You clearly don't know Superman if you think that. You wouldn't have anime if it wasn't for Superman You wouldn't have Marvel if it wasn't for Superman You wouldn't have Star Wars if it wasn't for Superman You wouldn't have SUPERHEROES if it wasn't for Superman Superman is one of the greatest characters of all time, from almost a CENTURY of iconic, memorable, inspirational, generational lore. Superman's symbol is one of the most recognizable symbols on the planet, up there with The Cross. Superman is an inspiration, an icon, someone to look up to and say "we can count on him" and "I trust him with my life". That's one of MANY MANY MANY reasons why Superman is still relevant to this day. Superman isn't just the first superhero, he's THE Superhero and we are lucky to have him in our lives, and if you don't get that, you truly don't know Superman
The show really isnt that overlooked unless you think boxing is overlooked in the U.S because its not as popular as football. People do see the value in goofy batman and the only thing overlooked is the silver age but thats mainly because the topic of censorship overshadows the comics themselves however that doesnt mean people dont see their value especially now obviously brave in the bold is not silver age its silver age inspired. And Obviously if you want to argue the goofy silver age is underated theres a discussion to be had. However since brave in the bold came in a time where goofy or campy batman can be appreciated the bold isnt underated its rated. The thing is a serious batman story is going to he more popular than the goofy however batman is a charater that can be applied to many different forms goofy or not goofy. To be clear this video will validate or convince people the show is underated and they are entitled to beleive that i am just pointing out its not criminally underated its rated because its unironically the second to third most popular batman show. I think the majority of people who say its underated prefer it to btas which is a valid opinion to have but underated means under appreciated and the show is litterally appreciated Other than that i want to be clear this isnt a hate comment and obviously yt encourages gripping titles and thumbnails but to anybody who actually beleives this show is underappreciated where do you think the popular meme of batman saying these hands are E for everyone came from. I btw didnt grow up on btas i grew up on this show and i want people to feel proud the show proved campy batman has value in the late 2000s and not feel bad for it. The fact that its the second to third most popular show that isnt in the diniverse is to be appreciated
Yt deleted my first comment but the show isnt underrated its rated it is appreciated it litterally spawned the batman's fists are E for everyone meme. The show is litterally the second to third most popular batman show. Soccer isnt underappreciated in the US because football is more popular
This Batman saved President Lincoln from being assassinated, helped Sherlock Holmes fight off a demon, and battled a music-themed supervillain with the most epic and iconic bangers. Obviously this Batman is the true goat.
You forgot the best part of that Lincoln story: STEAMPUNK ROBOT JOHN WILKES BOOTH! Also he once teamed up with plastic man to give Uncle Sam (as in the personification of the American Spirit) the patriotic spirit on like tax day of something like that. This show was amazing and it bothers me so much we can apparently have like 2 or 3 different continuities of Batman being a brooding loner at once but apparently campy silly Batman has been outlawed
I really like how this show tends to respect weirder and/or more obscure characters instead of being constantly mocked like in most modern DC media. Hell, even Aquaman got some admiration here despite years of being the public's punching bag.
With everything going on in the new DCU and with certain characters being cast/confirmed (Batman, Guy Gardner's Green Lantern, Maxwell Lord, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle), I feel like we may get a live action adaptation of the Justice League International just like what this show did. I kinda headcanon for now that Mr. Terrific, Metamorpho, Hawkgirl, and Guy Gardner's Green Lantern may be members of it with the team being pre-established by now and are not only Superman's "superfriends" but are trying to recruit him to join the team as well in the Superman movie.
If i renember right, is because the show itself is based on on a silver age series of comics called "the brave and the bold" where DC characters would crossover, the reason is batman cartoon is because batman featured more than any other superhero in these comics.
100% agree. His boisterous personality and can do attitude is the perfect embodiment of retro comic books. I wish other iterations would take notes from this version.
I wouldn't really call Superman "overrated" per se, especially with how much he's constantly eclipsed by Batman in the general entertainment medium. Definitely "misunderstood" though, as evidenced by the overall inconsistent quality of his stories and adaptations. Honestly I think that, if handled by the right team, he has the capability to be even more interesting than Batman. If for no other reason that because aside from outliers like Brave and the Bold, all major Batman stories kind of bleed in together in terms of themes, writing, and tone. Which definitely helps Brave and the Bold stick out all the more in the best of ways. Also this show has the single best interpretaton of Aqua Man ever created, and you'd be wasting your time trying to tell me otherwise.
The last line of your comment is 100% accurate lol. BTAB Aquaman forever. Also My Adventures with superman is bringing superman back and I'm so happy it is. Bro isn't overrated he's underrated and a massively overheated these days.
Feel like they tried making Superman weirdly dark and brooding, similar to poster boy Batman, or Injustice Superman, even though the appeal of Injustice Superman wasn’t that version, exactly, it was how much it makes us miss good Superman, who prioritizes the safety of others and is a symbol of peace and hope, not some “I could kill you if I want, but I won’t” super being
Probably The Batman, literally nobody ever talks about that show lol. Brave and the Bold may be overlooked at times, but I don’t know anyone who watched The Batman.
I think what sticks out to me the most about the Brave and the Bold is the voice cast and how perfect they are for the show. Will Freidle as Blue Beetle, John DiMaggio as Aquaman, Tom Kenny as Plastic Man, Tara Strong as Billy Batson, and don’t even get me started on Paul Reubens as Bat Mite. Everyone did so well and it’s surprising how near perfect the cast was
It’s great these past few years of people showing their love for The Batman and Brave and The Bold. Highly underrated who don’t get the love they truly deserve.
@@julio.dealmeidabranconeto5831 No, no. Don't boo him, he's right. Superman is overrated, but of course it doesn't make him bad. Overrated does not equal bad, it just means it's overrated.
@@something6833 but he's not overrated, no matter what you define "overrated" to be. Is Superman the most IMPORTANT superhero? Yes. This isn't people overestimating him. That's a fact. Is he at the top of everyone's favorites list? No. Does that mean his modern stories are bad or mediocre? Also no. They are great. So no matter HOW you define it, he's not overrated.
One of those shows where you loved it as a kind and then go back to re watch it and still love it, not for nostalgia but because its genuinely well written
I actually grew up watching this show in Elementary school and seeing clips of it online, it's better than I remember. Also Diedrich Bader is one of the best voices for Batman. I would love to play an Arkham game set in the universe of this cartoon. Just imagine doing all those combos as this show's Batman.
Honestly Brave and the Bold and Justice League Action both deserved better. Great stylistic choice with the character designs and I loved seeing what hijinks they could get up to. I love the serious stuff but... sometimes it's just nice to have the pallete cleanser that isn't demeaning or talks down to the people who don't mind some campiness in media now and then.
One of the only times Blue Beetle is properly introduced. (Yeah, outside of DC animated movies. No one has an inkling of an idea who the hell that is.)
Blue Beetle is also great in *Justice League Action* (the spiritual successor to The Brave and the Bold), I recommend Jaime Reyes' team-up with Batman in the episode _"Time Share"_ . Jake T Austin reprises the role of Blue Beetle, whom he had already voiced in the DCAMU (in "Teen Titans: The Judas Contract" & "Justice League vs Teen Titans").
I watched the end of Brave and The Bold without realizing it was the final episode and it unironically crushed me. To this day I have trouble watching series end because it feels like a long time friend is going away forever and it hurts watching the way that show went out. It was a huge part of my childhood and I love it to this day.
Much like The Looney Tunes Show, younger me never fully appreciated Batman the Brave and the Bold and thought it was a downgrade from Batman TAS and The Batman, both of which I liked way more. But nowadays I love it a ton due to being a goofy and heartfelt love-letter to the silver and golden age of comics. Along with introducing me to tons of DC characters I hadn’t really known about beforehand due to how much Batman teamed up with other heroes, like Blue Beetle, Plastic Man and Bat-Mite. Speaking of him though, there’s one episode that’s a homage to the Great Piggy Bank Robbery episode from Looney Tunes but with the silver age Batman villains instead, and it was definitely amazing to see lol
No joke, this show is criminally underrated and really introduced me to many DC characters I wouldn't have known about if it wasn't for this show. I love how much they embraced the Golden Age/Silver Age of Batman comics and stories while giving us a great take on Batman's unapologetically campiness but also serious when needed and isn't afraid to tackle darker, more mature stories. Btw it's totally fine if you prefer Batman over Superman, as I can understand the testament given how well-adapted the character is compared to Superman. Still, personally, Superman is my favourite superhero. Even nowadays, the character is finally getting the long overdue respect he deserves in many media today like current comics, Superman and Lois (great live-action show), My Adventures With Superman (a really good fresh take on Superman in animation), and of course James Gunn's upcoming Superman film in 2025 which I am absolutely hyped for!
