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139-626: The Lego Batman Movie is a 2017 animated superhero comedy film , based on characters created by DC Comics and the Lego Batman toy line. It was directed by Chris McKay (in his feature directorial debut) from a screenplay that is based on a Seth Grahame-Smith story. The film is a collaboration between production houses from the United States, Australia, and Denmark, the first spin-off in The Lego Movie franchise and

278-527: A "mountain sanctuary" which was located in a mountain range on the outskirts of Metropolis. Here, Superman kept a diary, oversized tools for various projects, and other equipment and trophies. Superman's Silver Age Fortress, which debuted in 1958, was also located in the Arctic and served similar purposes. Built into the side of a steep cliff, the Fortress was accessible through a large gold-colored door with

417-545: A 1985 episode titled "The Death of Superman", the Fortress more closely resembles the pre- Crisis comic-book version, including a giant yellow key whose use required the combined efforts of Green Lantern , Wonder Woman and Cyborg . In the DC Animated Universe , the Fortress is located in the ocean underneath the Arctic tundra; access was gained by diving into the Arctic water and emerging in an opening inside

556-447: A Legion Flight Ring and at least one robotic servant called Kelex . Superman had invited Kara there a number of times, but she always refused, afraid of being overcome by nostalgia. It is also mentioned by Kara's sister Alex Danvers that Kara's cousin uses the fortress as a base where he can communicate with his Kryptonian ancestors. Kara finally goes there with James Olsen to look for information about Indigo . In "Myriad", Kara visits

695-532: A Story Pack while Excalibur Batman is included in a Fun Pack. However, Robin gets his voice actor changed in the game to Robbie Daymond and can also use his appearance from Teen Titans Go! if he is used in the Teen Titans Go! World. Based on The Lego Batman Movie , Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment released the endless-runner game coinciding with the release of the film. It was released for Android and iOS . On December 5, 2018, McKay announced

834-489: A black hole headed towards Earth using a telescope in the Fortress. In a 1980 episode titled "Revenge of Bizarro", Superman goes his Fortress of Solitude to stop Bizarro and return the Bizarro Super Friends back to normal with an Anti-Bizarro ray. A 1981 episode titled "Evil From Krypton" depicted the Fortress with a somewhat crystalline exterior and without the giant key, reminiscent of its film appearances. In

973-565: A budget of $ 80 million. A sequel, Lego Superfriends , was announced in 2018, but was cancelled after Universal Pictures acquired the film rights to the Lego brand in 2020. Within the DC superhero dimension of the Lego multiverse, Batman protects Gotham City and fights crime. During his latest mission to stop the Joker and his team of villains from destroying the city, Batman succeeds, but also hurts

1112-418: A chamber that uses red sun radiation to strip Kryptonians of their super powers. In Richard Donner's cut of Superman II , the Fortress is destroyed by Superman as its existence was revealed to Lex Luthor and his henchwoman, Eve Teschmacher . However, Superman then turns back time (à la 1978's Superman ), so technically the Fortress is completely undamaged, while Zod , Ursa and Non are returned to

1251-431: A cloak to camouflage the entrance and key (which now hung on brackets on its side beside the door) and to ensure the Fortress's secrecy. The Fortress contained an alien zoo, a giant steel diary in which Superman wrote his memoirs (using either his invulnerable finger, twin hand touch pads that record thoughts instantly, or heat vision to engrave entries into its pages), a chess-playing robot, specialized exercise equipment,

1390-529: A delightful aftertaste." Tara Brady of The Irish Times earned a 4 out of 5 rating, saying, "Under the direction of Robot Chicken ' s Chris McKay, Arnett relentlessly prods at Batman with a welcome helping of BoJack Horseman -brand misery and narcissism." Justin Chang of the Los Angeles Times was positive in his review, saying, "In its best moments, this gag-a-minute Bat-roast serves as

1529-460: A full theatrical release since Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993). The LEGO Batman Movie was released on Digital HD on May 19, 2017. The release included the theatrical short film The Master: A LEGO Ninjago Short , as well as four new short films: Dark Hoser , Batman is Just Not That Into You , Cooking with Alfred and Movie Sound Effects: How Do They Do That?. The LEGO Batman Movie

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1668-425: A giant keyhole, which required an enormous key to open it. The arrow-shaped key was so large that only Superman (or another Kryptonian such as Supergirl ) could lift it; when not in use, the key sat on a perch outside of the Fortress, where it appeared to be an aircraft path marker. This was until a helicopter pilot followed the direction of the arrow straight to the entrance of the Fortress, forcing Superman to develop

1807-552: A laboratory where Superman worked on various projects such as developing defenses to kryptonite , a room-sized computer, communications equipment, and rooms dedicated to all of his friends, including one for Clark Kent to fool visitors. As the stories continued, it was revealed that the Fortress was where Superman's robot duplicates were stored. It also contained the Phantom Zone projector, various pieces of alien technology he had acquired on visits to other worlds, and, much like

1946-485: A newly evil Mister Mxyzptlk , who was behind the plot to destroy him. As Superman was forced to destroy Mxyzptlk, breaking his vow against killing, he exposes himself to gold kryptonite to permanently remove his powers and then appears to leave the Fortress to freeze to death in the Arctic cold. Superman is never seen again, although we find out in a "ten years later" wraparound segment set in 1997 that he survives as Jordan Elliot, husband of Lois Lane Elliot, and that they are

2085-546: A precursor to recreating Krypton on Earth. Superman broke the Eradicator's control, but maintained the Fortress as a useful location for emergencies. The first appearance of this new post- Crisis version of the Fortress was in The Adventures of Superman #461 (December 1989). It contained many artifacts from the post- Crisis version of Krypton, most notably a number of robot servitors (one of whom, Kelex , became

2224-411: A production budget of $ 80 million. In the United States and Canada, The Lego Batman Movie opened alongside two other sequels, Fifty Shades Darker and John Wick: Chapter 2 , and was projected to gross around $ 60 million from 4,088 theaters in its opening weekend. It earned $ 2.2 million from Thursday-night previews and $ 14.5 million on Friday. It went on to open with $ 53 million, finishing first at

2363-498: A reminder that, in the right hands, a sharp comic scalpel can be an instrument of revelation as well as ridicule." J. R. Jones of the Chicago Reader wrote, "A movie of endlessly hurtling momentum, this is Mad Max: Fury Road for five-year-olds, and not nearly as much fun as snapping those bricks together." Peter Howell of The Toronto Star gave the film 2.5 out of 4 stars, saying, "First-time director Chris McKay, late of

2502-654: A reporter). The film also features villains from other franchises, including Sauron from Middle-earth mythos (voiced by Jemaine Clement ), the Wicked Witch of the West from The Wizard of Oz (also voiced by Riki Lindhome ), Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter (voiced by Eddie Izzard ), King Kong from King Kong , the Swamp Creature from various monster films (both voiced by Seth Green ), Medusa from Greek mythology (also voiced by Lauren White), and

