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| DarkZero 618th Post
 
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|  "Re(7):OT: The Batman, new animated series"
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Further articles at Toon Zone and Zap2It (both very reliable, if you're not familiar with them).
The cast:
Bruce Wayne - Rino Romano (Peter Parker, Kyle Katarn, Darien from the Sailor Moon dub)
The Joker - Kevin Michael Richardson (Jolee Bindo from KOTOR, Captain Gantu from Lilo & Stitch, Scott Dolph from MGS2)
The Mayor - Adam West
The Penguin - Tom Kenny (Spongebob Squarepants, The Mayor from Powerpuff Girls, and Rin from FFX(-2)
Catwoman - Gina Gershon
Unnamed Detective - Ming Na (ER, Aki Ross from "The Spirits Within", Chun-Li from "Street Fighter: The Movie")
And doesn't Batman seem kinda... cel-shaded?
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| Dr Baghead 2791th Post
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| "Re(9):OT: The Batman, new animated series" , posted Tue 10 Feb 20:55
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but the current (tv) incarnation of the league has appeared a number of times - so have batman, terry mcguiness batman, and last week, green lantern (stewart), have all appeared on static shock.
Look at it this way:
In X-Men Vs Street Fighter and I believe MSHvsSF as well Akuma knows the secret of Wolverine's past... does that mean the Udon SF comics are Marvel cannon? (or since Marvel owns Malibu, their SF comics are part of the X-universe AND offical SF cannon)
Although the TV JLA(minus Supes and Wonder Woman)/Joker/Tim Drake Robin/Batman/Terry Batman/Harley Quin/Posion Ivy/Bullock/Gordon have appeared on Static Shock, it's acknowledged it's not part of the true cannon. (the Dini/Timm series are their own world, 'the Batman' is going to be it's own world with no link to the old series, Static Shock is it's own as well although it crosses over with the others with no conflict... it's a kid show so it doesn't need to worry about continuality so long as it's fun... TT could either be it's own world or co-exist with another, as of now it's unknown and Robin is simply "Robin" and no one is willing to say otherwise)
Yeah, too much thought into this...
This picture is unusally orange no?
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| DarkZero 624th Post
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| "Update" , posted Wed 11 Feb 23:20
Update from Comics Continuum
Alfred - Alastair Duncan (Mortanius from Legacy of Kain: Defiance, and also, I believe, one of the Watcher enforcers from Buffy Season 4/Angel Season 1, which means that he either IS British or just sounds like it)
Evan Bennett/Clayface - Steve Harris (Eugene Young from "The Practice")
Also, the names of Ming Na's unnamed detective is "Detective Ellen Yin" and Adam West's character is "Mayor Grange" (I never caught the mayor's name in the original, so I don't know if this has any significance).
There's also a bit about the toys there that could be, well... disturbing. But then again, the new Turtles toyline is out-and-out 1990-style toy whoring, but what I've managed to see of that show has been really, really good.
Strange casting, though. Two black men with fairly deep black voices for two white characters, including the especially high-pitched Joker. I don't mean to start another "Michael Clarke Duncan as 'The Kingpin'" discussion, but aren't those odd casting choices? I can kind of see Steve Harris as Clayface, but Kevin Michael Richardson as The Joker...?
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| Ishmael 1182th Post
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| "Re(1):Update" , posted Thu 12 Feb 05:26
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Update from Comics Continuum
Alfred - Alastair Duncan (Mortanius from Legacy of Kain: Defiance, and also, I believe, one of the Watcher enforcers from Buffy Season 4/Angel Season 1, which means that he either IS British or just sounds like it)
Evan Bennett/Clayface - Steve Harris (Eugene Young from "The Practice")
Also, the names of Ming Na's unnamed detective is "Detective Ellen Yin" and Adam West's character is "Mayor Grange" (I never caught the mayor's name in the original, so I don't know if this has any significance).
There's also a bit about the toys there that could be, well... disturbing. But then again, the new Turtles toyline is out-and-out 1990-style toy whoring, but what I've managed to see of that show has been really, really good.
Strange casting, though. Two black men with fairly deep black voices for two white characters, including the especially high-pitched Joker. I don't mean to start another "Michael Clarke Duncan as 'The Kingpin'" discussion, but aren't those odd casting choices? I can kind of see Steve Harris as Clayface, but Kevin Michael Richardson as The Joker...?
