"When Gotham is... bricks, you have my permission to die."

Silva Screen have gathered the best comic book themes from TV and film and presented them in one comprehensive album, Super Themes.

Who will be following in the footsteps of Michael Keaton, George Clooney, Val Kilmer (shudder) and, of course, Christian Bale to take up the mantle of the caped crusader?

Not bored of Dark Knight spoofs yet? Good. Here’s Commissioner Gordon chatting to the Caped Crusader, who seems less keen on street justice and more interested in a certain baked snack product...

From the set pieces of Inception and The Dark Knight Trilogy, you don’t have to look very far to see Christopher Nolan’s various nods and homages to the classic spy series.

Batman Forever was the weediest of the 1990s Batman movies – and ergo the worst entry in the Caped Crusader’s celluloid chronology. It wasn’t as dark and moody as the two Tim Burton films or Christopher Nolan’s greyscale trilogy of gloom, and it wasn’t a camp, so-bad-it’s-funny rubber fetish fest like Batman & Robin, which meant it was just … tedious.

So what better way of making it more appealing to modern audiences than inviting the man to whom Michael Caine owes more than most to sprinkle some of his magic Inception dust over it?

Well, of course, that ain’t going to happen in reality, but we can dream – and some YouTube types did better than that....