When the Joker's henchman places a time bomb inside the Batmobile, he sets it to go off at midnight. … In "Critters", not only does Farmer Brown take revenge against Gotham for shutting down his projects and forcing him and his daughter to go broke, but for calling his experiments "monsters". "Batman Displays His Knowledge". "Catwoman's Dressed to Kill". Temple Fugate developed an obsessive, murderous grudge against Mayor Hamilton Hill...because when he was a lawyer, Hill suggested Fugate take his coffee break a little later to help him relax for a lawsuit against his company, which resulted in a series of accidents making him late, which resulted in him losing the suit. In much the same way. would spontaneously materialize on-screen as colorful cue-cards. But then there are some tropes — like these 10 common ones — you can't overlook. Even Catwoman and the other female villains (as well as older villains who wouldn't be expected to be physical) stand back and let the Mooks do the fighting. Included in this album is a picture of Bruce Wayne & Harvey Dent (A reproduction of their groundbreaking at Stonegate Penitentiary in "Pretty Poison") and a picture of Ivy and Harley Quinn (A reproduction of their team-up in "Harley & Ivy"). Her body is never recovered and Batman says he "doesn't think she'll be bothering us anymore", so he considers her to be dead. Mister Freeze, as played by Otto Preminger. Batman has Alfred plant a Bat Homing Transmitter in the hat of the last juror so he can trace the Mad Hatter's location when he steals the hat. Summer Gleeson was a recreation of Vicki Vale, a reporter and love interest from the comics. The Joker, particularly when he enunciates "Batman and Robin" (probably due to the fact that the actor playing him was Hispanic). "The Spell of Tut". Candace, Rupert Thorne's associate, is his right-hand in almost all criminal activities. When the man survives and finally works up the nerve to confront his tormentor, Joker threatens to kill his family. In "Marsha's Scheme of Diamonds", Commissioner Gordon and Chief O'Hara believe without a shade of doubt that Marsha has turned Batman and Robin into toads (which is actually a trick done by her ventriloquist henchman). Just try to sneak attack Batman from behind. When the villains capture them, put Batman on trial and force the DA to serve as his lawyer, she ends up defending Batman and he later returns the favor. mainstream news stories about comic books. "Sid the Squid," in "The Man Who Killed Batman." At one point in "Christmas with the Joker," Joker (who is hosting a TV show) ends a scene with "But first, a word from our sponsors!" Whenever an episode focused on Roland Dagget, this exchange would usually occur: Batman will almost always disappear inexplicably when talking to Gordon, who then expresses his confusion. "The Joker's Hard Time". After a successful year of publishing Batman stories in Detective Comics (Volume 1); DC started publishing "Batman" in the Spring of 1940. She doesnt change her indifferent expression. Catwoman when she's a villain. Lyle Bolton is meant to be seen as a hard-headed conservative nutcase with his rant about the inefficient politicians and the "liberal media" being the cause of the superpowered psychos. It came handy in the third season. The episode, Poison Ivy somehow managed to afford a gigantic mansion with its own power plant and extensive grounds in order to set up a fake health spa for one episode... complete with a staff of women loyal enough to kill on her part, Sometimes Batman and Robin took turns in this role (With Robin sometimes giving. J. Carrol Naish played the villain, an original character named Dr. Daka. A policeman chases them off, as this is a crime scene. Head producer Bruce Timm — who also took on other roles — carried his design style over into other shows, thus making Batman: The Animated Series the first entry in the fully-realized canon known as the DC Animated Universe. In 2013, DC announced Batman '66, a digital-first comic based on the series, with license to the rights for all the actors on the show, and written by Jeff Parker of Aquaman and Marvel's Agents of Atlas; it ended in 2015 with print issue #30. In "the Foggiest Notion", Batman throws a barrel at one of Lord Fogg's henchmen. Mainly, her villainy and general craziness is due to a combination of. the entire point of the entrepreneur cashing in on Joker's image was that he, ducks before the shots are fired at his staged assassination. King Tut throws a switch to lower Batman (who's in a sarcophagus) into a pool of water using an. As the title suggests, the series is an animated adaptation of the adventures of the popular comic book character Batman. Two most shocking examples were when he absorbed Batman, and we see Batman's silhouette