History Film / BatmanAndRobinSerial

* InnocentlyInsensitive / {{Jerkass}}: It's definitely not on purpose, but Bruce does several things over the course of the serial that make him look and sound like a callous asshole. The worst one is when he was investigating the Wizard's men and touches a doorknob that electrocutes him and knocks him out. Jimmy Vale comes across him and drags him into a room, learning his identity, and then changes into his suit so he can escape the building unnoticed. The Wizard's men, however, do discover him and they fight, ending with one punching Jimmy out the window of the skyscraper. He falls to his death. Bruce regains consciousness, puts on Jimmy's clothes (and nevermind how his clothes fit even though Bruce is a whole foot taller than Jimmy), and goes down to the van where Robin is waiting. He recounts that they switched clothes, but then looks at Jimmy's still warm corpse on the sidewalk and says, "Well, there's nothing we can do for him now; let's go." ''And they just leave Jimmy's flattened, bloody corpse at the scene of the crime.'' Bruce and Dick know Vicky extremely well by now, yet Bruce doesn't even muster up some sympathy or bother to cover up the body so the traumatized people on the street don't see it, nor does he tell Vicky her brother is dead. It also doesn't help that Bruce regularly treats Vicky like shit; he seems incredibly annoyed with her at all times and while her nosy nature is bad for him being a superhero, there really is no reason he's so rude to her throughout the series.

** Jimmy Vale finds Batman knocked out, so he drags him into another room and puts the costume on, reasoning that he can then escape the Mooks. It very much backfires, though, resulting in his death.

* {{Jerkass}}: [[InnocentlyInsensitive It's definitely not on purpose]], but Bruce does several things over the course of the serial that make him look and sound like a callous asshole. The worst one is when he was investigating the Wizard's men and touches a doorknob that electrocutes him and knocks him out. Jimmy Vale comes across him and drags him into a room, learning his identity, and then changes into his suit so he can escape the building unnoticed. The Wizard's men, however, do discover him and they fight, ending with one punching Jimmy out the window of the skyscraper. He falls to his death. Bruce regains consciousness, puts on Jimmy's clothes (and nevermind how his clothes fit even though Bruce is a whole foot taller than Jimmy), and goes down to the van where Robin is waiting. He recounts that they switched clothes, but then looks at Jimmy's still warm corpse on the sidewalk and says, "Well, there's nothing we can do for him now; let's go." ''And they just leave Jimmy's flattened, bloody corpse at the scene of the crime.'' Bruce and Dick know Vicky extremely well by now, yet Bruce doesn't even muster up some sympathy or bother to cover up the body so the traumatized people on the street don't see it, nor does he tell Vicky her brother is dead. It also doesn't help that Bruce regularly treats Vicky like shit; he seems incredibly annoyed with her at all times and while her nosy nature is bad for him being a superhero, there really is no reason he's so rude to her throughout the series.

* MeanBoss: Naturally, the Wizard. He is very volatile if you make a mistake and gets angry at his men at the drop of a hat, even if they do something as harmless as wondering where the submarine to his evil lair is taking them.

** Batman is waiting to spring a trap on the wizard, not knowing the Wizard and his men have planted a bomb in the chamber. The Wizard, invisible at the time, knocks out Robin in the office and then detonates the bomb. The last we saw of Batman was him in the chamber waiting, but when the next episode starts, he then claims that he went into the inner chamber and thus was nowhere near the blast when it goes off. This was not shown to the audience beforehand.

The sequel to Franchise/{{Batman}}'s film debut, the 1943 movie serial ''Film/{{The Batman|Serial}}'', ''Batman and Robin'' was released in 1949 by Creator/ColumbiaPictures and served as a sequel serial, consisting of fifteen chapters in a similar way as the original. Creator/RobertLowery played Batman, while Creator/JohnnyDuncan played Robin. Supporting players included Jane Adams as Vicki Vale and veteran character actor Creator/LyleTalbot as Commissioner Gordon.

