11 Darkest Moments Of Batman Animated series - Explored - This Cartoon Show Changed Batman Forever
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- The success of Batman: The Animated Series is no secret. It was one of the most popular cartoons of the 90s and it was truly impeccable to see some of Batman’s best stories being animated. Even today, it holds up its candle in terms of popularity.
Even though the series was created for the entertainment of children, it wasn’t one to shy away from diving into darker, more mature themes for its audience, considering DC did intend to appeal to a more mature audience at times.
Throughout several of its episodes, the series dives into themes where we see the villains battling severe mental illnesses as they commit their crimes. We even see Batman suffering from depression as he wallows in despair over his failures. We see strained father and son relationships and a story about a thirty-year-old woman trapped in the body of a five-year-old, something that we later see in the creepy horror movie Orphan, even though the premise for the both are very, very different.
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The Baby Doll episodes remains one of my all-time favorites from the series. It was tragic, powerful, and incredibly messed up, but I truly enjoyed the fact that they portrayed Dahl as really a tragic victim of her circumstances, rather than just another "psycho-loony".
That was one of the few episodes of Batman TAS that genuinely made me cry.
Don't forget what happens when she shows up again in "Love is a Croc", she falls in love with Killer Croc, and the join up, but when he realizes he doesn't love her back, she basically tries to commit suicide and take Croc (and the whole of Gotham) along with her.
And I think there was supposed to be a third episode where she discovers there WAS a treatment that could have made her normal, but her agent and her parents withheld it so she could keep earning them money as a TV star.
And instead of saying anything or locking her up, Batman comforts her, knowing very well how she feels and can, in a way, relate to her.
She isn't a bad guy... she's just hurt and tired. She's stuck without adulthood while Bruce is without a childhood. Neither of them asked for their fates to happen, and yet they have to live with it for the rest of their painful lives.
My favorite Batman TV series! I used to watch it every week on FOX Kids in the 90's. They even brought back the show on Cartoon Network.
Oh yeah, the old sweet 1998.
I missed those time when entertainment was good and no woke agenda and cartoon were really good adaptation of the comic to a certain dagree
90s
FOX KIDS, FOX KIDS, FOX KIDS
Oh oh oh oh oh Fox kids!!!
I actually thought that the episodes about the abusive relationship between Harley and Joker were the darkest. There were two that come to mind. The first was when Harley almost succeeds in killing batman to win Joker's love, only to realize that Joker saw Harley as too beneath him to live his own dream and saves Batman, his ego did not allow for him to be proud of Harley. The second was when Harley tried to leave Joker and became "Roomates" with Poison Ivy. Joker realized his own life is too lacking without somebody to kick around and tracks her down to get her back. Kinda like real life abusers.
Mad Love and Harley & Ivy?
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319 Yeah that's it.
The comics went so much darker
Joker showed harley a room full of other Harleys that hadn't worked out
@@ComicBookGuy420 I remember.
Man I miss the Mark Hamill version.
@@ravensthatflywiththenightm7319
Christmas with the joker😂
Jingle bells batman smells, Robin laid an egg😂
15:55 I don’t think Batman creates more villains, but he reveals people’s inner villains.
Do nothing and the virus continues as normal (crime) administer an antidote and you run the risk of creating super bugs. So yes batman has created more villains sadly.
Agreed .. batman believes in law/order but not a police state... enslaving free will rather they are good or bad
@@pimpjuice192 facts, by getting rid of petty criminals he creates a feeding ground for the really dangerous ones
Isn't that basically what the lawyer said when the Arkham Asylum inmates put Batman on "trial".
Baby Dahl still to this day gets me emotional. She is literally lost in her own misery, and wants to die the last time she remembered being happy
"The Gray Ghost" is a surprisingly dark episode in places as well. A fan of the classic show to the point of dangerous obsession decides to recreate a series of fictional bombings. Not to confront the Ghost or Batman, but simply for money. The amount of lives he could have put in danger...
