87 Fun Facts About The Lego Batman Movie

Who voices Batman in The Lego Batman Movie?

Will Arnett. His gravel-voiced hero starts talking before the film does, informing the audience over the studio logos that 'all important movies start with a black screen'.

Who voices the Joker in The Lego Batman Movie?

Zach Galifianakis. His Joker gets himself banished to the Phantom Zone on purpose, then comes back with an army of villains borrowed from other film franchises.

Which Arrested Development star voices Robin?

Michael Cera voices Robin, the relentlessly upbeat orphan Dick Grayson, whom Bruce Wayne adopts at the gala without really listening.

Who voices Barbara Gordon in The Lego Batman Movie?

Rosario Dawson. Her Barbara wants Gotham's police to work with Batman instead of waiting for him, and by the final battle she has suited up beside him as Batgirl.

Who voices Alfred Pennyworth in The Lego Batman Movie?

Ralph Fiennes. His Alfred does more than fuss over Bruce: when the final fight comes he pulls on a 1960s-style Batsuit of his own and joins in.

Who directed The Lego Batman Movie?

Chris McKay. He also gave himself a cameo as Pilot Bill, the unimpressed airline captain who tells the hijacking Joker that Batman always stops him.

In The Lego Batman Movie, what does Batman refuse to call the Joker, leaving the villain heartbroken?

His greatest enemy. Batman shrugs that he likes to 'fight around' and tells him 'You mean nothing to me', so the jilted Joker spends the rest of the film scheming to be noticed.

In The Lego Batman Movie, whose retirement party does Bruce Wayne grudgingly attend?

Commissioner Gordon. His daughter Barbara takes over that night and announces she wants a police force that no longer leans on Batman, which leaves Bruce fuming.

What meal does Batman microwave and eat alone in Wayne Manor?

Lobster thermidor. The gag was chosen to close the very first teaser, in which he nukes a plate of leftovers, takes a bite and mutters 'I deserve this today.'

In The Lego Batman Movie, which villain slips away when the Joker's gang surrenders, then frees him later?

Harley Quinn. Posing as a laundry worker, she walks off with the device the police had confiscated and uses it to bring the Joker back with his new recruits.

In The Lego Batman Movie, which giant movie monster rips the heroes' aircraft apart as they fly to Batman's aid?

King Kong. The great ape plucks the craft out of the air and tears it to pieces, leaving Barbara and Alfred cornered until Batman bargains his way back to help them.

Which gadget from the 1966 Batman film does Robin find in Lego Batman's Batcave?

Shark repellent. The bottle looks like a passing nod to the 1966 film, but it is a set-up: the spray makes a second appearance in the climactic fight.

In The Lego Batman Movie, what kind of being is Phyllis, the Phantom Zone's gatekeeper?

A talking brick. 'When you're a talking brick working at the Phantom Zone, you see a lot of crazy things,' she says, as she lets Batman go home because he has finally changed.

What is Batman's greatest fear, which he finally accepts in the Phantom Zone?

Batman admits his greatest fear is being part of a family again, having pushed Robin, Barbara and Alfred away so he could never lose them as he lost his parents.

What do the Joker's bombs do to Gotham?

The bombs split the plates beneath the city in half, opening a chasm under Gotham; everyone, villains included, links together to pull the plates back.

Who voices Mayor McCaskill in The Lego Batman Movie?

Mariah Carey. Early reports had the singer cast as Gotham's top police officer, but when the film arrived she was running the city instead.

Lego Batman suggests naming his new team 'Fox Force Five', a nod to which Quentin Tarantino film?

Pulp Fiction. Fox Force Five is the failed TV pilot that Mia Wallace once starred in, a wink to a decidedly R-rated film slipped into a family comedy.

Which actor voices Two-Face, in a nod to his role as Harvey Dent in Batman (1989)?

Billy Dee Williams voices Two-Face, finally completing the transformation he never got to make after playing Harvey Dent in Tim Burton's 1989 Batman.

