Batman is one of popular culture’s most versatile characters, and that’s perhaps most obvious in Warner Bros. Animation’s recent success throwing the Dark Knight into various historical settings. Batman went back in time to feudal Japan in Batman Ninja, investigated Jack the Ripper in the Victorian era in Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, and encountered cosmic horrors in the 1920s in Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham. Harley Quinnand Rick and Mortydirector Juan Meza-Leon’s Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires follows that tradition with a story set in 16th century Mesoamerica. But Batman mythology proves an awkward fit for a story focused on the historical Spanish invasion of Tenochtitlán and stretches the limits of what seemed like a foolproof storytelling formula.

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