"Movies don't create psychos, movies make psychos more creative"
- Billy Loomis, Scream
@@alissa6 I love that line.
I love how that episode ends... it's possibly my favorite.
Yea that was a good episode ☺
I remember being able to watch that episode a couple of times as a kid, but I never would have guessed that it featured the original Batman himself, Adam West, since I was even able to watch reruns of the 1960s Batman TV series when I was just a few years old before BTAS had aired afterwards.
"Batman exposed a currupt cop, leading him to become a villain". my guy, he was cop - and crooked one - he was already a villain
True but they looked at the idea of repeat offenders being kept behind bars kinda
Man, this show was the most epic thing to ever be made. The finest superhero cartoon around and I was happy to have watched it multiple times. Heck, I even loved the Batman: TAS movies they made. Each one was unique in its own way and quite dark, too. As for its episodes, they were very good to watch. Course, I remember plenty of dark stuff that was featured in several other episodes of Batman: The Animated Series.
For the first one, in episodic order, I remember the episode Nothing to Fear had some dark stuff and it was the debut episode for Professor Crane aka the Scarecrow. I mean, Scarecrow is one freaky bastard who knows his fears and uses his smarts to use them for vengeance. I mean, his comic origins wind up being sympathetic if you read them and discover how he came to be who he would become later, but he was still pretty messed up. Heck, the professor he had from Gotham University seeing himself turn to a skeleton due to him fearing his own mortality and his age. That's just as scary as the security guard at the Gotham Bank being surrounded by spiders and Arachnophobia is nothing to laugh at nor should it be.
Another dark one I remember was the two parter Two Face where Gotham DA and Bruce Wayne's friend Harvey Dent ends up becoming the iconic criminal. No thanks to Rupert Thorne messing with him and Harvey for not wising up to fix the problems he had with Big Bad Harv. Seeing Harvey Dent become a different person when BB Harv surfaces and a silhouette of Two Face as the lightning struck outside the psychiatrist's office was freaky and disturbing. Not to mention Harvey ending up his infamous disfigured self due to Thorne's goon causing the accident and how horrified Batman was when he saw the aftermath. Hell, even Grace, his fiancee, was fear struck when she saw him all scarred up. It was not only freaky, but sad, too.
The second part was nuts, too, and the same going for the end of the episode. It was intense and amazingly well done. Kudos to the crew behind the show and for that episode. Another one I definitely remember was the legendary Heart of Ice episode and it was heartbreaking to see what one man's greed, ruthlessness, and callousness towards life did to someone who only wanted to save the one thing that gave him purpose and life. For Dr. Fries, people do crazy things when they're in love despite how they're done. Mr. Freeze may have been the primary antagonist of the episode due to Batman needing to stop his vengeance from coming full circle, but it was Ferris Boyle who was the true monster of it all.
There are several other episodes from The Animated Series that had dark, mature, dramatic, and heartwrenching moments, but they're all just as amazing and intriguing to watch. Heck, a couple of them wound up getting an Emmy Award each for the spectacular work done in its making. Same going for the great VA work we would later recognize in other DC animated shows, video games, and movies. I'm telling you, without Batman: TAS, the DC universe and its media projects wouldn't be what they are today. I'm really grateful for this being created and I will always continue to enjoy Batman: TAS until the day I die.
_Batman: Mask of the Phantasm_ is one of the top 3 Batman movies ever made.
You my man, are gorgeous. I love to see someone with true appreciation. Right on.
@@CountArtha I agree with you 100%. I watched Mask of the Phantasm on VHS when I was a teenager and loved it. Now as a middle aged man I had the opportunity to watch it in theaters when they brought it back for 1 night only for it's 25th anniversary, and it was just as fantastic as I remembered it , even after all this time. Even my teenage son really enjoyed.
