Batman: The Brave and the Bold brings the crack again!

[theanswer]

 

Preview clip here.



You strut that stuff Tin!



Having a batsuit made out of Metal Men makes Bruce smile!



Talk about your obscure villains, it's the Gas Gang!

Comments

[grazzt]

Isn't chloroform an Empowered villain? :)

[jarodrussell]

Chloroformaster.

Or, as he's more commonly know, Chloroformasturbator. :)

[grazzt]

Super villain team-up time!

[proteus_lives]

If he teams-up with Dr. Light, we're all DOOMED!

[autumn_lily]

But just wait until the writers bring in The Rophenator! There will be no safe bar/nightclub/football game/daycare.

[aaron_bourque]

They better adapt the "Beauty" story, they better adapt the "Beaty" story . . .

[tacobob]

You would have thought Silver would have offered to be Bat's mental pants!

[theanswer]

There is no Silver.

[tacobob]

Er. Platinum. This is what happens when I type heavily medicated. I make up characters! Yay!

[icon_uk]

Platinum only has eyes for Doc Magnus.

[yaseen101]

But you have to admit it's kind of kinky to imagine Platinum being your armor pants.

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Platinum only has eyes for Doc Magnus.

They had her flirt with Batman in this episode (offering to be his chair?!), in keeping with the All the Girls Want Him vibe he gets in this show.

I liked the revamped Gas Gang origin.

Also, Magnus comes off a bit more... peculiar if you watch the Venture Brothers.

[heehaw_tng]

Did you know that Mercury is the only metal liquid at room temperature?

[icon_uk]

Weeeeelllll.... If one uses 25 degrees as the definition of room temperature then true (Bromine is as well, but it's a non-metal). However there are several others which are liquid at ALMOST room temperature; francium, cesium, gallium and rubidium are all liquid between 25 and 40 degrees

[citygod]

You totally just made those up. What temperature does unobtanium become liquid?

[icon_uk]

May high school chemistry teachers spurn you in the street for saying such a thing; Cesium/Caesium, Francium, Gallium, Rubidium!

[citygod]

If they're real, why aren't they supervillains? All the other good ideas are taken, why haven't the deadline-stricken writers not used these yet? I think they would rule. RubidiumTron and The Living Laser vs. Iron Man. Admit it, you'd read that.

[theanswer]

Some of those are actually very old and obscure Metal Men characters.

[icon_uk]

No need! Such a sad lack is why Jim Shooter and Bill Mantlo created (in 1979), and Kurt Busiek expanded (in1997), THE ELEMENTS OF DOOM! as Avengers villains.

Caesium was even mentioned by name.

[citygod]

Yikes - I was joking! (But I think I need to read it, anyway.)
Actually, didn't John Byrne do something like this in the Avengers, too? It was actually pretty good...

[icon_uk]

Same story, but Byrne only drew it, he didn't write it.

[citygod]

I just followed your link - it's the story I was thinking of! Can't believe that Busiek did a sequel.

[kingrockwell]

Your preview image is too big. It needs to be resized so that it's 400x300 at the most, or placed behind the cut.

[theanswer]

Fixed

[zordboy]

You know, if Helium talked the way someone made of Helium *should* talk, oh man. That would be awesome!

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't put that past this show-- nor would I put the idea of one or more other characters being rendered squeaky by Helium's presence past them either...

[brandiweed.livejournal.com]

Surprisingly, they gave Helium a deep voice (to be more creepy and ghosty, I guess), but I kinda called it on making Batman sound squeaky.

[jkcarrier]

Man, they lifted the Gas Gang straight from Andru's drawings! That's awesome. I love this show so much, it's like they're making it just for me. :D

[iskander]

I used to be able to find this show so easy on Youtube...not anymore.

[eyz]

One of my all-time favorite episodes on BTBATB