Wild Mass Guessing for Batman (1966).
Following all this, the Newmar Catwoman returned to crime in an attempt to restore her reputation and acted as Catwoman for most of Season Two. However, constant defeats and her injuries (as well as Batman's complete disinterest in her) led to her eventual final retirement during the gap between seasons. During this time, she met the Kitt Catwoman, a gifted thief and skilled criminal in her own right. Recognizing she could no longer remain active and not wanting a repeat of the recent fiasco, she made an offer to Kitt, to let her take over the Catwoman role in exchange for a cut of the loot (the Newmar Catwoman having lost most of her ill-gotten gains due to constant imprisonment).
Kitt accepted the offer and established herself as the successor Catwoman over the next few months. While her skin color alone made it clear this wasn't the same Catwoman, word soon got around the underworld that Kitt was Newmar's chosen heiress and she quickly proved herself a worthy successor. One condition the Newmar Catwoman laid down was no flirting with Batman, but luckily the Kitt Catwoman wasn't interested in him anyway, although she might be bisexual given some of her interactions with Batgirl.
The "Catwoman" in "The Entrancing Doctor Cassandra" is the Meriwether one, still in jail after the United World fiasco. By this point, the other major villains have mostly given up caring about her, and she only joins in the breakout in the hope of getting away to a country with no extradition treaty (and as far from the other two Catwomen as possible). She's badly out of practice by this time and doesn't put up much of a fight when the plan goes pear-shaped.
- The recent animated movies seemed to be pushing this as canon, though Adam West's death has put a halt to those stories.
- This would actually explain why Batman's romantic impulses towards the Julie Newmar Catwoman faded away between TV seasons and never began with the Kitt Catwoman: he never recovered from having his heart broken by the Meriweather Catwoman, who'd made it clear in the film that she'd been duping Bruce Wayne all along!
- The Professor William McElroy / King Tut split is not the usual Jekyll & Hyde good / evil divide but more of a Clueless Boss / Psychopathic Manchild divide : Prof. McElroy is a reserved, very bookish North American expert on Egyptology and Yale professor and introvert who finds bewildering the anger of male students driven to protest and the crushes of female students, and in contrast, King Tut is loud, frequently makes wildly inaccurate claims that would likely horrify Prof. McElroy, flies from childish passion to childish passion without a moment's notice, and lusts after women but in a very childish fashion. In Real Life, nearly every scientific or scholarly expert has an inner nerd who loves to make playful nonsense in his or her field of expertise, and there is no reason Prof. McElroy would not be the same. King Tut doesn't even seem to fully understand the evil of his actions the way that The Joker or The Riddler do but simply operates off impulse in a way the very focused Prof. McElroy never would.
- This also explains why, the moment Professor McElroy becomes King Tut, he abandons Yale and New Haven — even though there is no Batman in Connecticut to stop him — and heads directly for Gotham City, a city replete with costumed criminals and with minions eager to work for them.
- Will involve Batman joining the Superfriends, complete with Wendy, Marvin, and a Superman that looks like George Reeves.
- Mostly jossed. The last issue (of the regular series; crossover minis still pop up every now and then) is basically a two-part homage to the Title Sequence, though it does do a bit of Worldbuilding by establishing that the Daily Planet, Jack Ryder, and Billy Batson all exist.
- The later Wonder Woman '77 crossover also ends with Wonder Woman broaching the idea of a Justice League, though as of this writing (September 2017) nothing's really come of it.
- Jossed. In the first episode, Bruce clearly states that his parents were murdered.
Every male villain we saw was a cold-blooded misogynist and considered the molls expendable. And why shouldn't they have? The molls usually weren't very intelligent, couldn't fight, and never did anything one of the male gang members couldn't have managed. After being captured and then escaping or being released from prison, the Joker, the Penguin, the Riddler, etc., each naturally concluded that the presence of the moll had compromised his plans, and so tracked her down and executed her as "punishment" for "causing his defeat." So why did they keep hiring new molls, you ask? Well, their profiles of insanity also included sexual perversion and sadomasochism, plus they needed a convenient "excuse" to keep killing women - an activity they all secretly enjoyed.