flailing around inside him, and almost not making it out alive, and when he, So the Ventriloquist has a split criminal personality manifested as a, Any time we had to see the Joker without his pants on. Shame's moll Oakie Annie averts this; she has a gun, like the rest of Shame's gang, and during the first fight with Batman, she contributes heavily to Shame's victory by shooting a chandelier that drops on Batman's head. Why doesn't anything exciting ever happen to me? After Batman breaks Bane's venom pump mechanism, his muscles begin to get. She saved the flower before trying to kill him, anyway. Before 1966, he had only appeared in three stories total, two of which were in the 1940s. The series codified the definitive portrayals of its cast of characters in the minds of fans and the general public to an extent previously achieved only by the 1966 live-action series, most notably with Mr. Episodes featuring Catwoman altered the phrase to "Same, The cliffhanger of the Minstrel episode had the Dynamic Duo roasting on a spit. Vertigo's laboratory in "Off Balance" isn't quite as elaborately equipped, but its shiny glass apparatuses are even more completely incidental to the plot. The opening to "Almost Got'Im" and throughout the episode are full of them. The Joker in particular has this as a gimmick. Gotham is watched over by a new Batman. Batman puts it well: "Only you would ruin three lives for a silly piece of tin.". Mark Hamill as The Joker refined this into, In "Harley and Ivy," Ivy loudly proclaims that ", In "Blind as a Bat", the Penguin has stolen a highly advanced stealth helicopter and is threatening Gotham for ransom. This is a reference to George Orwell's novel. In "Joker's Favor," Joker uses this to mess with the poor bastard he has been stalking for two years. "She" began to giggle...and then her squeaky laughter became more like that of Jabba the Hutt as. No one, even the aforementioned Olympian, seems to really notice that Bruce Wayne is built on approximately the same lines as a dumptruck. In "Joker's Flying Saucer" his gang are all named after different shades of green. I. Played straight when Harley Quinn asks this verbatim in "Mad Love". As such, I don't think this entry about Adam West in … Lock-Up has a similar origin and motive, but appears infrequently, and Roxy Rocket has only had one or two appearances since her first adventure. based his own performance of the Riddler on. In "Feat of Clay," Batman must clear his name when Roland Daggett blackmails Matt Hagan into posing as Bruce Wayne to get important evidence against Daggett away from Lucius Fox. Possibly the most well-known thing about this show are the cards with sound effects that appeared when someone landed a big hit. Mary Louise Dahl, was an actress who was born with systemic hypoplasia, a rare condition which kept her from ever aging, meaning that she spent all of her life looking like a little girl. talking to the snowglobe that contains a statue of his late wife, beating back a gang of bullies who are trying to mug him using only his umbrella, will not tolerate anyone else thinking that, either, Harley Quinn plays "Amazing Grace" on kazoo, Pulled right out of the comic it was based on too, Barbie and the Rockers: Out of This World, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Last Ronin, UsefulNotes/The Renaissance Age of Animation. Lord Ffogg also has a propensity for this. Freeze's latest crime, you can see several kids run up to the snow and start playing with it. On top of that, the villains never stick around to make sure Batman and Robin actually die! Many comics fans also consider the show to be responsible for tainting an entire medium in the eyes of the general public; to this day, mainstream news stories about comic books are likely to have headlines like "Pow! In "Growing Pains," happens to Tim Drake after Clayface absorbs Annie, causing Tim to brutally attack Clayface. Trending pages. In "Harlequinade", Batman recruits Harley to catch Joker before he blows up the city. In "The Ring of Wax", Riddler is careful to deactivate the Batmobile security system before driving it away. Though mentioned in the 1960s, he first appeared on panel in the comics during the Steve Engelhart/Marshall Rogers run in. The Batmam (or simply Batman) is a 15-chapter serial released in 1943 by Columbia Pictures. A character sheet for characters appearing within the Rocksteady Studios-produced Batman games; Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City. King Tut finally appeared in the comics in 2009. In "Joker's Favor," Charles Collin's drivers license can be seen with an expiration date of 03-17-95. In the comics, Jason Todd (whose origin story was embroidered a bit for this Tim) suffered a bad beating from the Joker wielding a crowbar as a prelude to