User:Cookieboy 2005/LEGO Batman OP

''I have not created an OP before, so this may not be the "best" one possible - however, it's a topic I proposed, and one I am passionate of. Remember to remove this before posting. Also note that this is not finished, and is simply a draft, suggestions on how to improve it are welcome.''

The LEGO Batman Movie is a LEGO animated film primarily centring around the titular Batman, who begins the movie as a loner, largely attributed to his parents' death, but goes on to become part of a family again by the end of the film.

As part of the narrative, after seeing Superman discuss the Phantom Zone on Gotham City News, Batman steals the Phantom Zone Projector and sends the Joker into the Phantom Zone, where with several other "bad guys" are already imprisoned, including the Eye of Sauron, Stripe, Voldemort, and indeed, the Daleks (specifically, the New Paradigm Daleks). Naturally, as it's a LEGO film, they were treated somewhat comedically, but not to the point of unbelievability, particularly when compared to LEGO Dimensions - a game which is invalid solely for having a branching narrative as opposed to any reason of "parody in the way of rule 4 breaking" - which, in fact, features Daleks using a basketball.

Later in the film, the various villains (again, including the Daleks) escape the zone and wreak havoc on Gotham City, almost irreparably tearing the city apart, before ultimately being recaptured, with the city saved by several of the heroes, villains, etc. working together.

Now, as much as I'd like this to be valid, the main issue here is that it is flat-out not covered at all on this site, outside of some mentions in #Behind the scenes sections and articles the likes of "Doctor Who parodies". This seems to have been a result of people originally mistakenly believing the film's Daleks to have been unlicensed, mainly due to an ad lib by Zach Galifianakis resulting in the Daleks only being explicitly named as "British robots" (which is also interpreted by some as a fourth wall break, although I'd moreso describe it as leaning on the fourth wall). If this is found to fail rule 4, I feel this may have a case for validity through LEGO Dimensions if that's valid (see also: my OP for LEGO Dimensions), as it contextualises the film as taking place in a parallel universe.

Other arguments of parody may come in the form of characters removing their hair pieces to connect to one another, via their heads and feet, as is possible with LEGO minifigures. Although this makes much more sense in the context of LEGO than it does in the context of Doctor Who, I feel that this is simply Doctor Who being translated into the "style" of LEGO, in much the same way as Dr. Men translated it into the style of Mr. Men and Little Miss.

Overall, my proposal is as follows: The LEGO Batman Movie is given a page on this site, under "Theatrical films", and preferably as valid (the Daleks visiting Batman's world not only makes sense in the context of LEGO Dimensions ' dimension hopping, but also in the context of some DWU-adjacent works treating Batman as a real person). This would also mean several new articles on DC-related subjects, as well as film-exclusive concepts, a mention of Spinjitsu (from Ninjago, although it appears to have been misspelt in the film), and several other crossover elements, such as Stripe (Gremlins), expansion of Voldemort's page (Wizarding World), an entry on "Master Building", etc. I feel that this is in line with the way crossovers such as New Adventures Await! and several TV Century 21 comics have been treated (that being, "this features licensed DWU elements, thus it is covered in full").