Strange news for DC fans is all over social media thanks to a retail listing that has reinvigorated calls for David Corenswet’s Superman and Robert Pattinson’s Batman to crossover. The idea has previously inspired an online fan movement, despite James Gunn debunking rumors more than once. In the absence of any firm information around the DCU’s own new Batman, the calls grew to a crescendo in late 2025, and now a confusing listing on Walmart has kicked it off again.
The Walmart listing for a Superman party set includes a pack of napkins featuring both heroes. A user on X also posted that he was able to buy the merch in a Walmart store despite claims that the original listing is only from a third-party seller fulfilled by Walmart. Presumably some have made their way into physical locations. The existence of the actual merch has prompted confusion online among fans:
@nightswayness @blurayangel GUYS FOUND IN WALMART pic.twitter.com/3LCUfNGStv
While a significant number of the responses to the various posts sharing the merch are rightly calling out the fact that it’s AI, it’s confusing that a retailer has them listed online and apparently available in stores.
Someone at Warner Bros is presumably going to be putting a call in to Walmart soon, because not only is the unofficial artwork infringing on copyright, it’s also clearly pretty bad AI. Batman isn’t the only issue: Superman’s neck has two giant slices out of it, and he’s missing his trap muscles, thanks to the removal of his cape. And then there’s the giant eyes hidden in Batman’s cape. That’s the thing with AI: pick at it even a slight amount and it generally falls apart.
So while the idea of Pattinson’s Batman and Corenswet’s Superman combining is morbidly fascinating – because they’d be the very definition of an odd couple – this is no indication that the fans’ dream merger between the two DC branches is close to happening. James Gunn has – more than once – told fans that it’s unlikely the characters will meet, and while progress on the DCU’s own Batman project is conspicuously absent at the minute, there’s nothing to suggest it won’t happen.
Once more, in the age of AI, it bears repeating: don’t believe everything you see online. Even from seemingly reputable sources. Scrutinize.
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