Batman: The Animated Series/Awesome: Difference between revisions

* "Almost Got Him":

** Harley, Batman and Catwoman...

''Batman reaches over and cuts the power to to the conveyor belt without a word or releasing Harley.'' }}

** {{spoiler|"Croc" suddenly speaking in Batman's voice, his face turning into Batman's silhouette out of the light, and finally every other person in the club being revealed as police as they turn their guns on the villains.}}

* In "Two-Face, Pt. 1," Harvey is being blackmailed by Rupert Thorne, who's enjoying every second of watching the DA who's gunning for him squirm. A close-up of his face shows Harvey near a psychotic break, then... [[Tranquil Fury|he calmly gets up]], entering [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtUBwucBCfQ this exchange].

'''Big Bad Harv''': [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|You're talking to the wrong Harvey.]] }}

* "The Man Who Killed Batman."

*** The grunt of pain Batsy makes when he's sent flying just makes it even better and funnier.

** Getting the Joker to become a sniveling mess at the end, turning to ''Batman'' for help!

*** That's what he gets. You think he'd appreciate Jack's retrospective of him.

* In the episode "Joker's Wild", the titular Joker-themed casino is opened, attracting the ire of the Clown Prince Of Crime himself, and Batman investigating incognito as Bruce Wayne. As the Joker commandeers a Blackjack table, Bruce decides to go and play a round, while at the same time taking several verbal jabs at the decor AND the Joker, while the Joker remains completely unaware that his own worst enemy is having a laugh at his expense.

'''Bruce:''' ''(seemingly oblivious)'' Hit me. }}

** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: The Joker always wanted to make Batman laugh. He does, ''but he never realizes it''. The ultimate joke on the Joker.

*** Technically, he got a laugh from Bruce Wayne, ''not'' Batman.

* "Joker's Favor." Everyman Charlie Collins is having a bad day, so he curses out a guy who cut him off in traffic. Unfortunately, that guy is the Joker. The Joker follows Charlie home, threatening the poor guy and his family, with Charlie pleading for mercy the entire time. The Joker agrees to leave him alone, in exchange for a favor to be cashed in at any time of his choosing. Cut to a few years later. Charlie's lived with the specter of the Joker over his head- and in spite of changing his name and relocating his family, the clown still finds him and calls in his favor, holding his family as collateral. Said favor turns out to be a suicide bombing in a police convention (he didn't even need to be there, Joker just felt like blowing him up, too). Here's where the awesome kicks in: Charlie first manages to [[MacGyvering|construct a makeshift Bat-Signal out of items in a broom closet]]. Then, after the Bat arrives and chases the Joker out into the open, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ-jWG8vdxU&feature=related Charlie confronts him in the alley, holding the bomb intended for the police:]

** The bomb had since been disarmed, but unassuming Charlie Collins managed, in two minutes, to repay the Joker in kind for years of psychological torture. Score one for the little guy.

** And on top of that, Charlie managed to scare the Joker so badly with his bomb threat that the clown prince of crime himself was screaming for Batman, terrified of being offed by a nobody. And that was when Charlie punched him hard enough to knock him over.

** The part where Batman, shirtless except for his cape and cowl, and Ra's al Ghul, also shirtless, start '''SWORDFIGHTING''' in classic Errol Flynn style over a bomb set to halve the world's population - honestly, that two-part episode was one extended MOA.

* "The Underdwellers" features a one-shot villain who runs a thieves guild consisting of young homeless runaways. Batman is horrified when he sees how the leader treats his "charges", but after chasing him into a subway tunnel, Batman still pulls him out of the way of an oncoming train, and when asked why, Batman tells him:

'''Batman:''' I don't pass sentence; that's for the courts! But this time...''this time,'' I'm sorely tempted to do the job '''myself'''! }}

** There is also the street child who thinks he has eluded the "Grup" Batman, only to learn the hard way how good he is at following him with a relentless skill when he appears out of nowhere.

