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Selina Kyle is kidnapped by an evil scientist who turns her into a real cat-woman.

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  • Can anyone else say “The Island of Dr. Moreau”? I know you can, and I know Batman can.

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    I'm not sure just how unoriginal the Batman writers can be, but this surely is an example of being unoriginally almost entirely. It's pretty obvious that this story was partly lifted from the story "The Island of Dr. Moreau". Of course, there is some originality as this Dr. Moreau has done less "conversions than the book version.

    In this story, the man doctor creates some monkey/ape crosses with cats, and eventually moves to a man/ape hybrid. Finally, he creates "from scratch, so to speak" a cat-man. This cat-man monster (Tygrus) was created not by modifying a man or a cat, but mixing them both in a test tube. That at least is original to this story.

    However, one has to wonder why our Doctor Dorian needs Celina to make a cat-woman, when he has proven able to make a cat-man. Why not just create a test tube verion like Tygrus? This question cannot be answered, but does help to make this episode useless.

    I'm giving this episode half grades since although unoriginal in part, there's enough unique Batman to keep this from the bottom of the barrel. If you like sudden bad to good switches, then you'll like this one.

    But I wonder what will happen to Garth since he would likely of had the "final" dosage?moreless

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    • Dr. Dorian told Batman that he'd have a 5-minute head-start to get away from Tygrus. Not surprisingly, Dorian only waited 5 seconds after Batman started running before he as much as told Tygrus to "sic' him". Reply: A very simple answer to this: He lied! Edit
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    • This episode is episode 14 on the Batman: The Animated Series Volume 2 DVD. Edit
    • Second appearance of Kirk Langstrom in the series. Here he ends up in a position opposite from his first appearance as a villian to an expert sought by Batman. Edit
    • Although he isn't credited for it, Jim Cummings obviously does the gorilla man, Garth. Edit
  • Quotes

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    • Batman: So, you can talk. Tygrus: My father taught me. Batman: Your father was a test-tube. Edit
    • Catwoman: Won't you come with us? There's nothing for you here. Tygrus: There's nothing for me anywhere. Edit
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    • Bride of Frankenstein Dr. Dorian's abducting Selina Kyle to turn her into a mate for his creation Tygrus smacks of Bride of Frankenstein, in which the scientist in that piece also tried to give his "homemade creation" a mate. Edit
    • H.G. Wells's Island of Dr. Moreau The idea of a scientist experimenting on the animal inhabitants of in one island, creating proto-humans, is reminiscent of the science-fiction novel written by H.G. Wells in 1896. Edit
    • William Blake's "The Tyger" This episode is named for a very famous poem by William Blake entitled "The Tyger" which Batman quotes at the end: "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?" Edit
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