Darkest episode to me is still Mudslide ( besides Mad Love). At the time, we the audience thought Clayface truly died falling into the water. It wouldn't be til the new animated series debut that we knew he was ok...but created another dark episode..."Growing Pains"...
This show went where many kids shows, even today fear to go as it tackles mature themes, if anything, this show not only educates, it gets one to think and doesn't present the answers outright, such as dealing with depression and suicide, there's also drug abuse, plus revenge, it covers a lot of themes and yet remains entertaining without treating the viewers as idiots, that is how you create a show that stands the test of time,not course having a good animation team doesn't hurt either!!
Something that current day shows very much lack, hence why they tend to fail hard.
@@Mate397 Honestly I don't think kid shows nowaday don't try to explore adult topics, its just what they are allowed to explore and talk about is more limited than it should be.
@@jensennguyen02 Problem is talentless writers if anything. Back in the day people were hired based on merit and skill now it's more about filling a checkbox.
@@Mate397 From what I've seen, its more like nepotism. Because someone worked on a good show, like Adventure time, they're put in charge of other shows. A lot of programs have the same people working on them.
Then there's the art school egos. The ones who can make amazing artwork but never did a creative writing course. They get put in charge of shows like Steven Universe and try and make their magnum opus but it fails because its drip fed when the story isn't working for serialization.
I think that the other reason why kid's media doesn't tackle many topics is that it uses the term children's media instead of family programming, heavily underestimating that children can handle supposedly hard topics. Mainly because, unfortunately, a lot of children experience similar things every day.
Another thing is that, because the creators forget that, it can lead to some screwed up conclusions. The 2010's was filled with shows like Steven Universe, Legend of Korra, MLP and, sadly as its a show I liked, Rise of the TNT which all tackled abuse but in ways that would depict the creators as either incredibly naive or pulling a Blizzard Games. LoK not only did the "abusive girlfriends are comedy" joke but also had a character need to have their abuser guide them through the healing process. Meanwhile, the other three showed some of the vilest abusers in children's media but gave the message of "you must forgive them without a need for atonement because they're family. A very dangerous message indeed.
Apparently the writers didn't write a children's show, but an adult show safe for children.
This show will always hold up. It's truly timeless.
One episode that is always stuck in my head is the one with Batman confronting a child trafficker and freeing the children.
What episode was that? 😵
@@mad_as_Hat.terish The rat king episode I think
@@drhody4229
I just found a book series on Batman called
Batman: The Ultimate Evil.
Reading the plot, and your skin will crawl. =/
Ah the nostalgia from these. I watched em as a kid and the cat humanoid, a few scarecrow episode, and Baby Doll stuck out to me the most. I remember most of the episodes though. I haven't seen the show since I was in elementary school, this made me feel so nostalgic. I remember crying far too much as a kid and sympathizing or relating to some of them. This show was so fantastic, honestly.
I think They can Use Baby Doll More Just like Clayface and Mr Freeze,,She wants to be cured,No matter the Cost to Other People.
Objection, Lyle Bolton was already a villain, Batman didn't drive him to anything, just exposed him.
To me, this will always be the perfect realization of Batman and The Joker.
The episode where Poison Ivy turns people into trees are nightmare fuel if anything and should've been on the list I think.
You could make a list of darkest Johnny Quest episodes. There You have something to work with.
The episode “it’s never too late” is dark as hell and is one of my favorites
Really liked that.
A superhero cartoon episode about drugs, and it's portrayed in a subtle way. Sounds sureal.
Surprised you didn’t mention the episode where bane almost pops when his venom pump breaks. That sht was brutal
I sorta had a revelation about the Mad Hatter, as when I watched it growing up, I could feel sorry for Jarvis, but as an adult, I recognize he's kind of a monster as he takes away other people's free will using his mind control tech to make himself happy, and the reason you feel sorry for him is that he's kind of a geek who isn't as physically attractive like Alice's boyfriend, so he feels like kind of an underdog when he really isn't as he's got freckin' mind control tech that turns people into his mind controlled slaves. The Arkham series did a good job of showing how someone like Jarvis could be disturbing and helps paint the old BTAS episode in a different more disturbing light.
