Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is a pastiche of Batman stories, especially those from the films. That makes it fun to view from a modern lens, as the story reinterprets famous plot points and characters and merges them together to tell one consistent story. And thanks to that freedom, Lego Batman has seen fit to correct one of the worst and most infamous Bat-crimes in all of cinematic history.
Spoilers follow.
As mentioned, Legacy of the Dark Knight remixes pieces from throughout the movies. You have wannabe crime boss Penguin from The Batman franchise who then transitions into a mayoral hopeful and animalistic creep a la Batman Returns. Most of these portrayals are taken directly from the films, and in the cases where there is only one on-screen version, that tends to be the one that wins out. Catwoman is largely a blend of Michelle Pfeiffer’s Batman Returns portrayal and the more general comic book notion of her as a white-hat thief. Poison Ivy has only ever been portrayed in Batman & Robin, so Uma Thurman’s version of the character essentially serves as the template here.
