4. The Truman Show
The Situation: A man finds himself the subject of a false world, televised for everyone on the planet to watch.
Enter The Batman: Right off the bat, this is as trippy as it gets and could even plausibly be a Batman graphic novel. Batman waking up one day to find something amiss; everything working orderly, with no chaos or destruction. Obviously, Batman, being the paranoid, manic vigilante he is, would easily catch on and deduce that it's all a big joke. With lights falling from the sky, doors that lead to nowhere (a pain for investigating) and an artistic bald guy warping the sea beside the town, Batman would find his way out much faster than Truman and obsessively punch art and entertainment in the crotch for fifty-some years in vengeance for making his life more of a mockery than it already is. It's slightly remeniscent of Scott Snyder's recent
Batman series, where we find the hero lost in a labyrinth under Gotham City. And if you remember as I do, an insane Batman is sort of the reasoning behind the very concept of fear.