Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader? The Batman (2004)
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The design of the characters is one of my favourite things about this show.
The Batman still one of my faves
Yes. And when they do that episode in the future with The Dark Knight Returns, it’s *chiefs kiss*
@@dragon_ninja_2186 chiefs? you mean chef right?
I specially love the look the jokes has on this show, like a moenkey dancer.
Oh my god, I owned one of those Batmobile toys (the ones for action figures, not the ones for kids) when I was a little kid. I loved that thing so much I legit slept with it instead of my teddy bear.
I remember the clayface episode scared the shit out of me
My personal head canon is that Teen Titans takes place a few years after this show, due to the similar art styles and similar Robin designs.
But about the show itself, I love The Batman. He's my favorite version of the character and this how underrated this show is. I love it so much.
I spent so much time in my childhood trying to build out a mental canon for all the versions of these characters together.
@@ChristianNeises I've heard from others that support the Teen Titans/The Batman headcanon that Legion of Superheroes could fit into this hypothetical fan timeline as well, as a sequel to Teen Titans and origin story for Superman, but I haven't seen it so idk I there's contradictions.
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How would you explain the big difference in each show's Killer Moth?
@@GamerSlyRatchet1 they're different killer moths
This guy only has 11 subscribers and already has merch. Ahead of the game.
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@@ChristianNeises sorry but what does 92 days stand for? And why such a specific number?
As someone who got into batman/DC as an adult but was suffering from a lot of anxiety at that time, I started with watching these child-friendly adaptations - the batman, Lego batman, justice League action - before binging the animated series. and although I can't help but adore Kevin as batman, the batman has a special place in my heart. I just love the humanity that Bruce gets to have, the cheesy public appearances, the acts of charity he does simply because he feels sympathy - see the first (?) episode where Langstrom lies about wanting to find a cure for his deaf granddaughter, and Bruce showing up to their place with a gift of hearing aids and using ASL. Just. Sigh. I love him.
'Child-friendly' The Batman... * looks at the season 1 finale * ... ya The Batman isn't child-friendly
There was a time when "child friendly" didn't mean "dumbing down," and it's sad to see the current state of kids' media.
Personally I grew up with this show and it was the first Batman show I ever watched and in my opinion is the greatest Batman show created(no not better than TAS they are equal in my eyes but I love this show more)
Same here
I watched this show more than TAS. While yes TAS is great, this show deserves to be praised and recognized among some the best pieces of Batman media
Such an underrated show. I feel like this show was overshadowed by other better or worse Batman shows or movies or comics. I wished that more people know about this show.
I also forgot to mention the fantastic sound score. SOOOO GOOOD 😩👌
The Batman 2004 needs to return somehow. It was my childhood.
Sadly if they returned with this show it would probably suck due to modern changes
@@revivingsoon oh
The Batman will always be my personal fav, and it’s my fav take on Bruce’s character and the batfamily overall.
The quality didn’t diminish in the later seasons but I admire the show’s original starting point, it wasn’t afraid to take risks and turn the Batman mythos into something fresh and new.
This is my favorite Batman show I loved it forever
Same
Forever, heh.
I grew up on this show 😄 I miss it
The Batman is a good show. But Batman the Animated Series is much better. Gets your heart pumping from the opening theme, keeps it going with the action sequences, and then keeps you wanting more with the story arcs. The Batman isn't quite the same league.
This was my "Batman the Animated Series" as a kid. I loved this show.
This is one of the best Batman threads. Great voice acting, great writing, BEAUTIFUL animation. People still sleep on it.
Man, if what happened to The Batman and Brave and the Bold saddened you, wait until you hear what happened to Beware.
I also grew up watching both B:TAS and The Batman, so I never understood the need to choose between them. I enjoyed them both and what they had to offer. I'm actually glad you mentioned The Batman Strikes!, since I enjoyed that comic too. I liked how it used characters that the show unfortunately just abandoned right after introducing them.
