Added Alliterative Appeal: The characters are particularly wordy when describing one another such as Batman calling the villains "pompous penguin" or "feline fatale", etc.
Admiral Failure: The only plot-carrying action that we see Vice Admiral Fangschliester do is sell a pre-atomic sub to a Mr. P. N. Guin, who doesn't leave a full address. When not talking to Batman, he is shown playing tiddlywinks with his aide.
Armor Is Useless: Averted. Yes it looks like spandex, but keep in mind that Batman wasn't even hurt by that shark, despite the length of time it was biting on his leg and the fact he was lifted into the air, with nothing to support the animal's weight.
Bar Brawl: Going on in the Taverne when Catwoman (dressed in her Miss Kitka disguise) walks in. Well, two of them, actually, on each side of the room with people eating casually in between.
Bat Deduction: At its finest. The Dynamic Duo, Commissioner Gordon, and Chief O'Hara are attempting to figure out who loosed the exploding shark on the Caped Crusader:
Batman: Pretty fishy what happened to me on that ladder. Gordon: You mean, where there's a fish, there could be a Penguin. Robin: But wait! It happened at sea! See? "C" for Catwoman! Batman: Yet — that exploding shark was pulling my leg! Gordon: The Joker! O'Hara: It all adds up to a sinister riddle... Riddle-er. Riddler?
"What has yellow skin and writes?" "A ballpoint banana!"
"What sits in a tree, weighs six ounces, and is very dangerous?" "A sparrow with a machine gun!" "Yes, of course."
Batman Gambit: Ironically, pulled off by the Penguin.
Broken Aesop: When reconstructing the world leaders, Robin suggests that they alter their personalities for the betterment of the world. Batman shoots the idea down with a "who are we to play God-esque" line. Cut to after they've done it successfully and it turns out the world leaders have apparently had their native languages switched around (due to an accident with someone sneezing into the powdered forms). Batman is perfectly fine with it and said it's a good thing for the exact reason he shot down Robin's suggestion.
To be fair, There is a difference: Robin suggested doing it deliberately, which Batman refused, but when it happened anyway by random chance, Batman lets it slide.
Crazy Enough to Work: Catwoman says a variant of this phrase about the Penguin's Unspoken Plan. "I say it's crazy, but let's try it anyway."
Crazy-Prepared: Anti Shark Repellent Bat Spray, among other things.
He also has Repellent Bat Sprays for Manta-Rays, Barracudas, and Whales. In his helicopter.
Arguably, this isn't an example of Crazy-Prepared - he doesn't carry the shark repellent around with him, instead keeping it in the Bat Copter. Assuming that A: there are sharks near Gotham, and B: he flies the Bat Copter over water, and C: his enemies could potentially shoot down the Copter over the water, then carrying shark repellent is a fairly obvious and sensible precaution.
Deadpan Snarker: Adam West and Burt Ward do a bit of snarking in the DVD commentary.
Deathtrap: The Exploding Shark, The Magnetic Buoy, The Spring-Loaded Jack-in-the-Box, and of course, A Bomb.
Dedication: "ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: We wish to express our gratitude to the enemies of crime and crusaders against crime throughout the world for their inspirational example. To them, and to lovers of adventure, lovers of pure escapism, lovers of unadulterated entertainment, lovers of the ridiculous and the bizarre—- To funlovers everywhere—- This picture is respectfully dedicated. If we have overlooked any sizable groups of lovers, we apologize. —-THE PRODUCERS"
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: After dehydrating his 5 "guinea pigs", the Penguin remarks to Catwoman to be careful scooping up their remains as "Each of them has a mother".
Even Evil Has Standards: Even the other villains think Riddler and his riddle-compulsion is a little out there.
You will never see the Joker angrily say "You're mad, Riddler" when pushed too far anywhere else.
Expo Label: Everything is labeled, down to "Abandoned Elevator" and the "Bat Ladder".
On the DVD the menu has everything labelled as "Bat Extras!", "Bat Scenes" and "Bat Movie!"
Expospeak: The Press Conference and conversion following in Commissioner Gordon's Office.
Catwoman: "United? We're about as united as the United World Council on Gotham East River."
Batman hilariously narrates his own attempts at escape from the magnetic buoy.
