Template:Batman: The Dark Knight (My Version)

Batman: The Dark Knight (My Version) is an animated superhero series written by MaryamSahibzada. Taking inspiration from certain Movies/Cartoons involving the Caped Crusader, the series follows the adventures of Bruce Wayne, also known as Batman, fighting against crimes in Gotham City.

Summary
Bruce Wayne is a billionaire who is famous and well-known among the Socialites in Gotham City. As one of the wealthiest men in the city, Bruce has the personality of an eccentric, self-absorbed and flirtatious person with an interest in women. But this is all a façade to hide his true personality as a cold, but depressingly traumatized man with a dark past. No one realizes that he is none other than Batman, a mysterious dark knight who fights against crimes and the corruption in the city. In his adventures, Batman has to protect the city from certain enemies like the Joker, Penguin and the Riddler.

Main Characters
Troy Baker as: Bruce Wayne/Batman

Age: 30

Description: He is one of the well-known billionaires in Gotham City, Bruce suffers from a dark past that took the lives of his loving parents at the hands of a criminal, which motivated him to serve peace and justice and vowing to stop these criminals at all cost, thus he became a vigilante called Batman. To hide his true personality and identity, he puts on the mask of an eccentric and self-absorbed billionaire. He has a complicated rivalry with the Joker who is his arch-nemesis.

Anthony Head as: Alfred Pennyworth

Age: Late 70s

Description: A calm, polite and gentle old man who serves as the butler to the Wayne Family for many generations, he took care of young Bruce after his parents’ death and the only one who knew his hero identity as Batman. Despite somewhat lecturing him for putting his life at risk, Alfred cares for Bruce’s well-being and was proud of the young boy who grew to become a man with a sense of justice and strict with dealing the crimes in the City.

Scott Menville as: Richard "Dick" Grayson/Robin

Age: 13

Description: Dick is a young boy who became Batman's apprentice and first sidekick known as Robin. At the age of 10, he was a younger member of the Flying Graysons, alongside his parents and was once a part of the Circus crew. Unfortunately, his parents got killed when they fall to their death, all thanks to a criminal named Tony Zucco who is responsible for snapping the rope. Soon, Bruce decided to adopt the young Dick as his son and brought him into his manor where Dick learns about Bruce's identity as Batman. With Bruce taking him under his wing, Dick became a trained hero called "Robin" who vows to put an end to the crimes on Gotham.

Mae Whitman as: Barbara Gordon/Batgirl

Age: 18

Description: She is a teenage girl who is the daughter of Jim Gordon, and is studying in Gotham High School. After learning about Batman's existence in Gotham, she looks up to him as her idol and aspires to be a hero like him, though her father is protective of her well-being, and forbid her from entering the Police Department until she completed her education. Intelligent, smart and a tech genius, she is able to invent her own hi-tech gadgets and gears, and became a vigilant known as Batgirl to fight against crimes in Gotham. After an encounter with Batman and Robin, she became a part of the Bat Family, and has to keep her identity as a secret from her father. She and Dick sometimes bicker with one another, but Barbara cares for Dick as the little brother she never had. Barbara is also close friends with her classmate Luke Fox, but has feelings for him.

Khary Payton as: Luke Fox/Batwing

Age: 17

Description: Luke is an easy-going, but serious African teenager, who is close friends with Barbara Gordon, and held feelings for her. He is also the son of Lucius Fox, who is one of Bruce's allies and the president of Wayne Enterprise. Despite his close relationship with his father, Luke does not agree with him to become the next president of the Enterprise, and seeks to walk down a new path of his own. After Joker and Harley put others in danger, including his father, Luke tries to defend him and the others by fighting against Joker and Harley on his own until he was saved by Batman and Batgirl, and somehow he accidentally discovers their secret identities. To assist them in taking down the Prince of Clown and his Lover, Bruce gave him a new batsuit where Luke became Batwing. He also has a younger sister named Tiffany who looks up to Batgirl as her idol.

Supporting Characters

Bryan Cranston as: Jim Gordon

Age: 45

Description: Jim serves as a commissioner in the Gotham City Police Department. As a young man, he was the one who met young Bruce for the first time when arriving at the crime scene. Like Batman, Jim Gordon has a firm sense of justice and seeks to help out those in need. At first, he didn’t believe that Batman was real and thought he was a mere myth in Gotham. However, he was proven wrong when he witnessed Batman’s fight against a criminal who tries to kill his junior partner, but decided to keep it as a secret since Batman does not want any public attention from the civilians, due to fearing that his involvement will put others in danger.

