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matt_zimmerI still haven't decided whether or not to post this on Toon Zone.
I would greatly love input from Style 92, 90's Cartoon Man and Merlin Missy. Please.
DC Animated Universe Timeline
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A timeline of events that happened in the DCAU in the order in which they happened.
Some notes about this timeline.
1. This timeline only consists of events that happened in the regular DCAU timeline. Erased timelines and alternate universes are only noted if they have a significant impact on the universe of the DCAU. That is why the alternate timelines of Hereafter and Once and Future Thing are ignored as they didn't shape the history of the DCAU.
2. With two notable exceptions I try as hard as possible to avoid events that aren't actually shown on screen. That is why, although it is definitely a huge event in the DCAU the Near-Apocalypse of '09 is not listed.
3. This list assumes that the DCAU while not operating in STRICT Peanuts time is not set by actual dates even if episodes themselves are set at a specific point in history (Static Shock's Romeo in the Mix and The Zeta Project's Lost and Found). I also will try to avoid mentioning the specific passage of years so Batman can both be 30 years old in Peanuts time or if you wish to acknowledge the passage of years 45 when Justice League Unlimited takes place.
4. About Teen Titans: There has been a concerted effort among Teen Titans fans to wedge the show into DCAU continuity thanks to the Teen Titans episode Lightspeed and the Justice League Unlimited episode Patriot Act as they both featured voice actors from both shows ( Micheal Rosenbaum as Flash and Mike Irwin as Speedy) and say that Teen Titans could fit as a prequel to Batman: The Animated Series. While I'd like nothing more than to include Teen Titans as it would make the DCAU even more well-rounded I don't think those two little clues are definitive proof of it being canon. Indeed considering Robin on The Batman will be voiced by Titans' Scott Menville it seems to me that they were both shout-outs to the fans and nothing more.
5. About Superman: Brainiac Attacks:. I've not actually seen the DTV but I've heard sources say that despite it using the same character styles as Superman: The Animated Series and some of the same voices that the story is so inconsistent with the universe that it cannot possibly fit. Indeed Bird Boy at Toon Zone's review basically confirmed this. I am not going to include it in the timeline.
6. About Shadow of the Hawk and Ancient History: I am not including the history of what transpired due to the absorbacron because Dwayne McDuffie has explicitly stated that the entire situation was bogus. While I am more inclined to agree with Merlin Missy and others that it was more open to interpretation than Mr. McDuffie has insisted the timeline only deals with solid facts relating to the DCAU.
Update: It has been reported to me by Revelator that Bruce Timm has said that there WAS some reincarnation going on so I am going to compromise and simply report the history of Shayera and Katar Hol crashing to Earth from Shadow of the Hawk. I won't report how they died as we have seen two conflicting reports but since we DID see their corpses at the end of Shadow of the Hawk it's obvious they DID exist.
7. This timeline goes by production order and NOT airdate order with two parters grouped together. I HAVE however put episodes in the order they were set even if it doesn't jibe with production order.
8. A LOT of this timeline is educated guesswork and conjecture ESPECIALLY regarding where Static Shock fits into regards to Justice League and when Superman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures overlap. These are my best guesses and may be disproved in a future DCAU project, should one come along.
Final Note:
Feel free to use this timeline for any of your fanfic needs. This timeline is different from the previous versions in that I have included every single episode and movie from the DCAU no matter how seemingly insignificant. When I first wrote the timeline I had no idea that a bit character in Moon of the Wolf and Cat Scratch Fever would become a catalyst for how things went down in JLU's watershed The Doomsday Sanction. From now on the timeline is based on the assumption that EVERYTHING is important and could possibly come into play in a future DTV movie or series. I know this will be a disappointment to people who have episodes they detest and try to pretend they don't exist. However I try to make each and every episode have SOME greater value to the continuity at large even if it's done tongue in cheek (see the entry for Static Shock's Hoop Squad).
Also feel free to correct any mistakes I have made. I will update the timeline accordingly and credit you for the catch.
DC Animated Universe Timeline:
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Justice League: Maid of Honor (Vandal Savage is made immortal by a fallen meteor)
Justice League: Eclipsed: (After a war with the Ophidians a tribe of warriors banish them into a crystal and set guardians upon it to prevent them from returning and destroying the world)
Justice League: The Terror Beyond: (Atlantis sinks underwater after a battle with Ichthultu)
Justice League: Paradise Lost (Hippolyta begins an affair with Hades which ends with him being banished to the Underworld)
Justice League Unlimited: Shadow of the Hawk (A Thanagarian spacecraft carrying Shayera and Katar Hol crashes to Earth and the Egyptians who discover them worship them as Gods and make them their new rulers; Conjecture)
Jusitce League Unlimited: To Another Shore: (The Norse God Odin tricks the Viking Prince into becoming endowed with invulnerability instead of reuniting him with his true love in Val Halla. The Prince then sets sail to find a way to earn a hero's death and his ship becomes trapped in a glacier for centuries.)
Justice League: Secret Origins (The Imperium and the Alien Invaders invade Mars and start off a 500 year war between the Invaders and the Martians)
Justice League: A Knight of Shadows (Jason Blood is bonded to the Demon Etrigan by Merlin after the fall of Camelot to Morgaine Le Fey and his complicity in it)
Justice League: Secret Origins (The Imperium and the Alien Invaders are finally defeated but J'onn J'onnz is the last survivor of the Martian Race; He traps the Alien Invaders and stands watch over them while they are in suspended animation in a Citadel on Mars)
Superman: Apokalips Now (High Father and Darkseid exchange infant sons in New Genesis Pact)
Justice League Unlimited: The Ties That Bind (Scott Free is tortured by Granny Goodness in her orphanage on Apokalips; conjecture)
Batman: Showdown (Jonah Hex goes up against Ra's Al Ghul and his son Arcady Duvall)
Justice League: The Terror Beyond (Cyrus Gold is killed and his body is dumped into a mystical Swamp.)