Who voices Catwoman in The Lego Batman Movie?

Zoë Kravitz voices Catwoman, a role she played in live action five years later in The Batman (2022) opposite Robert Pattinson.

Who voices the Riddler in The Lego Batman Movie?

Conan O'Brien. The talk-show host's Riddler is first on the Joker's roll-call of accomplices, a list so long and obscure that the hijacked pilot asks if he is making them up.

Who voices Sauron among the Phantom Zone villains?

Jemaine Clement. His Sauron is put to work as the Joker's all-seeing lookout over Gotham, and it is the great eye that spots Batman's team sneaking back in.

Which Doctor Who villains appear among the Phantom Zone escapees?

The Daleks. They keep their catchphrase, screeching 'Exterminate!' as they close in on Alfred, though the Joker introduces them only as something to ask your nerd friends about.

Whose voice does the Batcomputer, 'Puter, use?

Apple's Siri. It was the assistant's first big film credit, and around the release real iPhones played along, answering in character when greeted the way Batman greets his computer.

Which Marvel hero is referenced in the joke about Batman's Batcave password?

The Batcave password is 'Iron Man sucks', a jab at the Marvel hero that Batman says aloud to get the cave to open.

Which screen Batman appears in real live-action footage during The Lego Batman Movie?

Adam West. Alfred lists his master's earlier 'phases' film by film, all rebuilt in Lego, until he reaches 'that weird one in 1966', which flashes up as real footage.

Which Tom Cruise film does Lego Batman watch alone at home, laughing out loud at its big romantic line?

Jerry Maguire. He howls at 'You complete me', the very line Heath Ledger's Joker turns on Batman in The Dark Knight.

Which studio rendered The Lego Batman Movie, as it had The Lego Movie?

Animal Logic. Its animators kept the first film's jerky, hand-made look, which the director likens to fan-made 'brick films' and old stop-motion TV specials.

What tune does the doorbell of the Fortress of Solitude play when Lego Batman comes calling?

The Superman movie theme. The chime is the opening of John Williams's score, fitting for a Fortress copied from the Christopher Reeve films, crystals and all.

Producer Dan Lin welcomed talk of The Lego Batman Movie as a family version of which R-rated superhero hit?

Deadpool. Lin called the likeness a coincidence, since his film was already being made when that one came out, but admitted it was a great marketing hook.

Which sequel, opening the same weekend in February 2017, did The Lego Batman Movie beat to number one?

Fifty Shades Darker. Two years after the first film set a February opening record, the erotic sequel lost the pre-Valentine's weekend to a toy comedy, which held first place a week later.

Which horror hit ended The Lego Batman Movie's two weekends atop the US box office?

Get Out. Made for under $5 million, it opened above a film that cost $80 million and pushed the Lego caper down to second place in its third weekend.

In The Lego Batman Movie, the plane the Joker hijacks belongs to an airline named after which screenwriting term?

MacGuffin. The flight is McGuffin Airlines 1138, named for an object that exists only to drive a plot, with a number borrowed from George Lucas's first film, THX 1138.

Who performs 'Who's the (Bat)Man', Batman's boastful theme song in The Lego Batman Movie?

Patrick Stump. The Fall Out Boy frontman sings it in a growl close to the film's Batman voice, over a riff reworked from the theme of the 1960s TV series.

Which film knocked The Lego Batman Movie off the top of the UK box office after three weeks?

Logan. Promoted as Hugh Jackman's last outing as Wolverine after 17 years, it opened far ahead of the field, though the Lego film hung on in second place.

What was the cancelled sequel to The Lego Batman Movie tentatively titled?

The sequel was tentatively titled Lego Superfriends, pitting Batman and the Justice League against Lex Luthor and OMAC before the project was shelved.

Lego Batman's battle cry 'Let's get nuts!' quotes which earlier screen Batman?

Michael Keaton. His Bruce Wayne snarls the line at Jack Nicholson's Joker in the 1989 film; Lego Batman shouts it before launching into a song about kicking the villains' butts.