I binged this show in a month because I wanted to take in as much Bat Man content as I could (which is why I go to my local Big Lots to purchase DVDs of episodes of the Animated Series), and this show was it. Not only was the show a genuinely good and funny take on my favorite Super Hero, but he also introduced to a lot of the obscure guys like Red Tornado, Blur Beatle, Dead Man, and Green Arrow. The show was a genuine good time start to finish and I love seeing that your covering it.
Superman can and should be one of the most popular and greatest superheroes but I think he’s just so mishandled. The starman edits of superman have made me fall back in love with superman because it somehow just embodies hope. I hope superman legacy brings supes back into popularity with a true interpretation
Yeah, people forget that Superman is literally a symbol of hope and peace, and not a “I can kill you, but I won’t” type person. Superman took down the KKK for Christ’s sake
18:30 Braxton please clean your room I say, while having 90% of the shit in my room shoved into the same closet that WILL do a cartoon spill joke if i open it
The thing I love most about BatB Bats is that he has a *sense of humor* I love that he ubironically refers to his fists as The Hammers of Justice and that he cracks wise when dealing with his equal peers like Aquaman, Green Arrow, and Black Canary, but is also a solid mentor to his younger proteges like Blue Beetle. I love the genuine respect he has for his fellow heroes, like his fallen friend Ted Kord (the blue beetle before Jaime). I love that he doesnt take any of Booster Gold's shit becauze thats always funny
The scene where Bat-Mite met Batman's Rogue's Gallery and screamed their names in fear is direct homage to the Daffy Duck cartoon _The Great Piggy Bank Robbery._ Funnily enough, one of Duck Twacy's villains is literally Bat-Man before WB bought the rights to DC.
I remember back then when it came out, I wasn’t a big fan because I thought it was too campy and childish….until I saw the episode where he meets Joe chill again and it gets into his parents death. I found so much respect for that show after and became a huge fan because it actually was the first cartoon that touched upon Bruce finding Joe chill again when he’s Batman. Not even Batman the animated series did that
its mature enough to not need excessive edge and have some fun, but also respectful enough to not just make everything silly either. It just has a really solid understanding of tone throughout it.
I was always more of a Superman fan than a Batman fan as a kid, because a guy with crazy superpowers and bad guys appealed to me way more than a brooding man who just uses gadgets, but I used to love watching the Brave and the Bold because it has all the campy yet sincere elements I love about comic book superheroes.
In my honest opinion, people don't value Superman or his mythos - especially DC these days. They're embarrassed by him, and it's weird to me that a Silver Age-inspired show severely _lacks_ so much of the Man of Steel when that was *his* heyday. Heck, only a small portion of his villain roster shows up, and half of them are just brief cameos. Making Batman the focus was actually quite ironic, as *his Silver Age comic sales were in the doldrums* before the '66 TV show saved him from oblivion. However, there's a strange double standard I've noticed where it's now okay to look at Batman's wacky past with fondness, but everything that made Superman fun has to be buried and never talked about. I love this show, too, but it also highlights how DC chooses to revise their history for the sake of marketing rather than truly embrace it. *Superman deserves better.*
@jmurray1110 Yes, that's a good point. _"Superman is now a jerk because of reason x"_ was used way too many times. 😂 Sort of skewed perceptions in the long run.
@@DoctorInk20 then maybe they should have done a Jimmy-centric show. I mean the silver age is widely considered to be defined by Jimmy Olsen's 1954 title starting with issue No. 1 Turtleboy...and Barry Allen was still two years away from the time where people would slowly begin to start calling the silver age...most of the remaining 5 golden age heroes switched over from Earth-2 to Earth-1 between 1954 and 1956 (Wonder Woman was last to switch in 1958...and Aquaman was actually the first person in 1956 to be a new guy using the name. Adam Waterman was Aquaman from 1941 to 1956, Arthur Curry first shows up in 1956 the same day that Topo first appears and like Superman, he had a career as Aquaboy briefly with it also being known that he was active well before the Flying Fox alias Bruce Wayne, but it remained uncertain as to whether or not Wonder Girl/Diana Prince's non-imaginary tales adventures which took place prior to Wonder Woman 123 were active before or after Superboy and Aquaboy...I'd like to think she comes before Aquaboy, but after Superboy since you can't really have a Wonder Girl before a Superboy.) Sure you still had a lot of "Superman? More like Super-Jerk" moments, but ultimately those morphs and adventures could have been at least three seasons of individual episodes alone...and we could have even had Jimmy be Elastic-Lad, Superlad, Batlad, Aqua-Jimmy, Super-Bat, OG Flamebird and maybe changed his Wonder Lad comic appearance from Clark's rather cheap "plastic weakness and welding mask" idea to a proper Superman-Wonder Woman-Wonder Girl team-up idea...and it's not like augmenting any of Donna's costumes to "boy" is all that difficult to do either...because all you'd really be doing is just minor appropriate differences (no earrings or heels, taller bracers, use a laurel circlet instead of the tiara and maybe go back to slightly longer biking shorts)...and maybe you could also blend the Orana story because if Jimmy has a BvS dynamic with Dick in the silver age, he should have a similar relationship with Donna as well...and all three would make a "Kiddie 3" by making the Orana contest be a dare that Jimmy challenges Donna for (because he wants to prove something that Donna could have forgotten about after being on Paradise Island for so long) the title of being Wonder Woman's partner for a day...and have it be revealed at the end that Diana agreed to this test...because Donna tended to buy a little too much into thinking she's better than Jimmy and Dick...and that attitude doesn't fly in the superheroics department...and also because Donna would have been tortured (because it's Tuesday) at the hands of Silver Swan (Vanessa Kaptellis ver. since she's the one most people know) to get back at Diana for "ruining her life" by ruining hers "in kind" so to save Donna....Diana holds a boys and girls contest defying Hippolyta's wishes...Jimmy wins, but at the last second he switches back to being Superlad and returns the magic bracelers to Donna and they destroy Silver Swan together.
There are actually good reasons for both things you mentioned about Brave and the Bold being a Batman show. Why Batman and not Superman?: In parts because the silver age "Brave and the Bold" comic at some point just devolved from "random Hero team ups" to "Team ups with Batman". And because the show was suppose to promote less well known or newer heroes as such was the at the time most popular character in Batman attached to get people to view the series and get interested in all the other DC heroes. Why no Superman till season 3?: Basically the same reason as before this show was designed to promote lesser unknown heroes and as such were all big name heavy hitters relegated to cameos for the first 1 1/2 seasons.
To this day the weirdest pull I think this show did was referencing The Haunted Tank driven by the Ghost of Jeb Stuart. Never knew it existed before watching this show and was even more floored to find he had his own comic book series.
In mindshare alone. Comic sales, critical reviews, games. Batman IS DC comics right now. If you look at comics sales for the past decade or so, excluding manga and YA visual novels, batman and the (ugh) bat-family take up most of the top spots and superman and the (groan) super-family are either trailing or have one of blips..
@@oliveragag8576 Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Bizarro, Darkseid, Doomsday, Parasite, Metallo, General Zod, Mongul, and Mr. Mxyzptlk for villains. For stories, All-Star Superman, For the Man who has Everything, and What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way?
First, don't you dare to disrespect Superman the animated serie! >:v Second, Shady Doorags made a video about Brave and Bold. And third, Yeah this shit is good.
Ahh, I always love seeing this series get a bit more recognition! It was the first Batman-centric media that I watched regularly, so I can admit there was quite a bit of whiplash going to the other series that were a lot darker and didn't have so many obscure DC characters (for the longest time I unironically thought Plastic Man was a major Batman character). I loved so much that it could be fun with itself and yet still so often have a dour tone that didn't feel jarring. Even the non-death moments could be really emotionally resonant, like Batman's recurring efforts to sway Plastic Man into more heroic behavior since he felt a sense of guilt for Plastic Man becoming his mutated self back when he was a villainous henchman. Another thing to mention, the show had some fun original concepts in addition to the niche stuff it pulled out! The whole Music Master episode with its own in-universe soundtrack, the brief arc with Equinox, and while morality-swapping is nothing new for Batman, its version of Joker!Red Hood was really compelling and fascinating. The series really had so much to offer on either side of the spectrum
As soon as i saw the title i screamed a "YES!!!" loud as fuck. This show was part of my childhood, it introduced me to many cartoon characters, some that ended up becoming my favourites. I was addicted to it, and always rewatch when i can.
