The Batman: 9 Things That Are Impossible If Ben Affleck Returns

By Simon Gallagher /

2. Robin Appearing At All

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The time for Robins in the DCEU has passed. We know that Jason Todd is dead, and that his death had a profound impact on Batman (to the point where he isolated himself and refused stead-fastly to work with anyone else), and we also know that Nightwing is coming, as that spin-off movie has been announced already.

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Both of those facts make it supremely unlikely - at best - that we'll get to see Batman team up with a young sidekick (no matter how much Affleck would work as a torch-passing character). No amount of working with the Justice League will convince him that putting someone else in the firing line - as he did Todd - is a smart idea. Certainly not someone who isn't super-powered like The Flash, anyway.

This Batman is a lone wolf, which is exactly as it needs to be for the Nightwing story logic, and it's illogical to imagine that he'd take on an apprentice at this stage.

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