>>112410862My first exposures to Batman was TAS, and then on to Justice League, with a tiny side of reading the Death of Superman series as my brother bought them when they came out. I grew kind of fond of his early TAS self, where he just felt so much more gentle. He got dark, but he had smallest moments of levity and empathy, humanity, a little tiny tiny of Adam West in the muted tones. It felt nice? Sad? You knew he was as out of his mind as the rogues, but he had empathy. Made the Joker more effective too.
His later, monstrously focused and hyperhuman feats in League were interesting in their own way, but it was hard at times to feel that old warmth. It came out strongly with stuff like Flash, Ace, Terry, Clark, etc; but he felt so out of place at times. If I had to pretend that Batman had an actual undetected super power, it'd be "human able to adapt quickly to any level or environment of power (i.e. scaling from Gotham to Cosmic shit), but at the cost of having to rigidly keep to mental codes and limiters, along with regular exposure, to get that power".
