History WesternAnimation / BewaretheBatman

*** At least one site also commented that they assumed that Silver Monkey was a CanonForeigner, but found that he actually does exist in the comic books.

* NeverSayDie: Averted. Characters refer to death regularly and casually.

* BigBadEnsemble: The creators have described Anarky as Batman's ArchEnemy and is the OverarchingVillain of the series, but he shares the spotlight with Ra's Al Ghul, Harvey Dent, and [[spoiler:Deathstroke]]. Ra's and the League of Assassins are prominent in the first half of the series until Ra's is defeated in "Reckoning". Harvey Dent steps up as a HeroAntagonist in "Nexus", but his obsession with capturing Batman quickly devolves into a witch hunt that has Harvey stooping to [[BigBadDuumvirate teaming up with]] [[DealWithTheDevil Anarky]] to capture the caped crusader. Finally, [[spoiler:Deathstroke, a personal figure from Alfred's past, seeks revenge against him via killing and replacing Batman as his successor.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: The creators have described Anarky as Batman's ArchEnemy and is the OverarchingVillain of the series, but he shares the spotlight with Ra's Al Ghul, Harvey Dent, and [[spoiler:Deathstroke]]. Ra's and the League of Assassins are prominent in the first half of the series until Ra's is defeated in "Reckoning". Harvey Dent steps up as a HeroAntagonist in "Nexus", but his obsession with capturing Batman quickly devolves into a witch hunt that has Harvey stooping to [[BigBadDuumvirate teaming up with]][[DealWithTheDevil Anarky]] to capture the caped crusader. Finally, [[spoiler:Deathstroke, a personal figure from Alfred's past, seeks revenge against him via killing and replacing Batman as his successor.]]

* BigBadEnsemble: Between Ra's al Ghul, Anarky, Harvey Dent/Two-Face and [[spoiler:Deathstroke]]. Ra's and the League of Shadows are the main threat for the first half of the season, culminating in "Reckoning", leaving Anarky to step up his game. In "Nexus" Harvey Dent steps in as a HeroAntagonist, trying to capture and unmask Batman and [[spoiler:Deathstroke]] acting as the final BigBad.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Dr. Jason Burr is this to Tatsu. At first. She is clearly starting to return the affection.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "Broken", [[MythologyGag if you're familiar]] with Humphry's [[ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumLivingHell backstory in the comic]]. It mentions that his grandmother "deceased under mysterious circumstances": in the comic, Humpty Dumpty was sent to Arkham after it was revealed that he finally responded to his grandmother's constant abuse by killing her, taking her apart, and sewing her back together in attempt to "fix" her.

* RaceLift: Of sorts. In the comics, the Soultaker Sword was forged by Muramasa in Japan. Here, its origin is unclear, but it appears to be made of jade, implying Chinese origin, the blade is covered in unidentified runes, and a reference book implies that it's been around since ancient Egypt.

* ShoutOut: Magpie was interred in the fictional Miskatonic Psychiatric Hospital, named after the Miskatonic University from Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos.

* ComicBookFantasyCasting: As has been heavily discussed around the internet, the show's version of Magpie looks a lot like Music/LadyGaga. Likewise, many believe that Alfred resembles JasonStatham.

* {{Acrofatic}}: Humphry Dumpler can sure move for his size, having escaped Batman chasing him three times. Twice while carrying someone.

{{Toonami}} began running episodes starting on May 20th, 2014 [[https://twitter.com/Clarknova1/status/456570668268531713 with the production crew intent on airing all 26 episodes]]. In September, Cartoon Network explicitly forbade Toonami from ever airing the show again, forcing Toonami to air the final 7 episodes in a marathon on September 28th- the last day before CN's order went into effect. Cartoon Network then wrote off the show from their network, deeming it a financial failure and ending the series for good. Of the Batman animated series, ''Beware'' has the shortest run with only one season of 26 episodes.

* WatchingAVideoGame: The segment in "Games" where the characters have to stand on lighted tiles and jump to other ones when they start flickering is very reminiscint of certain platforming challenges.

** The relationship between Professor Pyg and Mister Toad was partially inspired by the anthropomorphic charm of ''{{The Wind in the Willows}}''.

* RoleReprisal: Creator/TaraStrong voices Barbara Gordon, reprising her voicing of the character in the Franchise/{{DCAU}}.

* ShoutOut: Magpie was interred in the fictional Miskatonic Psychiatric Hospital, named after the Miskatonic University from Creator/HPLovecraft's CthulhuMythos.

** [[spoiler: In Anarky's chess game in "Alone", the villain pieces are all white, while the heroic and civilian pieces are black.

** Fittingly, [[spoiler: the last shot of the series is Anarky playing with a chess set, with various Gotham characters represented as pieces. The Batman piece checkmates the Anarky piece. [[AndTheAdventureContinues Anarky then resets the board.]]]]

* MakeUpIsEvil: Magpie, especially with her ExcessiveEvilEyeshadow.

* RealityEnsues: The show does its best to give a more realistic feel to the series to show what Bruce would need to do to pull off Batman in real life, such as reducing his sleep and liquid meals. Also his Batcomputer usually comes up with a statistic on how realistic his chances are to pull off what he is about to do.

* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Who else? But it's clear that Tatsu fully believes Bruce Wayne is this and is pretty much the main reason she doesn't think highly of him.

* [[ThrowAwayGuns Throw-Away Cannon]]: As Humphry sees Batman scaling the castle wall, he just throws his cannon at him.

* TookALevelInBadass: Anarky went from being a whiny minor villain in "Tests" to a guy who can take out three Assassins, steal [[spoiler: Ra's al Ghul's body]], and make a deal with Lady Shiva for [[spoiler: his]] return, and live by the time of "Sacrifice".
** He has also, [[spoiler: during his villainous gambit in the episode "Nexus"]], taken on Katana and Batman both to almost a ''standstill''- almost, meaning they do eventually pin them. [[spoiler: ...but not before he puts a proximity-activated bomb on each of their wrists, himself included.]]
*** [[spoiler: Did we mention his gambit involved bombing the mayor?]]

** And then there's Lunk Head. He used to be a basic (albeit strong) mook, but a fight with Batman left him comatose and damaged his brain. Nowadays he's basically a gigantic child who *wants* to be good, but is just a little too stupid and immature to control himself. At one point he's coerced into breaking out of jail (which he initially doesn't want to because he knows he's been bad and belongs there) with the promise of candy. And, once more with feeling, because it's [[CrapsackWorld that kind of show]] he doesn't even get the candy. Instead, he gets betrayed by his only friend and pushed off a ledge.

* WomanInBlack: Magpie and Katana.

** Anarky's symbol is really the one from ''Film/VForVendetta'' upside down.

* ShoutOut: Magpie was interred in the fictional Miskatonic Psychiatric Hospital, named after the Miskatonic University from HPLovecraft's CthulhuMythos.

** Tatsu's motorcycle is a PaletteSwap of the one belonging to the first KamenRider, complete with way too many exhausts.

* ArchEnemy: The creators say they wanted to set up ComicBook/{{Anarky}} as Batman's archnemesis, rather than SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker, due to the fact that they want to avoid "Joker stories".

*** Anarky is similar to the Nolanverse version of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker (CardCarryingVillain who fancies himself as the embodiment of chaos and is Batman's ArchEnemy).