People might balk at this, but genuinely, George Clooney should've been an AMAZING Batman. He'd knock it out of the park as Bruce Wayne any day of the week. Just a shame that, y'know, his one Bat-film had to involve nipple armour and a rampaging Arnie as cold, quiet, Mister Freeze.
But I digress, because even while audiences continue to remonstrate on the failings of Clooney's Dark Knight, Rocksteady (like the champs they are), chose to reference the actor in Arkham Asylum.
After rescuing Aaron Cash and another doctor from being trapped by Joker gas, a message will display on a nearby noticeboard that reads "Dr. Clooney to Gynecology." This acknowledges Clooney's performance as the eponymous character in 1997's Batman & Robin, but also his breakout role on ER, where he played Dr. Doug Ross for five years.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