Failed a Spot Check: The United World Council takes the cake, unable to notice the criminals' entrance or the fact that the members are disappearing one by one.
Commodore Schmidlap doesn't even know he's been captured.
Faux Action Girl: Catwoman can plan and scheme with the best of them, but when it comes to actually fighting Batman, she'd just as soon sit this one out.
She does sneak up on him during the climactic fight scene and shove him off the boat, though..
Fridge Brilliance: Catwoman has always been shown to be attracted to the Caped Crusader. It's possible that this is why she doesn't fight him.
Freaky Friday Flip: In the end Batman's attempts at re-hydrating of the security council ends with a "mixing of minds."
An Ironic Echo to Robin's suggestion to do that on purpose to try and accelerate progress to world peace. Batman shot the idea down, citing the fate of the five Guinea Pigs as proof they shouldn't try to tamper with the laws of Mother Nature.
Fun with Acronyms: Catwoman masquerades as a writer from the Moscow Bugle named Kitayna Ireyna Tatanya Kerenska Alisoff... but suggested that Bruce call her KITKA for short. He even commented that it was a charming acronym.
Getting Crap Past the Radar: The Admiral at the Pentagon is "Playing Tiddleywinks" with his secretary. It sounds saucier on the page than it is on screen.
Glad I Thought of It: Penguin only orders torpedoes fired after Riddler suggests it first.
The Guards Must Be Crazy: United World Security. Though Penguin does have to knock a bunch of them out with sleeping gas, there are no guards at all in the meeting room. They're still worried about guards at this point, so apparently there's an elite group of guards that they found a path around. Also, if it's the same meeting room as at the end of the movie, the villains could have gone through the window and bypassed every guard.
Idiot Ball: The nuns, the marching band, and the mother from the "bomb disposal" scene. Robin deciding not to keep tabs on Bruce out of modesty. Batman not recognizing his sworn enemy Catwoman snogging him, even though she lets out her trademark purr and makes a bunch of cat puns, including her fake name. The villains repeatedly falling for the "we hear an explosion, let's assume they're dead" mistake. The Security Council continuing to bicker and dicker as their members are being turned to powder one by one.
Impossibly Cool Clothes: Adam West, Burt Ward, and Lee Meriwether had to be sewn into their costumes.
Improvised Zip Line: During the battle on the submarine, the Penguin uses his umbrella to slide down a wire and knock down Batman with a kick.
Insane Troll Logic: All of the Bat Deductions, not to mention that throughout the film Batman takes rash actions based on what the audience knows, but he himself could not know for certain. This is especially true when it comes to depth charging the submarine.
Leave the Two Lovebirds Alone: Bruce and Kitka's making out prompts Robin to turn the hidden camera off. Not to mention the kissing couple in the opening credits.
Male Gaze: There's a topless female statue in the hall of the United World; you can't help noticing how many shots include it.
Merchandise Driven: The use of the Batcopter, Batboat and Batcycle were meant to sell toys and other tie-in products. Not to mention that the film was made in order to help sell the series overseas.
The movie also justified the expense in building these vehicles, which were seen in the TV series mostly through stock shots.
One Hit Point Wonder: The "Guinea Pigs", re-hydrated with heavy water, are highly unstable and easily dispatched and vaporize with one blow.
Only Sane Man: Mr. Bluebeard, judging by the hairy eyeball he gives Catwoman throughout the film.
Out-Gambitted: Penguin manages to attack the Dynamic Duo inside the Batcave, and then steals the Batmobile. Due to the homing beacon hidden in the Batmobile beforehand, he just ends up leading Batman to his lair.
Paper-Thin Disguise: To be fair, the Penguin wanted to be recognized. Not to mention the masks worn by any of our villains.
The villains (Catwoman and especially the Riddler) continually take their masks on and off in each others' presence, which makes you wonder why they bother to wear them around each other at all. At one point, the Joker can be seen wearing a purple domino mask (that matches his suit!) for no reason.
Who could forget "Mr. P.N. Guin"?
Parasol of Pain: The Penguin's umbrella not only functions as a umbrella, it's also a cigarette lighter, a makeshift sword, a club and a knockout gas dispenser.
Plunger Detonator: The Riddler uses a small one to detonate explosives and blow open a door into the United World building.
