Batman: The Dark Knight (Max Original Series)

Batman The Dark Knight: The Series an American animated television series produced by Warner Bros and Netflix. It based on the DC Comics superhero, the Batman.

The series was also the second in the continuity of the New DC Animated Universe

Main Characters

 * Batman/Bruce Wayne (Roger Craig Smith) The title character of the series. The Dark Knight detective and protector of Gotham City. While to the public, he is Billionaire industrialist and play-boy, Bruce Wayne. When he was 8, he watched his parents, Thomas and Martha Wayne got murdered by an armed mugger in Gotham City's Crime Alley. The traumatic experience would define his life, as he dedicated himself to becoming the world’s greatest weapon against crime.. the Batman to protect Gotham City for years as it's Hero as he sworn an oath to rid the city of the evil that had taken his parents' lives. Bruce is a tall man with an imposing figure, with short black hair and dark brown eyes. He wears many formal black suits with different tie's. Equipped with his Batarangs, Utility Belt filled with high-tech weapons and gadgets. Batman is the most feared superhero of all, because he’s pushed himself to the absolute pinnacle of human achievement, in addition to mastering martial arts, detective techniques, and criminal psychology. Batmobile, Batwing. He’s a brilliant detective who’s mastered fighting and interrogation techniques the world’s barely heard of. An Olympic-caliber athlete with a plan for every occasion, Batman’s seemingly always five steps ahead of his foes. His bat suit is based on Rebirth, having his bat logo outlined in gold and specialized utility belt with the same theme.
 * Alfred Pennyworth (Chris Parnell): Bruce Wayne's faithful and loyal butler. When Bruce's parent's died, Alfred became his legal guardian. He's known Bruce's secret for tears after he's begun his vigilantism as Batman and aids him through the Bat Computer and the Bat Cave.
 * Nightwing/Dick Grayson (Scott Porter): A 9 year old prodigy and the sidekick of the Batman. Growing up in the circus, Dick performed with his parents as the Flying Graysons at Haley's Circus. When the circus arrived in Gotham, a gangster, Tony Zucco came to extort Mr. Haley for protection in cash. When he refused, Zucco warned him and the other performers that they'll regret it, especially the Grayson's. Later that very night, unaware to Dick and his parents, Zucco sabotaged their trapeze act. Dick watched in horror as his parents fell to their deaths when the high wire snapped. Dick was present at his parent's funeral where he meet Bruce Wayne who felt sympathy for the boy, and after he remembered his own tragedy and adopts him as a foster son. After he brought him to Wayne Manor where Alfred hangs a portrait of Dick's late parents. Dick became curious of Bruce's recent absences, unaware that Batman was searching for Zucco. This habit leads him to the Bat Cave where he learns that Bruce Wayne is Batman. He insist to come along with Bruce to find Tony but he refused. Dick dons a red, yellow and green costume from his circus attire with his own modifications. After stopping Zucco, saying that he wanted him to get "justice" from the law. Batman, impressed with this ethical code, decides to take on Dick as his official partner; Dick, in the memory of his parents, chooses the name "Robin". Robin is a skilled acrobat and martial artist, combining his circus history with Batman's rigorous training. Few years later, Dick grew older in his mid teens who and decided move on to become his own hero and takes a new identity, "Nightwing".
 * Robin/Tim Drake (Matthew Valencia): Batman's new sidekick and became the new Robin. Tim used to be an orphan and was among the audience on the very night the flying Graysons where murdered.
 * Batgirl/Barbara Gordon (Ashley Johnson): One of Batman's partners and the daughter of police commissioner, James Gordon and Eileen Gordon. Because of her father's over protectiveness, Barbara was forbidden from join the GCPD fearing of something dangerous would happen to her.
 * Harold Allnut: Bruce Wayne's childhood hunched-backed friend who is Batman's trusty engineer and mechanic. Harold help Bruce and Alfred designed the Bat Cave and he built he Batmobile, Bat-wing and Bat-Mech. He works as the groundskeeper at Wayne Manor while in the Bat Cave, he work's on maintenance on Batman's vehicles and gadgets.
 * Commissioner James Gordon (David Koechner): The Police Commissioner of the GCPD and a trusted ally of the Batman.
 * Catwoman/Selina Kyle (Grey DeLisle): A professional jewel thief and cat burglar turned anti-hero and romantic interest of Batman. TBA. TBA. TBA. Catwoman is sleek attractive woman wears a skintight catsuit with a cat like cowl, modified black corset and her heist gear consist a mini backpack. She wears gloves with retractable razor-sharp claws and knee high boots. She wears a pair of night vision spy goggles with pink telescopic lenses. Catwoman's primary weapon is a 12-foot whip which she hold on the back of her corset with two small straps and the whip hangs down like an actual cat's tail

