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From Battle Beast to Titan, The Invincible Rogues’ Gallery is Taking Shape

As its blood-splattered title card makes clear, Amazon Prime’s Invincible is quite a bit more intense than other animated superhero shows. Adapted from Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker’s comic series of the same name, Invincible takes place in a stylized, yet realistic world where superpowered punches have real consequences. It’s rare that an episode goes by without our titular young hero getting drenched in blood, whether it be his own or some poor villain’s.  Despite Invincible’s commitment to the violent bit, however, the show still does have quite a bit in common with its more all-ages animated peers. The series…
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The Batman Will Be ‘Rogues Gallery Origin Story’ Set in Year Two

Matt Reeves sees Gotham City as an experiment. Which is to say in his version of the Dark Knight mythos, Bruce Wayne is just starting out in his war on crime and the Batman isn’t even sure what he can accomplish yet. However, this sense of experimentation also applies to Reeves’ take on the characters, which as he stressed throughout The Batman DC FanDome event is not an origin story: it will look familiar, and yet be something decidedly more intimate and grittier. From Robert Pattinson’s take on Bruce to its seedy depiction of the villains in the Rogues Gallery.…
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