In a dark and dangerous bar on some far-flung backwater planet, a weary bounty hunter saddles up to the counter and orders a drink. She’s played by Cate Blanchett. Her name... doesn’t really matter. One hand lingers inches from her futuristic sci-fi pistol, the other keeps a firm grip on her prisoner, an anonymous criminal with a bag over his head who’s wanted for unspecified space crimes. We never learn what this guy did, but it doesn’t matter. A few minutes later he’s dead, and our bounty hunter has moved on to the next job.

This opening scene of Borderlands (actually the third scene following two that are brutally heavy on exposition) feels like a perfect encapsulation of Eli Roth’s new video game-inspired sci-fi blockbuster. Motivations don’t really matter, the characters are paper-thin, and the plot moves at the speed of a gamer rapidly clicking their way through dialogue to get to the next level. On the other hand, it’s impossible to cast Cate Blanchett as the star in an action epic and not have it be at least a little fun to watch; and in an age of CGI slop, Borderlands gets points for crafting a vibrant post-apocalypse setting. It’s just a shame it all adds up to Guardians of the Galaxy with worse jokes.

Bruce Wayne sits opposite Harvey Dent at a luxurious, white-tablecloth restaurant. They banter like old friends, but there’s a hint of boyish rivalry just beneath the surface, and also, deeper down, something darker. It’s a moment comic book fans are immensely familiar with: a tête-à-tête between Batman and Two-Face, but in this latest rendition, something feels different.

After teasing his transformation from ambitious district attorney to schizophrenic supervillain throughout the season, Batman: Caped Crusader finally takes the plunge in its eighth episode. When Harvey refuses to cover for a Gotham City crime boss, he ends up with a face full of acid. Bruce invites him out to dinner to cheer up his friend, but his ulterior motive is to figure out who was behind the attack. Pushed too far by Bruce’s line of questioning, Dent makes a scene as he loudly removes his bandages, revealing a take on Two-Face simultaneously more subtle and more terrifying than anything we’ve seen before.

“That's one of my favorite scenes in the whole season,” Caped Crusader head writer and comic book legend Ed Brubaker tells Inverse.

But for Diedrich Bader, who voices Two-Face in Amazon’s new animated show, that scene carries a very different memory, one muddied by the death of a close friend whose name has been associated with Batman for over three decades.