The Batman (Animated Feature) 2015

This is the hopeful Tv. Animated feature, a Prequel to the 2015 Man of Steel Sequel. It has 5 episodes, all are the highlights of Bruce's life previous to the Man of Steel Sequel. It features many famous voice actors, most of which taken from the Arkham Games, from Grey DeLise (Catwoman) to Troy Baker (Joker), plus the actor of the batman (Ben Affleck), who was cast in Zack Snyder's Upcoming Batman/Superman Film. The first Episode is the training that led to the beginnings of batman. Episode two is based on Batman: Year One, Episode Three is Based on the Long Halloween Storyline, Episode Four is based loosely on Robin: Year One (only changing the villians) and the final episode is based on the "death in the Family" story line.

Episode Plots:
Episode 1: At age 8, Bruce Wayne's parents are murdered. At age 13, he travels around the world to train in martial arts. He also worked to peak physical form. For the last 2 of those 12 years, he trained in a secret society by Master Kirigi in ninjutsu. He returned at age 25, able to bench press 700 pounds, have outstanding reflexes, and have knowledge of over 100 martial arts.

Episode 2: 2 months later

Gotham is heavily corrupted, ruled by the mob, and the corrupt cops are doing nothing about it. Bruce first makes his entrance as a vigilante by stopping some drug dealers, working for the highly corrupt cop named Flass. When he arrives home, he finds a bat that flew through the window, inspiring him to become a bat. Gordon, now a new cop in town, soon works to rid corruption from the force, but, on orders from Commissioner Gillian Loeb, several officers attack him, including Flass, who personally threatens Gordon’s pregnant wife. In revenge, the recovering Gordon tracks Flass down, beats and humiliates him, leaving him naked and handcuffed in the snow. As Gordon becomes a minor celebrity for several brave acts, Batman strikes for the first time, attacking a group of thieves. Batman soon works up the ladder, even attacking Flass while he was accepting a drug dealer’s bribe. After Batman interrupts a dinner party attended by many of Gotham’s corrupt politicians and crime bosses to announce his intention to bring them to justice, including Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot, Loeb orders Gordon to bring him in by any means necessary. As Gordon tries in vain to catch him, Batman attacks Cobblepot, stripping him naked and tying him up in his bed after dumping his car in the river, further infuriating the mob boss. Assistant district attorney Harvey Dent becomes Batman’s first ally, while Detective Sarah Essen and Gordon, after Essen suggested Bruce Wayne as a Batman suspect, witness Batman save an old woman from a runaway truck. Essen holds Batman at gunpoint while Gordon is momentarily dazed, but Batman disarms her and flees to an abandoned building. Claiming the building has been scheduled for demolition, Loeb orders a bomb dropped on it, forcing Batman into the fortified basement, abandoning his belt as the explosives inside catch fire. A trigger-happy SWAT team led by Branden is sent in, whom Batman attempts to trap in the basement. They soon escape and, after tranquilizing Branden, Batman dodges as the rest open fire, barely managing to survive after two bullet wounds. Enraged as the team’s carelessly fired bullets injure several people outside, Batman beats the team into submission and, after using a device to attract the bats of his cave to him, he flees amid the chaos. Selina Kyle, after witnessing him in action, dons a costume of her own to begin a life of crime. Gordon has a brief affair with Essen, while Batman intimidates a mob drug dealer for information. The dealer comes to Gordon to testify against Flass, who is brought up on charges. Upset with Gordon's exploits, Loeb blackmails Gordon against pressing charges with proof of his affair. After bringing Barbara with him to interview Bruce Wayne, investigating his connection to Batman, Gordon confesses the affair to her. Batman sneaks into Penguin’s manor, overhearing a plan against Gordon, but is interrupted when Selina Kyle, hoping to build a reputation after her robberies were pinned on Batman, attacks Penguin and his bodyguards, aided from afar by Batman. Identifying Cobblepot’s plan as the morning comes, the uncostumed Bruce leaves to help. While leaving home, Gordon spots a motorcyclist enter his garage. Suspicious, Gordon enters to see Johnny Vitti, Cobblepot’s right hand man, and his thugs holding his family hostage. Gordon decisively shoots the thugs and chases Vitti, who has fled with the baby. The mysterious motorcyclist, now revealed to the reader as Bruce Wayne, rushes out to chase Vitti. Gordon blows out Vitti's car tire on a bridge and the two fight hand-to-hand, with Gordon losing his glasses, before Vitti and James Gordon Junior fall over the side. Bruce leaps over the railing and saves the baby. Gordon realizes that he is standing before an unmasked Batman, but says that he is "practically blind without glasses," and lets Bruce go. Batman also fights and defeats the red hood (who later becomes the joker), along with the other mobsters with him, by accidentally throwing him into the acid bath.

