Bat, Cat and Bane, Hanging on the Wall...

The Avengers? So last month. Spider-man? HAH!

ALL RISE FOR THE NEW MOST-ANTICIPATED MOVIE OF THE YEAR:

And as if that new Dark Knight Rises poster wasn't enough to get me excited over all things Batman already, they went and release SIX, yes SIX new character posters featuring the three main characters in the movie.

First up, Batman looking as moody and brooding as ever:

And the very scary looking Bane:

Yup, banish that stupid, dumbass, idiotic brute of a Bane from Batman Forever err... forever from your minds, for this is Bane at his most sinister and most chilling yet.

The clincher for me though, is of course... CATWOMAN:

I'm not convinced by the mask though. But hey, it's Anne Hathaway. In a leather catsuit. Straddling a BATPOD. A BATPOD. HOLY PRINCESS CATWOMAN, BATMAN.

Holy Cathaway, Batman! Yellow Spandex is Back!

In what has got to be one of the greatest casting decisions ever (or at least the most hubba hubba-worthy), Anne Hathaway has been cast as Selena Kyle aka. Catwoman in the upcoming Dark Knight Rises.

Not convinced? Here's a look at her... er, catty potential:



Hubba hubba. Look out, Batman, your little Dark Knight is definitely gonna rise.

Oh, and Tom Hardy's gonna be Bane. Judging from how scrawny he looks in Inception, he's DEFINITELY gonna need to beef up a little.

Oh, and while we're at it, here's a first look at the First Class... the X-Men: First Class, I mean, courtesy of Empire Online, who got it from MSN in the first place:



Goodbye black leather, hello yellow spandex.

The two in front are Magneto and Professor X, BTW. As for the rest.. I can recognize Mystique, Beast, Emma Frost... but that's it. Apparently Azazel and Havokare there as well, and Angel's a chick now. Hmm.

I have to say though, for a gal named Emma FROST, that girl sure is HOT. And in January too. Hur hur hur.

Here's another look at the White Queen, along with the Black King of the Hellfire Club, Sebastian Shaw (played by Kevin Bacon!):



For more pictures of the X-Men in plainclothes, go HERE.