Will Arnett’s Caped Crusader here with Channing Tatum’s Superman in the new Lego Batman Movie is one winning tough guy. COURTESY OF WARNER BROS.

So many men have inherited Gotham’s dark cape and cowl that “The Lego Batman Movie” doesn’t even have the most well-known plastic incarnation of the character. No, that dubious honor goes to 1997’s “Batman & Robin,” in which director Joel Schumacher unleashed a molded, infamously rubber-nippled suit that George Clooney was forced to live down, in a critical bomb so bad that it plunged the entire franchise into an eight-year deep freeze.