Batman Beyond: Out of the Past

Episode score 9.3 Superb

Out of the Past

  • 44.
  • Season: 3
  • Episode: 5
  • First Aired: 10/21/2000
  • Prod Code: 44
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TRIVIA

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QUOTES

  • Terry: You're creeping me out, lady.
    Bruce: You?! She kissed me! edit »
  • (Ra's Al Ghul plans to transfer his mind from Talia's body to Bruce's)
    Bruce: Sure Ra's, why not? Anything to hold off the Grim Reaper a few more seconds. I take it back, you don't cheat death. You whimper in fear of it!
    Ra's Al Ghul: SILENCE!
    (Ra's slaps him)
    Bruce: ... and you hit like a girl. edit »
  • Bruce: I should have known you'd cheat death again, Ra's!
    Ra's Al Ghul: I don't cheat death, I master it. edit »
  • (Bruce has the chance to become young again)
    Terry: I'll tell you right now. There's no way I'm wearing the Robin suit. edit »
  • (Watching Batman: The Musical)
    Terry: Hey, it took me months to get tickets to this show.
    Bruce: You hate me, don't you?
    Terry: It's shway!
    Bruce: It's schw-arbage. edit »
  • Musical Actors: A superstitious, cowardly lot! They plan and plot, but they always get caught! Their evil schemes all come to naught! A superstitious cowardly lot! edit »
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NOTES

  • This episode was nominated for a Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production. edit »
  • The penultimate picture is indeed Barbara Gordon. However, many have speculated that the final picture shown before Talia's arrival is not Barbara, but rather Andrea Beaumont from the animated film Mask of the Phantasm. This is believed due to (a) why would Bruce have two pictures of Barbara, (b) the picture was taken on the cliffs and ocean background of Wayne Manor, where major scenes of Mask of the Phantasm took place, and (c) Talia's Line "I knew you loved her," has more bearing with Andrea than Barbara. Possible confusion arises from the similar post-Batman: TAS designs that both characters utilize. edit »
  • The throwaway line about the Near Apocalypse of 2009 has kept fans of the Bruce-Timm series clamoring for an episode of Justice League Unlimited to feature the incident--and with it, the return of Ra's al Ghul. edit »
  • As in "Black Out," when Bruce and Terry are fighting side by side, a variant on the Batman: TAS theme plays. edit »
  • Mark Hamill (Carter) makes his Batman Beyond debut. edit »
  • At one point, a Batman musical was planned. This episode's musical was great fun, but not exactly in keeping with the "Dark Knight" image crafted by Neal Adams and Denny O'Neil in 1970. edit »
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ALLUSIONS

  • Batman: (Singing)
    Criminals are by nature, a superstitious and cowardly lot. Thus, Batman takes on the form of a giant bat to scare them. This was the original explanation by Bob Kane, and has popped up here and there since. In this episode, Batman: The Musical, has an actor singing number with those immortal words. edit »
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