Trivia / The Batman Adventures

• Actor Allusion: Issue #19 has a play starring K. Conroy. This comic book is based on a cartoon where Kevin Conroy voices Batman.
• Executive Veto: The Holiday Special has a scene where Clayface is revealed in a crowded shopping mall and everyone starts running around in a panic. Bruce Timm had intended to have Barbara Gordon, with no one paying attention to her, change into her Batgirl costume in the middle of the crowd, but DC said no way. (He had actually lifted the idea from an old Supergirl comic.)
• Recursive Adaptation: A comic based on a TV series based on a comic. And occasionally, the animated series would adapt issues of this comic.
• Technology Marches On:
  • Before the cancelation in 2004 of Batman Adventures (2003), it's revealed that Riddler created a prototype cellphone that's described as also being a video camera and a portable computer, and the marketing of which will potentially make Edward Nygma a multibillionaire. Hilarious in Hindsight that what he developed is what in real life became smartphones.
  • The Adventures Continue, which came out more than two decades after The Animated Series ended, and more than 15 years since the previous spinoff comic was cancelled, includes the Bat Team using aerial drones for search & surveillance.
• Sequel Gap: A 16-year one between Batman Adventures (which ended in 2004) and The Adventures Continue (which launched in 2020).
• What Could Have Been:
  • Go to the Toon Zone forums, dig up Ty Templeton and Dan Slott's old posts about the ideas they never got to use in Batman Adventures due to its cancellation, then find a good corner to weep bitterly into.
  • One particular idea is that had the Red Hood arc been resolved, the Red Hood's true identity would've been revealed as Andrea Beaumont's mother Victoria Beaumont. When The Adventure Continue did eventually resolve the Red Hood arc, they did not go with Victoria, but instead, the Red Hood's identity would be revealed as Jason Todd, the former second Robin, just like in the mainline comics and other adaptations.
  • In addition, Victoria Beaumont was going to be married to Warren Powers, the father of Derek Powers from Batman Beyond, thus making Andrea Derek's stepsister.
• Write Who You Know: The comic occasionally featured a group of comedy villains called the Threatening Three (The Perfesser, Mr. Nice, and Mastermind), who were based on real-world superhero comics creators Denny O'Neil, Archie Goodwin, and Mike Carlin, all of whom had edited the main-canon Batman comics at different times. Gotham Adventures added a villain named Kim, based off writer Kelley Puckett (who had himself written the final story featuring the Threatening Three, Gotham Adventures #13). Puckett can also be seen in issue #16 of The Batman Adventures, being fired by then-editor Scott Peterson, along with several other members of the TBA creative team.^note Mike Parobeck, Rick Burchett, Rick Taylor, Tim Harkins, and Darren Vincenzo.

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