Superman: Red Son Animated Movie Reveals First Look at Russian Batman

This version of Batman has a similar origin to that of his mainstream counterpart, in that he was driven to take on the mantle of a masked vigilante after witnessing the murder of his parents as a young child. The difference is that instead of a random mugging in an alleyway, they were murdered by NKVD operative and Stalin’s illegitimate son Pyotr Roslov (this reality’s Pete Ross) for printing anti-Superman leaflets, inspiring his hatred of the political system upheld by such callous brutality. Superman describes him as, “A force of chaos in my world of perfect order. The dark side of the Soviet dream. Rumored to be a thousand murdered dissidents, they said he was a ghost, a walking dead man. A symbol of rebellion that would never fade as long as the system survived. Anarchy in black.”

The image was revealed during an episode of DC Daily in which the animated movie, Batman & Mr Freeze: Subzero was primarily discussed. The episode also features an interview with Roger Craig Smith, who voiced the Dark Knight in the Arkham Origins video games, the English dub of Batman Ninja, the Batman Unlimited series of animated movies, and will reprise the role in Red Son. He described this latest experience as one of his favorite times performing as the character and confirmed he would be speaking in a Russian accent.

Even when adapting specific comics, the animated DC movies aren’t direct translations of the stories and characters, but the spirit of them generally remains despite any changes made. The Batman of Superman: Red Son is largely similar to his standard counterpart, but while the mainstream Batman battles crime due to the senselessness of his parents’ deaths, this one is focused against the system that saw them murdered for expressing dissent. As such, this Batman is far more ruthless in his never-ending war, making him just as much of a reflection of the dark world that birthed him.

Source: DC Daily

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Scottish wordsmith Andrew Marshall was raised on a steady diet of Blockbuster rentals and late night Channel 4, sparking a love of the varied wonders the world of film has to offer.

His reviews have been quoted in media and on physical releases, and he can be found as a lead writer for genre magazine Starburst, and contributor to nerd culture site Kneel Before Blog and its podcast Kneel Before Pod. He is also a former editor of world cinema specialist Subtitled Online, and has contributed to speculative fiction and review site Strange Horizons, alt-culture magazine Front, and analytical list site Taste of Cinema, amongst others. His voracious appetite for film, TV, books and comics is yet to be satiated, and he can often be found stalking conventions and festivals celebrating each medium.

He is also a keen creative writer, with works encompassing urban fantasy, horror, sci-fi, high fantasy, crime, mystery, cyberpunk and erotica, not always in different stories.

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