
There’s more going on that just showing the audience the Batman that criminals know the trailer shows both faithful butler Alfred (Andy Serkis) and Selina Kyle (Zoe Kravitz) attempting to speak to Bruce Wayne, instead of Batman - or, in Selina’s case, the man under the mask, although she doesn’t know his identity. The truth, however, might be somewhat more complicated. (“Fear is a tool,” after all.) It’s impossible to watch the trailer and not come away with the understanding that this particular Batman is meant to be scary above all else it’s the core message being communicated throughout the whole thing, right down to the scream as he barrels along in the understated, nitro-powered Batmobile.

The temptation is there to suggest that, for this trailer at least, the audience is seeing Batman in the way that criminals in Gotham City do - the “superstitious, cowardly lot” that Batman’s costume was designed to strike terror into the hearts of, the ones who would see the Batsignal as “a warning,” as the opening narration points out. 'The Batman' Trailer Closes Out DC FanDome Following Looks at 'The Flash,' 'Aquaman' 2'
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We see him survive an explosion, seemingly by simply driving through it entirely unscathed the final shot of the trailer, unveiled Saturday at DC FanDome, is Batman walking slowly toward his victim, the camera inverted - his prey is trapped in a car that’s flipped over - and, more than any other superhero movie to date, it looks like something from a horror movie, as if Batman is the latest incarnation of Jason Voorhees or Freddie Krueger, another unstoppable elemental force on the prowl. The idea that Batman is, well, something other than a regular man is invoked throughout the new trailer for writer-director Matt Reeves’ film: We see Pattinson’s Batman get shot repeatedly, seemingly without suffering any negative effects. Instead of taking the by-now-traditional opportunity to tell a panicking bystander (and the audience, of course) “I’m Batman,” Pattinson’s new cinematic hero instead declares himself to be something else entirely: “I am vengeance.” Or, at least, he doesn’t seem to believe that he is.

Judging by the new The Batmantrailer, Robert Pattinson’s Dark Knight isn’t human.
