If you have been slightly following the Fortnite leaks, or rather, who hasn’t, then you have probably just made a V-Bucks wallet jump in your favor. There have been leaks of a very huge magnitude, and everthing indicates that Batman Beyond and The Joker will be available in the Item Shop. And it’s not just characters; we’re talking about all the extras: complete cosmetic sets, gliders, bat accessories, etc. Epic Games is going to have a hard time getting the players to calm down.
What is the situation? The leaks, coming from the very credible source @blortzen and then shared by the aggregator @ShiinaBR, spill it all out. For Batman Beyond, the buzz is that we will have a Skin, a Backbling, a Guitar (that’s right, a guitar), and a Glider. The Joker gets a Skin, a Backbling, a Pickaxe, and a Wrap. The reaction of the gaming community has been absolutely and positively huge. Fire emojis are all over the place. People are already making their purchase plans, discussing edit styles, and inquiring when their virtual banks will be officially emptied.
Let’s not just skim through the details; they are where the excitement is. Let’s start with Batman Beyond. This is not the Batman your granddad was watching. It is Terry McGinnis, the futuristic protagonist from the animated series who has taken a ride into the future and is done with it. The gamers are already loving the design. Ayomide, a Solana user, has articulated it perfectly: ‘Beyond suit is one of the cleanest Batman designs ever. Epic better not fumble this.’ Epic Games has set the bar really high for the sleek black-and-red color scheme. And about that guitar? That’s really the curveball. User Me_Z81 referred to it as the ‘sleeper hit of this leak’ while explaining that ‘festival mains are eating good tonight.’ It is a crazy, yet wonderful, crossover that has a spot in the Fortnite universe.
Now let’s proceed to the Joker. But hold on, this is not the Heath Ledger or Joaquin Phoenix incarnation. From the replies, it can be understood that this collaboration is connected to the Batman: The Animated Series movie Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, which is turning 25 this year! That is quite a hardcore choice and it also implies that in this case, the Joker is probably Tim Drake’s Joker and not the regular Clown Prince of Crime. One player, Omega, had to intervene and clarify this in a reply saying, ‘It’s Terry, Tim is joker this Collab is for batman beyond return of the joker movies 25th anniversary.’ So for genuine DC fans, this is a rare yet highly thrilling draw.
The murmuring in the community is like a fountain of hype, speculation, and a bit of confusion. Everybody has their wish list. The most wanted thing by the audience is? The glider of Batman Beyond that is made of his very distinguishable wings with jet propulsion. Users I_AM_PR1ME and TheGreatBabino were almost begging for it; with Babino even saying, ‘please let his glider be his wings 😭’. There cannot be a more sensible demand than this, can it? He should just glide in like the futuristic bat that he is. Meanwhile, some players are already saying goodbye to their virtual currency. Ayomide of Solana also joked, ‘My V-Bucks seeing Batman and Joker leaks: “We’re finished.” 💀🔥’ It is a feeling that is very common among us all.
However, there is no complete unanimous acceptance. Some doubts are lingering here and there. The user LaFlamesReturn expressed it very well when he asked: ‘why does batman have a instrument?’ Reasonable question! But in Fortnite, where you can have a banana pilot a mech, a Batman with a guitar is just the norm. Another user fortyniteuk was very dismal and wrote, ‘Still no Batman wrap 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩😩’. So Batman gets a guitar but no wrap? Come on. Priorities, Epic, get the right on that. And the eternal Fortnite meme was again in action: fear of another Jonesy reskin returned. Clayface Film News wrote: ‘I hope it’s not Jonesy under the mask again’ Please, Epic, for the love of everything that is sacred, give us a unique face this time.
The timing speculation is also rampant. One user, Fortaccount_00, boldly posed the question, ‘Are we getting it in December? while dcomics_xwwe21 made a guess, ‘hopefully next week they come out’. Considering the magnitude of the leaks, it seems that an Item Shop release is on the horizon, most probably along with a specific update.
