Batman the Brave And The Bold (Animation)/Trivia


 * Executive Meddling: According to the Word of God, Batwoman had her civilian identity changed from Kathy Kane to Katrina Moldoff after DC Comics executives voiced concerns about how the negative portrayal on the show might impact sales of the current Batwoman comic book series, which stars the similarly-named "Kate Kane".
 * Hey, It's That Voice!: Will Friedle (Terry/Batman in Batman Beyond, Gearhead in The Batman, Lion-O in Thundercats 2011) as Blue Beetle, Tom Kenny (The Penguin from The Batman, SpongeBob SquarePants) as Plastic Man, John Dimaggio (Bender in Futurama, Marcus Fenix in Gears of War, Gilgamesh in Final Fantasy XII, Brute Chieftains in Halo 3) as AQUAMAN, and last but not least, Diedrich Bader, Korgoth of Barbaria and Hoss Delgado, as Batman himself.
 * John Dimaggio was also Kimahri and Wakka from Final Fantasy X, which makes it hilarious whenever he teams up with Green Arrow (as stated below, James Arnold Taylor played Tidus). This version of Aquaman even has a water sword, like Wakka's brother's sword Brotherhood.
 * The reason Tom Kenny plays Plas is because he had the role in a pilot for a Plastic Man cartoon that was never picked up. The creators liked how he did in the pilot, and gave him the role just so he could play him again.
 * The Question (Jeffrey Combs) from the DCAU Justice League Unlimited shows up as Kite-Man
 * David McCallum (Ducky in NCIS, Illya Kuryakin in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., Paradox from Ben 10 Alien Force) as Merlin.
 * R. Lee Ermey, the definitive Drill Sergeant Nasty, as Wildcat.
 * Michael Rosenbaum as Deadman, a veteran of DC Comics adaptations with his roles as the Flash on Justice League Unlimited, Kid Flash in Teen Titans, and Lex Luthor in Smallville.
 * Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher in Star Trek: The Next Generation) as Ted Kord.
 * Dee Bradley Baker voices The Brain, who sounds like an evil Brainstorm and/or Klaus with a French accent.
 * And the Clock King, who sounds EXACTLY like Klaus.
 * You might recognize Bronze Tiger as Ebon.
 * Jeff Bennett, voice of the BTAS version of The Creeper, as the Red Hood.
 * And Batman's singing voice.
 * Try watching a Joker episode back-to-back with The Penguins of Madagascar. It's hard to unhear the nuances between Kowalski and Joker's voices.
 * Corey Burton voices the android Red Tornado using the same voice he used for Brainiac. (Which makes it hilarious when he deadpans "I feel a pleasant tingling sensation!" and creepy when his Evil Counterpart starts talking about its hatred of living things.)
 * Bumper Robinson/Bumblebee and Blitzwing is also Black Lightning.
 * Also, the Atom is Jackie Chan (sort of).
 * James Arnold Taylor (Tidus from Final Fantasy X, Obi-Wan Kenobi from Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Ratchet from Ratchet and Clank) provides the voices of Green Arrow and Guy Gardner. After all he's no stranger to the color green... Honestly, with all these guys listed, if you watch more than a handful of animated shows then most of these characters will sound familiar.
 * Case in point: Tara Strong is Huntress.
 * She's also Billy Batson, which is a bit more typical of her.
 * Meanwhile Grey DeLisle did the voice of Black Canary, using that cool Vamp voice she does so well. Except this time her character isn't evil. She also voiced Black Canary in the DC Showcase: Green Arrow short film after playing the character on the Brave and the Bold.
 * And Fire.
 * Jennifer Hale plays Ice and Killer Frost
 * Skeets, same as in Justice League Unlimited: The Robot Buddy to a loser from the future is voiced by Billy West, who previously voiced a loser in the future with a robot buddy.
 * Booster Gold is Booster Gold. Yup, Tom Everett Scott (I mean Governor Donald Shalvoy) is yet another DCAU reprisal.
 * Bat-Mite is Pee-Wee Herman.
 * Michael Dorn (Worf) as Kru'll the Eternal. You may also remember him as Kalibak in Superman the Animated Series and Justice League.
 * Jeff Bennett again, as the OMAC, uses his Kyle Katarn voice.
 * Two-Face is Black Mask, Hawkman, and The new Vilgax.
