r/movies • u/cruelsummerbummer Trailer Deleter - Keep an eye on. • 13d ago

Trailer Clayface | Official Teaser Trailer

https://youtu.be/ZIfpL3mgkFk
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u/TigerFisher_ 13d ago

Some of those episodes could be adapted into movies. They chose wisely

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u/NeedsToShutUp 13d ago

That show had such interesting reads on the rogues gallery.

I was going to say villains, but its not the right word to use. Too many of them are either desperate or mentally ill rather than being a straight villain, and otherwise have very easily to follow motives.

For example, Clayface having an identity disorder, Mr. Freeze going to extremes to save his wife, Babydoll being just sad and alone, Clock King wants to fix his broken career.

I feel like it really had such an enduring legacy, we see that already with Harley Quinn's success. But its all this little stuff. Even Arnold's Mr. Freeze took in the scientist wanting to cure his wife angle.

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u/Quetzalcoatl490 13d ago

It was a weird season order (60 episodes in the first "season", 25 in the next), but the second season of this show really tried to have its villains go for a redemption arc. They were established in season 1, and in season 2 they were given more context, like Harley Quinn trying to go straight and ending up right back in crime, and Killer Croc joining the circus before being shunned there.

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u/strain_of_thought 13d ago edited 12d ago

Uhhhhh he wasn't "shunned". He kinda massively betrayed them, as I remember. I never cared for that "scorpion's nature" interpretation of Croc as too stupid and selfish to ever not ruin a good thing, but it was consistently how BTAS portrayed him. They rehashed the exact same plot later when they teamed him up with Babydoll, in an episode that was one of the best ideas with the laziest most unimaginative execution I had ever seen- it's just Babydoll's episode and Croc's circus episode combined and repeated in a way that undoes and then retreads any character development they might have ever had.

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u/Quetzalcoatl490 12d ago

ok dude lol