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Because generally, it's the rogues gallery, and there's a limit to that.'īader said, however, that playing the series lead presented some challenges for a comic actor like himself because Batman was often the straight man to more over-the-top characters like John DiMaggio's Aquaman. So for him it was really intense-one, for his dad to be Batman, but two, to see all these characters that he knew and loved and are underutilized. My son, he's such a comic book fan-he bought the encyclopedia for DC long before I was Batman, and then memorized the whole thing. Ten Eyes, and Zebra Man, and Crazy Quilt. 'And we really reached into the lexicon of superheroes and also the supervillains. We didn't exploit Batman, we never pushed him in a direction he couldn't go, but we did take him in a different direction,' Bader said. 'It was interesting, because I talked to Kevin Smith, and this Batman is one of his favorites. Though consistent with multiple portrayals of the Dark Knight, including West's, Bader's light-hearted Batman stands out amongst modern versions. And this show took that tone I really appreciated.' When it took a very different and dark direction, I didn't really go with it,' Bader said 'I wasn't the biggest fan -I prefered Adam. 'The Batman that I really fell in love with was Adam West's.

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Romano and Diedrich Bader, who played Batman in 'Brave and the Bold,' both cited the 1960s Adam West TV show as their first and primary exposure to Batman. 'Batman: The Brave and the Bold' releases its first season on Blu-ray November 5. I personally like to change the material up a little bit and find different layers rather than just replicating it.' It's better to adapt that material to suite that medium, whether it's intended for film or television or whatever.

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As a comic book can't compete with a movie they're totally different. Because comic books can do what comic books do, and nothing can do it better the movie will never compete with the comic books. With the television shows, you kind of have to stretch it a little bit and adapt it even moreso, but I like that because it's giving the fans something different than just translating comic books to screen. It's easier to adapt that material to be true to the sources. Whereas the movies, we're mainly gearing them toward fans of the genre, people who know the characters and may be comic book collectors. 'You have to appeal to people who don't know the comic books. 'With TV shows, there's a different mandate because the audience is a lot broader,' Tucker said. In addition to animated series such as 'Brave and the Bold,' 'Justice League' and 'Legion of Super-Heroes,' Tucker is also a producer on DC's animated features including 'Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox' and the upcoming 'Justice League: War.' The full-length movies tend to adapt classic storylines while television series have played a bit more loosely with their comic book inspirations, with 'Brave and the Bold' and 'Teen Titans Go!' being especially a clear divergence from the source. all this stuff we normally couldn't encompass in a series about Batman, that I thought we could take advantage of.' That was the original plan and then we kind of went into a more meta direction where we explored Batman as a pop-icon - the fact that we touched on 'The Dark Knight Returns' and the Schumacher films, the Adam West show, of course. It's a little more action-oriented, a little lighter in tone. 'I went back to 'Brave and the Bold,' the comic book's roots.

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