What 'Beware the Batman' Needs

BTW, Gregg, what did you think of "Toxic" since you didn't review it?

I think the most awesome thing for the show would be to have season one lead up to a showdown between Batman and the League of Shadows and have season two begin with the whole scene from Snyder's Batman #0 with the Red Hood gang and have Black Mask be controlling them and all of their movements. The premiere could then end with a kidnapped ACE Chemicals worker being forced to advise the Red Hood Gang on how to go about their big ACE Chemicals heist.The worker then falls into the acid after Batman and the GCPD intervene.After that a "Two-Face" story arc happens with Black Mask and his right hand man Rupert Thorne attempting to take down DA Harvey Dent,whose girlfriend is Pamela Isley.Then throughout season two there could be a lot of Joker foreshadowing until the season 2 finale.Sorry,I was rambling. :)

Replace Batman with Nightwing

I personally don't like the CG type animation it has going for it, I'd prefer something animated like Young Justice. I'd also like to see more iconic villains make an appearance. Also as this thing said introduce more characters of the Bat family, and make them more of staples of the show.

I know they won't fix the art, but I felt character development was extremely lacking. Though I did like seeing Katana. I just wish they'd try making a Batman show that was based around the comics, and even used the same costumes as the current comics. Even if they'd have to make the show's target demographic towards teenagers instead of little kids. I think they have enough Batman titles, and it's gone far enough that between all the franchises they could make an interesting show. Or at the very least set it in the same universe as the current Comics perhaps tie it in somehow. I think that would help make people slightly more interested, and it could help sale the comics, as well as whatever merchandise.

The lack of sales for YJ toys was always this: Lack of quality and effort.

If you can't sell Batman and Superman toys, you (Mattel) are the problem.

Even though it was based on the sidekicks, the mentors played a big role.

Anyways, I've been pleasantly surprised by Beware the Batman. Here's hoping they keep it up.

Bring back The Joker or bloody bring the underrated Riddler turn him into a computer hacker. And least Catwoman should show up; she could at least add some humour!!

It needs a joker and a bane and the rest, this show is ok but the episode toxic that was rubbish, who was that fake hulk

Here are the characters who I think never got their time to shine and would fit well into the show.

RoadRunner

He could steal the batmobile and sell it at a drag racing tournament.

Tiger-Shark

He's like the bond-villain of Bat-villains. sometimes all you need is someone to lower you slowly into a group of hungry sea creatures.

All so I think it's fun that his minions talk for him.

The Dealer

Man-Bat

definitely underutilized and would look cool in 3D

Bane

I know he just starred in the Dark Knight Rises but we have barely ever seen him in the animated Batman series. It might be best to strike while the iron is hot. Plus it would be cool to see the whole knightfall storyline.

Azrael

Speaking of the Kinghtfall storyline...

This guy. I have no idea what his deal is... and that's kind of the point of the show, to use obscure characters that are still cool.

Flamingo

I'll admit this character was a little gratuitous for my taste, but he has a great look and they put a nice spin on Prof. Pyg.

Hugo Strange

Talk about underutilized.

I hope they put an interesting spin on the character and not just make him Lex Luthor with a beard.

Court of Owls

Ehhh Ehhh?

Hush

He is a fan favorite character that hasn't gotten a break on the big or small screen.

Wrath and Scorn

It would be cool to have an anti-batman especially if Katana becomes the robin character.

Mad Hatter

Campy and Visually interesting. Perfect.

The Chemical Crime Syndicate

It would be a shame not to revitalize Batman's first foes.

Riddler has been strongly hinted to appear near the end of the season.

Also, this show has enough humor.

It still hurts me to remember Spectacular Spider-Man was cancelled.

It's like every freaking Spider-Man cartoon ends in some sort of cliff-hanger. I mean, what the heck?

To be canceled.

Seriously this show needs to be canceled enough is enough already.

You know cancelling it won't bring anything you like back, right?

Not to mention its cancellation would mean there's no more action shows with continuity besides Korra, and that one is "OK" at best.

It needs to be canceled.

I couldn't agree with this list more, you guys hit the nail on the head. In fact, I really think they would doom this show if they didn't at least have the Joker, he goes hand in hand with Batman. People weren't all that excited for another Batman show, but its here, its not that bad, and seeing a new version of Batman isn't really complete without the Joker. And the Anarky character was DUMB, boring, and had the EXACT SAME BODY MODEL AS BATMAN!!!!! Did anyone else notice that?? The Anarky character was the worst episode so far and the least interesting bat-villain I have ever seen and felt like they were trying to rip-off/replace the Joker and I almost decided to quit watching the show after that, luckily they introduced the League of assassins and hinted at Ra's al Ghul which gives me hope they will wise up and use some classic bat-villains, though I totally respect using lesser known villains, just don't exclude that classic ones that everyone wants to see as much as they want to see Batman.

