I always liked the end of Bane. I think it did a better job saying "Don't do drugs" than any piece of animation ever did.

They forgot about the time traveling guy who is forever lock in a infinite loop of his wife yelling at him

The guy in Batman Beyond that phases through objects, and then ends up phasing to the center of the earth is the worst. That scared the hell out of me as a child. It was something I actually dwelled on about how terrible it would be to do that and be totally helpless

What about Mister Freeze? Not only is it the standard, “trapped in a cold suit” fate, but he becomes a disembodied head and is even tortured by the fact that he can never be with his wife after she’s cured.

"How much is a goodnight sleep worth? Now THERE'S a riddle for you!" -Bruce Wayne

My favorite episode is when Batman simply sits with Ace. He's given the means to neutralize her and is told to do so but all she wants is his company, she knows she's dying. Instead of doing what Amanda wants he sits with the poor dear. It was a powerful episode and really shows Batman's character. Hits you in the feels when she expresses sadness that the people she gave powers to didn't play with her, they were too preoccupied with greed. All Ace wanted was some sense of normalcy before she died.

If I remember right, since this was broadcasted as a kids TV series, the creators weren't allowed to kill any of the characters. Therefore, they had to get really creative and stated that they often had to come up with fates worse then death since they couldn't actually kill anyone.

There was also the fate of Ian Peek, from the Batman Beyond episode “Inside Peek” where he phases through the planets crust and sinks to its core. Now he would eventually die from lack of food/water, but he would still be trapped inside the Earth until then

I love when batman orders the coffee and smashes the windscreen to stay awake

The DC Animated Universe is such a gem.

10 was repeated in Batman Beyond with Inque's daughter who, after trying and failing to kill her mom, realizes that a potentially immortal shape-shifting assassin now has a personal vendetta against her.

Tigris: Spends the rest of his life alone on a remote island. Being forgotten and eventually having a sad, lonely death. 😿 Cheetah: Running around commiting crimes, making out with Batman, and not being killed by Grundy due to an animation error. Living life. 😼

Batman beyond is still amazing today

It’s crazy! Bane’s fate in Batman Beyond always plays out in my mind. Also a good lesson on how roids destroy your body in the end.

Wasn't there a Batman Beyond episode with a villain that could phase through anything but he slowly loses the ability to control it and gets pulled alive to the center of the Earth.

Uh...What about Mr Freeze in Batman Beyond? Trapped as a conscious, bodiless head for decades, brought back to normalcy for less then a week, only to burn to death...even if we're discounting the death there, I would rather age as a drug addict then have my living head kept in a storage closet for generations

Adding on to #9: the comics revealed that Clayface's last encounter with Batman ended with him being mixed into a vat of cement and turned into a statue of the Gray Ghost.

I loved Batman Beyond. The body-horror aspect of the show always struck me as the fascinating, if tragic, outcomes of many of the DC Universe's many hero and villain lives.

I knew the earth monster from Batman Beyond would be on the list. That thing was terrifying

The one with riddler is similar to inks daughter situation. Her tricking her mother into injecting herself with a destabilizer chemical and teaming up with batman to beat her. Batman (being tricked to fight ink) warns the daughter that ink probably wasnt dead and what she would do if she ever comes back. Episode ends with the daughter sitting alone in her room scared of a drop of water running down a glass of water on her desk with ominous music playing. lol Always gave me the creeps

DC Animated Universe Fates Worse Than Death being cancelled on a cliffhanger and completely forgotten, Zeta Project

That one gossip reporter who keeps phasing all the way through the earths core from Batman beyond was pretty wicked. The episode was called sneak peak

Shoutout to “His Silicon Soul” where HARDAC created a perfect Batman replicant and the replicant finding out he isn’t an actual human being. “Do you remember the last time you had a really good steak.”

One that I think could’ve made the list was the episode of Batman Beyond where a guy was made intangible and was able to phase through things. The ending is him phasing down into floor, and it’s implied he just kept falling.