Supporting Characters

 * GCPD
 * Harvey Bullock :
 * Renee Montoya :
 * Jason Bard
 * Lucius Fox
 * Thomas and Martha Wayne: The late parents of Bruce Wayne who murdered by Joe Chill while they where taking a short cut through Crime Alley. Their deaths are what lead Bruce to become Batman.
 * Eileen Gordon: The wife of James Gordon and the loving mother of Barbara.
 * Roger Gordon
 * Jack Ryder
 * Vicki Vale
 * Kirk Langstrom/Man-Bat (Phil LaMarr): A scientist and Zoologist with a main specialization on bats. He developed an experimental serum which was extracted from bat glands to grant people with amplified sonar sense and hearing, to assist the deaf and the blind. Unable to find a test subject, Langstrom tested the formula on himself if it would work, however the formula had disastrous results. It altered his DNA, mutating him into a large human-bat hybrid.
 * Francine Langstrom
 * Rebecca Langstrom
 * Aaron Cash: Chief of security at Arkham Asylum.
 * Nora Fries: The beloved wife of Victor Fries who was diagnosed with rare terminal illness and was placed in cryostasis until Victor can find a cure for her.
 * Nora Fries: The beloved wife of Victor Fries who was diagnosed with rare terminal illness and was placed in cryostasis until Victor can find a cure for her.

