This Bruce sucks, in a way that is immediately felt by the characters who are actively working through or witnessing the repercussions of a life under his tutelage. But in every appearance, he’s tinged with an air of failure, the idea being that if he’d done a better job, Dick wouldn’t have skipped town, and Jason wouldn’t be so maladjusted. At other times, the erstwhile mentor is actually present, in scenes where he encourages his former wards. Sometimes he’s an illusion conjured up by their subconsciouses when they’re plagued with self-doubt. This Bruce is still fighting crime, but since Titans is in large part the story of his adopted sons Dick Grayson and Jason Todd, he only appears on this show out of costume, as a dysfunctional father figure. By the time Glen joins the show in season 2, the show is done with Batman (for now), and only concerned with Bruce. In these scenes, which all take place in the first season, before Glen was cast, Batman is played by stuntmen Alain Moussi and Max Sevaria in quick, brutal fight scenes that only offer fleeting glimpses of the hero, with none of his face exposed. It’s a performance that invites viewers to wonder what his Batman must be like: Does he come across just as strangely as his Bruce? Or is he choosing to play a Bruce who’s very different from the man he is in a Batsuit?Īnd Titans does have a Batsuit, which mostly appears in a nightmare alternate reality where Dick Grayson is tormented with a vision of a Batman turned murderous. This Bruce is lean, twitchy, and a little bit off. Unlike Affleck, however, Glen’s Bruce isn’t a barrel-chested bruiser burning with anger. Glen is 60.) Like Ben Affleck’s version of the character, Glen’s Bruce Wayne is a grizzled man, heavy with the toll his war on crime has taken on his mind and body. (Robert Pattinson, the newest Batman, is 35. Glen is one of the oldest men to take on the Bruce Wayne role, which is usually taken by men in their early to mid-30s. In Titans, Bruce Wayne is played by Iain Glen, best known for his portrayal of Jorah Mormont in HBO’s Game of Thrones. And Titans has the most enjoyably weird take on Bruce Wayne we might ever get in live action. While it’s frustrating that Titans has worked so hard to squeeze a Batman-less Batman story into its Teen Titans narrative, it hasn’t elected to tell that story without Bruce Wayne. Titans’ pivot toward the Batman canon isn’t all bad, though. Its third season is even set in Gotham City, via adapted renditions of the Batman stories A Death in the Family and Under the Hood, in which Jason Todd, the second Robin, dies, and is resurrected much later as the violent vigilante Red Hood. One of the more frustrating aspects of Titans, the HBO Max drama based on DC Comics’ Teen Titans, is its slow transformation into a Batman story in everything but name.
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