16:39 “Shooting straight” line by Huntress implies that he has a habit of not being faithful to Black Canary. While “secret cave” I believe implies the bed room.
I was a teen when this was airing and i find it beyond hiralous how hated this show was 'not being dark enough" meanwhile nowadays most people miss when batman could be this light, it knda shows how fans sometimes bitch for the sake of bitching and don't really know what they want. This show as awesome when it came out and its awesome now
If you wanna see a good example of that I bet you when the Batman for the new movie is announced you will see articles about how he could be Batman and how he’s an awful choice and how his costume sucks. It’s happened without fail to every single Batman actor even back to Adam west
Same here... not sure why our host has omitted the great Superman shows that we have running right now: 1) the live-action *"Superman & Lois"* (3 seasons in, and season 4 should be coming out this year, even if there is a possibility that a couple episode could air in 2025 depending on the schedule) 2)the animated *"My adventures with Superman"* (2 season in, right now we're only 4 episodes into season 2, with another 4 to go). That would be like saying "Batman is kinda meh, I mean what did we get out of him? Lame movie with George Clooney and a lame team-up with the Flash" and completely omitting Tim Burton's "Batman 89", Nolan's "The Dark Knight" or Reeves "The Batman"...
@@randallflagg3700he also didn’t include the many animated films like All-Star Superman, Superman vs. The Elite, Superman:Doomsday, Superman: Man of tomorrow, and Superman: Red son.
I remember first watching the flash forward episode and my brother and I genuinely believed by the end that Alfred had some kind of future vision. Now I know he was just writing a next gen shipping fanfic.
19:08 People wondering why TTG is still going, when CN literally filled whole BLOCKS of their schedule with it because it was so quick and cheap to make. Of course it will do well when you literally fill half the schedule with it.
One of the BEST Superhero Adaptations EVER made. Glad people still remember it💯 This series has the BEST takes on Blue Beetle, Plastic Man, Red Tornado and Aquaman The voice acting and Dialogue is SO PEAK. The fact they took cheesy one liners and made them BADA$$ is INSANE😭🔥. The artstyle is also so TIMELESS. Taking Dick Sprang's artstyle and adpating it for kids in the 2000s is amazing. And the fight choreo just speaks for itself. Top 3 of then 2000s when it comes to hand to hand combat
It makes me sad to think some people who watched the show got tired of it even though it's an amazing formula. I genuinely loved it's premise and seeing different heroes in every episode was amazing.
I honestly liked Brave and the Bold. While I prefer BTAS or TNBA, I appreciate seeing a fun show which has Batman teaming up with other heroes. Aquaman was probably my favorite.
0:36 Personally I always felt that Superman is Severely Underrated because of the very few adaptations he's gotten, especially when compared to Batman's.
Hoho, I'd say criminally underrated, this is the show that initially got me into the third Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes. And that episode when Batman confronts this universe's Joe Chill? _Ogh... 's beautiful_
I love that you have live action portrayals that act almost as companions to Batman: Brave and the Bold. Portrayals like the Adam West Batman, Batman Forever, and Batman and Robin.
The very last episode is the best. Ambush bug played by Henry Winkler batmight played by Pee-wee Herman in the hole, jumping the shark just the whole thing was awesome
You might've just earned yourself a subscriber, Just Stop. I LOVE THIS SERIES! My favorite when I was a child. When I was a small child, I looked forward to Fridays, not only because it was the weekend, but because of this show being hyped to hell and back on Cartoon Network. In some ways, this show made me love Batman even more. I even started watching the 60s version because of this show and what it meant to me. Music Meister was especially hype, I was looking forward to that one Friday in October when it first premired!
I’m so glad this show is getting recognition. This show was literally my childhood. I was so young when I watched it, I had to skip “Chill of the Night” because it was too scary for me.
This show’s Plasticman is the definitive plasticman to me. At least voice wise. Tom Kenny has so much fun with him and it’s refreshing to hear him have a less cartoony voice while still having his cartoony voice at the same time. Also this show introduced me to one my favorite heroes, Deadman! This show was super good with introducing new fans to old characters. It’s how I got into DC in the first place! Deidrich Bader is my (second) favorite Batman voice for this exact reason
This cartoon got me into Batman to begin with. I was such a staple of my childhood growing up as a little kid and made me the nerdy Batman fan I am today. Thanks for covering this series Braxton! It really means a lot, and now I wanna rewatch it after so many years to because man I didn't realize how well it has aged until this video!
I watched this entire show a few months ago so I have a lot to say about this show: I love the Outsiders in this show, even though they only appear in 2 episodes and a few pre-episode segments I love their story. This show made me love Plastic Man, I knew about him before but barely due to him being criminally underused, but this show was the first time I got to see what he is like. I love everything about Aquaman in this show. Equinox was an original character created for the show and I loved his arc. The Music Meister is also a great original villain.
I think Plastic Man was one of my favorite characters in the show mainly for the fact that Tom Kenny portrays him so well. Like he’s still goofy like most of Kenny’s other roles (ie Spongebob, Ice King, Doctor Two Brains) but he’s still likable and heroic, like when he literally tried to get rid of a bomb with his butt
Finally someone gets it! Brave and the Bold is my favorite Batman cartoon, and it really shows you can have a lighthearted, comedy-driven take on Batman and the DC universe without sacrificing the action or the emotional weight. Also on the subject of getting Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill to voice characters in Chill of the Night, they also got Adam West to voice Thomas Wayne which is fitting on so many levels.
My dad’s favorite Joker was Cesar Romero, but I love Brave and the Bold, especially with how they treat the characters especially with the D-List. I love Gray and Blue.
This was the Batman I grew up with, I remember watching this all the time as a kid and I think it was a great introduction to comics and superheroes! Every now and again I watch it wherever its streaming. I have had multiple conversations explaining why the Music Meister episode is the perfect musical episode.
this show's my current favorite because of plastic man. awesome character, loved him and batman's dynamic, a cartoon with just the two of them would be so awesome
I was sooooo happy to finally see a video on this, btbatb was one of my favourite childhood shows, my very first Batman and I’ll never forget the intro
This is literally my first ever Batman/DC show I grow with. I was never superheroes fan at all and didn't enjoy anything, but always watched Batman: The Brave and The Bold
Something I recently thought of about the edgy batman and his rogues gallery we've been getting reminds me dc writers view batman more as some dc version of punisher
Brave and The Bold was just a childhood classic. It introduced me to the greater DC mythos. Like I obviously knew who Batman, Superman, Robin and Wonder Woman were but being introduced to other characters and teams was so cool. Characters such as Martian Manhunter, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Captain Marvel, Plastic Man, Green Arrow, The Green Lantern Corps, The JSA ect. It introduced me to The Flash, who is one of my all time favourite comic book heroes, and has one of the best episodes and the show. Even Reverse-Flash quickly became my favourite comic book villains. This Batman absolutely had some of the greatest tv episodes and moments. “Batman may die, but Bruce Wayne? *Never* “ I mean that line and moment gave me chills and has to be in my opinion one if his greatest and underrated quotes. It fits really well for the show, we very rarely see Bruce Wayne out of costume but here he values his secret identity over being Batman. It’s such a great twist on the whole idea of Bruce Wayne being Batman’s mask and I appreciate the show runners for trying something different
I adore Batman the Brave and the Bold so much and I seriously wish it got more attention. So glad to see one of my favorite TH-camrs review one of my favorite cartoons
I absolutely love BTBATB. I love how it never took itself too seriously but never afraid to not pull punches. The Death of B'wana was a shock to me-I was holding out hope till the end of the episode(and that particular saga as a whole) that B'wana somehow survived and returns, but then they show his funeral and it seriously broke me. Not to mention the King Joker episode will always haunt me with how disturbing the scenarios were.
An interesting thing about batman's design in this show is his color scheme. Instead of going with the black and gray that was growing more popular during that time, they went with the full blue; BUT gave his mask that black pattr. It's almost as if saying "were going with the lighter tone, but there's still some of that dark brooding in there, just not as prominent"
I think what might've contributed to the series getting overlooked at the time is that it overlapped with the Ben 10 series, Generator Rex, and a few other hero cartoons at the time. The golden age of cartoons was also on the rise too. I loved watching Brave and the Bold growing up though, along side the Rise of Blue Beatle. So many awesome crossovers from that time.
