20 Things You Somehow Missed In Batman Returns
8. The Blueprints For The Batmobile Problem
This is a rather odd one to say the least.
Say that you have a car that is as fortified and heavily-equipped as a tank, mounted with machine guns, defensive shields and all manner of bat-themed gadgets: would you turn the blueprints to that vehicle over to anyone? Very well, then. Then answer the same question imagining that you are Batman.
Fair enough, Batman may have been asked by the authorities to turn over the blueprints to his arsenal as a condition for his continuing to operate in Gotham City, but in a conurbation of avarice and deceit, we couldn’t really see Michael Keaton’s Batman agreeing to that. George Clooney might be another matter, though…
So, it is fair to ask where The Penguin got them from. It is likely that Shreck was involved in some dirty work down at City Hall obtaining them, but the idea that the Batmobile’s blueprints would be so easily accessible just seems rather quaint and it is therefore hardly surprising that The Red Triangle Circus Gang is able to disable the vehicle’s security measures so easily.
Still, it all leads to a highly-entertaining chase sequence, some witty one-liners from The Penguin, Batman looking genuinely worried, and the emergence of the Batmissile (which possibly went on to inspire the Bat-Pod in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight Trilogy), so perhaps we’re overthinking it a bit.