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[Aldarc]

The DCAU's Batman is good but it also gets a LOT of things wrong about Batman, including throwing a lot of the "Bat Family" under the bus.

 

[jian]

The DCAU's Batman is good but it also gets a LOT of things wrong about Batman, including throwing a lot of the "Bat Family" under the bus.

Oh, that’s an interesting one. It was in the 90s/00s and some Batfam members didn’t exist then, but we still get Alfred, Dick, Barbara, and Tim. Ace appears later (in BB). Jason’s still dead. Who else should be around?

 

[TiQuinn]

The DCAU's Batman is good but it also gets a LOT of things wrong about Batman, including throwing a lot of the "Bat Family" under the bus.

Innnnnteresting. Who do you mean in particular?

 

[Aldarc]

Oh, that’s an interesting one. It was in the 90s/00s and some Batfam members didn’t exist then, but we still get Alfred, Dick, Barbara, and Tim. Ace appears later (in BB). Jason’s still dead. Who else should be around?

That's mostly it. But the Batman/Batgirl romance that is revealed in Batman Beyond is absolute cringe. Bruce Timm also pushed this romance as an added subplot in his adaptation of The Killing Joke.

They treat Dick Grayson pretty dirty as well, but this was the era where hating on Robin was pretty normal. Batman was mostly imagined as a brooding loner.

 

[Reynard]

That's mostly it. But the Batman/Batgirl romance that is revealed in Batman Beyond is absolute cringe. Bruce Timm also pushed this romance as an added subplot in his adaptation of The Killing Joke.

This understand.

They treat Dick Grayson pretty dirty as well, but this was the era where hating on Robin was pretty normal. Batman was mostly imagined as a brooding loner.

This I don't. Dick get some great moments and episodes.

 

[Deset Gled]

Unpopular opinion: There are no "unpopular opinions" when debating various -isms in popular literature, whether it's 100 years old or modern. Whatever hot take you have, there is a subreddit, an article, or a blog/usenet/youtube post devoted to it.

 

[overgeeked]

It takes all kinds. Besides a few comic stories and epic runs, I’d say Batman TAS defined the character for at least a generation if not two.

 

[Aldarc]

This I don't. Dick get some great moments and episodes.

Bruce Timm nevertheless has said that he dislikes Dick Grayson, and IMHO it shows. Bruce Timm tries to get rid of him by having Dick be in college during this time. The only reason Dick or any of the other Robins were in the series because the network demanded episodes with Robin. Bruce Timm really isn't that involved in the two-parter Robin's Reckoning. He's neither the writer nor director for those episodes.

But in general, it seems like there was a generation that hated Robin. Robin gets pretty regularly ignored or marginalized in a lot of popular Batman depictions in movies, which I think is to Batman's detriment in the popular zeitgeist. It's why people joke that Batman seems to be a manchild stuck in arrested development.

It takes all kinds. Besides a few comic stories and epic runs, I’d say Batman TAS defined the character for at least a generation if not two.

But it was not without some glaring flaws.

 

[overgeeked]

Bruce Timm nevertheless has said that he dislikes Dick Grayson, and IMHO it shows. Bruce Timm tries to get rid of him by having Dick be in college during this time. The only reason Dick or any of the other Robins were in the series because the network demanded episodes with Robin. Bruce Timm really isn't that involved in the two-parter Robin's Reckoning. He's neither the writer nor director for those episodes.

But in general, it seems like there was a generation that hated Robin. Robin gets pretty regularly ignored or marginalized in a lot of popular Batman depictions in movies, which I think is to Batman's detriment in the popular zeitgeist. It's why people joke that Batman seems to be a manchild stuck in arrested development.

Wasn’t the comic book Robin/Nightwing also in college at the time?

But it was not without some glaring flaws.

No one suggested otherwise.

 

[MoonSong]

Wasn’t the comic book Robin/Nightwing also in college at the time?

He was already a lawyer with a failed wedding.