This was the Batman series I grew up on. I was exposed to The Batman (that dracula movie goes hard for no reason) I had a dvd of like the first 3 episodes of BTAS and I managed to catch a few reruns of justice league unlimited. But this was the first Batman show I was able to watch new on tv. So my view of Batman is different than how people older than me see him. Batman is a superhero, he saves people, he fights wacky criminals and he tells you to go to bed by 9. It’s also the show that made be interested in comics because I didn’t know who Booster gold or Blue beetle was. I thought gentleman ghost was cool and that Doctor fate was interesting and then I go searching about them. I didn’t realize how much this version of Batman effected how I see the character until I watched The Batman and saw him like actually saving people and being in daylight at the end because that’s the Batman I’ve wanted but had not seen in a movie until then.
as a person born in 2002, Batman: The Brave and the Bold was actually my introduction to the character of Batman and its honestly why i love comics and superhero's so much today
Man, am I happy you picked this Batman of all to talk about. It was funny enough Batman show that I think I watched the most. From all the various characters to Batman himself- I really love BBaB. Thank you for the video.
One thing I will always love is... they made Thomas Wayne be voiced by Adam West. Just hearing that voice come out as the father if Batman made me so... Relaxed? Pleased? I don't know the word, it just felt right.
I can't lie, I kinda dismissed Brave and the Bold when it started because I was STILL so bummed Justice League was over in favor of a more...light hearted version of Batman. But I watched one episode on a whim, and it instantly drew me in. Its true, this series is mercilessly underrated. Also, its clear the writers and everyone else behind this show had a love for the Silver Age version of the DC Universe when everything was generally nonsensical and above all else FUN.
This was the Batman I grew up with and he still remains one of my favourites. The bit in the final episode where he says goodbye to the audience still gets me every time (especially after a binge watch)
16:53 Bat-Mite is however part of my biggest, massive nipick about this show: How much it avoids Superman in every way shape and form. Emperor Joker was a World's Finest story that ended with Batman going insane and Superman taking on that insanity because that's just the kind of absolute boyscout Superman is and that made the story just that much more meaningful. While this show's version of the story was good, it pales in comparison to that. I'll be honest though, it probably didn't matter if the story used Mxy or Bat-Mite.
The weird DC embargos are why it took so long for Superman and Wonder Woman to show up, Justice League Unlimited was still on at the time, and they didn't want kids to confuse the variants which is why they only showed up later in the series run once Unlimited ended
@@MasterofRoku yeah, but you also have to consider production times of both. But who knows, DC didn't want Lex Luthor to show up in My Adventures with Superman for some weird reason but they eventually were able to do so properly in Season 2. Who knows what's going on in the minds of the DC media overlords? I mean, we got three (four if you're willing to count George Clooney) live action Batmen in the span of 2 years a while ago (Robert Pattinson, Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton).
With Brave and the Bold...the only embargo they had that was still in effect was Wonder Woman. DC specifically wanted this show to focus on heroes that didn't get the spotlight as often...like the actual silver age comics. Silver Age rules were in effect here...and that's actually a good thing. This is the Brave and the Bold show so Batman+hero who doesn't usually get spotlight was the rule. Superman, Barry, Hal and Wonder Woman very rarely showed up in that book...largely because Superman had his own similar book called DC Presents where they showed up...likewise with Aquaman and Martian Manhunter once Aquaman started getting popular again after the Super Friends disaster beginning in All-New. The other reason? Looney Tunes rules state that Diana is pretty much the Petunia Pig of superheroes...(as Petunia is the first regular female Looney Tunes player and has a similar attitude of being "the mature one in a room of clowns")...and you have a Bugs and Daffy dynamic with Clark and Bruce. No one would have cared about the other heroes if Clark and Diana had been brought in. Granted, Diana needs more time in the spotlight, but she would have made for a better guest star if Superman had a similar show. This was exactly why in the late 1990's that Bruce Timm's team for Earth-508 had most of the leaguers guest star on Clark's show as it was a concept pre-league. Batman's world is more of a Film-Noir than it is "Sci-Fi weirdness" like Superman's. Sure the two can sometimes mix and Diana can play either side (when they write her properly), but they mostly tend to view Diana as "works better in a historical/magical setting or with Sci-Fi weirdness, not film-noir"...so ultimately Diana also should have had her own show with a historical setting...which would have been as the teaser shows...an animated Lynda Carter...with various historical or magical heroes teaming up with her.
Some of my favorite moments in this show in no particular order: Batman punches Guy Gardner Batman flirting with Catwoman - like every instance of it The songs Robin being upset about being treated as a kid Batman meeting Sherlock Holmes The Chill of the Night episode, especially Batman hugging his Mom Every Aquaman scene Plastic Man trying to steal gold and jewels Beetle salivating over Huntress Joker and Batman teaming up Alfred writing fanfics Batman's one liners (There's more but these are on the top of my mind) 😂
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You clearly don't know Superman if you think that.
You wouldn't have anime if it wasn't for Superman
You wouldn't have Marvel if it wasn't for Superman
You wouldn't have Star Wars if it wasn't for Superman
You wouldn't have SUPERHEROES if it wasn't for Superman
Superman is one of the greatest characters of all time, from almost a CENTURY of iconic, memorable, inspirational, generational lore. Superman's symbol is one of the most recognizable symbols on the planet, up there with The Cross. Superman is an inspiration, an icon, someone to look up to and say "we can count on him" and "I trust him with my life". That's one of MANY MANY MANY reasons why Superman is still relevant to this day. Superman isn't just the first superhero, he's THE Superhero and we are lucky to have him in our lives, and if you don't get that, you truly don't know Superman
The show really isnt that overlooked unless you think boxing is overlooked in the U.S because its not as popular as football.
People do see the value in goofy batman and the only thing overlooked is the silver age but thats mainly because the topic of censorship overshadows the comics themselves however that doesnt mean people dont see their value especially now obviously brave in the bold is not silver age its silver age inspired. And Obviously if you want to argue the goofy silver age is underated theres a discussion to be had. However since brave in the bold came in a time where goofy or campy batman can be appreciated the bold isnt underated its rated.
The thing is a serious batman story is going to he more popular than the goofy however batman is a charater that can be applied to many different forms goofy or not goofy.
To be clear this video will validate or convince people the show is underated and they are entitled to beleive that i am just pointing out its not criminally underated its rated because its unironically the second to third most popular batman show.
I think the majority of people who say its underated prefer it to btas which is a valid opinion to have but underated means under appreciated and the show is litterally appreciated
Other than that i want to be clear this isnt a hate comment and obviously yt encourages gripping titles and thumbnails but to anybody who actually beleives this show is underappreciated where do you think the popular meme of batman saying these hands are E for everyone came from.
I btw didnt grow up on btas i grew up on this show and i want people to feel proud the show proved campy batman has value in the late 2000s and not feel bad for it. The fact that its the second to third most popular show that isnt in the diniverse is to be appreciated
Yt deleted my first comment but the show isnt underrated its rated it is appreciated it litterally spawned the batman's fists are E for everyone meme. The show is litterally the second to third most popular batman show. Soccer isnt underappreciated in the US because football is more popular
STOP BEING GREEDY
This Batman saved President Lincoln from being assassinated, helped Sherlock Holmes fight off a demon, and battled a music-themed supervillain with the most epic and iconic bangers.
Obviously this Batman is the true goat.
You forgot the best part of that Lincoln story: STEAMPUNK ROBOT JOHN WILKES BOOTH! Also he once teamed up with plastic man to give Uncle Sam (as in the personification of the American Spirit) the patriotic spirit on like tax day of something like that. This show was amazing and it bothers me so much we can apparently have like 2 or 3 different continuities of Batman being a brooding loner at once but apparently campy silly Batman has been outlawed
He also believes in gender equality.
@@callmejacob3234 Ah, yes. As he is quick to remind us:
“The hammer of Justice is unisex.”
All he needs is a bat bat and we have the ultimate Batman
Why does nobody remember he has a fuckin' lightsaber?
Its the show that gave us "BATMAN DOES NOT EAT NACHOS!" for God's sake. More people need to put some respect on Brave and The Bold
Supposedly that was a joke about them getting alot of letters complaining about that in the previous "The Batman" 2004 cartoon.
@@beauwalker9820omg XD
All while eating nachos! XD
I really like how this show tends to respect weirder and/or more obscure characters instead of being constantly mocked like in most modern DC media. Hell, even Aquaman got some admiration here despite years of being the public's punching bag.
I live for the deep pull references. It’s why I love and respect James Gunn so much.
With everything going on in the new DCU and with certain characters being cast/confirmed (Batman, Guy Gardner's Green Lantern, Maxwell Lord, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle), I feel like we may get a live action adaptation of the Justice League International just like what this show did.
I kinda headcanon for now that Mr. Terrific, Metamorpho, Hawkgirl, and Guy Gardner's Green Lantern may be members of it with the team being pre-established by now and are not only Superman's "superfriends" but are trying to recruit him to join the team as well in the Superman movie.
