History WesternAnimation / BATMANTheBraveAndTheBold

** Previously {{In-Joked}} in "Mayhem of the Music Meister!" where a picture of Wonder Woman is seen in Music Meister's Death Trap room, only to have her face obscured by other concert stickers so that you could only see her hair and trademark tiara.

* CurbStompBattle: Batman is unable to do ANYTHING to Lex Luthor when they fight in "The Triumverate of Terror".

* VitriolicBestBuds: A type 2 with Joker, Lex Luthor and Cheetha in Triumvarate of Terror. The three bicker amongest themselves, but during the battle with their arch enimies high five each other after they each get a good hit in.

* ExiledFromContinuity: Corporate mandates mean that the writers can't use WonderWoman on the show.
** Likely In-Joked in "Mayhem of the Music Meister!" were a picture of Wonder Woman is seen in Music Meister's Death Trap room, only to have her face obscured by other concert stickers so that you could only see her hair and trademark tiara.
** She and fellow exile Superman are seen from behind in the [[BatmanColdOpen Cold Open]] to "Sidekicks Assemble!". Former WW writer Gail Simone has been told they have more ideas for skirting the Wonder Ban.
** Stop the presses! [[http://www.movieweb.com/tv/TVsOOwuwSUUgxt/VIkAf5VAwIwvok James Tucker confirmed at Comic Con that DC has finally given them the rights to use Wonder Woman & Superman!]] Both will team-up with Batman seperately and together for a Trinity episode.
*** Wonder Woman finally appeared in the Cold Opening of "Scorn of the Star Sapphire!" (episode 57 out of 65), [[ShoutOut and she brought her old theme song with her]]. The Trinity episode is #60, "Triumvarate of Terror!" (which pits them against Lex Luthor, the Joker, and a very DCAU-ish Cheetah).

** Also, there's The Slug, a fat, overweight creature who manipulates the Outsiders, and was obese enough, until he's knocked into freakin' TOXIC WASTE. Here's before: [[http://images.wikia.com/marvel_dc/images/d/d1/Slug_bb1.jpg]], and AFTER: [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090313224339/marvel_dc/images/e/ec/Slug_bb2.jpg]]

* HurricaneOfPuns: [[ThisIsSPARTA Every. Single. Episode.]]

* AntagonistInMourning: Barry Allen's entire RoguesGallery. Subverted in Emperor Joker - after killing Bats, Joker gives him a brief eulogy, then promptly resurrects him and puts him through a DeathMontage.

** Also in that episode, at the very end: ''[[TheDarkKnightReturns Carrie Kelly!]]''
*** "Night of The Batmen!" has a plethora of cameos at the end, [[spoiler: BatmanBeyond, TheBatman and [[TheDarkKnightReturns The Goddamn Batman]].]]

* [[CutLexLuthorACheck Cut That Supervillain A Check]]: Black Manta uses a [[{{Tripod Terror}} enormous tripod]] to steal a grand total of ONE armored truck. Seriously.

** Mister Mind,who correctly predicted that his supervillainous minions were going to betray him once he completed the death ray he was building. Turns out it was a growth ray all along, so [[BatmanGambit when they shot him with it it was exactly what he'd planned]] and {{Kaiju}} ensued.

* MediumAwareness: Bat-Mite, Bat-Mite, Bat-Mite. Taken to extremes in ''Batman's Strangest Cases'', where he points out animation errors or differences between the dub and the original script.

* NobodyCanDie: Parodied in Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases! At the end of Bat-Manga, Lord Deathman's [[spoiler: helicopter crashes into power-lines and explodes. We see his mask fly out and break apart. And then Robin very quickly adds that he's sure Lord Deathman parachuted away. And then Bat-Mite comments how much he loves obviously censored dubs.]]

* RealLifeRelative: Diedrich Bader's son Sebastian provided the voice of Damian Wayne's child/Robin III/[[TheDarkKnightReturns Carrie-Kelly-Lookalike]] in "Knights of Tomorrow!".

* SerialEscalatioon: "Game Over For Owlman" starts with Batman against Batman. Then it ramps up to Batman, Batman, Batman, Batman, and Batman against Batman.

* CurseCutShort: In ''Battle of the Superheroes'' after red Kryptonite changes Superman's personality to a selfish jerk.

* IGotBetter: Grodd isn't stuck in human shape at all anymore.
* IKnowMaddenKombat: The Sportsmaster and his goons.