Villains

 * The Joker (Troy Baker): The Clown Prince of Crime and the Batman's archnemesis. Joker is a criminally insane, psychopathic and homicidal supervillain with a twisted, sadistic sense of humor who was once a failed stand-up nameless comedian that was down on his luck and he had no other choice but to turn to crime. He was ordered to rob the Ace Chemicals plant as the anonymous Red Hood. The robbery went wrong when Batman first appeared, he becomes terrified of the Batman's appearance, the soon-to-be criminal accidently slipped off the catwalk and fell into a vat of chemicals. Although he survived the plunge, the exposure to the chemicals had deformed his face, giving him chalk white skin, green hair and blood red lips, which made him look like an evil clown. This drove the man insane as the new-born Joker became the greatest enemy to Batman and to entirety all of Gotham. . After stealing a Jade statue, which happens to be made of Kryptonite, he and Harley travel to Metropolis and propose to Lex an offer of one billion dollars on destroying Superman.
 * Harley Quinn/Harleen Quinzel (Tara Strong): The Joker's frequent sidekick, henchwoman and psychotic lover/girlfriend. Harley Quinn is eccentric and extravagant, and usually commits crimes with a sadistic glee and hyperactive energy. In most incarnations, she is very loyal to the Joker regardless of how cruelly he treats her. She used to be a psychiatrist at Arkham Asylum when she was Dr. Harleen Quinzel until she met her latest patient Joker. Dr. Quinzel becomes so fascinated Joker in his sessions, she becomes obsessively in love with him. Harley wears white makeup, pink/blue eye shadow, a black and red sleeveless top, a satin jacket, fingerless gloves, opaque stockings, a garter belt and boots. She blue eyes and has blonde hair with blue dip dye on the left side and pink dip dye on the right of her pigtails. She speaks in a Brooklyn accent.
 * Punch and Jewelee: A pair of two married criminals who serve as henchmen for the Joker and Harley Quinn. They used to be puppeteers from Brooklyn, New York.
 * Punch:
 * Jewelee:
 * The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot (Dana Snyder): A ruthless crime boss and both a legit businessman and entrepreneur who's the owner of the Iceberg Lounge in Gotham as a front for his criminal activities. Oswald is the only survivor of Gotham's wealthy high-society, the Cobblepot family whose members had a constant known rivalry with the Waynes. This version is more muscular and somewhat unevenly-shaped as his legs are smaller than the top half of his body. His personal umbrella is powerful device with a variety of built-in weapons and gadgets such as: Laser guns, sword blades, darts, flamethrower.
 * Bane (J.B. Blanc): A large, hulking super-powered assassin from Santa Prisca and a dangerous foe of Batman. Bane is a merciless, intimidating, cold, brutal and powerful assassin who relies on brute strength, ruthlessness cunning strategic tactics, and a highly super-steroid compound known as Venom. At first he was an assassin, Bane is actually the leader of his own Militia, a group of Peña Duro inmates turned mercenaries from Central American country of Santa Prisca. His goal is to break the Batman. Bane wears a black sleeveless muscle shirt that is tucked in his grey cargo pants with studded/armored knee pads. His belt has a fairly large buckle. He wears black fingerless gloves and black boots. Bane's storage container on his back is a system of metallic tubes which are connected to his wrists, activated by the apparatus on each on his wrists. The storage tank is protected with reinforced steel. He wears a Black/White luchador mask with visible red eyes with a metal faceplate covering his nose and mouth. He also has metal protection on his arms and legs. When using Venom, Bane's physical stability increases his bone density, size and upper body strength, making him bulkier to superhuman levels, granting him Super strength, Durability, and stamina. Bane is a extremely tough and highly-experienced trained fighter with powerful brawling, self improvised boxing and wrestling fighting techniques. Bane's fighting ability combined with his peak strength and endurance make him a highly formidable and dangerous opponent for any non-meta and many Metahuman foes, even the mighty Superman himself. He was convinced by Joker to arrive in Metropolis with his Militia forces to rendezvous him and Harley in few days to set a trap for Superman as he knew Batman would soon follow him. If Batman does happen to intervene, he's capable of killing two birds with on stone. He had no interest in the money
 * Bird/Angel Vallelungua (Christian Lanz): Bane's lieutenant and second-in-command of his militia.
 * Trogg (Eric Bauza):
 * Killer Croc/Waylon Jones (John DiMaggio) A deformed criminal with the appearance and characteristics of both a crocodile and alligator. Born with a rare condition that gave him scaly skin, Waylon was constantly bullied and taunted by other children and feared by other adults in his youth. Over the years, Waylon's genetic mutation caused his body to grow to grotesque proportions, becoming more reptilian than human until adulthood. He has low intelligence but great strength, a thick hide and a formidable tail. He soon made his way upstate to Gotham city to make a name for himself. This version is more reptilian and crocodile-like than other versions, fitting better with his alias. Depicts a dinosaur-like head, three toed feet, and four fingered claws. He has yellow eyes w/h black slit pupils. He has green scaly hide and a dark yellow chest. He wears dark blue torn shorts with his tail sticking out. He followed Joker to Metropolis after he escaped from Blackgate Penitentiary and found a large chunk of kryptonite he stumbled bottom of the Gotham River. He gave his share with Joker to have his part of taking on the Man of Steel.
 * Two Face/Harvey Dent (Travis Willingham) A District Attorney in Gotham City and a close friend of Bruce Wayne. until one fateful night, The Joker insanely threw a vile of sulfuric acid at Dent, burning the left side of his face and body. The wounds fractured Dent's psyche, developed a split personality and he was reborn as Two-Face: a schizoid criminal mastermind, obsessed with duality.
 * Poison Ivy/Pamela Isley (Peyton List): An eco-terrorist and supervillainess who can control all forms of plant life. Pamela used to be a senior as Gotham High with a strange obsession with botany, plants and environmentalism, her classmate described her has a "Plant loving weirdo" or '"eco-freak", all except for Barbara Gordon who sees Isley as misunderstood person who deeply cares about the earth. One fateful night, after a failed science experiment gone horribly wrong, Pamela was exposed the genetically enhanced chlorophyll toxins in her bloodstream, transforming her into a human-plant hybrid with the power to mentally control all forms of flora, a unique immunity to all poisons/toxins and a pheromone-fueled seduction towards all men. She adopted the name, "Poison Ivy" and turned to a life crime with a long term goal to preserve the environment and whip out humanity for destroying it and recreate the planet only for plant life. Poison Ivy is a beautiful and a very attractive woman with long flowing red hair, green eyes, light green skin. She wears a green one piece bathing suit which is adorned with leaves, green high heeled boots adorned in leaves.