If i renember right, is because the show itself is based on on a silver age series of comics called "the brave and the bold" where DC characters would crossover, the reason is batman cartoon is because batman featured more than any other superhero in these comics.
@@luigiboi4244 hehehe, The Deep
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The Aquaman in this show is the greatest Aquaman put in anything ever.
Jason Momoa ?
Real, he's in my top 3 versions of Aquaman, my other 2 being Jason Mamoa and Bruce Tim Aquaman.
Funnily enough, all 3 version have beards
Himbo and Surfer Bro are my two favorite Aquaman Genders.
No Aquaman since has been so outrageous.
100% agree. His boisterous personality and can do attitude is the perfect embodiment of retro comic books. I wish other iterations would take notes from this version.
I wouldn't really call Superman "overrated" per se, especially with how much he's constantly eclipsed by Batman in the general entertainment medium. Definitely "misunderstood" though, as evidenced by the overall inconsistent quality of his stories and adaptations. Honestly I think that, if handled by the right team, he has the capability to be even more interesting than Batman. If for no other reason that because aside from outliers like Brave and the Bold, all major Batman stories kind of bleed in together in terms of themes, writing, and tone. Which definitely helps Brave and the Bold stick out all the more in the best of ways.
Also this show has the single best interpretaton of Aqua Man ever created, and you'd be wasting your time trying to tell me otherwise.
The last line of your comment is 100% accurate lol. BTAB Aquaman forever. Also My Adventures with superman is bringing superman back and I'm so happy it is. Bro isn't overrated he's underrated and a massively overheated these days.
Amen to that. Couldn't have said it better myself.
Correct on all points. And yeah, there will never be a better Aquaman than Brave and the Bold's Aquaman.
Feel like they tried making Superman weirdly dark and brooding, similar to poster boy Batman, or Injustice Superman, even though the appeal of Injustice Superman wasn’t that version, exactly, it was how much it makes us miss good Superman, who prioritizes the safety of others and is a symbol of peace and hope, not some “I could kill you if I want, but I won’t” super being
We’ve been doing good lately for Superman MAWS is really good and Superman and Lois.
I will die on this hills, but Aquaman DOES NOT talk to fish. He commands them.
EXACTLY
you should see the Superman vs Meshi incarnation where he can talk to *sushi*
People who still think Aquaman only talks to fish are on the losing side of history.
We have never seen Aquaman actually having a conversation with a fish but ignorant people think he does.
Yea. He is their King... He literally owns their lives as his subjects.
The title should be called "Batman: The Brave, the bold, and the underrated."
What did it say before?
Batman: The Brave and the Bold and the super underrated.
I love how there is basically a debate in the community between which Batman show is more underrated, the Batman, or brave and the bold
Both,both are underrated
Come on, we all know it's Beware the Batman. THAT is underrated.
"Both"
"Both is Good"
- The Road to Eldorado
Probably The Batman, literally nobody ever talks about that show lol. Brave and the Bold may be overlooked at times, but I don’t know anyone who watched The Batman.
@@CS-om3kjI watched it
I think what sticks out to me the most about the Brave and the Bold is the voice cast and how perfect they are for the show. Will Freidle as Blue Beetle, John DiMaggio as Aquaman, Tom Kenny as Plastic Man, Tara Strong as Billy Batson, and don’t even get me started on Paul Reubens as Bat Mite. Everyone did so well and it’s surprising how near perfect the cast was
I had no idea Peewee Herman was batmite. That's awesome.
It's a greatly stacked cast. They did a good job.
The way HOW Batman defeated Music Meister and Owlman will forever live rent free in my psyche. 🥰
🎶THE MUSIC MEISTER 🎶
@@sakiamira🎶 Put down your arms my friends. 🎶
Your arrow guns and swords
@@jmurray1110🎶Your resistance to my charm now ends.🎶
The songs by the Music Meister, especially the first one, is peak music.
Finally peak batman. Shame it got so much online hatred because God forbid a batman show is 24/7 dark and gritty
Honestly Literally every Batman cartoon not called BTAS got shit for not being BTAS
@@MILDMONSTER1234 Just like every other Ben 10 show post the original or every other Spider-Man show post Spectactualr.
That's one major reason why I hate Batman fans so much.
I really never knew it was hated online I thought everyone loved it
@@datanotfoundpleasetryagain3559 BTAS fans also atttacked teen titans too even though it wasn’t even a Batman cartoon lmao
It’s great these past few years of people showing their love for The Batman and Brave and The Bold. Highly underrated who don’t get the love they truly deserve.
"gotta start with a hot take"
"Superman is overrated"
thats the most cold dc take you could have
And the most wrong XD
@@julio.dealmeidabranconeto5831 No, no. Don't boo him, he's right. Superman is overrated, but of course it doesn't make him bad. Overrated does not equal bad, it just means it's overrated.
@@something6833 but he's not overrated, no matter what you define "overrated" to be.
Is Superman the most IMPORTANT superhero? Yes. This isn't people overestimating him. That's a fact.
Is he at the top of everyone's favorites list? No.
Does that mean his modern stories are bad or mediocre? Also no. They are great.
So no matter HOW you define it, he's not overrated.
If anyone is overrated its Batman. Which is why I'm glad Brave and The Bold Exists
@@no.1spidey-fan182 cook 🔥
One of those shows where you loved it as a kind and then go back to re watch it and still love it, not for nostalgia but because its genuinely well written
I actually grew up watching this show in Elementary school and seeing clips of it online, it's better than I remember. Also Diedrich Bader is one of the best voices for Batman.
I would love to play an Arkham game set in the universe of this cartoon. Just imagine doing all those combos as this show's Batman.
Honestly Brave and the Bold and Justice League Action both deserved better. Great stylistic choice with the character designs and I loved seeing what hijinks they could get up to. I love the serious stuff but... sometimes it's just nice to have the pallete cleanser that isn't demeaning or talks down to the people who don't mind some campiness in media now and then.
Justice League Action has a really neat art style.
@@anklebiter2323 Cool.
The series is a balance of being campy and action intense
Don't most people dislike Supes now? Was expecting the controversial take being "I actually really enjoy Superman!"
Same here lol. I love superman personally. He's so overhated these days.
I honestly thought the same tbh.
Same
No but writers seem to given how common evil superman has become as a trope
Superman is the most misunderstood hero in the medium and today's pop culture.
One of the only times Blue Beetle is properly introduced.
(Yeah, outside of DC animated movies. No one has an inkling of an idea who the hell that is.)
Facts he should have more adaptations.
Exactly Jamie Reyes needs more adaptions for the public eye the Blue Beetle mythos in general needs it.
Blue Beetle is also great in *Justice League Action* (the spiritual successor to The Brave and the Bold), I recommend Jaime Reyes' team-up with Batman in the episode _"Time Share"_ .
Jake T Austin reprises the role of Blue Beetle, whom he had already voiced in the DCAMU (in "Teen Titans: The Judas Contract" & "Justice League vs Teen Titans").
I hope Jaime's next film appearance will be in the Teen Titans movie for the DCU. He was a member of it. Either that or the Booster Gold show.
Blue Beetle is DC's Spider-Man in character.
I'm always shocked he's not used as much does is in media.
I watched the end of Brave and The Bold without realizing it was the final episode and it unironically crushed me. To this day I have trouble watching series end because it feels like a long time friend is going away forever and it hurts watching the way that show went out. It was a huge part of my childhood and I love it to this day.
Much like The Looney Tunes Show, younger me never fully appreciated Batman the Brave and the Bold and thought it was a downgrade from Batman TAS and The Batman, both of which I liked way more. But nowadays I love it a ton due to being a goofy and heartfelt love-letter to the silver and golden age of comics. Along with introducing me to tons of DC characters I hadn’t really known about beforehand due to how much Batman teamed up with other heroes, like Blue Beetle, Plastic Man and Bat-Mite. Speaking of him though, there’s one episode that’s a homage to the Great Piggy Bank Robbery episode from Looney Tunes but with the silver age Batman villains instead, and it was definitely amazing to see lol
No joke, this show is criminally underrated and really introduced me to many DC characters I wouldn't have known about if it wasn't for this show. I love how much they embraced the Golden Age/Silver Age of Batman comics and stories while giving us a great take on Batman's unapologetically campiness but also serious when needed and isn't afraid to tackle darker, more mature stories. Btw it's totally fine if you prefer Batman over Superman, as I can understand the testament given how well-adapted the character is compared to Superman. Still, personally, Superman is my favourite superhero. Even nowadays, the character is finally getting the long overdue respect he deserves in many media today like current comics, Superman and Lois (great live-action show), My Adventures With Superman (a really good fresh take on Superman in animation), and of course James Gunn's upcoming Superman film in 2025 which I am absolutely hyped for!