Lego Batman's story writer wrote a novel mashing Pride and Prejudice with what?

Zombies. Seth Grahame-Smith wrote the story, whatever Batman says: in the first teaser the hero claims the film was written, directed and 'painstakingly beatboxed' by him.

Which two actors reprise Superman and Green Lantern from The Lego Movie?

Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. Their Superman and Green Lantern turn up at a Justice League anniversary party in the Fortress of Solitude, a bash Batman only discovers by gatecrashing it.

Which Twilight Zone episode is referenced when gremlins attack the Batwing?

'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet'. William Shatner plays an airline passenger sure there is a gremlin on the wing, in an episode made long before the Gremlins films gave the creatures a face.

Which 1980s hit plays when Bruce Wayne first sees Barbara Gordon at the gala?

'(I Just) Died in Your Arms'. Cutting Crew's power ballad floods the soundtrack as he stares at her, a gag some fans read as a wink to the rom-com Never Been Kissed.

Who voices Lord Voldemort among the Phantom Zone villains?

Eddie Izzard. His Voldemort arrives hurling spells, conjuring a thunderstorm with a cry of 'Accio Lightning Storm!' as the villains chase the fleeing heroes.

Which Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt star voices Phyllis?

Ellie Kemper voices Phyllis, who shows Batman a montage of how badly he has treated Alfred, Robin and Barbara.

Which Adult Swim series had the director of The Lego Batman Movie previously worked on?

Robot Chicken. He directed the stop-motion sketch show and Moral Orel before moving into features, so a film whose whole cast is plastic toys was familiar ground.

Which villain did the director of The Lego Batman Movie want in its line-up but never get?

Annie Wilkes. He says he would have had Kathy Bates's Misery captor and the title villain of Kill Bill, but neither joined the monsters who do make it in.

Which film did the first teaser for The Lego Batman Movie play in front of in cinemas?

Batman v Superman. It was a pointed pairing in March 2016: a brooding superhero epic preceded by a trailer for the film that would spend its running time sending up that very style.

Which hit song plays over the first teaser for The Lego Batman Movie?

'Black and Yellow'. Wiz Khalifa named his hit for the colours of his home city, Pittsburgh; the teaser borrows it to score a highlights reel of a hero who wears the same two.

Which studio took over the Lego film rights in April 2020, effectively killing a Lego Batman sequel?

Universal Pictures took over the Lego film rights from Warner Bros. in April 2020; because Warner owns DC, a Lego Batman sequel could not move with them.

In The Lego Batman Movie, which orphan does a distracted Bruce Wayne agree to adopt at a gala?

Dick Grayson is adopted almost by accident, because Bruce is too smitten with another guest to hear what he is agreeing to. The boy is later let into the Batcave and christened Robin.

Which rock band's drummer plays on the score of The Lego Batman Movie, powering its opening sequence?

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, with the band since 1988, sat in on the sessions. The film's composer said his attitude behind the kit brought the whole opening sequence alive.

The voice of Bane in The Lego Batman Movie parodies which actor's turn in The Dark Knight Rises?

Tom Hardy played the masked strongman in the 2012 film, and comedian Doug Benson imitates his delivery for the Lego version.

In The Lego Batman Movie, which superhero team holds its anniversary party without inviting Batman?

Justice League members are marking their 57th anniversary at the Fortress of Solitude when Batman drops in and learns that Superman never sent him an invitation.

Which car maker unveiled a life-size Lego Batmobile in Detroit to promote The Lego Batman Movie?

Chevrolet showed the full-size Batmobile, made of hundreds of thousands of pieces, at the 2017 auto show, then put it in a TV advert and beamed a Bat-Signal onto the Renaissance Center.

Which Michael Jackson hit, co-written by Glen Ballard, is on The Lego Batman Movie soundtrack?

Man in the Mirror was written by Glen Ballard and Siedah Garrett for Jackson's album Bad, and it topped the American chart in 1988.

