@@MegMageReacts Truth. Lockdown appeared in "No Man's Land"(Batman let him take over Blackgate Prison for a while, but eventually had Nightwing take him down). Harley Quinn also got her comic debut shortly after.
12:38 you'll notice that they use Batman's theme to end the episode despite Batman not being in the scene, thus futhering the connection between Batman and Lock-Up. And the triumphant tone is ironic, because it makes it seem as if Lock-Up has somehow won, and that's because in his twisted mind, he thinks he has.
I think the ending was meant to imply that Lock-Up is delusional enough to think that he can “keep an eye on” the other patients even though he is a patient himself. Still, very interesting villain!
yeah i really wished the show did more with him because that line does bring up an interesting dynamic, a villain who is a reluctant alley because he also wants to detain these criminals/him working from the inside of arkham to stop villains from escaping
I mean let’s be honest there are a lot of Batman Villains that actually deserve Lock up’s treatment (Joker, Victor Zsasz, Modern Calendar man [seriously when you visit him on Father’s Day in Arkham City, it’s revealed. He killed his dad and used his corpse as fish bait],) because while some of Batman’s rogues gallery can be rehabilitated others are just violent sociopaths how care little about human lives.
I always thought this was the most important episode in the show for people to truly understand the Batman's character. usually people see Batman as a guy who has no empathy for anyone else, and would freely give up his humanity for his crusade. But throughout the show you see even though Batman is distant, he still tries his best to help people by talking down situations, and going out of his way to do acts of kindness. He tries to be the person who wasn't there for him when he needed it most. Lock-up is wiling to put innocent lives on the line, for control. In other words, Lock-up is how a lot of people see the Dark Knight.
Fun fact: Lock-Up was incorporated into the Batman comics before most other animated series characters, even Harley Quinn. I like the concept of the character - a man who takes his job way too seriously and goes over the edge. My problem with his character is he’s almost too disturbing for the Batman comics. But man, this is by far the best utilization of the character. Leave it to Bruce Timm and company to fully flesh out a character and tell his story in a riveting way!
I know this sounds like a bit of a nitpick, but Paul Dini came up with Lock-Up. I wouldn't normally care but Bruce Timm's been free-riding on Paul Dini's ideas for years.
@@Thed538dhsk the comic books back in the 90s were not very well written at all. This is one reason why I gravitated to B:TAS over the DC comics. The writing is just so much sharper than anything DC Comics was putting out at the time. The animated series writers just knew how to handle Batman and his world better.
@@lithiumgreen105 I'm gonna say no. I read 90's Batman and it's honestly the last great decade of the Bat in comics. As for Lock-Up, surprisingly, the comics one DOES have the balls to imprison a big bad like Two-Face.
It’s been said by other people in other videos, but one thing that I think is an interesting little detail with Lock-Up is specifically which villains he appears to have targeted in the hearing. None of the examples include big names like Joker or Two-Face, or strong villains like Killer-Croc. It’s Harley, Scarecrow and the Ventriloquist, all people he could easily overpower in the Asylum. To Lock-Up, despite what he says, its not about keeping peace, it’s all about controlling and asserting his ‘superiority’ without backlash.
I also feel like this group shows the flaws in his mentality. like if it was people like joker, professor pig, zsasz he was being brutal on you wouldn't really feel sympathetic/be somewhat enjoying their suffering because they deserve it based on their crimes. but with characters like harley and ventriloquist, they are just sick and need help and shows why this disregard for their humanity is wrong
Lock-Up truly couldn't see that he was just as bad the villains he wanted to take down so badly, he had just as much of a screwloose as the rest of fhe Arkham inmates
What’s kinda interesting to me is that, despite his obvious insanity and the cruelty of his methods, there’s a little hint of truth in some of what Bolton says. Arkham really is a consistent revolving door for the inmates to walk out of anytime they want and hurt more innocent people. Most of the inmates obviously have a lot of hope for potential reform, and regardless of the person, they all still should be treated humanely, but Lock-Up’s entire existence feels like a byproduct of Gotham’s collective inability to properly contain and rehabilitate Arkham’s inmates.
