For those who may not know, this is the end screen from the original TV promo spot announcing Batman: The Animated Series to an unsuspecting world. It's hard to convey to anyone who wasn't there the excitement this spot caused when it aired in 1992. Batman hadn't appeared as an animated character since the last incarnation of Super Friends ended in 1985, and there hadn't been a solo Batman animated show since 1977. The hype from Tim Burton's two films, Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), whose Danny Elfman theme song BTAS adapted, was still running high, when along came... this.
Watching her play had me imagining a smol BatBib excitedly leaping from the shadows shouting "Wheee! Hee hee hee!" as she runs in and beats someone up. Or I should say she tries to beat them up. She could at least kick them in the shins or punch them in their deez nuts.
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