Burtonverse

I fucking hate "Earth 789". The mere concept of it disgusts me. Why would any smooth-brained writers at DC want to combine the Burtonverse and Donnerverse as well as make sure Clark and Kara are the only super-powered beings? It makes no sense. The Burtonverse was dark and macabre, with an air of black comedy. The Donnerverse on the other hand was lighthearted, campy, and optimistic. It's especially baffling since The Flash (2023) canonized Nicolas Cage's Superman from Superman Lives, who was supposed to be the Superman of the Burtonverse. It's all complicated for no reason whatsoever. If I were in charge at DC, I'd make it so that the Donnerverse is Earth 78, the Burtonverse is Earth 89, and the Schumacherverse is Earth 97. The problem is that DC seems to treat its multiverse(s) differently from Marvel. But now, after Dark Crisis restored the Infinite Multiverse, there's no reason to have multiple multiverses. Why not increase communication between different creative teams, DC? Or better yet have advisors to address this sort of discrepancy? If you have one big infinite fictional multiverse, give each universe and piece of media a unique designation, and STOP REUSING UNIVERSE DESIGNATIONS FFS!!!

Rant over.

Okay, so, Batman '89 has begun, and Sam Hamm has taken to Twitter to confirm that Batman Forever and Batman & Robin are in their own canon on Earth-97, with Tim Burton's films and his comic taking place on Earth-89 (all within the Arrowverse multiverse, of course). I propose, then, that we separate the Burtonverse pages into two: the Batman, Batman Returns, and Batman '89 stuff can stay as the Burtonverse, while the Batman Forever and Batman & Robin stuff can just be called "Batman Forever" (ex: Bruce Wayne (Batman Forever), Victor Fries (Batman Forever), Edward Nygma (Batman Forever), etc).

It's also been reported that The Flash, which features the return of Michael Keaton's Batman, will completely ignore the events of Schumacher's films, so it certainly seems like the Batman '89 stuff is about to become the main canon.