Talk:Batman: The Animated Series

message: I tried to add Volume Four to the release dates table, but I messed everything up. Could someone please help me?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.67.246.109 (talk) 12:50, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volume 4 in Release Dates 

message: An archive of the merge debate for Animated Series Batman has been placed on a subfolder of this page: Talk:Batman: The Animated Series/Animated Series Batman Talk/
~CS 14:23, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Discuss Bruce Timm? -Sparky
Is not "On Leather Wings" the pilot episode? I got that impression from the DVD commentary & special features... -leigh (φθόγγος) 03:32, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
: also implies that it is. I'll change the article to reflect this, and at least mention Timm. -leigh (φθόγγος) 03:35, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)
::The distinction is that "On Leather Wings" is the first episode made, but the Catwoman episode the earlier contributor had in mind was the first episode aired. For some reason, the episodes of B:TAS were aired in a completely different order from what they were made (or made in a completely different order from what they were aired). --Paul A 05:54, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pilot Episode? 

message: Since it is widely accepted (and stated in the article) that The New Batman Adventures is an extension of the original animated series, I recommend that the articles be merged. Lord Bodak 23:22, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting point.  However, the DVD release of the episodes past 85, coming in December, is labelled "Batman: The Animated Series Volume Four," and subtitled "From The New Batman Adventures." Lord Bodak 14:37, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's true, which clearly indicates that this in fact a seperate series. If it were just the same series under a new name they wouldn't have bothered to mention it (they didn't say "From The Adventures of Batman and Robin" on the episodes with that opening as part of advertising) This clearly indicates that it is not the same series. It's TNBA is an animated series about Batman, but it is not just new episodes of "Batman the Animated Series".  --MysteriousMystery 22:25, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: I took out some guests that were only on TNBA, but added some memorable guest appearance from this series. In cases like Bess Armstrong, Matt Frewer, and Kimmy Robertson the memorableness is that they were leading guests or the leadung guest in the episode. In cases like Grant Shaud and Loretta Swit they were prominent as guests, but maybe as much prominent for being fairly well-known through their successful TV series days. Then there's like Patrick Leahy where him being known is what makes it memorable. Brad Garrett's role as Goliath I thought was pretty important to that ep, but he's also somewhat known. Not sure where he'd be placed then.--T. Anthony 05:03, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I put a few TNBA names back as some things are unresolved. Only the ones who are somewhat noteworthy though and have Wikipedia articles.--T. Anthony 05:59, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Guests

message: Clipped this from the Gray Ghost paragraph:
(although the real reason for the creation was that the episode was an adaptation of an issue that featured The Shadow, which when it was first published was owned by DC when the show was made DC comics didn't have the rights to The SHadow anymore so the Gray Ghost was created to fill in)
If the original author can substantiate that and clean the text up a little bit, we can add it back in, it's a nice piece of trivia. Simnel 02:40, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The shadow 

message: Is the recent additon of a very long, comprehensive list of largely obselete VHS and DVD releases necessary? The additional lists seem superfluous -- especially when we eliminated similar lists pretaining to the final DVD sets a only a few months ago. ~CS 22:01, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The anonymous user who added these lists has not been back to respond. If no one objects, I'm going to expunge this section in the next few days.  It repeats information already provided, and makes the article way to long.  I wouldn't object to a shorter section that summerizes the VHS releases, but as it stands, the section is ungainly.  ~CS 20:40, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old Releases

message: Should "Shadow of the Bat" be listed as memorable episode?  All the episodes on the list are widely regarded as being excellent episodes, except for maybe "Shadow of the Bat".  I don't usually see that episode on top ten lists, nor do I think it is a truly exceptional episode (though it is pretty good).  Wouldn't there be other episodes that would be more deserving to mention?  The two-parter "Feat of Clay", I think, is considerablly better than Shadow of the Bat.  Feat of Clay is also an episode that I notice is frequentlly listed as a top episode, so obviouslly there's quite a few people who would agree with me.
Does anyone else support this change? (Adding Feat of Clay, and possibly removing Shadow of the Bat, to this section?)
I understand the challege here: part of the difficulty is that there are just so many excellent episodes for this series...
Drdestiny77 10:09, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memorable Episodes - Shadow of the Bat? 

message: Check this out: Batman (animated)
This article is lacking of several stuff. For starters every article about a tv series talk about the characters and the events. We have the episodes, but I'm talking overall events, what's Batman: The Animated Series about. This article, as it is right now, is more about production deatails, how this series was innovative and how it afected comics, but it lacks of the basics. I also read the Paul Dini/Chip Kido book. Think about it as if you were both new to Batman and new to the animated series. It's a shame there was no bio of the animated version of Batman until now!! We are missing the very basics, people!!! --T-man, the wise 23:45, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Major Changes people!