Batman and Robin: Avatar (An archaeologist in Egypt finds the tomb of Toth Koperha and vanishes, never to be seen again)
Justice League: The Terror Beyond (Cyrus Gold is killed and his body is dumped into a mystical Swamp.)
Justice League: The Savage Time (The Justice League re-fights WWII to defeat Vandal Savage; Green Lantern joins Sergeant Rock and Easy Company and battles Savage; Hawkgirl, Superman and Flash meet the Blackhawk Squadron; J'onn J'onnz infiltrates Vandal Savage's headquarters; and Wonder Woman helps Steve Trevor on an espionage mission)
Justice League Unlimited: Patriot Act (Spy Smasher stops Nazi scientists from implementing their Super-Soldier formula to create a race of Supermen;. First known superhero in the DCAU.)
Justice League: Fury: (Aresia is brought to Themiscyra by a captain after surviving a war and a shipwreck. Conjecture)
Justice League: The Terror Beyond (Solomon Grundy rises from the dead)
Batman: It's Never Too Late: ( Young Micheal Stromwell loses a leg from a train accident saving his brother Arnold)
Superman: Blasts From the Past: (Jax-Ur and Mala attempt insurrection of Planet Krypton but are defeated by Jor-El; Jax-Ur claims sole responsibility for the attack and is sentenced to life in the Phantom Zone; Mala receives a twenty year sentence)
Static Shock: Blast From the Past: (Soul Power battles arch nemesis Professor Menace with aid of his sidekick Sparky. )
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton: (Krypton explodes, Kal-El is last survivor; Brainiac saves himself, begins quest to collect information from the universe.; )
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (Kal-El is rocketed to Earth and is adopted by Jonathon and Martha Kent.)
Batman: Beware the Gray Ghost (Young Bruce Wayne watches his favorite TV program The Gray Ghost with his father which becomes a ritual that will hold great significance for him later in life)
Superman: Monkey Fun: (Lois Lane's Colonel father sends her pet monkey into space on an experimental mission and the rocket disappears)
Batman: Appointment in Crime Alley (Bruce Wayne witnesses his parents' murder, is raised by Alfred Pennyworth, the family Butler)
Superman: New Kids in town (Young Clark Kent meets the Legion of Superheroes and fights Brainiac but his memories are erased)
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton: (Clark learns his Kryptonian heritage)
Justice League Unlimited: Double Date: (A young Helena Bertinelli witnesses crime boss Mandragora murder her parents)
Batman: Zatanna (Bruce is trained by Zatarra, Meets Zatanna)
Batman: Night of the Ninja (Bruce is trained by Yoru Sensai and makes enemies with Kayodai Ken, the only man to beat him in hand to hand combat.)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (flashbacks show Bruce falling in love with Andrea Beaumont, their relationship and her father's (and the pre acid bath Joker's) involvement with the Velestra crime family, Carl and Andrea Beaumont's subsequent hiding in Europe and Bruce becoming Batman)
Batman: The Mechanic (Earl Cooper builds the Batmobile for Batman)
Batman: Robin's Reckoning (Acrobat Dick Grayson is orphaned during a performance; Bruce Wayne takes him in as his ward; Bruce reveals his secret to Dick and decides to train him as Robin; Tony Zucco, the Flying Graysons' murderer is kicked out of his uncle Arnold Stromwell's house and begins a life on the run)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (The Gangster who will be known as the Joker murders Carl Beaumont on Sal Velestra's orders.)
Batman: The Clock King : (Temple Fugate takes Lawyer Hamilton Hill's advice and takes his break early leading to a VERY bad day)
Batman: Mad Love: (The Joker is born when a mobster is accidentally thrown into a vat of acid battling Batman)
Batman: Pretty Poison (New District Attorney Harvey Dent breaks ground on Gotham State Penitentiary while Pamela Isley watches the extinction of the Wild Thorny Rose because of it.)
Batman and Robin : Bane: (In a Cuban High security prison, Project Gilgamesh, a government project to create super soldiers goes horribly awry when Bane is created and escapes)
Batman: Joker's Favor: (Mild mannered accountant Charlie Collins crosses the Joker who lets him live because he promises to do a favor for him in the future.)
Batman: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? (Daniel Mockridge squeezes computer game designer Edward Nygma out of the profits he is entitled to after creating the wildly popular Riddle of the Minotaur game)
Batman: Heart of Ice: (Victor Fries is transformed into Mr. Freeze due to a tragic cryogenic "accident" after Ferris Boyle learns Freeze was using company money to save his wife Nora from a terminal disease and disrupts the process, effectively ending both lives)
Batman: Mad Love (Harleen Quinzell is seduced into becoming the Joker's assistant Harley Quinn after treating him at Arkham)
Batman: On Leather Wings (Batman saves Kirk Langstrom who has turned into the Man-Bat after an experiment goes awry; earliest point in the DCAU modern continuity and series premiere of Batman: The Animated Series)
Batman: Christmas With the Joker (Batman and Robin confront the Joker who has taken hostages at Christmastime)
Batman: Nothing to Fear (Batman has his first confrontation with the Scarecrow)
Batman: The Last Laugh (The Joker goes on a crime spree using a new form of laughing gas; Alfred is infected; Batman defeats Joker and manages to find an anti-dote for Alfred)
Batman: Pretty Poison (Batman meets Poison Ivy who poisons her new fiance Harvey Dent because he caused the Wild Thorny Rose to become extinct; Batman defeats Ivy and her monster plants and finds an anti-dote for Harvey)
Batman: P.O.V. (Detective Harvey Bullock, Officer Renee Montoya and Officer Wilkes have wildly differing takes on how Batman affected a police raid and are temporarily relieved of duty; Montoya investigates and manages to get all three of their jobs back)
Batman: The Forgotten (Bruce Wayne temporarily loses his memory after Boss Biggis conks him on the head and forces him to work in a chain gang but Alfred rescues him.)
