DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family
The fate of Gotham is in your hands.
A dark, tension-driven animated adaptation of a tragic Batman storyline centered on loss, violence, and the Joker's cruelty.
Tragedy strikes the Batman's life again when Robin Jason Todd tracks down his birth mother only to run afoul of the Joker. An adaptation of the 1988 comic book storyline of the same name.
Essence
Ensemble
Bruce Greenwood
Bruce Wayne / Batman (voice)
Vincent Martella
Jason Todd / Robin / Red Hood / Red Robin (voice)
John DiMaggio
Jack Napier / The Joker / Thomas Wayne / Reporter 2 (voice)
Zehra Fazal
Talia al Ghul / Reporter 3 (voice)
Gary Cole
Two-Face / Commissioner James Gordon / Reporter 4 (voice)
Kimberly Brooks
Police Officer 1 / Reporter 1 (voice)
Nolan North
Clark Kent / Police Officer 2 (voice)
Nick Carson
Tim Drake / Young Bruce Wayne (voice)
Keith Ferguson
Gangster 1 (voice)
Ray Chase
Noris (voice)
Jamie Chung
Death (voice)
Roger Cross
Foreman (voice)
Closest match
Nearest across the full emotional profile.
Same mood
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Go darker
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Hidden gem
Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.