his death. This is also one of Batman's own methods; he does this often when caught by surprise, allowing him to defeat his enemy or, should the situation become too great (it happens, but rarely), retreat to fight another day. Not being big fans of the comics, they hit on the idea of lampshading and parodying the over-the-top tropes of comics and the square humorlessness of superheroes. His re-imagining from a one-note gimmick villain was so acclaimed that his new, tragic backstory was. There are arguments over whether the production order or broadcast order is better. To everyone else the Joker's snarling pet hyenas are a menace; to her, they are her "babies.". However just as he shoos them away the kids pelt him with snowballs. Despite being insufferably pompous, self-righteous, megalomaniacal, and a genocidal lunatic, he is a brave man, exposing himself to danger even though most of the time he is a frail old man; he refuses to see himself as a victim, and, Catwoman. (This only applies to the show; Batman: The Movie has no such issues.) ", a mook with a machine gun opens fire on Batman and Montoya at close range. Also in an overhead shot in "Love Is A Croc" as Killer Croc holds her upside down by one foot. If he does not receive the pelts by midnight on that day, the ownership of the city reverts to him. Three law enforcement officials in "Christmas with the Joker", including Commissioner Gordon and Bullock. "The Penguin's A Jinx". In Shame's first appearance, one of Shame's accomplices says to Batman, "You wouldn't hit a man with glasses, would you?" The legacy of Batman: The Animated Series is difficult to overstate. The Batman of today is drastically different from the one in 50s comics. Batman points out that the man isn't wearing glasses and proceeds to punch him. Cut to Alfred sitting in Maggey's car as they drive off to the spa. Batman: TAS's brief venture into primetimenote It aired Sunday nights against 60 Minutes and got annihilated in the ratings showed off its well-known edgier themes, pushing the limits of what had been acceptable in Western animation (notably, sparse application of The Hit Flash, use of Censor Decoys, and overt use of realistic — if unlikely — guns, rather than dubious stand-ins). Killer Croc generally uses the sewers of Gotham as a hideout and means of stealth travel. Harley Quinn. Summer Gleason in "Christmas with the Joker" and "Night of the Ninja". Batman: Damned is an American comic book published by DC Comics.The three-issue limited series, written by Brian Azzarello and illustrated by Lee Bermejo, began on September 19, 2018 and concluded on June 26, 2019.The series experienced numerous delays throughout its run, with the third issue being rescheduled a total of five times. It's made all the better by the fact that Victor Buono is one of the. By the time of. Unlike the creepy but sympathetic portrayal of the character in other continuities, David Wayne's Mad Hatter is a humorlessly vicious psychopath who tries to flay Batman and Robin alive to make hats out of their bodies and then attempts to burn the flesh off of their bones with concentrated radiation. Most of his plots involve some new invention of his, such as a box that controls time and a way to emulate an alien invasion. Also from "Almost Got 'Im", after Two-Face expresses a desire to kill Ivy, Ivy quips to the other villains, "We used to date." Episode "Ma Parker". While the Dynamic Duo are fighting King Tut's goons, a goon throws a barrel at Batman but hits King Tut instead. In "Shadow of the Bat," Commissioner Gordon is accused of being an employee of Rupert Thorne, Gotham's ranking mob boss. Usually when a villain does this it is either temporary or a fake. Done in-universe in "The Penguin is a Girl's Best Friend", where The Penguin is directing a movie set in Ancient Rome, yet Batman and Robin appear in the film in their usual costumes complete with their usual gadgets. Freeze soon became the definitive version of that story. Ironically. And Bruce proposes to Susan on their. Instead of owning up to it, he evidently swept it under the rug so well that he was almost given a humanitarian award without anyone even bringing it up. Once again, Langstrom doesn't do anything with them, but at least this time, they don't get smashed. When he points out that, Two-Face, Mary Dahl and Clayface (in his case, also a. Riddler has one just because Batman will not tell him how he survived a seemingly perfect deathtrap. There is no evidence he knew about the endangered flower. The girl in "Legends of the Dark Knight" is modeled on Carrie Kelley, the Robin from, The fourth child in "Legend's of the Dark Knight" is an. An inversion occurs in "Beware the Creeper": A villain (The Joker) creates his own hero (the Creeper). This happened when they both