Batman: Be a Clown (The Joker takes Mayor Hill's son under his wing but Batman rescues him)
Batman: Two-Face (District Attorney Harvey Dent becomes the villain Two-Face after a run-in with Rupert Thorne; Batman vows to save his friend from himself)
Batman: It's Never Too Late (Batman convinces aging Mob boss Armold Stromwell to turn state's evidence against Rupert Thorne)
Batman: I've Got Batman in My Basement (Some kids rescue an incapacitated Batman from the Penguin)
Batman: The Cat and the Claw (Batman meets Catwoman (Selina Kyle) and they both face off against Red Claw; After Red Claw's defeat Batman turns Catwoman over to the authorities for burglary)
Batman: Heart of Ice (Batman learns that Mr. Freeze was transformed from a scientist into a villain and exposes Ferris Boyle's culpability in his transformation while protecting him from Victor Fries' vengeance)
Batman: See No Evil (Batman fights a man in an invisibility suit and protects his daughter from him)
Batman: Beware the Gray Ghost (Batman teams up with Simon Trent, the man who played the Gray Ghost on TV to stop a bomb plot;. He reveals Trent's significance to his life when Trent realizes the Batcave is modeled after his headquarters on his old show)
Batman: Prophecy of Doom (Batman exposes astrologist Nostromos as a charlatan)
Batman: Feat of Clay (Actor Matt Hagen is turned into the creature Clayface by Roland Daggett's men; He is apparently killed while battling Batman but Batman thinks his death scene may have been another performance)
Batman: Make 'Em Laugh (The Joker goes undercover to participate in the Annual Gotham Laugh-off but is heckled off the stage)
Batman: Joker's Favor (The Joker calls in his marker on Charlie Collins who actually winds up helping Batman defeat his plot to kill the Commisioner)
Batman: Vendetta (Killer Croc frames Harvey Bullock for a mob snitch's disappearance and Batman has his first confrontation with him)
Batman: Fear of Victory (Robin is nearly paralyzed with Fear when the Scarecrow infects him with his toxin but he and Batman manage to stop him from infecting a stadium full of people).
Batman: The Clock King (Temple Fugate re-emerges to inflict his revenge on Mayor Hill now known as the Clock King; Batman stops him and Fugate disappears)
Batman: Appointment in Crime Alley: (Batman's yearly pilgrimage to Crime Alley with Leslie Thompkins is interrupted by Roland Daggett trying to blow it up to make room for new condos;. He is unsuccessful but is still not implicated in his crimes)
Batman: Mad as a Hatter (Obsessive stalker Jervis Tetch uses mind-control devices and the guise of the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland to woo the woman he is stalking; Batman manages to stop him)
Batman: Dreams in Darkness (Batman gets infected with the Scarecrow's fear toxic and is locked up in Arkham; He escapes and stops the Scarecrow from dumping the hallucinogen into Gotham's water supply)
Batman: Eternal Youth (Batman rescues Alfred and his friend Maggie from a health spa run by Poison Ivy that turns clients into trees)
Batman: Perchance to Dream (the Mad Hatter puts Batman into a dream world where his parents are alive and he has never been Batman; he escapes preferring to live a life that is painful but is at least real.)
Batman: The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy (Batman tricks death trap specialist Josiah Wormwood into revealing where he hid a storage key by duping him into a game of cat and mouse with the Batman)
Batman: Robin's Reckoning (Batman and Robin finally corner Tony Zucco and take him down)
Batman: The Laughing Fish (The Joker tries to patent his smiling "Joker Fish" and Batman must stop his most ludicrous scheme ever.)
Batman: Night of the Ninja (Kayodai Ken returns, now a professional thief and battles Batman/Bruce Wayne and is finally beaten by him. He now knows Batman's secret identity.)