2641-536: A sequel to The Lego Batman Movie was in the works, with him returning to direct. The film was set to be released in 2022. However, following the disappointing box office returns of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part in 2019, Universal Pictures acquired the film rights to the Lego brand in April 2020, effectively cancelling the sequel due to Warner Bros. owning the rights to DC Comics . In June 2021, McKay revealed that

2780-597: A special variant of the Berlanti Productions logo that featured Batman's cameo and a new recording from Greg Berlanti 's real-life father who says "Batman, move your head." instead of the usual "Greg, move your head." In addition, the network aired two commercials where Batman interacts with the characters from each show. The film's world premiere was conducted in Dublin , Ireland on January 29, 2017, where upon it went into general release from February 8; it

2919-402: A spin-off starring Batman . Warner Bros. scheduled the release of The Lego Batman Movie for May 26, 2017, moving the release date for The Lego Movie 2 (later titled as The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part ) to May 25, 2018. Chris McKay, who co-directed The Lego Movie , was brought on board to direct the film, making it his solo directorial debut. Will Arnett returned to voice Batman, with

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3058-478: A symbol of hope for humanity. The Jor-El A.I. was, for the most part, omniscient, with the ability to send characters through time, open portals to alternate dimensions, and remove, restore and also transfer Clark's powers to other characters, seemingly at will. In later seasons, the Fortress is exposed as being vulnerable to other Kryptonian technology – namely Brainiac, and the Orb of Kandor. Lex Luthor would later use

3197-528: A telepath behind a door identical to that of the pre- Crisis Fortress. By that time, however, a more physical Fortress had been reintroduced. In Action Comics Annual #2 (1989), Superman, on a self-imposed exile to space, was entrusted with a Kryptonian artifact called the Eradicator , created by his ancestor Kem-El. Dedicated to preserving Krypton, this device built a new Fortress in the Antarctic as

3336-523: A trusted confidant) and a battlesuit from the Third Age of Krypton. This Fortress was cast into the Phantom Zone as a result of a battle between Superman, Lex Luthor, and Dominus , a villain who played with Superman's mind and who was also trapped in the Phantom Zone. It did, however, serve as the template for the next Fortress, built by Steel , which was an extradimensional space accessed through

3475-547: A vast puzzle-globe. The now-mobile Fortress was relocated somewhere in the Andes. In the DC One Million series (1998), Superman's Fortress of Solitude in the 853rd Century resides within a tesseract located at the center of Earth's sun. By this time, Superman has lived in self-imposed exile within the Fortress for over 15,000 years. During the " For Tomorrow " story arc in 2004–05 Superman comics, Wonder Woman breached

3614-464: Is Kal-El, activated and opened up, caught Superman, restored his powers to their peak and returned his Kryptonian armor to him. After defeating Vandal Savage and his children, Superman moves the Fortress back to the arctic circle. Several days after the crisis Superman uses the Fortress's medical equipment and A.I technology to do a full physical on him and discovers that as a result of Vandal's actions using Krytonite to burn out his infected cells that he

3753-462: Is a nod to the romantic comedy Never Been Kissed . The film's other references include Gleaming the Cube and Gymkata . The casting of Billy Dee Williams as Two-Face references the 1989 Batman film, in which Williams played District Attorney Harvey Dent , before his transition to Two-Face . This was the second Lego film that Williams had a role in, after The Lego Movie , in which he voiced

3892-804: Is able to free Superman and the rest of the League from their control. The League then sends the Starro population through a boom tube back to the world where the original Starro came from. The Fortress appears in the Legion of Super Heroes episode "Message in a Bottle". In the episode, Imperiex attacks the Fortress to enter Kandor and steal its technology, specifically the Messenger, a powerful device capable of converting anything into crystal. The Legion of Super-Heroes subsequently shrink themselves down to enter Kandor themselves and stop him. The series' version of

4031-580: Is also adopting Dick, and fosters Dick as Robin to help in his scheme. Batman and Robin recover the projector from the Fortress of Solitude , break into Arkham Asylum and successfully send the Joker to the Phantom Zone. Suspecting that the Joker wanted to be sent there, Barbara locks up Batman and Robin. While the projector is being seized as evidence, Harley steals it back as part of the Joker's plan, and frees him, allowing him to return to Gotham with all

4170-525: Is dying and has mere weeks to live. Following Superman's death, the Pre-New 52 Superman was able to gain access to the Fortress as both he and the deceased Superman share identical DNA, even though they are from separate timelines. Superman takes his deceased counterpart to the Fortress hoping to use the Regeneration Matrix to revive him, as the Eradicator did to him in his native timeline. In

4309-401: Is either unaware or at best only vaguely aware of the existence of the Fortress, and its location is kept secret from all but Superman's closest friends and allies (such as Lois Lane and Batman ). A trademark of the Fortress is that it contains a memorial statue of Jor-El and Lara , Superman's Kryptonian parents, holding a large globe of Krypton . Although Superman has living quarters at

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4448-431: Is equipped with sophisticated monitoring apparatus to enable Superman to keep abreast of events occurring throughout the seven seas. Superman later abandoned the undersea Fortress and the structure is now used by the mer-people of Atlantis as a showplace and a tourist attraction. The original version of the Fortress of Solitude made its last appearance in the 1986 non-canonical (or "imaginary") story " Whatever Happened to

4587-545: Is first seen floating in space. It is later revealed to be the orbiting ship of Braniac which Superman had taken over after he physically reprogrammed the Collector of Worlds. This fortress is reported destroyed in the five years between the current Action Comics arc, and the New 52 present day, with the current fortress once more in the Arctic. In the New 52, Supergirl also has her own fortress, known as Sanctuary, and located in

4726-447: Is the first in the franchise not to be composed by Mark Mothersbaugh ; the film score is composed by Lorne Balfe . The soundtrack album was released by WaterTower Music on February 3, 2017, through two-disc CD and for digital download, while the vinyl version was released on May 19, 2017. The first teaser trailer for The Lego Batman Movie was released on March 24, 2016, and features the song " Black and Yellow " by Wiz Khalifa . It

4865-647: The Justice League Action episode "Field Trip", Superman gives Blue Beetle , Firestorm , and Stargirl a tour of the Fortress of Solitude. Originally, the Fortress started out as the ship that first brought Kal-El to Earth. After it was buried by his parents, it grew until the presence of Kryptonite activated its defensive measures and sent it into orbit. In the My Adventures with Superman episode "More Things in Heaven And Earth",

