Current Events > Batman TAS premiered 25 years ago today

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jesus i'm old
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The GOAT cartoon show
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I remember watching it after school.

Thanks for making me feel old.
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Scarecrow 4 Lyfe
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Imagine. I was 2 years old when that happened.
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Well I know what Im gonna be watching tonight

On Leathery Wings, the pilot episode, inspired me to draw a picture of the climax with the moon in the background and Batman hanging onto the Man-Bat with the grappling hook's cable wrapped around his foot.


There's a reason why I'm bitter about Batman being bitter. I can never see the character through adult eyes. It's always from the perspective of that young boy who was inspired to draw the hero he watched in that first episode. I still stand by that. The Red Skies Batman. The Dark Knight. The bitter Bruce Wayne of the future. That will never be my Batman.

My Batman will always be the hero from those first few seasons.

Shotgunnova posted...

Scarecrow 4 Lyfe

+ riddler
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I always preferred the 2004 animated series tbh
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Garioshi posted...

I always preferred the 2004 animated series tbh

Must suck being born in 1997, huh?
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Shadowplay posted...

Garioshi posted...

I always preferred the 2004 animated series tbh

Must suck being born in 1997, huh?

You're off by about 3 years.
Regardless, I have to give the original animated series credit where it's due: This is fucking hilarous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYgJ5oTccWY
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young_flip posted...

Shotgunnova posted...

Scarecrow 4 Lyfe

+ riddler

TAS Riddler was pretty great, true.
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God I watched that in middle school. Thanks for helping my mid life crisis along TC!

Great show. The literal best representation of Batman on screen. Mask of the Phantasm being the best Batman movie. Which I saw at the theater.
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Jeez
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Gave birth to the definitive versions of many DC characters for an entire generation. That's impressive.
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young_flip posted...

Shotgunnova posted...

Scarecrow 4 Lyfe

+ riddler

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dave_is_slick posted...

Gave birth to the definitive versions of many DC characters for an entire generation. That's impressive.

Harley Quinn comes to mind. Granted she premiered in Batman Adventues but TAS made her mainstream popular.
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I watched through this recently and does anyone else notice the large gap in quality between the episodes Paul Dini wrote and the ones he didn't?
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https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/eoemt2hy9jhdai1fpcjw.png


This is the Catwoman they had and Harley Quinn was the popular one. I will never, ever, so long as I live, understand this generation. :|

thanosibe posted...

dave_is_slick posted...

Gave birth to the definitive versions of many DC characters for an entire generation. That's impressive.

Harley Quinn comes to mind. Granted she premiered in Batman Adventues but TAS made her mainstream popular.

Lex, Darkseid, and the Joker for me.
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dave_is_slick posted...

thanosibe posted...

dave_is_slick posted...

Gave birth to the definitive versions of many DC characters for an entire generation. That's impressive.

Harley Quinn comes to mind. Granted she premiered in Batman Adventues but TAS made her mainstream popular.

Lex, Darkseid, and the Joker for me.

Mark Hamill definitely nailed Joker in mainstream popularity. Even arguably more than Caesar Romero or Jack Nicholson. And the crossovers with Superman did get me interested in reading Superman where I hadn't before.
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thanosibe posted...

dave_is_slick posted...

Gave birth to the definitive versions of many DC characters for an entire generation. That's impressive.

Harley Quinn comes to mind. Granted she premiered in Batman Adventues but TAS made her mainstream popular.

She premiered in TAS where she was just planned to be a one-episode character. They literally just needed someone to hop out of a cake at a part for Gordon and they thought it'd be weird if Joker himself did it.

Her origin story first showed up in The Batman Adventures, but she was around for a while before that.

dave_is_slick posted...

Lex, Darkseid, and the Joker for me.

If any version of Darkseid can't have him say the line, "I am many things, Kal-El. But here, I am God."

Then it's a lackluster version.
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thanosibe posted...

Mark Hamill definitely nailed Joker in mainstream popularity. Even arguably more than Caesar Romero or Jack Nicholson

Whenever I read a comic, I hear Mark and Kevin.
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pegusus123456 posted...

If any version of Darkseid can't have him say the line, "I am many things, Kal-El. But here, I am God."

Then it's a lackluster version.

It pisses me off to no end that we won't here him say that in the movies
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TheoryzC posted...

pegusus123456 posted...

If any version of Darkseid can't have him say the line, "I am many things, Kal-El. But here, I am God."

Then it's a lackluster version.

