Batman: The Animated Series/Awesome: Difference between revisions

{{quote| '''Harvey''': There's just one problem.<br />

'''Rupert''': Oh, yeah? What's that?<br />

* "The Man Who Killed Batman."

** [http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ld0uIhst3TA The Joker's eulogy to Batman]Topped immediately after by Harley Quinn playing [[Amazing Freaking Grace]] ''on the kazoo''. Apparently, it had to be done all in one take because everyone was cracking up way too hard to try it again. The Joker then concludes the eulogy with a cheerful "Well, that was fun! Who's for Chinese?" If you look closely, while the Joker is sending off the coffin, ''he is crying.'' While mourning his foe and killing his foe's vanquisher ''at the same time.'' Ultimate Joker moment right there.

*** 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.

{{quote| '''Bruce Wayne:''' Too bad it has to be in such gruesome surroundings.<br />

''(Joker fumbles with the pack, then recovers.)''<br />

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

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

** While it can't be assigned to any specific character, you really feel like cheering at the [[Gilligan Cut]] from Warren bragging that his family's lawyers will get him out of this, to his being thrown into a dingy, roach-infested prison cell, with a very scary cellmate.

* Dr. Harleen Quinzel gets one. Her response when she is the Joker's psychiatrist and he notes that her name could be shortened to Harley Quinn? [[Never Heard That One Before]]. To. The. Joker.

** Also, the end of "Joker's Millions" where she beats the crap out of the Joker after he left her in Arkham and replaced her after getting rich.

* The episode "Read My Lips" was weird, but Bats still manages to score a Moment of Awesome. The main villain is the Ventriloquist, a little guy with a mousy demeanor who happens to have multiple personality disorder. His alternate personality is a cruel, angry and unstable mob boss ("Scarface") which he uses a puppet to express. Near the end of the episode, Bats has been bonked over the head one too many times and awakens tied up over a bizarre death trap. So how does he distract them long enough to escape? He convinces the "Scarface" personality that there's a traitor in the group, then throws his own voice to make it sound like the puppeteer is insulting him, ''causing an argument between the man's two personalities.'' Whoa.

* Alfred gets a sneaky one in "The Lion and the Unicorn". Alfred knows half of a plot-important password, and has been captured by Red Claw because of it. She shoots him up with truth serum; knowing it's only a matter of time, he states, "You'll get nothing but gibberish out of me!" and immediately begins spouting nursery-rhyme nonsense without pause. So when he falls under the effects of the serum and starts answering "The Lion and the Unicorn are Fighting for the Crown" to her question, she doesn't realize for several critical minutes that he is, in fact, telling her the password.

** Alfred himself throughout the series is a stealth Moment of Awesome or a Funny Moment.

** 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''.

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

** Perhaps even more so was the original line, before the [[Moral Guardians]] had their way: "Then I'll [[See You in Hell|see you in HELL]]!"

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

* "Beware The Gray Ghost". It's supremely awesome to see Batman work side-by-side, with his childhood hero, the titular Gray Ghost. And who voiced his hero? None other than another famous Batman, [[Adam West]].