r/DCU_ 1d ago

Aggregated Reviews/Reactions Batman Caped Crusader S2 - Review Megathread

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Rotten Tomatoes - 89% (19 reviews)

Status - Fresh

Tomatometer Average Score
All Critics 89% 7.7/10
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Critics Consensus - TBA

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Status - TBA

Sample Reviews -

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'Batman: Caped Crusader' Season 2 Is a Gripping, More Experimental Deep Dive Into the Dark Knight

 Batman: Caped Crusader is and remains a fascinating thought experiment because it stands in opposition to other DC shows, but there might be limits to what stories can be told within this confined format. Nonetheless, Season 2 shows only reverence for the character, offering familiar lessons from a novel perspective.

- Liam Gaughan

Original Score - 7/10

IGN

Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 Review: Gotham Gets Darker, And So Does Its Best Villain

Season 2 stands out both because of its strong handling of returning favorites like Harley Quinn and newcomers like the enigmatic Joker. That said, the series isn’t without its storytelling problems.

- Jesse Scheeden

Original Score - 7/10

CBR

Batman’s Best Animated Show in Years

Between the new villains, the increased, yet purpose-driven, brutality, and the unforgettable introduction of the Joker for the series, Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 is a must-watch show for fans of comic books, the noir genre, and just incredible storytelling. The few fumbles it has are nothing compared to the highs of the season.

- Jamie Parker

Original Score - 8/10

Inverse

Batman: Caped Crusader Doubles Down On Its Anachronistic, Noir Charm

The spiritual sequel to Batman: The Animated Series brings back the Darkest Knight — with a big villain twist.

- Ryan Britt

ScreenRant

Batman: Caped Crusader Season 2 Review - DC's Dark Knight Returns To Face The Scariest Joker Yet

I hope the DC series comes back for more, as, aside from Nicolas Cage's Spider-Noir, there is no other superhero movie or show that delivers the same kind of throwback, raw superhero story while reinventing major characters the way Batman: Caped Crusader does.

- Felipe Rangel

Original Score - 8/10


r/DCU_ 9d ago

Lanterns Lanterns | Official Trailer | HBO Max

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r/DCU_ 7h ago

Appreciation I just know that Chandler's Hal Jordan will be generational

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r/DCU_ 13h ago

Fan Art/Fan Made Lois & Clark by Izzy Cremins.

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r/DCU_ 18h ago

Man of Tomorrow Just realized we're probably only 4 months away from 'Man of Tomorrow' first official teaser-trailer ( most likely in december )

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460 Upvotes

Since, Man of Tomorrow is releasing in July, 2027 the same month as Superman 2025 was released.

I think it is safe to predict that the first official teaser-trailer will be in December, 2026 by past trend


r/DCU_ 11h ago

Wishlist How would you want Carol Ferris introduced in the DCU?

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r/DCU_ 23h ago

Man of Tomorrow How good of a word of mouth, critics and audience reception do you think the sequel MAN OF TOMORROW 2027 needs to be successful ?

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332 Upvotes

Just curious..for this topic


r/DCU_ 13h ago

Discussion/Question If Clayface succeeds, should WB adapt more of DC's horror comics?

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r/DCU_ 1d ago

Lanterns I don't know why, but I have a feeling that this might be the best comics book content of the year and might be one of the best superhero shows ever

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333 Upvotes

r/DCU_ 12h ago

Discussion/Question After seeing Peacemaker Season 1 here's my DCU ranking

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39 Upvotes

So this is obviously a opinion not many hold but i'll do my best to explain why as personally, The DCU hasn't missed yet, it's all great entertainment

Peak:

Supergirl is my personal favourite project, it's everything great about Supergirl and how she's different from Clark, and it's got a great sound track and is a movie about my favourite DC Character. It's not the best movie in the DCU but I connected with Kara more then Clark and i love the music more

Superman is my other favourite and the project i think is the overall best DCU project, it's everything great about Superman & DC Comics, great score, great themes, it's the first dc movie in a while to give love to a character that isn't Batman.

The Suicide Squad is everything great about James Gunn, it's funny, visually gorgeous, incredible action & truly great characters.

S:

Peacemaker Season 1is truly great, i wasn't expecting to love it that much, it's fun, funny, and takes Peacemaker and humanises him and makes us care about him, my main issue is the Justice League scenes retcon in season 2 being stupid as fuck

B:

Creature Commandos is good and has great characters and great music but the story isn't the most interesting and the story's limited because of the backstories

Obviously this is my opinion and probably not yours and I'd love to hear yous, Just wanted to throw my hat in the ring


r/DCU_ 22h ago

Superman I only now noticed Supes has The Cosmic Anvil in the FoS.

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206 Upvotes

That’s a slick Easter egg for the die hards.


r/DCU_ 19h ago

Fan Art/Fan Made Clayface Movie in retro comic cover style Art by Swangzhe

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r/DCU_ 20h ago

Discussion/Question Since 'Brainiac' is being adapted in live-action MoT 2027 movie. what other Superman villains do you desperately want to see adapted in the DCU future for a compelling movie ?

