I'll always remember Clock King for the green text that goes something like: >boss screws you over >want to get some sort of payback >draw clock hands on your glasses and try to fight Batman "What the hell are they putting in the Gotham water supply"
You know, don't you think Clock King and Riddler have a lot in common (specifically in The Animated Series...)? Both want revenge on someone for something that had to do with a company, both are pretty intelligent, both wear similar outfits (aside from color and switch out the purple mask/clock-glasses), and both in their first episode escaped capture. I'm just saying, because for many villains that have in the show teamed up, I'm surprised that these two didn't, especially seeing how little they used Clock King.
@@osmanyousif7849 In the BTAS Heroclix set from 2018, Clock King was the rare variant version of Riddler; they used the same sculpt outside of the right arm but had different paint jobs.
I want to see condiment king get more love. Don't make him a massive threat but definitely make him weirdly competent. He does use hot sauce as a weapon.
They didn't do enough with the concept of 'condiments'. In high enough concentrations, capsaicin can burn skin, and clouds of it can cause respiratory issues.
I can see him making a background appearance... as the logo of a catering company. Suggesting that he is one of the few villains to be so pathetic he gave up villainy and got an honest job.
The real king of Gotham was King Barlowe. He (apparently) never got stopped by Batman, and pulled a prank on the Joker that Joker couldn't pay him back for.
I always thought the funniest option for Condiment King would be to make him absurdly overqualified for his position as a C-list villain of the week. Like, he can genuinely match Batman in both wits and physical prowess, and the only thing holding him back from being a world-class threat is the fact that he's weirdly committed to the whole condiment bit. He's messing around with guns that shoot hot sauce but once you knock those out of his hands and force him into a hand-to-hand fight, he reveals that he has martial arts skills that put him well above the average Court of Owls ninja assassin. The Riddler calls him stupid and to retaliate he orchestrates a conspiracy that nearly drives Riddler mad. It's simply left entirely unclear why he keeps doing petty crimes with condiment guns when he could easily be on the level of Ras-al-goul.
could even tie it into the BTAS episode and have it be a Joker-related thing, where he runs with the shtick literally just "because it's funny", especially considering how much it'd prob tick off the Joker to have another supervillain running around with humour as their defining motive who's inexplicably able to dodge all his methods of trying to off the guy
Another actually decent depiction of the Clock King was the 2004 Batman cartoon, he's never referred to as the clock king, but his whole character is absolutely a nod to him. in this version he's Francis Grey, a broke family man with a pregnant wife who scrapes by the bill with his clock repairmen job, he suffers 17 years in prison for the disasters consequences after he stole a clock from the shop he worked at (entire street wide explosion), surrounded by clocks in his cell and now divorced, unable to ever see his family again, he went mad and gained the ability to reverse time for a few seconds. I really like this version of the character, because at first it seems he's a master strategist as he evades Batman, but we then realize he's just an average man with an infinite undo button. The ending of the episode is actually really clever. Spoilers: Basically, he plans to use a lethal gas to kill everyone at a new years celebration for revenge against Gotham, and it actually works----however, it also just so happens to kill his 18 year old son-------in his utterly heart broken and desperate state, his power is overclocked (hah) and allows him to reverse time 18 years into the past, where he changes his fate by not stealing the clock, and the episode ends with him repairing the grandfather clock in Wayne Manor.
I remember Season 4 of The Batman as being very good. If I remember rightly that’s when they brought Paul Dini on to write some episodes, although not this one.
AND it’s as a repairman with his son, meaning he actually was able to succeed and do the right thing. In my estimation, it’s a hell of a way to show Batman’s redemptive power
@@SerumLake The Batman is like Star Trek. The even-numbered seasons are the good ones. Season 1 is their early baby-legs era, Season 2 is where they found their groove, Season 3 is where they kept playing Batman for total clownshoes to try and make room for Batgirl, Season 4 was probably their best, and Season 5 is where they got completely lost in the sauce and basically just turned into The Superfriends.
I love that condiment King has been referenced other places as examples of Batman villains being goofy as hell, even though his original inception is an *intentionally stupid supervillain* in-universe, because the Joker is trying to mess with someone.
Yeah it has always sorta annoyed me people always try to use him as a go to for lame comic book villains could be when he was just a comedian joker brainwashed to try and get killed so he’d be the funniest man in Gotham
Condiment King would be great in Pattinson's Batman universe as a social media freak. Someone who does 'pranks' for attention, but really just ticks off Bruce and gets in the way of Batman fighting crime.
Does anyone else notice the parallels between the Sewer King and Captian Hook/Peter Pan? The Sewer King is essentially an amalgamation of Captian Hook and Peter Pan. He's dressed and looks like Captian Hook, but kidnaps and exploits children just like Peter Pan. Everyone forgets that Peter is a gang leader, a kid gang leader. The Lost Boys. The Sewer King also uses alligators, an ironic twist for sure; Hook lost his hand to alligators because of Peter. What a funny character.
I would LOVE to see Sewer King in a live action film. Maybe not a main villain but like a side guy. It would be AMAZING. Not sure why but I was always fascinated by his character
As well as children who grow up in cults or other horrible situations. Since they're kids just learning about life, they don't realize how messed up their situation is and think that's just how everyone lives.
condement king is so underrated. sometimes, you want a monster clown other times, you just want a guy who sprays hot sauce in your eyes and ketchup on your shirt. hes a silly villain and sometimes batman needs a break from the dark and gritty now and then.
I really like the clock king just because of how polite he looks, and how calculated he is. He's somewhat on par with a time lord from doctor who, always one step ahead because he can perfectly calculate time and keep tabs on everything.
