Unfamiliar with the darker iterations of the character, Conroy initially channeled the late, great Adam West’s version of the Dark Knight for Batman: The Animated Series.
This year marks the 25th anniversary of Batman: The Animated Series, the seminal Batman cartoon that defined the hero for a generation of kids in the ’90s.
So when [Batman: TAS producer] Bruce Timm asked me what I knew about Batman, I immediately mentioned the TV show and he screamed, ‘No, no, no!
Longtime Batman voice actor Kevin Conroy has revealed he didn’t immediately understand what sort of Caped Crusader he would be portraying.