Batman is heading to Mexico. HBO Max Latin America has ordered an original animated feature-length film that takes the DC Comics character south of the border. The streamer will launch the Dark Knight story Batman Azteca: Choque De Imperios (Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires). The news was unveiled at the Guadalajara International Film Festival.
In the time of the Aztec Empire, Yohualli Coatl – a young Aztec boy – experiences tragedy when his father and village leader, Toltecatzin, is murdered by Spanish Conquistadors. Yohualli escapes to Tenochtitlan to warn King Moctezuma and his high priest, Yoka, of imminent danger. Using the temple of Tzinacan, the bat god, as a lair, Yohualli trains with his mentor and assistant, Acatzin, developing equipment and weaponry to confront the Spaniard invasion, protect Moctezuma’s temple, and avenge his father’s death.
Well this sound even more bizarre than Batman Ninja, I’m curious.
William Rogers
Why not Blue Beetle ?
Christopher Ross
Batman Ninja could have. Dennis so awesome I'm still mad
Cooper Wright
It could be cool. And it's nice to see more Aztec stuff on TV/film following Onyx Equinox and Maya and the Three.
Samuel Rogers
We are literally gonna get Mexican Joker
Jack Allen
Well, the Aztec Empire still fell, but at least you tried, Batman.
Nolan Hernandez
He'll probably be a Conquistador general or something.
Thomas Foster
Batman is a versatile character that you can do many alternate takes with, but with some Elseworlds, you ever just wonder "why did this have to be Batman in the first place?" They could have done a totally new character who happens to be a vigilante avenging his father's death in 16th-Century Mexico. Hey, maybe they could have made the first popular, enduring superhero whose main setting is prior to the 20th Century.
Oh well. Still could be a cool take on Batman. It's just that this seems like an opportunity to expand superheroes instead of just do another "Batman, but in setting X."
Luis Robinson
>Mexican Batman >being an animated DC movie, it'll probably be dubbed in Venezuela
Benjamin Adams
Batman Ninja is the best throwback to early localizations when the two American guys admitted they didn't follow any of the original script outlines and just made stuff up on the fly.
Ryan Mitchell
A Tlaxcalan court jester would be nice as well.
Jose Roberts
Grim Fandango, a game based on Mexican traditions and with Mexican characters, was localized and dubbed in Spain.
Adam Wilson
There's a mention of an Aztec priest called "Yoka" which kinda sounds like Joker
William Walker
It's being produced as a Spanish-language movie by a Mexican production company. The English version will be the dub, sort of like Batman Ninja.
Matthew Brooks
>"why did this have to be Batman in the first place?" because you and I both know it wouldn't get even half the attention without the brand recognition
Adam Thompson
>Yohualli Coatl Yohualli means "night" and Coatl means "serpent", thus, "night serpent"
Benjamin Martinez
That was because videogames weren't dubbed in latam then except Microsoft games iirc. Also the manolo dub of Grim was kino at least.
Josiah Gutierrez
>more "le human sacrificing tribal mexican culture good, civilized spaniah culture mexico bad" horseshit
>developing equipment and weaponry to confront the Spaniard invasion, protect Moctezuma’s temple, and avenge his father’s death. This is going to be cringe. Why can't they just do other shit? Fight the other enemies. t. Mexican.
Zachary Turner
1.Tzinacan is not a real god it just the Nahuatl word for biting bat
2. yeah just batman ninja
3. another batman film which at this point it just so boring and unoriginal who even care at this point
>is murdered by Spanish Conquistadors how original can't have an aztec story without needing to throwing imperialism commentary. Which is kinda hilarious come how the aztec got the least worst than any other native american tribes when the Europeans came mostly destroy by the various tribes that the Spaniard got on their side (eventually betray later down)
Christian Torres
It woulda been kino if it was about some chad Mayan fighting the Aztec priesthood with them being his version of the mob Bruce fights in his early years.
Benjamin Barnes
JOKER ESPAÑOL
Lincoln Moore
>Venezuela They're alright. There were some animated shows that I could swear had Mexican dubs but it turns out they were Venezuelan. Forgot which ones. Also I had no idea the Venezuelan dubbing industry still existed. I imagined they had become a communist hellhole.
Lucas Stewart
Because people honestly only care about the big names when it comes to superheroes.
David Roberts
General Guason Comodin Bromista de los Payasos.
Christopher Gutierrez
Honestly yeah that that would be sick. Im sick of the whole 'spain bad' when the aztecs were literally one of the most objectively evil nations to ever exist. Not excusing everything the spainish did, but this idea the natives were perfect is such bullshit