5004-723: The Star Wars character, Lando Calrissian from The Empire Strikes Back . Director Chris McKay said the film's depiction of Gotham City was inspired by Chicago partly due to Christopher Nolan having filmed The Dark Knight Trilogy in Chicago. A scene from The Lego Movie is reused in the film, depicting Emmet falling down from Lord Business's tower into the real world, as television journalists explain what would happen if Joker detonates his bomb. The film also references Arrested Development , which Arnett and Cera starred in together as uncle and nephew. The Lego Batman Movie

5143-598: The Batcave , trophies of his past adventures. Indeed, the Batcave and Batman himself made an appearance in the first Fortress story. The Fortress also became the home of the bottle city of Kandor (until it was enlarged), and an apartment in the Fortress was set aside for Supergirl. A detailed depiction of the Fortress and its contents forms the background to DC Special Series #26 (1981); "Superman and his Incredible Fortress of Solitude", in which Superman minutely inspects

5282-622: The Batcomputer . A Fun Pack including Excalibur Batman and his Bionic Steed was also released the same day. On January 14, 2017, at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, Chevrolet unveiled a life-sized Lego Batmobile inspired by the design featured in the film, constructed from around 350,000 Lego pieces. As a related promotion, a Bat-Signal (alternating between Batman's emblem and

5421-691: The Cartoon Network 's Robot Chicken , throws at the screen seemingly everything his committee of screenwriters scripted." Michael O'Sullivan of The Washington Post praised the film for its heart, humor, and action which "snap together, with a satisfying click." Lego Dimensions includes characters from various franchises, including The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie . The game's Starter Pack includes Wyldstyle, while Emmet, Benny, Bad Cop, and Unikitty are included in Fun Packs. From The Lego Batman Movie , Robin and Batgirl are included in

5560-586: The Christopher Reeve films Superman (1978) and its sequel Superman II (1980), many other DC characters, both villains associated with Batman and other DC superheroes, feature in the film. The film's villains who have been featured in Batman comics, films and cartoons include: Man-Bat ; Captain Boomerang ; Egghead ; Crazy Quilt ; Eraser ; Polka-Dot Man ; Mime ; Tarantula ; King Tut from

5699-564: The Daleks from Doctor Who (voiced by Nicholas Briggs , reprising his role from the television series). The voice of the Batcomputer (credited as 'Puter), depicted here as an artificial intelligence controlling all of Batman's gadgets and vehicles, is done by Siri . Archive footage of Tom Cruise and Renée Zellweger from Jerry Maguire is used. In October 2014, following the success of The Lego Movie , Warner Bros. greenlit multiple Lego films, including The Lego Batman Movie ,

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5838-423: The Joker . In October 2015, Rosario Dawson was cast to voice Barbara Gordon , the daughter of police commissioner James Gordon who later becomes the crime-fighting heroine Batgirl . The following month, Ralph Fiennes was cast as Alfred Pennyworth , Bruce Wayne's butler. Initial reports indicated that Mariah Carey was playing Commissioner Gordon. However, she was actually cast as Mayor McCaskill. Animation

5977-450: The Lego movies are based on the imagination of a child character, with The Lego Movie events happening in young Finn's mind. Miller affirmed that The Lego Batman Movie was also from the imagination of Finn and Bianca, though the characters did not appear within the film. In July 2015, Arnett's Arrested Development co-star Michael Cera was cast to voice Robin . In August 2015, Zach Galifianakis entered final negotiations to voice

6116-938: The Middle-earth mythos; the Tyrannosaurus and Velociraptors from Jurassic Park ; The Skeleton Warriors from Jason and the Argonauts and the Gremlins . The scene where the Gremlins attack the Batwing is a homage to The Twilight Zone episode, " Nightmare at 20,000 Feet ". Originally, the film was going to include more villains such as Bill from Kill Bill , the Butcher from Gangs of New York and Annie Wilkes from Misery , but those ideas never came into fruition. The film also includes Batman watching

6255-416: The Phantom Zone projector to board into Daxamite ship. After saving them, only Lena, her mother and Hank return to Fortress where Lilian betrayed Kara and Mon-El to leave them behind. However, Kara expected her betrayal and her friend Winn Schott Jr. put a bug device on Henshaw prior to rescue operation as a precaution. She activated the device to force him in reactivating the projector to beam Mon-El out of

6394-600: The 1930 novel, The Maltese Falcon , and the other being the 1971 George Lucas film, THX 1138 . The X-ray security machine found in Arkham Asylum largely resembles the one used in Total Recall . The scene involving Alfred losing his grip and falling off the edge of a plane is a reference to 20th Century Fox 's 1988 action film, Die Hard . The film's use of Cutting Crew 's " (I Just) Died in Your Arms "

6533-466: The 1940s Batman serials , the films Batman (1966), Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Batman Forever (1995), Batman & Robin (1997), Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Suicide Squad (2016); the television shows Batman (1960s), Batman: The Animated Series (1990s), Batman Beyond (2000s) and The Batman (2000s); and

6672-454: The 1960s Batman series and a picture of Batman's suit from Batman and Robin . Climactic events from past Batman films involving the Joker have been mentioned, including "that time with the parade and the Prince music" (1989's Batman ) and "the two boats" ( The Dark Knight ). Alongside Joker, the main antagonist of the film's story, and Superman, who features heavily and has notable links to

6811-588: The 1960s series; Killer Moth ; March Harriet ; Zodiac Master ; the Mutant Leader from The Dark Knight Returns ; Doctor Phosphorus ; Magpie ; Calculator ; Hugo Strange ; an unidentified version of Red Hood ; the Kabuki Twins from The Batman ; Orca ; Gentleman Ghost ; Clock King ; Calendar Man ; Kite Man ; Catman ; Zebra-Man ; and a variation of Condiment King from Batman: The Animated Series . The other DC heroes who feature, both from

6950-492: The Batcave, referencing the famous rivalry between DC and Marvel. The film also features characters from other notable franchises and film series with them following the same narrative of The Lego Movie in that they came from worlds that co-exist alongside others of the Lego Universe, which are made up of Lego playsets of the various media franchises. These additional characters include: Medusa from Lego Minifigures ;

7089-417: The Batman eras featured in the comic book series and various media formats, including movies and comic series, despite a couple of issues—the total inconsistency inherent to such a task, and Lego rejecting some of the characters he proposed to include in the film—was based on his desire of how to portray Robin within the film's setting. In an interview regarding his version of the superhero duo, McKay stated: I

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7228-713: The Chevrolet logo) was projected on the Renaissance Center over the weekend, and Chevrolet released a new television commercial tying into the film, featuring the Batmobile as a crossover with its ongoing "Real People, Not Actors" campaign. Warner Bros. released several promotional tie-ins on the week of the movie's release. LEGO billboard versions of several TV shows were shown outside of the studio lot, that took 300 hours to make out of 10,000 bricks. At this time, McDonald's began selling Happy Meal toys based on