BTAS is my favourite version of Clock King, even if he does kinda look and feel like a brown Riddler, it's so much better than when he is dressed in a king's ceremonial robes and has a literal clock for a face - way to take the name too far. I also love the double meaning of his first line: "it's about time!"
It's unfortunately a real world issue as well. False positives can lead to unnecessary treatments and even death just as much as misidentifying a serious illness as nothing to worry about.
That appears to happen a lot in Gotham City. When introduced in BTAS, Nora Fries was said to have an incurable disease. Then in Subzero she just needs an organ transplant. Not sure which organ, but one that Barbara Gordon only has one of.
@@KasumiKenshirou Although, while very unlikely, it is possible that a treatment (if not a cure) was discovered for Nora's disease in the interim. I was also confused as to how a donor was suddenly available at the end of that movie despite there not being one just a few days earlier, hence trying to kill Barbara for it. It's possible a match suddenly croaked in that short time but extremely unlikely.
I appreciate the Sewer King for being the one villain that Batman wanted to deal the law into his own hands with. The guy is arguably more evil than the Joker, and Batman is usually reserved with the Joker despite always trying to push Batman’s buttons.
There was this one version of Clock King, alto he's never mentioned by that name and was given another civilian name in The Batman tv show. Here he was good, honest working dude who attempts to steal clock out of desperation and accidentally blew up couple of buildings and ends up in prison. There out of desperation to see his family again, he develops the ability to go back in time for 20 seconds. He manages to evade Batman and actually fights him off because he kept going 20 seconds back in time so he would already be aware what Batman does. It's notable that he's not really a bad guy, more like desperate man, and his plan to gas Gotham's elite at New Years party actually succeeds, however he learns his 18 year old son is also there, so he overcharges himself and goes back in time 18 years to the night he stole the clock and this time he choses not to repeat the same mistake again, meaning his life took the different path this time around.
I think you're overlooking the significance of the Sewer King. First think of what Batman villians that actually exist in reallife. There's no reallife Joker, Mr Freeze, Two Face, and Posion Ivy. But people like the Sewer King actually exists all over the world. These people don't look like pirates or live in the sewer, but there has and likely always be those who exploit children for labor. We who live in first world nations have just decided to turn a blind eye to it. Can you honestly say benefited from child labor? Ever bought produce, shoes, clothing, and tobacco products? These are just some of the industries exploit children for personal profit.
Clock King is a Green Arrow villain. So is Count Vertigo. Batman taking villains from other heroes’ rogues galleries as usual. As if he doesn’t have enough villains to worry about.
The original Tockman version is a Green Arrow villain but the Temple Fugit version was created specifically for Batman. Count Vertigo was originally created to be a Black Canary villain but Ollie sorta Co opted him since they're partners. Vertigo happens to be member of the League Of Assasins so it makes sense that he'd meet Batman eventually. Kind of a missed opputunity for a team up.
I'm genuinely surprised there was no discussion here about Clock King being one of the earliest examples of autism in media. While it's a bit on the nose and somewhat stereotypical, it isn't a negative depiction. Like nearly every one of the other villains in the series, Temple Fugit is a person pushed too far by a society that doesn't understand or doesn't care about the circumstances that led to his downfall. He is intelligent and remarkably capable within his own field- a true savant- yet before his turn to villainy, he was also very sociable with his coworkers and not terribly awkward at all. Despite being an autistic caricature, he wasn't as rigid as the classic 'Rainman' example, showing that there is indeed a spectrum to the condition well ahead of its time.
@@AM_61102 OCD is often a symptom of high-functioning autism. With Clock King, it could go either way depending on any other potential symptoms and their severity.
One thing you forgot to mention about Clock King's Adam West episode was that it was written by Bill Finger, the co-creator of Batman. In fact, for years that was his only official credit on any Batman media, despite having written many of the original comics! It's interesting he wrote for a villain whose creation he had nothing to do with. I wonder how he landed that gig with that specific character?
The condiment king to me makes sense keeping a comedian origin, either corrupted similarly to Harley's retconned origin, driven mad by one of Joker's schemes, or willingly trying to be a rival to Joker and failing.
The Clock King episode is a very special episode for me because it was the very first episode of Batman the Animated Series ever saw when I was five years old. However before that, my first ever exosure to anything comic book related was The Batman Superman animated movie, which was the three World's Finest episodes combined together. I'd say that is a pretty awesome introduction to Batman and Superman as characters along with Lex Luthor and Joker.
Those are good episodes to start with. I was fortunate enough to watch the first episode on the day it originally aired and I can still vividly remember the opening, with Catwoman climbing up the side of the building.
@@SerumLake I vividly remember my first episodes in the order I watched them before properly getting into the DCAU. The first thing I watched was The Batman Superman movie, then I started Batman the Animated Series with The Clock King, Fear of Victory (which I honestly thought made for a better and scarier introduction to Scarecrow than Nothing to Fear), Joker's Favour, The Forgotten, Be a Clown, Two-Face Part 1, Two-Face Part 2, It's Never Too Late, I've Got Batman in my Basement (yes seriously but I liked it more than Be a Clown) and lastly Heart of Ice followed by the very first Batman movie I ever saw Batman Mask of the Phantasm and then The Last Son of Krypton animated movie which was the three first episodes of STAS combined together. That was the order of my first experience to the DCAU. I remember when I first watched The Clock King after having seen Word's Finest thnking to myself "Why is Batman not as scary as he was before" and "Why does he have a yellow symbol?"