message: In line with what User: T-man has done, I've added a few quick capsule descriptions of the main characters, villains, and some other significant characters of note, and tidied up some of the sections where they were a bit verbose or confusing. In order to shorten down the article somewhat, I've also moved the long list of episodes to it's own article with a link provided. Any comments are gladly received.--Joseph Q Publique 05:30, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits 

message: Batman: The Animated Series/Animated Series Batman (character)
During the creation of of that "late" article I always stated that it was a draft or unproject. It took weeks until Bennon cleverly figured out what I was trying to do was a sandbox (which I didn't know how to do until now).
Now everyone can edit it with no time pressure and talk about what to do with the info when i's finally finished. I coul'd have created the sandbox in my own talk page, but I don't want anyone to assume I "OWN" the project. Feel free to erase, add and source stuff to improve it.--T-man, the wise 22:34, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Batman: The Animated Series/Animated Series Batman (character)|Animated Series Batman (character)]] sandbox

message: I placed the weasel words template at the top because of the second sentence:
"It is widely regarded by fans as the most iconic modern representation of the Batman character and mythology, and also as the best animated series based on a comic book." 
Though it says that it's the opinion of most fans I'm not quite sure if that's proper NPV, and though I haven't checked the entire article, other instances of uncredited opinion could be there. Even if this is indeed the best Batman animated adaptation, Batman fans are surely more prone to considering a proper Batman adaptation better then a proper spider-man adaptation (and that in itself is not quite neutral).
Since I'm not sure, I didn't immediatly remove it, someone more experienced might want to check it out.
--Fmafra 18:54, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It IS the best. First two seasons only.
-G  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 06:02, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: When I was a kid, I thought this show was *so* cool. All of the episodes seemed so clever and deep. I am actually interested in seeing it again and finding out if it's actually as good as I thought when I was 10.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.148.222.114 (talk) 13:49, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the best? (weasel warning) 

message: Many or all of the existing individual episode pages for this series appear to fail the notability guidelines for television episodes, and have been tagged accordingly.  These articles can be improved through the inclusion of real-world information from reliable sources to assert notability. Overly long plot summaries should be edited, to a maximum length of approximately ten words per minute of screen time. Trivia should be integrated into the body of the article, or removed if it is not directly relevant. Quotes and images should only be used as part of a critical analysis of the episode. You might also consider merging any notable information onto the show's "List of episodes" or season pages.  Otherwise, when these pages come up for review in fourteen days, they may be redirected or merged. If you want any help or further information, then come to Wikipedia:WikiProject Television/Episode coverage.   Thanks.  TTN 18:36, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Episode notability

message: I removed the mention of many fans regarding it a different show.  It's completely irrelevant what "many fans" think if the show's creators say themselves it's the same universe. 75.153.231.20 10:46, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Weasel words

message: Could somebody please add some detailed comments on the roles of the various animation studios that worked on the series?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.178.105.25 (talk) 02:03, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Animation studios

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thread_title: WikiProject Comics B-Class Assesment required

message: "On November 4, 2008 all 109 episodes will be released for Region 1 titled Batman: The Complete Animated Series. It will include all features from the four individual volumes plus a bonus 17th disc with a new special feature and a 40 page Collector's book containing artwork"
Does anyone know if there will be a Region 2 release? Thank You  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.157.100.53 (talk) 22:30, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: All Episodes Release

message: Someone keeps on putting stuff up here about the style of the X-Men cartoon.  Congrats to X-Men, but this is an article about Batman, the Animated Series.  In addition, the stuff that is being put up here about X-Men is NOT EVEN SOURCED!  It's reasons like this that students are not allowed to cite wikipedia as a reference.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Imabigfantrustme1980 (talk • contribs) 20:35, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: X-Men?  Why?

message: Am I the only one who is bothered by the fact that this show, along with two other DCAU shows and Pinky and the Brain, is being put on Disney XD, a network that is owned by Disney?! Surely I'm not the only one who hasn't forgotten that The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. are bitter enemies! --74.167.107.134 (talk) 00:34, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: This show on Disney XD? Why?

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thread_title: C-Class rated for Comics Project

message: The end-date is September 15, not 16! And it stayed 16 for years! What a shame!!! --Batman tas (talk) 19:09, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The end-date

message: Why is "On Leather Wings" described as the pilot when "The Cat and the Claw Pt. 1" aired first?  Emperor001 (talk) 20:13, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pilot

message: I feel that the picture is actually too small to add anything to the article - if you cannot make out the appearances of the antagnonists in the picture, is there really a reason for having it? T-roland (talk) 06:09, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main antagonists 

message: I deleted the line about music from Batman: TAS being in LEGO Batman: The Videogame. I've played this game hundreds of times (Sorry, but it's my favorite game. :P) and all the music in it is from the 1989 Tim Burton movie (although the DS version uses some music from Batman Returns). 24.247.134.174 (talk) 13:37, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  LEGO Batman Music 

message: I read this in the article: "Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) - a direct-to-video animated film released before Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman, but acts as a sequel due to the order of events."
What does have to do being a sequel with the order of events? Return of the Joker was released earlier. Was it intended to be the sequel of the Mystery of Batwoman bat something happened that withold the release of Batwoman? Does anything happen in Batwoman that should be known to understand Return of the Joker? I thought Return of the Joker is a movie for the spin-off series of the series which Batwoman was based on. Do the two films have anything to do with each other aside of the fact that they are in the same franchise? Please, nobody tell me that it's a sequel, because it's later in the timeline. (As the Thrawn-trilogy is not the sequel to the Clone Wars cartoon.) It came out much later and if the two films has nothing to do with each other, than it's not a sequel. 81.182.236.244 (talk) 02:53, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "sequel" and "order of events"??? 

