Talk:Batcave

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How about some information about the different Batcaves in each movie?

By the way, I feel it was unnecessary to include the natural bat habitat. Is it really worthy of an encyclopedia article? ;-) -OneGyT

Interesting to compare the Fortress of Solitude with the write-up under "Equipment" in Superman: both fairly detailed. But I must say that the Batcave write-up is crap; the write-up in the Batman article is much better. Dyslexic agnostic 05:21, 30 November 2005 (UTC)

Since I put that there, thanks Dyslexic! ^_^ GeoffB

I am on the case to edit this page. --^BuGs^ 08:51, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
God help us now. Dyslexic agnostic 08:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
I've added some historical info to the intro. Why is the article written as though the Batcave is real? Maybe a little more publishing history would help.Roygbiv666 22:07, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

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[edit] Actually Cloak of Ku Klux Klan

See Detective Annual#2, it is actually a Klan robe.

Enda80 23:31, 8 July 2006 (UTC)Enda80

What "is actually a Klan robe"? Roygbiv666 03:25, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Multiple Batcaves

The description of the entrances to the Batcave describes the caves from several different version of Batman (the comics, the Adam West series and the first run of movies) as though they're all the same cave. More clarity is needed. Euchrid 16:49, 26 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Holy Bat-camera

Les Daniels' DC Comics says it was created for the Columbia serial. Anybody got a firm source for the Batman 12 ref? Trekphiler 11:08, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Created Other Media sections for the TV series

I agree with an earlier comment, this section of the article does need work! In response to it, I added new portions pertaining to the individual animated series. Perhaps I will add some with regards to the individual films, though later I guess.

[edit] Guano?

In almost every incarnation I've ever seen, the Batcave is also home to actual bats. Has there ever been any indication to how they deal with the bat droppings and their subsequent strong smell? Or has that always been a "suspension of disbelief" issue? JCub 18:04, 17 December 2006 (UTC)

I checked out The Batman Handbook by Scott Beatty yesterday, and on page 46 it says "Batman uses a system of netting and catch basins anchored to the stalactites and roof of the Batcave to prevent bat excrement from falling directly on top of his sensitive equipment." Pages 45 & 46 mention the danger of methane fumes from bat guano, and I thought, "Well, why doesn't he use the methane for fuel?" I mean, there's research into using methane from cow manure, pet droppings, etc. as fuel, and you'd think Batman would be smart enough to know how to do it. Evernut 15:31, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

I know for a fact there are full-size versions of that picture on the internet, we can do better than what we have up there. Scale it down a bit, maybe, but bigger than THAT.

[edit] Batcave: Sub-Culture of the 1980s.

A subculture in the 1980s: A progressive and ahead-of-it's-time style; based around music known as Batcave, and ourselves we called Batcavers. Skateboarding was a part of it, although not nearly as strong as the black dress, dance style, and music; and sadly it must be noted that drug use, primarily LSD and heroine, was also included in this culture.

Joshua Gunn PhD. writes about this movement in his Thesis, Marilyn Manson Is Not Goth: Memorial Struggle and the Rhetoric of Subcultural Identity.

Although accounts differ from source to source, most gothic fans agree that the "gothic" underground has existed for some twenty years, beginning first in London around a music scene termed postpunk, spreading to the West Coast of the United States in the early 1980s, and finally countrywide by the mid-1980s (see Mercer 1994).

Even though Batcavers worshiped the gargoyles and saints that surrounded Gothic cathedrals, Batcavers would consider the 1990's and 2000's 'Goth' sub-culture as a light-weight and a phony rip-off.

Here are some samples of the Batcave sub-culture: Vespa scooters with chrome. Misfits skateboards. Old Saab cars. Old Morris Minor cars. Final Net hairspray. Clove cigarretts. Talking very low with your teeth together and emphasizing vowel sounds and words that end with an r. Being skinny. Being poor ("in the days when you were hopelessly poor, I just liked you more" --The Smiths). Getting NO Sun (I don't want to say being white because every race was represented by Batcavers [I move 'round in the dark, and leave when it gets light' --New Order]). Body art, and piercings (that fad became mainstream more than 10 years later). Hard-Hitting Loud Rock (the punk group Skinny Puppy, for example). Fear of AIDS (some of the Batcave young men were drawn to homosexuality--remember this was the 1980s). Count Dracula ("a count, white and torn" --Bauhaus). Digital sound compared with analog (most songs have sound-bites from preachers to porn [ninteen-19 by Paul Hardcastle]). Movies: The Man who fell to Earth [with David Bowie], SubUrbia [with Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers], and Heathers [with Winona Rider]. Music: Caberet Voltaire [a poster of this band can be seen in the bedroom of Ferris Bueller in Ferris Bueller's day off], Dead Can Dance, plus all the bands previously mentioned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.222.173.175 (talk) 02:10, 17 September 2007 (UTC)