As previously mentioned in the comments, TAS really fleshed out their villains. The show actually gave Mr. Freeze a sympathetic back story. Same with Lock Down, he is a product of not just the system but the Batman mythos. Batman's cause can create monsters like Lock Up. Hands down, this is a great episode and a good social commentary about how good intentions can have disastrous results.
@@benschultz1784that's true, but look at who gets put in there. These are hyper violent mentally ill people. Have you read on how great white shark became who he is in Arkham? It's wild
Bruce's philanthropic nature is way more expanded in the comics. Healthcare and most colleges are free in gotham cause of bruce he actually tries to help gotham out alot more
Bruce tries to fix arkham cause he knows it is wrong and a horrible institute but people like Amanda Waller and later in the comics The court of owls actively make gotham worse with their money and power
This is definitely one of the episodes that goes to show just how good BTAS really was. Lock Up is definitely one of my favorite villains created from this show. I seriously wish more people would watch this cause they are missing on some really great stuff! Thanks again Meg! Looking forward to more on patreon!
This is an episode I only recently watched, and I was surprised by how great of a villain Lock-Up is. Just creepy and obsessed with control and detainment, not to mention he’s surprisingly strong and skilled. Batman saying he was literally born to fight his brand of order kinda gives me goosebumps. More often than not Bruce fights villains that represent chaos and mayhem, so to see him battle the other end of the spectrum with just as much determination and will is very interesting.
True, though Bolton is just another facet to Bruce, like all his villains. Bruce captures his villains with the hope they can be reformed. Bolton captures for the sake of control with no room for mercy and if you give him any good reason (namely resisting him in any way) he'll gleefully make an example of you. If Batman stopped caring about his rogues, he'd be just like Bolton.
I like how Lock-Up's costume is similar to Batman's but also inversed. Both of their costumes are black, blue, and grey. However, while Batman's suit is mostly grey and black with blue accents, Lock-Up's is mostly blue with grey accents. Also, while Batman's mask covers his eyes while exposing his jaw, Lock-Up's mask covers his mouth while leaving his eyes exposed. Batman and Lock-Up are the same but also opposites.
Bullock: "Mind letting me in on the joke?" *looks around to see Batman's done his usual disappearing act* "...typical." XD That is the best Bullock moment in the series. Doesn't have any of the shock or awe of Gordon, just gives his deadpan "...I'm so done with this." reaction.
What I like about Batman's villains is they use every kind of gimmick for each of them in the comic books and in the cartoons as well have a great day and week Meg.🦇🦇🐶🐶🦇🦇
Green Arrow is so fascinating. He has so much in common with Batman, but his approach is wildly different. Justice League and Justice League Unlimited can’t get here soon enough!
Agreed.... I would love to see Lock-up properly utilized as a villain and a critique of excessive force and overzealous authority.... His warped idea of who Batman is and what he stands for is also interesting... There are many people who idolize heroes for the violence that they inflict on criminals.... One of those people is a well known writer for Batman comics... I like the idea of Lock-up keeping those kinds of attitudes in check by showing a dark reflection of what that ideology leads to...
This feels like they took what people who've never read a comic say about Batman, made a actual chatacter out of it and pit him against the actual Batman.
I can’t wait for you to watch Batman Beyond because that show has a lot of heavy topics as well although I don’t know if you should watch it before Justice League and Justice League Unlimited or after
Im sure ive seen this episode, but i dont remember him nor have i heard people talk about him. I almost feel like condiment king is more recognized than lockup.
You can continue to call it HBO max, you don't have to correct yourself. I still call it that even though it's changed. It's just like Twitter. I don't call it x I still call it twitter
If only Max could fix the episode order and go by production number instead of air date order. It’s so confusing going from the Blu-Ray, which is in the correct order.
This was actually one of the first episodes I saw as a kid, I wasn’t born in the 90s but I saw a bunch of BTAS episodes on the Hub network, and ever since I first saw it, lock up as always been one of my favorite underrated or obscure Batman villains and Bruce Wietz, the actor who voiced him, needs to reprise the role one day.
"I was born to fight your kind of law and order." I feel like Captain America would salute to that line in particular. Many surviving social systems are rooted in fascism and other antiquated beliefs.