It pisses me off to no end that we won't here him say that in the movies

The line was great already but when I rewatched their confrontation, right before they fight he says "I am many things, Kal-El. You can't even begin to imagine. But for now, I'll play the role of executioner." It makes that final line even more powerful since it is a callback to this previous line.
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thanosibe posted...

dave_is_slick posted...

Gave birth to the definitive versions of many DC characters for an entire generation. That's impressive.

Harley Quinn comes to mind. Granted she premiered in Batman Adventues but TAS made her mainstream popular.

She premiered in TAS @thanosibe
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Garioshi posted...

I always preferred the 2004 animated series tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n5E7feJHw0
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SSBBSB posted...

jesus i'm old

I don't think it should count seeing as it was done on an emulator.

@ArchiePeck Wrong topic?
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spikethedevil posted...

thanosibe posted...

dave_is_slick posted...

Gave birth to the definitive versions of many DC characters for an entire generation. That's impressive.

Harley Quinn comes to mind. Granted she premiered in Batman Adventues but TAS made her mainstream popular.

She premiered in TAS @thanosibe

My mistake. I thought she was in the comics first.
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Wrong topic?

I think it's a pun on "TAS."

The Animated Series
Tool-Assisted Speedrun
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Didn't even think of that lol.
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We share a birth year, ayyyy.
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Xelltrix posted...

We share a birth year, ayyyy.

Neat!
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The art style was beautiful:
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Xelltrix posted...

We share a birth year, ayyyy.

I just realized that I do too.
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One of the best cartoons based on a superhero comicbook. It's because of this that villains like Mr Freeze and Poison Ivy started to be more prominent in the comics. Hell beforehand the former was really nothing more than a joke villain and wasn't really taken that seriously.

Garioshi posted...

I always preferred the 2004 animated series tbh

I do give the 2004 series credit for having Hugo Strange as a recurring villain. Whereas he only made just one appearance in TAS. Unless you read comics at the time, you probably ended up thinking that Strange was a villain that the writer's made up for the show and dropped afterwards.


Shadowplay posted...

Must suck being born in 1997, huh?

You know you really don't have to be born a certain era to prefer one show over the other right? I grew up with the original TMNT cartoon. But I like the 2003 version more.
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I did really enjoy The Batman as well, I know there are plenty that don't, though. Batman Beyond was great, too. I remember initially being against watched The Batman because of how anime it looked but it ended up being pretty awesome. I also remembered hating Beyond and refusing to watch it because "that's not Batman!" but, of course, it ended up being great so that was on me.


You'd think with this pattern that I'd give The Brave and the Bold a chance, but I really don't generally like funny Batman.
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^What I didn't like about The Batman was it seemed all the villains were supervillains. Even characters like Penguin were top notch hand to hand fighters. Which to me, took the individuality out of the characters, making them all kung fu fighters. I did like The Batman's Croc though.

Brave and the Bold is good, but yeah it's not in anyway as serious as TAS and The Batman. I went into it to just watch a few episodes and see what it was like. I liked some episodes a lot and some were pretty flat. I liked that Solomon Grundy was just like he was in the old comics. Not that I don't like modern Grundy too. The other plus was Batmite "hosting" the show. That added some good comedy to it. I ended up watching the whole series, but like The Batman I wouldn't have much interest in watching it again, unlike as much as I watch TAS.
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I dunno, I liked that they had physical ability, particularly Joker since his fighting was fun to watch. It's not like they actually had any real chance of beating Batman, they barely landed hits on him even with their moves. They toned it down throughout the series though since fans complained about it.
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Kevin Conroy is the definitive Batman
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Xelltrix posted...

I dunno, I liked that they had physical ability, particularly Joker since his fighting was fun to watch. It's not like they actually had any real chance of beating Batman, they barely landed hits on him even with their moves. They toned it down throughout the series though since fans complained about it.

It certainly wasn't a big beef, as I watched the whole series. Just something different that I noticed.

BlueBoy675 posted...

Kevin Conroy is the definitive Batman

Yes.
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thanosibe posted...

It certainly wasn't a big beef, as I watched the whole series. Just something different that I noticed.

that and the way he is drawn. I'm watching some now. his body is more muscular than joker tends to be, almost to an simian-like quality where even his feet can be used as an opposable hand. then his attitude seems to be much more menacing, even though his antics are the nearly the same, the way his face is drawn you don't get the same impression of mirth and gaiety amidst the thirst for death and destruction. just my 2c
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