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* {{Woolseyism}}:
** An unintentional example. Due to time constraints, the dub team had to work entirely from [[https://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-batman-ninja-in-english-is-so-different-from-t/1100-6458513/ a heavily summarized and poorly translated version of the script]], meaning a lot of the dub was essentially brand new dialogue, written entirely based on the animation. Most fans agree that they did a pretty good job though.
** On the other hand, what may be a by-product of this is that at least in Creator/{{Netflix}}, the English subtitles don't match the English audio track half the time; For example, Joker's early line "I have to say I've really enjoyed the sushi here" has the subtitle "I thought you'll be here, too. So I was looking for you." It's usually the same but it's a bit irritating if you use both the English audio and subtitle track.
** An unintentional example. Due to time constraints, the dub team had to work entirely from [[https://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-batman-ninja-in-english-is-so-different-from-t/1100-6458513/ a heavily summarized and poorly translated version of the script]], meaning a lot of the dub was essentially brand new dialogue, written entirely based on the animation. Most fans agree that they did a pretty good job though.
** On the other hand, what may be a by-product of this is that at least in Creator/{{Netflix}}, the English subtitles don't match the English audio track half the time; For example, Joker's early line "I have to say I've really enjoyed the sushi here" has the subtitle "I thought you'll be here, too. So I was looking for you." It's usually the same but it's a bit irritating if you use both the English audio and subtitle track.
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* {{Woolseyism}}:
** An unintentional example.{{Woolseyism}}: Due to time constraints, the dub team had to work entirely from [[https://www.gamespot.com/articles/why-batman-ninja-in-english-is-so-different-from-t/1100-6458513/ a heavily summarized and poorly translated version of the script]], meaning a lot of the dub was essentially brand new dialogue, written entirely based on the animation. Most fans agree that they did a pretty good job though. \n** On the other hand, what may be a by-product of this is that at least in Creator/{{Netflix}}, the English subtitles don't match the English audio track half the time; For example, Joker's early line "I have to say I've really enjoyed the sushi here" has the subtitle "I thought you'll be here, too. So I was looking for you." It's usually the same but it's a bit irritating if you use both the English audio and subtitle track.
** An unintentional example.
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** Creator/TonyHale plays the Joker in this feature, and would later play Dr Psycho in a Joker spin-off show.
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** Creator/TonyHale plays the Joker in this feature, and would later play Dr Psycho in a [[WesternAnimation/HarleyQuinn2019 Joker spin-off show.show]].
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** Creator/TonyHale plays the Joker in this feature, and would later play Dr Psycho in a Joker spin-off show.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: This movie takes place in feudal Japan, and involves Joker as a daimyo with combat skills equal to Batman's, Bane as a sumo wrestler, a re-purposed Arkham Asylum converted into one of several mobile mechanized castles that all combine into a gigantic battle robot, a magic flute that can command millions of monkeys to work together like a colony of ants to build a large humanoid gestalt form, a nearly endless swarm of bats that combine with the aforementioned monkeys to build an even larger (and indestructible, or at least flame-proof) giant Batman...[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and a cheerful and playful Damian Wayne who loves his pet monkey]].
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* SignatureScene: The combination of the villains' mecha castles to form a HumongousMecha is one of the most memorable and sited parts of the film.
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** [[spoiler:Joker's HumongousMecha is utterly ridiculous and insane, especially given it has a hot air balloon for a head, but given it's the ''Joker's'', who would expect anything else?]]
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** [[spoiler:Joker's HumongousMecha is utterly ridiculous and insane, especially given it has a hot air balloon for a head, but given it's the ''Joker's'', ''Joker's'' and he's acting as the BigBad of an anime movie, who would expect anything else?]]
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* MagnificentBastard:
** Gorilla Grodd is an ingenious primate supervillain bent on conquest. Initially planning to use his Quake Engine to displace Gotham's villains in time and leave the city open for him to conquer, Grodd quickly adapts after Batman's interference leaves Grodd himself trapped in Feudal Japan with the rest of the villains, gaining the loyalty of an army of monkeys and secretly providing each of the other villains with the means to build mecha-fortresses. Manipulating Batman into helping him usurp Joker's army and resources, Grodd backstabs the Dark Knight and reveals that he has already courted an alliance with Two-Face, setting himself up as Japan's most powerful warlord. After easily anticipating Two-Face's betrayal and besting the other villains, Grodd reveals his masterstroke: the technology he provided allows him to control the other villains' minds, and, using their mechas, Grodd plans to conquer Japan and reshape history to his liking. After his plan is hijacked by the Joker and Grodd is saved by Batman, he shows his gratitude by saving Robin's life and providing Batman with the means to defeat Joker.