@@SerumLake You know even as a kid when I first properly started Batman the Animated Series after everything else I mentoned before, which was only just a few months after I watched all that (I first fully watched it in the production order), I remember even then when watching The Cat and the Claw Parts 1 and 2, just really not caring for those episodes and how they handled Catwoman and that was my first exposure to her. I distinctly remember when Selina's friend (I'm not going to pretend that I remember her name because I don't rewatch those episodes a lot) told Batman that she was inlove with him, just thinking to myself "bullshit she's met him like twice." Obviously those weren't the exact words that I used in my head because I was 5 but you get the point. I don't know what to tell you but The Cat and the Claw is on par for me with Heart of Steel as the weakest two parter episode of BTAS.
When you brought up the Sewer King, I thought of the Sewer King from Hey Arnold, although he was a relatively harmless nut that lived in the sewers. Also, I like to think that Batman didn't even hit Condiment King all that hard, he's just a one hitter quitter.
The Sewer King episode felt like a throwback to Oliver Twist and to be honest his episode is probably one of my favorite episodes of the show(the interaction between Alfred and the runaway was charming).
Sewer and Condiment have their opportune moments that make them nicely memorable, but in the end, Clock wins by a milestone for being more sympathetic and also appearing more than once in the DC Animated Universe. Also, him becoming the -Suicide Squad- Task Force X tech support/mission control and his second appearance becoming a "prototype" for the likes of Homura Akemi. HOW COOL IS THAT?!?
The Three Kings of Gotham City, that's pretty funny when you think about it especially that joke where Two-Face is the King of England. Although in my opinion, I feel like The Sewer King is much more threatening than The Clock King and The Condiment King. I mean he did mistreat and abused lots of children in the sewers.😅😬
You could actually have a great "Who's laughing now?" moment with Condiment King with a little history thrown in. See, King Mithridates the Great of Pontus was famously immune to poisons, to the point that his favored condiment was Arsenic. You could have him team up with Clock King to feed the mayor "a meal fit for a king".
@@SerumLake the ending was a bit meh. spoiler ahead. I would have liked to know what the MacGuffin nearly 200 people died for even was. But overall it was a good read
The Condiment King led to what I think is my all-time favorite line from BTAS: Police Dispatch: Suspect is a male costumed extremist armed with what appears to be a... ketchup gun. Batman: It's gonna be one of those nights...
What I like about Clock king is that he just a dude with an extreme knack for planning things and details who uses his skills for nefarious ends, he basically just master minded criminal. Save for his outmoded fashion sense he a regular guy who dose bad things and gives Batman and others a run for their money, no strange gimmicks and costumes as well as comes of a someone who would not be out of place in a heist movie. Its nice to have a Supervillain who is a somewhat normal human being.
The Clock King is one of the most underrated episodes of the series. Despite only being a civil servant, Fugate is one of the few characters able to rival Batman's intelligence and planning ability. And the final action sequence is a fantastic homage to Miyazaki's Castle of Cagliostro.
I like that the Condiment King was basically a ruse villain made up and unleashed by the Joker as a kind of distraction or to cause mayhem, it fits with the Joker’s mo and angle of offbeat comedy humor.
I'm wondering as a Brit how much the motivations of villains like the Clock King resonate. Seems like the greatest hero preventing super-criminals is the NHS.
Im pretty sure The Batman animated series had a Clock King, I remember he had the power to rewind time and he was a guy who unlocked the secret to that from endlessly fixing clocks in prison, and his one bad day was stealing a clock in a store he worked at. Made for a very cool episode, Batman basically had to shake off predictability as he fought hand to hand with the guy who could keep rewinding himself. And he even succeded in his revenge scheme, its just that turns out he had a son and he was caught up in the gas bombing he planned, the trauma of loosing his son rewound him all the way back to when he was about to steal that expensive clock. It was a crazy cool episode to me as a kid.
Wait! There isn't a string of 60s or 70s Batman comics that depicts Boss Biggus as some up and coming mobster who needs to get rid of Batman and Robin in order to impress the Gotham underworld or something ridiculous like that?
Okay, imma just saybit now; I think it's really shitty when writers take a classic villain who, yes, is goofy in origin and when they 'bring them back' they brutally murder them in a humiliating manner rather than putting in effort to actually do something with them. Contrast to how Riddler and Bane were handled in early BTAS; we know they didn't care about these characters but they dod their hardest to make them INTERESTING since their names were on this. The Sewer King is a weird villain but to just fucking yeet him like that because 'lol lame' is.....lame.
Oh yeah I 100% agree with that, want to know a villain I think should get a revamp/justice, killer moth. He has a badass name and moths are a goldmine for cool designs so why does no one update him (the teen titans show tried a bit, gave him an awesome design but still sorta made him a bit of a joke with a teenage bratty daughter) I think an actually talented writer can turn what is at first glance a lame character/idea/power and turn it into something cool. there’s this great funny comic about comparing comics/manga where this guy had the power to make bubblegum, in the western comic they just laugh at his power but in the eastern comic he uses the power to fill peoples lounges with bubblegum and that’s what I’m talking about, turn a lame power into something intimidating
I think sewer king would make a solid early days villain for Batman not a huge threat but a chance to remind people that he's human and if he loses the element of surprise a fairly fit person can be a threat then pivot to Bruce getting him scared and showing how powerful fear is by having it make him go from being a threat to utterly helpless,
Tom King has really made some of the best modern stories in comics but whenever he writes Batman he is a bit hit and miss for me. I can't say that I like his Batman/Catwoman run and everything he did with Andrea Beaumont and in general I'm not really a fan of how he characterizes Batman which is why I'm glad that his Batman/Catwoman run isn't in continuity. City of Bane was just whatever to me and I can't say I enjoyed too much with The Wedding or War of Jokes and Riddles. I don't think I need to mention the issues with Heroes in Crisis. That being said he has written other characters and stories phenomenally like Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow (which deserves a hardcover), his Mister Miracle run, his Human Target run and most recently the tragically unnoticed but incredible Gotham City: Year One. I had mixed thoughts about Riddler: One Bad Day but there were definitely elements I enjoyed. Really looking forward to see what he does with Wonder Woman. I must say Dawn of DC is off to an amazing start.