He wanted to play mad hatter 36 years earlier but that jerk west made him a "Book Worm" Then a Vulture and a Diva let him play narrator in a audio book
Not to mention in the comics he is just a serial Rapist/ kidnapper
I have no sympathy for the Mad Hatter. He's a quintessential Nice Guy. Unrequited love sucks but he was never entitled to Alice's love or affection. And when he couldn't have her consensually, he kidnapped her, took away her free will, and kept her prisoner as his living fantasy doll.
He was the quintessential- unintended consequences× greater good×selfish× whose heroe/whose villain kinda character... more complex than we realized as kids watching it in the 90s
I can see where you are going with his first appearance, but in some of the later ones they really start to up the sympathy. The next time you see him, he isn't trying to get revenge on batman, just steal enough money so he can go to some tropical island and start a new life away from all this. Not exactly a noble goal, but he could have done a lot worse things. And the next time, he basically gives Batman the "Life" he always wanted, just to get him off his back. He has batman helpless, and could kill him any time, but he just lets him enjoy his private paradise. Or he could have locked him in a nightmare world and he doesn't.
Actually, MOST of the Hatter's plans seem to simply involve getting money rather than hurting people. He's certainly obsessive (and he did admit he'd have killed Alice rather than let her go.) but he isn't sadistic the way the joker is.
Of course, I'm only talking about the Roddy McDowell Mad Hatter, the later portrayals seem to make him a lot skeezier.
You should've included Barbara's nightmare sequence and when the Joker pushed Harley out the window.
True, but thats season 4 and this guy doesn´t do that, obviously.
@@thepeculiarswede8617 Well he should.
@@garthdavis4320 True.
The villain voice actors in this show were insane!!! As a kid I did know a few. Roddy McDowell (Planet of the Apes) as Mad Hatter, Mark Hamil as Joker, Paul Williams (Smokey and the Bandit) as Penguin, Richard Moll (Night Court) as 2 Face, Ron Pearlman (Hellboy) as Clayface. Hell, even Dan O'Herlihy did a voice!!!!!!
Going back now and watching it.... pure joy.
congrats on Ron, took me a few years to feel comfortable to watch Hellboy
Mr.Freeze and Dahl were two of the most tragic characters in BTAS Freeze just wanted his wife to be OK and Dahl wanted to be "Normal" Both victims of fate.
Yep 😔
And, with Mr. Freeze, the real kicker is that, when his wife finally IS revived, he can't go to her, because the freezing process has destroyed everything but his head. He's the one villain who ultimately does get what he wants, and he can't enjoy it when he does.
@@sojoboscribe1342 Dahl almost got what she wanted too as I think there's an episode where she finds out there was a treatment that could fix her disorder, but her parents withheld it so she could make more money being a child star.
@@vaporwave2339 That episode was proposed, but never actually done (unless it was in the comics).
I was 4 years old when this show came out I had all the toys and everything my sisters would come get or my mum would yell out to say it was on they all knew it was my favourite.. how ironic that 29 years later Batman is still my all time favourite hero..
Fun fact: Robbie Rist, who played Cousin Oliver in the Brady Bunch, appeared in "Baby Doll" as Cousin Spunky's actor.
