BatBot Tank – The Dark Knight’s Tumbler, the Bat Pod, and fight sequences from ’66 Batman
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/Creature:BatBot_Tank
https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Black_Tumbler
https://batman.fandom.com/wiki/Batpod
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPaTv98wUsE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZaG_13ZIYY
The BatBot Tank is an Aerobot. The Bat uses them for security. The BatBot Tank fights alongside another Bat Bot.
Speech:
Bat Bot: “Bam! Pow!”
BatBot Tank: “Zowie!“
Monstrology Tome Description:
If it takes enough damage, it shoots out a motorcycle. No one knows why.
In Batman Begins when Bruce Wayne is reestablishing his connections to his father’s company, Wayne Enterprises, Bruce meets former board member Lucius Fox in the Applied Sciences Division. There, Bruce was able to acquire various gadgets for his soon-to-be alter ego known as Batman. One of them was the Tumbler, a prototype armored tank-like vehicle with a desert camouflage color scheme designed as a bridging device for the military, which included weaponry and the ability to boost into a rampless jump. When Lucius asked Bruce his thoughts on the Tumbler, Bruce then simply asked if it came in black, which confirmed that he wanted it.
Rechristening the vehicle as the Batmobile, Batman uses it to great effect in Gotham until he enters into battle with the Joker. Harvey Dent was being escorted across Gotham when the convoy was attacked by the Joker and his henchmen, who disabled all of the police vehicles except for the armored car that carried Dent. Batman then entered the fray with the Batmobile, and rammed a garbage truck that was driven by one of Joker’s Henchmen via a head-on collision.
Batman then ran the Batmobile full-speed between Joker’s truck and the armored car and received the brunt of an RPG that was fired by Joker from his RPG. After the Batmobile flipped violently and came to rest at the side of the road, Batman then engaged its escape mechanism, which converted the Batmobile’s left and right front tires into the Batpod before the rest of the vehicle self-destructed.
The “BAM POW” and “Zowie” words are onomatopoeic words used in the 1960s Batman TV series, with “BAM,” “POW,” and other words like “ZAP,” “BOFF,” and “WHAM” displaying the impact of punches during fight scenes. These words, often in large, colorful lettering, were superimposed on the screen to cover the series’ low-budget, and sometimes poor, fight choreography.
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