Episode 3: one year later: At a wedding in June, Gotham City mob boss Oswald "The Penguin" Cobblepot tries to pressure Bruce Wayne to help launder money, and Bruce refuses. Bruce begins to leave the party with Selina Kyle, but they find Gotham District Attorney Harvey Dent, who has been beaten by some of the Penguin mob. After helping him, Bruce decides to leave alone. As Batman, Bruce enters Oswald's penthouse to investigate. He encounters Catwoman, who flees from him. Batman ends the pursuit to answer a Bat-signal. Dent and police Captain Jim Gordon have called him, and the three enter a pact to end Cobblepot's reign by bending the rules if necessary, but never breaking them. On Halloween, Johnny Viti is shot twice in the head by an unknown assailant while taking a bath. The perpetrator leaves behind the murder weapon, a .22 caliber pistol with the nipple of a baby bottle used as a crude silencer, as well as a jack-o-lantern. That night Dent, Gordon and Batman discuss the murder, and Dent says he does not care about the death of a mafia hitman. Batman notices that Catwoman is eavesdropping, and she offers to help Batman hit the Penguin where it hurts the most: his money. Catwoman's information leads Batman and Dent to a warehouse where the Penguin has stockpiled over $20 million in paper cash. They together set fire to the warehouse and destroy the money. Dent returns home and a bomb detonates, and the D.A. and his wife Gilda survive. For months afterward, on certain holidays, the "Holiday killer" continues murdering members of the Penguin crime family. Meanwhile, Dent's new assistant, Vernon Fields, searches old police files and discovers a connection between Oswald Cobblepot and Bruce Wayne. Batman tracks the Riddler, whom Holiday let live on April Fool’s Day. The Riddler explains that Cobblepot hired him to find out who Holiday was but kicked him out when the solutions he gave were less than satisfactory. Batman suspects that the Riddler was left alive to spread that the Penguin was looking for Holiday. On August, Cobblepot's birthday, Maroni is going to trial to testify against him. Before going to the stand, Fields hands him a bottle of acid that appears to be heartburn medicine. During questioning, Maroni hurls the acid at Dent, hideously disfiguring half of his face. Dent is rushed to the hospital, where he stabs a doctor and escapes. On Labor Day, Dent has been hiding in Gotham’s sewers for a month. He crosses paths with Killer croc, who attacks him. Dent is able to calm him. Gordon, meanwhile, has come to the conclusion that Dent is Holiday. Batman refuses to acknowledge it, but Gordon demands to hear the truth from Dent himself. Batman questions Falcone about Dent's location. The Penguin accuses Batman of knowing that Dent was Holiday but standing aside. Batman then seeks out Catwoman, demanding to know why she is so interested in Cobblepot. She refuses to answer, and runs away. Batman ends up at Arkham Asylum talking to Jervis Tetch, the Mad Hatter. Batman tells him that they know Dent is Holiday but not how to find him. Mad Hatter suggests that, it being a holiday, Holiday is probably heading to kill Maroni. On Halloween, all of the Arkham inmates are released by Dent, based on the flip of a coin. Cobblepot and his accomplice Candy are ambushed in their penthouse by the escapees, Dent (who has now become Two-Face) and Catwoman. Batman intervenes, but is unable to stop Two-Face from murdering Penguin. During the following scuffle, Candy falls out a window. Two-Face escapes and kills his former assistant Fields for helping Maroni scar him. Later, Two-Face turns himself in to Gordon and Batman. As he is cuffed, he tells them there were "two" Holiday killers. Peace is restored in Gotham.

Episode 4: a year later: After a reign of peace, one major mob boss rules the streets, tearing the city to shreds. Black mask. The city is overrun by criminals. Sionis murders the flying Grayson's, and Bruce takes in and trains young Dick Grayson. Bruce wants to give the people of Gotham something to believe in, and hires Grayson as his sidekick. Robin proves to be a capable ally when he foils The Mad Hatter's plot to abduct and sell children into slavery. The story begins when the Mad Hatter is hired by Singh Manh Lee, the president of Rheelasia, to kidnap ten American girls for Lee's personal sex trafficking purposes. Batman and Robin are informed of the disappearances of eight girls by Captain Gordon and begin searching Gotham City for clues. After encountering difficulties in their search, Robin identifies one of the missing girls as Jennifer, a school acquaintance. While searching his school for leads at Batman's request, Robin discovers that the Mad Hatter is behind the kidnappings. Because Batman is aboard President Lee's yacht as Bruce Wayne, Robin decides to foil the Hatter's plot alone. Although Robin's efforts lead to the arrest of the Mad Hatter, the exploitation of President Lee, and the rescue of the captive girls, Batman is angered that Robin did not wait for his permission and assistance. Before Batman can reprimand Robin, Alfred intervenes and convinces him to commend his squire for a job well done. As Dick aids Bruce in his war on crime, incarcerating the flying Grayson's killer Black Mask/Roman Sionis and his gang in the process, Alfred fears that the boy may not be able to balance a normal teenage life with vigilantism.

