History Headscratchers / BewareTheBatman

** The show wants to focus on C-list villains. I think it's a good idea. The well known villains have been done to death, we've seen them so many times in cartoons and movies. Don't you think the C-listers should have the spotlight too? Don't worry, Ra's is in this series. I heard Man-Bat will make an appearance.

** The show wants to focus on C-list villains. I think it's a good idea. The well known villains have been done to death, we've seen them so many times in Batman cartoons and movies. Don't you think the C-listers should have the spotlight too? Don't worry, Ra's is in this series. I heard Man-Bat will make an appearance.

** The show wants to focus on C-list villains. I think it's a good idea. The well known villains have been done to death, we've seen them in so many Batman cartoons and movies. Don't you think the c-listers should get the spotlight too. Don't worry, Ra's is in this series, and Man-Bat will make an appearance(from what I heard).

* Now, I confess that I have yet to see even a single episode of this show and I really don't know much about it. But I took a peek at the characters page and I saw something very disturbing. Except for maybe Anarky (who I guess is a big deal in the comics? I confess, all my knowledge of Batman comes from adaptions, mainly Batman: TAS, Justice League, and Batman: TBAB), I don't see any A-list villains here! Where's The Joker? Where's Mister Freeze? Where's the Penguin, Harley Quin, Poison Ivy, Scarface, Killer Croc, Two-Face, Scarecrow and all of the other villains that usually are the reason people get into Batman in the first place? Heck, even The Batman (a show I have mixed opinions about at best) managed to get those guys, so what the hell happened here? And if it's some kind of licencing issue, how the hell does that work when this is a DC made show? I apologize if my tone comes across as a bit inflammatory but this is beyond my understanding without more information. I think the reason behind this, if any, should kind of be put in the front page at the top before the trope list. Kinda a big deal when a Batman cartoon doesn't have, you know, the major Batman villains.

* Now, I confess that I have yet to see even a single episode of this show and I really don't know much about it. But I took a peek at the characters page and I saw something very disturbing. Except for maybe Anarky (who I guess is a big deal in the comics? I confess, all my knowledge of Batman comes from adaptions, mainly Batman: TAS, Justice League, and Batman: TBAB), I don't see any A-list villains here! Where's The Joker? Where's Mister Freeze? Where's the Penguin, Harley Quin, Poison Ivy, Scarface, Killer Croc, Two-Face, Scarecrow and all of the other villains that usually are the reason people get into Batman in the first place? Heck, even The Batman (a show I have mixed opinions about at best) managed to get those guys, so what the hell happened here? And if it's some kind of licencing issue, how the hell does that work when this is a DC made show?
I apologize if my tone comes across as a bit inflammatory but this is beyond my understanding without more information. I think the reason behind this, if any, should kind of be put in the front page at the top before the trope list. Kinda a big deal when a Batman cartoon doesn't have, you know, the major Batman villains.

* Now,I confess that I have yet to see even a single episode of this show and I really don't know much about it. But I took a peek at the characters page and I saw something very disturbing. Except for maybe Anarky (who I guess is a big deal in the comics? I confess, all my knowledge of Batman comes from adaptions, mainly Batman: TAS, Justice League, and Batman: TBAB), I don't see any A-list villains here! Where's The Joker? Where's Mister Freeze? Where's the Penguin, Harley Quin, Poison Ivy, Scarface, Killer Croc, Two-Face, Scarecrow and all of the other villains that usually are the reason people get into Batman in the first place? Heck, even The Batman (a show I have mixed opinions about at best) managed to get those guys, so what the hell happened here? And if it's some kind of licencing issue, how the hell does that work when this is a DC made show?

** It's a DC cartoon on Saturday mornings in the 2010s. That's why.

* Why was this show put on hiatus?

*** Also he is an accounting genius. Who says he didn't siphon off money to pay freelance thugs to set up his equipment for him that left when the job was done?

** Some Batman villains from the comics and other media I think were able to do all sorts of grand schemes without the aid of random mooks. The Clock King from the WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries comes to mind, who in his debut episode did all sorts of crazy stuff all by himself. Humpty Dumpty probably most likely falls into the same category as those type of Batman villains.

** Besides the redesign the machine guns made me think of the ones in Anime/CodeGeass. The design is similar, and the [[http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Small_Arms?file=Britannian_Troops.png assault rifles in Code Geass]] have a [[http://codegeass.wikia.com/wiki/Small_Arms?file=Firearms_-_Ammo_Clip.png side loading magazine]]. I don't know if that much thought went into the redesign but I thought the comparison was notable.

** It's safe to assume Humpty had the logistics prepared in advance. All he had to do was stuff them in the suits then deliver them.

* In "Broken", how did Humpty Dumpty do all this planning and work by himself? With the plans he has it should have required more people to do a job like this. He kidnaps all these people, build all these bombs suits and set them around Gotham without causing suspicions while doing it all in one night.

** The guns had to be hastily redesigned after the Aurora shooting, so they probably didn't have time to make them all logical.

* Here is something that has been bothering me. Each weapon has been given a Sci-Fi look but still shoots bullets and all that, but that's not the thing that bothers me. The thing that bothers me is ammunition and magazines. With the pistols and the shotgun, fine, those can easily be explained away. Except for the Machine Gun designs, there appears to be no logical way to even have a magazine in that thing. Is this just BottomlessMagazines to the max?

* In toxic why do the guards shoot at Metamorpho when he's carrying Sapphire? That's their boss's daughter! He's not gonna be happy is they shoot her.

** I thought it was some sort of historical landmark or at least a theme building for a park.

* Also from Broken, where the heck did Humpty Dumpty's ''castle'' come from? It looks enormous, is completely empty and is apparently within driving distance from Gotham? The show doesn't even try to explain it, Batman sees the model of the castle Humpty's built in his temporary hideout and deduces that's where he's taken them, and the very next scene is the Batmobile driving up to the actual castle itself. Is the country around Gotham known for its number of large, extravagant castles?

** He's on the clock. Gordon had been kidnapped and he worked with what he had.

* In "Broken", Batman figures out the frequency to disarm the bomb suits, but employs it using single Batarangs, apparently for the purpose of forced drama when he has to hit individual suits to find Gordon and Whale. Why exactly would he not make some kind of area-of-effect emitter that could hit more than one suit at once? It's not just a "hindsight is 20/20" thing--a sonic emitter is way more likely to come to mind than making single Batarangs.

*** This might make sense if it weren't for the occasional random pedestrians and other civilians who do show up and there are way less of them then there should be. The cab driver from the Humpty Dumpty episode is a great example. Aside from the cab driver, Batman and the guy in the statue there is no one else in sight and you can see ten blocks or more down the street. Gotham is supposed to be a New York sized metropolitan city and yet it has way fewer people in it than you would expect.

** It's a dangerous city invariably depicted in the middle of the night. Naturally there aren't that many people around in the regions that Batman frequents, besides the people he targets.

[[AC:Where is everybody?]]

Seriously there is virtually nobody around the city.
* It's a dangerous city invariably depicted in the middle of the night. Naturally there aren't that many people around in the regions that Batman frequents, besides the people he targets.

Seriously there is virtually nobody around the city.

** Magpie is a CloudCuckooLander, her thought route is bound to make very little sense. And from what I caught, Magpie was attemmpting to transfer Ravencroft's memories back to herself (in other words, sucking out the memories of the poor woman), so Batman, knowing the entire problem (that Magpie wasn't Ravencroft to begin with), smashed the machine in pieces just in case Magpie managed to knock him out or something similar. Batman was relying on his BreakingSpeech (and his fists, as it is later shown) to make Magpie surrender.