guest-starred in the three-part. Producer William Dozier and head writer Lorenzo Semple, Jr. were assigned to create the series. Batman, probably even more so than his mainstream counterpart. One of the Puzzler's henchmen pulls one to activate a shower of balloons on the Dynamic Duo, which allows the Puzzler and his henchmen to escape. Averted in "On Leather Wings." Harley & Ivy was another tie-in miniseries released in 2004 and based around Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy. Jack Ryder is set up as the regular news reporter in, Harley Quinn went through extensive therapy and treatment for her, The Penguin decided to abandon crime one day when he was released from Stonegate, deciding that he never wanted to return to jail again, but when he learned that the woman he began to fall in love with was only spending time with him to mock his uncultured ways he relapsed into villainy. The first alluded to story portrays Batman as a giant pterodactyl, the second is a brightly lit homage to the Batman TV series and The Silver Age of Comic Books, the third (never seen) version is a contempt-filled reference to The typical gun moll in the series typically stands around during the fights like a complete ninny. When Robin wonders why he would take such a risk, Batman explains that for him it is not about the money, it is an obsession. In the early 2000s, West and Ward (again joined by Gorshin) portrayed cartoonish versions of themselves in the CBS movie Return to the Batcave: The Misadventures of Adam and Burt, consisting of a modern day plot to find the stolen Batmobile mixed with flashbacks to the events behind the scenes of filming the series in the 60s. Zap! Among other things, the movie's larger budget provided the Dynamic Duo with some additional vehicles that stuck around for the remainder of the TV series (by recycling footage from the film): the Bat-Boat, the Bat-Copter, and the Bat-Cycle. When the Penguin sees a camera observing him in a prison cell, he says "Goodnight, Big Brother" and pokes it out with his umbrella. Four completely different Licensed Games based on the series were released in 1995 for the Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis, Sega CD, and Game Gear, all titled The Adventures of Batman and Robin. After Thorne reveals she led him to Two-Face, under the pretense of a police chase, Harvey walks away from her. His actions clearly become criminal when he assaults Victor despite Fries having already backed down, and his command to pull the plug on Nora is nothing short of heartless, but his complaint is valid. At the end of the episode, Catwoman falls off a building into a river. Freeze: Sub Zero. The series managed to become something of a cultural icon, but it is also partly responsible for the general public's dim view of comic book writing and comics in general today, as even at the time comic book writing was taken far more seriously. Minor villain Roxy Rocket also gets this to a certain extent. She targets Bruce when his company was planning on tearing down a forest for building space...except Bruce had, And in one hilarious scene in "Fear of Victory", Batman intercepts a telegram believing that it is a fear-toxin laced letter sent by Scarecrow to make the recipient unable to play at his best. Tropes are bound to show up in anime; it's unavoidable at this point. Arkham Origins: Batman has defeated Black Mask and his assassins, ingratiated himself with the police, and managed to... Arkham Asylum: Batman stops Joker and prevents Gotham from destruction by TITAN. ", Unsurprising, as the show's creative team grew up on comics from the '70s/early '80s, where Thorne. Harvey Dent appears twice as a heroic character before becoming Two Face, and in his first appearance he is even shown flipping a coin. Am. Just before a fight between the Dynamic Duo and the villains, Batman throws an electric switch to turn on the lights in the room. The resulting product, revolutionary for its time, was dubbed "dark deco"; it was also the result of co-producer Eric Radomski's standing order to the animators that all backgrounds be drawn with light colors on black paper (instead of dark colors on white paper, as is the industry standard) to ensure that the artwork stayed as dark as possible. Many enjoy it for its sheer farce and surrealism — or for its nostalgia value — but at the same time, many modern Batman fans consider this Batman to be the opposite of the Batman they know and love. The establishing shot is an extreme close-up of the villains' hands and includes the Joker pulling an ace from his sleeve (while saying he wants a clean, fair game), and Two-Face pouring Half-and-Half into his coffee. Its also worth noting that the jet powered batwing can't outrun (but can out maneuver) the bulky retro-tastic