Fun fact: Lyle Bolton, AKA Lock-Up was voiced by legendary actor Bruce Weitz, best known for portraying Sergeant Michael "Mick" Belker on the police procedural Hill Street Blues.
"Lock-Up" was one of my favorite episodes. It shows how the long arm of the law can go too far. Lyle Bolton had admirable goals, but his means of attaining them was brutal and bordering on criminal.
You should read Gotham Central. It focuses on the Major Crimes Unit. It is not copaganda. One of the recurring antagonists is a corrupt forensics analyst.
Lock Up's eyebrows disappear when in costume. :) Speaking of costumes, if Scarecrow wasn't going back to crime why was he in his costume? :O but yeah great episode (as are many BTAS episodes). :)
An interesting angle to take with this episode is imagining it as a confrontation between two different versions of Batman. With Lock-Up representing the more ruthless Batman from Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, which has since been reappraised in recent years as being a borderline fascist in its portrayal of him. Bolton is certainly huge enough to be that version of Batman.
I love that Robin called him out for his donations contributing to so many villains and Batman had nothing to say because he knew Robin was right lmao.
Arkham asylum was a editorial means to bring back villains who were in issues that sold very well, and to use them over repeatedly, for more sales in future issues. That's all it ever was. Same goes for the "no kill rule" that was forced on Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger, along with all the other DC comic artists/writers, of the late 30s/40s. Kane and Finger didn't like the idea of reoccurring villains (along with other censorship mandates) because it makes Batman look incompetent long term, and makes storytelling, that much harder and limited. Their were eventually removed from their own series. As far as the ip as it today, the series can't narratively remedy all the economic woes that contribute to crime in a way that necessitates a Batman to be, because then the series ends, and DC can't have that, because it makes too much money.
I know you've probably gotten a dozen comments like this, but I would watch The New Batman Adventures before Justice League and Batman Beyond. Just a heads up! (love your reactions btw)
Batman didn’t create his villains. Joker was in bad financial situations and broke into Ace Chemicals, Two-Face never dealt with his paychological problems, Ivy was almost killed by her boss before becoming her alter ego. Penguin lost his inheritance and fortune before turning to crime and blamed the Waynes even though it was him and his parents who handled the estate badly. Hush tried to kill his parents for his inheritance but failed due to Thomas Wayne saving his mother. Harley fell for the Joker due to heir naivety. Catwoman was abused and grew up on nothing and had to turn to crime. Lyle Bolton had issues before he was put at Arkham. Wayne can’t be blamed for said issues. Criticism is not valid to him but rather to Gotham and its precarious situation how much it may seem that Batman is the root. He’s the painkiller, not the cure, not the disease and certainly not its cause.
Yeah, he's definitely a foil for Batman's brand of justice because behind all the twisted right-wing rhetoric, he's got a point about Gotham's systemic issues. Love how he read everyone in that room like a book during his dismissal sequence. I can see him with some creative writers being just a perfect match for Batman, like another Prometheus or even Red Hood, just these versions of him that kind of spotlight some flaws even in his methods, I love antagonists like that. It's why I'm a Shadow the Hedghog and Wario fan, Lol.
Hot take DCAU Batman is the greatest adaptation of the character because he's the most human. Honestly the movies could learn a thing or two from the DCAU.
It's a shame this episode doesn't get more attention. It really goes into the psychology of an abuser, that the people they're hurting deserve to be hurt. Really though, it's just an excuse for them to exert power and control over others while feeling justified.
I love how she watches these evil psychopaths and is like oh yeah I feel so bad for them and not the innocent people they are murderering not a slight at all just really funny loving these reactions my absolute favorite part of Batman is the complicated villains in their back stories. Batman has the best roster of villains out of any comics we have people like Mr. freeze, and then there’s joker who is Just an unrelenting self sociopath.
