History Recap / BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE20FeatOfClayPart1

* DeathByIrony: Dagget's henchmen try to invoke this trope by forcing Renuyu down Hagen's throat. It backfires instead by mutating Hagen into a large clay-like being.

-->'''Batman:''' "That's it Bell, keep it up. You're reacting true to form, so far."

* SuperOCD: Germs, one of Daggett's goons. He had a habit of using a napkin to open doors. He's the poster boy for TerrifiedOfGerms. The prospect of having to kill a person doesn't phase him, but upon learning his intended victim is currently in a hospital? ''That'' freaks him out. Batman even takes advantage of this by producing a canister and claiming it contains organisms that cause disease with no known cure. (It's ordinary seawater.)

* OffModel: An {{Creator/AKOM}} episode, so this is to be expected. In fact, the difference in quality between part one, and the [[Creator/TMSEntertainment TMS-helmed]] second part was what convinced the producers to keep 2-parters assigned to the same studio for both halves.
-->'''Creator/BruceTimm:''' This was the first episode done by AKOM's C-Team of animators, and it really bummed us out when it first came in. That show probably had more retakes than any other, nearly completely redone two or three times before we could actually air it without cringing.

* SuperOCD: Germs, one of Daggett's goons. He had a habit of using a napkin to open doors. He's the poster boy for TerrifiedOfGerms. The prospect of having to kill a person doesn't phase him, but upon learning his intended victim is currently in a hospital? ''That'' freaks him out. Batman even takes advantage of this by producing a canister and claiming it contains organisms that cause a disease with no known cure. (It's ordinary seawater.)
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Batman's brutal attempt in interrogating Bell for his imposter's identity, which includes suspending him on a still-flying Batwing and dragging him through a lake, stresses Bell so much that he ends up fainting.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Batman's brutal attempt in interrogating Bell for his imposter's identity, which includes suspending him on a still-flying batmobile and dragging him through a lake, stresses Bell so much that he ends up fainting.

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* {{Fainting}}: Raymond Bell faints while being questioned by Batman. Considering Batman's terrifying interrogation technique, it is not surprising.

To the rescue came Roland Daggett, who offered Hagen access to Renuyu, an experimental skin-rebuilding chemical his company developed that would restore Hagen's ruined face and allow him to resume his life. [[DealWithTheDevil But the price was heavy.]] In return for the formula, Hagen now is at the beck and call of Daggett, who forces him to change his appearance to steal, extort and silence Daggett's business rivals. Hagen finds the arrangement repulsive, especially when Daggett orders him to impersonate Bruce Wayne and kill Wayne Enterprises' Lucius Fox. But since he can't back out without Daggett cutting off the monthly supply he needs to keep his face together (not to mention that Renuyu's chemical mix is addictive), Hagen agrees to the hit.

** When Daggett's thugs point out that Hagen's a master of disguise who'd be hard to track down, Daggett tells them that the Renuyu factory is the only place he can get more of the stuff--''he'll'' come to ''them''.

* BlatantLies: When he falls into Dagget's trap Hagen tries to imitate Bruce Wayne as a hail-mary way of fooling the thugs who come for him. It doesn't trick them for a second.

* Cliffhanger: Bruce gets arrested while trying to speak to Fox and Teddy finds a horribly mutated Hagen.