![]() The episode starts off with Gentleman Ghost tearing up the streets in “Dia de los Muertos” on a skeletal horse while wielding twin ectoplasmic flintlocks, until Batman punches him in his nonexistent face with anti-magic Nth metal knuckles. Plastic Man, a former henchman of evil aerialist Kite Man, is torn between living up to Batman’s high expectations as his sidekick du jour and his inclination to pilfer the ill-gotten loot of supervillains for himself. ?Batman teams up with rookie superhero Plastic Man in both the teaser and the main story of this early episode. Here’s our pick for the 10 greatest episodes from the Batman cartoon that wasn’t just the one fans deserved, but the one they needed, too. Also, the show ended every episode title with an exclamation mark, which was also pretty bold.Īfter 65 episodes over three short years, Brave and the Bold ended, having proved it was far more than just an exercise in silliness it could be dark, it could be epic, it could be hilarious, and it could be meta, but it could be and always was entertaining. Universe - often while spotlighting obscure DC heroes and villains, from B’wana Beast to Kite Man, and making them as entertaining as Batman himself. Immediately threw him into the whole of the meta-human filled DC It was bold because instead of segregating Batman to his Gotham City comfort zone, it It was brave in the sense that it presented a Batman universe that wasn’t always dark or gritty or super-serious, but instead harkened back to the craziness of the Silver Age - a Batman that hadn’t been seen since the ’60s. ![]() Not just as a cartoon where Batman teams up with another DC superhero, in the vein of DC’s classic team-up comic, but in content. Batman: Brave and the Bold certainly lived up to its name. ![]()
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