7367-417: The Fortress after he manifested some abilities and wished to test for more information. However the A.I of Jor-El concluded that Jordan's powers were a result of brief flare ups and that his human DNA would limit him. Clark tells Lois that he is taking Jordan to the Fortress, when Jordan's powers flare uncontrollably. The A.I. tells Clark that Jordan will feel pain until he learns to control his super hearing. In

7506-573: The Fortress and uses Kara's blood which Cadmus drained from her to access the Fortress's archive for information on Project Medusa. In " Medusa ", Kara goes to Fortress to find information on Project Medusa from the hologram of her father. In "Mr. & Mrs. Mxyzptlk", Kara lures Mxyzptlk in fortress to trick him with a false self-destruct sequence and make him to type the abort code which happened to be his name backwards to force him to go back in his dimension. In "Distant Sun", Mon-El and Kara decide to talk to his mother Rhea in fortress about calling off

7645-469: The Fortress in an attempt to confront Superman, causing the Fortress to self-destruct. Superman subsequently established a new Fortress in an ancient temple on a remote village in the Cordillera del Cóndor Mountains, on the border of Ecuador and Peru . This version of the Fortress is visually similar to the earliest "Secret Citadel" from Superman #17. The final version of the post- Crisis Fortress

7784-663: The Fortress is created by a crystal that Jor-El enclosed in Kal-El's spaceship. The crystal leads teenage Clark Kent to an ice field where it is "planted" by Clark, after which it melts into the ice and grows into a huge crystalline building, similar to the crystalline architecture shown on Krypton at the beginning of the film. This fortress was also used to start Kal-El's 12-year training to become Superman. This Fortress contains numerous "memory crystals" that can be used to access Jor-El's artificial intelligence and hologram, interactive holographic recordings of Lara, and other Kryptonians, and

7923-418: The Fortress is maintained by a robotic version of Superman (voiced by Yuri Lowenthal ) who resembles Cyborg Superman . In the episode "Failsafe", the Fortress of Solitude appears on Robin 's satellite imagery as a location that was being investigated by alien invaders, although this was merely a dream-like state for a training exercise gone wrong. Eight years later, the Fortress makes the first appearance in

8062-591: The Fortress is once again located in the Arctic. Superman has replaced the giant key with a normal-sized key which is made from super-dense dwarf star material and weighs half a million tons, restricting its use to those with immense superhuman strength. It has a team of robots working on various projects. The Fortress itself contains the Titanic , the Space Shuttle Columbia , and a baby Sun-Eater, as well as larger-than-life memorabilia, similar to

8201-584: The Fortress of Solitude is said to be located "in a deserted region of the frozen Arctic". In the episode "Terror at 20,000 Fathoms", Superman gives Aquaman , the Wonder Twins and Gleek a guided tour of the Fortress showing off many structures such as the Bottle City of Kandor. In a 1980 episode titled "Journey into Blackness", which said the Fortress was located in the North Pole, Superman spots

8340-458: The Fortress of Solitude similar to his Earth-One counterpart's Fortress. In the 2006 story arc " Up, Up, and Away! ", Superman recovered a piece of Kryptonian sunstone, which Lex Luthor had used to awaken an ancient Kryptonian warship. Superman learned that the sunstone had been sent with him from Krypton, and used it to construct a new Fortress in the Arctic in exactly the same manner as in the 1978 Superman film. He nevertheless plans to restore

8479-538: The Fortress of Solitude was located at 76.2 North and 100.4 West, which happens to be Qausuittuq National Park in Canada, near the Arctic Ocean. The Fortress of Solitude is central to the storyline of Krypton . In the first season, Seg-El , Kal-El's grandfather, visits the Fortress with his mother, Charys-El, to find the lost research of Val-El, Seg-El's grandfather, after Adam Strange requests Seg-El to find

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8618-528: The Fortress to find information about the magical totems from the Fifth Dimension to stop the magical imp Nyxlygsptlnz . In the Superman & Lois episode "Pilot", Clark reveals that he brought Jonathan to check if Jonathan had superhuman abilities after showing some natural talent for sports. The Fortress's tests said it was unlikely however. In the episode "Heritage", Clark had brought Jordan to

8757-440: The Fortress to stop Brainiac from destroying Krypton and altering the timeline to prevent Kal-El's birth, 200 years later. Meanwhile, Nyssa-Vex and Jayna-Zod are trying to find the Fortress to prevent information about life on other planets from getting out to the public. The holographic Val appears to Seg and other allies in helping to expose and stop Brainiac's attempt to "bottle" Kandor City. Seg and Brainiac end up being trapped in

8896-460: The Fortress via a stolen motorcycle due to burning out his powers. When trying access the Fortress, the A.I. was unable to recognize Kal-El due to his DNA changing and forcibly removed his Kryptonian armor. It was revealed months later Vandal Savage was the person responsible for altering Superman's DNA to draw Kal-El away from the Fortress. Savage later converged all of his forces on the Fortress itself and transported it to Metropolis. However, Superman

9035-551: The Fortress was also absent so the show was probably following suit. In the tradition of this approach, the Fortress of Solitude was the name of Clark Kent's childhood treehouse in the season one episode "The Foundling". In Smallville , Jonathan Kent once referred to the loft space in the Kent farm's barn as the "Fortress of Solitude" since it was the place where the teenage Clark Kent usually preferred to be alone. In season 4's finale "Commencement", after Clark had united all of

9174-646: The Fortress was named by Professor Hamilton in a sarcastically humorous remark when he visited the Fortress in one episode. The Fortress of Solitude is also a major setting for the Justice League Unlimited episode "For the Man Who Has Everything", an adaptation of the comic story of the same name, where Mongul traps Superman in a dream world with the Black Mercy plant, and Batman and Wonder Woman fight him after coming to

9313-514: The Fortress, Clark asked Lois to marry him. In present, Tal-Rho followed Clark to the fortress and put him in a trance where he kept reliving his memories. When Clark woke up, Tal destroyed Jor-El's hologram. In the episode "The Thing in the Mines", the Inverse World 's Kal-El flew to the Fortress after fighting Superman, where he took off his armor after sustaining damage during the fight. In

9452-666: The Fortress, his main residence is still Clark Kent's apartment in Metropolis. The arctic Fortress of Solitude concept was first created for pulp hero Doc Savage during the 1930s. The concept and name "Fortress of Solitude" first appeared in the Doc Savage pulps in the 1930s and 1940s. Doc Savage built his Fortress of Solitude in the Arctic and retreated to it alone to make new scientific or medical breakthroughs, and to store dangerous technology and other secrets. The Golden Age Superman did not have an arctic fortress, but instead

9591-410: The Fortress, suspecting an enemy has planted an Earth-destroying bomb within it. Another noteworthy appearance of this version of the Fortress was in 1985's Superman Annual #11, a story by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons titled " For the Man Who Has Everything ", in which it served as a battleground for Superman, Batman, Robin , and Wonder Woman against the alien would-be overlord Mongul . This story