I'm curious as to how Kevin Michael Richardson will sound as well since most everything I've heard from him has been played in a lower register and the Joker more often than not has a mid-range/high pitched shriek to his voice. But, really, it's not like the ethnicity of the actor matters for voice-over work; f'r instance, James Avery played the Shredder on a good number of episodes of the old Ninja Turtles cartoon.
Has there been any more character art released yet? That picture of the Joker toy made him look... surreal so I'm interested to see how the rest of the cast is going to be drawn.
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| hikarutilmitt
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| "TT setting and cast" , posted Fri 13 Feb 02:15
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batman TAS 2nd robin = tim drake
› batman cameo on static shock: static asks where robin is, bats replies he's now leading the titans.
› robin on teen titans
› episode that shows future (season 2, ep 1) has robin grow up to be nightwing
= nightwing = tim drake
I haven't read the whole thread yet but, it's not confirmed or denied Tim Drake is TT's Robin.
Consider:
-We don't know when TT is set (could very well be Grayson)
-We don't know that Grayson wouldn't give Tim the Nightwing costume at some point allowing Bruce to take in a new Robin and Grayson to grow into a new persona again.
Also worth considering:
The new Batman is done in a style very much like TT, and is already confirmed to be out of the B TAS/JL continity (and Static Shock is techincally not either one as well) so TT and 'the Batman' could very well be in the same world, a world in which TT's Robin makes total sense.
I'm personally looking at the fact that they have him as Nightwing in episode 2.1 and that he refers to Batman as his father figure in 1.13. Also take into account that most of the show seems modern, but they're teenagers (younger than the comics, at least). Kid Flash isn't there because The Flash in JL is Kid Flash grown up, yet they still have people like Aqualad there, just not permanently joining the group (like Aquaman in JL).
Also, aside from casual mention, they make no comment about JL or anything going, suggesting that they're not even aware of what's going on. Also, Robin's character in TT is more aggressive and "leader-worthy" as Dick than as Tim (Tim, to me, always seemed weaker and less Batman-ish than Dick).
Basically, it seems like they aren't trying to make any sort of canon as far as connection goes, otherwise they would have made it more obvious. TT is there just for fun.
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| TiamatRoar 627th Post
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| "Re(3):Re(10):OT: The Batman, new animated ser" , posted Fri 13 Feb 08:34:
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Was that like, stated in an interview or official website or something?
Interview, although I'm having a hard time finding were it was >_<
Ah, okay. Hmm, makes sense. I always figured Static Shock was connected but in the way that Static himself wouldn't guest star in other shows while characters from other shows would guest star in his (sorta like how KOF has all the AOF and FF characters but FF and AOF don't have much to do with KOF). Guess I was wrong about that (sorta like how evidence is now that KOF and AOF with FF apparently don't take place in the same continuity, after all).
I heard it was officially stated that they were keeping Robin's identity a secret on purpose, which means that I think it'd be kind of silly if it weren't in the same continuity as everything else because then there IMHO isn't much point to keeping it a secret since whichever Robin it is, it's a Robin made up completely for the show anyways and not any of the Robins from the other shows because the show isn't in the same continuity as the other shows. But then, most writers don't seem to follow my logic, these days *more glares at KOF*
Just as a quickie note, Robin becoming Night Wing was in an alternate future (one without Star Fire etc etc), which I think could be semi-significant if TT is in the same continuity as everything else because it's possible that in the REAL future he never became Nightwing leaving the Nightwing position open or whatever. I'd be surprised if the writers thought that far, though.
On a side note, for other shows, the writers in general are only loosely following continuity for the most part. For example, I heard that there is an obvious continuity between Justice League and Superman when looking at the last episode of Superman and the first episode of Justice League, but in that Superman time travel JL episode, they had Metallo and Weatherman back when the former was supposed to be dead and the latter stripped of his powers as far as I could recall. Both Metallo and Weatherman were just there to be jobber villains to set a bigger plot in motion though which shows that the writers just shrugged more than wanted to separate JL from Superman continuity entirely, which I guess could go with how I heard how they stated in an interview that they weren't STRICTLY following continuity of Batman and Superman completely.
...how confusing. I guess holding continuity across multiple series is really difficult, after all. Maybe this is why SNK and Capcom get so many continuity problems, too.
http://db.gamefaqs.com/coinop/arcade/file/street_fighter_plot.txt
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