message: cleaned up poorly written overview section, which, apart from being badly worded, contained some unproven, biased info. some examples - "heavily influenced" by Burton's films isn't appropriate phrasing - there's no evidence, visual or otherwise, that it was, though indisputably, it did take some influence from those films - changed phrasing accordingly to improve accuracy. "...first such cartoon in years to depict outright physical violence" is well-worded and totally sufficient - tacking on something like "such as batman punching and kicking antagonists" is unnecessary, sounds sophomoric, and makes for a sloppy run-on sentence. some minor cleanup to poorly written intro as well - for instance, "is an...animated tv series" should be "was an... animated tv series", as the series is no longer in production... etc., etc... things like that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.183.159.197 (talk) 20:05, 18 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the clean-up, but with regard to that last correction, you're wrong.  One wouldn't write "David Copperfield was a book" as a descriptor ... it IS a book.  Similarly, Batman: The Animated Series IS an animated series, and will always remain so.  The fact that it is out of production is irrelevant.  70.29.13.186 (talk) 19:37, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  needed cleanup 

message: Dear Sirs,
I presume it an occasion to insert my reflections here on this point, because I believe that the initial Batman series have some immaculate and inimitable coigns of vantage unparalleled by any sequels soever, so that as soon as The New Batman Adventures we see some modernisation at the expense of the vintage high-order creativity and standard to be continued, not disrupted, as is quite efficiently managed in The Justice League. This strand be continued distinct for that reason, let me suggest. I could herein aver that a reference to The Justice League (at least in style) be made within the first-series article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_The_Animated_Series) as a point of certain affinity (to the extent of voice actors, which is crucial in my view). I understand that with time things tend to fuse, but is that not a positive motive to preserve the integrity of the two pieces (TAS and TNBA) concerned? 
My deepest conviction is that any time a deviation in the storyline of the animated Batman legacy is made from the Animated Series, a loss is of necessity sustained - they are nonpareil, outstanding, conquering, exquisite. They deserve their awards, esp. 'Best Animated Television Program'.
Miles Sanders (talk) 21:43, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. No merge. The original series is a classic and deserves its own page. Anything that has succeeded it is far inferior and completely different, in animation, casting of characters, voices etc. BillyBatty (talk) 19:08, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Batman The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures should be kept separate 

message: There are some notable voices that should be listed in the main page.[1] 
In Scarecrow's first appearance Richard Moll (most known as Bailiff Bull Shanon in Night Court 1980s) as Nigel and Bat Computer. 
Dorian Hareweood (Full Metal Jacket and Gothika)
Leslie Easterbrook (Lt. Callahan Police Academy 1-7) 
Such actors as Richard Drysart, Joe Piscopo, even the famous Tim Curry(Creates Noir movies such as The Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice!), and John de Lancie. (Well known as Q from Star Trek:TNG/Voyager) 
LeVar Burton (Known as Reading Rainbow's host and Commander Geordi LaForge Star Trek: TNG) 
And even Malcolm McDowell is in one episode. There is plenty more. If anyone knows how to do this cleanly so it will stay on the main page I think it should be added along with the voice actors such as Mark Hamil and Kate MulGrew.
Suntop K (talk) 19:56, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antagonists accomplices and other voice actors who should be mentioned in the main article 

message: Announced today, I was wondering if this remaster was just the Blu-ray versions of the episodes, because I was about to put the remaster announcement in the opening before I thought about it more--Harmony944 (talk, Twitter) 16:37, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  DC Universe remaster 

message: Yes Simamkele Kondlathi (talk) 18:12, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it true that robin is batman's child? 

message: I've been working on creating a list of which characters appear in which episodes.  Someone deleted it over the weekend.  PLEASE DO NOT DELETE AGAIN.  It is a work in progress (ie, it's incomplete) but adds important information to the entry.
Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:160:3660:448F:406C:ABEB:99B0 (talk) 20:18, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Characters in Episode Numbers 

message: Batman was only available on WB32, not Fox49. I have no idea why this page has citations to the contrary. But I was alive through that whole time, and I watched both channels religiously. DC was WB. Marvel was Fox. Shadzad (talk) 22:52, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Batman was never on Fox Kids