Brave & The Bold Animated Series Tells Fan Boy Haters To Suck It!

[WorstThingUS]

You only thought Bat-Mite was the best part of it. That was blown out of the water in the pre-credit sequence when Ace The Bat Hound shows up to beat up a tiger when fighting Catman! Then we have appearances by various Batman visions including "Red Rain Batman" and "Dark Knight Batman" as well as villains Shaggy Man, Solomon Grundy, Gorilla Grodd and Calendar Man (and quite frankly his entire rogue's gallery in a super Dick Sprang sequence later) whose choice of villain by Bat-Mite leads to a sequence where he decides to ask "Batman Fanboys" what they think. Suddenly the staff of the show is at a table at a convention with an entire audience of fanboys dressed as Batman. One complains that he always felt Batman was best served as "gritty urban avenger" and didn't like the lighthearted tone of the show. Bat-mite then reads a statement from the writers about how "Batman's rich history has allowed for many interpretations" and while it was a "lighter incarnation, was no less valid and true to the character's roots as the tortured avenger crying out for mommy and daddy."

In other words, the show has heard your hater complaints but you can go suck it! And to for one last good-natured nose-thumb, they duplicate the opening of Batman The Animated Adventures...with Bat-Mite in his place.

Wheee! It's the best show ever!

[jgiannantoni05]

I like the show some (though I loved BTAS).

But I don't blame anybody who doesn't want to watch the show. I don't blame anybody who is a "hater." The old Brave & Bold comics (many of which I love) are long in the past.

WorstThingUS, your post is flamebait and immature.
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[Kusanagi]

I think it was more of a good natured poke, than a suck it. Especially since the episode was scripted by Paul Dini, and supposedly he and Bruce Tim are seen in the fanboy scene (as Joker and Harley no less)

[Lew Moxon]

I tend to agree with what the writers of the show said, but I question what the OP's definition of "haters" is.

Is it any Batman fan who doesn't like or watch the show?

Is it anybody who states that they prefer him to be presented differently?

What is a hater, exactly?

Also, I feel what they apparently said on the show was actually quite concillatory, and I think I can summerize the concept.

"There are many different interpretations of who Batman is. We have our vision, and you have yours. We have no intent of taking your version away from you, and we would hope that you would extend to us the same courtesy."

Hardly an outright attack.

[vcassel]

the only one who's acting like a 'hater' here is the person who started this thread.

[WorstThingUS]

Originally Posted by jgiannantoni05

WorstThingUS, your post is flamebait and immature.

Originally Posted by vcassel

the only one who's acting like a 'hater' here is the person who started this thread.

Originally Posted by Kusanagi

I think it was more of a good natured poke, than a suck it. Especially since the episode was scripted by Paul Dini, and supposedly he and Bruce Tim are seen in the fanboy scene (as Joker and Harley no less)

Exactly. It was all a joke. Just like my post. Sigh. And to think I'm accused of being a humorless fanboy.

[jgiannantoni05]

Alright. But people need to remember that tone doesn't transfer so well through an internet post.
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[Beast]

The episode was indeed aimed at the attacks on the shows from fanboys.

If you've seen the press about the series, the comments about the series were taken from online complaints. It was their way of both addressing the complaints and poking a bit of fun at the haters.

Which is why it was one of the best episodes of the series. Which was already a fantastic series.

This is "My Batman", especially considering how terrible the Nolan films have been.

[WorstThingUS]

Originally Posted by jgiannantoni05

Alright. But people need to remember that tone doesn't transfer so well through an internet post.

I thought that an over-the-top-title like "Brave & The Bold Animated Series Tells Fan Boy Haters To Suck It" was a clue but clearly I was wrong.

But I'll still die before I use an emoticon!

Everyone loves this episode for the same reasons: http://io9.com/5273284/batmans-carto...a-mite-perfect

And I can't believe I missed the Bruce Timm and Paul Dini cameo!

[Beast]

This episode was full of easter eggs, WTUS. So no worries if you missed something.

I loved the commentay on the "Bat Nipples" costume as well.

Plus you had the send up of the classic Daffy Duck "Duck Twacy" short.

[Scott Shaw!]

The latest BATMAN: BRAVE AND THE BOLD, "Legend Of The Bat-Mite!", co-starring Bat-Mite, just may be the greatest superhero cartoon ever made.

Hilariously written, featuring a sequence with Bat-Mite at the San Diego Comic-Con! This show already captures the outrageous fun of "Pre-Yellow-Chest-Oval Silver Age Batman", but this episode went waaay beyond, with a cameo appearance by the Zebra Batman and monsters from issues of WORLD'S FINEST COMICS! All that Sprang-designed stuff kept my jaw a-droppin' throughout and the Bob Clampett/DUCK TWACY tribute was the perfect way to show that there's very little difference between a bat-themed hero and a talking duck.

I'm serious, I felt like it was written and designed with ME in mind! (No, I'm not so far gone as to believe that.) Never before has the Oddball Comics sensibility been better represented!

I understand that Paul Dini wrote the script! If so, congratulations, pal! You just won the Oddball Medal Of Honor!

Aloha,

Scott!