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TV Batman actor Adam West dies at 88

bbc.co.uk

58 pointsCarolineW11 comments

"If you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal and if they can't stop you, you become something else entirely - legend, Mr Wayne."

Adam West will always be the only Batman in my book. He was there for the kids, he wasn't part of some multi-national corporate conglomerate pumping out cookie-cutter CGI-laden flicks for mass audiences, he seemed like a genuinely nice guy, and his batman didn't have some sort of weird speech impediment that required him to whisper all of the time.

West was a stand-up guy, no doubt about it. But his is easily the version of Batman least representative of Bob Kane and Bill Finger's original vision. This is largely because of compromises that his creators had to make with the multinationals you decry.

> his is easily the version of Batman least representative of Bob Kane and Bill Finger's original vision

Why would this matter if you liked his show?

There is no point at which Disney's Cinderella wears a royal cloak of kingfisher feathers to the Spring Festival either, or even a scene in which she calls all the birds under heaven to gouge out her stepsisters' eyes.

>Why would this matter if you liked his show?

It wouldn't. It would matter for other reasons, though, as I indicate in my next sentence.

That's terrible news. I had no idea he was sick. Always found his late career resurgence through Family Guy and other media interesting, and I thoroughly enjoyed him in the role of Batman as a child (watched via re-runs).

Wish his family well and condolences for their loss.

He was amazing in the Batman:TAS episode Beware the Grey Ghost. That voice is just so distinctive and rich.

https://www.youtube.com/user/adamwesttelevision

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While it might no longer be dead (for which I thank you), it's certainly taken a hammering in the rankings.

Oh well, I guess Adam West was part of my youth, but not of everyone's. I thought he would be well-enough known in the tech/nerd/geek community to be of note, but apparently not.

Holy mortality, Batman!

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