Overall I do like the show especially the art work and character designs. The first season was definitely great but after a while it became kinda stagnant to me. The story lines and the atmosphere of the show were so spot on, almost like Courage The Cowardly Dog or Invader Zim if that makes sense, but once Batgirl and later Robin came along that all went away. The vibes became very funky like and this show's version of the Justice League was very inferior to the one that had just been set up with the DCAU. Not that the later seasons were bad but for me dropped from like a 9 to a 7 overall
personally, what made it stagnant was the introduction of the justice league. batgirl and robin only added to the show imo, but the justice sorta took away. although the superman episodes were good, anything else i didn't exactly pay any mind to. i guess it was because i sorta just waiting for something to happen. there's the justice league, and they're just sorta there. batgirl and robin were seen on batman's side a lot more, and other characters of the batman mythos were being introduced, but it all sorta led nowhere. the show was good, i still love it to death, but overall, i just stopped gaining from it as season 5 went on longer
Tbf, they changed the tone a bit when his sidekicks came in. S2 "sidekick-mentor" arc is about Bats not wanting Batgirl in the team, there's this.. tension. When Dick came in there are two things I like: how Batman changed when looking for Zuko, he was out there taking it personal and actively causing harm to the people he crossed paths. Once that was resolved, he shifted to a Bruce who is trying to teach AND keep his kids alive, which all builds into the two-part episodes of the invasion by the joining, where Batman breaks and confess that it's not like he doesn't want them/need them, but it's the fear of losing them which makes sense!
But the JL season wasn't it for me, except for the superman episodes sjsndn maybe it's because the whole tone and style of the series suited better Batman, Batgirl and Robin rather than the JL.
Most UNDERRATED DC animated show! This GEM was worth watching! 2nd Best Batman series!
Huge Bat-Freak myself literally put out a love letter type video about Batman and what to expect for Matt Reeves movie.
The animated series is definitely still top dog out of all of the different animated shows. But The Batman (2004) and Beware The Batman were highly underrated in their own right.
The reason why The Batman (2004) is so great at least imo, really boils down to how this series definitely continues what the animated series started with very dark and sad themes.
I grew up watching this show. Unfortunately it was reruns on Boomerang and by this time the network was going downhill so it was only the first two seasons. I wish I could’ve seen the other three seasons caused I would’ve loved it!
I remember watching seasons 1 and 2 reruns on boomerang at the ages of 5-6 then later on 5 years later on Netflix I found out there was more seasons and I was surprised to see Robin, Harley Quinn, and Killer Moth appeared on the show
You can still see the rest of the seasons on different sites
I sometimes feel we, the target audience should in some form protest to the puffed suits to stop thinking they know what's best for us. Ask us, we're the groups that keep shows running.🦇
This was my first Batman show, and it holds a special place in my heart. Partly because of all the gadgets and leitmotifs.
I remember watching this show as a kid when it was on Netflix and absolutely loving it despite some of the strange weird and stuff times awful character designs(cough cough riddler) there were some great episodes and I really enjoyed this show
As good as this show was yeah no doubt some character designs were questionable. (Joker, Riddler, Bane) But some other characters had great designs some of my favorites I've seen (Man-Bat, Firefly, Mr. Freeze) Mr. Freeze's is probably my favorite one in the show with Firefly second. Only thing I didn't like about Mr. Freeze was his motivation, rather than having a noble cause to save his dying wife it was greed like stealing jewelry. Also Killer Croc had a good design too and he actually had intelligence rather than just being a brute like in other interpretations
I understand Bane and riddler cause those are crap designs but the Joker did feel like the Joker and did all the Joker stuff. Or is it the fact he is the most acrobatic Joker instead of pure schemer.
The Batman I grew up watching was, well, The Batman. I had only watched bits and pieces of BTAS and vaguely remember watching it but The Batman was my childhood. It has its flaws, I mean no show is perfect, but it does contain my favorite adaptation of a younger Bruce in an animated kids show and definitely one of my favorite Jokers. This shows deserves more credit.
