As Lego Batman goes Beyond Gotham, Conan O'Brien, Kevin Smith, Stephen Amell, and many others fight with and against him!
When you release a successful video game, the sequel is usually about taking the same concept and going bigger. That makes the third game a bit of a challenge because how much bigger can you go? Take Lego Batman, for instance. First game is about Batman and the Bat-family doing stuff in Gotham. It was a hit, and so they did a sequel where you could play around with the entire Justice League. That was also a hit, plus the Lego-style Batman became more of a household name thanks to a certain Lego movie you may have heard of called The Lego Movie. Naturally, a third chapter is needed, but where can you go from there?
There are three answers to this question: more characters, go to space, and add celebrities.
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (“Two Batmen enter... One Batman leaves...”) has Batman travel the cosmos to stop Brainiac from using the combined power of all the various Lantern rings. Green Arrow is playable, which isn’t a big deal on its own, except Stephen Amell, TV’s Arrow, will be voicing him. This isn’t his first time voicing Oliver Queen in video game form, as Injustice: Gods Among Us had a special Arrow-based skin for Green Arrow, complete with Amell’s voice.
Director Kevin Smith will be joining the fray, which has to be the biggest honor for him. Smith is a massive Batfan, named his daughter after Harley Quinn, and wrote some comics where Batman smoked weed and peed himself. I mean, other stuff happened in those comics, but that’s really all anyone’s going to remember. He’s made an appearance in DC media prior in the animated movie Superman: Doomsday where he played himself, lampooning his infamous unused screenplay of the Nick Cage Superman movie.
DC honcho Jim Lee will be there because if Lego Marvelcan have Stan Lee, you might as well toss in another Lee to counter it.
Then there’s Conan O’Brien, the most unexpected name in there. The talk show host will join the other heroes and famous people in space because...well, I have no idea, but I’m going to pretend it’s because Jay Leno has stolen an Orange Lantern ring. Conan’s connections to DC and Batman are looser than the others, though he did write a failed pilot for an Adam West sitcom called Lookwell. That's something. If anything, it’s more shocking that the Bruce Timm-created alter-ego Flaming C isn’t there, but I wouldn’t be surprised if that hero doesn’t pop up somewhere, even in the form of DLC.
Check out this behind-the-scenes trailer of our celebrity superheroes in action. Below that are some pics of some of the other heroes and villains you’ll see in Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham, including obscure animated names Condiment King (Batman: The Animated Series), Music Meister (Batman: The Brave and the Bold), and the Green Loontern (Duck Dodgers). There’s also an appearance by the Bruce Wayne from In Darkest Knight, the Elseworlds tale where Abin Sur’s Green Lantern ring chose Bruce instead of Hal Jordan.
Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham will be hitting stores in mid-November.
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