10 Positives Joel Schumacher Actually Brought To Batman Movies

7. Robin's Origin

To try and satisfy Warner Brothers, Tim Burton had attempted to shoehorn Robin into both Batman and Batman Returns (even casting Marlon Wayans and performing costume tests for the character for Returns). However, both Burton and the screenwriters of the first two films could not make the Boy Wonder fit into the tone of those respective films.

By the time preparation for a third film came around, the studio required Robin’s inclusion to help provide audiences with a more family friendly Batman outing. This was achieved by diving directly into the comics to depict his origin, which sadly meant that Two-Face was deprived of a meatier background story, no doubt as his scarring may have been considered too intense for children.

Even though the criminal involved in the Batman Forever version of the death of the Graysons involves Two-Face mercilessly bringing the high-wire careers of The Flying Graysons to a premature end, instead of gangster, Tony Zucco, and provides Dick Grayson with a brother, it is a highlight of the film, which turns from being a glitzy, glamorous big night out for Val Kilmer’s Bruce Wayne, Dr. Chase Meridian and other key figures of Gotham society to a tragic bloodbath in no time at all.

Sadly, Chris O’Donnell’s Grayson is not the young, lost boy that Bruce is able to identify with and is, instead, in his mid-twenties and more than capable of going it alone so readily.