A couple I didn't see that I think are worth mention: BBeyond "April Moon"-Gang of punks get cyborg upgrades, but betray the doctor. Doctor gets final revenge (fade to black). BBeyond "Heroes"-3 heroes show up patterned loosely after the Fantastic Four, only to end up dissolving into magma and vapor. JLU "Hunter's Moon"- Aftermath of the Thanagarian invasion; it's revealed that one of the hawk people suffered permanent brain damage at the hand of Martian manhunter.

Seeing Bane (the man who broke the Bat’s back) in that condition is beyond terrifying

We don't talk about Constantine because... well, he'd have his own top 10 list.

I miss batman beyond. I felt like the cartoon of my age never took off the way I wished it did. Then again I'm sure that is how most people feel about things they enjoyed.

I'm surprised you didn't include the guy who became intangible and was falling to the center of the earth.

There’s plenty of furries who would beg to differ about being turned into an anthropomorphic cat person by itself being a bad thing. Now being turned into said anthro against your will is a whole different matter.

No Chronos? He gets trapped in a permanent time loop by Batman, constantly beaming back to the moment when his wife goaded him into using his time belt for more than petty theft. Also, I'd've replaced Omniferious (#8) with "Heavyman" Koenig, also from Static Shock. He's the overarching villain of SheBang's (admittedly forgettable) story arc, who ends up using a flawed version of the process that created her to give himself uncontrollable absorption powers. At the end of his episode, he's become so dense that he's no longer mobile, and likely spends his remaining time on Earth sucking air through a high-pressure hose just to survive. Or you could go with Madelyn Spaulding, whose brain gets fried so hard in her rematch with Static (a brain that he already cooked once, to the point that her telepathic abilities get changed to telekinetic ones for her comeback) that she suffers permanent brain damage, to the tune of being a mental toddler. It's worth noting that she's a teenager when that happens, so . . . yeah.

They forgot the guy who could phase through solid objects

This is what I loved about the DCAU, it was able to address adult topics and still say it was for kids. You don't see this in modern day cartoons. We need to bring this back in modern cartoons.

Actually, there are about 7 different versions of Clayface over the decades but Matt Hagen is no doubt the most well known

I liked their continuity of story lines into other shows years after Like when the living doll chick turned up in Static Shock Or the Epilogue of Batman Beyond in JLU

The DCAU is more realistic than Snyder's "realistic" DCEU

My favorite was Tim Drake turning into the Joker, that always scarred me when I was younger.

I remember the last scene Batman had with Tigris. Bats was convincing Tigris to leave the island with them. Batman: There's nothing left for you here. Tigris: There's nothing left for me anywhere. That left an indelible impression on me because I was young and had a very rocky relationship with my father. I somehow sympathized with Tigris that's why the scene stuck with me even though I have only seen it once.

Doctor Destiny doesn’t remain a vegetable. He’s seen as a member of the Legion in JLU but is unfortunately relegated to the background. Also, is nobody going to mention Felix Faust?

One you missed was the snake spirit posessing the heroes in JL "Eclipsed" to black out the sun. But the creepiest one was at the start when the soldier got possessed by the spirit to shoot his teammates dead and buried them in a cave - the poor guy had no memory of what he did, and he faces terrrorism charges, murder charges, espionage charges and spending the rest of his life rotting away in solitary confinement with absolutely *zero* chance of ever walking free (and that's IF he didn't get the death penalty), all for something that wasn't his fault.....Let that one sink in Also, another one from Batman Beyond. What later became of Payback/Kenny in the comics. That was pretty gutting too....

Getting dissed by a Boy Batman before your death is pretty jacked up!

Wow, a lot of Batman Beyond. One I can think was involved Inque's daughter living in fear of her mother, due to pretty much robbing her blind and actually trying to kill her. With the episode ending with Inque watching in the background, making people question if she actually took revenge, or is just tormenting her daughter for a long while.

What about The guy that sunk in the ground propably ending up in the eath's core and Firefly villian that ended up heating to much?

From Batman: The Animated Series to Justice League, the DCAU often ventured into dark territory.

