Oh man well that line became a reality we sadly lost Batman rest in peace Kevin Conroy (November 30th, 1955-November 10th, 2022).

@@abramsullivan7764And Hamil has since decided to retire from the role, since he no longer has Kevin to act against. Which is such a Joker thing to do!

Just shows how much love and attention to details was put into this show.

The gray ghost is basically the shadow, a old radio hero from around the 40s that inspired Batman to being with. He also has one cheesy movie.

Also also, the actor character was basically an autobiography of Adam West himself after the Batman role.

@@bigdoubleu117 Luckily West got some love by leaning into his persona and Seth Macfarlane basically handing him a paycheck for years. Macfarlane actually had a rule that they were to make no Batman jokes using West.

That was such a great tribute to Adam West.

In a way though I do like how the post-BTAS takes actually let her be more than just the Joker’s battered girlfriend. The series even toyed with having her reform or be her own person only to ALWAYS hit the reset button on any characterization she would get because status quo. I like her in BTAS too but I like how newer stuff lets her grown and change outside the Joker’s shadow.

Agreed, there are some developments with the character In recent years that I like, such as her and poison ivy becoming a romantic couple, but I feel like a lot of times they just try to make her "Female Joker!" Harley Quinn is so much more than that.

@@galactic85 Yeah, her and Ivy are good together, and I like the Harley Quinn cartoon. When I say flanderization, I'm mostly referring to movies and some comics.

That's because she has been. They tried to make her into DC's Deadpool, but that's gone over like a fart in church.

@@SamtheBravesFan I mean, to be fair, I hate Deadpool as well.

Maybe the reason we can't get good Batman anymore is because you don't mess with perfection.

And then Batman Beyond goes a proves this statement utterly correct.

There's never a reason to dehumanize anyone, especially if they aren't hurting anyone.

I agree with both of you. Btw im not ashamed to admit it I've had a breakdown. Can you guys give me any pointers?

@@mattjacobson3616 I don't think I have all the answers you're looking for, but I think one of the most important things to keep in mind is that you need to keep in mind that you need to focus on you, and not what everyone else thinks the solution is. I know that's pretty vague, but it's all I've got. Other than the fact that people have been where you are before and there are a number of people who can help.

Mentally ill people are still threated as lesser people and discriminated by society still. There are only handfull of countries and people within who see them as much of human as everyone else.

Not to mention I think Batman does a fairly decent critique the system that fails those without power. Without crap Gotham is it's a wonder anything gets done.

I hate how in the DCAU Justice League they overdid it with making him the most competent man in the room everytime.

@@Nightman221k do you mean the justice league cartoons?

@@velvetdarksoul8741 yeah, they had episodes where you could tell the writers were focused on making him more capable in any given situation without much struggle, not like in BTAS where he did have to struggle to outsmart his enemies. I kind of get the reasoning since he’s the only one on the league without otherworldly powers and he needs to be shown to contribute but the focus on him it seemed like a bit of favoritism. Especially when they paired him with Diana and it really became the most noteworthy relationship she had, which was kind of a let down when I thought her villains and supporting cast were rarely given focus and she felt like a League addition rather than being able to function as a star of her own show. And the romance was added when it was already set in stone that it would never lead to anything since the Batman Beyond show set it up that he would end up a lonely man.

I wonder what will Robert Pattinson's Batman will be like in the upcoming movie they showed that he doesn't care about being Bruce Wayne he's more a Batman and he started to let that side of him take over I wonder if we go see him be more kinder and shows his empathy in the movie

​@Nightman221k tbf it'd be difficult to show Batman vulnerable in JLU simply because as you said they need to compensate for the fact that he's just a human

That's not wholly true. Adam West's Batman is where the name "Mr. Freeze" came from, and the 60's series also gave him a sympathetic motivation for the first time: Being tormented by the life his condition forced on him and wanting revenge on Batman, who inadvertently caused the accident while foiling one of his crimes. Heart of Ice builds on that - to be fair, quite significantly.

@@bf5250 there was also an old story from like...the 70s, where the pre TAS Freeze was trying to turn a woman he loved immortal like him, but she was just using him, it's pretty good, it's called "A Cold Time In The Old Time Tonight"

Obviously yes.

Yes OK absolutely

Damn skippy!!

Or better

I'm not going to watch the video, but this comment should be pinned at the top.

It's my favorite version of Batman because you could tell he was still human instead of a meme. Even in Justice League they leaned into it unfortunately.

@@Horatio787 I think Justice League's version of him was still pretty good and human overall (an episode like This Little Piggy showcased that so well, and we see Batman slowly softening with the team as the show went on), even if there was stuff like Batman avoiding the Omega Beams from Darkseid in the finale.

