When compared to the original cut of this scene, Conroy enunciates better than Bale’s more animalistic growls, and the speech is far clearer in tone and quality.
Of course, that video is even more impressive when we consider the Batman that Kevin Conroy is going up against.
In many ways, it feels like it could easily belong in a darker entry in DC Animation’s long line of films and TV shows — it potentially even rivals the climactic speech from last year’s The Killing Joke.
Christian Bale was undoubtedly one of the better actors to ever step into the cape and cowl, but most people generally seem to have come to a consensus that his voice was one of the worst aspects of the charter.