Oh, what a 12 months it’s been. As we proceed our month-long countdown to the tip of 2022, we’re taking inventory of all of the adventures we’ve taken collectively on this final orbit across the solar. This consists of our favourite tales, our favourite moments and our favourite characters. However as opinionated as we’re, we additionally love to listen to about what you’ve celebrated probably the most. That’s why within the DC Neighborhood, we not too long ago polled all of you to find out the standouts in among the most necessary classes we might put collectively—from vogue, to horror, to romance. These are the winners you really liked greatest in our neighborhood alternative award classes for 2022.
Greatest Dressed: Tim Drake, Tim Drake: Robin
It’s true what they are saying: the classics are greatest. In a class studded with dazzling new outfits, the costume you celebrated most was a return to kind for a Robin lengthy at sea. Gone is the earless cowl of Batman Reborn, the feathered wings of the New 52, the stately browns of the Younger Justice “Drake.” Again in full-fledged Robin regalia is clearly the place Tim followers like him greatest, proving some costumes by no means exit of fashion.
Most Villainous: The Joker
Like there was ever any doubt. Batman’s ghoulishly grinning adversary is nearly as previous because the Darkish Knight himself, however familiarity on this case has by no means meant consolation. Maybe it’s as a result of the Joker has constructed his entire id off of the sudden, protecting all of Gotham on edge and hanging when least anticipated, stretching the minds of each its residents and protectors to the brink till they snap, illustrating his perception that we’re all moments away from insanity. Or perhaps it’s as a result of the Joker, like all one of the best comedians, is aware of the best way to reinvent himself with every new period. In 2022, we met a household man Joker with mayoral ambitions on Harley Quinn, a legal disruptor who’s holding all of the strings in The Joker and a broken younger Arkham inmate whose true harmful potential nonetheless lies forward of him in The Batman. In brief, let’s hope the Darkish Knight stays sharp as a result of the Joker’s not going anyplace.
Massive Display screen Favourite: Batman, The Batman
As one of the crucial well-known characters in all of fiction, suiting up for the position of Batman may be an intimidating feat. Everybody has their favourite, and least favourite, variations of the position because it originated over eighty years in the past. However Robert Pattinson’s grungy, emotional Batman caked in mascara, listening to Nirvana on repeat as he slowly kills the boy inside him named Bruce was a take we’ve by no means fairly seen realized in stay motion cinema earlier than—one which attracts its cues not from the Silver Age comics as Adam West, or The Darkish Knight Returns as Ben Affleck, however from tales like The Lengthy Halloween and Batman: Ego. Pattinson’s Batman is a extra trendy Batman than we’ve ever seen dedicated to display earlier than, and one which provides new dimension to what’s already one of the crucial multifaceted characters ever depicted.
TV Favourite: Harley Quinn
No class was as aggressive as this one, with each Peacemaker and The Sandman almost operating away with the win. However in what’s undoubtedly a heavy 12 months, you selected the sharply satiric anarchy of HBO Max’s Harley Quinn. And for good cause, as this 12 months supplied its strongest season but, with the sequence giving us the full-fledged, no innuendo hiding romance we’ve needed to see between Harley and her gal Poison Ivy in full bloom. Season three gave us a glimpse of what occurs after the fortunately ever after, totally exploring what a loving relationship between these two strong-minded generally villains would seem like. All that, plus an of-the-moment subplot that shines a lightweight on how far our political system has fallen and a joyful willingness to “go there” with Bruce Wayne’s abandonment points cements this sequence’ place on the very prime in grownup animation.
Spookiest: Corinthian, The Sandman
I imply, this one was no contest. Dude’s bought tiny mouths for eyes, which chew on different individuals’s eyeballs. How do you even compete with that? As a residing nightmare crafted by the Lord of the Dreaming himself, a failure on the Corinthian’s half to take this class would merely imply he wasn’t doing his job. The scariest villains within the DC Universe can solely trigger concern—the Corinthian is a manifestation of concern itself. And in his sharp fits and fashionable shades, it doesn’t harm that Boyd Holbrook makes concern look sensible whereas he spreads it.
Cutest Couple: Dick Grayson and Barbara Gordon, Nightwing
For years, saying you’ll be able to’t pin Nightwing down might apply simply as simply to his love life because it might to his functionality as a superhero. The damaged hearts he’d left in his wake lengthy rivaled his record of damaged instances. However amongst his previous flames, none has loomed bigger than Barbara Gordon (apart from arguably Starfire, however let’s not go there—we’re right here to have a good time younger love, not begin a delivery battle). Babs’ historical past with Dick goes again to once they had been kids. An in depth friendship bloomed into extra …till it instantly ended. Within the years since, followers saved their hopes up that this pair of crimefighting cuties would reconcile, nevertheless it wasn’t till Tom Taylor and Bruno Redondo took the reins of Nightwing that the still-flirty companions sealed issues with a kiss. How lengthy will it final this time? Look, if being high-flying crimefighters in Gotham has taught these two something, it’s prone to stay in a second. And in addition, maintain tight.
Most Anticipated Film: Shazam! Fury of the Gods
The cinematic DC Universe retains getting greater, with infinite potentialities stretched earlier than us. However of all of the DC motion pictures coming subsequent 12 months, or not less than, the three within the ballot, the one you most wish to see is Shazam! Fury of the Gods. A wonderful alternative. With all of the comedy and coronary heart of the unique, it’s no surprise that we’re excited to see the place Billy Batson and the prolonged Vasquez foster household goes subsequent. Plus, it’s been means too lengthy since we’ve seen Darla on display. Who doesn’t love Darla?
That’s a wrap on what you favored most! However what has everybody been studying this 12 months? Preserve your browser locked on DC.com for a future rundown of 2022’s hottest comics on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE!
