March calls Wayne to tell him that his evidence shows he just has some common brown bats and starlings fighting over space in his chimney, but Wayne can tell he's lying, as the Bat Computer checked the audio against every known animal species. Man, do I love this car! The Batmobile, as seen in Batman: The Animated Series, courtesy of Warner Bros.ĭr.
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And yet this thing's a loud, growling beast of a muscle car, complete with all kinds of tricks and gadgets and computer systems that, like the series itself, mix that 1930s/1940s art deco look and fashion with modern technology.
There's obviously an influence by old 1930s concept cars here, most notably the 1938 Phantom Corsair, with the bulk of the car's body being in front of the cabin. The car, like everything else in the show, feels timeless. It doesn't really share much esthetic with any other live-action or comic book design before it (aside from the sliding jet-like canopy seen in Tim Burton's Batman films), yet it's instantly eye-grabbing and feels completely at home in this world. The design of the most beloved fictional car in history is wholly original for this series. It is also here that we get our first look at Batman's greatest accessory, the Batmobile. We also get some humorous back and forth between Batman and Alfred here, showing the show isn't oppressively dark and without heart. Here we are already given insight into how this Batman is a brilliant detective, first and foremost, as he's already assembled a list of other targets and stolen items relative to the crime he's being blamed for. We then head to the Bat Cave, where Batman ( Kevin Conroy) and Alfred (played by Clive Revill in this and two other episodes, before he was replaced by Efrem Zimbalist Jr. for the remainder of the series) investigate the situation. So to have a plot where he's being fingered for someone else's crimes creates some great drama and intrigue. One who's wanted by law enforcement just as much as the criminals he terrorizes. This Batman is a vigilante, plain and simple. Gone is the happy deputized masked agent of the law who parks in front of Police Headquarters and shakes hands with other officers. This gives non-comic-readers a very unfamiliar and jarring view of Batman and the world in which he operates. Freeze next time and with other characters coming up, but it started here with Man-Bat. We will see this used to achieve greatness with Mr. It would also be the first use of what would become one of the defining traits of the series: taking a lesser-known or not as respected villain from the comics and giving them depth and pathos to make them into something more. It was the show in a nutshell, and I think it worked really well in that respect." It has as much to do with mood as it does with action. It's not about- even though we were eventually going to do that too–the wacky Joker or the silly Penguin it's dark, it's spooky, it's mysterious. The episode was designed to show you what the show was going to be about. It wasn't like the Joker, where you had to deal with people expecting him to be Jack Nicholson or Cesar Romero. Nobody had any preconceived notions about him. Man-Bat was chosen specifically because he wasn't familiar to very many people outside comic-book fans. That was the first story we thought of when we first started plotting out stories for the show. Video can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Batman "On Leather Wings" Fox promo () Batman must find out who the mysterious Man-Bat is and clear his own name." The official synopsis for the episode: "When a vicious bat creature known as Man-Bat, starts terrorizing Gotham City, everyone mistakenly thinks that Batman is the culprit. While we don't get a Batman origin story or anything of the sort here, we do get more of a sense of how Gotham City feels about and approaches Batman in this episode than in the previous one. The swap came courtesy of WB and Fox, as they wanted to capitalize on the popularity of the big screen Batman adventure, Batman Returns, and thus bumped what was intended to be the 15th episode, The Cat and the Claw Part 1, which featured Batman's big-screen co-star Catwoman, up to the debut slot in an attempt to get some cross-promotion.īut fans only had to wait one day for things to get back on track, as On Leather Wings aired the very next afternoon, and boy was it worth the wait! This feels much more like a proper premiere episode for the show, as certain characters and iconic things are more present here than in the previous episode. As I alluded to above and mentioned in last week's review, this episode was the first produced and was always intended to be the debut episode of B:TAS.
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