Batman: Cat Scratch Fever (Roland Daggett is behind a plot with Dr. Milo to infect a virus into Gotham's pet population to spread to humans so he can sell the cure; Catwoman (recently paroled) gets infected and Batman has to save her)
Batman: The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne (Blackmailer Doctor Hugo Strange uses his mind-reading device to learn that Bruce Wayne is Batman and intends to sell the information to the highest bidder; Batman manages to discredit him)
Batman: Heart of Steel (The Computer HARDAC manages to replace important Gotham citizens with robot duplicants to replace all of humanity but Batman and Barbara Gordon (whose father has been replaced) manage to stop him)
Batman: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? (Batman has his first confrontation with computer genius Edward Nygma, now going by the name the Riddler, who is seeking revenge on Daniel Mockridge)
Batman: Joker's Wild (Batman must stop Joker from destroying a casino built in his image because the owner is counting on it to commit insurance fraud)
Batman: Tyger Tyger (Dr Emil Dorian turns Selina Kyle into an actual Catwoman to mate with his feline hybrid Tygrus; Batman stops him and manages to cure Selina with Tygrus' help)
Batman: Moon of the Wolf (Dr. Milo blackmails Anthony Romulus into committing crimes for him to cure his lycanthropy but Batman stops him)
Batman: Day of the Samurai (The Ninja returns again and kidnaps Yoru Sensai's star pupil Karai to extort the fabled Death Touch from him;. Batman saves her and Kayodai Ken dies in a volcanic explosion)
Batman: Terror in the Sky (Batman is convinced that Kirk Langstrom is taking the Man-Bat serum again but this time it turns out to be his wife Francine who is infected; Batman manages to save her)
Batman: Almost Got 'Im (Batman infiltrates a card game with Two-Face, Poison Ivy, the Penguin and the Joker to find out where Joker has stashed a kidnapped Catwoman)
Batman: Birds of a Feather (Veronica Vreeland manipulates a reformed Penguin into resuming his life of crime)
Batman: What is Reality? (The Riddler traps Commissioner Gordon in a Virtual Reality Simulator but Batman and Robin manage to free him; The Riddler is left in a catatonic state)
Batman: I Am the Night (After Jim Gordon is nearly killed in a police raid Bruce seriously considers the negative effects he's had of being Batman)
Batman: Off Balance (Batman meets Talia and has his first encounter with Ra's Al Ghul's Society of Shadows and Count Vertigo)
Batman: The Man Who Killed Batman (Batman cons a nebbishy mobster into thinking he killed him to gain evidence on Rupert Thorne)
Batman: Mudslide: (Clayface is apparently killed battling Batman while searching for a cure)
Batman: Paging the Crime Doctor (Rupert Thorne's brother Dr. Matthew Thorne is forced to perform an emergency operation on Rupert with the help of a kidnapped Leslie Thompkins; after Rupert tries to betray them both Matthew turns himself into the police)
Batman: Zatanna (Magician Zatanna is framed for a bank robbery and is helped out of her jam by Batman who she realizes is the boy who studied with her father when she was younger)
Batman: The Mechanic (The Penguin uses Earl Cooper to take control of the Batmobile but is defeated by Batman)
Batman: Harley and Ivy: (Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn team up for the first time)
Batman: The Demon's Quest (Batman meets and battles Ra's Al Ghul who offers him the opportunity to be his successor but declares him an enemy when he refuses)
Batman: Shadow of the Bat (Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl to help her father when he is framed by the new district attorney and Two-Face for taking bribes )
Batman: Riddler's Reform: (After the Riddler tells Batman he's given up his life of crime Batman tells him he can't stop himself so he decides to finish Batman off once and for all; His death trap fails and Batman refuses to tell him how he got out of it)
Batman and Robin: Make 'Em Laugh (The Joker gets revenge on the Laugh-Off Judges by using the Mad Hatter's Mind Control chips to turn them into the villains Condiment King, Pack Rat and Mighty Mom to ruin their careers;. Batman and Robin manage to reveal this plot to the public)
Batman: Blind as a Bat (Bruce has serious misgivings about the new Stealth jet created by Wayne Enterprises because it has weapons systems. After the Penguin steals it and terrorizes Gotham it is the last time he is willing to create a weapons system; Bruce is temporarily blinded but manages to defeat the Penguin anyways)
Batman: His Silicon Soul (A HARDAC Bat-Duplicant who thinks he is the real Batman tries to restart HARDAC's mission of replacing humanity with robots but his nature is so similar to Bruce's that he self-destructs when he mistakenly believes he has killed Batman)
Batman: Fire From Olympus (Batman has his first encounter with deluded shipping magnate Maxie Zeus who believes himself the God of Olympus)
Batman: Read My Lips (Batman encounters his most bizarre foe yet when he goes up against a Ventriloquist, whose dummy Scarface calls the shots in the mob gang)
Batman: The Worry Men (The Mad Hatter uses his mind control devices to make wealthy Gothamites (including Bruce Wayne) give him their fortunes without realizing it; End of Batman: The Animated Series)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Batman is reunited with true love Andrea Beaumont. Learns she is in fact the Phantasm, a villain seeking retribution on her father's killers by way of murder.)
Batman: Sideshow ( Batman chases and captures an escaped Killer Croc; Beginning of The Adventures of Batman and Robin)
Batman: A Bullet For Bullock (Batman teams up with Detective Harvey Bullock to uncover an assassination plot against Harvey)
Batman: Trial (Batman's rogues put Batman and D.A. Janet Van Doren on trial at Arkham Asylum for creating them but Batman manages to free Van Doren and defeat them)
Batman: Avatar (Ra's Al Ghul attempts to divine the secrets of immortality by the Egyptian sorceress Toth Khopera. Batman and Talia manage to stop and then save him but Talia maroons Batman in the desert rather than letting him bring in her father)
Batman: House and Garden (Poison Ivy attempts to reform but only on her terms; her attempts to create a family out of plants are thwarted by Batman and Robin but not before she escapes)
Batman: The Terrible Trio (Batman goes up against spoiled college kids and defeats them easily)
Batman: Harliquinade (Batman recruits Harley Quinn to help him locate the Joker who has stolen a bomb and taken the mayor hostage)
Batman: Time of of Joint (The Clock King returns and uses time-stopping devices to try to kill Hill again; he fails and is taken in by the police)
