Line #12 YMMV/BatmanTheMovie


1	* AluminumChristmasTrees:
2	** Shark repellent sprays have existed in one form or another since the Second World War, where the Pacific front required the development of effective countermeasures (developed by an OSS Agent named Creator/JuliaChild. Really). Real-life sprays, however, normally focus on making the user less 'tasty' or dampens your scent rather than attacking the creature itself.
3	** The ridiculous riddles that seem impossible to work out logically yet Robin seems to perfectly answer, i.e. "What sits in a tree, weighs six ounces, and is very dangerous?" ("A sparrow with a machine gun!") and "What has yellow skin and writes?" ("A ballpoint banana!") seem like BatDeduction. However, these were actually well-known riddles back in the 1960s. Absurd riddles were a huge fad, designed to subvert your expectations with completely ludicrous answers. Banana/fruit jokes, bird jokes, and elephant jokes were popular subsets of these. Bat Deduction states that such a deduction must use a huge mental leap to reach its conclusion, but these riddles weren't any kind of leap to US baby-boomers in the 1960s. Robin would've heard a ton of these riddles, especially if he was in school at the time. The way the characters combine what the answers to the riddles mean together, however are examples of BatDeduction, as the riddles would be told by students as individual riddles, and not as a set of clues.
4	* AssPull: '''''Everyone's''''' "Deductions" are this. See "BatDeduction" on the main page for the crowning example of this. The fact that he's right about just about everything, no matter how absurd, makes it all the more hilarious.
5	** Also: "Robin! Hand me the [[CrazyPrepared Shark Repellent Bat-Spray]]!"
6	** Batman and Robin are magnetically trapped, unable to move, as a torpedo hurtles towards them. Cut to the Dynamic Duo driving away on their boat as they somberly explain how [[DeusExMachina a random porpoise]] [[TakingTheBullet swam in front of the torpedo]] ''off screen'', saving their lives.
7	--->'''Batman:''' It was noble of that animal to hurl himself into the path of that final torpedo. He gave his life for ours.
8	* FridgeBrilliance: Catwoman has always been shown to be attracted to the Caped Crusader. It's possible that this is why she doesn't fight him during the submarine battle.
9	* HarsherInHindsight: Batman can't get rid of a bomb. Funny then. After ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises''...[[spoiler:[[TearJerker not so much.]]... or alternatively [[HilariousInHindsight it becomes even more hilarious]]. Especially seeing how in both films Batman makes it out alive off-screen.]]
10	* HilariousInHindsight:
11	** The Joker putting explosives in someone's stomach. [[Film/TheDarkKnight I'm sure we'll never see that happen again...]]
12	** Batman's line about how "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb!" brings to mind [[NeverLiveItDown all the fuss]] surrounding [[Film/BatmanAndRobin another campy Batman film]], and also, for more plot-related reasons, [[Film/TheDarkKnightRises one of the more serious ones]]...
13	--->'''Creator/CharlieBrooker:''' ''The Dark Knight Rises'' isn't "bad", but behind all the noir shine, it's no more intellectually nourishing than the 1960's, which was camp, and floopy, and fun, and never once mistook itself for Creator/IngmarBergman's ''Film/FromTheLifeOfTheMarionettes''.\
14	'''Batman:''' Some days, you just can't rid of a bomb!\
15	'''Charlie Brooker:''' Actually, that is ''almost'' identical to the end of ''The Dark Knight Rises''!
16	*** To add to it, the more serious Batman had a bad knee and was laid out by a single stab wound, whereas the goofier Batman literally walked away from a ''shark biting his leg in the same area'' for over a minute.
17	*** To add even more to it, [[spoiler:both films have Batman appear to be blown up by said bomb only to show up completely unharmed afterwards]].
18	*** Between the aforementioned gritty film and this movie, there's also when [[Creator/AdamWest Batman's actor]] [[AdamWesting played a parody of himself]] to team up with [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries one of the most iconic versions of Batman]] to [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE18BewareTheGrayGhost solve a chain-bomb-explosive case.]]
19	*** According to IMDB, Adam West spent five hours filming the scene. No wonder he couldn't get rid of a bomb!
20	** The exploding shark. ''Film/JawsTheRevenge''.
21	** Fighting sharks in a helicopter eerily foreshadows ''Film/{{Sharknado}}''.
22	** [[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131205/15585425475/us-spy-satellite-logo-not-all-subtle-octopus-enveloping-earth.shtml An NSA spy satellite]] has a logo of an octopus with tentacles reaching around the globe, much like the villains' logo in the movie.
23	*** Also, the titular crime syndicate in ''Film/{{SPECTRE}}'' has an octopus logo and even a signet ring. A giant octopus even appears in that film's opening sequence.
24	** After Penguin's goons end up turning into antimatter as a result of being rehydrated with heavy water, Batman comments that they won't be coming back, not in this universe. So...[[NeverSayDie they got sent]] [[Anime/DragonBallZ to another dimension]].
25	** The lineup of villains in this film, the Joker, the Riddler, Catwoman, and the Penguin, [[spoiler: all appear together again 56 years later in ''Film/TheBatman2022'']].
26	* HoYay:
27	** Robin seemed less embarrassed about listening in on Bruce and Kitka and more irritated/jealous.
28	** The Riddler almost sounded like he had a bit of a crush on Batman.
29	--->'''Riddler:''' Oh, but I must, I must! Outwitting Batman is my sole delight, my heaven on earth, my very paradise!
30	* MemeticMutation: "Some days you just can't get rid of a bomb" and "Shark-Repellent Bat Spray", in addition to all the other memes from the show. They [[AscendedMeme later appeared in]] ''[[WesternAnimation/DCSuperHeroGirls2019 DC Super Hero Girls]]'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheLegoBatmanMovie'', respectively.
31	* TearJerker: Batman's reaction to finding out that Ms. Kitka is actually Catwoman is played surprisingly straight. He just stares off into space, trying to maintain a professional stoic facade as the weight of Catwoman's betrayal of his feelings crushes him. One could even argue this is a UrExample of Batman's history with falling for {{Femme Fatale}}s who would eventually betray him.
32	* ValuesResonance:
33	** While turning off the camera was TooDumbToLive under those circumstances, Robin's discomfort about how his surveillance detail is making him watch Bruce and "Miss Kitka" get intimate on a date feels more relatable in the age of digital surveillance and the surrounding controversies.
34	** Batman and Robin's concern about marine life (a porpoise that makes an offscreen HeroicSacrifice for them and [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute even a shark that is rigged with explosives]]) feels more relevant today than it did before.

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