Christian Bale's infamously gravely Batman voice now looks considerably worse after subsequent movies with the Caped Crusader. Bale portrayed Bruce Wayne in all three movies of The Dark Knight trilogy, in which director Christopher Nolan brought Batman down to Earth for as gritty a story as possible. Bale's performance as Batman has generally been praised, with Bale embodying the selflessness and determined heroism that is central to Bruce Wayne as a character.
With that said, Bale's performance in The Dark Knight trilogy did not completely escape criticism, with the harsh growl of his Batman voice being endlessly parodied and among the less beloved elements of Nolan's Batman films. Since the end of Bale's tenure as Batman, Ben Affleck and Robert Pattinson have each played their own different iterations of Batman on cinema screens. That has also had a noticeable side effect on the legacy of Bale's Batman voice.
