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" The internet was not happy when they learned of Ben Affleck&amp;#039;s appointment as Batman. It was even more than your run-of-the-mill daily outrage. Weeks later, an online petition urging Warner Brothers to renege on the decision is still building close to 95 thousand signatures. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s not remotely close to an action star or a superhero,&amp;quot; the petitioner declared. &amp;quot;Please find someone else.&amp;quot; Unfortunately, that statement is exactly wrong. As it turns out, Ben Affleck is closer to being a superhero than any other leading man. As it turns out, &amp;quot;someone else&amp;quot; would fall short in one important Batman category. &amp;quot;Someone else&amp;quot; would not be able to say that he dropped $50 grand to have a batcave entrance installed in his house. Ben Affleck can. Revealed by longtime friend Kevin Smith, real-life-comic-book-character, director, and now owner of the house in question, there is a hidden button that, once pressed, causes a bookcase to swing open a-la-Bruce Wayne, revealing a secret man cave. &amp;quot;If you&amp;#039;re going to have Pearl Harbor, Armageddon type money, build a fking Batcave entrance in your house,&amp;quot; the Jay and Silent Bob director approvingly told Entertainment Weekly. Smith added that Affleck has always loved Batman, and this passion for masked vigilantes was what prompted him to take the role of Daredevil in what became one of the most critically panned, or at least openly mocked, superhero movies in recent memory. Affleck&amp;#039;s homage isn&amp;#039;t the only Bat-replica out there, of course. This guy has a $2 million home entertainment area that is a perfect replica of Bruce Wayne&amp;#039;s subterranean lair, and this guy remodeled his basement in the same fashion. Unfortunately, domestic situations, or at least future domestic aspirations, stifle most such Gotham architectural fantasies. But fear not, you can have your cake and eat it, too, with this fully -- functional Batmobile. Free shipping included. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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