Batman: Catwalk (Catwoman decisively decides to return to a life of crime, this time aided by the Ventriloquist and Scarface)
Batman: Bane (Rupert Thorne hires a massive assassin named Bane to kill Batman but he fails)
Batman: Baby Doll (Batman battles Baby Doll, a former child star who has been driven insane)
Batman: The Lion and the Unicorn (Red Claw kidnaps Alfred to extract information from him from his days in British intelligence; Batman and Robin manage to save Alfred and stop her)
Batman: Showdown (Ra's Al Ghul relates the story of how Jonah Hex went up against his son Arcady Duvall in the Old West so Batman will let him take his aged son home)
Batman: Second Chance (While undergoing plastic surgery to heal his physical scars Two-Face has himself kidnapped and Batman has to confront his former friend)
Batman: Harley's Holiday (On her first day out of Arkham a Harley Quinn who is TRYING to reform still manages to get into a lot of trouble)
Batman: Lock-Up (Sadistic Arkham Ward Lyle Bolton is fired and re-emerges as the villain Lock-Up who is dedicated to punishing criminals)
Batman and Robin: Deep Freeze (Mr. Freeze is kidnapped from jail by billionaire Grant Walker; he uses Fries's wife Nora as collateral to have Freeze give him the secret of immortality so he can submerge the Earth into a new ice age; Batman manages to convince Freeze that it isn't what Nora would have wanted and Walker's plans are halted; now Freeze has the frozen body of Nora with him, where-ever he is)
Batman and Robin: Batgirl Returns (Batgirl teams up with Catwoman to stop a ruined Roland Daggett's latest plot; Catwoman double-crosses Batgirl and escapes; end of The Adventures of Batman and Robin)
Batman: Subzero ( Mr. Freeze attempts to use a live-organ transplant from a kidnapped Barbara Gordon to save his wife Nora but Batman and Robin manage to stop him; Wayne Enterprises foots the bill to cure Nora and she is revived anyways although Freeze is still an outcast in the arctic)
Batman: Old Wounds (Bruce reveals his secret to Barbara Gordon and also reveals that he knows her's;. Dick Grayson confronts Bruce after learning Barbara is Batgirl;. Dick gives up the mantle of Robin)
Batman: Critters (Farmer Brown's mutant animals go on a rampage after a demonstration so a judge orders Brown to cease and desist making them)
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (Clark moves to Metropolis, becomes Superman, meets Lois Lane, battles Kasnian agent John Corben and meets and confronts Lex Luthor for the first time; Series Premiere Of Superman: The Animated Series)
Superman Fun and Games ( Superman has his first confrontation with the Toyman who is out to kill mobster Bruno "Ugly" Manheim)
Superman: A Little Piece of Home (Superman and Lex Luthor discover the Man of Steel has a weakness against a substance called Kryptonite or rocks from his home planet.)
Superman: The Way of All Flesh (John Corben is dying and Luthor replaces his brain in an android body and he becomes the villain Metallo.)
Superman: Feeding Time (After a chemical spill janitor Rudy Jones becomes the energy draining villain Parasite and kidnaps Superman to feed on his powers before he is defeated)
Superman: The Main Man: (Professor Hamilton repairs the rocket Superman came to Earth in; Superman meets and battles Lobo who is trying to retrieve a bounty on him from the species collecting Preserver but teams up with Superman to defeat the double crossing Preserver; Superman puts the Preserver's alien zoo in his new-found Fortress of Solitude)
Superman: Stolen Memories (Superman takes the rocket for a test run;. Superman meets Brainiac who has made contact with Lex Luthor, claiming to want to help mankind but secretly wanting to gather all of it's information in orbs and then destroy it; Superman retrieves the orb containing Kryptonian knowledge from Brainiac's ship after defeating him and destroying his ship)
Superman: My Girl (Clark's former sweetheart Lana Lang begins dating Lex and uses her position to spy on him for Superman who she knows is Clark; After Lex tries to have her killed the relationship doesn't last)
Superman: Tools of the Trade: (Kanto supplies Bruno Manheim and Intergang with technology from Apokalips ; Darkseid and Manheim meet as Manheim is taken to Apokolips)
Superman: Two's a Crowd (Superman recruits the Parasite to find out where a comatose man named Earl Garver has hid a bomb in Metropolis)
Superman: Blasts From the Past: (Superman releases a Kryptonian criminal named Mala from the Phantom Zone but quickly realizes she is unstable; She frees another Kryptonian named Jax-Ur and the pair tries to conquer Earth before they are defeated by Superman and returned to the Phantom Zone)
Superman: Ghost in the Machine and Justice League Unlimited: Divided We Fall: (Brianiac forces Lex Luthor to build him a new android body;. He infects Luthor with nano-technology so he can control him before Superman defeats him)
Superman: Action Figures (A amnesiac Metallo befriends two small children after washing ashore on a volcanic island; He regains his memory after Superman comes to rescue the kids from a volcanic explosion and they fight; He winds up buried in lava although he does escape at some point)
Superman: Live Wire (After being electrocuted at a concert, shock jock Leslie Willis is transformed into the villain Livewire who tangles with Superman)
Superman: Target (Lois is the target of assassination attempts by scientist Edward Lytener, a former friend and mentor; Superman saves her and Lytener is taken to prison)
Superman: Identity Crisis: (A failed clone of Superman created by Lex Luthor named Bizarro attempts to become the Man of Steel and winds up saving Lois Lane's life)
Superman: Mxyzpixilated (Mr. Myxyzptlk, a reality altering being from another dimension challenges Superman in a mind game to prove who is the superior specimen; He loses to Superman repeatedly)
Superman: Absolute Power (Jax-Ur and Mala escape from the Phantom Zone and take over the planet that rescues them)
Superman: Speed Demons (The Flash (Wally West) challenges Superman to a race around the world but soon they are both pulled into a conflict with Flash's Rogue the Weather Wizard)
Superman: Double Dose (Livewire escapes from prison and frees and teams up with the Parasite to take down Superman but both are defeated)
Superman: Solar Power (Edward Lytener returns as the villain Luminus and uses his technical knowledge to turn the Earth's sun red to depower Superman; Superman manages to reverse the condition and defeat Luminous)
Superman: Brave New Metropolis: (Lois Lane visits an alternate dimension where Superman and Lex Luthor rule Metropolis with an iron fist.)
