DCU Batman reveal confirms we're getting an older Dark Knight

We just received a pretty big update regarding the age of the DCU’s Batman, from James Gunn himself.

Spoiler alert in advance: this article contains pretty huge spoilers for the season finale of the DC animated series Creature Commandos, so don’t read anything further from this point if you’re not up to date!

So, last night we received the last episode of Creature Commandos, titled “A Very Funny Monster”, and one relatively throwaway line confirmed something pretty interesting regarding Batman’s age in the DCU.

At one point in the final episode, Doctor Phosphorus offhandedly mentions that the experiment that gave him superpowers occurred 15 years prior to the current day.

Now the interesting part of this reveal actually ties back to the previous episode, “Priyatel Skelet”.

In the sixth episode, Doctor Phosphorus is captured by Batman during a flashback. In said flashback, you can clearly see that the Batman that takes him down isn’t new to the life of crimefighting.

If we assume that Batman was, at minimum, 20 years old at this point, that would put him at roughly 35 years of age in the current timeline.

Of course, he could have been even older at the point he caught Doctor Phosphorus, so it wouldn’t be out of the question for him to be somewhere in his 40s either.

As Creature Commandos is canon to James Gunn’s ongoing DCU, this means that we’re clearly getting a relatively established Batman - no origin story necessary.

The real question is whether or not Robert Pattinson’s Batman could still take over the role.

The ages aren’t far off (as Bruce Wayne is supposedly meant to be in his early 30s in The Batman and assumedly may have slightly aged by the time The Batman Part II comes out), but we’ll still have to wait and see for any kind of announcement from James Gunn’s end.