** Then there's this whole part with Batman ALLIGATOR WRESTLING!!

** The villain gets one of his own. After fighting Batman, he fell into the gator-infested waters.

'''Sewer King:''' ''([[Stealth Hi Bye|alive and well]])'' Actually, I rather enjoyed it. }}

* From "Nothing to Fear":

** [[It Makes Sense in Context|To a blimp.]]

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNq8Fil6oJ4 Watch it]. It's epic.

** Batman, not to be outdone, then gets 2 of his own when he first proves Nygma's guilt using the same trick Nygma had earlier used to make Batman seem paranoid and out to get him, then refuses to tell Nygma how he escaped the warehouse. The end result is the Riddler locked in his cell and screaming for someone to tell him how Batman escaped.

** Which results in an accidental [[Mo A]] for Eddie, as his screaming is so annoying that ''the Joker can't stand it.''

* In "Christmas with the Joker", the Joker threatens hundreds of lives, takes prominent social figures hostage, blows up a railroad bridge as a trainful of passengers is about to cross, all so he can {{spoiler|pie Batman in the face as a Christmas present.}}

* In the Batman light episode "Showdown", Jonah Hex manages to destroy Ra's al Ghul's airship, defeat his army of mercenaries, and defeat Arkady Duvall ({{spoiler|Ra's's son}}) in a sword fight, all by himself. And all of it to capture Duvall and bring him to justice for his assault on a woman back east, instead of being a railroad spy as they assume. What makes it even more awesome is that Hex is in his ''[[Badass Grandpa|sixties]]'', and does all this with his bare fists, a knife, and whatever [[Stuff Blowing Up|explosives]] he finds, including the airship's ''own cannons''.

* In "Joker's Millions", a rival gangster, Edward 'King' Barlow, dies and leaves the Joker a vast fortune (250 million!) in cash, jewels and gold. After splurging it on buying his freedom, a giant mansion and a new Harley, Joker learns he has to pay inheritance tax. But while going through the vault, he finds bills with Barlow's face...and this video will:

''[he laughs, then starts coughing and gasping and grabs for his oxygen tank, but he is still grinning into the camera when a'' VERY ''pissed-off Joker shoots the TV]'' }}

** Harley has an awesome in the same episode when she whacks Joker with a nightstick as revenge for replacing her with a fake Harley.

'''Joker''': ''(laughs nervously)'' Now, baby, I can- ''(WHAM!)'' AH! - explain...! ''(POW!)'' OW! EEE! AH! }}

* Let's not forget a crowning moment for the Series as a whole, when the episode "Heart of Ice" won an EMMY!

** Even better is later in the episode where Doctor Strange tries to sell Batman's secret identity to the Joker, Two-Face, and the Penguin. After they pay up, he rolls the tape...which Batman overrides with one he had created showing Strange boasting about how he was planning to cheat the villains. Cue a massive [[Oh Crap]] from the good doctor.

* In "Perchance to Dream", there's that great moment where Bruce figures out how to escape the dream world, which prompts the following classic exchange between him and the dream Mad Hatter:

'''Bruce: '''Then I'll see you in your NIGHTMARES! }}

* The show's effect on Mr. Freeze, permanently turning him from an utterly generic and forgettable character into a very sympathetic [[Anti-Villain]] whose popularity even rivals the Joker.

* The flashback in "Robin's Reckoning" to Dick beating up a pimp using his acrobatic skills, before he even becomes Robin.

* New DA Janet Van Dorne convinces the [[Joker Jury]] of the [[Kangaroo Court]] of Arkham inmates that Batman is not responsible for their messed up lives. "The truth is, you created him."

* Perhaps a minor one, but there's Batman's fight with Lloyd Ventrix, who's made himself invisible with a special suit. He has the upper hand in a fight with Batman, until Batman gets the idea to break open the water tower they're fighting underneath. He causes the water to fall out in a fine rain-like spray, and Batman finds out where Ventrix is when he sees the water splashing off Ventrix's form:

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