I like to think that the women taking care of aren freed him, And then he was able to control his transformation and he tried to get revenge on inq

How about the timetravel villan Chronos, Justice League Unlimited. He got trapped in eternal Groundhog Day

So he kidnapped the second robin tim drake Jason: I think you mean third...Just in case you forgot me

Number 1 on this list shows that Too much Venom can destroy your entire and mind. Bane knew the consequence of overdosing himself with Venom.

I love the line Batman gives Dr. Destiny when the villain is trying to torment him. Dr. Destiny tells Batman to give up because he doesn't have any powers Batman tells him "Oh I have one power, I never give up." After hearing that you know Dr. Destiny is screwed beyond screwed.

Worse fate then death? Being the crooks surviving that Giant Penny Smashing your body after a failed getaway.

Another great video whatculture you never cease to amaze the public on how much you can get from watching this when it comes to Quality and for information on comics

What about that time traveling thief who was stuck in a time loop where he argue with his wife by Batman in JL:U.

How is being a cat person worse than being a conscious dirt corpse? 🤔

So we're not going to mention Mr. Freeze and how his body degraded to nothing more than his head, and that he ultimately lived like that for 50 years while imprisoned until his consciousness (and affliction) was transferred to a new a body only for the whole process to start over again?

Croc: "You know what I think?" Joker: "Oh, not the robot theory again." Croc: "Well he could be!"

I dont know if anyone has said this but one of the worse things that could happen was in batman beyond in the episode 1 season 2 splicers just see what happens to the villain of that episode

The body horror really gets cranked up to 11 in Batman Beyond and it is awesome.

Technically speaking death in comics if u r a significant character doesn't matter much as pretty much everybody comes back to life. I'm not entirely sure if this counts as dying as the victim comes back but does the Omega Beam count since it resurrects the victim but each time their life gets worse. Clayface also had a really bad fate in the DCAU.

What about in JLU, the guy stuck in an endless time loop of being berated by his wife... sure maybe he deserves it, but what about the wife?

Frankly it was the best way to show "actions have long-term consequences" and the dangers of superpowers I can recall. All these villains had good reasons to feel the way they feel (expect Joker of course: Mark did good work making him irredeemable, especially after what he did to Tim) that we ourselves connect to. We like to think having superpowers would make our problems disappear: the animated series shows that's not how it works

Should've added Grant Walker from Batman "Deep Freeze" and Ian Peek from Batman Beyond "Sneak Peek" to this list.

That Ink episode still gets me. Reminds me on the ending of The Fly 2. Gruesome.

It's amazing how much good nightmare fuel body horror was created as a backwards way to troll / get around / obey the censors dictates of not merely killing people off. Some of these really traumatized young me back then. Awesome!

Just a reminder that clayface had a way to cure himself. He had a very limited moment of sanity to save himself, and batman stopped him...

Back when I watched Batman: TAS, the episode that really shook me hard was the Annie episode, in which Robin somehow falls in love with a part of Clayface who looks like a young girl (he calls her Annie because of her amnesia). At the very end of the episode, when Gordon asks Batman if there is any other charge to add to Clayface's crimes, Robin blurts out ‘Yes. Murder.’ That's because up until the very end, Annie would act like your average human girl. It really adds to the horror of Clayface's rampage when that monster finally gets to merge her back into him. True, the Return of the Joker final movie of Batman Beyond also had me shiver, but still. ‘Annie’ is pretty much the only episode that makes me consider Clayface as an insane criminal. Today, Clayface is mostly known for his funny Stephany character in the Harley Quin series, but when you know about the Annie story, it is *very* hard to read how loved Clayface is among fans.

Finally. Someone actually acknowledging that the static shock show existed.

I really love that you make videos on the DC animated universe I wish you could make one for solely for Batman beyond called top 10 most shocking twists and it deserves it.

An classic one you completely missed in Batman the animated series Mr.Freeze gave an old man the same condition he had only for him to be frozen in an block of ice for eternity while still being alive.

I thought the reporter guy failing through to the Earth's core was pretty bad. You know he's still alive.