 * Firefly/Garfield Lynns (Crispin Freeman): An arsonist and pyromaniac hotshot thrill-seeker who specializes in incendiary devices. Garfield Lynns started out as a petty teenage criminal who soon developed an obsessive personality of pyromania after staring at flames for hours at a burning build. Firefly is also another villain from Gotham recruited and hired by the Joker into kidnapping Lois Lane to lure Superman. Firefly's weapons and paraphernalia included a heat ray on both arms, thermite grenades, a high-tech flamethrower, a battle suit with a jetpack (which sounded like a fly when it was used.) His flame resistant battle suit is based on "The Batman" version, but his jetpack is equipped with cyber insect-like wings that flap rapidly to increase speed and they deploys small firefly-like sentries that shot thermite lasers.
 * The Riddler/Edward Nigma (Wally Wingert): A distinguished criminal genius and a hacker whose schemes an obsession with riddles, puzzles, word games and always leaves complex clues behind for the authorities to solve during his crimes. ???. He carries a golden cane with a glowing green "?" on the top. This version wears a white bowl-shape helmet mask with violet lenses and a large glowing green stylized "?" in the middle to improve his namesake, making his identity more of a riddle to solve.
 * Black Mask/Roman Sionis (Keith Ferguson): A corrupt business man and a feared crime boss in Gotham City who wears a metallic black mask resembling a human skull. While to the public Roman is the CEO of Sionis Industries and uses it as a front for his criminal activities. Black Mask is renowned for his brutally sadistic physical and psychological torture techniques, which he uses to gain information from his victims by torturing them for his entertainment. He wields two automatic pistols and two black brass knuckles. Roman has an average physical build, and preferred to wear white suits and black ties.
 * Tiffany Ambrose: A criminal and the sadistic girlfriend of Black Mask. Tiffany was once a pole dancer for various nightclubs in danger parts of Gotham. One night after being fire, she was chased into a warehouse by three muggers when she was saved by Roman Sionis and his henchmen. Tiffany has light brown eyes and long blond hair in a pony tail.
 * Mr. Freeze/Victor Fries (Oded Fehr): A cryogenic scientist and a on/off enemy of Batman. Victor was once a shy and lonely cryogenics researcher at GothCorp after he found happiness when he met a beautiful woman named, Nora and two were eventually married months later. After his wife was diagnosed with a rare fatal disease, Victor used a cryogenics chamber to place Nora in suspended animation until he can find a cure. However after being attacked by a mob boss, Fries was exposed to a fume of cryochemicals in an explosion, altering is metabolism, he became dependent on sub-zero temperatures to survive and began using his experimental inventions to commit crimes in efforts to fund his research and save his wife's life. He built himself a specialized survival suit to maintain his core temperature sub-zero with an organic super coolant and armed with Cryogenic Freeze ray. Mr. Freeze was forced to come to Metropolis by The Joker who blackmailed him into helping him destroying Superman after he threatened Victor of harming his beloved wife, Nora Fries while in her cryostasis. If Victor helps Joker, he'll give him his wife back in return.
 * Clayface/Basil Karlo (Dave B. Mitchell): A former film actor who was transformed into a living mass of muddy clay. Karlo was once and unattractive and untalented actor in science fiction films. He later injects himself with an experimental compound he had stolen from GothCorp. He became a large living mass of Malleable Clay and takes the name from his role, Clayface. Imbued with superhuman abilities, Clayface can regenerate body mass, change his shape, size, density and shapeshift into any form he could think of. He can launch parts of his body into solid weapons like spiked maces, swords, spears, knives, axes, hammers, etc. Clayface has and orange/brown mud-like body structure w/h yellow eyes and crooked teeth.
 * Scarecrow/Jonathan Crane (Jeffrey Combs): A nightmarish villain who uses his fear gas to terrorize his victims to break minds of Gotham. Dr. Jonathan Crane was former professor at Gotham University an expert of psychology; specializing in fear and phobias. Crane created a powerful hallucinogenic chemical compound known as "Fear Gas" which causes his victims' to hallucinate and imagine their worst fears, sometimes effects also drives the victim unstable and insane. Crane was eventually fired by the faculty staff after wounding of the students in his classroom. Finally snapped, Crane became the Scarecrow to exact his revenge on those who wronged him. This led him into conflict with the Batman
 * Deadshot/Floyd Lawton (Christian Slater): A gun for hire and known as the World's deadliest marksman and assassin.
 * Rupert Thorn (Brian Blessed): A local crime boss in Gotham City.
 * Solomon Grundy/Cyrus Gold (Fred Tatasciore):
 * Electrocutioner/Lester Buchinsky (Rob Huebel):
 * Ratcatcher/Otis Flannegan (Charlie Day):
 * Velvet Tiger/Lani Gilbert: The first enemy of Batgirl and former friend of Barbara Gordon. Lani was a high school student born from a wealthy family that turned to life of crime which inadvertently led to the existence of Batgirl. Lani has amber eyes w/h feline features and red hair dyed neon orange. She wears a tiger themed body suit with high heeled boots and artificial tail.
 * Shang Long: A Chinese gangster who was transformed him into a humanoid Chinese Dragon after being cursed by a mystical amulet he attempted to steal. Long is one of the most dangerous crime bosses in Gotham and is in full control of it's Chinatown district. In Gotham, Long has aligned himself with several other crime lords like Penguin an Black Mask. Long has maroon scales and an orange underside, ivory white hair, yellow horns, lime green eyes w/h black slit pupils, fangs and talon claws. He wears a grey tuxedo with a ivory-white inner dress shirt, a green necktie and black & white leather formal dress shoes.
 * The League of Assassins
 * Ra's al Ghul
 * Talia al Ghul
 * Nyssa al Ghul
 * Ubu (Clancy Brown)
 * Hook
 * Cheshire (Kari Wahlgren)