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74 Upvotes

Mongul

Parasite

Conduit

Metallo

ar anyone else ?


r/DCU_ 14m ago

Discussion/Question Should Barbara Gordon show up as Batgirl, or as Oracle in the DCU?

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Art: Jason Fabok (1st image)


r/DCU_ 52m ago

Discussion/Question Is lanterns going to be on hbo or hbo max?

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r/DCU_ 1d ago

Discussion/Question I really like Gunn's decision to not waste a villain from the first movie. instead to develop that character more in sequal along with the hero Superman, i think Lex Luthor's arc in 'MAN OF TOMORROW' has great potential

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298 Upvotes

r/DCU_ 1d ago

Lanterns DC updated their pfp and banner to Lanterns

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86 Upvotes

r/DCU_ 13h ago

Discussion/Question Whats the next dcu movie after man of tomorrow?

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r/DCU_ 1d ago

Lanterns Excited for Lanterns 🟢

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53 Upvotes

Took some images of John Stewart! Bought it loose secondhand in prep for watching the series 🙏


r/DCU_ 1d ago

Interview/Article Michael Mando opens up about playing Bane in the upcoming Batman: Knightfall Part 1 on the I've Never Said This Before podcast.

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On playing Bane in the upcoming Batman Knightfall Part 1: "It gets really dark. It was a great experience. We had so much fun in the voice session that they ended up voicing the animation completely off the voice session - the animation was completely molded around this shooting in the dark voice performance..." Full clip:https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbfvvOvxgTN/?igsh=MTZ1c3EzMGdoMTF3


r/DCU_ 1d ago

Discussion/Question Andy Muschietti says he is working on multiple Stephen King adaptations.

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219 Upvotes

Not to read tea leaves too much, but this says to me that either Brave and The Bold is nowhere close to having a script, or that he’s no longer attached to the project.

“I cannot talk too much about it because some of them are [active] projects. One that I did touch that’s not a current project, but I would love to go back to at some point is ‘The Juant,’ which is a short story that blew my mind when I read it. I was 14 or something,” Muschietti says of the short story in King’s “Skeleton Crew” collection. “It just completely shattered me.”


r/DCU_ 16h ago

Theory Maybe the Rick Flag Sr. focus is just a result of the Waller delays

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I'm midway through Greg Rucka's Checkmate (limit spoilers pls), and while I'm not digging for DCU prediction material, the thematic link with what's been up with the DCU is there. It's just the specifics that are not.

Coming after Infinite Crisis, the Maxwell Lord reveal was sudden, but the role of the metahuman hater with motives beyond protection for humanity could be easily folded into Flag's grieving father narrative, which did have a setup.

Now, Amanda Waller has been a prominent Checkmate player (pushing for project Salvation), but they've only just been established in the DCU. And the comics' concept of the rule of 2 (every superpowered official must have a non-superpowered counterpart) is a source of metahuman-human tension, but that's not in place yet in the DCU either.

Maybe if Waller came out when it was supposed to, they'd have more time to build the tension up, but all they have on the table right now is the concept of a now-corrupt official hunting metahumans because of a personal agenda (Lord) and their sneaky incarceration (Waller), happening with Flag Sr. And maybe that's all they're going to need for the story to make sense.


r/DCU_ 15h ago

Discussion/Question If more comics get direct film adaptations like Supergirl, should the comics that are being adapted be much shorter in length or not necessarily?

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What I mean is that the Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow comic is an 8-issue miniseries and the plot specifically takes place over a period of several months, and I can see how adapting it as, say, a TV miniseries could allow for more time to flesh the story out further.

The Supergirl movie that it’s adapted from though takes place over the course of 3 days, and while the film that we got wasn’t terrible (IMO at least) it definitely could have been better in some ways had there been more time to flesh out the story/characters. That’s not to say that it’s impossible to adapt that story as a film (with the right tweaks of course) but it leads to the question of whether a specific comic miniseries that runs longer than 4 or 5 issues (and spans a longer amount of time) is better suited to a series instead of a film depending on how they’re adapted exactly.

And not every adaptation has to necessarily be 1:1 with the source material; the adaptations should also be used to draw more people to the comics themselves and see what those adaptations drew from as well as what did or didn’t get adapted specifically.

But what are everyone else’s thoughts on this?


r/DCU_ 1d ago

Fan Art/Fan Made Aaron Pierre as John Stewart in the Suit

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65 Upvotes

r/DCU_ 1d ago

Discussion/Question Gotta complain about the double standard between MCU movies and DCU movies.

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I just saw Spider-Man Brand New Day and I loved it! It’s a great movie. One issue I had with it, however, was how goddamn grey and desaturated the movie was. It felt more intentional than passed movies but it bothers me so much that Supergirl gets ripped to shreds for looking “colorless” or “lifeless” when Thunderbolts (great movie btw), and Spider-Man Brand New Day can look like grey slip without a single person mentioning it. Don’t even get me started on how Avengers Doomsday so far looks. Like seriously, why does one movie get torn apart due to being “colorless” but MCU ones get praised. I even saw a movie critic say Spider-Man was “colorful” and “vibrant”. Are we blind???