9730-472: The Fortress. This version contained an alien zoo housing alien life-forms saved from the Preserver's ship and some computer equipment, along with a Brainiac information sphere stolen from his hijacked spacecraft, which contains information about Krypton. The fortress also contains massive sculptures of Superman's biological parents, Jor-El and Lara, serving as monuments to Krypton. Additionally, this version of

9869-462: The Joker and the rest of the villains a headstart, knowing they will be no match for the Bat-family. Several actors voice the various villains from Batman's rogues gallery , including Billy Dee Williams as Two-Face (as a nod to his role as Harvey Dent, Two-Face's former identity, in the 1989 Batman film), Riki Lindhome as Poison Ivy , Conan O'Brien as Riddler , Jason Mantzoukas as

10008-410: The Joker is up to no good, Batman plans to steal Superman 's Phantom Zone projector, a device that can banish anyone to the Phantom Zone, which houses some of the most dangerous criminals in the Lego multiverse, only for Alfred to intervene and advise him to take care of Dick. Batman initially refuses, so Alfred allows Dick to enter the Batcave . Appearing as Batman before Dick, Batman states that he

10147-418: The Joker's feelings by calling him a perfunctory presence in his life, leading the Joker to seek payback. The following day, Batman's alter ego Bruce Wayne attends the city's winter gala, which is celebrating both the retirement of Police Commissioner Gordon and the ascension of his daughter Barbara to replace him. Wayne is smitten by Barbara, and this distraction results in him unwittingly agreeing to adopt

10286-454: The Joker. Batman finally accepts his greatest fear, being part of a family, and decides to change. Batman's teammates return to the fight to help him, but are endangered themselves. Batman makes a deal with Phyllis to temporarily return to Gotham to retrieve the Zone's escaped prisoners, and arrives in time to save his teammates, apologizing to them for leaving them and requesting their help to stop

10425-516: The Joker. They agree, with Barbara taking on the Batgirl costume. With help from Joker's former team, who felt neglected by the Joker when he refused to break them out of Arkham, Batman and his team defeat the escaped multiverse's villains and send them back to the Phantom Zone. Unfortunately, the Joker's bombs detonate, causing Gotham to tear apart at the plates below the city. Batman convinces Joker to help him by telling him he gives him purpose to be

10564-499: The Justice League and Super Friends , include: Wonder Woman ; Aquaman ; The Flash ; Cyborg ; Green Arrow ; Black Canary ; Hawkman ; Hawkgirl ; Martian Manhunter ; Apache Chief ; Black Vulcan ; El Dorado ; Samurai ; Wonder Dog ; the Wonder Twins and Gleek . Although not part of the DC franchise, Iron Man from Marvel Comics is referenced in the film as part of a small joke about Batman's password for entering

10703-465: The Man of Tomorrow? ". In this story, under constant attacks by returning foes, Superman goes to ground inside the Fortress, taking his closest friends with him for their protection. The villainous android Brainiac soon besieges the Fortress with various allies, surrounding it and the outlying territory with an impenetrable force field to keep Superman's fellow heroes from aiding him. Superman ultimately battles

10842-467: The New 52 universe of Prime Earth however, no such technology exists. After burying his counterpart in Smallville he returns to the Fortress and uses his heat vision to create a statue of Superman of Prime Earth to honor his fallen comrade. The Eradicator of Pre-New 52 eventually arrives on Prime Earth and takes up residence within the Fortress. In the out-of-continuity series All-Star Superman ,

10981-433: The Orb to revert the Fortress back into its original, handheld crystal form after becoming obsessed with Kryptonian conspiracy theories, and mistaking the structure for an alien invasion base. Lex also uses the orb to locate the fortress. The orb levitates and constructs a 3D globe of the world and isolates a circular section of Greenland. When the crystal was later recovered by Lex's sister, Tess Mercer , as she searched for

11120-477: The Peruvian Fortress, even if compromised and no longer in a secret location, and plans more Fortresses around the world. This version of the Fortress physically resembles the movie and television depictions, and Superman communicates with Jor-El via crystal constructs as in the Superman film and Smallville . In The New 52 reboot of DC's continuity (launched in 2011) the Fortress of Solitude

11259-605: The Phantom Zone projector in the Fortress, while the real Val-El is brought to Krypton by General Zod, who destroys the projector. In the second season, Seg and Nyssa come to emptied Fortress to remove Brainiac's nanites in Seg's brain stem. After removing them, Brainiac corrupts Val-El's image, brings the ship and teleports with Seg's and Nyssa's son, Jor-El, leaving from the Krypton somewhere in space. In Superman and its sequels (except for Superman III , in which it did not appear),

11398-534: The Phantom Zone through its projector. In "Welcome Back, Kara!", following the rescue mission of Kara and her father Zor-El from the Phantom Zone, Kara and her father go to the Fortress to find a data about Kryptonian's oceans from the past to solve the pollution in the Earth's oceans caused by the garbage consisting of DEO's ruins which were dumped by Lex Luthor. Their robot Kelex approaches and Zor gets idea to use him for this mission. In "The Gauntlet", Kara and Lena go to

11537-433: The Phantom Zone. In Superman Returns , the Fortress follows the same formula as the earlier movies, but goes into more detail about the crystal origins of the Fortress and Kryptonian architecture. Lex Luthor attempts to use memory crystals he stole from it to create a new land mass in place of America. An observation is made (following Superman II ) that he acts as though he has been there before. The crystals that power

11676-820: The Scarecrow , Zoë Kravitz as Catwoman (she would later portray Catwoman in The Batman ), Matt Villa as Killer Croc , Kate Micucci as Clayface , Doug Benson as Bane (the character's appearance and Benson's performance are meant to satirize Tom Hardy 's portrayal of Bane in The Dark Knight Rises ), John Venzon as Penguin (the character's appearance is a nod to Danny DeVito 's portrayal of Penguin in Batman Returns ), David Burrows as Mr. Freeze (Burrows also voices an anchorman), and Laura Kightlinger as Orca (Kightlinger also voices

11815-577: The Stones of Power (Air, Water, Fire) they created a super crystal, the "Crystal of Knowledge". Once he grabbed the crystal it transported him to an opening in the Arctic Circle where he threw the crystal into the snow thus creating the Fortress of Solitude. The fifth season premiere episode, Arrival , fully introduces a Fortress of Solitude that is almost identical, both in appearance and construction by self-replicating crystals, to that depicted in

11954-636: The Swamp Creature, Evil Mummy , and Lord Vampyre from Lego Monster Fighters ; King Kong ; the Daleks from the Doctor Who franchise; the Wicked Witch of the West and her flying monkeys from The Wizard of Oz ; the Kraken from Clash of the Titans ; Agent Smith and his clones from The Matrix ; the great white shark from Jaws ; Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter ; Sauron from