One man's opinion about this episode... I don't think the episode does a good job of making one hate Bolton until they had him go off the deep end. It’s trying to get you to see Bolton as the bad guy from the start. It’s trying to get you to see him a bully who uses excessive force to keep his prisoners in line. It’s trying to get you to say “Batman’s villains may be criminals but even THEY don’t deserve that.“ In my humble judgement, it fails every step of the way. First off, lets consider the obvious: Arkham is a cardboard prison. People escape at will. People call it a "hospital" but we all know that it's practically a prison given that virtually none of them get better or repent and for the sake of the story-never will. Second, let’s consider the prisoners. The Scarecrow performs scientific experiments on people for fun. In the comics Harley gave children bombs disguised as handheld games and BLEW THEM UP. The Joker has killed who knows how many people Two Face isn’t much better Zsasz keeps track on how may people he kills by tallying his body Firefly is an unrepentant pyromaniac Croc is a grisly killer who murders people in the most over the top manners Bane blew up the Arkham asylum and armed the inmates with automatic weaponry just to exhaust Batman and defeat him The Riddler kidnaps people and puts them in deathtraps Poison Ivy is a murderous eco-terrorist Scarface controls a sizable piece of Gotham’s underworld. None of these people deserve sympathy. They are unrepentant murderers. 4th, Batman’s brutality is FAR WORSE than Bolton’s. Isolated cases of kindness to criminals doesn't change that. Throughout his various incarnations Batman has dangled people in front of oncoming trains, threatened to cut off fingers, sealed a man in-between two stones of his cave, dropped people off the side of buildings, took off Mr. Freeze’s life preserving helmet and refused to give it back unless he gave him info, hacked into Black Mask’s pacemaker and threatened to dial up the beats per minute until his heart exploded, and that’s just SOME of his actions. All Bolton did was threaten murderous inmates, take “privileges,” chain people down, electrify their doors, and hold Scarface (a murderous crime boss) over termites. Is Bolton a good person? Not at all. He’s clearly a sadist. But he did his job. Only one man escaped during his tenure and he escaped not to go back to crime but just to escape the warden. Bolton did nothing wrong until he started kidnapping innocent people.
File under "Characters that were created for the animated series but became so popular that they were introduced to the comics."
Omg, amazing!
@@MegMageReacts Truth. Lockdown appeared in "No Man's Land"(Batman let him take over Blackgate Prison for a while, but eventually had Nightwing take him down). Harley Quinn also got her comic debut shortly after.
@@phousefilmsThat's one of my favorite Nightwing stories
My headcanon is also that Mad Stan in Batman Beyond is is grandson
12:38 you'll notice that they use Batman's theme to end the episode despite Batman not being in the scene, thus futhering the connection between Batman and Lock-Up. And the triumphant tone is ironic, because it makes it seem as if Lock-Up has somehow won, and that's because in his twisted mind, he thinks he has.
I love how this episode shows how much Bruce actually cares about the villains.
They don't appreciate his empathy enough to not engage in criminal behaviour though...
I think the ending was meant to imply that Lock-Up is delusional enough to think that he can “keep an eye on” the other patients even though he is a patient himself.
Still, very interesting villain!
It’s classic, “I’m not locked in here with you…” stuff
yeah i really wished the show did more with him because that line does bring up an interesting dynamic, a villain who is a reluctant alley because he also wants to detain these criminals/him working from the inside of arkham to stop villains from escaping
@@christopherauzenne5023, I take it you mean "reluctant ally"?
I mean let’s be honest there are a lot of Batman Villains that actually deserve Lock up’s treatment (Joker, Victor Zsasz, Modern Calendar man [seriously when you visit him on Father’s Day in Arkham City, it’s revealed. He killed his dad and used his corpse as fish bait],) because while some of Batman’s rogues gallery can be rehabilitated others are just violent sociopaths how care little about human lives.
I always thought this was the most important episode in the show for people to truly understand the Batman's character. usually people see Batman as a guy who has no empathy for anyone else, and would freely give up his humanity for his crusade. But throughout the show you see even though Batman is distant, he still tries his best to help people by talking down situations, and going out of his way to do acts of kindness. He tries to be the person who wasn't there for him when he needed it most. Lock-up is wiling to put innocent lives on the line, for control. In other words, Lock-up is how a lot of people see the Dark Knight.
Mr. Bolton is scary just like what some people view Batman..😰
Fun fact: Lock-Up was incorporated into the Batman comics before most other animated series characters, even Harley Quinn. I like the concept of the character - a man who takes his job way too seriously and goes over the edge. My problem with his character is he’s almost too disturbing for the Batman comics. But man, this is by far the best utilization of the character. Leave it to Bruce Timm and company to fully flesh out a character and tell his story in a riveting way!