@@matheus5230 He's still good, he just lost the softness that made TAS character so rounded.

To be fair, if I remember correctly, he basically doesn't know about that and Two Face is a wanted fugitive. It's more of an accident than anything.

@@Horatio787 It would have looked pretty evident what Clayface was doing. At least ask some questions before getting upset about a lousy break in, Batman

@@Horatio787 Batman's reactionary behavior was just uncalled for if you ask me, and there were better ways to handle the story of Clayface overall

Agreed. Mudslide is a huge misstep. One of the weakest episodes in the show.

For me, it is Mr. Freeze's intro episode Heart of Ice, where he stop freeze from killing people, but the distain in Batman's voice when the CEO Freeze was after thanks him, just that whole "I stopped him from killing you, but that doesn't make you a victim", knowing the whole reason the CEO was going free was because of his own self imposed code.

I have had the pleasure of watching this series for the very first time as an adult who is 24 years old. This show was out before I was born in 1998, but it consistently has been my favorite batman adaptation that I have seen so far. Every episode, even the "less good ones" have ben so amazing to watch! I love this series so much!

Tbh I miss episodic shows .. people this days just shit on this type of story telling to a point that's series that began as episodic where forced to be not(looks ate the mandalorian). doing an awesome episodic show is really hard I say because you need a really strong cast of characters and enough imagination to give them new plots to play whit

That's why I was thrown off. I have the entire series on DVD and I find it odd that the episodes on the first disc are rather random. The show doesn't have a "first episode" that helps introduce the audience to this world like Attack on Titan for example. There's even a random Christmas special with Robin, even though he wasn't there at the beginning. However, when that episode was being made, it was probably December in real life That being said, I don't regret owning this at all. Blessed!

@@DrDolan2000 Hope I can find the last two dvd volumes where I live. I am glad I could find the first two (with Danish language), but the others are nonexistent.

I just can’t believe it is you that you

Such a shame that the live action couldn’t live up to the animated series. Thinking about it now I really don’t think we deserve the DCAU. Because it does everything that the live action adaptations of DC sort of fail to do.

@@osmanyousif7849 I feel like DCAU and the MCU are on equal terms as far as the quality of the characters and storytelling goes. DC live action? We're lucky to get the few good movies we get and they're mostly all Batman.

@@johnb2422 ohhh I would definitely say that Marvel has done a waayyy better job with their MCU than DC has. Right now, Marvel is trying to find their new footing after Endgame but man, when Infinity War came out. It still holds that same sort of quality I had back when I first watched

@@johnb2422 i STARTED WATCHING IT ONE week and 4 days ago and iam now on episode 29. It is great so far. When i was a kid i had watched some episodes on tv.(iam 34 now).

@@Spider-Complexion i STARTED WATCHING IT ONE week and 4 days ago and iam now on episode 29. It is great so far. When i was a kid i had watched some episodes on tv.(iam 34 now).

Personally I like that Batman becomes more uncaring. It shows us that he slowly became Batman and started discarding the Bruce Persona more. The more he took on crime, the more he became Batman and pushed away the responsibilities of Bruce. It's also this that allows the shows to play with ideas like Robin getting fed up with Batman's shit. They show that him leaving to become Nightwing made Batman realize how cruel he had become towards criminals so he instead helped the criminal he was brutally interrogating by giving a job at Wayne Enterprises. Superman likewise helped Batman see things differently when they teamed up to stop Joker and Luthor. I feel like the showrunners knew what they were doing by changing up Batman's character. Cause it felt like they wanted to break him down to build him back up. But I can definitely understand why people would find this shift in character off-putting. I think it's just a nice opportunity to explore a Batman who has stared into the abyss too long.

They didn’t “rework” his character in the new adventures of Batman tho. If you paid close attention you’ll realize Batman is a few years older, hell dick Grayson is now nightwing and not robin anymore. In the new adventures, Batman istired of fighting the same guys seeing the people murder and cause grief. His harder and less forgiving nature in the new adventures is because he’s been doing this shtick for years now. It’s realistic that he has less patience’s then he did when he first started in Batman tas. It all combines into the themes of Batman beyond the final installment of this Batman trilogy where he gets to old, still doing same super hero thing and does something he vowed to never do “use a gun” so he retires. Also Harley Quinn’s development wasn’t “back peddled” she’s literally insane she has Stockholm syndrome that’s why she keeps coming back to her abuser “the joker” even in the episode where she helps Batman and denounced the joker she comes back cause she’s literally more twisted than the joker himself.

