Batman calls Psycho-Pirate a “psychic vampire who feeds on the emotions of others.” It’s not a very good insult, just an apt description of what he is. He also manages to say that in the creepiest manner inhumanly possible. Psycho-Pirate insists that he’s just giving the team a nice nap, and that it’s not his fault that their nightmares taste so good. Psycho-Pirate greets Batman, who tells him that he suspected Psycho-Pirate was behind the disappearance of the Outsiders.
Katana: Wields the Soultaker Sword unlike her Beware the Batman counterpart, she rarely speaksīlack Lightning: Controls electricity angry Metamorpho: Happy-go-lucky loves to eat deformed shapeshifter Thirdly, here's some summaries of the Outsiders, mainly because they differ from depictions in other media (including Beware the Batman).
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They first appeared in the sixth episode of the series where they were an anarchic gang of angry teenagers, but Batman and Wildcat showed them the error of their ways. Second of all, Metamorpho, Katana, and Black Lightning are known as the Outsiders. (Big shock, right?) He apparently kidnapped the three heroes. Let’s pause the episode here as I explain some important details.įirst of all, the Psycho-Pirate (voiced by Armin Shimmerman, the guy who played Quark on Deep Space 9, one of the few “likeable” Ferengi) is a bad guy. Katana, Metamorpho, and Black Lightning are all in tubes with monitors above their heads showing them all in agony. Expertly dodging all the danger, Batman arrives at a control center where Psycho-Pirate sits in the middle of the room hooked up to machinery. Still, I’m pretty sure that this was the first appearance of Catwoman on the show, if I’m not mistaken, so they had to establish the dynamic between the two before they could give us episodes like "The Knights of Tomorrow!", or "The Mask of Matches Malone!"Īfter the opening credits and title card, we open in medias res, as they say, with Batman running down a corridor with the Laughing/Crying theatre masks on the wall, with some of them shooting at him. The teaser has a couple of cute moments, but the whole "Dating Catwoman" dynamic has been done to death in every adaptation from Bruce Timm to Christopher Nolan and quite frankly… I’m a Julie Newmar guy all the way. Look at him Green Arrow's not a fan of this teaser, either. She escapes, and Batman tells Green Arrow that they won’t need to work hard to track her down as the camera pans down to show her phone number in his hand. Eventually, Batman works free, and he and Green Arrow take out all of her henchmen and arrest her. Batman starts flirting with her, and she reciprocates. Batman and Green Arrow are in Catwoman’s deathtrap about to be mauled and eaten by jungle cats.
In fact, it’s so one-note that I’m just going to gloss over it. Not to be confused with "Outside the Insiders," where Batman stays away from Agoraphobic people. (Spoiler Alert! It is.)Īnd so, let’s take a look at Batman:TBATB, Season 1, Episode 24, "Inside the Outsiders!" So I’m going to take a look at a Batman: The Brave and the Bold episode featuring Katana, and we’ll see if her origin story’s handled in a less annoying way here. The character has also been featured in direct-to-video animated movies and a number of DC Comics video games.I’ve been feeling a bit bad about having to cancel last week’s Ranting and Rambling due to a number of factors, so I’ve decided to make it up to all of you! Now, I’ve made it no secret that I’ve been feeling a bit, shall we say, irked with Beware the Batman’s lollygagging up to this point in terms of turning Bruce’s bodyguard Tatsu Yamashiro into Katana after the promos, Wikipedia, interviews, and have all stated that she’s “Katana, Swordsmistress and Owner of the Soultaker Sword.” The character made her feature film debut in the 2016 film Suicide Squad, portrayed by actress Karen Fukuhara, which is part of the DC Extended Universe. The character was adapted for live action in 2014, portrayed by Rila Fukushima during the third and fourth seasons of the Arrowverse series Arrow, and returned in the final season. In the 2010s, DC began to feature the character much more extensively in media adaptations of its comic books, including a recurring role in the animated series Batman: The Brave and the Bold and then a starring role in the series Beware the Batman. Ability to capture the spirit of every being it kills and communicate with it, including that of her deceased relatives and husband.Master martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant.Textless cover of Katana #1 (April 2013).
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