Batman Mayor Files Suit For Caped Crusader Cash

Anyone catch this little bit of news over at https://www.imdb.com:

Batman Mayor Files Suit For Caped Crusader Cash

11 November 2008 5:30 PM, PST

The Mayor of a Turkish city called Batman is suing director Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. bosses for a cut of their Caped Crusader film franchise.

Huseyin Kalkan has accused the brains behind The Dark Knight of using the city's name without permission in the bizarre new legal action.

The Mayor states, "There is only one Batman in the world. The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.. "

And Kalkan goes so far as to blame the latest Nolan film for a spate of murders and suicides in Batman.

He also claims the stigma attached to the city makes it almost impossible for local businesses to be taken seriously abroad.

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Of course there's no way this is going to hold any legal repercussions, but it is proof that Americans aren't the only ones who file extremely frivolous lawsuits.

If you want to know more about the city of Batman, you can check it out here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman,_Turkey

That' a dumbass lawsuit to me. Why didn't they sue Bob Kane when he created Batman? That's a cheap publicity stunt

I hope they get Judge Judy deal with this, she'd give them a serve!

Mr Nolan, have you ever been to a Turkish prison?

"Stigma?" He should have sued Joel Schumacher.

This doesnt make sense, what's it all about?

This guy should sue too:

Batı Raman! nananananananana Batı Raman!

Wow, an Indonesian, born in Singapore with that kind of name. I don't know guys, but I'm sure he's got a hard time growing up..... But Suparman is a common name here in Jawa (Java). Along with Sudirman, Supratman, Suratman (this one is quite funny, because Surat means paper/mail, so you can say this guy's name is Mailman ), etc.

Yeah I reported this on LOG too...its maybe the dumbest thing I've heard all day. lol. :chew

So they just decided to sue now? Why not sometime during the first 68 years of Batman's existence!

They just got greedy lookin' at all that profit from the last film.

If they have to do a reconstruction for the news the mayor should be played by Adam West

When I first saw this headline about the Batman mayor suing my first thought was - "well, he ought to sue for them making him wear so much eye-liner".

DKDetective14 said:

So they just decided to sue now? Why not sometime during the first 68 years of Batman's existence!

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Maybe because TDK has made about $1B. Everyone wants a slice of that pie.

Darklord Dave said:

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Thats the first thing that popped into my head. Playing a bit part and then suing for more cash is a total Bat Manuel move.