Excellent! Another modern mystery explained!
If you've been struggling to come up with a plausible reason why Batman sounds so extraordinarily gruff and growly in Christopher Nolan's movie trilogy, YouTube user utubelor may have come up with the answer.
Could it perhaps be that Christian Bale was inspired by Cookie Monster?
No, wait! Hear us out! Watch the clip of Batman in conversation with Commissioner Gordon above. If you listen very carefully, you may be able to tell that the superhero's side of the conversation has been replaced by words from the cookie-guzzling Sesame Street star.
But, truth be told, it's incredibly hard to tell the two of them apart...
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