Trivia / Batman vs. Robin

The Animated Movie

• Playing Against Type: "Weird Al" Yankovic as the Dollmaker. Famed as a kindhearted family-friendly comedian, any villainous characters he plays tend to be either comical, harmless, sympathetic, or some combination of the three. The Dollmaker has none of these traits, and fittingly Al eschews his typical clownish, exaggerated tone for a near-unrecognizable Soft-Spoken Sadist voice.
• The Other Darrin: In the French dub of Son of Batman, Nightwing was voiced by Donald Reignoux. Here, because of Reignoux being unavailable when the dub was being made, he was replaced in the role by Alexis Tomassian.
• Role Reprise:
  • Kevin Conroy reprises his "Perchance to Dream" and Batman: Arkham Asylum role as Thomas Wayne.
  • The French dub has the same role reprises as Son of Batman, with the exception of Nightwing/Dick Grayson being voiced by Alexis Tomassian in this movie instead of Donald Reignoux. However, it still counts as a role reprise, as Tomassian was also the voice of Dick in The Batman and a few other animated adaptations. Also, Thomas Wayne is voiced by Michel Vigné, reprising his role from Batman: The Brave and the Bold^note most specifically, he voiced the character in the French dubs of the series..
• Swan Song: This was David McCallum’s (Alfred) final film role as well as his final voiceover role before his death in September 2023.
• What Could Have Been:
  • In Bruce's Court Of Owls-induced nightmare where he dreams of Damian as a future Batman standing over the bodies of Bruce's allies and loved ones, originally Batgirl/Barbara Gordon and Catwoman/Selina Kyle were amongst their number. Batgirl was removed to not give away her appearance in The Stinger for Batman: Bad Blood, despite having a different design based on Batgirl of Burnside there rather than the more Young Justice (2010)-like appearance for the planned scene, but why Catwoman was removed is unclear.
  • According to James Tucker, there was going to be a credits teaser where it cut to Dollmaker’s abandoned factory and into a back room where there’s a writhing figure strapped to a gurney. It would pan over to see the Joker’s face pinned to a wall, setting up Death of the Family. He was told to cut it.

The Comic Book mini-series

• What Could Have Been: According to Bleeding Cool, the original plan for this story under the abandoned 5G initiative was different. In this iteration, Damian willingly pulled a Face–Heel Turn, feeling abandoned by Bruce's poor reaction to Alfred's death. He would end up following in Ra's al Ghul's footsteps and lead Leviathan, putting him in conflict with both new Batman Luke Fox and new Superman (and Damian's former friend) Jon Kent. The story would see Jon and Luke becoming a new World's Finest team as a result of this, though Damian's fate is unknown.

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