Beause that's the only way he's going to leave the batcave dressed in that. I don't understand why Mattel keeps force-feeding its consumers these ridiculous variant repaints. And even if you are going to present a variant, at least adhere to the stasndards of the Dark Knight. The other variants such as the night patrol Batman are actually quiet good. Don't buy this for yourself or for you kid. No matter, how young they still know Batman is not gonna dress like that. It's gonna wind up on the bottom of the toy bin.