The Louis Pasteur of Junkiedom ([info]calamityjon) wrote,
2007-08-07 07:25:00
I almost forgot, on Sunday night I ended up seeing possibly the greatest thing to ever have been on a Super Friends episode; The Scarecrow was messing around, using his Fear Gas (or actually some sort of strobelight plastic skull that hypnotized people into experiencing messed-up exaggerations of their deepest fears, BUT I DIGRESS) to rob banks and generally inconvenience a lot of people all over the place. At some point, the Batman gets a face-full of Fear Strobes and starts flashing back to the night his parents were killed.

For a kiddie cartoon episode, it was actually kind of dark.

Anyway, the most amazing thing came right after the first time that the Scarecrow clocks Batman with the Fear Laser or whatever. Batman ends up STANDING STOCK STILL in an alleyway, surrendering to total shock and bewilderment, as rigid as a statue. In pursuit of the Scarecrow, Robin turns the corner to see Batman paralyzed with fear - he walks up to him and gently touches Batman on the shoulder, asking "Batman, what's wrong," and then ...

...then there's a closeup on Batman's shocked, terrified, stock-still face, and suddenly - HE ERUPTS INTO WILD TEARS. And this was from when Hanna-Barbera was hiring out to Korea for the animation, so it's totally Lupin III-era Japanese style roaring rivers of unbidden tears, just rolling in a broken faucet of weeping. IT WAS SO REWARDING, he's in his mask, just standing there and WHAM, HERE COME THE WATERWORKS. Then he turns on his heel and runs so amazingly desperately fast away from Robin, like so embarrassed he couldn't stand it. NO ONE UNDERSTANDS EMO BATMAN.

It was the least Batman thing I have ever seen Batman do. I tried to capture the spirit of the moment as best I could ...



Poor Emo Batman.




Tags: little batman, sketchblog

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[info]roninspoon

August 7 2007, 14:42:05 UTC 4 years ago

Bat Blog: June 12th 1972,

That dick the Scarecrow socked me with a fear lazer. it reminded me that my parents were dead. Man, that sucked, and 2 make it worse, Robin just had to come along and try to help. Why can't he just butt out! I couldn't take it, I had to run away. This is a poem I wrote about the whole mess.

Bats
In the darkest muddy gorge
of my black
and twisted soul
Nothing stops the pain and misery
Bats!
Love died in that alley
BATS!
I flap my wings to fly away
away
from the loss
and the fear
and the
BATS!!

I think Ima just gonna hang out in my cave and listen to Deep Purple until I feel better.

[info]calamityjon

August 7 2007, 16:35:07 UTC 4 years ago

I was HOPING someone would do Emo Bat Poetry!

[info]calamityjake

August 8 2007, 11:20:43 UTC 4 years ago

Better than my version!

[info]sirive

August 7 2007, 14:51:54 UTC 4 years ago

That was the first time Batman's origin was ever shown on TV or film.

[info]archaica

August 7 2007, 14:55:50 UTC 4 years ago

Man, I remember that episode. That was DARK.

[info]calamityjon

August 7 2007, 16:34:46 UTC 4 years ago

Right, like when Wonder Woman and robin were all but crucified on scarecrow posts and Batman was having a screaming yellow zonker of a Nam flashback and Scarecrow's all sending crows around to kind of make life even more difficult for them? KIND OF GRIM.

[info]archaica

August 7 2007, 16:58:24 UTC 4 years ago

Then there was the "Death of Superman" episode from the season where they had Cyborg and Firestorm. Oddly affecting, it was.

[info]calamityjon

August 7 2007, 17:15:04 UTC 4 years ago

Right, it had such a legitimately somber mood to it - I wrote about it when I first caught it on Boomerang, and the really eerie Superman Robot angle they took with the story ...

[info]archaica

August 7 2007, 17:17:21 UTC 4 years ago

It's like, yeah, even little kids watching it know they're not REALLY going to kill off Superman permanent-like, but they played it so straight that it worked.

[info]brandiweed

August 8 2007, 05:45:02 UTC 4 years ago

The episode, if my Google searches were any indication, is from the Galactic Guardian shows with Cyborg and Firestorm. It sounds pretty interesting, and I think if I'd seen it as a kid I'd've been impressed (I was graduating high school around the time, though, and the Superfriends shows I saw were the goofy dippy ones with annoying teenage sidekicks and Random Ethnic Heroes.)

[info]rudeboyzach

August 7 2007, 15:59:37 UTC 4 years ago

This post almost makes me feel like I should re-watch all those old Super Friends episodes... almost.

[info]calamityjon

August 7 2007, 16:27:14 UTC 4 years ago

They are ... they are horrible, but you never know when a gem like this - or the Mxyzptlk/Bizarro Super Powers Team episode - will pop up.

[info]mr_bix

August 7 2007, 17:27:24 UTC 4 years ago

So which of the 52 Earths is Little Batman on?

[info]brandawg

August 7 2007, 17:47:50 UTC 4 years ago

The small one.

[info]rxgreene

August 7 2007, 18:44:52 UTC 4 years ago

I think it's next to the fat one.

[info]assmonkeydiary

August 7 2007, 18:04:50 UTC 4 years ago

Aw, man, I really want to see that episode now.

[info]blackcat2086

December 21 2007, 05:15:42 UTC 4 years ago

Dangit, I've been looking for this episode all over the place. What is the name of this episooooode!!

[info]assmonkeydiary

December 21 2007, 14:30:58 UTC 4 years ago

It's called "The Fear" and you can find it on the The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians DVD.

[info]blackcat2086

December 21 2007, 23:25:20 UTC 4 years ago

Thank you!

[info]rxgreene

August 7 2007, 19:42:06 UTC 4 years ago

I had always figured Bats for a shoegazer, not a crier.

[info]modok

August 7 2007, 23:21:26 UTC 4 years ago

MODOK has long suspected that beneath Batman's ebon exterior lies the fortitude of a common squirrel.

[info]zaratustra00

August 8 2007, 07:48:49 UTC 4 years ago

CRYING IS NATURE'S GAS STATION BATMAN

[info]calamityjake

August 8 2007, 11:20:05 UTC 4 years ago

Emo Batman is a good idea for a blog. I mean, you know he'd have an LJ...
Hi Journal. Today I broke a guy's arm in three places, but it didn't change anything. Mom and dad are still dead. Also, women only like me for my money/batarangs.

[info]mr_cow

August 21 2007, 23:12:24 UTC 4 years ago

OMG! i just read through all these! your batman is the most awesome batman ever!!!!
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