Potty Emergency: While not a literal example, the whole sequence of Batman trying to dispose of the bomb plays out in much the same way.
Purple Prose: Both Batman and Bruce Wayne talk in this manner.
Just about everyone talks in a way that sounds like scripted dramatics.
Quintessential British Gentleman: Commodore Schmidlap, always waiting on his Spot of Tea. Another represents the United Kingdom at the United World Security Council. He even says "pip pip!"
Reed Richards Is Useless: The premise for The Movie and the Batman TV Series is that Batman only can fight supervillains. Zigzagged when Batman quickly refuses Robin's idea to better the world by making a Freaky Friday Flip with the United World Organization security council, arguing that they shouldn't try to tamper with the laws of Mother Nature. Then happens exactly that, (but arguably, the Status Quo Is God still applies) and Batman takes responsibility just before going out inconspicuously through the window.
Batman: Who knows, Robin? This strange mixing of minds may be the greatest single service ever performed for humanity! Let's go, but, inconspicuously, through the window. We'll use our Batropes. Our job is finished.
Reverse Polarity: Batman does this to his Bat Radio to destroy some torpedoes.
Status Quo Is God: Zig Zagged because the premise for Batman: The Movie and the Batman TV Series is that that incarnation of Batman only is useful to fight supervillains (and nothing more). He cannot change anything more in his world. Robin's idea to better the world by making a Freaky Friday Flip with the bickering United World Organization security council is quickly rejected by Batman. Then when this happens... The Security Council is still bickering between themselves, but each one of them is bickering in a different language. Batman realizes that Status Quo Is God and he and Robin go out inconspicuously through the window.
Stealth Parody: On the DVD, Adam and Burt play it like this. Which, if you think about it, makes absolute sense. I mean, come on, insane Bat Deduction, impossible to believe stupidity (Commodore Schmidlap and the fake boat), the blatant moral lessons (the whole drunk speech), and shark repellent? And that's just a few of the more ridiculous things.
Further cemented in a book about the TV series, where one of the writers explained that they were aiming for Multiple Demographic Appeal: Kids who liked comicbooks would think Batman was cool, while those who were too cool for comics and understood irony would think Batman was hilarious.
Stock Footage: The Polaris missiles' launching. Scenes of the new Bat-Vehicles shot in the movie were also incorporated in the following seasons of the TV series.
In one shot of the Polaris, the editors have attempted to make it look different by flipping the image so the fact that it's the same as the previous one will be less noticeable. Unfortunately, this just means that the word Polaris on the missile appears with all its letters facing the wrong way around.
Sue Donym: The Penguin's nearly impenetrable alias of "P.N. Guin".
Take Our Word for It: A porpoise hurled himself in front of that last torpedo. Really.
There are a lot of bad guys on the sub in the climatic fight, but the only indicators of this is that they say so and there's a lot of yelling. Only one person is shown fighting Batman or Robin at a time. This goes beyond regular Mook Chivalry; the other bad guys aren't even in the shot waiting for their turn to attack. They're just not in the shot at all.
Take Over the World: Believed to be the United Underworld's minimum objective. Two villains with no powers teaming together must be trying to take over the city. Add one more, they're going for the country. All four? The world.
Taking the Bullet: The porpoise throwing itself in front of a torpedo to save the Dynamic Duo.
Technobabble Batman talks of "adding ethnic and national functions".
Two Scenes, One Dialogue: Catwoman rehearses the speech she'll use to gain Bruce Wayne's confidence. Cut to Bruce Wayne's response to "Ms. Kitka".
Un-Paused: The United World Security Council members are dehydrated while they're arguing with each other around a conference table. While dehydrated their molecules are mixed together, separated and thoroughly scrambled. When they're rehydrated they immediately pick up where they left off.
Villain Ball: All the villains hold it, but Riddler uses both hands, as even the other villains advise him not to add his riddles to their ransom notes.
Weirdness Censor: Why no one has reported the United Underworld activities. Batman blames alcohol in a low end neighborhood.
The Security Council not noticing the villains entering the room. You could chalk it up to them being distracted by their arguments.
Commodore Schmidlapp doesn't recognize the Joker, mentioning only that he looks deathly pale. The Joker hand-waves this by explaining that he hasn't gotten much sun from being in a submarine all the time.
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