* BeleaguredAssistant: Carter is Professor Hammil's valet and he is pretty much berated and verbally abused constantly by the professor, so much so that it's probably not surprising that [[spoiler: Carter's evil twin pressured Hammil into fake-confessing to being The Wizard to try and save his own ass.]]

* DullSurprise: Almost everyone except the actors playing Barry Brown and Professor Hammil react to everything with the same indifference, even things as insane as a man falling out of a skyscraper or a car driving itself.

* {{Mooks}}: The Wizard has a group of henchmen who takes orders from him, mostly over the radio, to help him complete his evil schemes. Some of them are regulars that we see in every episode of nearly every episode like Nolan, Neal, and Gabe.

* FailedASpotCheck: Bizarrely, once Carter has been [[spoiler: murdered, Commissioner Gordon, Batman, and Robin discover his body in Professor Hammil's study. Professor Hammil then proceeds to ''walk into the room and not notice the body until they literally point to it.'' What's also odd about the scene is Hammill has been wheelchair bound the entire serial and was secretly testing a chair that allows him to walk temporarily, so the second part of this trope applies to Batman, Robin, and Gordon for not even asking why a previously paralyzed or disabled man can walk without help.

* {{Mooks}}: The Wizard has a group of henchmen who takes orders from him, mostly over the radio, to help him complete his evil schemes. Some of them are regulars that we see in every episode of nearly every episode like Nolan, Evans, and Gabe.

* TapOnTheHead: Every single person who gets knocked out in this series is given the lightest possible tap that wouldn't ever knock someone out, probably due to lack of budget for a fight choreographer. The worst example, by far, is when one of The Wizard's men ''knocks out a cop with a rolled up newspaper.'' The closet second is when Robin is in an office looking at a toy car (don't ask, we can't explain it either) and the invisible Wizard picks up a normal, non-heavy name plaque and hits Robin in the head with it. Despite the fact the thing barely weighs a pound, this knocks Robin unconscious.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Remote control does not control any electronic device in a 50-mile radius, let alone machines that haven't been equipped to be remote controlled.

* NoBudget: And ''how.'' First off, Batman and Robin's outfits are very cheap looking and you can tell the holes in Batman's cowl weren't cut right because the actor has to constantly tilt his head back to see what's in front of him. Second off, we find out they ''keep their suits balled up inside a file cabinet'' in the Batcave, which is also why they look so cheap and wrinkled. The most egregious example, though, are the "fight scenes." Either there was no fight choreographer on set or it was so far back in time that no one thought to have that position in filmmaking, but whatever the reason, every single fight scene is a hilarious mess. They visibly hit nothing but air when they swing and most of it involves fumbling and flailing around until someone finally flops over unconscious (and 90% of the time, that someone is [[AdaptationalWimp Batman and Robin]]). Then there's the fact that Wayne Manor--which is a huge mansion in the comics and in all the other adaptations)--and instead in this serial is just a large, nice house that inexplicably has a cave under it despite it looking like a house in the middle of the suburbs.

* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: In 1949, people such as the narrator tended to pronounce some words differently, such as "ally" and "diamonds." Also Harrison, a character in the episodes "The Fatal Blast" & "Robin Meets the Wizard," says "Batman" like (BĂT mƏn) as opposed to (BĂT măn), as if Batman was the guy's last name.

* CanonImmigrant: Vicki Vale's brother Jimmy.

* NameAndName: Batman and Robin

* PlotTwist: [[spoiler:The series had been hinting strongly that the wheelchair-ridden Professor, who used some device to make himself walk normally, was the Wizard. It was his valet's twin brother instead.]]

* TechnoWizard: The Wizard of course

* AWizardDidIt: Literally, except not.

The sequel to Franchise/{{Batman}}'s film debut, the 1943 movie serial ''Film/{{The Batman|Serial}}'', ''Batman and Robin'' was released in 1949 by Creator/ColumbiaPictures and served as a sequel serial, consisting of fifteen chapters in a similar way as the original. Creator/RobertLowery played Batman, while Creator/JohnnyDuncan played Robin. Supporting players included Creator/JaneAdams as Vicki Vale and veteran character actor Creator/LyleTalbot as Commissioner Gordon.

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