As with most animated Batman media, Kevin Conroy has provided the voice of the character in these games.

Controversy has arisen over various sexual interpretations made regarding the content of Batman comics in the early decades.

Writer Alan Grant has stated, " The Batman I wrote for 13 years isn't gay.

" While Frank Miller has described the relationship between Batman and the Joker as a " homophobic nightmare ," he views the character as sublimating his sexual urges into crimefighting, concluding, " He'd be much healthier if he were gay.

1984 – 2000 ) has even more potential starting points, but is generally agreed to be the publication of Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Alan Moore's Watchmen by DC Comics in 1986, as well as the publication of DC's Crisis on Infinite Earths, written by Marv Wolfman with pencils by George Pérez.

In one scene of Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Clark becomes aware of an emergency while talking with Bruce Wayne and, in the next panel, he has flown out of his Kent clothing and glasses so quickly that they have had no time to fall.

He has since been nominated for four Academy Awards and won a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media for Tim Burton's Batman and an Emmy Award for his Desperate Housewives theme.

His writing, particularly the so-called Cthulhu Mythos, has influenced fiction authors worldwide, and Lovecraftian elements can be found in novels, films, movies, music, video games, comic books ( e. g. the use of Arkham Insane Asylum in The Batman comic book series ), and even cartoons.

He is known for his roles in two Batman movies, Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, and has had minor roles in Saved by the Bell, Ally McBeal, McMillan & Wife, and various other series since the 1970s.

It is later revealed that Batman has acquired a fair amount of every variety of the alien material, keeping his samples in the Batcave.

He has also been voiced in animation by Jackson Beck in the 1960s series The New Adventures of Superman, Stan Jones in the 1970s / 1980s Super Friends franchise, Michael Bell in the 1988 Superman animated series, and by Clancy Brown in the 1990s / 2000s DC animated universe, as well as a 2007 episode of The Batman and the 2009 direct-to-DVD animated feature Superman / Batman: Public Enemies, among others.

" When Batman confronts Rohtul, he has one of his robots open a compartment that contains Quartz.

* An underlying motif or theme that affects the hero's name, costume, personal effects, and other aspects of his or her character ( e. g., Batman wears a bat-themed costume, uses bat-themed gadgetry and equipment and operates at night ; Spider-Man can shoot webs from his hands, has a spider web pattern on his costume, and other spider-like abilities ).

For Asheron's Call, Andy Cataldo aka Frelorn has been the Community Manager and has more recently been working on other WB titles including Batman: Arkham City and Gotham City Impostors.

She has had her greatest commercial successes with Batman Returns ( 1992 ), What Lies Beneath ( 2000 ), and Hairspray ( 2007 ).

This 3 issue mini series follows immediately after the events of " Brightest Day ", and follows the actions of John Constantine as he tries to work out what has changed with Swamp Thing, and track him down, with the assistance of Zatanna, Batman and Superman.

They were built to house the construction of airships in WW1 and whilst one has been used for many purposes, such as a film set for Charlie and the Chocolate factory and Batman Returns and rehearsal space for Take That.

A year is never specified, though it has been a full decade since the last reported sighting of Batman, the current American President appears to be Ronald Reagan or someone using his image, and the Cold War is still ongoing.

Seeking to discredit Batman, whom he has crusaded against in the media, Wolper appears with the Joker on a late-night talk show.

Batman and Robin free her, and track the Joker to a county fair, where he has already murdered many people.

It was followed by the sequel Batman: Arkham City ( 2011 ), which also received widespread acclaim and holds a Metacritic ranking of 94 %.

For example a B205 console was often shown in the television series Batman as the Bat Computer ; also as the computer in Lost in Space.

* There are also a few scenes in Seasons 1 and 2 as well as The Batman vs Dracula film where Batman / Bruce is being hunted down and then cornered by the GCPD's SWAT Team in an abandoned building.

* The scene where Bruce being a child falls into the cave and see a bat as his inspiration and his fear ( also used in Batman Begins ), something not mentioned in the prequels of Tim Burton.

During this period, they also began to experiment with cutting-edge comedy concepts such as the original ( unreleased ) Filet of Soul and Jan & Dean Meet Batman.