** Averted in "Menace Of The Conqueror Cavemen!", as the air vents are cramped. They also shake and make a good deal of noise when Batman and Booster crawl through them. Fortunately Kru'll isn't paying attention.

* AllYourPowersCombined: Used at the end of "The Fate Of Equinox!"

* AuctionOfEvil: Catman's bidding war in "Legends Of The Dark Mite!".

** Not to mention the evil Biker Santas (a ShoutOut to ''TheBadger''?) in "Legends Of The Dark Mite!"

* BasementDweller: The Calculator in "Night Of The Huntress!", who oddly has his original design, but his modern age job.

* BodyCountCompetition: Between GreenArrow and Bats in "Day Of The Dark Knight!"

** Billy Batson gets gagged by Dr. Sivana's children in "The Power Of Shazam!" to prevent him from sayng "Shazam".

* BusmansHoliday: ''"Aquaman's Outrageous Adventure!"'', a little different in that AQUAMAN willingly goes looking for adventure while on his family vacation.

** John Welsey Shipp played Barry Allen on the short-lived ''[[Series/TheFlash Flash]]'' live-action series in the 90s. In "Requiem for a Flash", he voiced EvilCounterpart, the Reverse-Flash/Professor Zoom.

* ChristmasEpisode: "Invasion Of the Secret Santas!"

* CurseCutShort: In ''Battle of the Superheroes'' after red Kryptonite changes Superman's personality to a JerkAss.

* DangerRoomColdOpen: In the BatmanColdOpen to "Duel Of The Double Crossers!" Batman advises the inexperienced Outsiders from afar; in the end of the teaser it's revealed to be [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation just a holographic simulation.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: "Chill Of the Night!" compared to the rest of the series. In fact, Batman's costume in the episode is presented as literally darker than normal for this show.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: In "Chill Of The Night" Lewis Moxton [[spoiler:on his death bed]] feels that, despite acting on orders, [[spoiler:Joe Chill went too far in shooting Martha Wayne, feeling that it was wrong leave young Bruce without a mother.]]
* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Made fun of in "Long Arm Of The Law." After beating Kite-Man, Plastic Man makes a lame pun and both he and Woozy start laughing, with Batman just standing there for a full minute before he just walks offscreen.

* ExcaliburInTheStone: The episode "Day Of The Dark Knight!".

** In "The Mask Of Matches Malone" an amnesiac, unarmed Batman is still more than a match for everybody he fights, heroes and villains.

*** Superman turning into a jerkass by red kryptonite is also a nod to ''{{Smallville}}'', which red kryptonite removes Clark's inhibitions and makes him act on erotic and selfish emotions.

** In "Triumvirate Of Terror!", Joker infiltrates Paradise Island by [[VillainousCrossdresser dressing as]] [[TheDarkKnight a woman]].

* OrbitalShot: Black Canary and Green Arrow get one during their duet at the end of "Mayhem Of The Music Meister!" in addition to an animated {{Facecam}}.
* TheOtherDarrin: Kim Mai Guest replaced Vyvam Pham as Katana. AdamWest and Julie Newmar replaced CoreyBurton and Pat Musick as the voice of Thomas and Martha Wayne. Two-Face's one line in "Chill Of the Night!" had Richard Moll reprise the role, filling in for James Remar.

* ProductPlacement: In "Emperor Joker" Bat-Mite reads Ten-Eyed Man's origin from an issue of "Who's Who In The DC Universe" The cover is even shown! Also an example of MetaFiction.

* RealLifeRelative: Diedrich Bader's son Sebastian provided the voice of Damian Wayne's child/Robin III/[[TheDarkKnightReturns Carrie-Kelly-Lookalike]] in "Knights of Tomorrow".

* {{Reconstruction}}: Of TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks . . . and it's ''awesome.''

* StopHavingFunGuys: [[invoked]] Sportsmaster, tries to kill the competitors in an international bowling tournament because it's not a 'real sport' in one cold open.

* TakeThat: And How! "Legends Of the Dark Mite!" takes a hilarious swipe at viewers who complain about the LighterAndSofter feel of the series.

** Again in "Fate Of The Equinox!"

* WheresTheFunInThat?: The Joker's response to being good.