 * Dr. Horrible is the Music Meister!
 * Firestorm is Chris Rock and Patrick Star.
 * Kevin Conroy is the Batman of Zur-En-Arrh and the Phantom Stranger. Joining Conroy in "Chill of the Night!", Mark Hamill is the Spectre, Adam West as Thomas Wayne, Julie Newmar as Martha Wayne, Jennifer Hale as Poison Ivy and reprising the role of Zatanna from Justice League. Additionally, Two-Face is Lew Moxon and himself and Warhawk.
 * Hal Jordon is Loren Lester aka DCAU's Robin and later Nightwing. It's more noticeable in the game. Where he's a jump in hero.
 * Talia al Ghul is Julie Mayer and... Aerith. Yes, that Aerith. I am not pulling your legs. Even better, she seems to have some chemistry with Robin Jet!
 * And Katara is Batgirl!
 * And Alfred is Avatar Roku
 * Captain Cold and Heat-Wave of the Rogues are voiced by Steve Blum
 * Mrs. Manface is Audrey
 * Barry Allen is Wash, Professor Zoom is John Wesley Shipp and Wally is Hunter Parrish.
 * Sportsmaster and Catman are Biff Tannen
 * Tornado Tyrant is M.A.N.T.I.S. and J'onn J'onzz.
 * Jonah Hex and Fox from the Terrbile Trio are both voiced by Phil "Jackie Chiles/Doc Saturday" Morris. These are not Morris's only DC roles--he was also Vandal Savage, King Faraday, another version of the Martian Mahnuter, and Imperiex.
 * Finn the Human is Robin the Boy Wonder in flashbacks.
 * In Spain, those flashbacks are voiced by Pilar Martin (Hannah Montana).
 * Tippi Hedren, who will be voicing Queen Hippolyta in an upcoming episode, previously voiced a kidnapped fashion designer in The New Batman Adventures.
 * Fun Haus, Mongul, and Mongal are voiced by Gary Anthony Williams.
 * Uncle Sam's voice actor, Peter Renaday, is Abraham Lincoln in Disneyland's Hall of Presidents.
 * Ambush Bug is The Fonz.
 * The Fallen is Astaroth.
 * Captain America is Captain Atom.
 * Ron Perlman is Dr. Double X.
 * The Japanese dub, besides having Tessho Genda reprise his role as Batman again, also had a really top-star voice cast of many well know voices from anime:
 * Yuya Uchida (Green Arrow)
 * Shinji Kawada (Plastic Man)
 * Masashi Ebara (AQUAMAN)
 * Chihiro Suzuki (G'Nort and Baby Face)
 * Isshin Chiba (Etrigan)
 * Tetsu Inada (B'wana Beast)
 * Harumi Sakurai (Katana, Star Girl and Black Canary)
 * Atsushi Kisauchi (Speedy)
 * Takayuki Kondo (The second B'wana Beast aka Dead Code)
 * Hideo Ishikawa (Dr. Fate)
 * Hiroki Yasumoto (Bronze Tiger)
 * Keiji Fujiwara (Red Hood and The Joker, replacing Takeshi Aono and reprising his role from the Japanese dub of The Dark Knight)
 * Daiki Nakamura (Adam Strange)
 * Nobuyuki Hiyama (The Flash)
 * Yoko Soumi (Huntress)
 * Nobutoshi Canna (Booster Gold)
 * Takahiro Mizushima (Hawk)
 * Noriaki Sugiyama (Dove)
 * Jin Horikawa (Metal Men-Iron)
 * Koichi Sakaguchi (Metal Men-Lead)
 * Yasuyuki Kase (Batman of Zur-En-Arrh, also counts as Hilarious in Hindsight, because he voiced the original Batman in the Japanese dub of The Batman)
 * Junichi Suwabe (Phantom Stranger)
 * Takaya Kuroda (Spectre)
 * Masahiko Tanaka (Gentleman Ghost and Rha's Al Ghul)
 * Fumihiko Tachiki (Gorilla Grodd)
 * Risa Hayamizu (Black Manta)
 * Mitsuaki Madono (Fun Haus)
 * Takashi Nagasako (Slug)
 * Takaya Hashi (Jarvis Kord)
 * Hisao Egawa (Despero)
 * Tohru Furusawa (Sinestro)
 * Akira Ishida (Tornado Tyrant and his son Tornado Champion)
 * Yasunori Masutani (Mongul)
 * Kujira (Mongal)
 * Kenji Nomura (Man-Bat)
 * Hiroyuki Kinoshita (Two-Face, also reprising his role from the dub of The Dark Knight)
 * Yuji Kishi (Music Meister)
 * Takumi Yamazaki (Psycho Pirate)
 * Hiroaki Hirata (The Riddler)
 * Ayumi Tsunematsu (Talia Al Ghul)
 * Joji Nakata (Rohtul)
 * Hochu Otsuka (Sherlock Holmes)
 * Chafurin (Watson)
 * Takako Honda (Catwoman)
 * Hidenari Ugaki (Major Disaster)
 * Wataru Hatano (Black Lightning)
 * Shigeru Shibuya (Ace Morgan)
 * Ryuzou Ishino (Negative Man)
 * Kumiko Yokote (Poison Ivy)
 * Sayuri Yahagi (Harley Quinn)
 * Akio Suyama (Joker-Mite)
 * Name's the Same: Shark of the Terrible Trio shares a name with Shark, an actual tiger shark mutated into a humanoid form who had a cameo in "Night of the Huntress!" And neither of them are to be confused with Tiger Shark, of course.
