While the overall episode is simply good, it will forever be remembered as “the one where the Birds of Prey sing a song about the sexual prowess of various superheroes,” and for that alone, it deserves to be on this list. When Bruce Wayne catches a bit of amnesia in his Matches Malone gangster guise and he decides he’s a real gangster, it’s up to Catwoman, Huntress and Black Canary to help Batman regain his memory. This early episode set Brave and the Bold‘s tone perfectly, eschewing darkness and grittiness for anything-goes Silver Age insanity and massively entertaining weirdness. Thankfully, there are absolutely zero attempts to ground the proceedings under a veneer of realism, and even Batman is turned into a gorilla for a bit. The main villain of the episode is Gorilla Grodd, whose scheme is unbridled lunacy - involving gorillas riding pterodactyls to harpoon a cruise liner and transmogrify its guests into apes. The episode starts off with Gentleman Ghost tearing up the streets in “Dia de los Muertos” on a skeletal horse while wielding twin ectoplasmic flintlocks, until Batman punches him in his nonexistent face with anti-magic Nth metal knuckles. Plastic Man, a former henchman of evil aerialist Kite Man, is torn between living up to Batman’s high expectations as his sidekick du jour and his inclination to pilfer the ill-gotten loot of supervillains for himself. ?Batman teams up with rookie superhero Plastic Man in both the teaser and the main story of this early episode. Here’s our pick for the 10 greatest episodes from the Batman cartoon that wasn’t just the one fans deserved, but the one they needed, too. Also, the show ended every episode title with an exclamation mark, which was also pretty bold.Īfter 65 episodes over three short years, Brave and the Bold ended, having proved it was far more than just an exercise in silliness it could be dark, it could be epic, it could be hilarious, and it could be meta, but it could be and always was entertaining. Universe - often while spotlighting obscure DC heroes and villains, from B’wana Beast to Kite Man, and making them as entertaining as Batman himself.
Immediately threw him into the whole of the meta-human filled DC It was bold because instead of segregating Batman to his Gotham City comfort zone, it It was brave in the sense that it presented a Batman universe that wasn’t always dark or gritty or super-serious, but instead harkened back to the craziness of the Silver Age - a Batman that hadn’t been seen since the ’60s. Not just as a cartoon where Batman teams up with another DC superhero, in the vein of DC’s classic team-up comic, but in content. Batman: Brave and the Bold certainly lived up to its name.
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