Which actor's Batman Returns villain inspired the look of the Penguin in The Lego Batman Movie?

Danny DeVito's sickly, sharp-toothed Penguin from the 1992 film is the model, down to the spotted tie, fluffy coat and army of weaponised penguins.

Alfred losing his grip on a plane in The Lego Batman Movie spoofs which Bruce Willis thriller?

Die Hard ends with villain Hans Gruber plunging from a Los Angeles skyscraper, a fall the butler re-enacts in Lego form.

Which sitcom aired a Lego version of its opening titles the week The Lego Batman Movie opened?

The Big Bang Theory swapped its usual titles for a Lego remake in the episode The Locomotion Reverberation, one of several television tie-ins arranged for the release.

Which Gotham institution do Batman and Robin break into to zap the Joker in The Lego Batman Movie?

Arkham Asylum is where the Joker is held after giving himself up, so the pair sneak in with a stolen projector and banish him to the Phantom Zone, which is exactly what he wanted.

Which hero's mantle does Barbara Gordon take up for the final battle of The Lego Batman Movie?

Batgirl is the mantle she adopts when Batman returns from the Phantom Zone, apologises to his team and asks for their help against the Joker.

Which sci-fi film villain and his clones join the Joker's Phantom Zone army in The Lego Batman Movie?

Agent Smith is the program turned virus from The Matrix, and his horde of duplicates are other people he has overwritten into copies of himself.

The composer of The Lego Batman Movie once assisted which composer on the Dark Knight trilogy?

Hans Zimmer's former assistant chose not to quote any earlier Batman film score, borrowing only Neal Hefti's theme from the 1960s television series.

Which directing duo behind The Lego Movie returned as producers of The Lego Batman Movie?

Phil Lord and Chris Miller wrote and directed the 2014 original, having earlier made Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and stayed on to produce its first spin-off.

Which pop star's songs filled the 1989 Batman film whose parade scene is recalled in The Lego Batman Movie?

Prince wrote the songs for Tim Burton's film, in which the Joker lures Gotham to a parade with the promise of free money, and the album gave him a number-one single with Batdance.

Before The Lego Batman Movie, Lego Batman appeared in The Lego Movie as the boyfriend of which heroine?

Wyldstyle starts the 2014 film as his girlfriend, and by the end the brooding hero gives her his blessing to be with Emmet instead.

Which Lego theme got its own film later in 2017, the next in the franchise after The Lego Batman Movie?

Ninjago reached cinemas in September 2017 as the franchise's third film, and the first cinema release based on an original Lego property.

Which Phantom Zone monster accidentally destroys Sauron with a fire blast in The Lego Batman Movie?

The Kraken, the sea beast from Clash of the Titans, is aiming at the Batwing when it hits its own ally, then slinks off as the other villains look on in horror.

Which villain poses as a pizza delivery man to get past a guard at the start of The Lego Batman Movie?

Scarecrow turns up at the gate of Gotham's energy plant in a delivery uniform and breathes fear gas on the guard, opening the way for the Joker's bomb plot.

Which Scottish composer scored The Lego Batman Movie, taking over from the franchise's Mark Mothersbaugh?

Lorne Balfe, who went on to score Mission: Impossible – Fallout, approached the job as a serious live-action film with Lego characters rather than writing typical cartoon music.

Which Pitch Perfect and Workaholics star voices the Flash in The Lego Batman Movie?

Adam DeVine, who played Bumper in the Pitch Perfect films, gives the speedster a brief turn among the heroes Batman finds celebrating without him.

Poison Ivy and Clayface in The Lego Batman Movie are voiced by the two members of which comedy music duo?

Garfunkel and Oates are Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, and Lindhome doubles up in the film as the Wicked Witch of the West.

Which obscure villain from The Lego Batman Movie was later played by David Dastmalchian in The Suicide Squad?

Polka-Dot Man has only a non-speaking cameo among the Joker's cronies, four years before the 2021 film gave the character his live-action debut.