12093-513: The animation was provided by Animal Logic . Lorne Balfe composed the musical score. The Lego Batman Movie had its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland on January 29, 2017, and was released by Warner Bros. Pictures in U.S. theaters on February 10. The film received generally positive reviews from critics for its animation, voice acting, music, visual style, and humor, and was also commercially successful, having grossed $ 312 million worldwide against

12232-402: The bounty on Supergirl's head. She refused and attacked Supergirl with kryptonite daggers, nearly killing her. Mon-El interrupted and decided to go with his mother to save Kara's life. In "Resist", during Daxamite invasion on Earth, Cadmus and DEO propose an alliance to stop invaders and save Lena Luthor and Mon-El from Rhea. Kara, Lilian Luthor and Hank Henshaw enter the Fortress to activate

12371-406: The box office. In its second weekend, the film grossed $ 32.7 million (a small drop of 38.4%), again topping the box office; with the additional President's Day holiday on Monday, it made a total of $ 42.7 million for the weekend. In its third weekend of release, the film dropped to second at the box office, behind newcomer Get Out , grossing $ 19.2 million (a drop of 41.2%). Outside North America,

12510-516: The center of the Earth before settling on an Arctic location. Additionally, Superman established an undersea Fortress of Solitude – hollowed out of the side of an undersea cliff – in September 1958. The undersea Fortress, which is reportedly located at the bottom of the Sargasso Sea at 28 degrees North latitude , 50 degrees West longitude , is stocked with numerous exotic ocean relics and

12649-405: The comics Detective Comics #27 (Batman's introductory story), The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Gotham by Gaslight (1989). Other references include previous costumes worn by Batman and Robin and the various Batmobiles used. In most cases, their appearances in the film are done in a Lego style, with the exception being footage from a live-action shot of Adam West 's depiction of Batman in

12788-537: The critical and commercial success of The Lego Movie . Chris McKay was hired to direct after being replaced by Rob Schrab as director of the sequel to The Lego Movie . He cited both The Naked Gun and Airplane! film series as his main inspirations. Casting calls began in July to November 2015. The film pays homage to previous Batman films, cartoons, and comics, and also features characters from other notable franchises and film series with them. Like The Lego Movie ,

12927-439: The current DC Cinematic Universe films, you can choose either one you want or both.) And at that, The LEGO Batman Movie succeeds." Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a "B+" and wrote, " LEGO Batman revs so fast and moves so frenetically that it becomes a little exhausting by the end. It flirts with being too much of a good thing. But rarely has corporate brainwashing been so much fun and gone down with such

13066-518: The depths of the ocean. This fortress first appears in Supergirl (vol. 5) #12 with its purpose explained in Supergirl (vol. 5) #13. In Action Comics (vol. 2) #15, Superman is revealed to have a fortress which he refers to as his " Yucatan base", a reference to his fortress in the Amazon rain forest in previous continuity. Following the discovery of Superman's "Super Flare", Kal-El made his way to

13205-481: The details below. Request from 172.68.168.226 via cp1108 cp1108, Varnish XID 228431343 Upstream caches: cp1108 int Error: 429, Too Many Requests at Thu, 28 Nov 2024 08:30:34 GMT Fortress of Solitude Traditionally, the Fortress of Solitude is located in the Arctic , though more recent versions have been in other locations, including the Antarctic , the Andes , and Amazon rainforest . The general public

13344-423: The enthusiastic orphan Dick Grayson . Wayne is then infuriated by Barbara's plans to restructure the police to function without Batman. The Joker crashes the party with his villain team, but abruptly surrenders himself and almost all the villains, except Harley Quinn , to the police. With so many villains incarcerated, Batman becomes despondent as Gotham no longer requires his crime-fighting skills. Suspecting that

13483-474: The entire building black and produces the symbol for "Doom" on the floor. Chloe is then brought back to the Fortress after Doomsday crashed her and Jimmy's wedding where Brainiac downloads himself into Chloe leaving the Fortress itself and began to physically download all the knowledge into himself via Chloe. Brainiac then places Davis Bloom, Doomsday's human form in a Kryptonian chamber where it will take days to permanently transform him into Doomsday. After Brainiac

13622-419: The episode "Anti-Hero", to protect his Inverse World counterpart from being killed by Mitch Anderson , Superman gave Anderson coordinates to the Fortress instead of Tal-Rho's fortress, where he actually was. Soldiers went to the Fortress and discovered the armor of Superman's counterpart, leading Anderson to conclude that they were working together. In episode 7 of season 2, it was revealed that this version of

13761-441: The episode "Loyal Subjekts", Clark reveals, at some point, he was exposed to so much Kryptonite that he needed to go to the Fortress to be healed by having it burned from his system and since Jordan's lungs were freezing due to second-hand exposure to the synthetic kryptonite of Project 7734, Clark brought Jordan to the Fortress to be healed. There, Jor-El A.I. told Clark that it had to be burned from Jordan's system for him to heal. In

13900-498: The episode "O Mother, Where Art Thou?", Kal-El went to the Fortress to talk to the Jor-El A.I. about the revelation that Tal-Rho is his maternal half-brother. As the two talked, Jor-El revealed that reversing the Eradicator was beyond his knowledge. In the episode "A Brief Reminiscence In-Between Cataclysmic Events", flashbacks reveal that after the death of Jonathan Kent Sr., Clark came to the Fortress learn about his abilities. Later, in

14039-540: The episodes "The Stolen Costume" and "Superman in Exile". On Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman , the "Fortress" was conspicuously absent, presumably because the series' aim was to explore the idea of Clark Kent being the true identity and Superman merely being the disguise (therefore, the character would have no use for an otherworldly fortress). In the earlier issues of the John Byrne revamp of Superman,

14178-580: The fifth season episode "Tremors", Kara and Lena go to the Fortress to find one of the Luthor's confiscated weapons to deal with alien being Rama-Khan, who comes to challenge Supergirl and Lena before he is defeated and escapes. Lena takes Myriad, revealing that she used Supergirl to get it and traps her in reprogrammed protocol defense while she escapes with transmatter portal in Lex's hideout Mount Norquay. In "Deus Lex Machina", Supergirl uses Myriad in Fortress to find

14317-813: The film was simultaneously released in 61 countries, and was expected to gross around $ 40 million over its first three days. It ended up grossing $ 37 million in its opening weekend, including $ 9.3 million in the United Kingdom, $ 2.6 million in Mexico, $ 2.3 million in Germany and $ 2.2 million in Russia. In the United Kingdom, the film topped the box office for three weeks until it was dethroned by Logan in its fourth weekend. Meanwhile, The Lego Batman Movie opened in China with $ 3.7 million and ranked in fourth place behind

