There are a lot of great things about The Batman, but one of the best is the film's portrayal of Gotham City. Batman's hometown is a very important part of the character's mythos. It's beyond just a city that the hero resides in - it is a living, breathing character in its own right. It defines Batman and his struggles in a way that no other setting does for a fictional character.

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Over the years in Batman films, fans have gotten a lot of different interpretations of Gotham but The Batman's is one of the most comic accurate. The movie presents facets of the city that are very familiar to comic fans.

SPOILERS for The Batman from here on out.

10 Batman's Effect On The City Is Evident Everywhere

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The Batman has been confirmed to take place in the Caped Crusader's second year as Batman. The police and the criminals know about him and the movie goes a long way towards showing their reactions to him. The scene with Bat-Signal going on and the criminals reacting is a wonderful illustration of this, as is the police's reaction to Batman at crime scenes.

The Batman takes these aspects right from the comics. It captures the fear Batman has struck in the heart of criminals, as well as how he's affected the police. The scenes with the twin guards of the Iceberg Lounge even play into this, as not everyone believes the hype yet.

9 It Rains All The Time

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One of the great things about The Batman's Gotham City is its atmosphere, and a huge part of that is rain. There are very few scenes in the movie without some kind of rain and it gives the perfect feel for this dark and stylistic take on the city. What makes it all the better for comic fans is that this is very much an aspect of the source material.

Gotham's rain represents the constant rot eating away at the city, its corruption growing like a caustic mold. The comics established this facet of the city's environment, and Reeves and his team bring it to perfect life on the screen.

8 The Darkness Of The City Is Done Perfectly

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The Batman presents Gotham as a dark city. Most of the scenes are filled with inky darkness and it adds wonderfully to the atmosphere of the whole thing. The scenes during the day are even pretty grey, almost as if sunlight can never actually get through to the city. The only time this isn't the case is at dawn, when the rain is gone and the monsters that prowl the city at night are sleeping.

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This representation of the city is lifted whole cloth from the comics. Gotham is a dark place, where all manner of danger lurks in the shadows. The movie took this and ran with it, giving it a unique look compared to other Batman films that feels exactly like the comic.

7 The Architecture Is Very Comic Accurate

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Matt Reeves did a lot of things right with The Batman and the design of the city is paramount among them. The Gotham City in the movie doesn't look like a real-world city the film was made in, instead it captures the gothic nightmarescape of the comics. The architecture gets this across in a way it never has before in other Batman movies, combining the dark towers of the wealthy with the blasted slums of the poor.

Getting Gotham's look right is very important; Burton's Batman movies were made on a soundstage and it shows. Schumacher's movies had more wide shots of the city but there was a cartoonish quality to everything and Nolan's Gotham just looked like Chicago. Reeves made sure the city looked like it did in the comics, which is perfect.

6 Revealing Martha Was Arkham Gives A Glimpse Of The Family's Dark History In The Comics

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One of the places where The Batman diverges from the comics is that Martha Wayne was once Martha Arkham and not Martha Kane. This change is integral to the movie, as Martha's mental issues are the impetus for Thomas Wayne to go to Carmine Falcone to cover up a newspaper story about them, leading to the death of the Waynes.

The history of the Arkhams in the comics is fraught with mental illness. Their effect on the city as one of its most important families is very important to the comics and The Batman uses that history in an understated but integral way.

5 Moving Bruce Wayne's Home Inside The City Is A Nod To Morrison's Batman And Robin

Andy Serkis as Alfred Pennyworth and Robert Pattinson as Bruce Wayne in The Batman

Wayne Manor is always outside of Gotham, be it in the comics or the movies. The Batman takes a different approach to this, moving Bruce Wayne's home to a penthouse inside the city. On the surface, this may seem like it isn't very comic accurate; however, it is accurate to Grant Morrison's Batman And Robin, where Dick Grayson moves Batman's headquarters into the city when he takes over the mantle.

This also plays into Batman's status as the hero of Gotham's streets. He doesn't live outside on a mansion on a hill but right there, among the people of the city. It's a great little element that doesn't seem comic-accurate but actually is.

4 The Corruption Of The GCPD Is Taken From Right From The Comics

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The Gotham City Police Department, especially as portrayed in Batman's early days, is extremely corrupt. Jim Gordon is a beacon of heroism on a force that is almost completely on the take to the city's criminals, especially at the highest levels of the department. It takes years for Batman and Gordon to clean out the police, really only working when Gordon is the commissioner.

As The Batman takes place during the beginning of Batman and Gordon's relationship, the department is still mostly corrupt. Some members of the force actually work for Falcone and the Penguin and don't even bother to hide it, which is very much comic accurate.

3 The Iceberg Lounge Is One Of The Centers Of Crime In The City

Colin Farrell as Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin in The Batman

Penguin is a character who has changed a lot in the comics. He went from a bird-themed bad guy to a gangster, running his own club and facilitating deals between Gotham's criminal element and legitimate authorities. The Iceberg Lounge is one of the centers of criminality and corruption in the city in the source material.

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The Batman uses this element from the comics expertly. Falcone lives at the club and it's from there he runs his dark empire, setting the course for the city's criminals and elite alike. It's a use for the Penguin that isn't familiar to non-comic fans but makes perfect sense for the story of The Batman.

2 Gotham Is Significantly Damaged In The Movie

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Gotham City in the comics is always on the brink of disaster. Whether it be from the attacks of its villains or natural disasters, Gotham is a city with many ways of almost killing its citizens and The Batman leans into that with Riddler's final attack on the city. The villain plants bombs along the city's sea wall, which all detonate because Batman misses the clues.

Gotham getting almost destroyed is par for the course in the comics, so when it is flooded in the movie, it feels exactly something that would happen in Batman or Detective Comics. It's also just a great bunch of scenes in general.

1 Crime Runs The City

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Gotham City is one of the most dangerous cities in comics and the main reason for that is the way crime has taken hold of the city's municipal authorities. Graft is king in Gotham and The Batman does a great job of portraying this in the character of Carmine Falcone. He's the most powerful man in the city; he holds all the cards and can make or break anyone he chooses.

The Batman sets him up as the root cause for all of the main characters' actions in the movie. This is taken right out of Batman comics like Year One and The Long Halloween, Batman stories from early in his career, which take place in the same timeframe as the movie.

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