Which minor villain in The Lego Batman Movie began as a one-off joke on Batman: The Animated Series?

Condiment King was invented for the 1990s cartoon as a brainwashed stand-up comedian with sauce guns, and only later did the comics adopt him.

Which villain in The Lego Batman Movie was created for the 1960s TV series, where Vincent Price played him?

Egghead never existed in the comics before the show invented him, a pale, bald mastermind in a white and yellow suit; in the Lego film he has a silent cameo in the Joker's gang.

The upbeat Robin of The Lego Batman Movie was modelled on which actor's version from the 1960s TV series?

Burt Ward's eager Boy Wonder was dropped into the Batmobile beside the grumpiest, broodiest Batman the director could picture, to see two opposite energies collide.

Which comic book series, where Batman debuted in issue 27, is referenced in The Lego Batman Movie?

Detective Comics introduced the Dark Knight in 1939, and a copy of that issue has sold for more than a million dollars; the film nods to it alongside decades of screen versions.

The Lego Batman Movie is said to unfold in the imagination of Bianca and which boy from The Lego Movie?

Finn is the boy whose imagination drives The Lego Movie, and a producer confirmed that he and his sister dreamed up this story too, though neither appears on screen.

The Lego Batman Movie was a co-production of the United States, Denmark and which other country?

Australia supplied the animation studio, which had also made The Lego Movie, while Denmark is the home of the Lego company itself.

Which Hollywood studio, owner of the DC superheroes, released The Lego Batman Movie?

Warner Bros. approved the spin-off in October 2014, one of a batch of Lego films ordered after The Lego Movie proved a critical and commercial hit.

Which European capital hosted the world premiere of The Lego Batman Movie, twelve days before its US release?

Dublin saw the film on 29 January 2017, before it reached Lego's homeland of Denmark on 9 February and America and Britain a day later.

The X-ray security scanner in The Lego Batman Movie resembles one from which Arnold Schwarzenegger sci-fi film?

Total Recall was made at the dawn of computer imagery, and its X-ray machine sequence was the main place the 1990 film used it.

The number 1138 on the plane hijacked in The Lego Batman Movie nods to which director's first feature film?

George Lucas made THX 1138 in 1971, six years before Star Wars, growing it out of a student film he shot at the University of Southern California.

Which US network gave four of its DC superhero shows Lego end cards the week The Lego Batman Movie opened?

The CW ran the cards after Supergirl, The Flash, Legends of Tomorrow and Arrow, and aired adverts in which Batman meets the characters of each show.

Which singer-songwriter wrote 'One', the song on The Lego Batman Movie soundtrack that Three Dog Night made a hit?

Harry Nilsson wrote it after phoning someone and getting a busy signal, and released it in 1968 before the cover version climbed to number five in America.

With more time, the director of The Lego Batman Movie said it might have become what kind of film?

A full musical, with more songs sung from the characters' points of view, is what he told Entertainment Weekly the film could have become with a longer schedule.

Which sister city of Gotham had Barbara Gordon cleaned up before the events of The Lego Batman Movie?

Blüdhaven is the city she cleaned up before the film begins, and as Gotham's new police commissioner she wants to make changes in Gotham too.

Which US Treasury Secretary drew ethics concerns for plugging The Lego Batman Movie, which he had executive produced?

Steven Mnuchin told an interviewer in March 2017 that parents should send all their kids to the film, then wrote to the government ethics office to say he should not have said it.

Which Zootopia voice actress plays the Joker's partner in crime in The Lego Batman Movie?

Jenny Slate voiced the villainous Bellwether in Zootopia and Gidget in The Secret Life of Pets the year before joining the Joker's crew.

The Penguin and Killer Croc in The Lego Batman Movie are voiced by men who held which job on the production?

Film editor John Venzon voices the Penguin and fellow editor Matt Villa is Killer Croc, and the third member of the cutting team, David Burrows, also plays a villain.