Question: Why was the mayor wearing so damn much eyeliner in every scene?

[theweaselking]

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[eididdy.livejournal.com]

Answer: Because he's Batmanuel.

Oh so pretty.

[lafinjack.livejournal.com]

And it made him feel pretty.

[cyprinella]

Oooooooooh that's who he was? It was driving me nuts!

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

He's also on Lost, which is something that I've been meaning to watch.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

That doesn't explain why he's wearing so much makeup.

The guy from LOST?

[ninjaguydan.livejournal.com]

Probably left over residue from when he played Xerxes in "300"...

-)

[atlasimpure.livejournal.com]

The same reason the old school BatMask has EYEBROWS.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Old batman was stupid. The mayor is from new batman.

[eididdy.livejournal.com]

Sure it does. He's Batmanuel, ergo he can do what he wants. That sounds like an answer to me.

No?

Ok then.

I don't know why he was wearing so much eyeliner. I've heard it's something that the actor does in more than just DK, so maybe it's a personal preference. That better?

[hadesflower.livejournal.com]

i just thought it was because he was expressing his emo side

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Maybe he thought the mayor of Gotham had to be a goth.

But none of this explains why they let him on the screen in a condition where he *could not* have been elected.

[hadesflower.livejournal.com]

I dunno, maybe his eyes get so washed out from flash photography that his pr people make him constantly wear makeup so that he shows up well in print...or we can just go with its Gotham City

[redtheda.livejournal.com]

I was totally wondering that too. I thought "maybe he just has dark eyelashes" but no, I think you're right...

[iblis-kukl.livejournal.com]

[the-colombian.livejournal.com]

That guy wears eyeliner in EVERY role he plays. Even in LOST...on an island...the guy looks like Jared Leto after a live gig.

[kakita-tsuna.livejournal.com]

IMDB says he just has very thick and long eyelashes.

Re: The guy from LOST?

[clinkerfiasco.livejournal.com]

He didn't play Xerxes..

[drjamez.livejournal.com]

Even mayors enjoy feeling pretty.

...and classic Adam West Batman ROCKS, especially when riding a pachyderm.

(Holy shit-dropping circus attraction, Batman!)

- James -

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure he was. He is a repeated guest in Lost, and I had the same question there too. Even in scenes where him looking/feeling pretty has no purpose (and rest of the castaways look like, well, sun/wind-blasted castaways) he has those eyes. So I guess they are natural, after all.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

His IMDB page shows many pictures of him without the makeup. It's makeup.

The question is, *why*.