Reacher's Alan Ritchson admits he wants to be a big, beefy Batman

Amazon’s resident ass kicker Jack Reacher isn’t all that far off from being a superhero as-is—especially not as played by Reacher star Alan Ritchson, a man whose biggest issue, most of the time, is making it look at least halfway plausible that he could lose the numerous bloody brawls his character gets into. So it’s not all that surprising to hear that Ritchson has some genuine superhero ambitions of his own… even if his hero of choice is, if we’re being honest, a little hard for us to imagine.

“I want to be Bruce Wayne!” Ritchson declared in a recent (very cute) interview with THR, when asked the frankly absurd question of whether he’d want to play Batman or The Joker. (We can’t even begin to imagine the latter; just doesn’t fit in our brains.) And, yes, it’s very easy to draw parallels between Reacher and The Batman—both of whom fight with their brains as much as their fists, and have a very liberal attitude toward hospitalizing people who make bad decisions re: trying to shoot them. There’s a natural fit there, undeniably—and yet we can’t help imagining Ritchson-as-Dark-Knight emerging from the shadows for the first time…and hearing “Holy shit, is that giant, mega-buff billionaire Bruce Wayne in a bat costume?”