Likewise.
My ideal Batman is one who can scare the **** out of bad guys and anyone else who needs the fear of God put in them, but can also show warmth and humanity (and maybe, just maybe, crack a smile once in a while) to those who deserve it.
Its exactly how he’s written in World’s Finest, which is 2022’s best new ongoing and Batman’s best starring, ongoing gig right now.
Honestly, I’m also kinda in the middle on this one. I’m going with nice Batman, because I want him to be nice so he can be nice to his kids because at the end of the day, I prioritise the Batkids, not the Batman.
The Nolan and Reeves Batman’s are where I like him to be, he’s a brooding badass but he can also be pretty nice to citizens.
Agreed.
Any Batman that compliments the villain of The Saint (which co-starred the best live-action Batman of the '90s) on his coat is a worthwhile Batman, indeed.
I am very nice and sweet. I take in children, save everybody, and smile all the time. I simply show it by being the surgeon
Did you…pay for the operating table?
Reese up in Accounting is asking.
leans in and speaks in a hushed tone
Dude asks a lot of questions, especially about R&D expenses.
I see it as a transition. He started grim and gets lighter as time goes on. He started taking down mafia but as time went on and he got Robin and whatnot he slowly started getting brighter. I like both but generally prefer stories that take place earlier during the mafia times.
(I see NML as the point of full transition from one to the other incidentally. I have opinions about the Batman time line.)
Best. '90s Batman crossover. Ever.
On this fine day, the greatest of awards, the NML award of all around coolness is bestowed upon the personage know as Vroom.
May your home never be rocked by earthquakes and abandoned by the government
-TheBatmanofNML
What, another one? Well, kiss my grits, pard! 
I’ll have to dust off my mantle and make room next to the last award you kindly graced me with, good sir.
I thank you, heartily. 
blows dust off the mantle he doesn’t have and places The Award upon it
Mmhmm! Looks good.
You can never have enough comics, chocolate icecream, or NML awards. Some go their whole lives striving in vain after this most prestigious of awards. As a matter of fact, I have never gotten one myself.
My mantle that doesn’t exist can hold all manner of awards, so feel free to drop another, when a situation warrants it, as they’re highly-appreciated.
Avoiding potential conflicts of interest?
Screw that noise. Award yourself, man! Award yourself, I say! 
A voice tells me to pay for the operating table. I don’t listen.
You don’t get it, son. Operating tables aren’t free. 
SN: Michael Ironside is the best on-screen version of Miller’s Batman, just sayin’.
You don’t get it do you boy. This isn’t Ironside’s Batman. It’s me, and I’m the best.
Try telling Ironside that. He’s a pretty strict dude…in his performances.
Also: Try telling him that SeaQuest 2032 wasn’t very good. He knows it wasn’t, but, well…you know.
Please consider this one write-in cast for the ever popular “NONE OF THE ABOVE”
Or conversely, one vote for “Petty, Controlling, Emotionally Constipated Bat Dude.”
