The Batman fan plans to skip birth of his child to avoid spoilers

Muting hashtags on Twitter. Attending midnight screenings. Deleting social media on the week of its release? Many of us go to great lengths to avoid spoilers for the movies we know we're going to see... but one DC Comics fan plans on taking extreme precautions when it comes to The Batman.

On Reddit last week, a 25-year-old pregnant woman published a post that asked for advice regarding her 28-year-old husband, who is determined to see the film on the day it opens, despite it being their baby's due date.

"I know that only a fraction of babies are actually born on the exact due day but I have always been very regular on my periods and I have a feeling that I may be one of those cases," she wrote.

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"He says it is important to see the movie the first day because of spoilers and that, even if I end up having the baby that day while he is watching the movie, at worst he would arrive a few hours late and is not such a big deal," the anonymous poster continued.

"He says I am being irrational and emotional because of being pregnant. I am upset because I feel deprioritised by him."

The responses were, pretty overwhelmingly, supportive of the mother-to-be, as they agreed that her partner seemingly had "messed up priorities".

"You ARE being deprioritised by him. He considers the movie a bigger emergency," one user replied, as another admitted: "If my partner said that to me with a straight face, I would be preparing for the single parent life. That's downright delusional."

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Set to reach UK cinemas on March 4, The Batman stars Twilight's Robert Pattinson as the titular Bruce Wayne, Big Little Lie's Zoë Kravitz (as Selina Kyle/ Catwoman), Westworld's Jeffrey Wright (as detective James Gordon), Paul Dano (Riddler), Colin Farrell (as Oswald Cobblepot/Penguin), and Andy Serkis (as Bruce's butler Alfred).

According to director Matt Reeves, it's mostly inspired by Batman: Year One, the gritty four-issue comic released by writer Frank Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli in 1987, which sees a troubled, young Bruce navigating how to be a vigilante.

The Batman has a release date of March 4, 2022.