I will also be putting this on my youtube and tiktok

I just uploaded a video talking about Prank, Harley Quinn, and The Joker from The Batman 2004! I'd greatly appreciate it if you could check it out!

Imagine if they just kept this design and made him grow

some of them are old.

(His name is deathstrike, basically the first ravager , grant Wilson)

When 2004’s The Batman benched the tragic, body-horror-infused Ethan Bennett, it brought in Basil Karlo: a delusional, fame-obsessed B-movie actor who actively wanted to become a monster.

While classic Batman villains are often forced into tragedy, Karlo’s descent was driven by pure vanity, bad acting, and an fragile ego that couldn't handle rejection.

This video essay explores how The Batman deliberately traded deep psychological tragedy for lightweight B-movie narcissism, and why Basil Karlo became the most shallow, disposable, yet intentionally written Clayface in DC animation history.

Key Topics Covered

The Tonal Pivot: Why the showrunners moved away from Ethan Bennett's dark storyline.
The Comic Lineage: Comparing Karlo to comic origins, BTAS, and Matt Hagen.
The Anatomy of Ego: How Karlo used the Clayface mutagen as a shortcut to stardom instead of honing his craft.
Bennett vs. Karlo: The sharp contrast between a hero seeking rehabilitation and a narcissist embracing crime for clout.
The Legacy: How toyline mandates and animated storytelling reshaped the Batman rogues' gallery

3 months ago I said I was going to work on a 6th installment and I meant 5th because I thought there were 5 seasons instead of 6. I will be giving a run down on each EP since if I made a script it'd take longer and I don't think I can match the cleverness and feel of it so... But I will be including some ideas from other people in my last post, currently working on this tho, will take another little bit but probably not more months.

I will NOT be including the comics since there's just too many for me to read and shows and such never or barely even acknowledge them.

One day people, one day...

Basically it will have the premise of the laughing bat, but instead of Batman dying, he will turn into the joker and slay all his villains

The Batman had tv movie released near Halloween of 2005. This movie features the vampire king Count Dracula. A fitting choice for a Halloween themed Batman movie. So how does it hold up 21 years later?
I think this movie is pretty great.

While vampire Joker scared the living daylights outta me as a kid, I still had a blast watching Batman vs Dracula. I don't regret watching this movie in the slightest.

The Batman 2004 model sheets. This was shared in the Jose Lopez instagram.

Batman: The Caped Crusader is an arcade adventure which uses a unique style, innovated by Jonathan Smith and Charles Davies, to display the action as though it takes place in a comic book.[2] This technique involved having each game location set in its own panel, often with a comic book style caption in the upper-left corner, with inactive panels faded out behind the current active location. This concept was expanded upon by Sega's Comix Zone seven years later.[3]

The game was split into two independently playable parts in which Batman is faced with two of his most well-known adversaries: "A Bird In The Hand" featuring the Penguin and "A Fete Worse Than Death" which involved the Joker. The gameplay involves Batman using punches and kicks and his batarang (a thrown weapon) in order to fight the villains' henchmen as well as solving puzzles.

I just uploaded a video talking about Sinestro from The Batman 2004! I'd greatly appreciate it if y'all could check it out!

This isn’t a story about just any Batman, it’s THE Batman (2004). More than that though. Today, Derek Does…Television: “The Batman (2004) to End All Batmen.”

For a character that’s well-trodden in comics, media, and my own Substack, this early-2000s animated series is an absolute breath of air. Over its five season, the title hero is vulnerable, driven, emotional, reckless, funny, resilient, and even a family man.

He’s a Batman who’s human. That’s why I love it.

I’d love to get your feedback and thoughts on the story, this interpretation of the Caped Crusader, and the series as a whole. I can’t wait to hear what you think. If you enjoy my writing, consider subscribing to Derek Does… on Substack.

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