The animated DCAU Two-Face movie that never was (at least, not in movie form)!

[about_faces]

Back when I was first planning out my series of Two-Face Stories That Never Were, one of the big rumors I wanted to explore was one that I could have *sworn* I'd read somewhere but couldn't back up: namely, that Paul Dini and company were planning on making an animated Batman movie featuring Two-Face, but that idea was scrapped in favor of Batman:

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[psychopathicus]

Sub-Zero is definitely the weaker movie, but I don't recall it feeling particularly two-part episode-ish - it has a decently complex three-act structure that was pretty clearly conceived of as a film, or, if not, retrofitted until it worked as one. What I recall reading is that Warner Bros. wanted them to do a spin-off based on one of the Batman and Robin villains - Timm and Dini wanted to do Bane, but WB said no, Mr. Freeze is the main villain, do one about him. So presumably, they just took any lingering Freeze concepts they had and based a movie around them; whether or not they were initially going to incorporate said concepts into the show is a matter of speculation. (As for Bane fans like me, we can only dream of what might have been - I'd love to have seen what they could have done with the character outside of the limits of broadcast TV. Oh, well.)
Yeah, it's not great stuff. Batman is a stubbornly dogmatic 'the rules are the rules are the rules' by-the-book sort, and seems to spend his time in costume 24/7, even when it would make vastly more sense for him to change to Bruce Wayne; Kirk is turned into a 'bats shall inherit the Earth' mad scientist type, and things just generally feel off. Some nice artwork, though.

[lego_joker]

According to Wikipedia (so take it with a grain of salt), Bolton only did the Man-Bat mini because its main character was a villain - evidently, he considered Batman "too winning", whatever the hell that means.

[psychopathicus]

Well, considering that the only thing that springs to mind with the word 'winning' used like that is 'a winning smile', something that Bats, to say the least, tends not to specialize in - yeah. I'm stumped. Some people should just stay away from superhero comics.