
The suit would eventually return with some changes in Batman & Robin, showing that Batman has always been ahead of his time.

I had no idea there was going to end up being all this buzz about it." I don't know exactly where my head was at back in the day, but that's what I remember. And, in the comic books, the characters always looked like they were naked with spray paint on them - it was all about anatomy, and I like to push anatomy. It wasn't fetish to me it was more informed by Roman armor - like Centurions. In a conversation with Mel Magazine, costume designer Jose Fernandez opened up about the suit, explaining, "With Val Kilmer's suit in Batman Forever, the nipples were one of those things that I added.

More recently, the designer behind the official batsuit in Batman Forever had a chance to explain the choice and the inspiration behind it, which obviously had an actual intention that wasn't just for internet jokes.