** [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] is, as always, Batman's chaotic and unpredictable arch-enemy. Transported to Feudal Japan by Grodd's Quake Engine, Joker quickly becomes Japan's most powerful warlord, planning to conquer the country and turn it into "a land of needless suffering and pain". Upon Batman's arrival, Joker easily predicts the Dark Knight's attempt to spy on him and proves to be a capable fighter, using a his own skills and back-up to drive Batman off. When Batman attacks his fortress with the Batmobile, Joker reveals that he has turned his castle into a giant mecha that he uses to destroy Batman's vehicle and weapons, as well as having Harley Quinn pose as a threatened bystander to trick Batman into leaving himself vulnerable. After being bested by a team-up between Grodd and Batman, Joker seemingly kills himself and Harley only to reveal that they have [[MemoryGambit hypnotised themselves into an amnesiac state to trick Batman into disregarding them as a threat, all while farming a plant that restores their memories after blooming]]. Joker then hijacks Grodd's master plan before nearly defeating Batman in a final duel.
** Gorilla Grodd is an ingenious primate supervillain bent on conquest. Initially planning to use his Quake Engine to displace Gotham's villains in time and leave the city open for him to conquer, Grodd quickly adapts after Batman's interference leaves Grodd himself trapped in Feudal Japan with the rest of the villains, gaining the loyalty of an army of monkeys and secretly providing each of the other villains with the means to build mecha-fortresses. Manipulating Batman into helping him usurp Joker's army and resources, Grodd backstabs the Dark Knight and reveals that he has already courted an alliance with Two-Face, setting himself up as Japan's most powerful warlord. After easily anticipating Two-Face's betrayal and besting the other villains, Grodd reveals his masterstroke: the technology he provided allows him to control the other villains' minds, and, using their mechas, Grodd plans to conquer Japan and reshape history to his liking. After his plan is hijacked by the Joker and Grodd is saved by Batman, he shows his gratitude by saving Robin's life and providing Batman with the means to defeat Joker.
** [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] is, as always, Batman's chaotic and unpredictable arch-enemy. Transported to Feudal Japan by Grodd's Quake Engine, Joker quickly becomes Japan's most powerful warlord, planning to conquer the country and turn it into "a land of needless suffering and pain". Upon Batman's arrival, Joker easily predicts the Dark Knight's attempt to spy on him and proves to be a capable fighter, using a his own skills and back-up to drive Batman off. When Batman attacks his fortress with the Batmobile, Joker reveals that he has turned his castle into a giant mecha that he uses to destroy Batman's vehicle and weapons, as well as having Harley Quinn pose as a threatened bystander to trick Batman into leaving himself vulnerable. After being bested by a team-up between Grodd and Batman, Joker seemingly kills himself and Harley only to reveal that they have [[MemoryGambit hypnotised themselves into an amnesiac state to trick Batman into disregarding them as a threat, all while farming a plant that restores their memories after blooming]]. Joker then hijacks Grodd's master plan before nearly defeating Batman in a final duel.
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* ShockingMoments: Many were shocked to see Batman anime movie in general, and the sheer awesomeness of the first trailer.
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* ShockingMoments: Many were shocked to see a Batman anime movie in general, and the sheer awesomeness of the first trailer.
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** Some people have admitted that the story's setting leaning so heavily on SchizoTech might perhaps be ''too'' much of a good thing, and the time travel plotline as unnecessary, preferring a more straightforward, slightly more realistic Elseworlds period piece like ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight Gotham by Gaslight]]''. "Batman in a JidaiGeki samurai story" and "Batman in a ridiculous, over-the-top HumongousMecha anime story" are both great ideas, but 80 minutes isn't quite enough to properly do ''both'' of them justice.