helicopters that are popular in Gotham. Not to mention the fact that all the villains can get their hands on or design weird gadgets and can assemble deathtraps. Note that every episode released on DVD has been released under the Batman: The Animated Series name, even when it was originally aired under a Retooled name. Batman (TV Series 1966–1968) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The episode also ends with "Same Time, Same Channel". Meanwhile, Barry Dennen plays a Mexican, Double-subverted by Victor Buono, who was American but was fairly convincing as a supposedly British history professor - but, in his alter ego of King Tut, would sometimes lapse into stereotypical American, "Same bat-time... same bat-channel!" This is compounded by Harvey Dent's transformation into Two-Face, which cost him a personal friend and crime-fighting associate, and which he views in same light as his parents' death. "Be a Clown": Mayor Hamilton Hill (who despises Batman) appears on television claiming that Batman and the Joker are equally as bad. The Dynamic Duo, the Caped Crusaders, etc. Averted with the Joker. Not only does he single-handedly beat the Joker at Wayne Manor. And he even does it referencing the way he claims Batman created him, throwing someone into a chemical vat: "If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich?" But his 1965 revival story caught the eye of the TV producers, who made him the series' first. In "Mudslide," Clayface reveals the first name of his accomplice when he shouts... Fictional example, Batman based the layout of the Batcave on his superhero idol ", "Legends of the Dark Knight." Also, while it's not officially part of the DC Animated Universe, the 2009 video game Batman: Arkham Asylum is (in some ways) considered a Darker and Edgier spiritual successor; Paul Dini returned to write the script, while Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill, and Arleen Sorkin (Harley Quinn) reprised their characters from the original series. Or in just his sleeveless undershirt. Batman himself uses this tactic on no fewer than five separate occasions; victims include the Penguin, Two-Face, and the Mad Hatter. Then in part two, they escape the death trap, pummel the bad guy's minions, and defeat the villain and turn him in to the authorities. Just..."Heart of Ice". "Harley's Holiday" has General Vreeland. I am not a disgrace. Used in-universe by The Archer. In "Marsha, Queen of Diamonds", the titular villainness gets Chief O'Hara under her spell via a love potion. Catwoman is tied to a conveyor belt in "Almost Got 'Im." Christmas with the Joker ". Most of the episodes took place entirely in Gotham City, although Batman and Robin occasionally ventured to other cities and even other countries. sometimes assisting Batman, sometimes working against him. A belly dancer (famed dancer Little Egypt credited as Herself) was part of the Penguin's mayoral campaign show in "Hizzoner the Penguin". By demonstrating everything you need to know about Batman in less than 30 seconds. Batgirl was added in the third season in large part for this. There's only one man worthy of playing the Riddler's game. A rather blatant one of Johnny Cochrane shows up as one of the Joker's lawyers in "Joker's Millions." There are bank accounts in his name, tickets to Rio de Janeiro to flee the country and he is broken out of jail by criminals who explain that Thorne never forgets his friends. Other than being one of the better known Batman adaptations, Batman the Animated Series has its ample share of tear-jerking moments, both on the Hurting Hero himself as well as plenty of his adversaries. The man promptly changes his name and relocates his family to Ohio, but Joker obsessively stalks him and finally tracks him down, forcing him to honor the favor owed to him. Many villains have one female henchperson who provides nothing else to the plot other then eye candy. This occurred in "Harlequinade," where Harley was helping Batman find the Joker. Lock-Up and Roxy Rocket are more minor immigrants. She ultimately performs a sincere. First and foremost, the show had an immediate and gigantic impact on the Batman franchise— arguably greater than the Tim Burton films— that persists to this day. Often, the villains make the mistake of assuming the Dynamic Duo have perished in a death trap and stunned when they show up alive. Also, Arnold Wesker, when he's finally free from Scarface. He appears fully transformed into Killer Croc some issues later. She and the show were wildly popular, but as the series got older, the ratings dwindle… Morbidly obese (The voice-actor acually ate while recording his lines to give the proper feel for the character) and running an actual slave labor camp, where he has his men kidnap homeless men off the street