* TheWorfEffect: If Batman goes into battle with a new foe in the Batmobile's Mech mode, don't expect a MomentOfAwesome. For him anyway. He himself isn't safe either, though more often it's his costars taking the brunt of it.

* YouJustHadToSayIt: In "Dawn of the Dead Man!", Speedy makes the mistake of asking "YouAndWhatArmy?". Green Arrow chides him to ''never'' ask that question.

* AnyoneCanDie: While many villains seem to have JokerImmunity, the heroes are not [[{{Understatement}} so lucky]].

* AdamWesting: "Chill of the Night!" goes [[BeyondTheImpossible the extra mile]]. We have Adam West and Julie Newmar [[Series/{{Batman}} (Batman and Catwoman)]] as Thomas and Martha Wayne. [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Kevin Conroy]] plays the ThePhantomStranger and [[TheJoker Mark Hamill]] plays TheSpectre, making a wager for Batman's soul. In a story focused on the death of Bruce Wayne's parents, written by [[TheDCAU Paul Dini]].

* BeyondTheImpossible: "Game Over For Owlman" starts with Batman against Batman. Then it ramps up to Batman, Batman, Batman, Batman, and Batman against Batman.
** The video game has Gorilla Grodd turning Batman into an ape. After which AQUAMAN rides on Bat-Ape's back. And Bat-Ape swings AQUAMAN around as a ''weapon''. Their special attack consists of AQUAMAN, riding Bat-Ape, riding a ''whale''. ... Fighting armored sharks.

* ShotgunWedding: Averted. In the filler for "The Masks of Matches Malone", Poison Ivy takes over Gotham and becomes its queen. She offers to spare Batman's life twice if he agrees to marry her and become her king. Both times, he refuses.

-->Oh, that entire sequence was a curbstomp battle for each of the heroes, and it was particular frightening/awesome how '''Cheetah''' beat the [[Superman Man of Steel]]. A magic amulet giving her [[SuperStrength a power and]] [[SuperSpeed speed]] boost and [[KryptoniteFactor kryptonite nail polish.]] [[LexLuthor Lex Luthor]] teleported to the Batcave with a epic [[PoweredArmor suit of armor]] and beat down Batman with barely five minutes worth of effort. And [[WonderWoman Wonder Woman]] had to take on [[TheJoker Clown Prince of Crime]] who beat her ''in his boxers'' with several prank props from [[Hammerspace said boxers]] and a squirting flower of gas.

The show is notable for having the first animated appearance of the BlueBeetle, specifically the third Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes (though Dan Garrett and Ted Kord also make posthumous appearances). It's also the animation debut of [[BatmanAndTheOutsiders the Outsiders]] (as a team, anyway; Metamorpho had a supporting role on ''JusticeLeague''). One of them is Black Lightning, finally making it to animation. It also marks the first television appearance of the original {{Flash}}, Jay Garrick, as well as the JackKirby creations {{Kamandi}}, The Last Boy On Earth and {{OMAC}}: One Man Army Corps. And when A-lister Superman finally appears in season three, his character-centric episode consists of half an hour of [[AscendedMeme nods]] to [[http://superdickery.com/ Superdickery]].

* AngryBlackMan: Bronze Tiger
** Black Lightning could count in at least one episode. Okay, angry black ''teenager.''

* OneOfUs: Oh so many examples of the fact that the staff is as big of nerds as us.

* PreAssKickingOneLiner: "You broke my [[RobotBuddy buddy]]. I'm gonna ''break'' you.", courtesy of BoosterGold.

* BANGFlagGun: One of the Joker's weapons in "Game Over for Owl Man!"

* BittersweetEnding: While Mitefall ends with [[spoiler: the show being cancelled]], AmbushBug made sure [[spoiler: Batman stayed true to his character, and gave at least a dignifying ending for the episode and show]].

* CartoonBomb: One of the Joker's weapons in "Game Over for Owl Man!"

* AGodAmI: Equinox near the end of "The fate of Equinox"

* BoisterousBruiser: AQUAMAN. When announcing the name of Black Manta, his voice ''spontaneously echoes''. It's almost as if they were trying to be as distant from every other depiction of him (especially the one in ''JusticeLeague'', where he was [[strike:Namor]] a barely containable rage case and loose cannon) as possible. AQUAMAN's voice also spontaneously echoes when he names the "Mystery In Space!" adventure "The Strange Encounter of the Reptile Men!"