I binged this show in a month because I wanted to take in as much Bat Man content as I could (which is why I go to my local Big Lots to purchase DVDs of episodes of the Animated Series), and this show was it. Not only was the show a genuinely good and funny take on my favorite Super Hero, but he also introduced to a lot of the obscure guys like Red Tornado, Blur Beatle, Dead Man, and Green Arrow. The show was a genuine good time start to finish and I love seeing that your covering it.
The needing of this series makes me cry every time. They break the forth wall in emotionally devastating ways.
Superman can and should be one of the most popular and greatest superheroes but I think he’s just so mishandled. The starman edits of superman have made me fall back in love with superman because it somehow just embodies hope. I hope superman legacy brings supes back into popularity with a true interpretation
They changed the name from superman: legacy to just SUPERMAN. Either way I'm really excited
Yeah, people forget that Superman is literally a symbol of hope and peace, and not a “I can kill you, but I won’t” type person.
Superman took down the KKK for Christ’s sake
@@Swagmaster1102 In comics and real life.
@@PeanutJr. exactly. It’s insane
@@PeanutJr. In real life ? What ?
18:30
Braxton please clean your room
I say, while having 90% of the shit in my room shoved into the same closet that WILL do a cartoon spill joke if i open it
Amen to that brother/sister/whatever gender term to use to indicate relation
I feel good about knowing that this is how a TH-camr lives, despite all the billion more views I get. I live in a palace compared to this lol
The thing I love most about BatB Bats is that he has a *sense of humor*
I love that he ubironically refers to his fists as The Hammers of Justice and that he cracks wise when dealing with his equal peers like Aquaman, Green Arrow, and Black Canary, but is also a solid mentor to his younger proteges like Blue Beetle.
I love the genuine respect he has for his fellow heroes, like his fallen friend Ted Kord (the blue beetle before Jaime).
I love that he doesnt take any of Booster Gold's shit becauze thats always funny
The scene where Bat-Mite met Batman's Rogue's Gallery and screamed their names in fear is direct homage to the Daffy Duck cartoon _The Great Piggy Bank Robbery._
Funnily enough, one of Duck Twacy's villains is literally Bat-Man before WB bought the rights to DC.
That’s the one with pussycat pus right?
I remember back then when it came out, I wasn’t a big fan because I thought it was too campy and childish….until I saw the episode where he meets Joe chill again and it gets into his parents death. I found so much respect for that show after and became a huge fan because it actually was the first cartoon that touched upon Bruce finding Joe chill again when he’s Batman. Not even Batman the animated series did that
The peak of goofy Batman is Brave and the Bold .
The peak of Dark and Gritty Batman is the Arkham games
its mature enough to not need excessive edge and have some fun, but also respectful enough to not just make everything silly either.
It just has a really solid understanding of tone throughout it.
I was always more of a Superman fan than a Batman fan as a kid, because a guy with crazy superpowers and bad guys appealed to me way more than a brooding man who just uses gadgets, but I used to love watching the Brave and the Bold because it has all the campy yet sincere elements I love about comic book superheroes.
In my honest opinion, people don't value Superman or his mythos - especially DC these days. They're embarrassed by him, and it's weird to me that a Silver Age-inspired show severely _lacks_ so much of the Man of Steel when that was *his* heyday. Heck, only a small portion of his villain roster shows up, and half of them are just brief cameos.
Making Batman the focus was actually quite ironic, as *his Silver Age comic sales were in the doldrums* before the '66 TV show saved him from oblivion. However, there's a strange double standard I've noticed where it's now okay to look at Batman's wacky past with fondness, but everything that made Superman fun has to be buried and never talked about. I love this show, too, but it also highlights how DC chooses to revise their history for the sake of marketing rather than truly embrace it.
*Superman deserves better.*
Finally someone's speaking truth. Superman doesn't get the time of day anymore. I want my boi superman to be appreciated Silver age campiness and all.
I mean the comic equivalent of click bait on a lot of issues probably isn’t helping
@jmurray1110 Yes, that's a good point. _"Superman is now a jerk because of reason x"_ was used way too many times. 😂 Sort of skewed perceptions in the long run.
@@DoctorInk20 then maybe they should have done a Jimmy-centric show.
I mean the silver age is widely considered to be defined by Jimmy Olsen's 1954 title starting with issue No. 1 Turtleboy...and Barry Allen was still two years away from the time where people would slowly begin to start calling the silver age...most of the remaining 5 golden age heroes switched over from Earth-2 to Earth-1 between 1954 and 1956 (Wonder Woman was last to switch in 1958...and Aquaman was actually the first person in 1956 to be a new guy using the name. Adam Waterman was Aquaman from 1941 to 1956, Arthur Curry first shows up in 1956 the same day that Topo first appears and like Superman, he had a career as Aquaboy briefly with it also being known that he was active well before the Flying Fox alias Bruce Wayne, but it remained uncertain as to whether or not Wonder Girl/Diana Prince's non-imaginary tales adventures which took place prior to Wonder Woman 123 were active before or after Superboy and Aquaboy...I'd like to think she comes before Aquaboy, but after Superboy since you can't really have a Wonder Girl before a Superboy.)
Sure you still had a lot of "Superman? More like Super-Jerk" moments, but ultimately those morphs and adventures could have been at least three seasons of individual episodes alone...and we could have even had Jimmy be Elastic-Lad, Superlad, Batlad, Aqua-Jimmy, Super-Bat, OG Flamebird and maybe changed his Wonder Lad comic appearance from Clark's rather cheap "plastic weakness and welding mask" idea to a proper Superman-Wonder Woman-Wonder Girl team-up idea...and it's not like augmenting any of Donna's costumes to "boy" is all that difficult to do either...because all you'd really be doing is just minor appropriate differences (no earrings or heels, taller bracers, use a laurel circlet instead of the tiara and maybe go back to slightly longer biking shorts)...and maybe you could also blend the Orana story because if Jimmy has a BvS dynamic with Dick in the silver age, he should have a similar relationship with Donna as well...and all three would make a "Kiddie 3" by making the Orana contest be a dare that Jimmy challenges Donna for (because he wants to prove something that Donna could have forgotten about after being on Paradise Island for so long) the title of being Wonder Woman's partner for a day...and have it be revealed at the end that Diana agreed to this test...because Donna tended to buy a little too much into thinking she's better than Jimmy and Dick...and that attitude doesn't fly in the superheroics department...and also because Donna would have been tortured (because it's Tuesday) at the hands of Silver Swan (Vanessa Kaptellis ver. since she's the one most people know) to get back at Diana for "ruining her life" by ruining hers "in kind" so to save Donna....Diana holds a boys and girls contest defying Hippolyta's wishes...Jimmy wins, but at the last second he switches back to being Superlad and returns the magic bracelers to Donna and they destroy Silver Swan together.
There are actually good reasons for both things you mentioned about Brave and the Bold being a Batman show.
Why Batman and not Superman?:
In parts because the silver age "Brave and the Bold" comic at some point just devolved from "random Hero team ups" to "Team ups with Batman".
And because the show was suppose to promote less well known or newer heroes as such was the at the time most popular character in Batman attached to get people to view the series and get interested in all the other DC heroes.
Why no Superman till season 3?:
Basically the same reason as before this show was designed to promote lesser unknown heroes and as such were all big name heavy hitters relegated to cameos for the first 1 1/2 seasons.
19:39 IS THAT A GORILLA WEARING A BATMAN COWL?!
To this day the weirdest pull I think this show did was referencing The Haunted Tank driven by the Ghost of Jeb Stuart. Never knew it existed before watching this show and was even more floored to find he had his own comic book series.
Batman is unironically living in the shadow of Superman.
I don’t know. Dc loves wanking Batman way more than Superman
In mindshare alone. Comic sales, critical reviews, games. Batman IS DC comics right now. If you look at comics sales for the past decade or so, excluding manga and YA visual novels, batman and the (ugh) bat-family take up most of the top spots and superman and the (groan) super-family are either trailing or have one of blips..
And a rip off of a the shadow
Name 10 Superman villains and 3 iconic stories.
@@oliveragag8576 Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Bizarro, Darkseid, Doomsday, Parasite, Metallo, General Zod, Mongul, and Mr. Mxyzptlk for villains. For stories, All-Star Superman, For the Man who has Everything, and What's So Funny About Truth, Justice, and the American Way?
First, don't you dare to disrespect Superman the animated serie! >:v
Second, Shady Doorags made a video about Brave and Bold.
