I think this would be excellent.

I think Bruce Wayne should be around his mid-thirties in Smallville, and can be a big billionaire type guy, perhaps coming to Smallville to look into some LuthorCorp scheme. This way he would be Batman, but not *be* Batman if you know what i mean.

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Why would BW being in his mid thirties preclude him from being batman, as I understand it he went into training in his teen years, and basically kept going as Batman.

I know the producers have stated that they would like him to either be the same age or a few years older, they do after all, hand around together when they grow up and theres no suggestion that Clark is aging differently to others

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Don't you think you should stay away from follically challenged men, hun?

But Lex does it on purpose. And has the cool, the charm and the looks to go with

And having just watched several episodes back to back, I'd just like to say that this series is getting better and better every week! Sitting with Maff we came up with some great ideas for stories, and possible ways of ending the series.

When a show can get you that involved, it's got to be good

Batman? Excellent idea IMO.

Bruce Wayne and Clark Kent should be roughly the same age.

But Bruce shouldn't be Batman.

He spent most of his teenage years training and "finding himself"

It wasn't till much later that he became Batman.

Maybe he could stop by Smallville on that journey...

I do and don't like the idea.......not sure really

Personally I think it's a terrible idea.

Mainly because to me, Batman is a very 'dark' superhero, and Superman is a very ... what would the opposite of that be..... light hearted, save the day leaving everyone happy kind of superhero, and to me it wouldn't mix well. It's almost like having Giger's "Alien" in "ET"

Apart from that, it strikes me as purely to boost ratings.

I really like the idea of introducing BW maybe as just a 2 parter or occasional character, and have him pre batman but very dark, and have clark and he seriouly not get along...

That's what I'd like to see, Wo.

I know in later life Clark and Lex have this history to make them enemies, but right now they're *too* pally and I'd like to see him have a recurring enemy at this age to put him through the mill.

Although on saying that, the whole Clark/Lex dynamic is enjoyable to watch. One minute they are over-friendly, laughing and joking and the next the lack of real trust there is obvious.

I'm very much against the idea personally, I also think it's a ratings booster. I pretty much like Tim Burton's screen vision of Batman, a dark troubled man and a character that I don't think would fit too well in the town of Smallville. i guess this ties in with the Miller/80's style Batman, the tortured loner.

As for the "Bat-Facts" Wayne left the USA when he was 14 and sojorned around the globe for the next 12 years taking up the mantle of the Bat when he was 26.

whether his time amoungst the Cambridge academics, the Ninja Kiriki or the monks of Nepal included sometime in a hick farming town in Kansas, well I guess only ratings and the May sweeps will tell

Well lets not forget that Smallville is tampering a bit with the specifics of the Superman backstory, no reason they wouldnt do the same with BW, or if you want to be strict, his travelling years of 14-26 most likely took in other parts of america as well as the rest of the world...

Isn't the next Batman movie supposed to be a Batman/Superman crossover too?

Anything has got to be better than Kelly "I'm a posh british bird, honest matey" Brook. And with Bo Duke and Lana Lang as Clark's parents anything can happen!

Well I completely agree with the idea that Bruce Wayne should be in Smallville, as well as some of the opinons you all have had, especially Sydney's Kelly Brook point!

But as it was pointed out by Desire and Wobag, BW is very dark, and CK is just not... but thats a good thing! Because it would be most likely that with the addition of BW, CK may see things in a different light. BW would tell him about parts of the world he hasn't seen himself, and it might let him see that there is things out there that aren't all they seem to be, such as Lex.

Would this also bring up the lack of trust CK & Lex show each other too?!

I think it would be very interesting...

OK so say Bruce Wayne is to make an appearance in "Smallville" (which I'm enjoying more and more these days) would you cast him as an unknown, or use his appearance to get a famous actor into the role as a guest star? And if so... who?

Don't know... I just can't think of anyone for the part at the moment... but then I am so tired I can't think of much else except "Ooooh, my start menu is pretty!!" but I would say that an Unknown would be a good choice!

I may change my opinion in the future should I become awake and consider it in a different way... so watch this space

An unknown, like they went for with Clark Kent.

If they want to bring BW into Smallville, it wouldn't surprise me to see some kind of young-batman series at some point too.

On a similar subject has anyone heard any rumours about the Superman/Batman movie? Latest i heard John Travolta was gonna be Supes.