Superman: Monkey Fun (Titano returns from space and wreaks havoc when he grows to an enormous size due to a side effect of being in space for so long and coming into contact with an alien organism. Superman and Lois manage to relocate him to his own island)
Superman: The Promethean (Superman clashes with General Hardcastle over a giant space creature which has come to Earth)
Superman: Father's Day (After a battle with Kallibak, Superman gets his first glimpse of Darkseid who swears to conquer Earth)
Superman: The Hand of Fate (Superman goes to Dr. Fate for help when the demon Karkull emerges and threatens to destroy humanity)
Superman: Bizarro's World (After wandering the Arctic Bizarro discovers the Fortress of Solitude and learns Krypton's fate from Brainiac; he tries to recreate Krypton's destruction in Metropolis. Superman stops him and finds an entire planet for him to "defend")
Superman: Prototype (A military man is the test subject for a new supersuit from Lexcorp but the inventor John Henry Irons warns Luthor that the suit isn't ready because of the neurological problems the suit may cause; After Sgt. Corey Mills goes on a rampage Superman tells Irons that when the suit is ready he would welcome some help)
Superman: The Late Mr. Kent (After investigating a death row inmate's claims that he has been framed for murder Clark Kent is witnessed to have died and Superman realizes he can't re-emerge as Clark without giving up his secret; Superman discovers the inmate was framed by Detective Kurt Bowman and brings him down;, with help from Lana Lang Clark conduct a plausible explanation for how he survived; Bowman realizes Clark is Superman in the gas chamber)
Superman: World's Finest (Batman and Superman meet and discover each other's secret identities while battling Lex Luthor and the Joker who have teamed up to destroy Superman; Lois Lane and Bruce begin to date, when she discovers his secret and decides it is too much for her to handle)
Batman: Sins of the Father (Tim Drake Becomes the New Robin after Two-Face kills his father, is rescued by Batman, and discovers his secret; Dick Grayson returns from traveling the world, takes up the mantle of Nightwing)
Batman: Growing Pains (Clayface returns and confronts Batman and Robin)
Batman: Holiday Knights (First episode produced of The New Batman Adventures. Harley and Ivy take Bruce Wayne on a shopping spree; Clayface battles Batgirl and Batman and Robin take on the Joker)
Batman: Cold Comfort (Mr Freeze returns and wreaks vengeance on Gotham citizen's most prized possessions and is revealed to now be only a disembodied head)
Superman: Heavy Metal (John Henry Irons fixes the Supersuit he built for Lex Luthor and takes up the mantel of Steel while saving Superman from a vengeful Metallo)
Batman: Mean Seasons (Model Paige Munroe, now known as Calender Girl begins her seasonal rampage in Gotham to get revenge on the executives who wanted younger models during the spring; conjecture)
Batman: Double Talk (Despite his old gang trying to trick him into making Scarface return Arnold Wesker is finally cured and living in a half-way house)
Batman: You Scratch My Back (Nightwing (Dick Grayson) makes his Gotham debut and tangles with Catwoman)
Batman: Never Fear (Robin has to reel Batman in after the Scarecrow's new fear toxin takes away his fear instead of causing it)
Batman: Mean Seasons (Calendar Girl begins her summer campaign of terror; conjecture)
Superman: Apokalips Now! (Darkseid begins his first invasion of Earth and kills Bruno Manheim; Orion comes to Earth to warn Superman; High Father declares Earth under his protection under the New Genesis Pact and Darkseid is forced to leave but not before killing Detective Dan Turpin)
Batman: Joker's Millions (The Joker's reform is short-lived after inheriting millions of dollars from an old mob boss when he spends more than he realizes he had; The Penguin reveals himself as a reformed businessman now running the Iceberg Lounge)
Batman: Love is a Croc (A love-sick Baby Doll teams up with Killer Croc on a crime-spree before he double-crosses her and Batman and Batgirl bring them down)
Batman: Mean Seasons (Calendar Girl strikes again at the fall harvest; conjecture)
Batman: Torch Song (A pyromaniac obsessed with his singer ex-girlfriend becomes the villain Firefly whom Batman must take down)
Superman: Warrior Queen (Queen Maxima of the planet Amerac tries to force Superman to become her mate)
Batman: The Ultimate Thrill (Batman confronts thrill-seeker Roxie Rocket and gets into a tussle with the Penguin along the way)
Batman: Mean Seasons (Calendar Girl is finally brought to justice by Batman and Batgirl during the holiday season)
Batman: Critters (Farmer Brown returns and unleashes his mutant monsters upon Gotham although Batman, Robin and Batgirl manage to stop them and bring him in)
Batman: Cult of the Cat (After stealing jewels from a cat worshiping cult Selina Kyle retreats to Paris)
Superman: Little Girl Lost (Superman finds his "cousin" Kara in stasis near the planet Argos' remains; she takes up mantle of Supergirl and confronts Granny Goodness)
Superman: Where There's Smoke (Superman encounters a metahuman thief named Volcana who is on the run from the government who had been exploiting her fire based powers by holding her captive.)
