Canus, Chemo, the Atom, Despero, The Red Hood, and some others that I either missed, forgot or don't want to spoil here.Batman is certainly no stranger to the world of video games, seeing releases on just about every console imaginable over the years, so it's no real surprise to see yet another developer trying their hand at the caped crusader. Lee Emery), Fire (AKA Green Flame), Sinestro, Guy Gardner, Kite Man, Doctor Fate, Jonah Hex, G'nort (actually pretty much every Green Lantern), Bronze Tiger, Doctor Polaris, Clock King, Etrigan, Deadman, Kanjar Ro, Felix Faust, fucking Sportsmaster, Fun Haus, B'wana Beast, Slug, Dr. Just in the first half of the first season you get: Blue Beetle (both the Ted Kord and Jaime Reyes versions (and Wil Wheaton voices Kord)), Gorilla Grodd, Green Arrow, Red Tornado, Gentleman Ghost, Black Manta, Plastic Man, Elongated Man, The Outsiders (minus Geo-Force), Wildcat (R.

Growing up, I was a DC kid and the sheer number of semi and totally obscure characters that show up is kind of staggering. They made Aquaman into a legitimately awesome character. Even said notable exception, who I won't spoil here, is introduced in a manner as far from their traditional depiction as possible.Īlso, they turned Aquaman (voiced by John 'Bender' Di Maggio) into the best character on the show.

A dark, sarcastic sense of humor, but still. The action almost never takes place in Gotham City, the normal Batman supporting cast (with one very notable exception) is replaced with a colorful menagerie of B-F listers from the greater DC universe and even Batman himself (voiced by Diedrich Bader, doing a pretty great Kevin Conroy) has a sense of humor. Brave and the Bold is a funny, bright-hued romp through the fifty years of DC history that preceded the turn toward grim and gritty that comics are still sort of recovering from.

In the wake of Christopher Nolan's immensely popular, joyless (but also very good) Dark Knight, the creators chose to go as far in the opposite direction as they could. If the preceding sentence caused you to scowl and declare it 'stupid' or 'childish' or 'not at all dark and morose, the way I like my Batman,' while stroking your 18' Sideshow Venom bust to the deep baseline of the Inception soundtrack, you should probably stay far away from this newest animated incarnation of the Caped Crusader.īrave and bold are, in fact, excellent descriptors for the show. Your opinion of Batman: The Brave and the Bold will be surmised by your reaction to the following sentence: 'Batman in 'Terror on Dinosaur Island!'' (exclamation theirs).

Batman brave and the bold review