 * One of Us: Oh so many examples of the fact that the staff is as big of nerds as us, in particular "Mitefall!".
 * Playing Against Type: Diedrich Bader as Batman. That's right: a guy known for playing The Ditz is the lead. To a lesser extent Will Friedle as the Blue Beetle, who is known for playing characters similar to Bader's.
 * However, Diedrich Bader also plays Badass Hoss Delgado.
 * And Will Friedle also plays Batman after a fashion. Does anyone else noticing a pattern here?
 * Real Life Relative: Diedrich Bader's son Sebastian provided the voice of Damian Wayne's child/Robin III/Carrie-Kelly-Lookalike in "Knights of Tomorrow!".
 * Screwed by the Network: If giving the final season 13 episodes when the first two had 26 wasn't enough Cartoon Network also managed to anger the fans more by airing the season's episodes with weeks, sometimes a month, between new episodes and without much promotion.
 * What Could Have Been: In "Game Over for Owlman," according to Word of God, it was considered including Terry McGinnis as one of the alternate Batmen. They relented, however, due to it being so early in the series' run - preferring to stand on their own before going so meta.
 * A fairly minor example, but according to the cover to the comic's first issue Katana was slated to have a wildly different design -- one more evocative of mainstream DC Katana, but, like, mostly purple. And pigtails.
 * In the episode "Battle of the Superheroes"
 * "Battle of the Super-Heroes" was the title of a classic World's Finest comic.
 * Luthor's lair is based on that of the titular villain in The Mad Scientist.
 * There are direct references to several comics featured on the Superdickery website, including this one and this one.
 * Part of the fight between Superman and Batman is based scene-for-scene on the final episode of Justice League Unlimited.
 * The other part? The final fight in The Dark Knight Returns.
 * The main episode opens with a shout-out to "Jimmy Olsen's Death-Trick".
 * The identity of the Robin in the teaser is unknown, since the last time he appeared he switched over to Nightwing. It may have been meant as a flashback, or it's a new Robin.
 * In the Episode "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!"
 * It features Scooby and Batman dual-punching the Joker after Bat-Mite uses his powers to allow violence.
 * Funny enough, when Bat-Mite notes that someone mispainted Batman's collar, he doesn't seem to notice the fact that the Bat-symbol is inverted.
 * In "The Vile And The Villainous!":
 * Joker and the Weeper teamed up once before, in the Justice League of America comic book issue #136.
 * Joker and The Weeper actually succeed in destroying Batman's crime-detecting device (but get arrested anyway).
 * Commissioner Gordon and Chief O’Hara from The Sixties Batman TV Show make a Cameo unveiling Batman’s crime detecting device. This truly reflects their importance in that series.
 * In "Scorn of the Star Sapphire!", the Cold Opening with Wonder Woman:
 * Wonder Woman's design is based on the Golden age comics.
 * The sound effect of Wonder Woman's tiara used as boomerang is almost the same that the one that appears at Wonder Woman's 70's tv series.
 * The invisible jet is based on the one that appeared at Superfriends.