Also a very astute point about Warner Bros. executives being clueless about their own properties. Marvel seems to have as much control over their projects as they should. I wish Warner would stop getting in their own way and let creators create.
True but , marvel as a company doesn’t let the directors create what they want for the movie , but rather use them as a puppets for already written script and direction they wanna take movie in , that’s why at least I heard some directors didn’t like that while working with marvel. So indeed marvel takes control over everything but when you watch a movie for example , it feels soulless. (Don’t make me start on the modern cartoons of marvel)
But also I agree compared to marvel , dc just has no clue how to use their media to make nice public appeal for their characters by being over hypocritical when director or animator tries something new
John, uhh I need help with something, so when I was a little kid, I had this storybook of the Batman but it was a children’s book not a comic, it was basically showing everything from the first episode of season 1. It’s a paper cover children’s book. I just need to know if anybody knows the title of it because I’ve been looking for another copy of it since I lost it back in 2009.
This is my favorite Batman, the fight scenes did get brutal at some point which Is what made me love the show!
The Batman was a quality show. BTAS is the gold standard but The Batman is very good.
Inspiring video!
The 20th word I ever spoke was ”Lapp”. In Swedish Batman was namned Läderlappen in the 70’s. I said Lapp (LäderLAPPen) and pointed att Batman on the cover of a magasin.
2004 animated was is so underrated it never got the love it deserve
batman 2004 was so much better ! more of a masterpiece than the dark knight
I've actually been craving a rewatch of this show and lamenting the lack of more of it ever since it ended.
My favorite part of The Batman series would have to be frickin Bane! Like, he's one of my favorite adaptations because of his venomized form design which is very unique!
This show is better than the 90s. Yes I said it, fight me. I was around when they aired and it was confusing to find the order & the new art was shit thank God i didn't have cable for JL. I like the Jackie chan show anyway
It's not, BTAS was way better, but this show was decent
Best live: Keaton's Batman. What the movie lacks in "theatricality," it more than makes up for in drama and cinematography.
Best animated: Batman the Animated Series. From the opening blood pumping theme to the story arcs and action sequences it's awesome. Take any episode, turn it into a live movie, guaranteed $1Billion at the box office.
Honorable mention: Dark Knight. If Keaton didn't usher in a new era of Batman, you would have to give it to DK. Others worthy of a watch: The Batman, Batman Begins, Batman Beyond. And if any Batman just screams for a movie adaptation, it's got to be Batman Beyond.
This was the first Batman show I ever saw. I was born in 2000 and it used to air on Saturday mornings maybe 2007ish. When Justice League reruns started to air a few years later I remember thinking, "That's not Batman, who is this guy?"
I came to love JL and JLU, a few years ago I finally watched all of BTAS and Batman Beyond. Kevin Conroy IS Batman and will forever be my favorite, but "The Batman" will always mean a lot to me and I wish more people talked about it.
I Love this animated version of Batman!!
Plus the characters had great fighting sequences with Batman.
I'm so glad this is getting Blu-ray release
Short answer: supply and demand is what happened.
Personally I loved "The batman." before Robin and Batgirl came along because it felt like Bruce was a really good vigilantee for needing as few people as possible for help. I also adore the introduction of new characters like in batman Vs Dracula, and the one-off villains in the series. Originality is golden.
But alas, most crazy DC fans are so addicted to people making movies that have stories which are basically the same as what happen in the comics with a few minor differences, that when stories that are new come along, they petulantly go "Oh this is trash!" Spitefully discouraging people from watching it in the hopes that they will instead get what they want.
DC fans when they were children read the comics and loved them, but as time passes and real life bothers them, their feelings of happiness for what they have loved fades, and so they secretly crave reminders of their happier time and want movies and TV shows to help them live in the past, not new stuff to help them move on, so they scream "This is trash!" when something new is introduced, and they say "This is epic!" When A movie or TV show that is basically the same as the comics with just enough differences to keep it spicy, comes along.
