Justin Bieber as Robin?!

ustin Bieber as Batman’s little chum?
Bat-fans, who are already furious at the notion of Ben Affleck as their beloved Dark Knight, got another shock when pop star Bieber suggested he might join Affleck in the upcoming flick “Batman vs. Superman.”
His role? Robin the sidekick.
On Sunday, Twitter was abuzz over the prospect.
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Ben Affleck has been cast as Batman in “Batman vs. Superman.”
A few Bieber fans wished the 19-year-old crooner the best. But the sentiment was overwhelmingly against the idea of Bieber as the Boy Wonder, at least online.
“God, please let it be a hoax!” tweeted @koderkev, offering what was a recurring theme.
“Hopefully he’s kidding,” tweeted @allinson smith.
As Twitterer @jrheiling wrote, “The only things that can defeat Superman are kryptonite, magic, and putting Ben Affleck and Justin Bieber in his movie.”
Bieber’s a huge Batman fan — his father even bought him a customized Batbike for his 19th birthday.
On Friday, he posted an Instagram photo of what appeared to be a copy of the movie’s screenplay and added “#Robin” as the hashtag.
The cover paper even had a “Bieber’’ watermark on it, suggesting it was his personal copy. But was he fooling?
Hours earlier, he tweeted that he was “Off to do something funny . . . or die .”
Actor Burt Ward played Robin in the campy 1960s “Batman” television series that starred Adam West.
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