The WORST episodes of The New Batman Adventures

Every episode of The New Batman Adventures ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The New Batman Adventures!

The series takes place two years after the last episode of Batman: The Animated Series. Batman has continued to fight crime in Gotham City, but there have been some changes. Dick Grayson has become Nightwing; Tim Drake has taken over the role of Robin; and Batgirl has become apart of Batman's team. But the Dark Knight's greatest villains continue to plague Gotham City, so not everything has changed.

Last Updated: 11/2/2024Network: The WBStatus: Ended
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Critters
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6.38
167 votes

#1 - Critters

Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/1998

A genetic engineer goes overboard in creating bigger livestock and loses all his money. A year later, an army of mutant farm animals terrorize Gotham City.

Directors: Dan Riba
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Love is a Croc
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6.74
217 votes

#2 - Love is a Croc

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/11/1998

Baby Doll becomes enamored of Killer Croc, and the pair forms a very unlikely yet very successful criminal duo. However, their partnership soon falls apart when Baby Doll learns that Croc is only using her to further his own criminal career.

Directors: Butch Lukic
Writer: Steve Gerber
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Animal Act
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6.93
166 votes

#3 - Animal Act

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/26/1998

A series of thefts are being committed by circus animals in a town where Nightwing's old circus is performing. Is it an old friend that is training the animals to steal, or someone else?

Directors: Curt Geda
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Cult of the Cat
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6.96
228 votes

#4 - Cult of the Cat

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/19/1998

Batman tries to help Catwoman, who is being chased by a cat cult due to a statue she stole.

Directors: Butch Lukic
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The Ultimate Thrill
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7.08
234 votes

#5 - The Ultimate Thrill

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/14/1998

Former stuntwoman and adrenaline junkie Roxanne Sutton becomes the rocket-riding thief Roxy Rocket, to chase danger and excitement.

Directors: Dan Riba
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Beware the Creeper
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7.22
217 votes

#6 - Beware the Creeper

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/7/1998

Exposure to a weird mixture of chemicals, including the Joker's laughing gas, changes straitlaced newsman Jack Ryder into the crazed Creeper. He looks to kill the Joker, and develops a much unwanted crush on Harley.

Directors: Dan Riba
Writer: Steve Gerber
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Mean Seasons
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7.23
218 votes

#7 - Mean Seasons

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/25/1998

Batman pursues an ex-model, who is now looking for revenge and calling herself "Calendar Girl".

Directors: Hiroyuki Aoyama
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Torch Song
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7.31
239 votes

#8 - Torch Song

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/13/1998

A lovelorn pyrotechnic engineer, Garfield Lynns, gets dumped by a big time singer named Cassidy. Lynns becomes the supervillain Firefly, bent on burning the woman who burned him.

Directors: Curt Geda
Writer: Rich Fogel
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The Demon Within
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7.32
240 votes

#9 - The Demon Within

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/9/1998

Batman and Robin assist occultist Jason Blood when Klarion the Witch-boy takes control of Blood's alter-ego, Etrigan the Demon.

Directors: Atsuko Tanaka
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You Scratch My Back
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7.33
286 votes

#10 - You Scratch My Back

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/15/1997

In an effort to further distance himself from Batman, Nightwing tries to go it alone to stop a smuggling ring and gets unexpected help from the seductive Catwoman.

Directors: Butch Lukic
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Chemistry
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7.36
162 votes

#11 - Chemistry

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/24/1998

Bruce Wayne, along with other wealthy denizens of Gotham, fall in love with their ideal mate, who all happen to have green eyes. Wayne decides to marry, and gives up being Batman forever. However, an old enemy's latest plot is being set into motion...

Directors: Butch Lukic
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Holiday Knights
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7.63
428 votes

#12 - Holiday Knights

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/13/1997

Three holiday-themed vignettes. (1) Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn kidnap Bruce Wayne and use his credit cards for a shopping spree. (2) While shopping for a gift for her father, Barbara Gordon spots a group of shoplifters that turn out to be portions of Clayface. (3) Batman and Robin race to stop the Joker from killing the crowd at the Gotham City New Year Celebration.