DC is, for many people, a drug and they are raging addicts.
Want proof? Look at Jason Todd: he was killed off because the fans voted for him to be killed off because they didn't like him, because he was not Dick. But the fans loved nightwing, because he was more of what they already loved.
Look at Son of Batman, it's a movie that is almost precisely the same as the comics it based on, but people loved it despite its pathetic lack of originality.
Look at the Joker in suicide squad 2016: he actually loved Harley Quinn, which was never the case previously. And the fans hated that version of him.
But fast forward to 2021 and in the other suicide squad movie and the Snyder cut, the Joker is back to being portrayed as a loveless monster. And the fans roar their heads off with "GIVE US MORE!"
Wonder woman: everyone loved her in BvS and in 2017 and in the Snyder cut. But in WW1984 when they tried doing something new with her character everyone went "This is trash!"
What petty, selfish, pathetic people without lives some so-called DC fans really are aren't they?
Yea , kind of reason why DC kneels down to those fans, because they are scared to loose money , whenever there is different take on character and so on, basically marvel fans aren’t brain dead to realise that comics are just books to extend the universe they already love and not the main source of knowledge to imply on the public media. Marvel fans do know that there are things to make better and fix what have been done shitty in the comics (spiderman was a big deal but I’d say he is too popular character for not debating about how he is being presented in public media so there were fans raging over it), (don’t like mcu or Dcu) but DC fans are the once who keep trying to push their characters only in one direction , (such as batman being always dark and greedy and ignoring the golden age of comics at any cost lol) so pretty much, the lack of creativity in which creators of dc have , and dc owners sweating over anything which isn’t resembling comics , this is what keeps dc fan-service to be at its lowest , while dc fans are hugging their fav comics at a spare time
One of the hardest lines in Batman media,
“I’m the Batman, and your dust”.
From the Batman vs Dracula 2005
I love this show so much I got myself a red dress identical to the one Selina wore in season 2 episode 9 (Ragdolls to Riches, I think). And I love the fact that when I get to wear it nobody will know it's a secret cosplay. The fact we look pretty alike helps as well. Is it obvious I was obsessed with this version of Catwoman? 😂
I always thought the upper half of jokers design looked very court jester ish. The hair being very similar to a jesters hat.
Also the opening theme was badass!!❤️🦇🦇🦇
Batman
Batman the Animated Series
The Batman
Batman Beyond
Batman Begins
Dark Knight
Hot take(?) This is my fave riddler design and characterisation. He’s a genuine threat who almost succeeded
As a kid I dint find batman interesting until I watched this show by accident which made me a huge batman fan forever
Whats great is this show with all 5 seasons was added back to Netflix to rewatch with my family seeing what i used to watch as a kid 💯
So they canceled the show because of a movie?! man they need to bring the show back! but not like what they did to tt
This was the greatest batman show ever made
19:54
I had that exact same costume growing up and I had a The Batman shirt I wore all the time
Extremely underrated show.
You know It would have been good if they had some girl superheros like wonder woman, black canary, hawkgirl or zatanna because batgirl was the only female hero in the show and would be nice if yin stayed in longer
Unfortunately, much like why we didn't get Black Widow pre-Endgame like they should've, they believed a female lead wouldn't be successful with a primarily male audience. ...and yet Kim Possible got an extra season because it was loved so much, and I still find guys with the Kim Possible gadget ring tone on their phones... so I don't think that was even remotely true! It doesn't need to be a guy, just make it cool! This is my biggest disappointment of the early 2000s as boy, and I could rant on it for a while...
16:25 he was the best voice actor rino Romano the voice Of Spider-Man and Batman
HOW is this channel so underrated?!
Just began, it’ll get there
Jeff Matsuda style really works.
He did Jackie Chan Adventure.
And comics.
Yeah his style is great! I've got the original run of the comic tie-in "The Batman Strikes!" somewhere in storage and they still hold up as stories today.
