Batman: Soul of the Dragon

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RELEASED 12 Jan 20211h 23m★ 6.7 TMDB

Bruce Wayne faces a deadly menace from his past, with the help of three former classmates: world-renowned martial artists Richard Dragon, Ben Turner and Lady Shiva.

Why it matters in DC

Bruce Wayne's former fellow martial artists place his training relationships at the centre of this adventure. The ensemble gives the film a route into DC action built around shared history and skill, rather than the usual roster of Gotham's masked partners.

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Where it fits in the DC universe

Batman: Soul of the Dragon is title 26 of 40 in our Animated Elseworlds viewing sequence. Soul of the Dragon is a separate animated Batman adventure built around martial-arts relationships and a different period atmosphere. It does not continue the Damian films or the television animated universe. The relevant history is the shared training background introduced by this film, rather than a chain of unrelated Gotham adaptations.

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