People actually like this garbage of a show?

You can't have a successful Batman show without his number one enemy. Batman will never be truly Batman until the Joker comes along. So, until this character is introduced I will refuse to watch this garbage of a show, and just stick with Avengers Assemble, which dominates this show and every other comic book show out right now.

I don't watch this show, because I can't get past the visuals. I'm not saying they need to change or that CGI is ruining our world. Simply put I don't like the look and it has turned me off of the show completely. I'm not going to speak for others who either dig it or it doesn't cause a problem. I think that is totally fine, but if I'm going to answer the question for myself, it really is that simple.

WOW

You totally hit the nail on the head!

This is what the show needs!

Here's what I think whenever I hear the name of the show. In 2005 or whatever year the cartoon 'The Batman' came out, the creators wanted to make a new Batman cartoon, but wanted its name to differentiate it from previous animated versions. They didn't want to spend too much time putting too much thought into it, so they just slapped the word 'The' in front of the name 'Batman'. Now, in 2013, a nearly identical situation happened and someone remembered what they did last time and decided to just add another word to the beginning. Someone thought up the word 'Beware' and they just ran with it. Seriously, there's gotta be a better way to name shows then to add word to the beginning of the title. I get that they want to differentiate their show from others, but is it really necessary to do it this way. How about keeping it simple like 'Batman's Computer-Generated Adventures'?

Anyway, before this show debuted, I decided not to got out of my way to watch the first episode because, I figured it would either be so sub-par to previous cartoons and/or get cancelled prematurely like those same previous cartoons. I watched the debut episode anyway just for something to do and decided to continue not to go out of my way to watch it because it really wasn't anything special. So the only episodes I've seen are that one and the Humpty Dumpty one. But the feeling I get is that the writers are trying to make this a clone of Batman: TAS storytelling-style-wise and completely missing the mark. It doesn't even measure up to 'The Batman' which had a very consistent formula for their stories. This show, from what I've seen, is garbage. I haven't seen any Avengers Assemble or the second season of Ultimate Spider-Man, but I saw the first season of Ultimate Spider-Man and I think it might be slightly better than this. That's how unspectacular this show is. Maybe I'm just spoiled from exposure to quality cartoons like Young Justice, JLU, and Avengers: EMH.

Now I remember the Batman: TBatB cartoon originally was not supposed to use the Joker, Robin, or Superman and maybe a few other characters. Toward the beginning of the show, I had to stop watching it due to other things going on in my life, so I never got to this point really. But I feel from what I've seen of the later parts of that show's run that the dynamic of the show completely changed after they introduced those characters.It became all about the JLI and featuring the entire DCU in each episode rather than Batman teaming up with one or two other characters to take down the villain of the week. It's like once the door was open, it couldn't close and and more and more kept coming out. I'm not going to speculate on whether this change in dynamic improved, worsened, or simply maintained the quality of the show. That is up to different peoples' opinions. However, my point is that if they change what characters are allowed in this show mid-way through, it will change the show's dynamic. Based on the low quality of the show so far, that may be a very good thing. However, there's always the chance that it will make it even worse. I've never cared for the Joker anyway.

This show is whack!

>We're enjoying the Dark Knight's latest show so far

Are you? Are you really? Because I'm getting a vibe that you guys are just saying that because you're afraid of backlash on having an actual opinion.

No, because then they would be doing something like this to Ultimate Spider-Man,Hulk and the Agents of SMASH, or Avengers Assemble.

@herokiller12344 said:

If you've read our reviews of the episodes, then you'd see that yes, we are enjoying the show. This may be baffling to you if feel otherwise -- which clearly you do-- but as you can see in the comments, clearly we're not the only ones who find the show to be alright. So, the notion that we're enjoying the program is hardly far-fetched and you appear to be the only one getting this "vibe." Are we loving it? No, and obviously we think it needs to make some improvements... which is... you know, the point of this article. Just because we like something you don't doesn't mean it's not an "actual opinion." This really shouldn't need to be stated.

But yeah, to claim we're saying we enjoy it because we're afraid people will disagree? Well, all I can really say to that is the following:

What about Ultimate Spider-Man? And are you forgetting the movie-verse? DC knows that Marvel has them beaten movie-wise, and that their last chance in media is cartoons WHICH THEY'RE FAILING AT. What I can't get over is the animation. Alfred looks like a beefed up Lex Luthor, Bats and Bruce have different models, and Bats' head looks like that of a cat

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You're doing it wrong.