re: New Epic Trailer for Man of Steel

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I love the Nolan trilogy. They are the definitive version of batman as far as movies are concerned

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While I can see why people would say this, it's hard not to think about what poster Michael T. Tiger said after this came out.

Bruce Wayne goes off and trains for seven years to be the ultimate detective, fighting machine. He comes back to Gotham City and defeats Ra's Al Ghul in a matter of weeks. As soon as he is finished doing that, Lt. Jim Gordon hips him to The Joker, he says he'll look into it. In Nolan's universe, it then takes TWO years for Batman to capture the Scarecrow and he's so worried about the mob that only now, when the mob turns to the Joker, is he really ready to do anything about it. In what again seems like no more than a couple of weeks, he puts down the mob, the Joker, and Two-Face, but loses what he believes to be the love of his life in the process and hangs up the cape and cowl as an outlaw, hated and despised. Eight years later, Batman returns to defeat Bane. This process takes about five or six months. Then he retires again.

So, for all of his training and his sworn duty to fight the criminal element in all manner to avenge the loss of his father and mother, Bruce put the cowl on for just a little over two and a half years total and ran away when the going got tough?

And while it may seem like comic book nitpicking, when it is laid out like that, it was hard to think about how great Nolan's Bruce Wayne really was. Although it would probably be fair to say that in a realistic world, one man couldn't possibly do this job for very long.