The Redemption of Nipple-Suited Batman
This is a 12-minute Batman fan flick called Death Wish, which stars Batman and Robin in their Joel Schumacher-ian Batman and Robin outfits. Yes, the ones with the nipples. BUT WAIT. I know you’re immediately dismissing it, but you shouldn’t. Seriously! It’s actually pretty good. I know you don’t believe me, but the film is actually pretty dark, with tiny bits of humor, more like the Burton Batman flicks. And it stars a good deal of the rogues gallery, as well as Nightwing, Oracle, the Cassandra Cain Batgirl, and more. It’s only Batman and Robin’s costumes that at Batman and Robin-ish, well, that and the way it’s filmed — which actually makes it pretty cool, because it’s like if Batman and Robin had actually been kind of entertaining. Anyways, I liked it, nipples and all. Which is something I say less often than you’d think.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.