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Inside the Outsiders!
Original Airdate - November 6th, 2009
Batman and the Outsiders are under a
metaphysical attack by Psycho Pirate. Batman
enters the Mindscape and helps Black Lightning,
Katana and Metamorpho battle their own personal
demons.
Written by Alex Van Dyne
Directed by Brandon
Vietti
Animation by Digital eMation, INC
Review & Summary by Andrew
Media by Warner Bros. Animation |
Cast
Diedrich Bader as Batman
Nika Futterman as
Catwoman
Kim Mai Guest as Katana
Scott
Menville as Metamorpho
Paul Nakauchi as Takeo
/ Takahiro
Bumper Robinson as Black Lightning
Armin Shimerman as Psycho Pirate
James Arnold
Taylor as Green Arrow
Music
Theme Written and Performed by Andy Strumer
Music by Michael McCuisition, Lolita Ritmanis,
Kristopher Carter
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Review
Oh no, another episode with the Outsiders? That
certainly didn’t sound appealing to me, and my low
expectations weren’t improved any with the annoying
teaser. Batman and Green Arrow take on the rather
hideously interpreted Catwoman, but without any
pre-establishment whatsoever, they immediately delve
into the romance between the Dark Knight and his “Cat
Burglar” foe. Not only coming off as pointless and far
too forced, it’s incredibly hypocritical as well. In the
falsely-titled episode, “Night of the Huntress!” Batman
scorns Blue Beetle for letting his romantic interests
get in the way. Batman even lets Catwoman eventually get
away despite the protests of Green Arrow. If this had
been any other hero doing this, then Batman would have
spent the entire time verbally ripping them a new hole.
Brave and the Bold’s writers dabble into the end-all,
be-all stature of Batman.
Ironically, the main
story involving the Outsiders trio is the redeeming
aspect of this episode. The past Outsiders exploits in
the show have teetered on the edge of ridiculous and
obnoxious, however, this time they’re given the
opportunity to be involved in a decent story. Batman
comes across Psycho Pirate who is holding the Outsiders
in a series of stasis-like pods, and feeding off their
anger as he provokes them through nightmares. Not
entirely original, but it does differ enough from
episodes of previous series that have used similar
plots, and keeps a fun aspect throughout it that never
gets annoying. Batman has to round up each Outsider and
break them out of their nightmares by witnessing each of
their tortured memories.
This is where you expect
it to get into clichéd nightmares for the characters,
but fortunately they managed to take a unique approach
to them. Out of the three, I have to say I like Katana’s
the best even though it was the one that was most
borderline-cliched. Metamorpho had nearly the weakest
one, but it was still well done - and made this
manifestation of Metamorpho somewhat interesting.
Eventually Psycho Pirate realizes that he no longer has
control over them, and creates a fake reality for Batman
to wake up and think the Outsiders are now dead. Even if
it is short-lived, it’s a great twist to the
emotional-dabbling. Batman eventually overpowers Psycho
Pirate by realizing that happiness is the weakness, and
manages to think happy thoughts in order to defeat him.
The episode ends greatly with the mystery of what are
happy thoughts to Batman, and fortunately doesn’t spoil
it by showing us. Finally a decent exploit for the
Outsiders, even if the episode is burdened by a
ridiculous teaser.
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