Suddenly, Batman's compulsion to get every moll he came across to reform takes on a new dimension of heroism. He wasn't being condescending and/or sexist. Quite the opposite: he knew that all these women were having their basic human rights violated regularly, and getting them out of a life of crime was the only surefire way to bring about true equality in Gotham (and save their lives, of course).
- This also fits with the fact that the two most competent henchwomen in the series, Lydia Lympet and Miss Bacon, were treated with enormous respect by The Bookworm and Egghead respectively and thus never turned against them. Nothing bad ever seems to have happened to Lydia (but then, The Bookworm never made a repeat appearance), and Miss Bacon disappears only because the arch-criminal Olga replaced her.
- This might be why the comic book Joker's tragic accident was transferred to the TV Mister Freeze instead.
- Come to think of it, do regular crooks even exist in this universe?! Every crook I see has a bright colorful costume, even the henchmen.
- Then why does he forget that Batman is also Bruce Wayne?
- There was one episode where his date invited him to her apartment for "cookies and milk". A sly Aside Glance from Bruce lets the grown-ups watching know that it's not that innocent.
- It would certainly go a long way to explain a few things...
- Much like how Cats Have Nine Lives, Catwoman has multiple regenerations: Her Julie Newmar form from the first two seasons regenerated into the movie's Lee Meriwether after she killed her former boss Max Schreck by tongue-kissing him through a taser while Schreck was hooked up to a high-voltage electricity box. After giving the Dynamic Duo a good runaround, Meriwether's Catwoman time-travelled to the early 2000s for reasons irrelevant and died of shock after seeing the movie allegedly based on her — only for her to regenerate as Eartha Kitt.
- Well Batman vs. Two-Face implies that the Lee Meriwether Catwoman is a separate character.
- Mr. Freeze was raised by humans and did not know his true nature until well after the accident which left him dependent on sub-zero temperatures. After fighting Batman and Robin the first time as George Sanders, Freeze eventually went mad from his frigid condition and attempted suicide, only to be regenerated as Otto Preminger. He also lasted once against the Caped Crusader before dying from a sheer heart attack from too much ham (or maybe because he went to the future and saw the box office numbers for his final big-release movie), becoming Eli Wallach.
- The Riddler we see in seasons 1 and 3, plus The Movie in between, was the Riddler's original form. Long after the series ended, Riddler eventually worked himself to death in his obsession with besting the Dark Knight, only to regenerate from Frank Gorshin to John Astin. The now-much saner but still creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky Astin!Riddler traveled back in time to 1967 — the show's second season —to see if he could accomplish what his previous incarnation could not. Because this is the Adam West series we're talking about, this went about as well as you'd expect.
- Much like how Cats Have Nine Lives, Catwoman has multiple regenerations: Her Julie Newmar form from the first two seasons regenerated into the movie's Lee Meriwether after she killed her former boss Max Schreck by tongue-kissing him through a taser while Schreck was hooked up to a high-voltage electricity box. After giving the Dynamic Duo a good runaround, Meriwether's Catwoman time-travelled to the early 2000s for reasons irrelevant and died of shock after seeing the movie allegedly based on her — only for her to regenerate as Eartha Kitt.
- Actually, they'd be more likely to see it as a harmless game — or as what we would call cosplay today — and never once realize how seriously Batman actually takes it.
- And when that failed apparently Morticia disguised herself as Marsha to do it.
- Well, she does have an aunt who is a bona fide witch!
- Given how their bosses seemingly are released from jail within months for crimes like attempted murder, the henchpeople presumably get off lighter. Therefore, the fact that they never reappear could suggest that they do reform while in prison. Lots of them do seem less evil than their bosses.
- A number of times, Commissioner Gordon or Batman make allusions to the prison warden's "successful" or "lauded" rehabilitation programs, and at least one criminal, "Ballpoint" Baxter, is shown on screen to be rehabilitated.