History Recap / BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE27MadAsAHatter

* TheDitz: Alice, overall, comes across as this, remaining completely oblivious about Jervis’s increasingly obvious infatuation with her, even after he takes her on what’s clearly a romantic date across Gotham. [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation Although she might have known or suspected the truth but just ignored it because she wasn’t interested in him and thought that he’d eventually get over her. If so, she was very wrong, as we later see.]]

* HypnoFool[=/=]PsychicAssistedSuicide: The Mad Hatter tells two thugs who were trying to mug him to "go jump in the river." Since this is a kid's cartoon, Batman catches them right before they jump off the bridge.

* SanitySlippage[=/=]VillainousBreakdown: Jervis becomes unhinged after Alice announces her engagement to her boyfriend. Not that he was all there to begin with.

* Foreshadowing: Batman being physically overwhelmed and pushed from the bridge by the two first crooks the Mad Hatter controled, while they weren't even actively fighting him. By the end of the episode, the Hatter mentioned his mind control device also makes the victims physically stronger.

* MotiveDecay: When Jervis first comes to the idea that he can use his mind control tech to force Alice to love him, he quickly becomes disgusted at himself for considering the notion. By the time he actually goes through with it, he's so obsessed with having her that he attempts to push the blame on Batman for driving him to it.

* TheDitz: Alice, overall, comes across as this, remaining completely oblivious about Jervis’s increasingly obvious infatuation with her, even after he takes her on what’s clearly a romantic date across Gotham.

* CaptiveDate: Jervis Tetch tries to win his co-worker Alice's heart after her recent breakup. She is charmed by Jervis but mistakes his romantic overtures as attempts to cheer her up, and she later reconciles with her boyfriend who then becomes her fianc&eacute. Jarvis then uses his MindControl technology to force Billy to break up with her again and after Batman shows up, he uses the same technology on her and takes her on a "date" at a Wonderland-themed amusement park.

* HeroicBystander: When the Mad Hatter sends his PeoplePuppets after Batman to keep him from rescuing Alice, Batman is initially overwhelmed until he manages to disable the mind control device on one of them. The man he frees is Alice's fianc&eacute Billy, who returns the favor by removing the rest of the Hatter's devices--[[ExactWords since the puppets were only told to attack Batman]], Billy can move among them unmolested.

* IronicEcho: Tetch asks Alice if she remembers the Mock Turtle's song, reciting, "Would you, won't you, would you, won't you... won't you join the dance?" before dancing with her in the park. Later, as she is hugging her fiancé Billy, while the Hatter lies trapped in the [[ItMakesSenseInContext claws of a Jabberwock]], he moans softly, "Would not... would not, could not... oh, could not join the dance," as the camera pans out to a statue of a crying Mock Turtle.

* NeverMyFault: Instead of accepting Alice's relationship with her boyfriend turned fianc&eacute and acknowledging that he went too far, Jervis blames Batman for what happened, when in reality, it was his inability to accept rejection after learning that Alice was engaged to Billy that was to blame.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Billy reconciles with Alice just after Jervis took her out of a night on Gotham and even becomes her fianc&eacute, which drives Jervis to brainwash him and then Alice, kicking off the second half of the plot and forcing Batman to intervene.

* NeverMyFault: Instead of accepting Alice's relationship with her now-fianc&eacute and acknowledging that he went too far, Jervis blames Batman for what happened, when in reality, it was his inability to accept rejection after learning that Alice was engaged to Billy.

* CaptiveDate: Jervis Tetch tries to win his co-worker Alice's heart after her recent breakup. She is charmed by Jervis but mistakes his romantic overtures as attempts to cheer her up, and she later reconciles with her boyfriend. Jarvis then uses his MindControl technology on her and takes her on a "date" at a Wonderland-themed amusement park.

* HeroicBystander: When the Mad Hatter sends his PeoplePuppets after Batman to keep him from rescuing Alice, Batman is initially overwhelmed until he manages to disable the mind control device on one of them. The man he frees is Alice's boyfriend Billy, who returns the favor by removing the rest of the Hatter's devices--[[ExactWords since the puppets were only told to attack Batman]], Billy can move among them unmolested.

* MuggingTheMonster: 2 muggers mistake Jervis Tetch/the Mad Hatter and Alice for easy money, unaware that he has mind control cards up his sleeves that hypnotize their victims. When Batman [[SaveTheVillain rescues them]] from jumping off the bridge, they immediately return to normal.
* NeverMyFault: Instead of accepting Alice's relationship with her boyfriend and acknowledging that he went too far, Jervis blames Batman for what happened, when in reality, it was Billy.

* ObliviousToLove: Alice has no idea that Jervis is in love/obsessed with her, seeing their night on the town only as an attempt to cheer her up. It's only after he nearly turns her into a mindless toy that she realizes how he felt.

* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Billy reconciles with Alice just after Jervis took her out of a night on Gotham and even becomes her fiancée, which drives Jervis to brainwash him and then Alice, kicking off the second half of the plot and forcing Batman to intervene.

* NeverMyFault: Instead of accepting Alice's relationship with her boyfriend and acknowledging that he went too far, Jervis blames Batman for what happened.

* PyrrhicVillainy: In a milder example, Jervis uses his mind control technology to land Alice, a co-worker he was too shy to talk to, but Batman calls him out on this, asking if a mind-controlled, compliant Alice with no personality was what he really wanted. Tetch has a breakdown and attacks him, [[NeverMyFault blaming Batman for driving him to that extreme]].

Jervis Tetch, a scientist at Wayne Tech, has a crush on Alice, the secretary. After failing to woo her, he becomes the Mad Hatter and uses mind-control technology to turn those who've wronged him into his own slaves.

* PetTheDog: The abrasive Dr. Cates sits down and commiserates with Alice over her breakup, while Jervis Tetch, eavesdropping, [[KickTheDog reacts with glee that she's no longer attached]].

* ActorAllusion: This isn't [[Series/Batman1966 the first time]] Roddy [=McDowell=]'s played a Batman villain with an obsession over classical literature. Nor is it [[Film/AliceInWonderland1985 the first time]] he's played an ''Alice in Wonderland'' character (or rather a character based on it in the Hatter's case).

* PetTheDog: The abrasive Dr. Cates sits down and commiserates with Alice over her breakup, while Jervis Tetch, eavesdropping, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark reacts with glee that she's no longer attached]].

* PetTheDog: The abrasive Dr. Cates sits down and commiserates with Alice over her breakup, while Jervis Tetch, eavesdropping, [[KickTheDog reacts with glee that she's no longer attached]].

* ActorAllusion: This isn't [[Series/Batman1966 the first time]] Roddy [=McDowell=]'s played a Batman villain with an obsession over classical literature.