Even though the chance of ‘getting one of those’ remains out of the question for him, by the end of the film he will have been given a chance to test-drive the Batmobile himself. In his quote, Sergeant Gordon, representative of Gotham City’s crime-fighting apparatus, sighs his admiration for the Batmobile in Batman Begins. In the above quote, the Joker, as the villain of the first Batman film, expresses petulant jealousy at the tools (toys?) at Batman’s disposal, which Batman uses to foil the Joker’s plots. The Hollywood adaptations of Batman promote a matrix of consumer desire, military fetish and an ultimate reliance on force, not only feeding a taste for the tools and the toys of war but the desire to see them engaged in action. Bruce Wayne, after test-driving the vehicle which will become the Batmobile in Sergeant Gordon, after seeing the Batmobile in action in Batman Begins (2005) The Joker, after Batman has foiled his plot with his gadgetry in Batman (1989) "Where does he get those wonderful toys?"
The tools and toys of (the) War (on Terror): Consumer desire, military fetish and regime change in Batman Begins
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