According to Variety Director Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros. are being sued by Batman. I know, “What?” But it’s true. Apparently there is a Southeastern city in Turkey called Batman, and they are suing Nolan and company for royalties from the ridiculous amounts of money The Dark Knight made.

I shit you not:

Huseyin Kalkan, the pro-Kurdish Democratic Society Party mayor of Batman, has accused “The Dark Knight” producers of using the city’s name without permission.

“There is only one Batman in the world,” Kalkan said. “The American producers used the name of our city without informing us.”

The mayor is prepping a series of charges against Nolan and Warner Bros., which owns the right to the Batman character, including placing the blame for a number of unsolved murders and a high female suicide rate on the psychological impact that the film’s success has had on the city’s inhabitants.

A spokesman for Warner Bros. stated that they have yet to see any actualy legal action against them and have only heard about it from the press as the rest of us have.

I wonder if this douche bag mayor is aware of the army of high-priced lawyers he is more than likely going to go up against… good luck with all this buddy.