{"id":2194,"date":"2009-11-03T07:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/?p=2194"},"modified":"2009-11-01T23:27:55","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T03:27:55","slug":"batman-the-brave-and-the-bold-defends-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/03\/batman-the-brave-and-the-bold-defends-itself\/","title":{"rendered":"Batman: The Brave and the Bold Defends Itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Batman: The Brave and the Bold\" src=\"http:\/\/onceuponageek.com\/images\/brave_bold.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"129\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Batman: The Brave and the Bold<\/em> (BBB) has come under fire from hard-core Batman fans.\u00a0 They feel the lighthearted representation of Batman in this cartoon takes away from the &#8220;Dark Knight Crusader&#8221; version they consider to be the &#8220;real&#8221; Batman.\u00a0 The BBB version of Batman certainly is a departure from the one depicted in: <em>Batman: The Animated Series<\/em>, <em>Justice League Unlimited<\/em>, <em>The Batman<\/em>, and <em>Batman Beyond<\/em>.\u00a0 However, does that make it any less valid?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Here is how <em>Batman: The Brave and the Bold<\/em> addresses the issue.  Scenes taken from the episode &#8220;Legends of the Dark Mite!&#8221; which originally aired back in March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/n7K-cgiN0NE&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><code><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xb9VSIT8lY8&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/code><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I loved this!  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