He was also the voice of Michelangelo from the TMNT Movie Triology as well They modeled him to like he was in 93
I think this video is missing the point of Lockup, as he was kinda already a villain (albeit not a costumed one yet) as he was able to strike fear in the freckin' Scarecrow of all people and even made Harley Quinn (who has a relationship with someone as unpredictable as The Joker) fearful of him. All Batman (as Bruce Wayne) did was show everyone the monster they were dealing with and how he abused his authority. The problem with Lockup, is that his methods are both fascist and draconian, while Batman can still see people like Scarecrow, Harley Quinn, and The Ventriloquist as mentally ill human beings who have the potential to be rehabilitated (Harley Quinn herself is kinda proof of this as in the animated Batman Beyond film it is implied she eventually reformed after The Joker's death following the tragedy of what The Joker did to Tim Drake). Lockup can also be seen as a dark reflection of Batman as both take the law into their own hands, yet Batman still respects the law to a degree while Lockup thinks if your not part of the solution, then your part of the problem, believing that the ends justify the means, failing to recognize he is as bad if not worse than the people he lock ups. At the end, the episode reveals that Lockup is as insane as the rest of the inmates at Arkham (and another example of a member of Arkham Asylum staff becoming one of the inmates).
Scarecrow would think Lock Up is asshole for sure, but he would have absolutely admired if not been orgasmic from his ability to create fear. Then grow tired of him when he lacks flair for the type of Halloween ish methods he prefers. Probably would consider him a prodigy or a top henchman. He would never agree to work for a dramatic terrorist though and call Crane q wimp for needing gas to be scary instead of his own natural ability to intimidate. So they'd just kill each other.
You made a good point about creating more villains while protecting Gotham, even if it was accidental. That would be a neat video; discussing all the villains he created
depends on the individual. joker for sure.
Not BTAS, but from two moments in the broader universe come two of the best, most tragic character moments I’ve ever seen:
The death of Ace in Justice League Unlimited and the death of Freeze in Batman Beyond.
The moment when Ace asks if she’s going to die and asks Batman to stay with her… the pain and fear and desperation in her voice. A kid that never got to have her own childhood. Robbed of her childhood and her life, just so someone could have their perfect weapon.
And yet somehow Freeze’s death is even worse. He was a man who only wanted to save his wife. He lost his humanity, his body, his very life to the greed of others.
“You’ve gotta get out of here Freeze! The place is gonna blow.”
“Believe me… You’re the only one who cares.”
Yeah that was a tragic one.
Bolton is such an unappreciated character. He always seemed the most "real" to me - an abuser from the place of power. And what's the best about him is that most people would be on his side too, if we lived in the Batman universe. I just don't like how he went full on villain. But I guess if he didn't the episode would be too gray for children. Hell, even for most adults.
Bolton was actually right. Gotham City Officials, Police, Arkham Doctors and Batman are to blame for the criminals. They don't want to do what had to be done. The Joker can literally kill thousands of people at once, be arrested, sent into Arkham and escape in a week...and nothing basically happens to him.
@@juliobrian4757 I love Bolton. I'm seriously thinking about making a video on him
He'd be a blue line bootlicker for sure. Then tell everyone they weren't being cruel enough. Then call God a pussy for not making Hell infinitely bad enough. Dude gets off on punishment & authority until nobody likes him anymore.
I still want Baby Doll to appear in the comics. I think she would make a great mob boss.
Yup.
She should've ended up with Scarface.
My Favorite was Batman Mask of Phantasm and the Episode Judgement Day (Two-Face's 3rd personality being an Antihero Judge). Imagine Batman's Enemy "Man-Bat" vs. Spiderman's Enemy "The Lizard", interesting Fight/Battle!
Mask of the Phantasm was absolutely amazing I just recently discovered that again
I honestly enjoyed the episode “Baby Doll” that had a bittersweet ending
8:12 I love how Joker was the one enraged by being compared to Batman instead of the other way around
I can never get enough of BTAS videos especially count downs love this!
Batman screaming and absolutely losing it is the most hilarious and scariest thing I have ever seen on the animated series.
Okay, I have to disagree about the ending to the Demon's Quest Part 2... Batman didn't let Ras fall to his death, he was desperately trying to reach out and save him from falling in (He even shouted out "Give me your hand!" as Ras was just out of reach).
Ras simply accepted his fate and allowed himself to fall in. You willingly left that part out, so what the Hell man?