Episode 5: finale, 7 years later The story follows Jason Todd, the second Robin. In the beginning of the story, Jason and Bruce are in uniform hiding behind some crates while a mob plans. Then, out of the blue, an impatient Jason leaps out from behind the crates and attacks the criminals. When the struggle is over, Bruce asks him what he was doing and said one of these times he is going to get killed. Bruce then asks him if he thinks this is a game, and Jason replies "Yes, life is a game." Meanwhile the Joker has escaped yet again from Arkham Asylum with new assistant Harley Quinn, leaving a trail of death behind him. Batman discovers that he has somehow obtained a nuclear weapon and will sell it to terrorists. He tracks him to civil war-torn Lebanon where he and Jason meet up. They foil an attempt by Arab terrorists to destroy Tel Aviv using a nuclear missile sold to them by the Joker. One of the suspected "terrorists" is none other than Batman's old acquaintance Lady Shiva, whom they track down to a terrorist training camp. It is only with Robin's help that Batman overcomes her in a fight that proves almost fatal for him. When she proves uncooperative, they use a truth drug to get her to admit that she is not the leader. They then go to Ethiopia and meet the third "suspect": Sheila Haywood, an aid worker. She proves to be the mother of Jason and she and Jason have an emotional reunion. However, unknown to Batman and Robin, the Joker is aware that Sheila had previously performed "illegal operations on teenage girls" in Gotham. After one resulted in the death of a teen, she was blacklisted as a medical practitioner. The Joker has used this information to blackmail Sheila into giving him the medical supplies her agency has in a nearby warehouse. Not only is he denying the medical supplies to the starving in order to sell them on the black market, but the Joker also replaces them with his laughing gas which, once set off, will kill thousands of people. Sheila herself has been embezzling from the aid agency and, as part of the cover-up, hands her own son (now in his Robin costume) over to the Joker. The Joker brutally beats him with a crowbar, while Harley does the same to Sheila. Robin is soon lying unconscious in a puddle of blood, which the Joker casually remarks is "a bit messy". He then leaves him and Sheila in the warehouse with a time bomb. Sheila and Robin try desperately to get out of the warehouse but are still inside as the bomb goes off. Batman arrives too late to save them and they die from their injuries. The bodies are taken back to Gotham for burial. Since none of their relatives can be found the only ones attending the service are Bruce Wayne and three friends, butler Alfred Pennyworth, Commissioner Gordon and his wheelchair-bound daughter Barbara, herself a victim of the Joker. Blaming himself for Jason's death, a guilt-ridden Batman resolves to carry on alone. He even turns down Alfred's suggestion to involve Dick Grayson, his original partner. The Joker himself, meanwhile, has met none other than the Ayatollah Khomeini, who offers him a position in the Iranian government. The Joker leaves a warehouse containing the dead bodies of his henchmen and an address which Batman easily finds: it is that of the United Nations building in New York. Ralph Bundy, a CIA contact, tells Batman to keep away from the Joker since it could start a diplomatic incident, which the government would rather avoid. The Joker has diplomatic immunity and any crime he has committed has been swept under the carpet. He is due to give a speech to the General Assembly and Bruce Wayne uses his high-level contacts in order to get in as an unofficial observer. The Joker appears dressed in Arab clothes and he and Wayne exchange glances. The Joker pauses as the two make eye contact, as if identifying Wayne as the Batman, only to laugh dismissively and go on his way. The Joker then makes his speech claiming that he and the Iranians are treated with disrespect by the rest of the world. He announces that they will not take any more of such treatment and releases his deadly laughing gas over the Assembly. However, a security guard breaks up the Joker's weapon and inhales all the gas, clearing the hall. It turns out to be Superman in disguise. He flies out of the building in order to find somewhere safe to get rid of the gas while Batman and the Joker fight it out. The Joker gets out of the building and into a helicopter sent to him by his sponsors. Batman gets in and, during the fight that follows, one of the Joker's henchmen opens fire with a machine gun. The bullets fly everywhere, hitting everyone, including the Joker and the pilot, who loses control and crashes into the sea. Batman escapes, but the joker does in the resulting crash.

Batman debates if his greatest nemesis' death is a step toward Gotham's peace, or rather a sign that things are getting worse. He retires from being batman due to Jason's death.

Voice Casting:
Bruce Wayne/Batman - Ben Affleck

Joker - Troy Baker

Harley Quinn - Tara Strong

Catwoman - Grey DeLise

Riddler (cameo) - Wally Winget

Killer Croc (cameo) - Khary Phayton

Mad Hatter - Peter MacNicol

Penguin- Nolan North

Two-Face - Troy Baker

Black Mask - Brian Bloom

Gordon - Bryan Cranston

Alfred - Martin Davis

Dick Grayson/Robin - Troy Baker

Jason Todd - Vincent Martella