Nygma, inspired by Two-Face, adopts a criminal persona, the Riddler, and allies with Two-Face. She gifts him a Malaysian dream warden, which it is believed helps keep away bad dreams. This internal struggle as to why Bruce feels compelled to continue as Batman even after the death of the Joker has been giving Bruce nightmares, for which he has been seeing Dr. Bruce persuades the orphaned Dick to live at Wayne Manor as his ward, and Dick discovers Bruce is Batman.ĭetermined to avenge his family, Dick demands to join Batman in crime-fighting, hoping to kill Two-Face, but Bruce refuses, telling Dick that such an act will only make his pain worse. Dick Grayson, the youngest member of the Flying Graysons, manages to throw the bomb into the river, but Two-Face kills his family. Two-Face hijacks the event and threatens to detonate a bomb unless Batman surrenders. Bruce asks Chase on a date, but she professes to be romantically interested in Batman instead. Chase Meridian diagnoses Nygma as psychotic.īruce attends a Haly's Circus event with Chase. After killing his supervisor and staging it as a suicide, Nygma resigns and plots revenge against Bruce, sending him riddles. Bruce rejects the device, concerned the technology could manipulate minds. Edward Nygma, an eccentric researcher at Wayne Enterprises, approaches his employer, Bruce Wayne (Batman's secret identity), with an invention that can beam television signals directly into a person's brain.

Flashbacks reveal that Two-Face was disfigured with acid by mob kingpin Salvatore Maroni, which Batman failed to prevent, causing Dent to develop a split personality. In Gotham City, costumed vigilante Batman defuses a hostage situation orchestrated by an arch-criminal known as Two-Face, formerly district attorney Harvey Dent. It was followed by Batman & Robin in 1997, with Schumacher returning as the director, Chris O'Donnell returning as Robin, and George Clooney replacing Kilmer as Batman. The film was a box office success, grossing over $336 million worldwide and became the sixth-highest-grossing film worldwide of 1995. After Keaton chose not to reprise his role, William Baldwin and Ethan Hawke were considered as a replacement before Val Kilmer joined the cast.īatman Forever was released on June 16, 1995, to mixed reviews from critics, who praised the cinematography, music, action sequences and performances of Carrey and Jones, but criticized the CGI, costume designs, and tonal departure from previous films. Batman's alter ego, Bruce Wayne is much more prominent in the film, and like in Batman: The Animated Series, he is shown to be actively involved in the management of Wayne Enterprises. Schumacher mostly eschewed the dark, dystopian atmosphere of Burton's films by drawing inspiration from the Batman comic books of the Dick Sprang era, as well as the 1960s television series, but without the campiness of the next film. The plot focuses on Batman trying to stop Two-Face and the Riddler in their scheme to extract information from all the minds in Gotham City while adopting an orphaned acrobat named Dick Grayson-who becomes his sidekick, Robin-and developing feelings for psychologist Dr. Batman Forever is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger The third installment of Warner Bros.' initial Batman film series, it is a sequel to Batman Returns starring Val Kilmer and replacing Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman, alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Gough, and Pat Hingle.

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