I don't get it. Half of these are exactly the same fate; reduced to a non-functioning body. But Bane has high tech equipment to keep him stable and is living in a mansion with personal caretakers. So why is his fate considered worse than the guy who got melted and gets to spend the rest of his life in a little box being force fed by a creep?

Can you guys do a list of the most chilling or memorable lines from villains? Example: Blight: Who are you? Terry: You killed my father? Blight: Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?

Yes! I'm so glad you included Earth Mover!

There should be a part two to this list

Honorable mention being Darkseid taking the "Superman doesn't have to hold back" beating.

Thank you so much for talking about the bubbles saw it when I was super young and have thought about it for yeeeears such a nostalgia rush

How about Ian Peek's death? (Ep. Sneak Peek) He loses control of the belt that allows him to walk through walls and slowly sinks into the ground, until he gets buried alive and probably continued sinking until he reached the center of the Earth.

What about the guy who`s suit malfunctioned and he fell through the Earth in Beyond

What about the guy in the Batman Beyond episode April Moon. He ended up at the mercy of Dr. Corso, who initially gave him the weaponized prosthetic limbs. Corso realized that he and his crew used his girlfriend to seduce Corso and blackmail him. Not knowing that Corso found out about the deception he goes back to him at the end of the episode for more "upgrades".

20 years ago: "Ugh! How could a guy be into a ink monster. What a freak. " Now:"God I wish I had a monster GF."

Good one makes me wanna go back and watch these episodes

You guys forgot the villain in Batman Beyond that kept falling through the ground forever.

I remember the one guy in Batman Beyond that was turned into a A.I. and then something malfunctioned and his mind ended up reverting in age till his mind was unborn.

Not surprised that most of these come from Batman and Batman Beyond series

So Dr. Destiny has the powers of Freddy Kruger while looking like Skeletor? That's awesome!

#1 REALLY? Like don't get me wrong, it was a good episode... but why the heck isn't Mr. Freeze #1? Like he had one of the saddest back story's to any villain in the "Batman the Animated Series" and it broke my heart to see what happened to him in "Batman Beyond"!

Love Batman Beyond and it was because of the body horror element. Also seeing older characters of course.

The man who turned into a fully cognizant living corpse trapped nderground was by far the worst fate in my opinion.

Batman Beyond: turning untouchable, and the only force the can act on you is gravity so you are sucked to the center of the earth is pretty damn horrible.

I'm disappointed that you left one of the batman beyond one out. There was an episode where a guy can walk through matter (walls). At the end, gravity dragged him all the way down to the center of the earth. I don't think he died quickly because again he could walk through walls and matter

What about being frozen in time? I think I might be misremembering something here. But didn't Flash manage to catch someone in a way that his muscles and times slowed to almost nothing, but he could see and hear everything going on.

I have not seen these shows in forever and it was like a trip down memory lane...

man I don't remember static shock's animation looking that rough

I'll admit, I usually have to skip the last three minutes of that JLU episode with elderly Modred being fed by his his immortal mother, That's too creepy for some reason. How about the top ten moments in the DiniVerse that Timm and Dini were sure would get censored. There's more then you'd think

"Turning into an anthropomorphic cat" That's not actually that bad when you think about it "...and has to spend the rest of his days alone" Ok, I see why that's a bad fate. Even though I don't think he'd actually have to do that per-say, the way it's written is particularly tragic.

In BTAS there's a badguy that makes himself non-corporeal but then floats down through the floor to the Earth's core forever.

What a bittersweet ending for Bane. Bruce Timm said that most of Batman's rogues did what he did, hung up their costumes, and began to live normal lives but they all left a recognizable legacy in future Gotham.

you forgot the guy who was intangible and Sunk into the center core of the earth.

10 Power Rangers Fates Worse Than death and I've read the Boom Studios comics and still watch the mainline TV Show

Too much VENOM turned Bane into Hector Salamanca from Breaking Bad.

I think we all agree Ian Peek falling to the center of the Earth and dying by either the heat, dehydration, or starvation is Number friggin ZERO