14456-425: The film were released for the film including two sets of Collectible Minifigures. A Story Pack for the toys-to-life video game Lego Dimensions based on The Lego Batman Movie was released on February 10, 2017, alongside the film. The pack adds a six-level story campaign adapting the events of the film, and includes playable figures of Robin and Batgirl, a driveable Batwing, and a constructible gateway model based on

14595-702: The final episode. Rather than being specifically made for the production, the costume was originally designed and created for Brandon Routh to wear in Superman Returns . The Fortress is also referred to as Jor-El's 'Fortress of Knowledge' by his assistant Raya. The Fortress appears in the Supergirl episode " Solitude ". As in the comics, it is opened with a massive dwarf star matter key (about 1 metre (3.3 ft) long and 20 centimetres (7.9 in) thick) and appears to be built from either crystal or ice. It contains Kal-El's spaceship, his parents' statue,

14734-423: The fortress seeking out Kal-El's whereabouts and the purpose of program Myriad. When Kelex refuses to give information to her, the fortress triggered a hologram of her mother of which she explained to her about Myriad's programming. In "The Last Children of Krypton", Superman and J'onn J'onzz visit this place to find information about Metallo . In " The Darkest Place ", Hank Henshaw /Cyborg Superman gains access to

14873-450: The fortress to give Superman birthday gifts. In the future of Batman Beyond , a Starro from the Fortress' intergalactic zoo is revealed to have latched on to Superman years prior and subtly controlled his actions since then, including allowing an entire population of the creatures to breed in one of the aquatic chambers. The Justice League of the future travels to the Fortress where they are themselves taken over by Starros, until Batman

15012-466: The hero he is, and with the help of every civilian and villain, they manage to save Gotham, chain-linking themselves together to reattach the plates. In the aftermath, Batman reveals to Dick that he is Wayne in disguise, then goes to return to the Phantom Zone to face the consequences of his earlier behavior. Phyllis prevents Batman from entering the Phantom Zone, after realizing he is a hero and seeing how he changed to save everyone. Afterward, Batman gives

15151-435: The latter film, A Dog's Purpose and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter . On review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 90% based on 315 reviews, with an average rating of 7.5/10. The website's critical consensus reads, " The Lego Batman Movie continues its block-buster franchise's winning streak with another round of dizzyingly funny—and beautifully animated—family-friendly mayhem." It

15290-435: The movie itself. The Big Bang Theory included a LEGO version of the opening sequence in the episode "The Locomotion Reverberation" that first aired on CBS . In addition, the network aired two LEGO commercials featuring Batman and the cast. The CW featured LEGO end cards for Supergirl , The Flash , Legends of Tomorrow , and Arrow , respectively, on the week of the movie's release. All four DC shows also include

15429-444: The multiverse's villains he had recruited in the Phantom Zone, including Sauron , who informs the Joker that Batman is Bruce Wayne (which the latter mistakes as the two being roommates). The criminals attack Gotham and take over Wayne Island . Realizing that Gotham does need Batman after all, Barbara releases Batman and Robin and teams up with them and Alfred to stop the new threat. Although his teammates achieve some success in fighting

15568-431: The multiverse's villains, Batman forcibly sends them away and confronts the Joker alone, fearing that he might lose them just like his parents. Believing that Batman is incapable of changing his ways, the Joker sends him to the Phantom Zone before stealing the Batcave's stash of confiscated bombs to destroy Gotham. Meanwhile, Phyllis, the Phantom Zone's gatekeeper, shows Batman how he has mistreated Dick, Alfred, Barbara and

15707-478: The now deceased Lex in Northern Greenland , Clark successfully rebuilt the Fortress to resume his training with Jor-El as well as to remove Brainiac from Chloe Sullivan. After completing this Jor-El told Kal-El that he was proud of him and will help in his fight with Doomsday. After Clark leaves Brainiac who has been hiding within the crystal console in his liquid form takes over the Fortress and changes

15846-526: The objects found in the Batcave . It has various scientific facilities as well, including a time telescope that can receive brief cryptic messages with reception of limited quality from the future. In Superman: Earth One graphic novel series, the Fortress of Solitude was built by Superman's Krytonian ship's AI, using the Arctic's cave system. The Fortress has several appearances in the Super Friends animated series. The Super Friends version of

15985-486: The original Superman movies. During the episode, Clark carries an injured Chloe Sullivan from the Fortress to a hospital in the Yukon , suggesting this is one of the nearest inhabited/medically proficient locations to the structure. An artificial intelligence built into the Fortress by Clark's biological father, Jor-El, would provide Clark with various 'Trials' throughout the series to help steer him toward his destiny as

16124-584: The parents of toddler Jonathan Elliot, who has super-powers. In John Byrne 's 1986 Man of Steel miniseries, which re-wrote various aspects of the Superman mythos, the Clark Kent persona was described as a "Fortress of Solitude", in that it allowed him to live as the ordinary person he saw himself as and leave the world-famous superhero behind. This concept was often invoked in later stories, and one story featured Superman hiding his secret identity from

16263-509: The penultimate episode of its fourth season , "Over and Out", when a boom tube leads a time-traveling Kryptonian criminal and his criminal parents, Ursa and General Zod, from the Phantom Zone . The Kryptonian criminals are amazed upon seeing what the sole survivor of their home world has managed to collect over four decades on their history and culture. It is in this icy and frigid fortress that Zod and Ursa begin to gain even greater abilities from Earth's yellow sun by resting in stasis pods. In

16402-428: The people who are stuck in virtual reality, but is incapacitated by Sun-Eater, which is released by Morae, an Leviathan operative who infiltrated under the orders from Lex Luthor. Morae is later captured by Supergirl and her friends. Lex later comes into the Fortress by using transmatter portal when finding its coordinates, which is later revealed in "The Missing Link" that he stole rings for Rama Khan to kill Supergirl. In

16541-736: The pre- Crisis multiverse  – the Earth-Two Superman , Lois Lane of Earth-Two , the Earth-Prime Superboy , and Earth-Three 's Alexander Luthor, Jr. – set up a base in the ruins of the Antarctic Fortress following their escape from the "paradise dimension" they had been trapped in since the end of Crisis on Infinite Earths . It was then revealed from Power Girl 's repressed memories from her life on Earth-Two that her cousin Kal-L had his own version of

16680-411: The same experience as watching The LEGO Movie , but I also don't think it's trying to be. It's trying to be a fun superhero movie with clever callbacks to previous Batman films (every single Batman movie all the way back to the 1940s serials are referenced) that can, at least, provide DC superhero fans with a taste of fun amidst all the doom and gloom. (That can either be a reference to 'the real world' or

16819-583: The scene from Jerry Maguire where Tom Cruise says "You complete me" (which makes Batman laugh out loud); this line had previously been quoted by The Joker in The Dark Knight . In the scene where Batman discusses possible team names he mentions Fox Force Five , which is the name of Mia Wallace 's failed television pilot mentioned in Pulp Fiction . The airplane at the beginning of the movie, known as McGuffin 1138 has two references, one being