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@@Thed538dhsk maybe the problem is comic book writers see him as a one-note character when he’s so much more, just as this episode proves.
I know this sounds like a bit of a nitpick, but Paul Dini came up with Lock-Up. I wouldn't normally care but Bruce Timm's been free-riding on Paul Dini's ideas for years.
@@Thed538dhsk the comic books back in the 90s were not very well written at all. This is one reason why I gravitated to B:TAS over the DC comics. The writing is just so much sharper than anything DC Comics was putting out at the time. The animated series writers just knew how to handle Batman and his world better.
@@lithiumgreen105 I'm gonna say no. I read 90's Batman and it's honestly the last great decade of the Bat in comics. As for Lock-Up, surprisingly, the comics one DOES have the balls to imprison a big bad like Two-Face.
It’s been said by other people in other videos, but one thing that I think is an interesting little detail with Lock-Up is specifically which villains he appears to have targeted in the hearing. None of the examples include big names like Joker or Two-Face, or strong villains like Killer-Croc. It’s Harley, Scarecrow and the Ventriloquist, all people he could easily overpower in the Asylum.
To Lock-Up, despite what he says, its not about keeping peace, it’s all about controlling and asserting his ‘superiority’ without backlash.
I also feel like this group shows the flaws in his mentality. like if it was people like joker, professor pig, zsasz he was being brutal on you wouldn't really feel sympathetic/be somewhat enjoying their suffering because they deserve it based on their crimes. but with characters like harley and ventriloquist, they are just sick and need help and shows why this disregard for their humanity is wrong
Lock-Up truly couldn't see that he was just as bad the villains he wanted to take down so badly, he had just as much of a screwloose as the rest of fhe Arkham inmates
What’s kinda interesting to me is that, despite his obvious insanity and the cruelty of his methods, there’s a little hint of truth in some of what Bolton says. Arkham really is a consistent revolving door for the inmates to walk out of anytime they want and hurt more innocent people. Most of the inmates obviously have a lot of hope for potential reform, and regardless of the person, they all still should be treated humanely, but Lock-Up’s entire existence feels like a byproduct of Gotham’s collective inability to properly contain and rehabilitate Arkham’s inmates.
And Scarecrow was helped out by a friendly leprechaun passing by? Obviously Bolton is giving himself a bit too much credit.
@@Mansplainer2099-jy8psVery true.
As previously mentioned in the comments, TAS really fleshed out their villains. The show actually gave Mr. Freeze a sympathetic back story. Same with Lock Down, he is a product of not just the system but the Batman mythos. Batman's cause can create monsters like Lock Up. Hands down, this is a great episode and a good social commentary about how good intentions can have disastrous results.
It's scary just how skilled and effective Lock-up is when rounding up all the people he despises, even Batman can't really anticipate him.
Arkham asylum did need their security upgraded, though. It was a revolving door. It is cool seeing you enjoy this classic animated series
Arkham Asylum needs everything upgraded lmfao
@@MegMageReacts lol.
@@Xehanort10 I wonder how much the Wayne foundation donated to the Asylum?
TBF Arkham was supposed to be a mental hospital and not a prison.
@@benschultz1784that's true, but look at who gets put in there. These are hyper violent mentally ill people. Have you read on how great white shark became who he is in Arkham? It's wild
If Lock Up existed in real life, he'd be given his own talk show.
@Nemo12417 talkshow? He d get a leading government position in the department of justice or smt RN
Wormwood in the Cape and Cowl caper with his death traps and LockUp here are prime examples of GREAT villains just made for this show.
Bruce's philanthropic nature is way more expanded in the comics. Healthcare and most colleges are free in gotham cause of bruce he actually tries to help gotham out alot more
Bruce tries to fix arkham cause he knows it is wrong and a horrible institute but people like Amanda Waller and later in the comics The court of owls actively make gotham worse with their money and power
This is definitely one of the episodes that goes to show just how good BTAS really was. Lock Up is definitely one of my favorite villains created from this show. I seriously wish more people would watch this cause they are missing on some really great stuff! Thanks again Meg! Looking forward to more on patreon!
robin coming for batman's neck
I will love him forever for that 🤣🤣 the way Bats just stared at him knowing he couldn't say anything 😭💀
This is an episode I only recently watched, and I was surprised by how great of a villain Lock-Up is. Just creepy and obsessed with control and detainment, not to mention he’s surprisingly strong and skilled. Batman saying he was literally born to fight his brand of order kinda gives me goosebumps. More often than not Bruce fights villains that represent chaos and mayhem, so to see him battle the other end of the spectrum with just as much determination and will is very interesting.
