The BEST episodes of The Batman
Every episode of The Batman ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Batman!
A young Bruce Wayne is in his third year of trying to establish himself as Batman, protector of Gotham City. He is in his mid-twenties, just finding his way as protector, defender and Caped Crusader, while balancing his public persona as billionaire bachelor Bruce Wayne. Living in Gotham, a metropolis where shadows run long and deep, beneath elevated train tracks, this younger Batman will confront updated takes of familiar foes - meeting each member of his classic Rogue's Gallery for the first time. From the likes of Joker, Penguin, Catwoman, Mr. Freeze, Riddler and Man-Bat, among others, the war on crime jumps to the next level with a new arsenal at the Dark Knight's disposal, all operated and linked by an advanced remote-controlled invention he dubs the "Bat-Wave."
#1 - Artifacts
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/3/2007
A thousand years into the future, the citizens of new Gotham must uncover the history of the Batman in order to stop a new Mr. Freeze.
#2 - The Batman/Superman Story (1)
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/2007
Batman and Superman find themselves teamed up when Lex Luthor begins his operations in Gotham City to take down his arch-nemesis, and employs a horde of the Batman's villains to do so.
#3 - The Batman/Superman Story (2)
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/2007
Batman and Robin must battle Superman, who is under Lex Luthor's mind control, as the villain plans to launch a wave of robots and take over the world's armies.
#4 - The Joining (2)
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/5/2007
Martian Manhunter's prediction of an alien invasion by The Joining has come true. As Batman tries to stop them on his own, he learns that even working with a team will stop The Joining.
#5 - RPM
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2005
A new villain, Gearhead, makes his first appearance robbing a charity race, and Batman soon finds himself forced to upgrade the Batmobile to keep up with the cybernetic bad guy.
#6 - The Bat in the Belfry
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/2004
The Batman finds himself dealing with a new breed of criminal when Joker takes over Arkham Asylum then plans to fly a hot air balloon filled with Joker Gas.
#7 - Meltdown
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/25/2005
Ethan Bennett is captured and put on trial for his crimes as Clayface. He's released on probation but finds the temptations of a criminal life too great.
#8 - Clayfaces
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/2006
Shape-shifting villain Clayface surrenders himself, promising to give up his criminal ways and hoping to earn a second chance for his alter ego, Ethan Bennett.
#9 - The Clayface of Tragedy
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/7/2005
Batman is pitted against a new villain named Clayface, who can transform his body as if it were clay and impersonate anyone he chooses! Before The Batman can stop him, he will learn Clayface's shocking dark secret!
#10 - White Heat
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/2007
Perpetual loser Firefly tries to upgrade his powers with the aid of his new girlfriend Blaze, but is exposed to radioactive phosphorous and takes on a new more dangerous identity as... Phosphorus.
#11 - Swamped
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/11/2005
Killer Croc, a half-man, half reptile plans to submerge all of Gotham in water in order to facilitate his plundering of the city.
#12 - Lost Heroes (1)
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/8/2008
The super-powered members of the Justice League begin disappearing one by one. Only Batman and Green Arrow are left to investigate and discover that old enemies are involved.
#13 - A Matter of Family
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/23/2006
After a young circus performer named Dick Grayson loses his parents to a criminal named Tony Zucco, Bruce Wayne adopts the young boy. Once Bruce's secret is revealed, Dick joins Batman as his new sidekick, Robin. Together, they set out to find Zucco and bring him to justice.
#14 - What Goes Up...
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/16/2008
When Black Mask hires Hawkman's arch-nemesis the Shadow Thief to break him out of Arkham and assist in the theft of a meteorite, Batman must team up with fellow Justice League member Hawkman to defeat the villains.
#15 - Traction
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2004
The Batman battles the masked criminal Bane, and once Bane activates his chemical-steroid-infusion, Batman finds himself outmatched by brute strength.
#16 - Batgirl Begins (2)
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/2005
After a chemical accident transforms her into a half-human half-plant being, Pam Isley takes the name Poison Ivy and sets out to destroy Gotham's environmental polluters.
#17 - The Man Who Would Be Bat
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/2004
Dr. Langstrom, a scientist in Wayne Industry's Genome Division, has been experimenting with bats, thus threatening to endanger Bruce's secret identity.
#18 - The Apprentice
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/11/2006
Inspired by the Batman/Batgirl partnership, the Joker decides to recruit his own sidekick and gain a partner in crime.
#19 - The Joining (1)
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/28/2007
Bruce discovers that Wayne Industries is distributing alien technology across the world, and gains the aid of a mysterious new ally.
#20 - Riddled
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/21/2005
A mysterious villain known as the Riddler challenges Yin, secretly helped by Batman, to a number of riddles. Things are not what they seem from the riddles...
#21 - Lost Heroes (2)
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/8/2008
The heroes fight their android counterparts to recover the Justice League's powers, while the Joining prepares for its final assault on Earth.
#22 - Batgirl Begins (1)
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/2005
While The Batman faces off against Temblor, a villain possessing seismic powers, we meet Commissioner Gordon's teenage daughter, Barbara.
#23 - Rumors
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/3/2007
The villains of Gotham City are disappearing, each one defeated and captured by an invisible vigilante named Rumor. Batman and Robin must defeat Rumor before he has a chance to execute the villains.
#24 - Two of a Kind
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/24/2007
When Harleen Quinzell is cancelled from her television program, Joker takes an interest and decides to groom her as his new partner in crime, Harley Quinn.
#25 - The Rubberface of Comedy
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/30/2005
Joker wreaks havoc on all of Gotham with a new gizmo that can morph any object into rubber or putty. Meanwhile, the Chief of Police pressures his detectives to take down The Batman once and for all!