While I didn’t like his Batman run (despite the reverence he shows for BTAS) I am enjoying Danger Street at the moment. I must admit I only picked it up because of the April Fools Day cover that he drew (it’s so intentionally bad) but I enjoyed the story so much I went back and picked up the rest of it. I’m currently reading his Rorschach miniseries too.
Of course, the Condiment King, in his B:TAS costume despite being implied as being a villain of his own free will in this continuity, also showed up in "The Lego Batman Movie."
Another Clock King in the New 52 based on Temple Fugate would be one of 3 Clock King's but he was named William Tockman as would be the 2 other Clock Kings in that continuity so yes their is 3 Clock King's in that universe who coincidentally named William Tockman
One thing that always left me scratching my head in regards to the sewer king is if the whole point of the kids not being allowed to talk so the people above don’t hear them why the hell was he screaming at the top of his lungs like a goddamn lunatic also I feel as though he has a lot of potential to be maybe as disturbing a villain as professor pig maybe a little less disturbing but still pretty damn disturbing
Arrow made Clock King a Green Arrow villain again. I believe his origin had something to do with a sick or dying relative too. Though named after the Green Arrow version he bared much more of a resemblance to the BTAS iteration.
The BTAS Clock King doesn’t really have anything to do with the Green Arrow villain, and the name is likely coincidence. He’s based on the Adam West Batman villain, who appears to be based on the Robin villain, the Clock from the 40s comics (both were Bill Finger creations).
0:26 Eh considering how politicians and political parties are when it comes to making decisions, I think just having a guy who just flips a coin for decisions might just be the best decision. So, from America, I wish you the best of luck with your new monarch two face!
Hold on... wasn't there a The batman version of the clock king? Someone that got a huge amount of jail time for a tiny accident and soon after the laws were changed? Something something gets the power to rewind time, but is a clumsy guy. Ends with him going back far enough to stop the episode from happening.
I'll always remember Clock King for the green text that goes something like:
>boss screws you over
>want to get some sort of payback
>draw clock hands on your glasses and try to fight Batman
"What the hell are they putting in the Gotham water supply"
You know, don't you think Clock King and Riddler have a lot in common (specifically in The Animated Series...)? Both want revenge on someone for something that had to do with a company, both are pretty intelligent, both wear similar outfits (aside from color and switch out the purple mask/clock-glasses), and both in their first episode escaped capture. I'm just saying, because for many villains that have in the show teamed up, I'm surprised that these two didn't, especially seeing how little they used Clock King.
@@osmanyousif7849 and thier crime methods are both very methodical
@@osmanyousif7849 In the BTAS Heroclix set from 2018, Clock King was the rare variant version of Riddler; they used the same sculpt outside of the right arm but had different paint jobs.
I want to see condiment king get more love. Don't make him a massive threat but definitely make him weirdly competent. He does use hot sauce as a weapon.
Need moar Condiment King
They didn't do enough with the concept of 'condiments'. In high enough concentrations, capsaicin can burn skin, and clouds of it can cause respiratory issues.
He got some love in the webtoon Batman: Wayne Family Adventures
I mean, mustard gas is a thing
I can see him making a background appearance... as the logo of a catering company. Suggesting that he is one of the few villains to be so pathetic he gave up villainy and got an honest job.
The real king of Gotham was King Barlowe. He (apparently) never got stopped by Batman, and pulled a prank on the Joker that Joker couldn't pay him back for.
That's a deep cut reference, and I love it.
That's the guy that made him deal with the IRS
I always thought the funniest option for Condiment King would be to make him absurdly overqualified for his position as a C-list villain of the week. Like, he can genuinely match Batman in both wits and physical prowess, and the only thing holding him back from being a world-class threat is the fact that he's weirdly committed to the whole condiment bit. He's messing around with guns that shoot hot sauce but once you knock those out of his hands and force him into a hand-to-hand fight, he reveals that he has martial arts skills that put him well above the average Court of Owls ninja assassin. The Riddler calls him stupid and to retaliate he orchestrates a conspiracy that nearly drives Riddler mad. It's simply left entirely unclear why he keeps doing petty crimes with condiment guns when he could easily be on the level of Ras-al-goul.
could even tie it into the BTAS episode and have it be a Joker-related thing, where he runs with the shtick literally just "because it's funny", especially considering how much it'd prob tick off the Joker to have another supervillain running around with humour as their defining motive who's inexplicably able to dodge all his methods of trying to off the guy
Another actually decent depiction of the Clock King was the 2004 Batman cartoon, he's never referred to as the clock king, but his whole character is absolutely a nod to him.
in this version he's Francis Grey, a broke family man with a pregnant wife who scrapes by the bill with his clock repairmen job, he suffers 17 years in prison for the disasters consequences after he stole a clock from the shop he worked at (entire street wide explosion), surrounded by clocks in his cell and now divorced, unable to ever see his family again, he went mad and gained the ability to reverse time for a few seconds.
I really like this version of the character, because at first it seems he's a master strategist as he evades Batman, but we then realize he's just an average man with an infinite undo button. The ending of the episode is actually really clever.
Spoilers:
Basically, he plans to use a lethal gas to kill everyone at a new years celebration for revenge against Gotham, and it actually works----however, it also just so happens to kill his 18 year old son-------in his utterly heart broken and desperate state, his power is overclocked (hah) and allows him to reverse time 18 years into the past, where he changes his fate by not stealing the clock, and the episode ends with him repairing the grandfather clock in Wayne Manor.
