Well hi guys i am new here and i have a question,why batman wear black suit in the movies ? Why not the normal blue/black and grey ?

For stealth purposes I believe. Seems more practical that way.

Because in comics, especially in older days, you needed to have some color differences between what was meerly dark (like Batman's cape) and completely unlit (like shadows), otherwise things would just blur together, and the color-scheme just stuck with him.

This is not the same case of the movies where even Burton's Batman is visible when he makes the slightest move. It's the difference between filming in a 3D enviroment and drawing on a 2D surface to a not completely photo-realistic level.

And as pointed out, Batman is meant to be stealthy, and wearing complete black is better at that than greys and blues (which might serve him better in a field or forest during a full moon).

@outside_85: ok thank you.

And btw what suit you like better?

@daniel eli: I tend to lean more towards the grey/black combo, it fits the image I have of Batman in my head.

@outside_85: can you upload a pic to show me ?

@daniel eli: It's basically just like he was animated in the New Batman Adventures.

Good answer

@outside_85: i like it too !

@comicace3: Actually no. Dark Blue is better for stealth than black. That why ninja used dark blue uniforms for working and black uniform to be use while training.

I like the batman from :The Adventures of Batman from the 60s

For stealth to blend in the shadows.Plus 90 percent of Batman work is done in the night. You hardly ever see Batman fighting crime in the morning.

Clearly he is racist.

Because black by default is considered the most "cool' color, even if it isn't the most practical.

Because Tim Burton and the costume designers wanted to differentiate it from the "silly" blue and grey that he had in the 60s show and the comics of the time so they made it all black. Then it just with the films because it worked and was popular with most audience members.

That's all about to change.

@vitalius: OK that makes sense.

Once you go black, you don't want to turn back.

Black>Dark blue

Bcs he have black soul

It looks like it will be grey in the new movie.

He wears black is because, he is the night.

Better said.

Alsooooo: He got jealous of Black Spidey's suit so he decided to copy him and turn it black :) Totally.

@the_stegman said:

That's all about to change.

Awww yeah!

Black Mask: Grains

When you translate comics into film, as Outside_85 accurately discussed, color schemes get translated more into motion, and on the big screen then you want to see the shadowy symbolism of the Dark Knight come across very quickly (and efficiently).

Batman does, after all, deal with a Gotham plagued by a nearly maniacal cynicism --- i.e., "The biracial children of Gotham City are not clearly offspring of Caucasian fathers/minority mothers or minority mothers/Caucasian fathers. No one wants to take a census while meeting someone on the street, so a natural ambiguity of biracial parentage statistics gives rise to population pessimism maniacs such as the Joker."

As Joker and Scarecrow parade around Gotham City in bright purples and eerie sackcloth masks, we literally need Batman to show up in a somber black to remind people that traffic can be normalized.

This is why the Batman nemesis Black Mask is so intriguing.