of the Bat-Family. Batman gives himself a major magical upgrade with Doctor Fate’s help. Batman knows and uses a ton of magic, but he doesn’t tell anyone. There’s dark magic loose in the Big Apple, and Bruce’s path toward becoming Batman must cross it.
Batman has spent years traveling the world training to become the crime fighter he is today. However, even Batman struggled to learn how to use magic. While he knows some magic thanks to his allies and has used it here and there (mostly in crossovers), it’s awkward seeing a character like Batman use it.
Zatanna, a fictional magician and superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics, is another character that Batman struggles to master. Batman has used some magic to protect himself, but he doesn’t have the right mindset for it. Batman will always have untapped potential in this field and will never be as powerful as he could be.
As a young man, Bruce Wayne trained with Zatanna’s father, John Zatarra, learning sleight of hand and escapology. Despite Batman’s years of training and commitment to protecting the innocent, he has never truly mastered magic.
📹 Why doesn’t Batman use magic?
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📹 Black Orchid analyzes Batman and company
Black Orchid gives her first impression of Batman. From the DC animated film, “Justice League Dark.”
It has nothing to do with logic, just the aethsetics of what Batman is and how he is portrayed to the public. Batman is known for using gadgets and having no superpowers, only what he can do as a normal human. It’s all about style, a lot of powerheroes are like that. It’s a big reason why people can differentiate superheroes and villains from each other. It would still be nice to see Batman use magic and superpowers more often. I just hope they give good reasons to why Batman can’t do certain things.
Batman is special thanks to his kindes, determination, briliant mind and fighting skils and with magic powers he could replace many characters like Zatanna or Constantine and even defeat Superman and for those reasons writters don’t give to him magic powers or they criple him when has those powers being bastards.😁😁😁😁
Real answer: Fans of Batman would throw fits of anger because Batman is supposed to be a man who relies on his intelligence, wealth, and gadgets to solve crimes and defeat his enemies. Writers’ answer: Magic is too unpredictable for Batman to routinely count on. Also, Batman would need to submit himself to magic for him to be a user, but it may overtake him. My answer: Batman using magic would be awesome.
The first time I watched this movie I was too busy rejoicing over the fact that A. Constantine has a Mersyside accent, B. Constantine uses English slang in a way that wasn’t forced or stilted and got it right and C. Constantine is both in a movie and not played by Keanu Reeves (don’t get me wrong, he’s a brilliant actor, just not a brilliant Constantine) to truly appreciate the way Constantine’s face lights up with tentative hope when Orchid reveals that Zatanna has feelings for him and the way he stays slightly hopeful even after Zatanna says she could kill him.
Black Orchid: “You exude pain. Your life is a patchwork of blackness with no time for joy. How do you cope with it? Batman: “I have a butler.” He honestly answered the question. Alfred is the person who kept him from drowning in a sea of anger and sorrow. Alfred is the one who stitches him up, makes sure he remembers to eat, keeps him grounded enough that he doesn’t disappear into his obsession.
i love how orchid smiles when he Batman says “i have a butler” we all know what she is sensing at that moment it isnt a joke ..its the whole of Batman’s Pain being washed away being replaced with the only happiness and joy he has in his life all before once again the pain hides it away so it can not be harmed
This does make sense. Think about it, in the future when Alfred passes due to old age and Batman really had no successor, he kept fighting…but he went from bad to worse. Eventually he just stopped. He stopped being Batman because he mentally couldn’t handle it anymore…until Terry came along and fixed that.
Look how hurt-to-sad he looks in 0:53 then to surprised in 1:00 like he cant belive words Black Orchid just pulled out of Zatanna’s confused soul, because as I can assume, Zatanna told him nothing about it, about her mind. It speaks alot about her character, that she needs to act proud, strong and have no regrets because of her magical identity, like she is expected to be. And how it crashes with this mess of man Constantine is… but they still attract eachother, despite being both full of mysteries and unsolved questions. Damn this is good writing of their relationship, not just love-hate or used-to-love – now ocassional friends without benefits, but deep one with still developing traits and trust.
Do you understand what batman meant? Let me explain: when batman parent died, cops investigation their corps began arguing that whether he will be OK and will be able to cope up with pain. One cope jealous of his wealth commented that he will be OK because he has a butler. Therefore when he was asked how he cope up with this pain he says he has a butler.
The very first Batman did not grow up with Alfred as his butler. By the time Alfred came along Robin was already fighting crime. In 1943 the Comic “Batman with Robin the boy wonder- Here comes Alfred” featured him in a clumsy comedic role. Always playing detective himself and getting caught up in some bizarre twist. The change they made to this character not only became the best decision ever made but laid the foundation in future Batman series for something that would be truly unique in comics. That as cold as Batman is or as closed off from others that he can be. He will always have love for the man that saved him when he was a child and inspired him to move forward.
This is the reason why unstable Batman didn’t make sense to me. Alfred was always there to keep him grounded, to not let him go to far. Batman might be angry, might be morally grey sometimes, but never evil. In the comics it explicitly tell us Alfred is the ultimate good by having him be the ultimate evil in the flipped morals universe.
I might be a little late to the party here.. but occasionally I forget how tragic the batman really is. He smiles, he laughes, he helpes people out and he´s got friends.. yet whenever a being capable of “reading” a person, meets batman, there is only darkness and pain. He´s like in a constant bipolar manic state of being more than a man like his fellow peers in the justice league.. he´s one of the greatest yet he´s a mere man. For shizzle this guy is actually comparing himself to demigods and yet he´s even capable of keeping up with them.
I think what Bruce said is telling. Butler is a title and the way he says it you know there is more beneath his words. Alfred is in a way a conscience for him and his dearest friend. Orchid understands his deep meaning and senses this. The look of sadness on her face as she seems to understand Alfred is all Bruce has really. He does have the Batman family. It is different as Alfred has always been there for him.
Look, I like Batman. He’s cool. But he is NOT the dude who has been through the most shit in that room. If this is ‘Hellraiser John Constantine’, then that dude sees more trauma and messed up shit before his breakfast bottle of whiskey than Batman sees in a year. Writers, Batman does not need to be the best at everything.
People are taking the “I have a butler.” line to mean that he’s showing deep appreciation for Alfred, and I wish that were the case. But the delivery of the line and the line itself sounds more to me like yet another stab by the writers at Batman’s character, criticizing him for being rich and saying that his life isn’t all that hard (despite the monumentally hard life Bruce Wayne has had) because he’s so rich that “he has a butler”. Which, coincidentally, is a line delivered by a cynical police officer in the Arkham Asylum game during the second Scarecrow hallucination. Not to mention, I think it’s out of character for Batman to mention Alfred like that when he’s on duty, which reinforces the idea that it’s just the writers shit-talking Batman. The real reason he copes with it is because he’s a strong person in mind, body, and “soul”. Batman doesn’t get respect from his fellow Leaguers and all these other characters because he has a fucking butler, he gets respect because he’s incredibly dedicated, driven, and competent.
1:13 i hate that batman is treated this way. what happened to him is traumatic yes, but his trauma and life is not that fxcking bad, not enough that eldritch fxcking entities see him like a pit of suffering or something, he’s just a rich dude in a bat suit, he’s had plenty of time for joy and to get the fxck over himself. would be nice if batman was treated more normally and not as some hidden god or something.
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