I remember Season 4 of The Batman as being very good. If I remember rightly that’s when they brought Paul Dini on to write some episodes, although not this one.
That iteration sure is lucky, compared to the likes of Evan Treborn and Homura Akemi.
AND it’s as a repairman with his son, meaning he actually was able to succeed and do the right thing. In my estimation, it’s a hell of a way to show Batman’s redemptive power
That was an incredible episode that didn't feel like a The Batman ep
@@SerumLake The Batman is like Star Trek. The even-numbered seasons are the good ones. Season 1 is their early baby-legs era, Season 2 is where they found their groove, Season 3 is where they kept playing Batman for total clownshoes to try and make room for Batgirl, Season 4 was probably their best, and Season 5 is where they got completely lost in the sauce and basically just turned into The Superfriends.
I love that condiment King has been referenced other places as examples of Batman villains being goofy as hell, even though his original inception is an *intentionally stupid supervillain* in-universe, because the Joker is trying to mess with someone.
Mission accomplished, I say!
Yeah it has always sorta annoyed me people always try to use him as a go to for lame comic book villains could be when he was just a comedian joker brainwashed to try and get killed so he’d be the funniest man in Gotham
Condiment King would be great in Pattinson's Batman universe as a social media freak. Someone who does 'pranks' for attention, but really just ticks off Bruce and gets in the way of Batman fighting crime.
He is one of Robert Pattison’s favourites, so I wouldn’t be surprised if he was in The Batman 2, or one of the spin-off TV shows.
I could see Bruce scrolling though his phone and we see and article about Condiment King doing... Condiment King stuff
@@ianfinrir8724 And then Batman has to save his sorry ass after he decides spraying Cobblepot with BBQ sauce is a good idea.
Honestly, you could turn him easily into a chemical and bio terrorist. Spraying various food derived acids and such
He'd be like one of those Rick&Morty fans filming themselves screaming at underpaid McDonalds employees about szechuan sauce.
Does anyone else notice the parallels between the Sewer King and Captian Hook/Peter Pan?
The Sewer King is essentially an amalgamation of Captian Hook and Peter Pan. He's dressed and looks like Captian Hook, but kidnaps and exploits children just like Peter Pan. Everyone forgets that Peter is a gang leader, a kid gang leader. The Lost Boys. The Sewer King also uses alligators, an ironic twist for sure; Hook lost his hand to alligators because of Peter.
What a funny character.
That’s a great observation!
and one of the children in the episode is named "Peter" - the one he pointed out as talking.
I would LOVE to see Sewer King in a live action film. Maybe not a main villain but like a side guy. It would be AMAZING. Not sure why but I was always fascinated by his character
I’d like that too. Maybe he’ll show up in the Arkham TV show?
I want condiment king to be the main villain of a movie
@@tfordham13 KNEEL BEFORE THE UNCANNY CONDIMENT KIIING! ❤💛🥒
i could see Sewer King being a potent allegory for the very rampant dangers of negligence in childcare systems (foster care)
Yeah, that’s a fair assessment. I have to wonder where those kids went after the episode ended. Perhaps the Wayne-funded orphanage?
As well as children who grow up in cults or other horrible situations. Since they're kids just learning about life, they don't realize how messed up their situation is and think that's just how everyone lives.
@@SerumLakeIt couldn't have been any worse than where they were. I'm pretty sure Batman would have periodically checked up on them.
Honestly, Clock King seems more like a villain the FLASH would face! In fact, he actually WAS one in the CW series!
condement king is so underrated.
sometimes, you want a monster clown
other times, you just want a guy who sprays hot sauce in your eyes and ketchup on your shirt.
hes a silly villain and sometimes batman needs a break from the dark and gritty now and then.
I love how in “The Underwellers” Batman was tempted to make justice himself
The sewer king is the only villain that Batman considered killing in BTAS.
Clock King really was underrated, but unfortunately having a self-defeating personality weakness.
Sounds like every Batman villain, at least in TAS.
The Sewer King was probably the only villain that made Batman think about killing someone,
Ngl that Two-Face bit at the beginning had me laughing 😂
I really like the clock king just because of how polite he looks, and how calculated he is. He's somewhat on par with a time lord from doctor who, always one step ahead because he can perfectly calculate time and keep tabs on everything.
BTAS is my favourite version of Clock King, even if he does kinda look and feel like a brown Riddler, it's so much better than when he is dressed in a king's ceremonial robes and has a literal clock for a face - way to take the name too far.
I also love the double meaning of his first line: "it's about time!"
Dude he is a comic book villain. There is nothing wrong with going over the top.
@@zemox2534 comics have every character style imaginable. That doesn't mean I automatically like every style.
Honestly Sewer King would make a decent Robin villain. Especially if one ones to have him be a foil to Batman’s pension for adopting vigilantes
5:39 How dafuq do you mistake a patient for having a fatal illness?? 😑 I’d swear vengeance on that quack too
It's unfortunately a real world issue as well. False positives can lead to unnecessary treatments and even death just as much as misidentifying a serious illness as nothing to worry about.
That appears to happen a lot in Gotham City. When introduced in BTAS, Nora Fries was said to have an incurable disease. Then in Subzero she just needs an organ transplant. Not sure which organ, but one that Barbara Gordon only has one of.
@@KasumiKenshirou Although, while very unlikely, it is possible that a treatment (if not a cure) was discovered for Nora's disease in the interim.
I was also confused as to how a donor was suddenly available at the end of that movie despite there not being one just a few days earlier, hence trying to kill Barbara for it. It's possible a match suddenly croaked in that short time but extremely unlikely.
