Top Posts of the Week – Batman and Catwoman still dominate the Top 10

The real life Batman pulled over in his Lamborghini certainly got everyone’s attention, as did a new round of photos released from The Dark  Knight Rises.  But overall, Christian Bale and Anne Hathaway, Batman and Catwoman, Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle are still the overwhelmingly popular keywords.  Bane and Tom Hardy made a showing, although interest seems to wane after the push of a photo is over.  A pity Arkham City didn’t understand that also rans like Marion Cotillard and Gary Oldman never make it into the top 50.

1. Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Dark Knight Rises
2. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
3. Batman and Catwoman in full costume on the set of The Dark Knight Rises
4. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
5. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman Costume
6. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
7. The Dark Knight Rises Catwoman – New Promo Pic
8. Christian Bale said Anne Hathaway had the hardest job as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises
9. Catwoman should be sexy, not practical. Anne Hathaway is Catwoman, Selina Kyle in The Dark Knight Rises
10. Batman of Maryland’s Batmobile Bust A Real Hero | NPR

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Top Posts of the Week: Bat and Cat edge out Bane again

It could be the first big Comic Cons of the year pushing up the searches in Cosplay, but it seems like even before that, Batman and Catwoman, Bruce and Selina, Bale and Hathaway were slowly edging Tom Hardy and Bane out of the top spots.  When we began these surveys, Bane always dominated the top spots.  Now he is consistently 3 or 4, with fewer appearances than Bat and Cat.

1. Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Dark Knight Rises
2. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
3. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
4. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
5. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman Costume
6. The TDKR Catwoman Spoiler hidden in plain sight
7. Batman of Maryland’s Batmobile Bust A Real Hero | NPR
8. Batman and Catwoman in full costume on the set of The Dark Knight Rises
9. Batman Merch: Riddler Converse
10. Christian Bale said Anne Hathaway had the hardest job as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises | the telegraph

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Top Posts of the Week

Yesterday, Today and probably through to July, it’s Batman, Catwoman and Bane – Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy – in the #1, 2 and 3 spots.  The only question for a month has been which particular story or picture will light up the net this week.  Not surprisingly, it’s Mr. Bale looking oh so suave in character as Bruce Wayne, and Ms Hathaway out of character in a see-through blouse.  Mr. Hardy is more popular on set, in the photos from last summer’s location shooting in Pittsburgh, than in any of the officially released studio stills.

1. Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Dark Knight Rises
2. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
3. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
4. Batman Merch: Joker tshirt of the Day
5. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
6. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman Costume
7. Batman Merch: Christian Bale Batman/Bruce Wayne from Batman Begins
8. Christian Bale said Anne Hathaway had the hardest job as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises
9. Batman and Catwoman in full costume on the set of The Dark Knight Rises
10. Liam Neeson back for ‘Dark Knight Rises’ 

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Top Posts of the Week: Batman finally on top of Catwoman, just in time for Valentine’s Day

Fine, call us sexists.  We at the Gotham Trending office try to remain impartial but we are men, and seeing Catwoman, Anne Hathaway and Selina Kyle beating Bruce Wayne, Christian Bale and Batman week after week for the top spot in his own movie, we can’t help it.  We can’t help but root for the underdog and we can’t help but cheer now that Bruce/Christian/Dark Knight has finally won the day.

1. Profile: Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne in The Dark Knight Rises
2. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
3. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
4. Christian Bale said Anne Hathaway had the hardest job as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises
5. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman Costume
6. The Dark Knight Rises: New Poster and a menu on Official Website
7. Arkham City Portraits of Riddler
8. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
9. Batman at Comic Con: First look at Joker, Batmobile from Hot Toys Batman ’89 Collection
10. First peak at the Dark Knight Rises Batmobile
11. Batman at Comic Con: Catwoman of the DC Comics Reboot, not apologizing for sexy!
12. Batman Merch: Joker Tshirt of the Day

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Top Posts of the Week: From Oh So Sexy Anne Hathaway to Oh So Hepburn Selina Kyle, with Oh So Green Kim Kardashian in between, this week was all about the women of Gotham