I know this show originally aired on Fox Kids, but I see Batman the animated series as more as a Cartoon Network show because that's how I was introduced to this show.
I remember it on fox kids in the 90s... loved it never forgot about this series. In fact it was 4pm but they moved it as late as they could- i think due to older audiences tuning in.... it came on at 5pm
14:53 "...He sets to target the liEberal media..."
THAT actually makes him a HERO.
No other Batman cartoon comes close to this one. This is the only cartoon show that my dad actually liked watching with me, and since he’s retired and I got all 4 seasons of it in dvd, right now we’re sharing a bottle of Jameson and kicked back in our recliners watching his favorite episode Two Face part 1 and 2
Beautiful video and has some of my favorite episodes :) Please upload more Batman animated series videos :)
You're wrong at 3:45. Batman tried to save Ras, not letting him down. Ras fell there purposely.
How about the time Batman cuts Bane's cords to his "Venom" device and almost kills him. That's pretty dark especially when we see his scared face and him being overdosed with his own serum. *Shudders*
Just got Batman Beyond and Teen Titans on blu ray a few days ago gonna be getting Batman TAS for my birthday in July this year
Another dark episode is the one about a drug dealer whose son almost dies of an overdose.
On his father's own drugs no less.
What did Batman ever do to Lyle Bolton? The guy was insane from the start, he got himself fired, went even further bonkers kidnapping a bunch of people and was eventually stopped, none of it was Bruce's fault
I grew up with this series and I still love it today, I’m 25 and not ashamed of saying that this series does more then the live action movies do, show us the human side of Batman with the balance of Bruce Wayne and Batman and develop the characters from season one to 4 I know season 4 got character changes but that’s ok to me the character development and the characters I grew up loving even the villains where still great, thank you Paul Dinni and of Course Bob Kane (R.I.P) for such a great tv series and superhero that I can connect too,
A treasure for me to watch in the 90s 😊
What an awsome show. So many dark characters. I loved Heart of Steel episodes. Best parts Terminator, Batman and psychological thriller.
Feat of Clay parts 1&2 are amazing
Loved this series. But I was kinda hoping the episode with killer crop manipulating a circus group to kill batman abd the episode with man bat returning but turns out its the scientists wife who was accidentally turned would make the list. But batman animated for fox had alot of dark episodes
“Joker’s favor” is one of my faves!! My dude flips off the joker in traffic!!!
A high quality show. We need more like this, please!
Great vid
The best adaptation of Batman outside of the comic books. Easily the finest superhero cartoon series
Absolutely! A joy to watch in the 90s
When clay face wants his "daughter" back 😭
No mention of any of the Clayface episodes at all? They're the darkest of all.
You know what.... i agree but clayface episode lacked the real life implications these characters/episodes did.... ex. Coping with loss, manipulation, physical disorders etc
@@NAT-turners-Revenge I appreciate you taking the time to reply and see where you're coming from. I do think that the strength of the Clayface stories is that they're absolutely loaded with subtext. For instance, I see similarities between Feat of Clay and rape revenge movies like Last House on the Left. That story also covers subjects like substance abuse, domestic violence (poor Teddy!), trauma and identity.
Similarly, if you view Clayface as the a queer character it's hard not to read Mudslide as being an allegory for the AIDS crisis of the 1980's/early 90's. And don't get me started on poor Annie - not only did Clayface asexually reproduce, but he doesn't accept her identity, which can be read as a trans allegory.
They're also really fucking scary (or maybe that's just me!)
Sorry for the essay!
“Holds up “? My friend Batman the animated series is God tier to this day
21:57 I am surprised to this day, that Batman did not get deputized, there and then for that courageous rescue, and returning to fight crime.
Talia Al Ghul is so freaking hot in Batman the Animated series. Especially in that rocking belly dancer costume. 🔥
Yeah, weird.
Wtf
Agreed she's hot AF in the comics too
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My top1 is a little bit meta.
