Problemwoodchuck t1_isv5100 wrote on October 18, 2022 at 10:43 PM

Reply to comment by CaptainChewbacca in Return to Gotham: In Its Scariest Episodes, Batman: The Animated Series Went “Over the Edge” by PetyrDayne

Heart of Ice still holds up too. They made Freeze into a tremendously sympathetic, complex villain.

thechilipepper0 t1_iswb847 wrote on October 19, 2022 at 4:10 AM

Didn’t they retroactively make that story canon since it was so good?

GPopovich t1_isx4a7h wrote on October 19, 2022 at 10:29 AM

A lot of stuff from btas became canon in the Batman franchise. Harley Quinn is a big example.
Killing off Bruce timms dcau is one of the biggest mistakes DC ever made. It could honestly rival MCU in some regards if it was given the resources

dragunityag t1_isxsncj wrote on October 19, 2022 at 2:13 PM

Even their new DCAU stuff is pretty good, has some flaws but is much better than the DCU.

DMPunk t1_isx7hof wrote on October 19, 2022 at 11:08 AM

Yeah, Freeze was just a generic cold-themed villain before that episode, and after it came out, they folded that origin into the comics

Exotic-Amphibian-655 t1_isx3p35 wrote on October 19, 2022 at 10:22 AM

I wasn’t an avid watcher of the show as a kid, but this was the episode that really stuck with me.