My favorite batman show
He went from unique Batman to the most Batman stuff ever! I mean Robin,batgirl,tdkr future ugh hell no only season 1 and 2 canon for me
I originally got so mad at batgirl. She kept showing up when she wasn’t wanted and screwed things up of course. I had to take a breath and continue but the first two seasons were great. Once they brought other JL members in at the end I stopped watching it.
@@pab1381 i imagine you lost years off your life watching the brave and the bold
This show just had a lot of foresight and originality:
The laughing Bat episode is the building blacks for "The Batman Who Laughs" it's scary how the concept is so 1:1, down to a Bruce Wayne poisoned by Joker toxin almost turning Joker.
A robot robs the Gotham Central Bank, wiping it clean, causes havock in a similar way to Bane in Dark Knight Rises, also manages to figure out Batman's identity.
Bayou accent Killer Croc who actually looks like a crocodile voiced by Ron Perlman is by far THE BEST Killer Croc ever.
The concept of Harley Quinn already having a few screws loose (instead of being a highly intelligent Psychiatrist that happens to fall for Joker through contrivance) is so good avant garde in my opinion, love this version of Harleen.
The whole Ethan Bennet Clay face arc is OUTSTANDING, every episode of that transformation is gold, Bruce having a personal connection with a would be villain is something that needs to happen more outside of that villain being Jason Todd/Red Hood.
Batgirl sharing a big part of the spotlight for almost 2 full seasons is awesome, she's a great part of the show and way better than the Timmverse Barbara.
Villains (with the exception of Bane for some reason) evolve and get second chances which develops them further. Firefly, Mr. Freeze, Scarface, Penguin are all highlights.
Riddler is awesome here as well, a very different take from the usual narcissist we get.
The relationship between Bruce and Alfred is probably the most developed I've seen it outside of comics and even in comics there's rarely this much Alfred input.
I'm almost done with the show, and from beginning to end the series is a blast, I'd say very few episodes ever really feel "kiddy" or looking to push toys on the viewer.
🃏🐈🐧🎃🎭☃️🌿?🦋🤺🧟🕷️🐊📅... can any batfan name the Batvillians from the avatars pictured above?🦇
KMR's outstanding voice work and the unique design made this one of my favorite Joker interpretations ever
I never grew up with this Batman, I first got into Batman when I played Lego Batman on the PS2... But when I watched this around 2019 the show was a blast.
I always love this version of Batman
Personaly i hated the multiverse thing when i was a kid it was really confusing because i didn't had internet back then and couldn't even look up on the internet i still don't like multiverse things it looses is main charm in my opinion
You make an excellent point about these interesting and new interpretations of these popular characters being _'shorted'_ too soon. Matsuda truly is a talented individual who managed to *perfectly* apply his creative eye to the world of Batman with this show (👏).
I have just one issue with show: they never took the opportunity to make a crossover with Jackie chan adventures who was of the same production studio!!!
15:56 tbh, quite a few people thought the Robin from the Batman was the same one from Teen Titans, so ig there actually was some confusion there.
Same with spider man 2003, the rich suits ruin all.
I hope you review The Batman Strikes 2004 Comics that were part of the ATS
I love The Batman, I first saw it onNetflix when it was still on it, now I have the Blue ray dvds. The Batman is truly an underated gem! Or should I say an underrated MASTERPIECE!
Batman mask of the phantom and the batman vs dracula movie were the reasson i got into batman as a kid.
The scene where Ethan Bennett’s face melts off legit gave me nightmares as a kid 😬😳
Funny watching this post Spiderman NWH. Audience's are certainly ready for different versions of the same character that's for sure.
A total fan of 🥳 the art work and (of course) the.... Villians!