I appreciate the Sewer King for being the one villain that Batman wanted to deal the law into his own hands with. The guy is arguably more evil than the Joker, and Batman is usually reserved with the Joker despite always trying to push Batman’s buttons.
There was this one version of Clock King, alto he's never mentioned by that name and was given another civilian name in The Batman tv show. Here he was good, honest working dude who attempts to steal clock out of desperation and accidentally blew up couple of buildings and ends up in prison. There out of desperation to see his family again, he develops the ability to go back in time for 20 seconds. He manages to evade Batman and actually fights him off because he kept going 20 seconds back in time so he would already be aware what Batman does.
It's notable that he's not really a bad guy, more like desperate man, and his plan to gas Gotham's elite at New Years party actually succeeds, however he learns his 18 year old son is also there, so he overcharges himself and goes back in time 18 years to the night he stole the clock and this time he choses not to repeat the same mistake again, meaning his life took the different path this time around.
I think you're overlooking the significance of the Sewer King. First think of what Batman villians that actually exist in reallife. There's no reallife Joker, Mr Freeze, Two Face, and Posion Ivy. But people like the Sewer King actually exists all over the world. These people don't look like pirates or live in the sewer, but there has and likely always be those who exploit children for labor. We who live in first world nations have just decided to turn a blind eye to it.
Can you honestly say benefited from child labor? Ever bought produce, shoes, clothing, and tobacco products? These are just some of the industries exploit children for personal profit.
That's a good point, thank you for sharing it.
Oh man, Clock King and Riddler, now there's a team up.
Clock King is a Green Arrow villain.
So is Count Vertigo.
Batman taking villains from other heroes’ rogues galleries as usual. As if he doesn’t have enough villains to worry about.
Usually there seems to be an informal agreement between superheroes not to intrude on each other's nemesises. It's just not good manners.
The original Tockman version is a Green Arrow villain but the Temple Fugit version was created specifically for Batman. Count Vertigo was originally created to be a Black Canary villain but Ollie sorta Co opted him since they're partners. Vertigo happens to be member of the League Of Assasins so it makes sense that he'd meet Batman eventually. Kind of a missed opputunity for a team up.
I'm genuinely surprised there was no discussion here about Clock King being one of the earliest examples of autism in media. While it's a bit on the nose and somewhat stereotypical, it isn't a negative depiction. Like nearly every one of the other villains in the series, Temple Fugit is a person pushed too far by a society that doesn't understand or doesn't care about the circumstances that led to his downfall. He is intelligent and remarkably capable within his own field- a true savant- yet before his turn to villainy, he was also very sociable with his coworkers and not terribly awkward at all. Despite being an autistic caricature, he wasn't as rigid as the classic 'Rainman' example, showing that there is indeed a spectrum to the condition well ahead of its time.
That’s a great point that I had never considered before. Thank you for sharing it!
Pretty sure he has ocd and not autism hence his ritualistic behavior towards schedules and timing
@@AM_61102 OCD is often a symptom of high-functioning autism. With Clock King, it could go either way depending on any other potential symptoms and their severity.
One thing you forgot to mention about Clock King's Adam West episode was that it was written by Bill Finger, the co-creator of Batman. In fact, for years that was his only official credit on any Batman media, despite having written many of the original comics! It's interesting he wrote for a villain whose creation he had nothing to do with. I wonder how he landed that gig with that specific character?
I honestly laughed out loud when you showed Two-Face as the King of England! X'D
The condiment king to me makes sense keeping a comedian origin, either corrupted similarly to Harley's retconned origin, driven mad by one of Joker's schemes, or willingly trying to be a rival to Joker and failing.
The Clock King episode is a very special episode for me because it was the very first episode of Batman the Animated Series ever saw when I was five years old. However before that, my first ever exosure to anything comic book related was The Batman Superman animated movie, which was the three World's Finest episodes combined together. I'd say that is a pretty awesome introduction to Batman and Superman as characters along with Lex Luthor and Joker.
Those are good episodes to start with. I was fortunate enough to watch the first episode on the day it originally aired and I can still vividly remember the opening, with Catwoman climbing up the side of the building.
@@SerumLake I vividly remember my first episodes in the order I watched them before properly getting into the DCAU. The first thing I watched was The Batman Superman movie, then I started Batman the Animated Series with The Clock King, Fear of Victory (which I honestly thought made for a better and scarier introduction to Scarecrow than Nothing to Fear), Joker's Favour, The Forgotten, Be a Clown, Two-Face Part 1, Two-Face Part 2, It's Never Too Late, I've Got Batman in my Basement (yes seriously but I liked it more than Be a Clown) and lastly Heart of Ice followed by the very first Batman movie I ever saw Batman Mask of the Phantasm and then The Last Son of Krypton animated movie which was the three first episodes of STAS combined together. That was the order of my first experience to the DCAU. I remember when I first watched The Clock King after having seen Word's Finest thnking to myself "Why is Batman not as scary as he was before" and "Why does he have a yellow symbol?"
@@SerumLake You know even as a kid when I first properly started Batman the Animated Series after everything else I mentoned before, which was only just a few months after I watched all that (I first fully watched it in the production order), I remember even then when watching The Cat and the Claw Parts 1 and 2, just really not caring for those episodes and how they handled Catwoman and that was my first exposure to her. I distinctly remember when Selina's friend (I'm not going to pretend that I remember her name because I don't rewatch those episodes a lot) told Batman that she was inlove with him, just thinking to myself "bullshit she's met him like twice." Obviously those weren't the exact words that I used in my head because I was 5 but you get the point. I don't know what to tell you but The Cat and the Claw is on par for me with Heart of Steel as the weakest two parter episode of BTAS.
