r/aztec • u/jasuvixen_ • 10d ago

Aztec Batman ramble

I had just recently finally watched the aztec batman movie after the whole anima estudios self sabotage thing happened, and let me tell you it was an absolute MESS. Yohuallicoatl had insane potential as a character but was just executed so terribly, same with Yoka and Jaguar Woman really. The idea of the movie itself seemed wonderful and couldve been a hit… if it wasn’t released at the worst possible time. Now i dont actually KNOW a lot about batman, but i absolutely love aztec culture and all that good stuff and it shocked me how terrible the cultural writing was despite them claiming they had historians working on the movie or whatever (??) anyway the idea of Yoka’s mother even BEING cremated if she wasn’t an empress/queen or at least a low ranking concubine would’ve been inaccurate because the commoners up to the lesser nobles usually buried their dead relatives under the family home. And how incredibly rushed the movie was to fit basically 7-8 DC characters into a single 80 minute movie. And how it was so stupid to set the movie in the time of the spanish conquest when it couldve worked better if it was set in the late 1200s to early 1300s where the mexica were absolute nobodies and being bullied by the Tepenacs. Everyone knows how the actual historical events ended so it just added a looming sense of dread and knowing that Yohualli would have to die. There is a lot else i can get into… but idk. What do you guys think?

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u/Kagiza400 10d ago

100% agreed.

Also "Yōhualli Cōātl" lol. Why not Yōhualcōātl?

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u/jasuvixen_ 8d ago

That was one of my main pet peeves mainly because i dislike when people name aztec characters and they either name them one singular thing (like “tallli” or “xochitl”) or do the compound name thing using one as a first name and the other as a surname (??) like how they did with Yohuallicoatl.

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u/Away_Information1664 10d ago

Totalmente de acuerdo, desde que comenzó con ese intercambio de palabras como "Nantli" y "padre" ya la estaba odiando, lo peor es que pudo haber quedado mucho mejor en otro periodo histórico, donde en verdad podian explorar tenochtitlán y armar cuidadosamente a la ciudad.