** BlackCanary is tied up and gagged by Malone's henchwomen in ''The Mask of Matches Malone!" in order to neutralize her trademark "Canary Cry".

** The Faceless Hunter's backstory in ''The Siege of Starro!'' makes him an Expy of the [[FantasticFour Silver Surfer]].

* HotAmazon: Huntress-- at least as far as [[strike: Jaime's]] the audience's concerned.

* HotMom: Selina Kyle Wayne in ''The Knights of Tomorrow''.

** Plastic Man makes one out of his head in ''The Long Arm of the Law''.

** [[spoiler:The Doom Patrol (Elasti-Girl, Negative Man, Robotman and the Chief)]] in The Last Patrol.

** In ''The Last Patrol!'', Negative Man gives a heavy sigh before identifying his attacker as Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man, lampshading the silly name.

** AdamWest voices Thomas Wayne in "Chill of the Night" and has this exchange with Batman:
--> '''Batman:''' How's your aim?\\

** One of Black Mask's False Face Gang members wears a Ragdoll mask, as made famous in Comicbook/{{Starman}}.

** ''Night of the Batmen'' is based on a story from the tie-in comic book series for the show, but also features a ton of nods to various Batman incarnations. Plastic Man takes on the form of [[BatmanTheAnimatedSeries the DCAU Batman]] and the Batman from ''TheDarkKnightReturns''. And the ending features the return of the alternate universe Batmen from the Owlman episode, though now joined by [[Series/{{Batman}} the Adam West Batman]], [[BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]], the DCAU Batman, the FrankMiller Batmen, and TheBatman.
** The end of "Knights of Tomorrow" shows the new Batman and Robin punching Mister Toad, [[MadScientist Professor Pyg]], [[IAmAHumanitarian Eduardo Flamingo]] and other villains that were featured in the "Batman and Robin" comic.

* NamesTheSame: Shark of the Terrible Trio shares a name with Shark, an actual tiger shark mutated into a humanoid form who had a cameo in "Night of the Huntress!" And neither of them are to be confused with Tiger Shark, of course.

--> '''Batman''': "Justice wins the day thanks to the brave and the bold."

--> The EstablishingShot immediately before "Deathtrap!" focuses on an awning which reads '''TB & TB'''

* FaceHeelTurn: Batman under the vampire curse, in "Shadow of the Bat!" It seems to suit him, too. He's using every vampire power ever listed to great effect, and have you [[TheUnfunny ever seen him]] [[DrunkWithPower smile that much?]]

** The GreenLantern Corps in particular tend to spend most of their appearances getting mind controlled and slapped around.

* [[AirVentEscape Air Vent Entrance]]:

** Joker thanking Joe Chill for creating Batman in "Chill of the Night!" may be a sly nod to the 1989 ''Batman'' movie where it was Jack Napier (pre-Joker) himself who killed Bruce's parents.

* AngelsPose: the BirdsofPrey involuntarily pulled one in the episode "The Mask of Matches Malone" while standing [[BackToBackBadasses back to back on a stage]]

** The Season 3 premier, ''"The Battle of the Superheroes"'' contained many of the examples of SuperDickery.

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to the WordOfGod, Batwoman had her civillian identity changed from Kathy Kane to Katrina Moldoff after DC Comics executives voiced concerns about how the negative portrayal on the show might impact sales of the current ''{{Batwoman}}'' comic book series, which stars the similarly-named "Kate Kane".

--> Tuftan: "Did you say you had a plan to deal with this monster?"
--> Kamandi: "More of an idea than a plan."

** The end of "Knights of Tomorrow" shows the new Batman and Robin punching Mister Toad, [[MadScientist Professor Pyg]], [[IAmAHumanitarian Eduardo Flamingo]] and other villians that were featured in the "Batman and Robin" comic.

** The Joker is going to get one in the ''Emperor Joker'' episode.

Taking its name from DC's traditional team-up series, ''Batman: The Brave And The Bold'' has Batman partnering with a different superhero or superheroes every week. With a [[LimelightSeries focus]] on rarely used (but classic) characters such as RedTornado, Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man and Detective Chimp, the show deliberately picks a lot of its plotlines from old [[TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] stories, ''many'' of which have already been widely mocked by the fandom for years. Very much aware of this, ''BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' actually succeeds in making these old SoBadItsGood stories SoCoolItsAwesome. The show's creators aim to spotlight every possible underrated aspect of the DC universe.