Fun fact: due to a series of subcontracting and an owed favor, the Batman/Superman movie is actually secretly a Studio Ghibli work.
When you brought up the Sewer King, I thought of the Sewer King from Hey Arnold, although he was a relatively harmless nut that lived in the sewers. Also, I like to think that Batman didn't even hit Condiment King all that hard, he's just a one hitter quitter.
Clock King reminds me of Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder, with his obsession with schedules
He sort of reminds me a bit of the Penguin.
i was unaware of the clock kings comic renaissance i always liked his episodes nice to know
The Clock King's original origin story sounds like Breakig Bad.
The Sewer King episode felt like a throwback to Oliver Twist and to be honest his episode is probably one of my favorite episodes of the show(the interaction between Alfred and the runaway was charming).
Sewer and Condiment have their opportune moments that make them nicely memorable, but in the end, Clock wins by a milestone for being more sympathetic and also appearing more than once in the DC Animated Universe.
Also, him becoming the -Suicide Squad- Task Force X tech support/mission control and his second appearance becoming a "prototype" for the likes of Homura Akemi. HOW COOL IS THAT?!?
The Three Kings of Gotham City, that's pretty funny when you think about it especially that joke where Two-Face is the King of England. Although in my opinion, I feel like The Sewer King is much more threatening than The Clock King and The Condiment King. I mean he did mistreat and abused lots of children in the sewers.😅😬
You could actually have a great "Who's laughing now?" moment with Condiment King with a little history thrown in. See, King Mithridates the Great of Pontus was famously immune to poisons, to the point that his favored condiment was Arsenic. You could have him team up with Clock King to feed the mayor "a meal fit for a king".
Thank you for suggesting Killing Time to me. I enjoyed it.
Glad to hear it!
@@SerumLake the ending was a bit meh. spoiler ahead.
I would have liked to know what the MacGuffin nearly 200 people died for even was. But overall it was a good read
I love how the sewer king is one of the very few people Batman consider killing.
The Condiment King led to what I think is my all-time favorite line from BTAS:
Police Dispatch: Suspect is a male costumed extremist armed with what appears to be a... ketchup gun.
Batman: It's gonna be one of those nights...
Clock King was also a Robin villain in his eponymous series in the 1940's.
Was he really?!
Two Face: If he's Batman, then I'm the King of England!
" I DON'T BELIEVE THIS! I say "cower' and you're still eating!!?"
- The Condiment King
*Pauses Eating*
Now that you mention it... some ketchup and mustard would go great with this.
Duke Nukem voice: Hail to the kings, baby.
Forget a mini-series, we need a Boss Biggis film franchise with him as the protagonist.
Condiment king forever
What I like about Clock king is that he just a dude with an extreme knack for planning things and details who uses his skills for nefarious ends, he basically just master minded criminal. Save for his outmoded fashion sense he a regular guy who dose bad things and gives Batman and others a run for their money, no strange gimmicks and costumes as well as comes of a someone who would not be out of place in a heist movie. Its nice to have a Supervillain who is a somewhat normal human being.
Sewer King looks like Alucard from Hellsing on a budget
Tge btas clock king has a catch me if you can vibe, where he’s so far planned ahead that you really have to stump him to win
The Clock King is one of the most underrated episodes of the series. Despite only being a civil servant, Fugate is one of the few characters able to rival Batman's intelligence and planning ability. And the final action sequence is a fantastic homage to Miyazaki's Castle of Cagliostro.
I like that the Condiment King was basically a ruse villain made up and unleashed by the Joker as a kind of distraction or to cause mayhem, it fits with the Joker’s mo and angle of offbeat comedy humor.
That stupid joke was gold 😅
I didn't think about the fact that Pattinson grew up with TAS like we did. No wonder he nailed it!
I thought The Sewer King episode was loosely based on Batman The Cult. But I only read it once a long time ago, so I could be wrong.
3:57 Batman can't stand bad sauce puns.
I'm wondering as a Brit how much the motivations of villains like the Clock King resonate.
Seems like the greatest hero preventing super-criminals is the NHS.
I don’t know why, but the sewer king reminds me of a character from Assassins Creed Unity
Clock King definitely earned his villain status and even Batman’s respect! He could easily carry his own spotlight video!
I remember the 60s Batman episode with clock king.
Im pretty sure The Batman animated series had a Clock King, I remember he had the power to rewind time and he was a guy who unlocked the secret to that from endlessly fixing clocks in prison, and his one bad day was stealing a clock in a store he worked at.
Made for a very cool episode, Batman basically had to shake off predictability as he fought hand to hand with the guy who could keep rewinding himself. And he even succeded in his revenge scheme, its just that turns out he had a son and he was caught up in the gas bombing he planned, the trauma of loosing his son rewound him all the way back to when he was about to steal that expensive clock.
It was a crazy cool episode to me as a kid.
Wait! There isn't a string of 60s or 70s Batman comics that depicts Boss Biggus as some up and coming mobster who needs to get rid of Batman and Robin in order to impress the Gotham underworld or something ridiculous like that?
Okay, imma just saybit now; I think it's really shitty when writers take a classic villain who, yes, is goofy in origin and when they 'bring them back' they brutally murder them in a humiliating manner rather than putting in effort to actually do something with them.
Contrast to how Riddler and Bane were handled in early BTAS; we know they didn't care about these characters but they dod their hardest to make them INTERESTING since their names were on this.
The Sewer King is a weird villain but to just fucking yeet him like that because 'lol lame' is.....lame.
