11 Most Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That Batman Triumphant Would Have Been Great

10. Like It Or Not, It Inspired TWO Batman Franchises

Too many Bat-fans are premature in their wholesale rejection of Triumphant as that ridiculous project that almost had Nic Cage as Scarecrow without ever digging down into the details of the story. Incredibly, the script - or at least the early treatments and outline - looked like a thing of beauty.

If you could put aside the apparently distasteful casting, there were some great ideas in there. Like Batman on trial for his "crimes" against Gotham (an idea that made its way into The Dark Knight Rises), using Scarecrow as a chief villain (Batman Begins) and having the Joker appear as a hallucination (Arkham Knight). In other words, the ideas were strong and compelling enough to re-appear in other Batman franchises successfully.

Whether or not that was a conscious decision doesn't particularly matter: what matters is how well they worked in every case, suggesting that they would have also worked for Schumacher.