Ranking Every DC Animated TV Series From Worst To Best
21. Beware The Batman
Poor Beware The Batman.
The show had so much going for it back in the summer of 2013. It was rocking a dark aesthetic, an admittedly gothic albeit different animation style, and a renewed commitment to tackle some of Batman's lesser known rogues. The problem, however, was that the villains they did adapt weren't really cut out for children's TV. Nah, these folks were much, much darker.
Granted, BTAS had made a name for itself with dark visuals and some absolutely terrifying plot lines (Feat of Clay says hello), but it didn't have villains like Professor Pyg involved - a character you can only really adapt faithfully if you're willing to show how explicitly violent he is. Instead, the show chose to use characters like Pyg as analogues for older, more established Bat-villains like Poison Ivy, completely negating their inclusion in the first place.
The show just couldn't live up to previous Bat-series', and its disastrous start only ensured that it could never really find an audience. Unsurprisingly, the show was cancelled after one season.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.