16958-513: The script was being written by Michael Waldron and Dan Harmon . It would have focused on Batman's relationship with the Justice League, particularly Superman, and the main villains would have been Lex Luthor and OMAC . Waldron revealed that the film was tentatively titled Lego Superfriends . Superhero film Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

17097-423: The season six premiere, "Rebirth", Kara uses the Fortress as a distraction for Lex Luthor, while her friends attempt to destroy his satellites with the program that enables the citizens around the world to follow and love him. After destroying the satellites by J'onzz and M'gann, they confront the super-powered Lex in the Fortress. Lex is ultimately defeated after his powers were drained, but not before sending Kara to

17236-515: The second installment overall. The film features Will Arnett reprising his role as Batman from The Lego Movie alongside Zach Galifianakis , Michael Cera , Rosario Dawson , and Ralph Fiennes . The story follows Batman as he attempts to overcome his greatest fear while saving Gotham City from the Joker 's latest scheme. Development of The Lego Batman Movie started in October 2014, after Warner Bros. announced several Lego films, following

17375-451: The ship is revealed to have crash-landed in the Arctic Circle. Task Force X , led by Amanda Waller , scavenge the ship to collect its technology, until they are defeated by Superman, Jimmy Olsen and Lois Lane, the events of which turn the ship into the Fortress of Solitude. The 1950s Adventures of Superman TV series never mentions the Fortress of Solitude. The closest thing to it are cabins in remote mountains which Superman utilizes in

17514-517: The spaceship, while staying behind to confront Rhea. In "Nevertheless, She Persisted" Kara and Kal-El are taken to Fortress by Alex to be healed after their fight when Superman was poisoned with silver kryptonite by Rhea, hallucinating and thinking that he was fighting against General Zod. Kal-El then enters database to find a way to stop Daxamite war and finds it in the form of fighting ritual called Dakkar-Ur. The Fortress also appears in season four episodes where Nia Mal uses this place for her training. In

17653-417: The story written by Seth Grahame-Smith , and the film produced by Dan Lin , Roy Lee , Phil Lord and Christopher Miller . On April 20, 2015, Warner Bros. moved up The Lego Batman Movie to a February 10, 2017 release. In an interview about his work on the film, McKay stated that working on the film was "a very mixed blessing" owing partly to the film's hectic time schedule for its production, remarking that

17792-443: The two-and-a-half years allocated to the film made it difficult to fit in everything that he wanted for the movie, considering his earlier work on The Lego Movie . His work on The Lego Batman Movie was influenced by the comedy portrayed in both The Naked Gun and Airplane! film series, with his pitch for the film to the studios being described as like " Jerry Maguire as directed by Michael Mann ". His proposal to combine all

17931-457: Was able to find a temporary 'cure' for his power loss by exposing himself to kryptonite as a form of 'chemotherapy' that burned away the radiation preventing his cells from absorbing energy. On the verge of death while trying to stop Savage, he is caught by the arm and shot in the lower abdomen. As he fell from the sky believing he was about to die, the kryptonite had finished burning away the radiation. The Fortress scanned Superman, confirmed that he

18070-476: Was adapted to animation in the 2004 TV series Justice League Unlimited . In addition to Mongul, the Fortress has been independently broken into at various times by villains Lex Luthor and Brainiac ( Action Comics #583 and Superman #423) and the Atomic Skull ( DC Comics Presents #35), among others. According to Action Comics #261, Superman first established secret Fortresses in outer space and at

18209-404: Was attached to showings of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice in theatres. A second teaser trailer was released on March 28, 2016, and features references to all live-action iterations of Batman, from the 1960s Batman TV series to Batman v Superman . A third trailer was released on July 23, 2016. A fourth trailer was released on November 4, 2016. Over twenty Lego sets inspired by scenes from

18348-488: Was defeated by Clark and the Legion of Super Hero's Brainiac's connection to the Fortress was terminated and all the knowledge he stole returned as well as the Fortress turning back white. A few months after Jimmy was killed Clark was able to repair the Fortress and his connection to Jor-El to resume his Kryptonian training. Although fully repaired there were still a number crystallized pillars that were still black after Brainiac

18487-453: Was defeated. However, it was discovered that the Fortress was repairing itself and by the following year, after Clark defeated Zod, all the black crystal pillars were destroyed with Fortress of Solitude fully repaired and purged of corruption ready to serve Clark in his quest to become Superman. During the series' tenth and final season, the Fortress became home to a Martha Kent -crafted, classic Superman costume, which Clark would go on to don in

18626-474: Was done by Animal Logic , Autodesk Maya and Softimage was used to animate the movie. Lego Digital Designer was used for LEGO model design. As part of its production, the film was designed to make numerous references to previous Batman films, cartoons and comics. In two distinct scenes where Barbara Gordon depicts Batman's long history of services for the police and Alfred quotes Batman's previous films (as previous moments of emotional crisis), they mention:

18765-465: Was home to Krypto and his dog-sitter Ned (the last remaining Superman robot), and contained a version of Kandor, a portal to the Phantom Zone, Kryptonian and alien artifacts, and holographic images of Jor-El and Lara. The caretaker of the Fortress was Kelex, a Kryptonian robot that was a descendant of the Kelex robot that served Jor-El. In the 2006 limited series Infinite Crisis , several survivors of

18904-401: Was ranked the 23rd best superhero movie of all time on the site. On Metacritic , the film has a score of 75 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A−" on an A+ to F scale. Mike Ryan of Uproxx gave the film a positive review, praising its comedy, and saying: " The LEGO Batman Movie isn't

19043-540: Was released in Denmark on February 9, and in the United States and the United Kingdom on February 10. Its overall release saw movie theatres displaying the film in 3D , RealD 3D , Dolby Cinema , IMAX 3D and 4DX . though the latter format was restricted to 3D for North America, while international countries were able to view it in IMAX . The Lego Batman Movie is notably the first animated movie based on Batman to receive

19182-540: Was released on DVD , Blu-ray (2D and 3D), and Ultra HD Blu-ray by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on June 13, 2017. The film debuted at No. 3 on the NPD VideoScan overall disc sales chart behind Beauty and the Beast and John Wick: Chapter 2 . The Lego Batman Movie grossed $ 175.8 million in the United States and Canada and $ 136.2 million in other territories for a worldwide gross of $ 312 million, against

19321-635: Was thinking that we were basically taking the Burt Ward Robin and sticking him in the Batmobile with the Zack Snyder / Ben Affleck Batman, or the Frank Miller Batman. And putting these two different energies together. Somebody who's like the grumpiest, dark grittiest, broodiest Batman with the most positive, indefatigable kid. In 2019, prior to the release of The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part , Chris Miller stated that all of

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