{"id":77481,"date":"2026-05-06T19:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77481"},"modified":"2026-05-06T20:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:36:26","slug":"lego-batman-legacy-of-the-dark-knight-includes-goofy-michael-caine-tweet-reference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=77481","title":{"rendered":"Lego Batman: Legacy Of The Dark Knight Includes Goofy Michael Caine Tweet Reference"},"content":{"rendered":"

Later this month, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight<\/a> is going to mash-up aspects of the iconic hero’s comic book, TV, and movie incarnations into a single story. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy is also heavily referenced in the game, including a callback to the first film by Michael Caine, the actor who portrayed Alfred Pennyworth.<\/p>\n

In 2024, Caine shared a Tweet that quoted Alfred’s line from Batman Begins: “Why do we fall, sir? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” However, Caine mistakenly typed “Batman Begin” as the name of his film, and inadvertently created a meme. Both the quote and the typo have been retained for Legacy of the Dark Knight in a line spoken by Alfred himself.<\/p>\n

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DC comic book artist Marcelo Millicay<\/a> was among the first to notice the in-game Easter egg for Caine’s now-famous typo. Part of the game’s story will actually explore Batman Begins’ version of Bruce Wayne’s origin, in which he was trained by the League of Shadows before ultimately rejecting their ways and becoming Batman.<\/p>\n

During a recent press event, TT Games demonstrated how other pieces of Batman media were incorporated<\/a> into Legacy of the Dark Knight’s story. For example, the game’s origin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Later this month, Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is going to mash-up aspects of the iconic hero’s comic book, TV, and movie incarnations into a single story. Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy is also heavily referenced in the game, including a callback to the first film by Michael Caine, the actor who portrayed…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":77483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77481"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77484,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77481\/revisions\/77484"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}