I agree he still the same Batman from the animated series but he's much more order and more darker we see that he doesn't pull any more purchase anymore he is less caring because he's more Batman than Bruce Wayne and season 4 but in Justice League we saw the Batman from the animated series we see him becoming more caring again more human again being around Superman and Wonder woman and all the other heroes he shows sympathy and he does care a lot about his teammates and he becomes a better version of himself being around the other League members and we start to see his relationship with Wonder woman starting to grow into something more than friends he started to have feelings for her and she started to have feelings for him

I don't think that's necessarily true. we still see the same compassionate and heartfelt Bruce from these episodes later on, specifically in the episode "Double talk" which is sadly the only canonical instance I can think of where a villain reforms.

And worse, when people like Zack Snyder and Christopher Nolan portrayed him as a fascist that many socialists, such as Vaush, claim that he is. Now that wouldn’t be a problem if they were seen as non-canon or a an alternative take on the character but, because they were portrayed in film, which is the medium that gets mainstream attention and becomes our culture’s lense, many normies and public view believes that is the real character of the Batman and can’t see him as a hero but, some rich white kid who goes around punching people just for being either poor or mentally ill. And to make matters worse for Batman’s image, everytime you see websites that shows recommendations for people who wants to start reading comics, they always recommend Elseworld stories that deconstructs superheroes and portrays them as horrible people, like the Dark Knight Returns, and The Boys. This is why I believe that people nowadays hates superheroes and think of them as “cops with capes.”

How did you manage to do it so slowly. I promised myself not to do more than 2-3 episodes a day but in some cases the temptation was big (especially if they ended with to be continued :D)

Roger Smith is the batman of his Universe.

Went to the comments just to see if someone else commented on this.

Although, would have been nice to hear more of Batman TAS's soundtrack in the video, at the very least during the parts where he was talking about it. I assume its soundtrack is more likely to be copyright claimed?

Considering how many episodes the series had to quickly churn out in little time, as was a common demand for all TV shows back then, the quality of the episodes can be inconsistent for a modern viewer, and some people may not like the lack of an overarching story arc. But when the show clicks, it really clicks. At its best, it's truly a masterpiece. The high points are so high, influential and definitive for Batman and his villains that I can easily overlook some episodes that might be clunkers here and there. And let's not forget the awesome artstyle, music and voice acting!

@@matheus5230 joker fish comes to mind even if it did give us Harley but over all the show was amazing and gives all the emotions.

i STARTED WATCHING IT ONE week and 4 days ago and iam now on episode 29. It is great so far. When i was a kid i had watched some episodes on tv.(iam 34 now).

@@matheus5230 i STARTED WATCHING IT ONE week and 4 days ago and iam now on episode 29. It is great so far. When i was a kid i had watched some episodes on tv.(iam 34 now).

@@gracecookie4604 i STARTED WATCHING IT ONE week and 4 days ago and iam now on episode 29. It is great so far. When i was a kid i had watched some episodes on tv.(iam 34 now).

Seconded

I haven't seen any evidence that Nolan even watched the show. The similarity in those two lines you mentioned is probably just a coincidence.

@@galactic85 chances are, Goyer (writer of TDK trilogy and comic book writer) watched it

I think The Batman seems to be going in that direction based on the ending. The scene where he leads the survivors out of the flood is one of my favourite Batman moments of all time

@@TheSenateOfficial I was genuinely shocked that happened. In a good way

Batman Beyond is my favorite. I love it. Terry might actually be my favorite Batman.

i STARTED WATCHING IT ONE week and 4 days ago and iam now on episode 29. It is great so far. When i was a kid i had watched some episodes on tv.(iam 34 now).

@@galactic85 i STARTED WATCHING IT ONE week and 4 days ago and iam now on episode 29. It is great so far. When i was a kid i had watched some episodes on tv.(iam 34 now).

@@galactic85 i STARTED WATCHING IT ONE week and 4 days ago and iam now on episode 29. It is great so far. When i was a kid i had watched some episodes on tv.(iam 34 now).

Both the episodes Two-Face Part 1 and 2, as well as the episode Second Chance very clearly establish Bruce's remorse over Harvey's state. In all these three episodes, Bruce also constantly tries to reason with Two-Face first before fighting him.

I wish we could stop making Joker the most important Batman villain. He works, but I'm sick to death of him "defining" Batman.

I actually really enjoy Underdwellers and The Forgotten, purely because they felt real. They're not a crazy clown or an ice guy. They're child abusers, human traffickers, and slavers. It's a real evil, that happens every day in our world. When the Underdeweller guy screamed at the kids, I remember being so angry, just like Batman.

@@ayoutubewatcher2849 See No Evil is a great small time story that feels very real albeit taking place in a heightened reality

I thought the reason he stopped was due to Viacom copyright striking the project.

@@R0-83-RT yeah, Viacom's the worst

That's good. For me unfortunately I wasn't even born yet when the show aired in 1992.

Worst villain to date