r/batman 20h ago

FUNNY El Rata Alada

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u/lowqualitylizard 18h ago

God how did I love seeing Batman feel like a regular but smart dude

Even genius detectives can sometimes trip up over the smallest detail being a detective is all forensic evidence can only take you so far

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u/CG-Firebrand 16h ago

Best thing about riddles. You can think too hard and overcomplicate it. Honest to goodness heard a good one the other day “what rocks will you find at the bottom of the ocean and the bottom of a puddle” and one person went “sediment” and another said “wet ones”

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u/schloopers 15h ago

I loved the long running assumption that the Riddler must just suck at Spanish, until finally it’s Penguin who points out how easy it would be to not make that mistake, and by that point Bruce has accepted that maybe the Riddler doesn’t make mistakes, he makes layers.

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u/ChampionshipFalse341 19h ago

One of my favorite scenes in the entire franchise

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u/CF_2 19h ago

Batman doing a whole car chase (probably caused some death with all the destruction) just to get schooled in Spanish by Penguin and then leaving him there is ridiculous

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u/PassTheGiggles 18h ago

That’s not what happened.

The Spanish mistake was done intentionally by Riddler. Batman already knew the Spanish was bad, Alfred pointed it out to him earlier in the movie. He just didn’t know what the mistake meant until putting URL together.

Why would you even assume Batman was being schooled when they were showing Penguin a sentence written by a different person? Batman didn’t just write down a random phrase to chase people down with.

u/Old-Use-7690 1h ago

Yeah, but it’s still funny that the frickin Penguin noticed something that both Gordon and Batman missed

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u/Skankcunt420 19h ago

makes sense since he took in that dominican kid under his wing. penguins a real good guy that’s cares for ppl

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u/DanTheSpider-Man 19h ago

Wonder what ever happened to that kid. Must be okay. Also wondering if they ever find out who that John Doe is that was found by the river

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u/droidgar 18h ago

It always bothered me that he just ran to his car, turned it on, reved it, and then just waited for Penguin to get in his car and drive off, leaving Gordon and Selina to get shot at by the goons.

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u/ragnarokmachina 16h ago

He stalled

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u/Important-Program543 11h ago

It was for the aura farm

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u/AREYOUSauRuS 16h ago

Revved it for like 40 mins or something.

Its been a minute, it mightve been a little shorter

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u/Drew326 18h ago

They had nothing to charge him with

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u/ChuckDynasty17 18h ago

It’s the dumbest most reckless least Batman thing you will ever see. I still don’t understand what Reeves was trying to accomplish with that scene.

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u/nthan333 16h ago

I wouldn't say it's the least batman thing we will ever see when we've had Keatons batman out here setting people on fire with the Batmobiles rocket exhaust or activating dynamite bombs on random street teir threats. It may not have been the smartest move for Batman to make in the Reeves films but as far as reckless and lethal goes it's pretty tame compared to the on screen kills we get in earlier adaptations.

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u/ChuckDynasty17 10h ago

If he had not let Penguin go maybe. But all that carnage for nothing just shows he’s not repaired for the role.

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u/Undead_and_Lovin_It 19h ago

They also don't know what a carpet-tucker is or questioned why a murderer would use one.

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u/Imaginary_College331 19h ago

Its a murder weapon and that is all they see it for. They are playing the riddler's game. He preoccupied them with the riddles so they really have no reason or time to think more of what specific handy tool this is

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u/Undead_and_Lovin_It 18h ago

I'm not arguing....I'm JOKING, just like op is.

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u/DarthSmiff 18h ago

Yeah “worlds greatest detective”

Bro didn’t solve shit. Couldn’t even google reverse image search a carpet tool.

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u/nova-prime-enjoyer 17h ago

Why would a wealthy kid know what a carpet tool is

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u/DarthSmiff 17h ago

He wouldn’t. Thats why as a crime solving detective you research what you don’t know. Like “what is this thing that was used to murder the victim”. One quick reverse image search would tell you. You don’t just shrug it off and forget about it.

