Justice League Dark: Batman Is Scully

Batman is the most skeptical in Justice League Dark, but also arguably the funniest

Justice League Dark is coming our way next year and featuring DC’s team of outsiders who are called in when things get a little too weird for even the regular Justice League to handle. Sure, they can fight aliens and super-powered beings, but supernatural spirits are another thing altogether.

Empire had a pretty lengthy interview with Justice League Dark Director Jay Olivia where he broke down the recent trailer and every element that appears in it.

And a major part of the story is Batman, but according to Olivia, despite all Batman has encountered, the scientist part of him still makes him the skeptic of this movie when it comes to the supernatural:

"I really like Batman’s role in the movie, because he’s pretty much the Scully to the Mulders of the Justice League Dark team. They’re all believers, they all live and breathe magic, and Batman is the forever scientist, the forever skeptic, and we kind of use him as the straight man throughout the movie. Honestly, his funniest lines are in this movie. I’m not saying that this movie’s a comedy, I’m just saying Batman, to me, is very charming in it, because he stays Batman when faced with things that would drive any of us mad or we would pull our eyeballs out because we don’t want to see it. Batman would be, like, “You know, there’s a way to explain this. I don’t accept that you are seeing what you say you are. I think it’s something else. It’s got to be swamp gas or something like that.” He’s always trying to explain it scientifically."

Next: Justice League Dark Synopsis & Release Date

Batman is the straight man, you don’t say? Justice League Dark is out on Digital HD January 24th with a release on Blu-Ray and DVD February 7th.