Oh yeah I 100% agree with that, want to know a villain I think should get a revamp/justice, killer moth. He has a badass name and moths are a goldmine for cool designs so why does no one update him (the teen titans show tried a bit, gave him an awesome design but still sorta made him a bit of a joke with a teenage bratty daughter) I think an actually talented writer can turn what is at first glance a lame character/idea/power and turn it into something cool. there’s this great funny comic about comparing comics/manga where this guy had the power to make bubblegum, in the western comic they just laugh at his power but in the eastern comic he uses the power to fill peoples lounges with bubblegum and that’s what I’m talking about, turn a lame power into something intimidating
In the Harley Quinn animated series we get to see Condiment King as a rival to Poison Ivy's betrothed Kite man...
I think sewer king would make a solid early days villain for Batman not a huge threat but a chance to remind people that he's human and if he loses the element of surprise a fairly fit person can be a threat then pivot to Bruce getting him scared and showing how powerful fear is by having it make him go from being a threat to utterly helpless,
Credit to character actor Michael Pataki for a memorable performance as Sewer King.
2:08 OMG what an 70s-80s anime kid design, poor kid never stood a chance. Looks like a kid from fist of the north star.
Tom King has really made some of the best modern stories in comics but whenever he writes Batman he is a bit hit and miss for me. I can't say that I like his Batman/Catwoman run and everything he did with Andrea Beaumont and in general I'm not really a fan of how he characterizes Batman which is why I'm glad that his Batman/Catwoman run isn't in continuity. City of Bane was just whatever to me and I can't say I enjoyed too much with The Wedding or War of Jokes and Riddles. I don't think I need to mention the issues with Heroes in Crisis. That being said he has written other characters and stories phenomenally like Supergirl Woman of Tomorrow (which deserves a hardcover), his Mister Miracle run, his Human Target run and most recently the tragically unnoticed but incredible Gotham City: Year One. I had mixed thoughts about Riddler: One Bad Day but there were definitely elements I enjoyed. Really looking forward to see what he does with Wonder Woman. I must say Dawn of DC is off to an amazing start.
While I didn’t like his Batman run (despite the reverence he shows for BTAS) I am enjoying Danger Street at the moment. I must admit I only picked it up because of the April Fools Day cover that he drew (it’s so intentionally bad) but I enjoyed the story so much I went back and picked up the rest of it. I’m currently reading his Rorschach miniseries too.
Again I just do not see the appeal.in my opinion all of his comics are terrible
Of course, the Condiment King, in his B:TAS costume despite being implied as being a villain of his own free will in this continuity, also showed up in "The Lego Batman Movie."
Other then the Joker, Clock King lived up to the idea that all it takes is one bad day to drive a person insane
The og Clock King is just... well... tragic.
I think one of the reasons I found clock king to be so compelling was because I went in expecting him to just be a joke character
9:31 the show Arrow would also base their Clock King after Temple Fugate design wise but his Name is William Tockman like his Comic book counterpart
The BtaS version of Clock King was also an influence on his appearance in Arrow.
Another Clock King in the New 52 based on Temple Fugate would be one of 3 Clock King's but he was named William Tockman as would be the 2 other Clock Kings in that continuity so yes their is 3 Clock King's in that universe who coincidentally named William Tockman
One thing that always left me scratching my head in regards to the sewer king is if the whole point of the kids not being allowed to talk so the people above don’t hear them why the hell was he screaming at the top of his lungs like a goddamn lunatic also I feel as though he has a lot of potential to be maybe as disturbing a villain as professor pig maybe a little less disturbing but still pretty damn disturbing
I would say 'The Clown Prince of Crime' is royalty as well. But that's just his nickname.
Those 3 are all underrated
Arrow made Clock King a Green Arrow villain again. I believe his origin had something to do with a sick or dying relative too. Though named after the Green Arrow version he bared much more of a resemblance to the BTAS iteration.
I'm personally awaiting the day Tom King takes a whack at See No Evil or the HARDAC episodes.
The BTAS Clock King doesn’t really have anything to do with the Green Arrow villain, and the name is likely coincidence. He’s based on the Adam West Batman villain, who appears to be based on the Robin villain, the Clock from the 40s comics (both were Bill Finger creations).
Good show 😊😊😊😊
You forgot to mention that New Earth's Condiment King was exposed to Joker Toxin.
Now we have to do videos about Misters, Professors, and Doctors
Sewer King looks like he was in Oasis.
Youknowwha'Imean?
Sewer, Condiment, & Clock ⏰ King 🤴 Surprise!
Temple Fugate is truly the best version of the Clock King. Would be cool if he appeared in a modern Batman movie, show, or game title.
Love the Clock King in the Harley Quinn tv show, who is dating Riddler and drags him to group paint night
All three of them have glasses
The new version of the clock king is better. Even better than the previous version, this new version can manipulate time.
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Eh considering how politicians and political parties are when it comes to making decisions, I think just having a guy who just flips a coin for decisions might just be the best decision.
So, from America, I wish you the best of luck with your new monarch two face!
The Condiment King is Alfred greatest enemy
Long Live King Dent
Why the sewer king kind of look like dollar store Howl from Howls moving castle
Anyone else remember that scary and realistic interpretation of Condiment King from TikToker PandaRed?
The Condiment King made it into the Lego Batman movie. Did you see that?
Yes, I have seen it and got a giggle out of The Condiment King’s brief appearance
if you included Batman Beyond you could have also included King from the Royal Flush Gang.
Hold on... wasn't there a The batman version of the clock king? Someone that got a huge amount of jail time for a tiny accident and soon after the laws were changed? Something something gets the power to rewind time, but is a clumsy guy. Ends with him going back far enough to stop the episode from happening.
Will you be talking about the Royal Flush Gang, from both Justice League and it's evolution into Batman Beyond?
They're on the list!