Batman: Animal Act (The Mad Hatter hypnotizes animals from Dick Grayson's old traveling circus but Nightwing and Batman manage to defeat him)
Batman: Old Wounds (Nightwing relates the story of why he quit being Robin to Tim Drake)
Superman: Knight Time: (Brainiac takes over Bruce Wayne using nano-technology and Bruce (and Batman) goes missing; Superman impersonates Batman and teams up with Robin to find Bruce and defeats Brainiac)
Batman: The Demon Within (Batman introduces Tim to Jason Blood who is bonded to the demon Etrigan;. A Witch-boy named Klarion manages to separate them to make Etrigan do his bidding but Batman is able make Jason whole again; Klarion is currently sitting on a shelf)
Superman: Absolute Power (While investigating a black hole Superman finds out Jax-Ur and Mala have escaped the Phantom Zone and are leading an alien world with an iron fist; he manages to defeat them both and they are sucked into the black hole freeing the planet from their tyranny)
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (Three kids relate their ideas of who Batman is and witness him take down Firefly)
Superman: Obsession: (Toyman stalks a woman named D'Arcy Mason who turns out to be a robot he built; Superman defeats him and D'Arcy keeps him in a suitcase)
Batman: Girl's Nite Out (Supergirl and Batgirl team up to take down Livewire, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn; they relate each other's secret identities)
Superman: The Demon Reborn (Batman tries to save Superman from Ra's Al Ghul and Talia who kidnap him in an effort to use his Kryptonian DNA to rejuvenate Ra's after the Lazarus pit fails him; Batman frees Superman and they both defeat Ra's)
Batman: Chemistry (Bruce Wayne is tricked into marrying a plant woman of Poison Ivy's;. After she is destroyed the honeymoon is over; Last appearance of Nightwing in a significant role)
Superman: In Brightest Day: (Kyle Rayner becomes Green Lantern after Abin Sur gives him a power ring as he dies)
Superman: Superman's Pal (Superman gives Jimmy Olsen a communicator to call him for help which results in all of Metropolis calling Jimmy Superman's Pal; Superman rescues Olsen from Metallo who had kidnapped him to draw Superman into a trap but is defeated)
Superman: Little Big Head Man (Mr Mxyzptlk frees Bizarro from his planet and tricks him into wreaking havoc in Metropolis; the Council from the Fifth Dimension punishes Mxy for his tricks and temporarily removes his powers to force him to entertain Bizarro whom Superman returns to his planet)
Batman: Beware the Creeper (The Joker tosses reporter Jack Ryder into the same chemical vat that turned him into the Joker and Ryder emerges as the zany superhero the Creeper)
Superman: Unity: (Supergirl stops an alien Preacher from taking over Ma and Pa Kent through mind control and dominating Smallville)
Batman: Mad Love (After nearly managing to kill Batman Harley Quinn is tossed through a window by the Joker and resolves to never trust him again, a resolve that is short-lived)
Superman: A Fish Story (Superman frees a kidnapped Aquaman from Lex Luthor after sea creatures wreak havoc in Metropolis)
Batman: Judgment Day (Harvey Dent creates a third personality to balance out Two-Face's nature, the Judge, a vigilante whose campaigns against the Penguin, Riddler and Killer Croc go too far before Batman reveals who is behind them; End of The New Batman Adventures)
Superman: Legacy (Superman is brainwashed by Darkseid and attacks the Earth. His trust is lost completely by the world especially a scared Emil Hamilton; Superman battles Darkseid but doesn't manage to end his rule on Apokalips; Series Finale of Superman: The Animated Series)
I would greatly love input from Style 92, 90's Cartoon Man and Merlin Missy. Please.
DC Animated Universe Timeline
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A timeline of events that happened in the DCAU in the order in which they happened.
Some notes about this timeline.
1. This timeline only consists of events that happened in the regular DCAU timeline. Erased timelines and alternate universes are only noted if they have a significant impact on the universe of the DCAU. That is why the alternate timelines of Hereafter and Once and Future Thing are ignored as they didn't shape the history of the DCAU.
2. With two notable exceptions I try as hard as possible to avoid events that aren't actually shown on screen. That is why, although it is definitely a huge event in the DCAU the Near-Apocalypse of '09 is not listed.
3. This list assumes that the DCAU while not operating in STRICT Peanuts time is not set by actual dates even if episodes themselves are set at a specific point in history (Static Shock's Romeo in the Mix and The Zeta Project's Lost and Found). I also will try to avoid mentioning the specific passage of years so Batman can both be 30 years old in Peanuts time or if you wish to acknowledge the passage of years 45 when Justice League Unlimited takes place.
4. About Teen Titans: There has been a concerted effort among Teen Titans fans to wedge the show into DCAU continuity thanks to the Teen Titans episode Lightspeed and the Justice League Unlimited episode Patriot Act as they both featured voice actors from both shows ( Micheal Rosenbaum as Flash and Mike Irwin as Speedy) and say that Teen Titans could fit as a prequel to Batman: The Animated Series. While I'd like nothing more than to include Teen Titans as it would make the DCAU even more well-rounded I don't think those two little clues are definitive proof of it being canon. Indeed considering Robin on The Batman will be voiced by Titans' Scott Menville it seems to me that they were both shout-outs to the fans and nothing more.
5. About Superman: Brainiac Attacks:. I've not actually seen the DTV but I've heard sources say that despite it using the same character styles as Superman: The Animated Series and some of the same voices that the story is so inconsistent with the universe that it cannot possibly fit. Indeed Bird Boy at Toon Zone's review basically confirmed this. I am not going to include it in the timeline.
6. About Shadow of the Hawk and Ancient History: I am not including the history of what transpired due to the absorbacron because Dwayne McDuffie has explicitly stated that the entire situation was bogus. While I am more inclined to agree with Merlin Missy and others that it was more open to interpretation than Mr. McDuffie has insisted the timeline only deals with solid facts relating to the DCAU.
Update: It has been reported to me by Revelator that Bruce Timm has said that there WAS some reincarnation going on so I am going to compromise and simply report the history of Shayera and Katar Hol crashing to Earth from Shadow of the Hawk. I won't report how they died as we have seen two conflicting reports but since we DID see their corpses at the end of Shadow of the Hawk it's obvious they DID exist.
7. This timeline goes by production order and NOT airdate order with two parters grouped together. I HAVE however put episodes in the order they were set even if it doesn't jibe with production order.