Grey DeLisle as: Vicki Vale

Age: 29

Description: Vicki Vale is a journalist who came to Gotham City to get stories about the mysterious Batman. As one of the few people who believes that Batman is real, Vicki seeks to find answers about him, but surprisingly met up with Bruce Wayne who started to show interest in her. Despite being slightly annoyed by his antics, Vicki shows her feelings for him, but both are uncertain if their feelings are mutual, with Bruce worrying that his Batman persona will put her in danger.

Villains
Troy Baker as: Jack Napier/The Joker

Age: Early 40s

Description: He is a psychopathic jokester who takes pleasure in killing his victims and being an insanely evil criminal with no humane emotions. He is known for his twisted sense of humor and habit of laughing in an insane way. Because of his killing methods, Joker became Batman’s arch-nemesis, due to their conflicts in the story. Joker also loves to taunt the dark knight by getting him into complicated traps in an attempt to kill him, though his schemes always fail in the end.

Tara Strong as: Harleen Quinzel/Harley Quinn

Age: Late 30s

Description: Harley Quinn serves as the hilarious, but psychopathic female clown who is Joker's partner-in-crime. Before she became a villain, she was formerly a psychiatrist who visited Joker's cell when he was a prisoner in the Arkham Asylum. Due to the insane villain developing an interest in her, Joker somehow manages to manipulate her mind, greatly messing up her mental state, and causing her to fall in love with the Joker. Soon, the two became partners-in-crime and work together to cause more trouble in Gotham City and attempting to kill Batman once and for all.

Tom Kenny as: Oswald Cobblepot/The Penguin

Age: Late 50s

Description: The Penguin is one of the crime lords in Gotham, and was known for his sinister schemes. He acts like a perfect gentleman, but can be calculating, cunning and clever in some ways. He secretly owns a nightclub called the Iceberg Lounge which serves as a base of operation for criminals who visited the nightclub. As a child, he was bullied mercilessly by other kids for his penguin-like appearance. The only ones he liked most was his birds and his late mother. But after the death of his mother and his bird shop being shut down, Penguin held a grudge against the Gothamites.

Laura Bailey as: Selina Kyle/Catwoman

Age: 27

Description: Selina Kyle is a mysterious cat burglar with an interest in stealing the most valuable items from Gotham's most wealthy people. As a child, she was abandoned by her mother, and leaving her in the streets of Gotham, thus she was unable to live a very happy life during her childhood, and had been living the life of a street-smart kid until a certain young boy gave her some money for her survival. She is cunning, swift, and a daring villainess. Despite being one of Batman's enemies, she usually goes soft on her rivals mainly the Dark Knight that caught her attention.

Neil Patrick Harris as: Edward Nygma/The Riddler

Age: Late 30s

Description: The Riddler is a criminal with an obsession for riddles and puzzles, and known for solving the riddles, thanks to his intellect. He is flamboyant, but clever in most ways when making things difficult for the Dark Knight. While not as violent as the Joker, Riddler became a difficult adversary for Batman, due to creating complicated traps for him, all thanks to his obsession for riddles.

Alyssa Milano as: Pamela Isley/Poison Ivy

Age: Early 30s

Description: Poison Ivy is a cunning, but dangerous villainess with a love for her plants, due to being an expert in botany. Before becoming a supervillain, Poison Ivy was once a shy and sweet scientist who was interested in studying plants, but her life has fallen apart when someone has caused a lab accident, and spreading green gases all over the room, causing her to transform into an evil villain with the ability to control plants. Filled with revenge, she seeks to destroy those who gets in her way of revenge, and becoming one of Batman's worst enemies.

Carlos Alazraqui as: Bane

Age: Mid 30s.

Description: One of the strongest and brutish criminals in Gotham, Bane was once a test subject in the Peña Duro prison, and given a drug called the Venom, thus giving him physical strength. Thanks to his Venom drug, Bane became a feared criminal among the fugitives in Gotham City. Unlike any other ordinary villains, Bane serves as a huge threat to Batman and Gotham City.

Brian T. Delaney as: Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow

Age: 40

Description: Scarecrow is one of Batman’s worst enemies, known for his obsession for fear and being the most menacing criminal in Gotham City. Back in the past, he was a mad scientist and a psychologist at Arkham Asylum, using toxic fear upon his victims. But after an experiment went wrong, Crane was fired from his job. Filled with anger and vengeance, Crane became a criminal to destroy those who get in his way.

Trivia

 * Batman: The Dark Knight will get inspiration from certain movies/cartoons involving the Dark Knight such as Tim Burton's Batman Movies, Batman: TAS, The Dark Knight Trilogy, The Batman (2004), and some others.