Directors: Dan Riba, Sam Liu, Sam Liu
Writer: Paul Dini
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Girl's Night Out
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7.69
176 votes

#13 - Girl's Night Out

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/17/1998

Livewire escapes during a prison transfer and runs amok in Gotham, joining forces with Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn. With the Dark Knight away, Batgirl teams up with Supergirl to face the deadly trio.

Directors: Curt Geda
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Double Talk
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7.73
246 votes

#14 - Double Talk

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/22/1997

Arnold Wesker is released from Arkham, completely free of his Scarface persona. But Scarface's old gang, needing their old boss back, begin working to drive Wesker back to his old ways.

Directors: Curt Geda
Writer: Bob Goodman
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Judgment Day
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7.78
199 votes

#15 - Judgment Day

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 10/31/1998

A new, mysterious vigilante known as the Judge appears and targets Gotham's rogue's gallery with ruthless fury.

Directors: Curt Geda
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Cold Comfort
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7.81
303 votes

#16 - Cold Comfort

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1997

After the events in "Sub-Zero" Mr. Freeze has been forced to be bound to a new robotic body. His wife Nora has been revived, but believing him dead, she has remarried and left Gotham. If Freeze can't have a life of happiness, nobody can, so he begins lashing out at the city by destroying what people care about so they can feel the same pain he feels.

Directors: Dan Riba
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Sins of the Father
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7.86
371 votes

#17 - Sins of the Father

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/20/1997

Young orphan Tim Drake becomes Batman's new ward when he becomes involved in one of Two-Face's deadly plots.

Directors: Curt Geda
Writer: Rich Fogel
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Legends of the Dark Knight
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7.96
182 votes

#18 - Legends of the Dark Knight

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/10/1998

A group of Gotham City youths tell their stories about what they believe the Dark Knight to really be like. One story is reminiscent of the Dick Sprang era comics from the 1950s and/or the 1960s live-action Batman television series. Another is reminiscent of Frank Miller's 1986 graphic novel The Dark Knight Returns.

Directors: Dan Riba
Writer: Bob Goodman
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Old Wounds
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8.05
218 votes

#19 - Old Wounds

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/3/1998

Nightwing tells Robin the story of how he and Batman grew apart. The story reveals how Batgirl discovered Batman and Robin's true identities, and also explains some of the romantic flare between Barbara and Dick.

Directors: Curt Geda
Writer: Rich Fogel
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Joker's Millions
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8.05
250 votes

#20 - Joker's Millions

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/1998

Crime boss Edward "The King" Barlow dies and in his will leaves his arch-rival, the Joker, a large fortune. Joker immediately goes on a shopping spree, even searching for a replacement for Harley Quinn, but realizes too late that all the money is fake.

Directors: Dan Riba
Writer: Paul Dini
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Never Fear
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8.13
319 votes

#21 - Never Fear

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/1/1997

The Scarecrow develops a new toxin that, rather than inducing fear, eliminates it, making average people incredibly reckless and dangerous.

Directors: Kenji Hachizaki
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Growing Pains
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8.17
221 votes

#22 - Growing Pains

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/1998

Robin fights to protect a young girl with amnesia who is being stalked by her "father", who turns out to be Clayface. Having created the girl from his own body to scout out the city, he now intends to reabsorb her.

Directors: Atsuko Tanaka
Writer: Bob Goodman
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Over the Edge
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8.53
241 votes

#23 - Over the Edge

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 5/23/1998

During a fight with the Scarecrow, Batgirl is ambushed on a rooftop and falls to her death. Having watched his daughter's demise, Jim Gordon blames Batman for her fate and vows revenge, even recruiting Bane in the process.

Directors: Yuichiro Yano
Writer: Paul Dini
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Mad Love
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8.56
239 votes

#24 - Mad Love

Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/16/1999

Harley reflects on her first meeting with the Joker as she plots to eliminate her main competition in his attentions - Batman.

Directors: Butch Lukic
Writer: Paul Dini
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