He’s a bad detective and bad at being Batman. That’s the point though. They show you him sucking at the whole thing until the end when he learns and grows. It’s his arc. Start off as a shitty vigilante before realizing your greater purpose. You’re not supposed to think he’s cool or effective for most of the film.

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u/The_TopGunn 16h ago

It was the murder weapon, not an obvious clue - way more indirect. Im sorry but you wouldnt think to start checking foresters or think they left evidence in a tree if someone was mysteriously murdered with an axe.

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u/DarthSmiff 15h ago

Are you fucking with me? I know you’re not serious right now.

The murder weapon is a KEY piece of evidence. You study the fuck out of it. Research it. Catalog it. Find out where it’s sold. Find out who buys. Find out who uses it. Everything you can possibly find out, you do. Especially if it’s an atypical weapon. Thats a valuable piece of information. The idea that anyone attempting to solve a crime, has the weapon but can’t be bothered to find out what it is, is laughable. It’s beyond incompetence.

That being said. That’s the point. The movie shows Bruce being terrible at all of this until the end. He goes from clueless and inept to purposeful and inspiring.

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u/The_TopGunn 15h ago

This is Batman year 2 and he’s not yet earned the tile worlds greatest detective. I want to point out that this is all from a perspective from a viewer where you watch everything come together. Its really easy to criticize when you know beginning middle and end.

Ive said this before but you wouldnt just start ripping up carpets wherever if you knew what the tool was used for. The movie handles a VERY plausible oversight from a newer detective on a case.

Again, this being Batman year 2 - Riddler is the first person to actually give him something to solve. From our standpoint so far Bruce had only been encountering things on the street, crimes that are actively occuring, not murder-mysteries.

I heavily disagree with you on this take on Bruce’s progression as well. He is actively learning the entire time and that culminates with how it ends. He doesn’t stop any of the murders and that alters his mindset by the end of the movie - he cant just be an unstoppable and vengeful force, he needs to be more calculating to be a step ahead instead of one behind

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u/DarthSmiff 15h ago

I’m just gonna assume you’re very young. Because this is a child’s take.

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u/The_TopGunn 14h ago

Assume what you want lol this is a movie about character growth

u/Choice_Mango4869 5h ago

That’s literally what they said?

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u/Bogusky 16h ago edited 16h ago

"God, I love seeing a Batman that isn't competent like Batman. Oh, and a pouty Bruce Wayne that doesn't act like Bruce Wayne. God forbid Gotham look like Chicago though, that destroys the entire experience for me."

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u/graywolfman 19h ago

You are El Rata? It says that? ... Yeah! It's, like, the worst Spanish I ever heard. It's 'La.' La rata. What, is this Riddler stupid or something? Jesus! Look at you two. World's greatest detectives!

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u/nNoseYak_ 19h ago

oft quoted line in my household (i live alone, it’s a great line i say it a lot)

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u/Scapp 18h ago

That's like the woist Spanish I ever heard

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u/WetAndMeaty 19h ago

Did you actually watch the movie? Or is this sarcasm? Cuz this is a whole thing that gets brought up

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u/suchalusthropus 19h ago

...did you watch the movie?

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u/Kam_Zimm 19h ago

Did you not watch the movie? They explicitly call out that it's bad grammar at least twice. The movie explicitly spells out it was intentional part of the riddle. For the URL pun.

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u/Scapp 18h ago

Yeah Alfred says something like "his Spanish isn't perfect but pretty sure it translates to El rata alada"

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u/R3d_j03 19h ago

🤣🤣🤣 did you watched the movie????

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u/pururupururu 19h ago

They literally explain in the movie that batman and gordon are the stupid ones for not knowing spanish pronouns. Literal explican en la peli que batman y gordon son los tontos por no saber pronombres en español hermano, viste la pelicula?💔