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I don’t know why, but it turned out that I associate the New Year quite strongly not only with Olivier salad, a Christmas tree and Putin’s congratulations, but also with Batman. Yes, yes, exactly with this guy with rubber ears. Perhaps this is due to the fact that they used to show movies about Batman on TV for the New Year. In general, childhood, nostalgia, habit, everything. And now, for a year in a row, on New Year’s holidays I watch films about Batman, play games about Batman, and even – it’s a little embarrassing to admit this at my age – sometimes I’m drawn to cartoons too. I wanted to talk a little about the animated series about Batman. Everyone has already known everything about films for a long time already… I won’t give any facts from the history of creation or other information that can easily be found out from Wikipedia, I’ll just share my impressions.

So, Batman: The Animated Series, or simply Batman – That Epic Animated Series, filmed in the early nineties, which was once shown on STS, and EVERYONE watched it. I remember when you come back from school, forget about your homework and stare into the drawer where this gloomy and rather mature cartoon for its audience is walking. Excellent and unconventional plots, still passable animation and, of course, memorable noir design (including Batman’s square chin, yeah). Even now I can calmly watch this series, without fear that my brain will be raped by excessive… cartoonishness. Anyone who tried to rewatch the old animated series about the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles will understand me. The best of the cartoons about Bats, the rest were not even close.

Batman Beyond, or Batman Beyond. https://bingositesnotongamstop.co.uk/review/love-casino/ Continuation of That Same Batman. Futuristic, but no less gloomy and noir Gotham, a schoolboy under a mask with rubber ears and a grumpy aged Bruce Wayne, and in this series he is not some clichéd wise mentor of the protagonist who sits on his butt and gives obscure advice. No, here he is a seasoned, albeit retired, superhero, and therefore completely controls the actions of his protégé with the help of batcameras built into the batlenses and batmasks from the batsuit, helping him get out of… all sorts of difficult situations.
This animated series works on the interaction between the old and young generations. I used to like him much more than The Same One, although now I understand that the plots here will still be poorer. However, this does not prevent the cartoon from remaining one of my favorite Batman films. Even if it’s a completely different Batman.

The Batman. Batman 2004. Quite a passable animated series, in which the emphasis is mainly on action. Five seasons, each of which stands out for something special. In the first two seasons, the story of Batman is just beginning, they show the main villains and cops who have not yet been imbued with the dark, vengeful grace coming from Batman. In the third season, Batgirl joins Batman, in the fourth – Robin, and the fifth is a complete superhero apocalypse, because the Justice League appears. Overall, it’s watchable and sometimes even interesting. Each season always has several great episodes. But…
But what kind of asshole Joker is this?! Some weird stoned monkey! I don’t even know what the authors of this series were “inspired by” to ruin the image of Batman’s main antagonist so much. In general, the series is not for everyone.

Next Batman: The Brave and the Bold, Batman: The Brave and the Bold. I can’t say much about this animated series, because I only watched a few episodes, which I stumbled upon quite by accident while clicking on the channels in my box. I know that in every single episode Batman interacts with some disish superhero. I know that the cartoon is very much for children and there are even songs in it. And, in general, this is quite enough to have at least some idea about it. In general, I’m too old for this cartoon.

The latest Batman animated series that I know of is called Beware the Batman. A telling title that seems to warn the viewer against watching this cartoon. To begin with, I would like to note that this is not a cartoon, but a computer series. First for Batman. And of course, this first computer batblin turned out to be lumpy. Just disgusting character design. Latex Homobatman with thin legs and plump lips! Bald and healthy, and therefore Hitman-like Alfred! And the lack of cool villains! That is, I had enough episodes for eight, if I’m not mistaken, and the only villains I knew were Anarky and Shiva, whose existence I only learned about for the first time in Arkham Origins.
But this is not even the main problem of the series. The fact is that the local Homobatman, although this is not surprising, constantly sucks. Some really third-rate villains might prescribe him a lula out of the blue. Well… it seems there was a moment when the usual bullshit almost got to him. Apparently, to compensate for this latex misunderstanding, in the series Batman has a partner who is not even Batgirl, although she is also latex. In general, horror, and that’s all.

Of course, there are still plenty of full-length cartoons about Batman, many of which deserve attention, but I’ll tell you about them some other time. Maybe.
Finally, I would like to highlight one topic that has been raised more than once even here, at stopgame, in streams, when it comes to our knight of the cape and batarang. Namely: why Batman doesn’t kill anyone? For some reason, many of my friends are frozen by such humanism, which, in their opinion, seems out of place, but I personally have never had a problem with it. Well, I don’t want a man to take on the wet stuff! This is a completely normal desire of a completely normal person. And one of the commandments in the Bible, if you remember… and the criminal code, again..
Briefly speaking! Arguments are usually given like criminals constantly escaping and killing a bunch of people, but for me, they don’t work that way. Criminals escape because they are allowed to escape. Time after time they are put in the same mental hospital from which only a lobotomy victim will not be able to escape. Take the same Joker. For all his artistry, they would have long since changed their mind about treating him in any other way other than euthanasia. And here they don’t even put you in a super-megaprison with a particularly high security regime. So the blame for all this chaos primarily lies with the authorities. However, I even have a government conspiracy theory about this. I think the disish government allows all sorts of Luthors and Jokers to live and rampage so that the superheroes uncontrolled by it have something to do. So that they don’t interfere with serious people in serious business, who themselves are not without sin, and with all sorts of corrupt officials. And so – everyone is happy, well, except for a bunch of killed people. Villains act villainously, heroes act heroically, and the state apparatus functions in its usual mode without regard to a bunch of costumed guys (and girls) with an exaggerated sense of justice. Well, or something like that..