Batman: The Animated Series "On Leather Wings" and "Christmas with the Joker"

The DC animated Universe was, and is, the greatest television "universe" of all time. Period. No question. Star Trek never was (and never will be) as consistently as good, CSI will never do crossovers like the DCAU did. The shortlived "Marvel Animated Universe" of the 90's was too sterilized and censored from the source material to be as good. But from the opening of Batman: the Animated Series to the end of Justice League Unlimited, the DC animated universe was always good. Their are no 'bad' episodes of DC animated, only ones that are alot less fun to watch then others (but still a hoot.). The DCAU is the reason that I prefer DC comics to Marvel.

The reason why the DCAU was so great was probably because it required little to watch. All you needed to know was the basic idea and origins of the heros, sometimes you didn't even need that much. For those of the people who knew next to nothing about the DC characters, it would usually only require watching the opening of the show to understand what was going on.

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Batman:TAS episode “On Leather Wings”

Body Count:0

Number of Mano-A-Mano Fights:1

1.Batman/Man-Bat I: A aerial flight through Gotham City that ends when Batman forces Man-Bat to run into a wall. Batman wins.

Number of Kisses: 0

Cameos (particularly of the gratuitous variety):

Geographic Coordinates given:0

MVP: Batman, of Course.

LVP: Renee Montoya, a less then stellar debut for Gotham's resident Latina cop. She gets knock-out gassed by Batman while reading a book called “P.S. Your Dog is Gone.”

Quote of the Episode: “I would say, sir, that we have ourselves an incongruity?” “Incongruity, Alfred? He's lying, and I'm going to find out why.” -Alfred and Batman

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Batman:TAS episode “Christmas with the Joker”:

Body Count:0

Number of Mano-A-Mano Fights: 0 (just chases and group fights)

Number of Kisses: 0

Cameos (particularly of the gratuitous variety): 0

Geographic Coordinates given:0

MVP: Batman, obviously.

LVP: Harvey Bullock. Poor guy ends up being the “Baby” in Joker's “family”.

Quote of the Episode: “It's never easy with the Joker.” -Batman