Warning: Contains Spoilers for The Flash movie.While multiple superhero actors are turning to roles they’d long departed, Christian Bale’s Dark Knight return - and with it, perhaps, he and Christopher Nolan making Batman 4 - remains a near-impossibility. When it comes to Batman, Bale casts a shadow so large the Dark Knight could fight his entire rogues' gallery in it. The Dceu was never fully able to escape it, due to various issues plaguing the movies starring Ben Affleck’s Batman, so it took until 2022’s The Batman to truly offer up a version that could truly take up the mantle left by Bale and run with it for a new solo Batman trilogy. Still, there will likely always be talk of a Bale return.

That’s increasingly the case as more actors return to their iconic roles. This includes the likes of Tobey Maguire as Spider-Man...