Everyone is talking about Robert Pattinson's stellar performance in Matt Reeves' The Batman this week - the movie has done major numbers at the box office, and many are calling this new iteration the best Batman yet. This new, moodier, younger Bruce Wayne has won the hearts of a whole new generation.

All this praise comes despite the fact that early naysayers predicted that, based on Pattinson's previous role in the hit teen romance saga Twilight, the film would never live up to the standards set by Batmen that came before him - but even putting aside the fact that Pattinson has starred in several moving films since Twilight, those people were clearly not paying attention.

Here are eight uncanny parallels between Val Kilmer's Bruce Wayne and Robert Pattinson's Edward Cullen.

Rich orphan who everyone thinks is charismatic and intimidating

Cullen and Wayne both have more money than they know what to do with, which makes them seem all mysterious and cool to the people around them - even though they're really just very smart and very awkward.

Also, they both lost their parents before adulthood, stunting them mentally and emotionally - although in Edward's case, a lot of that stunting also has to do with the fact that he got turned into a vampire when he was 17 and his brain is therefore stuck at 17 forever.

Major awkward virgin vibes

Has absolutely no idea what to do with a girl who likes him, so he just runs away. (Or tries to scare her off.)

Seriously, dudes, a woman - who you do find attractive - literally THROWS herself at you, and all you can think about is avoiding her. You're peas in a pod.

This bedroom scene

He comes to her window in the middle of the night and just starts full-on making out with her. The only difference between these scenes is who cuts off the kiss.

The man arrives in a speedy car to efficiently kick butt and go

Batman has the Batmobile; Edward Cullen has his Volvo. Both capable of complex maneuvers in which their cars somehow move sideways. Both clearly equally menacing.

The way he tells Robin "you still have a choice"

The speech that Bruce Wayne gives to the newly orphaned Dick Grayson after he finds out he's Batman is so similar to the one he's always giving Bella about turning into a vampire, it's eerie. These guys are both on the "it's not a life I'd choose for myself" train, and are determined to keep the people they love from going down the same dark path as them to become a creature of the night.

This just makes us hope that Pattinson's Bat (The Pat Bat, if you will) gets to team up with a new Robin in one of the next movies.

Tries to be controlling in order to protect Robin

When Dick (predictably) goes rogue and becomes Robin anyway, Bruce tries to pull the same stunt as Edward did in New Moon when Bella was determined for him to turn her: He disappears.

Granted, he's Bruce Wayne, so he can't actually fall of the face of the Earth - but for a moment it looks like he's about to retire the Batsuit in order to protect his young ward, which is kinda the same as Edward disappearing for Bella. (Thankfully Alfred does a better job talking him out of it than the rest of the Cullens did with Edward.)

The theme of "paying penance for a crime you didn't commit" is there

Dr. Chase Meridian is pretty unhinged in the entirety of Batman Forever, but she does apparently know her psychology, because she hits the nail on the head for Bruce when she says Batman is paying penance for some great sin - and like Edward Cullen when he tries to run away and do vigilante vampire justice by only drinking the blood of rapists, it's a crime he didn't really commit.

They're sort of both apologizing for existing, in a way.

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Melanie/Enstarz

Admittedly, this one is a little gratuitous, and doesn't really count, but still. They're both real hot.

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Robert Pattinson, Val Kilmer, Matt Reeves