Do you remember how funny is an episode about Joker trying to win the stand-up contest? Well, events of The Killing Joke take place at the BTAS universe. He still wants to be the best comedian in Gotham even if it's cant change his life anymore. He became a completely different person, but at this point, he still lives his past.
Killing Joke isn’t canon to the DCAU. Joker was a mobster before falling in the chemicals as revealed in MOTP.
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But they used parts of it in later stories
How is it not defined as Canon when they use parts of it?
@@ComicBookGuy420 What parts? Barbara is very much still walking around during the time of Beyond.
@@notspider-man7777
Part of Jokers origin is still used, albeit different
What the joker did to Barbera prior to shooting her
What he put Gordon through and Gordon working through the ptsd
A lot of it has actually been used after Killing Joke
@@notspider-man7777 some parts where used or planned to be used such as Joker's chemical bath, joker kidnapping jim a holding him hostage at a fair ground in the animated series comic book and for a cancelled JLU episode Barabra broke her legs and temporally became oracle to help stop a Man Bat army.
"The Joker plants a bomb in a childrens party" Is only #4 lmao this show is great
You remind me of the Narrator from the How It's Made show. Cool video.
In this brief moment at 8:20, the Joker's hair is completely green, as it should be.
here in 2024 and BATMAN TAS are still the best even after those years. takes "old is gold" to whole new level.
Batman TAS and the brief sequel series remain my most Treasured Plundered Booty.
He didn't create Bolton at all, he was a villain way before he put on that costume.
NICE VID!
I'm just realizing every single batman villain is a victim of sercumstance and afflicted none have real powers by choice is always tragic backstory and it's usually trying to do what they had to for family
Gotta love shirtless Batman still wearing his cowl lol also it's "ray-sh" not "roz."
He also said Nora 🍟
Its neither Raysh or Roz. It's Ras(Rass).
@@alissa6 it's rashe in tas universe in christian bale batman it's raz
I watched these as an adult and they sstill hit hard even after a few watches.
Lockup was already a villain before he became Lockup. He was already unhinged and was incrediby heavy handed. Eventually he would have been caught, and he would have become Lockup
That one with joker taking that kid to his carnival was super unsettling.
3:42 Lmao they took his shirt off, but left the mask on.
16:11 “ransforming” I think you’re missing a letter
Btas is hands down my favorite. I watch this with my son's, they love it as well.
"Did Batman create more villains as he tried to make Gotham crime-free?"
The answer to that is NO.
If you look at the origin stories of each villain, their reasons for turning to a life of crime had nothing to do with Batman. In fact, the lady district attorney from the "Trial" episode pointed out that these people would've turned out exactly the same regardless if Bruce became Batman or not. Both that episode and Mask of the Phantasm even established that Batman's villains created him first because the Joker killing Phantasm's father caused her to call off her engagement to Bruce resulting in him becoming Batman and Andrea becoming Phantasm.
Preaching to the choir, sister.
Essentially, Lockup was already a villain. People forget that Arkham is for the mentally unwell villains. Just add in Freeze to the inquiry and Lockup would have been harassing the weakest, most sympathetic villains. Batman didn't make him a villain. He was just the first person who told him no and stopped him from being in a position that included power of authority which he had abused. It was his choice to abuse his authority and attack all the groups.
The only reason why there's more villains is that they're ticked off that someone stopped them.
yeah Lockup was already beating on the inmates. He was just one step away from becoming the villain.
Same with Mad Hatter. If Batman didnt get involved, him and Alice would of got married and lived a hypnotic life together. Sure its wrong, but when Batman got involved, Jervis went full villain.
Even Riddler. He just wanted revenge on a games developer who stole from him. Batman intervened and Riddler declared vengeance.
Batman saving Harvey from Ivy created the two villains in the long run as well.
Batman isn’t responsible for someone’s fragile ego.
So didn't notice this last time but Batman didn't "lead" Boltan to become a criminal he was already messed up to begin with
TAS had alot of hard hitting moments like these... i think out of the ones listed here, the Baby one was the hardest.