Well, Lock-Up's kind of order is just its own kind of mayhem which just breeds a Two-Face, a Bane etc.
True, though Bolton is just another facet to Bruce, like all his villains.
Bruce captures his villains with the hope they can be reformed. Bolton captures for the sake of control with no room for mercy and if you give him any good reason (namely resisting him in any way) he'll gleefully make an example of you. If Batman stopped caring about his rogues, he'd be just like Bolton.
Batman fights Regime Superman.
Lock-Up (Lyle Bolton) is literally Batman if Batman didn’t even know the first thing about empathy, and Robin was right, he’s terrifying.
I like how Lock-Up's costume is similar to Batman's but also inversed.
Both of their costumes are black, blue, and grey. However, while Batman's suit is mostly grey and black with blue accents, Lock-Up's is mostly blue with grey accents. Also, while Batman's mask covers his eyes while exposing his jaw, Lock-Up's mask covers his mouth while leaving his eyes exposed.
Batman and Lock-Up are the same but also opposites.
Bolton isn't locked in Arkham with the others; THE OTHERS ARE LOCKED IN ARKHAM WITH BOLTON!!!!!!!!!!!
Bullock: "Mind letting me in on the joke?" *looks around to see Batman's done his usual disappearing act* "...typical."
XD That is the best Bullock moment in the series. Doesn't have any of the shock or awe of Gordon, just gives his deadpan "...I'm so done with this." reaction.
What I like about Batman's villains is they use every kind of gimmick
for each of them in the comic books and in the cartoons as well
have a great day and week Meg.🦇🦇🐶🐶🦇🦇
There are so many and they're all so different!
Lock-Up's voice actor is the same one for Bruno Manheim for the Superman Animated Series.
Meg's discussion about Batman and his place in society just gets me excited for when she learns more about Green Arrow and his beliefs.
Green Arrow is so fascinating. He has so much in common with Batman, but his approach is wildly different. Justice League and Justice League Unlimited can’t get here soon enough!
“I just got chills in my triceps…!! Comment made me unexpectedly laugh I almost s**t into my socks. 😂
Bolton is a prison guard in a mental hospital
Agreed.... I would love to see Lock-up properly utilized as a villain and a critique of excessive force and overzealous authority....
His warped idea of who Batman is and what he stands for is also interesting...
There are many people who idolize heroes for the violence that they inflict on criminals....
One of those people is a well known writer for Batman comics...
I like the idea of Lock-up keeping those kinds of attitudes in check by showing a dark reflection of what that ideology leads to...
This feels like they took what people who've never read a comic say about Batman, made a actual chatacter out of it and pit him against the actual Batman.
Punisher and Lock-Up would be best friends
The best Comic to read that deals with Arkham is "Arkham Asylum A Serious House on Serious Earth" by Grant Morrison.
I can’t wait for you to watch Batman Beyond because that show has a lot of heavy topics as well although I don’t know if you should watch it before Justice League and Justice League Unlimited or after
I would say before, since JLU has an episode that wraps up Batman Beyond after it was cancelled
Yeah and watching Justice League Unlimited as the last show hits different
I love your reviews of my favorite animated show, Meg! You’re awesome!❤️
'Chills on my triceps' is SUCH a great line!
Im sure ive seen this episode, but i dont remember him nor have i heard people talk about him. I almost feel like condiment king is more recognized than lockup.
In the main comic continuity ten years ago the Arkham inmates were temporarily moved to Wayne Manor. There was a series called Arkham Manor.
Man, Lock-Up reminds me of a forgotten Comic Book Villain I've recently heard of called The Master Jailer.