The women of Gotham City dominated this week’s top posts, from Anne Hathaway’s ever popular runway appearance in a see-through blouse to Kim Kardashian dressed as an Uma Thurman Poison Ivy last halloween to Selina Kyle’s “Very Hepburn” appearance on the set in haute couture chanel, so classy no one could decide if it was more Katherine or Audrey…

1. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
2. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
3. Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Dark Knight Rises
4. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman Costume
5. Batman Merch: Joker Tshirt of the Day
6. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
7. Kim Kardashian’s Uma Thurman-style Poison Ivy on Halloween
8. Bane Mask, Other Batman Items coming up for sale in Movie Memorabilia Auction
9. Batman Merch: Riddler Converse
10. Overheard on the Social Networks: Selina Kyle is “Very Hepburn”

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Top Posts of the Week: It’s the Big 3 all the way Bale/Batman, Hathaway/Catwoman and Hardy/Bane

In the last shopping days before Christmas, not a lot of Batman merchandise made it into the Internet consciousness.  A few lingering boos and hisses aimed at Arkham City as the Bat-letdown of the year, and the Riddler Converse shoes got some traction, but for the most part, the collective consciousness is fully occupied with The Dark Knight Rises, its prologue and trailer.  We don’t know what to expect from the movie itself, but it’s clear what fans are most interested in.  By a wide margin, it’s the big 3: Batman/Christian Bale, Catwoman/Selina/Anne Hathaway and Tom Hardy/Bane.

1. Christian Bale is Bruce Wayne / Batman in The Dark Knight Rises
2. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
3. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
4. The Dark Knight Rises Prologue: Leaked and Plugged
5. The Dark Knight Rises Gotham Stadium Video
6. Script pages from The Dark Knight Rises “leaked” (Not exactly, but they’re letting us know what Bane was saying)
7. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
8. Overheard on the Social Networks: Selina Kyle is “Very Hepburn”
9. Why I’m passing on Arkham City
10. The Dark Knight Rises: Batman’s plane the Batwing
11. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman
12. Batman Merch: Riddler Converse

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Top Posts of the Week: Despite Kim Kardashian and Justin Bieber’s best efforts, The Dark Knight Rises still dominates Gotham Trending

Despite Kim Kardashian’s Poison Ivy costume and Justin Bieber’s Batmobile, the top posts of the week were what we’ve come to expect: Anne Hathaway’s sexy best as Catwoman, Christian Bale’s Batman and Tom  Hardy’s Bane of The Dark Knight Rises, assorted complaints about Arkham City struggling to be heard over the hype machine, and an understandable continued interest in Batman/Catwoman and Joker/Harley Cosplay at Comic-Con and an inexplicable continued interest in Riddler Converse.

1. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
2. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
3. New Set Photos from The Dark Knight Rises: Christian Bale/Bruce Wayne looking very Wall Street and Joseph Gordon
4. Why I’m passing on Arkham City
5. Joker is the favorite Batman villain. Well DUH
6. Arkham City Epic Fail on Catwoman Costume
7. DC Reboot Catwoman #1 – Wrong costume is a warning sign to fans but characterization sounds like an improvement
8. Batman Merch: Riddler Converse
9. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
10. Christian Bale Bruce Wayne/Batman from Batman Begins 12″ Figure from Hot Toys

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Top Posts of the Week: Arkham City finally breaks The Dark Knight Rises hold of The Top 10

With the release of Batman: Arkham City only days away, the eagerly anticipated sequel to Rocksteady’s popular Arkham Asylum has finally put a dent in The Dark Knight Rises domination of the Internet and Social Network buzz.  A set video of  Bruce Wayne arriving at a party still held the #1 slot, but it is Christian Bale/Bruce Wayne and he is driving the Lamborghini.  The granting of Catwoman fans’ great wish that the playable feline fatale will have alternative costumes (skins) unlockable within the game seems to have tipped the balance.  So the week belongs to Nolan’s TDKR, sexy Catwoman in the person of Anne Hathaway and in the reboot comic, and to Arkham City.  Other Batman news need not apply.  Sorry NYCC.

