TAZZMISSION
BANALITY
Wait a damn minute sir.
Did you even consider Mark Hamill's Joker VA in Batman the Animated Series? Or even the comic The Last Laugh or any other comic with him in it?
And hell then you go for Bane. Bane has been famous for his Knightfall appearance because he broke the Bat. Not because of the movie, same for Joker.
Both these two villians have been the big deal before the live action movies.
again. do you really think if it wasnt for nolans films the batman universe itself would be this big thing amongst the average movie goer who dosent even read comics?
keep in mind batman wasnt big anymore movie wise since batman and robin tanked hard. yea you can argue the popularity of the animated series but that dosent help the case at all. and just because a toon is great dosent mean a movie version of it will be