You can continue to call it HBO max, you don't have to correct yourself. I still call it that even though it's changed. It's just like Twitter. I don't call it x I still call it twitter
I was going to say... Max will always be like X with the (formerly Twitter) 😂
If only Max could fix the episode order and go by production number instead of air date order. It’s so confusing going from the Blu-Ray, which is in the correct order.
This was actually one of the first episodes I saw as a kid, I wasn’t born in the 90s but I saw a bunch of BTAS episodes on the Hub network, and ever since I first saw it, lock up as always been one of my favorite underrated or obscure Batman villains and Bruce Wietz, the actor who voiced him, needs to reprise the role one day.
You HAVE to see the Sun Zero movie eventually
"I was born to fight your kind of law and order." I feel like Captain America would salute to that line in particular. Many surviving social systems are rooted in fascism and other antiquated beliefs.
Fun fact: Lyle Bolton, AKA Lock-Up was voiced by legendary actor Bruce Weitz, best known for portraying Sergeant Michael "Mick" Belker on the police procedural Hill Street Blues.
Love that Lock-up is in the new Arkham Game.
i ran here after the discord notification, more btas, more all of it
Welcome!! I'm obsessed and on a roll rn!
He is to an extreme but never forget they are criminals that have and will ruin others lives because.
Ngl, I wouldn't care less about the origin of the "Law & Order" thingy, is not even important on this context.
"Lock-Up" was one of my favorite episodes. It shows how the long arm of the law can go too far. Lyle Bolton had admirable goals, but his means of attaining them was brutal and bordering on criminal.
Lock-Up's truck looks a lot like Mister Freeze's
This is how it all starts. With the permissive, liberal reactors.
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huh
An antivillain that reminds us the problems we have now are the same we had then
Weird, I never saw this episode before. I wonder if FOX didn't air it as often?
You should read Gotham Central. It focuses on the Major Crimes Unit. It is not copaganda. One of the recurring antagonists is a corrupt forensics analyst.
I forgot how " a lot" Lockup is
Robin is extra sassy in this episode, LOL
I've always kinda wanted Lock Up to be the villain of a Batman game...
Lock-Up is the one villain I think would have a pretty dedicated no-kill rule like Batman does.
@11:00 One of my fav moments.
Lock Up's eyebrows disappear when in costume. :)
Speaking of costumes, if Scarecrow wasn't going back to crime why was he in his costume? :O
but yeah great episode (as are many BTAS episodes). :)
Gotta keep up with the aesthetic! ...I think that's a good reason.
Hi Meg hope you are having an great and awesome day ❤
An interesting angle to take with this episode is imagining it as a confrontation between two different versions of Batman. With Lock-Up representing the more ruthless Batman from Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, which has since been reappraised in recent years as being a borderline fascist in its portrayal of him.
Bolton is certainly huge enough to be that version of Batman.
By the way, I still hope you are able to make it to Static Shock!
I love that Robin called him out for his donations contributing to so many villains and Batman had nothing to say because he knew Robin was right lmao.
Perfect reaction to this Batman episode
A character concept interesting enough be moved into the comics.
Underrated villain wish they showed him more
he is now in batman arkham shadow
Arkham asylum was a editorial means to bring back villains who were in issues that sold very well, and to use them over repeatedly, for more sales in future issues. That's all it ever was. Same goes for the "no kill rule" that was forced on Batman creators Bob Kane and Bill Finger, along with all the other DC comic artists/writers, of the late 30s/40s.
Kane and Finger didn't like the idea of reoccurring villains (along with other censorship mandates) because it makes Batman look incompetent long term, and makes storytelling, that much harder and limited. Their were eventually removed from their own series.
As far as the ip as it today, the series can't narratively remedy all the economic woes that contribute to crime in a way that necessitates a Batman to be, because then the series ends, and DC can't have that, because it makes too much money.
You should watch The Batman 2004
hi Meg
I know you've probably gotten a dozen comments like this, but I would watch The New Batman Adventures before Justice League and Batman Beyond. Just a heads up! (love your reactions btw)
It's still HBO Max. Companies aren't people so you don't have to respect silly rebranding.
