Was this good? I never see anybody mention it when talking about Batman
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>Was this good?
I hated it.
>I never see anybody mention it
There, I just mentioned it. I hated it.
The only traction you'll get here is with Ivy.
It's pretty fun, deffs shows that it's a toy commercial though.
Looks kinda bland at times now (that white 2000s flash feel) but it has sum kewl action and interesting villain use.
I love the way Batman looks, squints n moves.
Also the last season is the start of JL season but the writers try to make bats a valued league member without wanking him to hard which is great to see in this current time of bat autism where people whine about him not belonging on it.
It also got kewl n fitting intro music (esp S1-2) and it has best babs!
I get that they were allowed to use Robin after Teen Titans ended but the show should've stuck with the original cast with Babs as a late addition sidekick. Yin was great and her shared trauma with Bruce over Ethan gave the Bruce side actual plot.
I do dislike how they ditched yin
You're far from alone in that and to this day we still don't know exactly why she was ditched.
Although Casually Comics has a good theory
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Did she even get an exit episode? It's been so long since I watched the show I can't really remember
No she doesn't, only Ethan does in Season 4's Clayfaces.
Okay. I vaguely remembered her just not showing up anymore and thought I might have missed an episode or something
I was kind of liking it until they introduced a fricking kung fu Penguin
I love kung fu penguin. More like kung fun.
And Tom Kenny is great
Kung Fu Penguin was funny but a bit overused in this show
I did like the Kabuki Twins though
It's fun when the badguys have recognizable mooks
Reminder that this was best Harley
>Hynden Walch
>breasts
>Airhead
>Talk Show Host
>Violent reprisal against those who slighted her
>random musical number
The Batman's Harley Quinn is massively underrated, as both a character and a reimagining. Especially since Paul Dini was just as involved with this version as the DCAU version.
Loved her, but there wasn't enough of her to be my number one
I'f i had a choice I'd have Hynden Walch voice her again over a lot of the others that have gotten the job
Still, top 2 isn't bad
It's honestly shocking that DC hasn't done more cartoons like this lately.
In an era where their entire target demo watches anime, they could very easily just create a highlight reel of Batman events and run a ten season storyline introducing the characters, working your way through Robins and Batgirls, getting to Nightwing, Red Hood, Oracle, etc. and really dig into the new generation that wants long storylines played out with softboys and the like.
Yet they insist on frickugly movies only for diehard fans. Intriguing.
Anyways, The Batman is pretty good. Greatest issue is how long it takes for Robin to get added to the cast, which another anon already explained.
>In an era where their entire target demo watches anime, they could very easily just create a highlight reel of Batman events and run a ten season storyline introducing the characters, working your way through Robins and Batgirls, getting to Nightwing, Red Hood, Oracle, etc. and really dig into the new generation that wants long storylines played out with softboys and the like.
If they play their cards right it could legitimately become a smaller scale version of the Game of Thrones phenomenon with normies talking about episodes at water coolers so to speak. Obviously nowhere near the size of Game of Thrones but my point is committing to a large scale Batman show like this has huge potential.
>My favorite episodes were the zombie apocalypse episode
That one stuck with me. Literally the only episode I remember from my childhood besides the flashforward introducing me to Nightwing and Oracle.
A large scale Batman show in a similar artstyle to the Batman 2004 has tremendous potential.
It's really weird that it hasn't already been done, the big third anime boom with Hero Academia is now almost a decade old, and we just passed a fourth one with Demon Slayer and JJK. Maybe it's just incompetence.
They could easily just run down a bunch of Batman plotlines and streamline them into individual seasons, go over all the big events in a straight order, yet this just hasn't happened and they continue to wonder why nobody new bothers getting invested into comics.
>Maybe it's just incompetence
I'm certain that's it
Anyway though, isn't Amazon working with Bruce Timm on another Batman show right now? I think that's where the odd image of yellow Harley Quinn came from
Oh it's absolutely incompetence. Incompetence is also why despite a ever growing demand that's over a decade old, they still haven't done an actual Teen Titans revival outside of a TTG vs TT crossover movie. And why they never got a #JLReunion project off the ground besides Justice League vs the Fatal Five.
You didn't, she never appeared on screen after Season 2. She was only mimiced by Ethan in a Flashback during Clayfaces and mentioned in Artifacts.
I liked the music, action scenes and Batman vs Dracula when I was a kid. Not sure if it still holds up.
Batman vs Dracula still holds up. Not sure about the series though. Haven't watched it in years
Ii haaaaaate the artstyle. Batman looks fine. But the cast, villains look terrible
Some of the villains, definitely.
Plus this anon is correct
the villain's fighting abilities could be really ridiculous, but having fat short dumpy oswald be able to do ballerina ninja moves was idiotic
I don't have the boner for BTAS that a lot of people have. I saw maybe 4-5 episodes and found them uninteresting and not worth chasing down pirate versions of the rest; whereas these seasons were on Netflix when I had my friend's password a few years back so I watched most of it.
It would have been better without babs being brought in, but I otherwise liked young Bruce and just Dick and no one else. It was simple.
>oswald be able to do ballerina ninja moves was idiotic
And unnecessary since he had his henchwomen to fight for him
>benis under mask rape
Absolutely kino.
I liked the artstyle and i liked the Harley and the action was pretty good in season 1, it's definitely a "toy" show though.
It's a nice flashy action show but almost every plot is a supervillain trying to steal something. It does things differently like introduce Batgirl first and has Batman want to create the Justice League while Superman is the loner. I prefer the first two seasons to the rest of the series. Theme for the later seasons is ass.
