All Comic Books Are Batman

"It is not a comic book movie. Romantic comedies are supposed to be grounded in realism." —Sozly at the Movies' review of Marry Me (a movie based on a webcomic)

"Man, Road to Perdition is such a great movie!

What do you mean, "it's based on a comic book"? No, that can't be right...where are the lasers, then? The aliens? The people in tight leather costumes?".

Simply put: this trope is for the all-too-common assumptions that comic books are nothing but superheroes (ESPECIALLY from DC Comics and/or Marvel Comics).

On the one hand, this means comic book movies, especially those from 2019 onwards, don't suffer the same Periphery Hatedom if they don't have superheroes. On the other hand, the actual non-superhero comics then to be overlooked by the general public (unless they are licensed comics), and of course (as the opening paragraph demonstrates), people would refuse to consider movie adaptations of those comics as "comic book movies".

Examples of All Comic Books Are Batman include:

• As the page quote demonstrates, Marry Me got hit with this trope, especially since webcomics are much less known to the general public than print comics.
• The opening paragraph is on point regarding Road to Perdition. Especially since people don't understand that it's a Recursive Adaptation: it's a movie based on an American comic that was inspired by Lone Wolf and Cub, the movie is NOT a direct adaptation of Lone Wolf and Cub, despite what Common Knowledge often claims.
• Linkara is pretty big on this trope. His show tends to favor superhero comics over non-superhero ones, and DC and Marvel tend to get preferential treatment.
• Th3Birdman as well. He rarely pulls his "the books do matter" shtick on movies based on non-superhero comics (or movies based on non-DC/non-Marvel superhero comics), and his Did it Suck on Alita: Battle Angel all but outright states that he's only interested in superhero comics from DC and Marvel.
• In The Nostalgia Critic of Underworld, Doug referred to the movie as "a comic book movie without the comic book".
• When people talk IDW, they either talk about their licensed comics, or they talk about the superhero properties they inherited from other publishers.
• Despite the vast majority of his work being non-superhero work, his superhero works are the first (and sometimes only) thing that comes up in discussions about Alan Moore.
• A History of Violence is rarely acknowledged as a comic book movie.
• When talking about Kevin Eastman, the fact that he created the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles tends to overshadow his contributions to Heavy Metal magazine.
• European comics get hit pretty hard with this trope. Snowpiercer, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, Old and The Smurfs (both the TV show and all three movies) are hardly acknowledged to be based on comic books, and Tintin and Asterix are niche mostly because they are not superhero comics.