I think you can do it for most superhero films, including many of the Batman films. I don't find Spider-Man to be the departure you seem to - certainly it's more representative of the comic book Spider-Man universe than the Nolan films are of Batman comics. When even Nolan point blank says the Penguin and Mr Freeze won't work in his universe, it becomes an inarguable point.
Nonsense. I've said repeatedly I think The Dark Knight is a great movie. But it's not representative of Batman comic books by any stretch of the imagination and therefore it's a bit silly holding it up as a superhero film. It's not a superhero film. It's a crime movie that does everything it can to delete superhero elements. That's not necessarily a bad thing - it makes for a good movie and audiences are unlikely to tolerate frozen villains and a friendship with Aquaman, not to mention Robin and Bat Mite. But those locked-off elements speak volumes about the distance between The Dark Knight and its four-color roots.
That's not a double standard. There's no judgment here. That's an observation.
This is irrelevant to my point. Why not reread what I wrote instead of propping up straw men?