I vividly remember seeing the batgirl poison Ivy episode and being so excited to see more of their dynamic only for it to never come up again
"Never come up again" is The Batman's mantra. They had a lot of good ideas that were ultimately wasted when they got replaced with the new toy, and there were almost no major recurring villains other than Joker and Penguin.
Clayface, if you count him as a villain. He had his arc in the first season then got at least one episode a season after that.
True but he was sadly the exception due to the "Never Come Up Again" mantra. Which is a shame because the Batgirl Posion Ivy dynamic had so much untapped potential, potential which even the Batman Strikes Tie In Comic wasted.
Cinemaphile hated it at the start. You couldn't make a discussion thread without it getting spammed with MUH DCAU, MONKEY JOKER WAH. Then in S3 it was the degenerates spamming Batgirl and Ivy everywhere. By S4 they were sold, the quality got better and you know how much Cinemaphile loves Dick. You should watch it and see for yourself.
Just go in understanding a few things. It's a stand-alone cartoon with its own continuity. Robin doesn't appear till S4 because for some reason WB didn't want The Batman to use Robin while Teen Titans was using Robin. Same thing for the Justice League and the JLU cartoon, they don't guest in the show till S5.
My favorite episodes were the zombie apocalypse episode and the DKR episode.
This was 2004, was Cinemaphile that old? I know sites like Toon Zone hated it
Cinemaphile only came around in 2006, but you'd still get the occasional superhero/comics/cartoon thread in /b/ in 2004 and 2005.
Any cartoon that strayed outside the DCAU pretty much caught flack around those times. Teen Titans and the Legion toon had their fair share of IT'S NOT DCAU SO BAD.
>Any cartoon that strayed outside the DCAU pretty much caught flack around those times.
Ain't it crazy how the DCAU pretty much mangled the characters and their personalities, but people will shoot down other shows for not being said DCAU.
No.
The only redeeming factor was the original take on Clayface using the showrunners' two OCs, brown man and asian girl.
It's low budget and has a bad artstyle/animation studio. It is symptomatic of the degradation into modern animation techniques - static backgrounds and animation on different frames, "animation = mouth flapping, right?", ugly linework that digital animation does not work well with, characters moving towards/away from the screen without moving (shrinking/growing), characters being dragged unanimated across the screen.
The main problem is "Just watch BtAS, the definitive Batman cartoon that went on for two seasons, has great art, animation, decent writing, invented Harley the little OC that worked well and stayed in her lane, and characters look sexy".
It's good but the lack of cuckoldry really rubs this board the wrong way.
It’s the definition of flash over substance.
People absolutely do talk about it, and consistently due so in a positive light, so the verdict is clearly that it's good. It just gets overshadowed by its older brother BTAS.
I remember when I was small child it used to play on Teletoon, where I can only assume it was great by default compared to the competition. I had no strong opinion on it at the time but I was a literal child and haven't seen it since.
This version of Batman is just really cool. It's like they went all in on what appeals to boys. Sure, it may be style over substance like others have mentioned, but man, is the style cool.
This but do it through Robin's perspective because Anime fans love watching kids grind and level up and Dick Grayson's life arc is basically a shonen already.
It did a really good job of showing the Bruce Wayne side of his life and how he balances it with being Batman
Joker was great. Enjoyed his manic movement like a circus performer. Funny too
WB not allowing The Batman to use Robin until Teen Titans ended is one of the rare cases in which the Bat Embargo actually made sense because unlike most embargoed characters. The versions of Robin from Teen Titans and the Batman look pretty much like the same version of the character just at different ages.
They didn't care with Batman. Just do a different-enough costume.
True, but still it was a restriction that actually has some logic. And not the "Auidence Confusion and "Diluting the Brand" arguments that hold no weight.
>The versions of Robin from Teen Titans and the Batman look pretty much like the same version of the character just at different ages.
A detail that was not lost in the tie-in comic for TT when Batman made a brief cameo and was drawn in his TBM design.
It was for kids. It was fine when it was airing alongside stuff like Jackie Chan Adventures or Men in Black the Series or something, but I'd never go out of my way to watch it.
Very good.
It was decent. It didn't break new ground outside of the fight scenes, which were better than the ones found in the DCAU, but that's really it.
I do like this version of Bruce/Batman. I miss when he could be just a cool dude who wasn't obsessed with beating up his enemies and being a jackass to the ones he loves.
Had some good versions of the characters
Clayface, Ivy, Joker, penguin, Harley
Plenty of bad version too
wasn't a fan of the mr freeze
very actiony, a bad case of everyone somehow knows kung fu
For an action heavy show, they didn't utilize Batman's more physical opponents all that much. Bane was hardly used and he looked like shit. Lady Shiva and Ra's weren't in despite being physical matches and superiors to Batman.
This is just me, but I wish Cass were the Batgirl of this series. She would've fit the series' motif better, and also wish they did a version of Knightfall where Azrael tries to be better Batman over Bruce. I just wish the show did more stuff TAS didn't do, as overtime it also started resembling it more.
It is a little odd that Batman's more physical opponents weren't utilized that much. Bane was good in his first appearance though. As for why Ra's Al Ghul wasn't in it, he wasn't able to.
Cass being the Batgirl of the series would've fit the motif better yes but I still like what they did with Barbara.
Oh yeah I forgot about Begins happening around the same time the show aired. Fricking Embargo.
Best Batgirl, Harley and Ivy designs.
>Harley
Nope
Hmm…perhaps I’ve judged too harshly
It manages to reach the bar but doesn't really make any effort to raise it.
had a nice Killer Croc iirc
Best version of Clayface too.