Batman: The Animated Series was the beginning of animator Bruce Timm’s career in bringing DC’s finest to life and legendary voice actor Kevin Conroy’s career in giving one of history’s finest portrayals of the Dark Knight.
Furthermore, it requires little effort to argue how the show’s feature-length theatrical spin-off, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, is the greatest Batman movie ever made.
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The noir-inspired visual style (animated on black paper), the intense quarrels with villainy (shoutout to Mark Hamill’s Joker), and being one of the few adaptations to honor Bruce Wayne’s detective skills makes this series the crown jewel of Batman’s television legacy in my opinion, with all due respect to the late Adam West.