Holy Faulty Logic, Batman! NOT EVEN THE REAL NAME!

Holy faulty logic, Batman! Or more accurately, IN Batman. Batman, Turkey that is. In possibly the craziest lawsuit since the last episode of Eli Stone, a Turkish mayor is suing Warner Brothers and director Christopher Nolan for copyright infringement . . . on the town's name. And according to NationMaster.com, the city of Batman isn't even really CALLED Batman!

Batman, Turkey, is actually just a shortening of the full title, Bat² Raman Mountains. Looks like someone owes Bob Kane/Christopher Nolan/Warner Brothers/everyone else, an apology.

According to Variety, Huseyin Kalkan is suing Nolan and WB on the grounds that his city's name is Batman, and thus the men behind such megagrossing films as The Dark Knight should pay up. Kalkan cites economic distress faced by his citizens, ostensibly when they apply for jobs and potential employers ask, "You're from WHERE?!" Kalkan told Variety, "There is only one Batman in the world," and accused the producers of "Batman" movies of using "the name of our city without informing us." The impetus behind this lawsuit may instead stem from the city of Batman's rising unemployment rate, rather than moral indignation.

The comic book character was dreamed up and put into reality by Bob Kane in the years leading up to WWII. The franchise hit it big on the small screen with the campy 1960s adventure series, Batman, and later moved into more morally amorphous, world of ambiguity between right and wrong, dark and light, with Tim Burton's 1989 imagining of the series, Batman. That film performed incredibly well, did wonders for star Michael Keaton's career, and didn't hurt Joker Jack Nicholson, either. This past summer, Nolan brought back the franchise with the sequel to his 1995 Batman Begins, this time titled The Dark Knight, starring Christian Bale and the late Heath Ledger.

Perhaps while he's at it, Kalkan can also sue the holiday Halloween, as this year's most popular Halloween costume was the Joker costume, from the most recent entry into the Batman series, Dark Knight.