I think the darkest one would of had to be the torture and brainwashing of young robin by Joker...though, i suppose this doesn't exactly count in terms of being in TAS since it was a flashback scene in Batman Beyond. (if i remember right)
Poor Tygrus, I totally forgot about him.
Batman The Animated series was so awesome
2:32 I love this video and anything BTAS! But how can you misread Noras last name as 'Fries' when talking about Mr. Freeze in the same sentence?!
Lol not to mention calling Ra's "Roz". Like... did he WATCH the show?
A couple of these episodes scared me.
thought you were going to break down why these shows were dark but it's really just summaries of the shows.
Baby doll still f*cks me up everytime
9:30 As Batman escapes his straight-jacket, the Joker grumbles "They don't make straight-jackets like they used to." Breaking the fourth wall, he adds, "I oughta know."
God, that Baby Doll episode was something else...
Don't worry folks grant walker got out of the ice but he most likely died when his body deteriorated.
You forgot when Clayface made a daughter, then at the end of the episode re-absorbs her, ending her life
Lockdown was one of the eeriest villains in the series in that he showed what Batman might have become
I really miss how most shows nowadays, is literally just "add gore = mature".
The story has suffered immensely due to that in many modern shows and movies.
Awesome
I don't remember a lot about that Mr Freeze episode, but I definitely remember that an immortal guy sunk to the bottom of the ocean in a big ice cube and how fucked that was.
I remember thinking a lot of episodes seemed dumb but that's maybe because most it probably went over my head as a kid. I bet I'd appreciate it more now as a grown adult. I also know a little more batman lore now through those Arkham games.
It still surprises me that Mark Hamil Was the Joker in this
*Walker eventually stopped thinking*
One of my favorite moments is from an Uber-rare Uber-powerful story involving Batman and Joker. Most of the time, Joker’s daring Batman to kill him--but THIS time, Joker’s begging Batman to let him commit suicide! In Part I of this three-part story, called “April Fool”, Joker discovers he has a daughter and ironically owes Batman for reuniting them. He comes THIS close to reforming for her sake, out of pure real fatherly love, but tragedy shatters that joy and hope forever. And in his agony, Joker contemplates hurling himself off the hospital rooftop, but Batman won’t let him. And the conversation they have is gut-wrenching and heartbreaking:
Joker: Let me go! Let me fall! Let me die! Please, Batman! Let me die! We both know the world will be far better off once I’m no longer in it!
Batman: They won’t let you into Heaven if you do this!
Joker: Even if I get cast down, and I’m forever parted from April, and my daily torment is visions of her in Heaven--at least I’d get to see her again--hear her laugh--see her smile! PLEASE, Batsy! Let my pain end! Let me go!
Batman: I can’t do that, Jack! We BOTH made her a promise! Remember?
(Joker completely breaks down in tears and cries his heart out in Batman’s arms)
And Joker’s grief is taken advantage of by an assassin in Part II, called “Lovelorn”, and in Part III: “Wedding Blues For Batman”, Joker and Batman sing a duet together, a sad lamenting ballad for Joker’s dearly-departed daughter.
"I didn't mean to.."
fun fact, the voice actor for Ra's Al Ghoul is the same actor for the Lobe on freakazoid. he died this year. RIP.
I think the ending of SUBZERO is a classic "back shot of an Arctic base, 2 scientists watching the tv. The tv news says that Nora Fries has been revived & undergone an organ transplant Mr. Freeze's cryogenic technology is complemented for saving her life.
Though everyone thinks Freeze is dead
He watches it through the window with a tear in his eye & walks away into the ice."
so in the episode where Gordon is shot Batman actually tells Robin to let him handle it after he comes to his senses
Legendary Classic
1 - They say "Walker," but they mean "Disney."
2 - This was my childhood furry-moment(Selena as a REAL Cat Woman XD)