And third, Yeah this shit is good.
Ahh, I always love seeing this series get a bit more recognition! It was the first Batman-centric media that I watched regularly, so I can admit there was quite a bit of whiplash going to the other series that were a lot darker and didn't have so many obscure DC characters (for the longest time I unironically thought Plastic Man was a major Batman character). I loved so much that it could be fun with itself and yet still so often have a dour tone that didn't feel jarring. Even the non-death moments could be really emotionally resonant, like Batman's recurring efforts to sway Plastic Man into more heroic behavior since he felt a sense of guilt for Plastic Man becoming his mutated self back when he was a villainous henchman.
Another thing to mention, the show had some fun original concepts in addition to the niche stuff it pulled out! The whole Music Master episode with its own in-universe soundtrack, the brief arc with Equinox, and while morality-swapping is nothing new for Batman, its version of Joker!Red Hood was really compelling and fascinating. The series really had so much to offer on either side of the spectrum
As soon as i saw the title i screamed a "YES!!!" loud as fuck. This show was part of my childhood, it introduced me to many cartoon characters, some that ended up becoming my favourites. I was addicted to it, and always rewatch when i can.
16:39 “Shooting straight” line by Huntress implies that he has a habit of not being faithful to Black Canary. While “secret cave” I believe implies the bed room.
I was a teen when this was airing and i find it beyond hiralous how hated this show was 'not being dark enough" meanwhile nowadays most people miss when batman could be this light, it knda shows how fans sometimes bitch for the sake of bitching and don't really know what they want. This show as awesome when it came out and its awesome now
If you wanna see a good example of that I bet you when the Batman for the new movie is announced you will see articles about how he could be Batman and how he’s an awful choice and how his costume sucks.
It’s happened without fail to every single Batman actor even back to Adam west
0:04 that’s not a hot take many people prefer Superman over Batman
Yeah shit ain't even a controversial take either.
yeah... That's the joke...
Superman is certainly not overrated, he's just overshadowed by DC wanting Batman to be in everything
But I love superman 😢
Same here... not sure why our host has omitted the great Superman shows that we have running right now:
1) the live-action *"Superman & Lois"* (3 seasons in, and season 4 should be coming out this year, even if there is a possibility that a couple episode could air in 2025 depending on the schedule)
2)the animated *"My adventures with Superman"* (2 season in, right now we're only 4 episodes into season 2, with another 4 to go).
That would be like saying "Batman is kinda meh, I mean what did we get out of him? Lame movie with George Clooney and a lame team-up with the Flash" and completely omitting Tim Burton's "Batman 89", Nolan's "The Dark Knight" or Reeves "The Batman"...
It's ok man, just don't take it way too harsh.
@@randallflagg3700 Exactly
@@randallflagg3700he also didn’t include the many animated films like All-Star Superman, Superman vs. The Elite, Superman:Doomsday, Superman: Man of tomorrow, and Superman: Red son.
@@PeanutJr.We can leave out Superman: Red son
I remember first watching the flash forward episode and my brother and I genuinely believed by the end that Alfred had some kind of future vision.
Now I know he was just writing a next gen shipping fanfic.
You forgot to mention in the chill of the night section adam west cameo as brave and the bold batmans father during the flash back fight scene
Julie Newmar (who played '66 Catwoman) also voiced Martha Wayne in that episode.
@@SecretMagician I almost forgot about that thanks
19:08 People wondering why TTG is still going, when CN literally filled whole BLOCKS of their schedule with it because it was so quick and cheap to make. Of course it will do well when you literally fill half the schedule with it.
"I AM THE SON OF THE MAN YOU MURDERED!!!"
"I, AM *BRUCE WAYNE* !"
That scene has been burned into my mind since I was a kid
This show gave us some of the best and smartest Batman quotes today. Such as…. “The fist of justice are unisex!” ~ Batman
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One of the BEST Superhero Adaptations EVER made. Glad people still remember it💯
This series has the BEST takes on Blue Beetle, Plastic Man, Red Tornado and Aquaman
The voice acting and Dialogue is SO PEAK. The fact they took cheesy one liners and made them BADA$$ is INSANE😭🔥.
The artstyle is also so TIMELESS. Taking Dick Sprang's artstyle and adpating it for kids in the 2000s is amazing.
And the fight choreo just speaks for itself. Top 3 of then 2000s when it comes to hand to hand combat
I'm glad more people are opening to the light, this show was my jam, I just love all of the references and nodes to the history of Batman
Exactly camp
Awesome seeing random characters each episode. Seeing how batman deals with different problems. Always something different
It makes me sad to think some people who watched the show got tired of it even though it's an amazing formula. I genuinely loved it's premise and seeing different heroes in every episode was amazing.
I honestly liked Brave and the Bold. While I prefer BTAS or TNBA, I appreciate seeing a fun show which has Batman teaming up with other heroes. Aquaman was probably my favorite.
0:36 Personally I always felt that Superman is Severely Underrated because of the very few adaptations he's gotten, especially when compared to Batman's.
Hoho, I'd say criminally underrated, this is the show that initially got me into the third Blue Beetle, Jaime Reyes. And that episode when Batman confronts this universe's Joe Chill? _Ogh... 's beautiful_
I love that you have live action portrayals that act almost as companions to Batman: Brave and the Bold. Portrayals like the Adam West Batman, Batman Forever, and Batman and Robin.
The very last episode is the best. Ambush bug played by Henry Winkler batmight played by Pee-wee Herman in the hole, jumping the shark just the whole thing was awesome
And let's not forget the banger "Music Meister". Still hum this song to this day.
Ikr?
Batman is the character everyone wants to work with. Superman is the character that benchmarks/challenges the skills of a writer.
This would be my ideal Barman for the DCU. Not too mature or corny. Just right enough, and can work with other superheroes
He's also absolutely funny.
I like this version. 😂
You might've just earned yourself a subscriber, Just Stop. I LOVE THIS SERIES! My favorite when I was a child. When I was a small child, I looked forward to Fridays, not only because it was the weekend, but because of this show being hyped to hell and back on Cartoon Network. In some ways, this show made me love Batman even more. I even started watching the 60s version because of this show and what it meant to me. Music Meister was especially hype, I was looking forward to that one Friday in October when it first premired!
I’m so glad this show is getting recognition. This show was literally my childhood. I was so young when I watched it, I had to skip “Chill of the Night” because it was too scary for me.
This show’s Plasticman is the definitive plasticman to me. At least voice wise. Tom Kenny has so much fun with him and it’s refreshing to hear him have a less cartoony voice while still having his cartoony voice at the same time.
Also this show introduced me to one my favorite heroes, Deadman! This show was super good with introducing new fans to old characters. It’s how I got into DC in the first place! Deidrich Bader is my (second) favorite Batman voice for this exact reason
This cartoon got me into Batman to begin with. I was such a staple of my childhood growing up as a little kid and made me the nerdy Batman fan I am today. Thanks for covering this series Braxton! It really means a lot, and now I wanna rewatch it after so many years to because man I didn't realize how well it has aged until this video!
I've been watching this show again recently and it's a ton of fun. I genuinely believe that blue beetle wouldn't be relevant without it.
batman brave and the bold is what made me LOVE batman! so it makes me happy to see you, a youtuber i like a lot say its peak
I watched this entire show a few months ago so I have a lot to say about this show:
I love the Outsiders in this show, even though they only appear in 2 episodes and a few pre-episode segments I love their story.
This show made me love Plastic Man, I knew about him before but barely due to him being criminally underused, but this show was the first time I got to see what he is like.
I love everything about Aquaman in this show.
Equinox was an original character created for the show and I loved his arc.
The Music Meister is also a great original villain.
I think Plastic Man was one of my favorite characters in the show mainly for the fact that Tom Kenny portrays him so well. Like he’s still goofy like most of Kenny’s other roles (ie Spongebob, Ice King, Doctor Two Brains) but he’s still likable and heroic, like when he literally tried to get rid of a bomb with his butt
Finally someone gets it! Brave and the Bold is my favorite Batman cartoon, and it really shows you can have a lighthearted, comedy-driven take on Batman and the DC universe without sacrificing the action or the emotional weight. Also on the subject of getting Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill to voice characters in Chill of the Night, they also got Adam West to voice Thomas Wayne which is fitting on so many levels.
My dad’s favorite Joker was Cesar Romero, but I love Brave and the Bold, especially with how they treat the characters especially with the D-List. I love Gray and Blue.