to work in his mines. Poison Ivy's deliciously curvy body melting down into a puddle of steaming green goo. He's easily the series' nastiest villain. Batman: The Telltale Series is a 2016 episodic point-and-click graphic adventure video game developed and published by Telltale Games and distributed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment under its DC Entertainment label. Killer Croc's last name is "Morgan", not Jones. Actually not Ivy herself, but a plant-based clone she had used as a decoy to escape. Also applies to Catwoman, who if she used her intelligence productively (or, let's be honest, became a model or movie star with her looks) — or even simply give up crime and married Bruce Wayne — could easily become as rich as she desires. As a psychiatrist working at Arkham Asylum she was a naive and reserved doctor, inexplicably drawn to the Joker and hoping to eventually cure his rampant insanity. He was redesigned again for other DCAU works because of it. Joker finds this comparison so insulting that (disguised as a party clown) he crashes a birthday party held at the mayor's estate for his son, Jordan, and attempts to blow up Jordan's birthday party (along with all the guests) with a stick of dynamite in the cake. During the fight with the Joker and his henchmen, Bruce Wayne (Batman's secret identity) throws a small barrel at a henchman. It gets a little unbelievable when even Aunt Harriet, who lives with Bruce and Dick, doesn't even suspect a thing when they walk into the house, and give her a kiss for her birthday. ", "Whoever he is behind that mask of his...", "Stately Wayne Manor, home of millionaire Bruce Wayne and his youthful ward Dick Grayson.". All this because of a minor altercation on the freeway. Three fashion executives in "Mean Seasons" are tied up for judgement from Calendar Girl. He said he would send Charlie home, not send him home ALIVE. Premiering on January 12, 1966, as a mid-season replacement, the series featured actor Adam West as the perennial character of Batman, while Burt Ward donned nylon stockings and fairy boots for his portrayal of the erstwhile sidekick, Robin.The show was noteworthy for its memorable use of onomatopoeia during climactic fight scenes. In the Scarecrow's first appearance, Batman checked a list of places where the villain could have acquired the chemicals used for his crimes. Gotham's new District Attorney blames Batman for the city's problems. Barbara Gordon initially appears only as Commissioner Gordon's daughter, Grant Walker, a character played by Daniel O'Herlihy, has decided that things are too rough and wants to implement a new city to replace an old society, but is willing to destroy the old one first? Multiple ricochets spark off the wall behind them but neither of them are hit. The partnership/friendship/, Arguably the second most popular immigrant would have to be Mister Freeze's reimagining as an, Detective Renee Montoya is an interesting conundrum; though created for the show, because it took so long to produce the episodes she actually appeared in the. Tropes Media Browse Indexes Forums Videos Not so much with Alfred, though he does have his moments. "Better Luck Next Time". In the episode "Mad As a Hatter," Tetch asks Alice if she remembers the Mock Turtle's song, reciting "Will you, won't you, will you, won't you... won't you join the dance?" For the DCAU as a whole, there's the fact that Gotham seems more like a retro-futuristic version of the 1940s, with people wearing period fashions and hairstyles, rather than the "modern, but fancier" look of, Likewise, Batman in the early episodes is not quite the grim, super-serious gruff, Harley Quinn made her first appearence here, and is a lot different from how she would later become. The final "window cameo" was by Cyril Lord, a well-known British floorcoverings distributor of the time, who got a moment in the Bat-spotlight (using his nickname of "Carpet King"), after selling TV producer Howie Horwitz a fine Persian rug, and did so at a discount in exchange for his time onscreen. All of the other planes in the series use propellers. Catwoman falls into what Batman says is a bottomless pit, and he says that she probably went straight to the bottom. In the background of society events, a fair number of the ladies will be wearing fancy gloves. No one seems to do the math that the two men are almost always together, just as Batman and Robin are. Mayor Linseed was a takeoff on the name of the mayor of New York City at that time, John Lindsey. (Or footicuffs, since as noted above she was limited to kicks.). Occasionally subverted, as in the Liberace episode, where a strong bare bulb in police headquarters is labelled "Subtle Interrogation Lamp", Almost everything in the Bat Cave had a label on it, especially with.