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* [[Creator's Pet]]: Batgirl in Season 3. She was added in a bid to attract more females to the show. Unfortunately, her introduction came at the expense of [[Brother Chuck|Detective Yin]], she was initially a [[Bratty Half-Pint]], and writers continued to push her into [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad|more scenes.]] By Season 4 & 5 however, she was [[Rescued from the Scrappy Heap]] thanks in part to writers giving her less focus.

* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]] - The original theme, written and performed by [[U2|The Edge]]. It's so atmospheric, it even has ''guitar-made bat squeals''

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] - Cash Tankinson.

* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]] - Cash Tankinson, mainly for being very comedic and amusing and also for adding a more lighthearted police officer after the angst of Bennett, Yin and Rojas.

** Quite a few of the villains got their own fanbases, Hugo Strange, for being a [[Magnificent Bastard]], The Riddler, for his backstory, his new gothic look, and being pretty damn cool, Clayface got this status for being an outright tragic character, {{spoiler|as well as his alter ego}}.

** Robin. His introduction was actually one of the reasons so many fans consider the 4th season the strongest.

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* [[Rescued from the Scrappy Heap]] - Batgirl was saved in season 4 thanks in part to playing a smaller role, as a result no longer being accused of being [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]], and her [[Character Development]].

* [[The Scrappy]] - ''No one'', not even fans of the show, really liked Chief Rojas, which was pretty much the point. Unlike Yin, when Rojas got [[Brother Chuck|Brother Chucked]], the fans didn't miss him.

* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Ellen Yin for seasons 1 and 2, Batgirl for the rest. There isn't even a woman on the Justice League.

* [[Spotlight-Stealing Squad]]: Batgirl in Season 3, and Robin in Season 5.

* [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: In "Grundy's Night", Alfred is constantly on edge and nervous concerning the Grundy legend, which seems like obvious buildup to the reveal that Alfred is among the descendants being targeted by Grundy. But nothing comes out of it and Alfred just ends up looking scared for no reason.

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* [[The Untwist]]: It is virtually unthinkable to not give Mr. Freeze his [[Tragic Backstory]] in any modern incarnation... but this series decided to forego all that and give a more traditional supervillian origin. Although if you can get past that, this version of Freeze has his own merits as he still isn't outright evil and his powers were appropriately unique compared to other criminals Batman faced.

* [[Unintentional Period Piece]]: The show is clearly set in the 2000s, especially the first half. All of the cell phones shown are flip phones instead of iPhones, the televisions are still the box sets rather than flat screen, and there is no mention whatsoever of digital subscriptions, while all computers are overwhelmingly desktop computers rather than laptop computers. In addition, the cops are not shown wearing body cameras, since they were not invented until 2005 and weren't widely used until the 2010s when pressure for police accountability made them mandatory across the United States. There would be the presence of a laptop computer significantly once in a Season 5 episode right before the show ended, but that was still rather rare in the mid 2000s. Similarly, the fact that in the same Season 5 episode, the fact that Marty the hacker is depicted as the [[Token Good Teammate]] of the Joker's gang reflects how hacking was seen as something rather small or something to laugh at, and while certainly easier to see as minor compared to the '''Joker''', now it would be treated a lot more seriously today due to the widespread threats of data breaches and hacking in the present.

** The episode "JTV" is by far the worst in this regard. Joker creates his own television pirate network, the titular JTV where he commits various crimes and kidnaps both the Mayor and Detective Yin's new partner as "costars", and Joker is forced to utilize an abandoned cable tower, and it is mentioned that Gotham has six cable towers. This automatically dates to before online and streaming services were created, as cable would begin to undergo a major decline in the 2010s, and then suffered a severe blow in the 2020s thanks to the Covid 19 pandemic, which made streaming and internet shows a lot more acceptable during the pandemic.

** The episode "JTV" is by far the worst in this regard. Joker creates his own television pirate network, the titular JTV where he commits various crimes and kidnaps both the Mayor and Detective Yin's new partner as "costars", and Joker is forced to utilize an abandoned cable tower, and it is mentioned that Gotham has six cable towers. This automatically dates to before online and streaming services were created, as cable would begin to undergo a major decline in the 2010s, and then suffered a severe blow in the 2020s thanks to the Covid 19 pandemic, which made streaming and internet shows a lot more acceptable during the pandemic. One of the most blatant is that immediately after Joker makes his announcement and makes it clear he intends to kidnap the Mayor at the start of the episode, as Bruce rushes off to become Batman, Alfred offers to tape the game for him. Taping games so they could be rewatched fell out of favor almost instantly in the 2010s as sports programs began to live feed games on Youtube and their websites, and the 2000s was the last time taping games would be seen as either necessary or plausible when the Internet was still coming of age. Similarly, the camera Joker uses to shoot his "show" is a bulky large, handheld one. Since cellphones were only just starting to become available and not all of them had cameras, it was still plausible in the 2000s for the general public to get access to a bulky camera. Now, with cellphones both more faster and more cheaper to make videos, the old bulky cameras are often only used by the media, and they are hardly sold to the general public now.

* [[Villain Decay]]: Bane went from [[The Juggernaut]] in "Traction" to a [[Jobber]] in every other appearance.

* [[Vindicated by History]]: This has hit the show big time. When it came out, it had to deal with coming right after ''Batman: The Animated Series'', and not surprisingly, it was loathed due to it not being that show. The very conscious efforts by the show's staff to differentiate it from the previous series backfired terribly. As a result, it languished for years before it was cancelled in 2008. However, now it is judged on its own merits and is actually looked at rather kindly, being a genuinely decent adaptation of [[Batman]], and recognizing that not every decision was the staff's fault, instead part of the reception fell on [[Executive Meddling]]. Overall, the show is now seen in a much more positive light than when it first debuted.

* [[Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds]]: Ethan aka {{spoiler|Clayface}}.