Gotham City

 * Wayne Manor: A masion estate on the outskirts of Gotham City from across the river and is the home of the Wayne family
 * The Batcave: The secret HQ of Batman, an underground cave beneath Wayne Manor
 * Wayne Enterprises:
 * GCPD:
 * Iceburg Lounge: A trendy and posh nightclub own by Penguin in Gotham City. It's a two story tall restaurant and nightclub that includes an arctic theme with an artificial lake with an iceberg for real seals and penguins in the center dining area inside, an iceberg-like sculpture in the pool, an ice themed dance floor, and polar décor. A tuxedo jazz band on the sculpture is often seen playing musical tunes. Penguin's regular staff for the Iceberg Lounge were several men and  attractive women in bowler hats who doubled as his criminal henchmen. Though the Penguin usually avoided direct criminal activity once he began acting as a "Legitimate Businessman", he still found it necessary to use them as bodyguards or assassins.
 * GothCorp: A research and development
 * Ace Chemicals: A Processing Plant in Gotham
 * Crime Alley
 * Arkham Asylum: Gotham City's psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, founded by Amadeus Arkham.
 * Blackgate Penitentiary: Gotham's main maximum security prison.

Others

 * Santa Prisca

Episodes
List of Season 1 Episodes

The Origin of Batman Pt. 1:

The Origin of Batman Pt. 2

The Bat and the Cat

Too Many Questions?

Two Face Pt. 1

Two Face Pt. 2

The Secret Serum

Freeze!

Hitman

The Way of the Bird

Gearhead

Riddler's Plan

Crocodile Dundee

Vendetta

The Man Who Laughs

Fear Factor

Ignition Point

Behind the Mask

Joker TV

Catwoman Returns

The Edge of the Sword Pt. 1

The Edge of the Sword Pt. 2

Trivia
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