This was the Batman I grew up with, I remember watching this all the time as a kid and I think it was a great introduction to comics and superheroes! Every now and again I watch it wherever its streaming. I have had multiple conversations explaining why the Music Meister episode is the perfect musical episode.
this show's my current favorite because of plastic man. awesome character, loved him and batman's dynamic, a cartoon with just the two of them would be so awesome
I was sooooo happy to finally see a video on this, btbatb was one of my favourite childhood shows, my very first Batman and I’ll never forget the intro
This is literally my first ever Batman/DC show I grow with. I was never superheroes fan at all and didn't enjoy anything, but always watched Batman: The Brave and The Bold
Bro I LOVED this show. It’s a love letter to the silver age!
The problem with Aquaman is that they try to make him into Namor. Since Namor came first, it’s better for him to be his own thing.
Something I recently thought of about the edgy batman and his rogues gallery we've been getting reminds me dc writers view batman more as some dc version of punisher
Brave and The Bold was just a childhood classic. It introduced me to the greater DC mythos. Like I obviously knew who Batman, Superman, Robin and Wonder Woman were but being introduced to other characters and teams was so cool. Characters such as Martian Manhunter, Booster Gold, Blue Beetle, Captain Marvel, Plastic Man, Green Arrow, The Green Lantern Corps, The JSA ect. It introduced me to The Flash, who is one of my all time favourite comic book heroes, and has one of the best episodes and the show. Even Reverse-Flash quickly became my favourite comic book villains.
This Batman absolutely had some of the greatest tv episodes and moments.
“Batman may die, but Bruce Wayne? *Never* “
I mean that line and moment gave me chills and has to be in my opinion one if his greatest and underrated quotes. It fits really well for the show, we very rarely see Bruce Wayne out of costume but here he values his secret identity over being Batman. It’s such a great twist on the whole idea of Bruce Wayne being Batman’s mask and I appreciate the show runners for trying something different
I adore Batman the Brave and the Bold so much and I seriously wish it got more attention. So glad to see one of my favorite TH-camrs review one of my favorite cartoons
12:24 I almost said out loud, "How do you not know who Ralph Dibney is?" And then realized how big off a geek I am
used to watch this show all the time as a kid, great job on covering it!
I absolutely love BTBATB. I love how it never took itself too seriously but never afraid to not pull punches. The Death of B'wana was a shock to me-I was holding out hope till the end of the episode(and that particular saga as a whole) that B'wana somehow survived and returns, but then they show his funeral and it seriously broke me. Not to mention the King Joker episode will always haunt me with how disturbing the scenarios were.
If anyone is overrated it’s definitely Batman.
Truth
This show was my childhood!
Batman the brave and the bold was one of my favorite superhero shows when I was young
I’m still upset that the Birds of Prey episode was skipped in US for a long while!
At least it’s available on streaming.
An interesting thing about batman's design in this show is his color scheme. Instead of going with the black and gray that was growing more popular during that time, they went with the full blue; BUT gave his mask that black pattr.
It's almost as if saying "were going with the lighter tone, but there's still some of that dark brooding in there, just not as prominent"
I think what might've contributed to the series getting overlooked at the time is that it overlapped with the Ben 10 series, Generator Rex, and a few other hero cartoons at the time. The golden age of cartoons was also on the rise too. I loved watching Brave and the Bold growing up though, along side the Rise of Blue Beatle. So many awesome crossovers from that time.
Will forever be the coolest show that no one has seen
This was the Batman series I grew up on. I was exposed to The Batman (that dracula movie goes hard for no reason) I had a dvd of like the first 3 episodes of BTAS and I managed to catch a few reruns of justice league unlimited.
But this was the first Batman show I was able to watch new on tv. So my view of Batman is different than how people older than me see him.
Batman is a superhero, he saves people, he fights wacky criminals and he tells you to go to bed by 9. It’s also the show that made be interested in comics because I didn’t know who Booster gold or Blue beetle was. I thought gentleman ghost was cool and that Doctor fate was interesting and then I go searching about them.
I didn’t realize how much this version of Batman effected how I see the character until I watched The Batman and saw him like actually saving people and being in daylight at the end because that’s the Batman I’ve wanted but had not seen in a movie until then.
as a person born in 2002, Batman: The Brave and the Bold was actually my introduction to the character of Batman and its honestly why i love comics and superhero's so much today
Man, am I happy you picked this Batman of all to talk about. It was funny enough Batman show that I think I watched the most. From all the various characters to Batman himself- I really love BBaB. Thank you for the video.
One thing I will always love is... they made Thomas Wayne be voiced by Adam West. Just hearing that voice come out as the father if Batman made me so... Relaxed? Pleased? I don't know the word, it just felt right.
Brave and The Bold has *ALWAYS* been my goat, I watched this growing up and have always loved it
I can't lie, I kinda dismissed Brave and the Bold when it started because I was STILL so bummed Justice League was over in favor of a more...light hearted version of Batman. But I watched one episode on a whim, and it instantly drew me in. Its true, this series is mercilessly underrated. Also, its clear the writers and everyone else behind this show had a love for the Silver Age version of the DC Universe when everything was generally nonsensical and above all else FUN.
This was the Batman I grew up with and he still remains one of my favourites. The bit in the final episode where he says goodbye to the audience still gets me every time (especially after a binge watch)
16:53 Bat-Mite is however part of my biggest, massive nipick about this show: How much it avoids Superman in every way shape and form. Emperor Joker was a World's Finest story that ended with Batman going insane and Superman taking on that insanity because that's just the kind of absolute boyscout Superman is and that made the story just that much more meaningful. While this show's version of the story was good, it pales in comparison to that. I'll be honest though, it probably didn't matter if the story used Mxy or Bat-Mite.
I COMPLETELY AGREE
The weird DC embargos are why it took so long for Superman and Wonder Woman to show up, Justice League Unlimited was still on at the time, and they didn't want kids to confuse the variants which is why they only showed up later in the series run once Unlimited ended
@SecretMagician Unlimited stopped airing in 2006. Whereas Brave and the Bold started airing in 2008 though.
@@MasterofRoku yeah, but you also have to consider production times of both. But who knows, DC didn't want Lex Luthor to show up in My Adventures with Superman for some weird reason but they eventually were able to do so properly in Season 2. Who knows what's going on in the minds of the DC media overlords?
I mean, we got three (four if you're willing to count George Clooney) live action Batmen in the span of 2 years a while ago (Robert Pattinson, Ben Affleck and Michael Keaton).
With Brave and the Bold...the only embargo they had that was still in effect was Wonder Woman.
DC specifically wanted this show to focus on heroes that didn't get the spotlight as often...like the actual silver age comics.
Silver Age rules were in effect here...and that's actually a good thing.
This is the Brave and the Bold show so Batman+hero who doesn't usually get spotlight was the rule. Superman, Barry, Hal and Wonder Woman very rarely showed up in that book...largely because Superman had his own similar book called DC Presents where they showed up...likewise with Aquaman and Martian Manhunter once Aquaman started getting popular again after the Super Friends disaster beginning in All-New.
The other reason? Looney Tunes rules state that Diana is pretty much the Petunia Pig of superheroes...(as Petunia is the first regular female Looney Tunes player and has a similar attitude of being "the mature one in a room of clowns")...and you have a Bugs and Daffy dynamic with Clark and Bruce. No one would have cared about the other heroes if Clark and Diana had been brought in. Granted, Diana needs more time in the spotlight, but she would have made for a better guest star if Superman had a similar show. This was exactly why in the late 1990's that Bruce Timm's team for Earth-508 had most of the leaguers guest star on Clark's show as it was a concept pre-league. Batman's world is more of a Film-Noir than it is "Sci-Fi weirdness" like Superman's. Sure the two can sometimes mix and Diana can play either side (when they write her properly), but they mostly tend to view Diana as "works better in a historical/magical setting or with Sci-Fi weirdness, not film-noir"...so ultimately Diana also should have had her own show with a historical setting...which would have been as the teaser shows...an animated Lynda Carter...with various historical or magical heroes teaming up with her.
Now I need to hear you gush about The Batman (2004) after this & I can die happy
Some of my favorite moments in this show in no particular order:
Batman punches Guy Gardner
Batman flirting with Catwoman - like every instance of it
The songs
Robin being upset about being treated as a kid
Batman meeting Sherlock Holmes
The Chill of the Night episode, especially Batman hugging his Mom
Every Aquaman scene
Plastic Man trying to steal gold and jewels
Beetle salivating over Huntress
Joker and Batman teaming up
Alfred writing fanfics
Batman's one liners
(There's more but these are on the top of my mind) 😂
Anyone else catch the animation error at 8:00
Oh yeah
brave and the bold was legit my childhood. I mean not entirely, but that cartoon is definitely where I know batman the most.