Wednesday, November 6, 2024

The DC Animated Universe Weekly Review - Batman: The Animated Series

Batman: The Animated Series

Episode 37

The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne



Dr Hugo Strange creates a machine that can read minds.  Instead of selling it to the government for billions of dollars he decides to blackmail random people for tens of thousands of dollars.  Batman investigates the shenanigans and his secret is exposed.  Strange tries to sell the secret to The Joker, Penguin, and Two Face but Batman stops him and manages to prove he’s not Bruce Wayne by having Robin dress up in the best prosthetic Bruce Wayne costume ever made.  

 

A lot of cool stuff happens in this episode.  This is the Almost Got ‘Em episode before that episode existed.  Combining Batman’s biggest rogues is very exciting.  The characters are so well defined at this point, the episodes write themselves when you put them in a room together.  

 

The show does fail with Hugo Strange who’s rather prominent in the comic and other DC media.  The DCAU got so much else right in it’s run, this is an extremely minor complaint for a very adaptable character.

 

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