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Not a bad episode of BTAS! A little silly at times, but enjoyable nonetheless. I had a good time with this one. I still can’t quite put my finger on where I’ve heard the name Hugo Strange before, though! It was cool seeing Robin again, too.

Drop your thoughts in the comments below, and as always, enjoy the ride!

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DragonstarTDB5

Hugo strange is a underrated villain. This will probably be one of the only times you’ll ever see him in this version of the Batman world. Let’s just say in the Batman 2004 you’ll see him a lot more frequently.

JD Dumas

As goofy as this episode is at times, its one of my personal favorites. Hugo Strange did have a brief, nonspeaking cameo in Brave and the Bold, as a character in Alfred's fanfiction. Anyway, believe it or not, Prof. Hugo Strange was actually Batman's first recurring archenemy. Predating the Joker and Catwoman by about twelve months. In the Golden Age, he was depicted as a mad scientist who used his inventions to commit crimes. He's probably best known for creating an army of hulking zombies called the Monster Men. Strange disappeared from the comics for a while, but returned to the spotlight after the end of the Silver Age in a story arc that this episode is partially based on. In it, Strange returned to Gotham after spending years living in self-imposed exile, claiming he had proof of Batman's secret identity. He held a private auction for said proof and invited the richest criminals in town to bid for it. However, Rupert Thorne wasn't interested in paying for the intel, so he had his goons kidnap Strange and tried to beat the truth out of him. Unfortunately, Strange suffered a heart attack during the torture and Thorne had his body dumped in the river, but that wasn't the end. Sometime later, Thorne began suffering from waking nightmares. Seeing Strange's ghost whenever he was alone and hearing voices in his head telling him to kill himself. Thorne wasn't superstitious and was too arrogant to think he might be going insane. So he hired a PI who discovered the whole thing was a Scooby Doo style hoax with hidden projectors and tape recorders. Thorne deduced that they only people who knew about his involvement in Strange's death and had the resources to pull off this hoax were his henchmen, Mayor Hamilton Hill and Police Commissioner Peter Pauling. To make an already long story short, Thorne got caught red-handed trying to murder two of the most powerful people in Gotham. And as Thorne was being carted away by the cops, his life in shambles, we see Hugo Strange watching from the back of a limousine, laughing.

KrakenKing

It’s a shame that the writers clearly didn’t have much care or respect for Strange as a villain because he has such peak writing in nearly every story which he appears in. I’m glad that The Batman (2004) at least gave him the spotlight as a more reoccurring villain.

JD Dumas

Agreed. Although, I wish the final season had been handled better.

KrakenKing

I do too, but I do still think it was pretty cool for what it was.

KrakenKing

Save for a small but important cameo way later down the line.

Anriku

Definitely want to see more of him. From what Kraken told me on Discord, he is pretty damn cool despite my initial impression of him here.

Anriku

Guess we will be watching The Batman (2004) at some point. XD I want to see a better version of him.