Zack Snyder, Ben Affleck, take note. This is an Irish lesson in badassery.
Julian Checkley of Order 66 Creatures and Effects, a small studio in Spiddal, Co. Galway has produced a fully-functioning Batsuit - using a 3D printer.
It includes a fireball shooter and sonar schematics similar to that of Christopher Nolan's Batman in the first entry of the Dark Knight trilogy, 2005's Batman Begins.
This brings whole new meaning to the phrase, "he's a bit of a tank."
Checkley and his team ordered 3D-prints of the outer armour from a company in Canada and then set about building the suit.
"We've always wanted to do a Batsuit and the Arkham Origins one is all beefed up and aggressive and gnarly looking,"
Checkley told MirrorTech.
We had it 3D printed and casted and brought it back to Ireland to clean it up and try and take it to the next level.
That included things like airbrushing, changing the rivets from moulded to real and making an undervest-type thing that's tough, flexible and lightweight. We mounted all the outer parts to it and also used it to anchor the cape,"
he said.
But how did it feel to be Batman?
At first you feel like a bit of an idiot: you're a 45-year old guy dressed in a Batman suit.
(Sorry, Ben Affleck).
But you soon forget after a while, and I looked pretty intimidating.
It's the most comfortable, lightest, most flexible costume we've ever made. You could go and fight crime in it.
An Irish Batman? The streets of Spiddal are about to get a whole lot safer.
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