This is the best Batman TV series ever except it's 3,4 and 5 seasons. 1st and the 2nd are sooo cool but starting 3rd season every thing beginning to sucks. they change it starting from the theme song which was very cool. If u want to watch it just watch 1st and 2nd seasons. because starting from 3rd season it's just a disappointment. I would love to see a very realistic Batman. which is no robin and shit. Kid in a fight would feel unrealistic but 1st time ever so a youtuber talking about this TV series thanks man. keep it up👌👏👍
My head cannon is that this show is a prequel to teen titans
You got me in the feels with Cartoon Bomerang Batman ads 😭
25 subs and your video is of such quality
Thanks! Got plenty more available and even more planned for the year to come!
I loved this Batman so much as a kid I had all five seasons and the movie on dvd
i loved and love this show, finally someone who knows about it too
The dialouge make me laugh now though. 😂
Crazy rewatching it rn on HBO max
I thought u had way more subscribers because of ur video quality, keep it up❤️
Great video, pls do X-men evolution
ellen yin looks like eliza masa from gargoyles.
This was the best show I love it so much
I agree that the decisions should be made by fans not suits
Alternate title: Whatever happened to the Dark Knight?
I like this Batman design...
Didn’t both show die because of ratings so are the audience to blame?
Hey! Thanks for your interest in the video, especially after so long since it was first uploaded, lol.
According to the creative teams behind the shows, especially The Batman (2004) and Justice League Unlimited, demands and changes implemented by the higher ups at Warner Bros., with special attention to directing the show towards a "younger audience" led to a decline in each show's viewership as they were required to implement certain storytelling tactics that would become more commonplace throughout the 2010s and up to today that resulted in a "watering down" of the layering and complexity of each show's characters, plots, themes, and ultimately, the overall stories.
In short, while ratings were used by the execs as reasoning for cancellation, the ratings drops were due to changes enforced by these executive teams, making them responsible for the ratings drops in the first place, and ultimately, the cancellations.
Everything Warner Bros touches dies.
12:54 Batman just fricken kills the Joker in the commercial😂
And the narration makes it even better.
Car go vroom
I had the batmobile toy
I think Robin from Teen Titans is the same one from this universe.
While they’ve got very similar design philosophies, the creators of the two shows have stated they aren’t the same character several times. At the time the two shows came out , the DCAU was still the top priority, and these were both partially pitched as separate reboots of their more successful characters to draw in younger crowds. In fact, the reason Robin didn’t show up until after Batgirl in The Batman can be significantly credited to the fact that Teen Titans was already on at the time, and one creative team had to wait for the other to finish.
true passion
excellent video essay! ur effort and editing skills are clearly on display. keep up the good work buddy :)
One of the best
The batman of 2004 is the batman inspiration for the matt reeves batman
Are you sure about that, because they seem to be nothing alike at all.
No, that movie just took the name "the Batman."
Dope video man definitely my favorite Batman adaptation
This is what i grew up on as batman and it was my childhood and fucking amazing. I want to watch TAS because i hear its so good, but this show was just amazing and im glad i saw every episode throughout Saturday mornings as i grew up.
a criminally underrated show for sure, it wasn't perfect, I didn't like the design for Bane for example yet Mr. Freeze's look was fantastic, however was sadly just a petty criminal which was a lame choice however and who could forget the tragic character that was Ethan Bennet aka Clayface, you really felt for the guy whenever he was on screen, his hatred and anger towards the Joker was truly justified to me, the series was just phenomenal entertainment wise as well, it had some amazing elements and hell, the humor was also great, the Joker was as zany and entertaining to watch even though it was such a different Joker (one of my favorite moments is where he gets a sidekick in the form of a classmate of Barbara which he named Prank, he's trying to dunk the kid in the chemicals that turned him in the Joker and Barbara retorts with "Let the kid go Joker" to which he brilliantly responds with "I'm trying to" it never fails to make me laugh) but yeah, sadly nothing we can do about the general public not knowing this series, however we that watched it will luckily remember this great show for what it was
Incredibly underrated channel
If there was a sixth season I think it would be the Injustice league or Legion of Doom or whatever you call it.