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EPISODES - "NEXUS"

Beware The Batman
#16 - Nexus

Original Airdate - August 23rd, 2014
Six months after the attack by the League of Assassins and Lt. Gordon is now Commissioner Gordon. The new mayor, Marion Grange (CCH Pounder) has hired a new district attorney, Harvey Dent (Christopher McDonald) who wants to bring Batman to justice. When someone tries to kill Mayor Grange and kidnaps Harvey Dent, all fingers point to Batman (when in fact, he's being framed by his old nemesis Anarky). Now, it's up to Batman and Katana to clear Batman's name before someone dies for real.

Written by Mark Banker
Directed by Sam Liu
Media by The World's Finest

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Analysis by Frontier

He said the line! "I am Batman" - Anthony Ruivivar finally said the line and it was awesome.

So I guess with Alfred gone, one of the few things that keeps Bruce Wayne... well, Bruce Wayne, is gone and now he can devote pretty much any and all time to training himself as Batman. I wonder if in the sixth months since the blackout how much he's actually taken off the Batsuit? I guess this has the benefit of making him more competent and effective a crime-fighter, or at least much better in the fight, but also leaves him more detached and maybe even more obsessed with his mission. And considering how little Bruce ate to begin with, I imagine Alfred was the one who kept him eating at all.

I hope Bruce hasn't forgotten about Wayne Enterprise... y'know, his family's company.

Congratulations, Commissioner Gordon! Jim fills the role pretty nicely as well he should.

CCH Pounder as a tough African-American woman that's not Amanda Waller? Blasphemy! Okay, all kidding aside, Mayor Grange actually seemed pretty cool and reasonable, and maybe even nicer than most Waller's tend to be. I like how, while she did rescind and give Dent what he wants, she didn't just do it to sabotage Dent's political clout for the next election but because Dent ending up as mayor would be even worse for the city .

Speaking of Harvey Dent... well, he's certainly not what I was expecting. Grange portrayed him as an opportunist after the blackout, and I can kinda see that in how he used the craziness in this episode to help push for his task force, but otherwise he seems like a jerk who's just extremely anti-vigilante. Not that it's wrong for him to be distrusting or wary of Vigilante's, and want the Police better prepared to deal with Supervillains, but constantly trying to arrest Batman and acting ignorant of the events around him certainly didn't help my opinion of Mr. Dent. I'd say he's one of the less sympathetic Harvey Dent's I've seen, and as such I can't see myself feeling sorry for his possible/eventual turn to villainy, but that could change in future episodes. I guess one could say that this Dent is bit more "two-faced" as a character.

It was nice to finally see Anarky after so long, though after this episode I'm starting to think his character is a mix of Joker and Riddler with just a few sprinkles of the Anarky from the comics. For the former you have the big laugh in this episode and a penchant for chaos and disorder even if it's of a different bent than Joker and certainly not as insane, while I got Riddler vibes from how Batman figured out his password and how far and thorough Anarky took his attempts to discredit and kill Batman and at the same time treating it as a challenge. I certainly wasn't expecting his apparent infatuation with Katana, which ranged from funny to weird.

So I guess Katana's codename isn't very well known, at least to Dent and possibly the general public though the former might just have been calling her "Batman's girlfriend" intentionally to be derisive. I was also surprised that Gordon knew Batman's main vehicle was called the Batmobile, so I wonder if that just came up in one of Batman and Jim's conversations? I did get the sense that Batman has been working with the GCPD unofficially for those six months, which Dent tolerated up until this episode, so that's definitely a period of time that I'd love to see explored.



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