1. SET VIDEO: Bruce Wayne and that new Lambo arriving at a party in Dark Knight Rises
2. Arkham City Preorder Perk: Batman Costume skins – UK ONLY
3. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
4. DC Reboot Catwoman #1 – Wrong costume is a warning sign to fans but characterization sounds like an improvement
5. Bane Mask, Other Batman Items coming up for sale in Movie Memorabilia Auction
6. Hot New Location Photos: Not Bruce and Selina this time. It’s Batman and Catwoman IN FULL COSTUME (or is it?)
7. Batman at Comic Con: Catwoman of the DC Comics Reboot, not apologizing for sexy!
8. At long last: There will be Alternative Catwoman Costumes (skins) in Arkham City
9. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
10. Inside Wayne Manor | Treasure Hunt on Osterley Mansion’s cinematic double life

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Top Posts of the Week: Catwoman steals the top spot again

We knew when fans found contemporary beauties inadequate  and had to go back to Hepburn to describe the “style, presence and patrician elegance” of Anne Hathaway’s Selina Kyle in those last photos from The Dark Knight Rises set, that it was going to be another week where we’d need two lists, one for the Catwoman material and one for the rest of the Batman universe.  We didn’t even figure on DC Comics relaunched Catwoman #1 making good on its promise to restore the sex appeal to our favorite feline.

1. Selina Kyle is “Very Hepburn”
2. Catwoman #1 not apologizing for sexy
3. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
4. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
5. DC Reboot Catwoman #1 – Wrong costume is a warning sign to fans but characterization sounds like an improvement

Now, as much as we love Catwoman, if we could focus your attention on just a few minutes on the man in the Bat costume and the world around him, which gives the Catwoman stuff a reason to exist.

1. The cure for TDKR Location Photo Fatigue: Batman!
2. TDK writer Jonathan Nolan’s new series PERSON OF INTEREST premieres tonight on CBS | Interview
3. Bane Mask, Other Batman Items coming up for sale in Movie Memorabilia Auction
4. Best Dark Knight Rises Location Photo Ever: Illegally Parked Badpod
5. Bruce Wayne’s latest hot ride: The Lamborghini Aventador
6. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
7. The Dark Knight Rises Location Photos: Batman/Batsuit #TDKR
8. Batman Merch: Riddler Converse
9. You can’t make any money with Batman: How Batman Almost Never Left the Bat Cave
10. Why I’m passing on Arkham City

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Top posts of the week: Warrior boosts Tom Hardy and Bane back into TDKR searches

Remember #thefirerises? Remember that picture of Tom Hardy as Bane? Hardy was the face of  back of head of The Dark Knight Rises pre-production excitement.   Until Catwoman.  After the pictures of Anne Hathaway began to appear, Mr. Hardy couldn’t break into the top 10 leading a trio of camo-painted tumblers into a football stadium.  But now, at last, with the release of Warrior, the net has started to notice him again, and the Bat-searches have remembered this isn’t just “The Catwoman movie.”

1. The Dark Knight Rises Set Photos: Bane
2. Anne Hathaway, Selina Kyle/Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises: so very good at being bad (via Sexy Girls Dressed)
3. Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con
4. The cure for TDKR Location Photo Fatigue: Batman!
5. Location Photos from The Dark Knight Rises: Hathaway/Selina turning heads
6. DC Reboot Catwoman #1 – Wrong costume is a warning sign to fans but characterization sounds like an improvement
7. The Dark Knight Rises Location Photos: Batman/Batsuit #TDKR
8. Bane Mask, Other Batman Items coming up for sale in Movie Memorabilia Auction
9. Bruce Wayne’s latest hot ride: The Lamborghini Aventador
10. Arkham City Robin Costumes of the Day | TDW Geeks

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Batman and Catwoman Cosplay: The Best of Dragon Con

Cosplayers are the real stars of Comic Book Conventions, and in the days following a big con, Flickr and Tumblr are flooded with pictures of the best and the worst.  We at GT had to single out this grouping.  With so many Catwoman costumes to choose from, the classic skirted costume known to modern fans from The Brave and the Bold cartoon, we must commend this Cat’s taste as well as the quality of her costume.  Top marks for quality to Batman, Joker, Harley Quinn, and Robin as well.

Runner up Batman: