Batman Just Got Upstaged By a Bunch of Teens and a Talking Dog

One would think that Batman , often aver to be the world ’s greatest investigator , would be able to envision out a simple closed book involve a criminal dressed up in an animal costume more expeditiously than a pack of meddling teen and their creepy-crawly talk dog . The most late instalment of Boomerang’sScooby - Doo and Guess Who ? would disagree .

In “ What a Night for a Dark Knight ” ( a nod to thevery first episodeof the original Scooby - Doo serial ) Scooby and the Gang make their way to Gotham City of all blank space , because it just so fall out that Daphne has a close connexion with her “ uncle ” Alfie Pennyworth . Alfred , Daphne explains , once worked as her kinsfolk ’s butler for a summer before eventually becoming a Blake family admirer who frequently played on their Marco Polo squad . Daphne ’s certain that Alfred will be joyful to see her , but just as the bunch record Gotham ’s city limits , they ’re head for the hills off the route by a recklessly - force Batman who ’s hightailing it somewhere in the Batmobile .

Because the minor and Scooby are all fans , they ’re too busy being excited to consider the fact that one of the worldly concern ’s most famous superheroes sent them into a tailspin and almost made them crash into a boulder — and their dizziness does n’t wear off until they arrive at Wayne Manor to find the blank space in shamble and Alfred quite missing . It ’s here that the Scooby - Doo - ness of Guess Who kicks in , because as good as the Kid can say , there ’s a mystery to be solved , and hunt for clues around big , creepy-crawly houses is kind of their matter . The job , of course , is that Wayne Manor is n’t just any sometime business firm , and the teens are n’t alone . Batman ( voiced by Kevin Conroy , becauseof form he is ) is there with them , but if he were to immediately reveal his presence to the Thomas Kid , it would raise a number of question about why , exactly , he was there given that no one at the residence , let in Bruce Wayne , seems to be present .

Scooby and the gang spotting Batman

Scooby and the gang spotting BatmanImage: (Boomerang)

As Mystery Inc. roll through the Manor , they do end up stumbling across a bit of clues about who broke in and seemingly nobble Alfred , and “ What a Night for a Dark Knight ” cleverly Riff on the one-time - school Scooby - Doo tale housing by framing Batman himself as the creepy lusus naturae lurking in the shadows . While there is a right criminal behind all the mayhem , the episode lean into the facet of Batman ’s presence that make him such a fearsome somebody when he ’s trying to restrain villain — albeit through the lens system of that kooky , spooky style of classic Scooby - Doo cartoons .

Batman has no reason to forthwith take that the small fry themselves are n’t responsible for for the interruption - in , and so he approaches them the way he would any other gang of brightly - dressed weirdos who rolled up into Gotham in a loud new wave : he haunt them and carefully immobilise them all with a mixture of chiropteran - theme gismo , before round off them all up for interrogation . The full point of Scooby - Doo and Guess Who ? is to mine comedy out of the idea of famous people crossing route with Mystery Inc. and getting into hijinks . When these Edgar Albert Guest principal are real multitude , the humour come from their ability to go with the general flow of Scooby - Doo style jokes . But with characters like Batman who come from worlds with their own established rules regarding incidents like this , what ’s curious is Batman ’s inability to immediately grasp the full picture of the situation .

When Fred render to explain to Batman that they ’re all detective ( kinda ) , Batman heterosexual person - up does n’t read . One imagines there ’s part of him that respond that way because he does n’t think children should be get into that kind of trouble — but that ’d be a rather hypocritical stance for him to take ( see : his sidekicks . ) In this peculiar example , it unquestionably seems like he ’s really just trying to get Mystery Inc. out of his way . But the more Batman speaks with the teens and the cad , it becomes increasingly obvious that they are n’t the culprit and that if Batman is n’t careful , they ’re unquestionably going to work out out his secret .

Fred damn-near outing Bruce Wayne, which is PEAK COMEDY.Image: (Boomerang)

Working together , Batman and Mystery Inc. distinguish someone who looks like Robert Langstrom , a.k.a . the Man - Bat , as the person who nobble Alfred , but when Batman get a line that Langstrom has n’t depart his cadre at Arkham , he finally realise that the mystery was always the variety of situation the teens were somewhat more equipped to see .

As always with Scooby - Doo , the monster ’s just a guy in a suit who the teens end up running away and hiding from , before attacking him in a tangled design that demand costume , a hose , and a come down chandelier that traps their aggressor , giving everyone a chance to uncloak him . Batman is n’t at all surprised to find the Joker ( voiced by Mark Hamill , because , likewise , of course ) behindi t all , comically beneath a mask that is also beneath a Man - Bat costume head , but not because he ’d infer his indistinguishability on his own . Batman admit that Velma leave him the necessary information to crack the guinea pig , and the Joker bemoans that he almost sure would have gotten away with his plan to hack into Bruce Wayne ’s back account after the kidnapping were it not for Scooby - Doo and those tamper kid kind of messing everything up for him . You acknowledge how it run .

By the instalment ’s death , none of Mystery Inc. lets on that they might have put two and two together and see out that Bruce Wayne and Batman are one and the same , and it ’s probable for the expert . They ’d all probably make excellent unexampled additions to the Bat Family , but to become that , they ’d have to go through all sorts of mess up traumas that they ’re much good off avoiding since they can avail it . That kind of inexorable iniquity is n’t Scooby ’s swiftness , which is why one of the last things you see as “ What a Night for a Dark Knight ” is the Mystery Machine parked out front quick to drive off .

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