Great reaction! I think you missed to react to the episode "Mudslide", could you please react to it? 😊
Batman didn’t create his villains. Joker was in bad financial situations and broke into Ace Chemicals, Two-Face never dealt with his paychological problems, Ivy was almost killed by her boss before becoming her alter ego. Penguin lost his inheritance and fortune before turning to crime and blamed the Waynes even though it was him and his parents who handled the estate badly. Hush tried to kill his parents for his inheritance but failed due to Thomas Wayne saving his mother. Harley fell for the Joker due to heir naivety. Catwoman was abused and grew up on nothing and had to turn to crime.
Lyle Bolton had issues before he was put at Arkham. Wayne can’t be blamed for said issues. Criticism is not valid to him but rather to Gotham and its precarious situation how much it may seem that Batman is the root. He’s the painkiller, not the cure, not the disease and certainly not its cause.
Yeah, he's definitely a foil for Batman's brand of justice because behind all the twisted right-wing rhetoric, he's got a point about Gotham's systemic issues. Love how he read everyone in that room like a book during his dismissal sequence. I can see him with some creative writers being just a perfect match for Batman, like another Prometheus or even Red Hood, just these versions of him that kind of spotlight some flaws even in his methods, I love antagonists like that. It's why I'm a Shadow the Hedghog and Wario fan, Lol.
Hot take DCAU Batman is the greatest adaptation of the character because he's the most human. Honestly the movies could learn a thing or two from the DCAU.
Do react to the 4-hour director's cut of Justice League!
That was disturbing to see
It's a shame this episode doesn't get more attention. It really goes into the psychology of an abuser, that the people they're hurting deserve to be hurt. Really though, it's just an excuse for them to exert power and control over others while feeling justified.
5:40 why politics all of a sudden
@@mariebourgot4949did you watch her ?
I love how she watches these evil psychopaths and is like oh yeah I feel so bad for them and not the innocent people they are murderering not a slight at all just really funny loving these reactions my absolute favorite part of Batman is the complicated villains in their back stories. Batman has the best roster of villains out of any comics we have people like Mr. freeze, and then there’s joker who is Just an unrelenting self sociopath.
One man's opinion about this episode...
I don't think the episode does a good job of making one hate Bolton until they had him go off the deep end.
It’s trying to get you to see Bolton as the bad guy from the start. It’s trying to get you to see him a bully who uses excessive force to keep his prisoners in line. It’s trying to get you to say “Batman’s villains may be criminals but even THEY don’t deserve that.“
In my humble judgement, it fails every step of the way.
First off, lets consider the obvious: Arkham is a cardboard prison. People escape at will.
People call it a "hospital" but we all know that it's practically a prison given that virtually none of them get better or repent and for the sake of the story-never will.
Second, let’s consider the prisoners.
The Scarecrow performs scientific experiments on people for fun.
In the comics Harley gave children bombs disguised as handheld games and BLEW THEM UP.
The Joker has killed who knows how many people
Two Face isn’t much better
Zsasz keeps track on how may people he kills by tallying his body
Firefly is an unrepentant pyromaniac
Croc is a grisly killer who murders people in the most over the top manners
Bane blew up the Arkham asylum and armed the inmates with automatic weaponry just to exhaust Batman and defeat him
The Riddler kidnaps people and puts them in deathtraps
Poison Ivy is a murderous eco-terrorist
Scarface controls a sizable piece of Gotham’s underworld.
None of these people deserve sympathy. They are unrepentant murderers.
4th, Batman’s brutality is FAR WORSE than Bolton’s. Isolated cases of kindness to criminals doesn't change that.
Throughout his various incarnations Batman has dangled people in front of oncoming trains, threatened to cut off fingers, sealed a man in-between two stones of his cave, dropped people off the side of buildings, took off Mr. Freeze’s life preserving helmet and refused to give it back unless he gave him info, hacked into Black Mask’s pacemaker and threatened to dial up the beats per minute until his heart exploded, and that’s just SOME of his actions.
All Bolton did was threaten murderous inmates, take “privileges,” chain people down, electrify their doors, and hold Scarface (a murderous crime boss) over termites.
Is Bolton a good person? Not at all. He’s clearly a sadist. But he did his job. Only one man escaped during his tenure and he escaped not to go back to crime but just to escape the warden.
Bolton did nothing wrong until he started kidnapping innocent people.