Season 3 introduced a young Barbara Gordon, who becomes Batgirl and plays a major role along with her father, Commissioner James Gordon. Barbara tries to be The Batman's sidekick, but he refuses to accept the need for a partner until the end of the season.
This differed from the comics, in which Robin was The Batman's first sidekick; this was due to the Teen Titans ' animated series using the character, limiting his ability to appear in other shows.
Season 4 featured a redesign to Bruce Wayne, with a stronger facial and chin structure, making him reminiscent of the DCAU Batman design. Dick Grayson as Robin was also introduced into the show, as the Teen Titans animated series had been cancelled earlier in the year before this season started. Batgirl is now part of the team and found out the secret identities of both The Batman and Robin, and Lucius Fox is introduced in the season finale.
In his final appearance, Ethan Bennett, the first Clayface, is redeemed and cured of his condition. One of the highlights of Season 4 was "Artifacts", an episode describing a possible future, that had elements from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. Set in , with the main storyline in , it features a wheelchair-using Barbara Gordon as Oracle, Dick Grayson as Nightwing, with both The Batman and the Batmobile resembling the versions in Miller's series.
The fifth and final season was said by producer Alan Burnett to be the show's "The Brave and the Bold season. Batgirl and Commissioner Gordon were dropped from the show as main characters, and only appeared rarely as guests or cameos. In Batgirl's case, this is because she has graduated from high school and is attending college. The series finale features the entire Justice League. Villains for this particular season were a combination of villains associated with the Justice League members appearing on the show with some of the Batman villains.
Also, Firefly becomes Phosphorus. The Joining returns in the finale in alliance with Hugo Strange. The final episode was a minute movie, featuring all the members of the Justice League who have made an appearance in the show. In the show he has recently started his career as a masked vigilante.
Her origin in the two-part "Batgirl Begins" deviates slightly from the comics in her acting as Batman's sidekick prior to the introduction of Robin and being younger when starting than in the comics. The episode "Artifacts" included sections set in the year with the character appearing as "Oracle" based on the current role Barbara Gordon fills in the comics.
At the end of the first season, fumes from the Joker's "Joker Putty" gives him the ability to reshape himself like clay. Taking the name Clayface, he becomes an outlaw.
Commissioner Jim Gordon — Introduced in season 3, Gordon is based on the comic book character of the same name, he serves a similar function here as Batman's contact within the Gotham City Police Department. Unlike in the comics, the character is a later cast addition rather than a character from the beginning.
According to producer Jeff Matsuda, Gordon is the young officer seen in the flashback in the episode "Traction". His origin in "A Matter of Family" follows Grayson's from the comic books with the exception of his being Batman's second sidekick but his first official sidekick.
The episode "Artifacts" included sections set in the year with the character appearing as Nightwing, based on the superhero the comic-book Grayson became as an adult. Chief Angel Rojas — Rojas was created specifically for the show as one of the three recurring police officers to interact with Batman. He is the head of the precinct where Yin and Bennett work and most of the episodes are set. The visual style of the series, dubbed "Dark Deco," was based on the artwork of producer and artist Bruce Timm, The series was widely praised for its thematic complexity, dark tone, artistic quality and faithfulness to the character's crime-fighting origins.
The program was more adult-oriented than previous superhero cartoon series. It was the first such cartoon in years to depict outright physical violence, bloodshed, drug use though both the bloodshed and drug use were minimal due to network censors and the use of firearms though only one character was depicted as having been shot - Commissioner Gordon, in the episode "I Am the Night," is shown lying unconscious due to a gunshot wound he received offscreen.
First-time producers Timm and Radomski reportedly encountered resistance from studio executives, but the success of Tim Burton's first Batman film allowed the embryonic series to survive long enough to produce a pilot episode, which, according to Timm, "got a lot of people off our backs. Cartoon Network began airing re-runs of the series on March 2, From to , the show was aired after Cartoon Network's action block Toonami, and then beginning in it was aired on Toonami itself.
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