Batman Beyond Is NOT A Kids' Show | #batmanbeyond25

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This show may not quite have been designed to sell toys... But that doesn't mean these weren't literally the only action figures I tried to collect as kid

People in the US forget that twelve-year-olds are hardcore. Like, seriously. Kids are watching and understand more than we give them credit for. They like the gross and nasty. They like darkness. So in a way, it makes sense that one of the most beloved, most kid-targeted Batmen was dark as hell. It's the parents who have problems with it, not the kids.

Parents: Batman is for kids Old Bruce: hold my cane

I love the fact that the executives at WB wanted them to create cheap, disposable slop ("something to appeal to kids", "something to sell to mums at Walmart", something just to sell action-figure lines), and instead they created timeless, meaningful, and lasting ART. (which probably got them in trouble at the time). Absolute legends.

When people mention the horror aspects of this show, they never mention Aaron. The guy falls for the wrong girl, and she turns him into a melting snowman. The last time we see him, he's in a box being looked over by another lonely misfit.

2:51 I always liked that when they were told to censor something they'd find a way to make the censored version more horrifying.

Thats another reason i enjoyed Batman Beyond after class - it was hardcore for a cartoon.

The DCAU team were really good at technically following censorship notes while making the situation worse. - Joker gas/venom used as a stand in for death. Technically he didn't kill anyone with it but that just makes it worse. - Batgirl's "death" couldn't show her falling on the car so the camera was moved inside the car, making the moment of impact into a jumpscare. Batman Beyond allowed the writers to do more modern sci-fi stuff which their version of Batman couldn't really do without grabbing 50s pulp tropes. They also handled a lot of serious school topics like drug abuse, suicide, stalking, body issues and coming of age. ...also almost every Batman Beyond villain seemed to die, or ambiguously die and never come back. We still don't know if Ian Peek is dead or not at the center of the earth.

Another great thing about the show was its use of teen angst. Many villains are troubled children trying to escape what they believe to be an oppressive environment: Ten, Donny Grasso, Terminal, the Jokerz, Willie Watt, Patrick th Rat-Boy, Payback. Not really a cyber-punk show if you don't include the deterioration of childhood innocence! And the writers kept that, made it a focal point in the story. Now that certainly attracted the younger audience.

Can’t wait for you to cover Return of the Joker. The perfect conclusion to the rivalry of the definitive Batman and Joker. And funnily enough my first exposure to Mark Hamill as the character

Another way to look at Batman being reduced to using a gun would have been to see that the fact that he had to use a gun meant that he was no longer physically fit for his mission. Had he not developed a heart condition for STORY MOVES THE CHARACTERS INSTEAD OF THE CHARACTERS MOVING THE STORY reasons, he could have probably not been caught off guard and could have kept being Batman for a few more years/months/weeks. Being forced to use the gun meant that being reduced into using it meant that he can no longer operate as Batman without an assistance like the fear of the gun and after the situation was dealt with, Bruce recognized the wake up call he was given; he is can't be Batman anymore because he past his prime to operate as Batman anymore. This was his curtain call and book ending to his career, having started with a gun and being brought to a close with a gun. It still wouldn't have needed be the end of his mission, as Bruce could have gone the way of Kingdom Come and started to use sentinel drones remotely controlled from the Batcave, but hey, that way we wouldn't have gotten Batman Beyond as a series or as a concept.

Dark and Gritty with Edgey Humor. Y7.

I learned about Batman Beyond from my Grandmother who worked at Warner Bros. She got me a Dvd of the first handful episodes(because it just came out of the studio) probably thinking it was going to be more light-hearted. After watching this video I am convinced that after my first viewing of said DVD she had decided I was not allowed to watch it anymore. I loved Batman Beyond and still do to this day, as far as I'm concerned Terry McGinnis is the true successor to Bruce Wayne as Batman😁

I noticed in Earthmover, the daughter calls the man who accidentally caused her father's death, "Dad" at the end when before she called him by his name. He really tried to make up for what he had done and in a way, succeeded.

In your Blight video, are you going to reference the famous scene that also became a meme of Blight saying "Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down"? I know it's been used quite a bit but I just can't help but laugh anytime I hear it.

I saw the thumbnail and it gave me a wild sense memory. When whatever that thing was jammed itself into Batman’s mouth, it scared the shit out of me as a kid. Like gave me nightmares.

Great video. I'm also glad that the execs failed with wanting to make this a more kid-friendly show, especially since I was well into adulthood when I first started watching. As such, the darker themes were more appealing to me, including those in "Earth Mover". I'm looking forward to your next video on Derek Powers/Blight.

Do you reckon that it was actually Tony Maychek that remained within the Earthmover, or do you think it was more akin to Alan Moore's Swamp Thing where Alec Holland wasn't the true essence of Swamp Thing and just had fragments of what remained of his memories instead of actually being him? I know there were more differences but you know what I meant.

My main introduction to Batman was the Batman/Superman World's Finest movie and Batman Beyond so they'll always have a special place in my heart What I loved most is that, even though I was viewing some returning villains for the first time I knew I wasn't watching a triumphant return but rather the equivilent of a cockroach skuttling back after you thought you stamped it out. Bane was left a shell, Ra's al Ghul is so scared of death he stole his daughter's body and his obsession with the Lazarus pit is what ultimately killed him, Freeze being overwhelmed by his emotions both from the betrayl and seeing the impact of his crimes from a fresh perspective deciding the only way he'll ever be free is to end himself. Time is not kind to anyone in the show, even Barbara Gordon isn't immune to it, almost becoming an example of her fear toxin induced nightmare when she's tricked into going after Terry by Spellbinder (if only the Bruce/Barb romantic subplot wasn't there because fucking ***yeeesh***) Even other villains, while some not strictly basing themselves off the originals, can be seen as 'modern' equivilents. Spellbinder is a mishmash of Mad Hatter's tech and Scarecrow's psychological background, Inque is a more specialized version of Clayface, The JOKERZ gang using the clown prince of crime's likeness to give them some identity to name just a few And then there was the Return of The Joker While he would certainly say he made a grand return, his is ultimately the most pathetic and sickening; how he's using a microchip in Tim Drake's body to ocasionally posess him, haunting him and eventually Bruce from beyond the grave. He constantly lives in the past, wanting to fight Brucie all over again and taking potshots at Terry because he's not a REAL Batman. Ironically, BTAS foreshadowed how he's defeated for good in the end; like in 'Make 'em Laugh', he cannot stand being mocked, either by being called unfunny or having someone laugh AT him, both the reason he steals Mad Hatter's tech to brainwash 3 comedians into being lacklustre villains and how the episode ends with him yelling at a crowd of people to stop laughing at him with his pants down. With Terry realizing that a guy who likes to talk smack to get a reaction out of a brickwall like Bruce would probably fucking *hate* it if someone started taking verbal shots back, getting the Joker so heated he's open to having the microchip zapped by his own hyper-charged joybuzzer he dropped earlier in the fight