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** Some people have admitted that the story's The idea of Batman retold in a JidaiGeki setting leaning so heavily on SchizoTech might perhaps could be ''too'' much of a good thing, and the time travel plotline great story, as unnecessary, preferring a more straightforward, slightly more realistic shown in Elseworlds period piece stories like ''[[WesternAnimation/BatmanGothamByGaslight Gotham by Gaslight]]''. "Batman in However, the film instead makes it a JidaiGeki samurai story" time travel story where Batman and "Batman in a ridiculous, over-the-top HumongousMecha anime story" are both great ideas, but 80 minutes isn't quite enough his rogues gallery travel back to properly do ''both'' of the past, and they develop SchizoTech that lets them justice.build giant robotic castles. And while the idea of Batman as a [[SuperRobotGenre Super Robot Anime]] is ''also'' pretty great, trying to mesh it with the setting they went with didn't really work out that well.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Generally, it's pretty rare for Joker and some of the other mentally insane Arkham rogues to learn Eastern martial arts that enable them to somewhat even the odds with Batman in a fight. However, an even earlier instance of this than ''Batman Ninja'' occurred in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', where the Joker and the Penguin were AdaptationalBadass characters who were extremely proficient martial artists, with Penguin being explicitly established as having gained his fighting skills from the Far East.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: OlderThanTheyThink:
** Generally, it's pretty rare for Joker and some of the other mentally insane Arkham rogues to learn Eastern martial arts that enable them to somewhat even the odds with Batman in a fight. However, an even earlier instance of this than ''Batman Ninja'' occurred in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', where the Joker and the Penguin were AdaptationalBadass characters who were extremely proficient martial artists, with Penguin being explicitly established as having gained his fighting skills from the Far East.
** Odd personality shift aside, one of the issues people had with Damian in the movie was him having a monkey sidekick. In the comics, Damian was an animal lover and went as far as adopting lost animals into the Bat-Family. He even adopted a cow at one point.
** Generally, it's pretty rare for Joker and some of the other mentally insane Arkham rogues to learn Eastern martial arts that enable them to somewhat even the odds with Batman in a fight. However, an even earlier instance of this than ''Batman Ninja'' occurred in ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'', where the Joker and the Penguin were AdaptationalBadass characters who were extremely proficient martial artists, with Penguin being explicitly established as having gained his fighting skills from the Far East.
** Odd personality shift aside, one of the issues people had with Damian in the movie was him having a monkey sidekick. In the comics, Damian was an animal lover and went as far as adopting lost animals into the Bat-Family. He even adopted a cow at one point.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** Catwoman teases Grodd about eating a banana, calling it '[[StopBeingStereotypical rather cliche]].' Grodd's response?
---> '''Grodd''': Says the cat burglar in the cat costume.
** The fact that after Joker commandeers Grodd's fortress to add to his CombiningMecha, he abruptly drapes a balloon tarp with his face over the command deck to give the robot his own personal touch.
** Catwoman teases Grodd about eating a banana, calling it '[[StopBeingStereotypical rather cliche]].' Grodd's response?
---> '''Grodd''': Says the cat burglar in the cat costume.
** The fact that after Joker commandeers Grodd's fortress to add to his CombiningMecha, he abruptly drapes a balloon tarp with his face over the command deck to give the robot his own personal touch.
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* FridgeBrilliance: ''Why'' was Gorilla Grodd in this movie? Well, RuleOfCool is one reason certainly, but looking into it deeper there is another reason. Joker is clearly the movie's version of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga, he is even called by the same epitaph as him, ''Dairoukuten Maou''[[note]]the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven[[/note]]. Nobunaga's right-hand man, who succeeded Nobunaga in uniting all of Japan, was a man named Toyotomi Hideyoshi, whom Nobunaga nicknamed Monkey. Grodd fills Hideyoshi's role in the movie, so they had a [[EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys literal Monkey]], play Monkey!
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* FridgeBrilliance: ''Why'' was Gorilla Grodd in this movie? Well, RuleOfCool is one reason certainly, but looking into it deeper there is another reason. Joker is clearly the movie's version of UsefulNotes/OdaNobunaga, he is even called by the same epitaph as him, ''Dairoukuten Maou''[[note]]the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven[[/note]]. Nobunaga's right-hand man, who succeeded Nobunaga in uniting all of Japan, was a man named Toyotomi Hideyoshi, whom Nobunaga nicknamed Monkey. Grodd fills Hideyoshi's role in the movie, so they had a [[EverythingIsBetterWithMonkeys literal Monkey]], Monkey, play Monkey!
