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Alright, I’ve gotta say it straight up… I LOVED these three episodes.

This run of Batman: The Brave and the Bold has been way more fun than I expected, and these episodes were an absolute blast from start to finish. Big energy, wild characters, and just pure comic-book fun the whole way through.

Quick heads up on the format: this was originally planned as a double, but I completely forgot that episodes 12–13 are actually a two-part arc (someone did tell me 😅). Rather than stopping mid-story, we just went with the flow and turned this into a triple episode reaction so everything lands properly.

Enjoy the full two-parter plus the extra episode, and as always, I’m really curious to hear what you thought about this arc and the show overall so far.

Drop your thoughts below and enjoy the ride!

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Chandler Buchanan

So to clear things up, Red Hood was Joker’s identity before he became the Joker. When Batman first encountered him, he was robbing ACE Chemicals in the suit and red helmet when he took a tumble into the acid. Jason Todd later takes the Red Hood mantle as an ironic allusion to the villain who had killed him.

KrakenKing

The Royal Flush Gang (Ace, King, Queen, Jack, Ten) have had a long a strange history with many distinct appearances. Traditionally they’re a group of tech based villains in all black and white (Ace even being a super strong android) who are led by King and sometimes benefacted by Amos Fortune. Their first appearance in the old DCAU was in fact in Batman Beyond, but they also got a retroactive appearance via a past iteration of themselves in Justice League Unlimited. This Western version seems to have been simply a way to change them up and give Jonah Hex some rivals to fight. Jonah Hex was sold to a native tribe at the age of 13 by his abusive, alcoholic father in 1851. The chief of the tribe actually took Hex in as his own, but his adoptive brother grew jealous. When Hex was 16, his brother snapped over a girl and he mortally scarred Hex, leaving him for dead. Hex was rescued by cavalrymen hunting native scalps, but they end up shooting him after Hex tried to defend two native children from them. He nursed back to help by a trapper, but found his tribe to be long gone. Hex ends up enlisting with the army of the Confederacy to defend his home, but finds it hard to fight abolitionists due to his own morals. He surrenders his fort, a botched massacre happens, he’s labeled as a turncoat and traitor in the South. Skipping over some other important stuff, he becomes a feared bounty hunter and anti-hero. The Top (Roscoe Dillon) is a Flash villain who spins real good, enough said. Master Wong Fei is actually based upon the real world Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-hung, which is pretty awesome! The Terrible Trio (Fox, Vulture, Shark) have had their own strange in brief history in the comics. Traditionally they’re a trio of rich young men who are bored with simple rich life and choose to turn to petty crime for thrills and fun, simple as that (they even had a BTAS episode. This version is heavily modified to make them more interesting for the story, though as Wong Fei said, the reason they became students in the first place was still just thrill seeking. Bronze Tiger (Benjamin “Ben” Turner) has been both a villain and an anti-hero throughout his history and has been involved with both the League of Assassins and the Suicide Squad. He is recognized as one of the greatest fighters in the world. This was a VERY fun adaptation of the Crisis on Two Earths story, though it’s unfortunate that Owlman was the only leading member of Earth-3’s Crime Syndicate (Ultraman, Super Woman, Power Ring, Johnny Quick, etc), but the embargo on Superman and Wonder Woman this first season made it basically impossible. Owlman is normally known as Thomas Wayne Jr., the older brother of Bruce on Earth-3 who, after witnessing his parents’ demise (sometimes orchestrated by himself or the Court of Owls), trains to become a cold, cruel, calculating criminal. The Red Hood alias is a major part of Joker’s origin in the main continuity and comes from The Killing Joke story. He was a failing comedian who needed money for his pregnant wife, so he took up work from the mob as their latest member of the “Red Hood Gang” (pawns they used to get away with crime that they didnt want to do themselves). It just so happened that this work took him to Ace Chemicals, where Batman encountered him and mob members, and where Batman accidentally knocked him into a vat of chemicals. Batman presumed the man died, and does not know that Joker was the original Red Hood.

Anriku

You know what? I knew that about the Joker. 🤣 I'm getting old. 😭 I definitely want to go back to Batman Beyond and see them there. I vaguely remember them being a threat. Didn't know that about Owlman. Thats a nice twist!

JD Dumas

Fox, Vulture and Shark, better known as the Terrible Trio have an interesting history. In the OG comics, they were a trio of famous inventors who became criminals to prove their mental superiority to Batman. Their masks were meant to represent their respective areas of expertise (Land, Sea and Air). Although they're obscure characters, Warner Bros has adapted them several different animated series, each one taking a unique twist on the originals. In Btas, they were reimagined as spoiled millionaires who became criminals out of boredom. In The Batman, they were a trio of college students who stole Dr. Langstrom's Man-Bat formula to turn themselves into animal mutants. This series reimagined them as Kung Fu movie villains and I honestly think this is the best version of the group. Just in case you were wondering. According to the official wiki, the evil versions of Aquaman, Plastic Man and Fire are named Barracuda, Rubber Man and Blaze respectively. I've always loved how they introduced this version of Joker. First as Red Hood in the parallel world, then showing us the genuine article in the next episode, so clever. And since you asked, this Joker is voiced by Jeff Bennet, who you may recognize as the voice of Prowl in Transformers Animated. I simply adore his performance, you can tell just how much fun he had with this role. I love Mark Hammil, and the DCAU Joker will always have a place in my heart. But THIS is how the Joker should be. One last bit of trivia. The suit Owlman wears in episode 13, that's the original batsuit from the earliest Batman comics back in the 40s. Back when he was a grim and gritty, gangster fighting noir type superhero. And the 'spare' Batmobile is the OG from the 40s too.

Zak Webb

the story line you mentioned about robin being turned into a kid joker was actually Tim Drake not Jason Todd, the animated story that it happened in was the batman beyond movie which released in 2000 and Jason Todd being reveled as the "new" red hood was in 2005

Progrise16

In the original Batman comics, Joker WAS the Red Hood. In his first fight with Batman, he dove into a vat of chemicals and swam through the pipes to escape. I think you know what happens next.