There are also internet memes with a picture of Batman and the caption " I can punch you so hard words will appear in thin air.

" They also had songs featured in the movies The X-Files film ( Fight the Future ), Batman and Robin, Tommy Boy and Spawn ( a song called " A Plane Scraped Its Belly on a Sooty Yellow Moon ", a collaboration with drum and bass artist Roni Size.

It also became a major inspiration for the successful 1990s cartoon Batman: The Animated Series, in as much as the darkness of the picture and its sequel allowed for a darker Batman on television.

Warner Bros. also made major profits on films built around the characters of Superman and Batman, owned by Warner Bros. subsidiary DC Comics.

Eastwood was also cast as Two-Face in the Batman television show, but the series was canceled before filming began.

Toy Story was the highest grossing domestic film in 1995, beating Batman Forever and Apollo 13 ( also starring Tom Hanks ).

He also began work on a number of musical projects, including Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic and early drafts of his Graffiti Bridge film, but both were put on hold when he was asked by Batman director Tim Burton to record several songs for the upcoming live-action adaptation.

Melbourne was founded in 1835 by John Batman, also from Van Diemen's Land and quickly grew into a thriving community, although at great human cost to the original inhabitants.

For example, 2001's Ocean's Eleven is a remake of the 1960 film, while 1989's Batman is a re-interpretation of the comic book source material which also inspired 1966's Batman.

IGN Comics ranked The Dark Knight Returns # 2 on a list of the 25 greatest Batman graphic novels, second only to Batman: Year One, also written ( though not drawn ) by Miller.

" " Gone are the traits that define Batman ," also citing " misuse of the central character.

Later, Miller told Snyder: “ You can do it anytime you want to, Zack .” Batman film franchise producer Michael Uslan also expressed interest in a possible adaptation.

* The character also co-starred in the three-issue comic book miniseries Harley and Ivy, and was given her swan song in the critically acclaimed The Batman Adventures comic book series, which contains stories about Batman's adventures in Gotham City after a break from the Justice League.

In 1995, Barrymore starred in Boys on the Side opposite Whoopi Goldberg and Mary-Louise Parker, and had a cameo role in Joel Schumacher's film Batman Forever, in which she portrayed a moll to Tommy Lee Jones ' character, Two-Face.

She starred as " Rhoda the Robot " in the TV series My Living Doll ( 1964 – 1965 ), and is known for her recurring role in the 1960s TV series Batman as the Catwoman, the " purrfect " villainess.

She also starred as guest villain " Zelda the Great " in two episodes of the superhero show Batman.

* Scarecrow was one of the villains planned to star in Batman Triumphant, the fifth in the Batman film series, which would have starred Scarecrow as the main antagonist of the film.

In 2011, Winkler guest starred as Ambush Bug in the series finale of Batman: The Brave and the Bold.

Halle Berry starred in a stand-alone Catwoman film in 2004, which was a box-office flop, and bears little to no resemblance to the Batman character.

He also starred in Mother Machree, the title of which would coincidentally become sidekick Chief O ' Hara's catchphrase in the Batman television show nearly 4 decades later.

During the film's title sequence, there are references to television's Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the films Batman, King Kong, The Sound of Music ( which starred Blake Edwards's wife, Julie Andrews ), Dracula AD 1972, Singin ' in the Rain, Steamboat Bill Jr., and Sweet Charity, putting the Pink Panther character and the animated persona of Inspector Clouseau into recognizable events from said movies.

It starred Hawk-Owl and Woody, two characters who were purposefully designed as blatant parodies of Batman and Robin.

" Actors Adam West and Burt Ward, who starred in the television series Batman as Batman and Robin, respectively, guest starred in " Large Marge " as those characters.

Legends of the Superheroes starred Adam West and Burt Ward, reprising their roles as Batman and Robin from the live-action Batman TV series.

Vengeance took environmental and character designs from The New Batman Adventures, and starred most of the main voice cast from both it and its predecessor, Batman: The Animated Series.

In 1956, he guest starred in " The Deadly Rock ," an episode of The Adventures of Superman which was the first time a Batman actor shared screen time with a Superman actor, although Lowery and Reeves had appeared together in their pre-superhero days in a WWII anti-VD propaganda film, " Sex Hygiene.