8. A LOT of this timeline is educated guesswork and conjecture ESPECIALLY regarding where Static Shock fits into regards to Justice League and when Superman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures overlap. These are my best guesses and may be disproved in a future DCAU project, should one come along.
Final Note:
Feel free to use this timeline for any of your fanfic needs. This timeline is different from the previous versions in that I have included every single episode and movie from the DCAU no matter how seemingly insignificant. When I first wrote the timeline I had no idea that a bit character in Moon of the Wolf and Cat Scratch Fever would become a catalyst for how things went down in JLU's watershed The Doomsday Sanction. From now on the timeline is based on the assumption that EVERYTHING is important and could possibly come into play in a future DTV movie or series. I know this will be a disappointment to people who have episodes they detest and try to pretend they don't exist. However I try to make each and every episode have SOME greater value to the continuity at large even if it's done tongue in cheek (see the entry for Static Shock's Hoop Squad).
Also feel free to correct any mistakes I have made. I will update the timeline accordingly and credit you for the catch.
DC Animated Universe Timeline:
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Justice League: Maid of Honor (Vandal Savage is made immortal by a fallen meteor)
Justice League: Eclipsed: (After a war with the Ophidians a tribe of warriors banish them into a crystal and set guardians upon it to prevent them from returning and destroying the world)
Justice League: The Terror Beyond: (Atlantis sinks underwater after a battle with Ichthultu)
Justice League: Paradise Lost (Hippolyta begins an affair with Hades which ends with him being banished to the Underworld)
Justice League Unlimited: Shadow of the Hawk (A Thanagarian spacecraft carrying Shayera and Katar Hol crashes to Earth and the Egyptians who discover them worship them as Gods and make them their new rulers; Conjecture)
Jusitce League Unlimited: To Another Shore: (The Norse God Odin tricks the Viking Prince into becoming endowed with invulnerability instead of reuniting him with his true love in Val Halla. The Prince then sets sail to find a way to earn a hero's death and his ship becomes trapped in a glacier for centuries.)
Justice League: Secret Origins (The Imperium and the Alien Invaders invade Mars and start off a 500 year war between the Invaders and the Martians)
Justice League: A Knight of Shadows (Jason Blood is bonded to the Demon Etrigan by Merlin after the fall of Camelot to Morgaine Le Fey and his complicity in it)
Justice League: Secret Origins (The Imperium and the Alien Invaders are finally defeated but J'onn J'onnz is the last survivor of the Martian Race; He traps the Alien Invaders and stands watch over them while they are in suspended animation in a Citadel on Mars)
Superman: Apokalips Now (High Father and Darkseid exchange infant sons in New Genesis Pact)
Justice League Unlimited: The Ties That Bind (Scott Free is tortured by Granny Goodness in her orphanage on Apokalips; conjecture)
Batman: Showdown (Jonah Hex goes up against Ra's Al Ghul and his son Arcady Duvall)
Justice League: The Terror Beyond (Cyrus Gold is killed and his body is dumped into a mystical Swamp.)
Batman and Robin: Avatar (An archaeologist in Egypt finds the tomb of Toth Koperha and vanishes, never to be seen again)
Justice League: The Terror Beyond (Cyrus Gold is killed and his body is dumped into a mystical Swamp.)
Justice League: The Savage Time (The Justice League re-fights WWII to defeat Vandal Savage; Green Lantern joins Sergeant Rock and Easy Company and battles Savage; Hawkgirl, Superman and Flash meet the Blackhawk Squadron; J'onn J'onnz infiltrates Vandal Savage's headquarters; and Wonder Woman helps Steve Trevor on an espionage mission)
Justice League Unlimited: Patriot Act (Spy Smasher stops Nazi scientists from implementing their Super-Soldier formula to create a race of Supermen;. First known superhero in the DCAU.)
Justice League: Fury: (Aresia is brought to Themiscyra by a captain after surviving a war and a shipwreck. Conjecture)
Justice League: The Terror Beyond (Solomon Grundy rises from the dead)
Batman: It's Never Too Late: ( Young Micheal Stromwell loses a leg from a train accident saving his brother Arnold)
Superman: Blasts From the Past: (Jax-Ur and Mala attempt insurrection of Planet Krypton but are defeated by Jor-El; Jax-Ur claims sole responsibility for the attack and is sentenced to life in the Phantom Zone; Mala receives a twenty year sentence)
Static Shock: Blast From the Past: (Soul Power battles arch nemesis Professor Menace with aid of his sidekick Sparky. )
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton: (Krypton explodes, Kal-El is last survivor; Brainiac saves himself, begins quest to collect information from the universe.; )
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (Kal-El is rocketed to Earth and is adopted by Jonathon and Martha Kent.)
Batman: Beware the Gray Ghost (Young Bruce Wayne watches his favorite TV program The Gray Ghost with his father which becomes a ritual that will hold great significance for him later in life)
Superman: Monkey Fun: (Lois Lane's Colonel father sends her pet monkey into space on an experimental mission and the rocket disappears)
Batman: Appointment in Crime Alley (Bruce Wayne witnesses his parents' murder, is raised by Alfred Pennyworth, the family Butler)
Superman: New Kids in town (Young Clark Kent meets the Legion of Superheroes and fights Brainiac but his memories are erased)
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton: (Clark learns his Kryptonian heritage)
Justice League Unlimited: Double Date: (A young Helena Bertinelli witnesses crime boss Mandragora murder her parents)
Batman: Zatanna (Bruce is trained by Zatarra, Meets Zatanna)
Batman: Night of the Ninja (Bruce is trained by Yoru Sensai and makes enemies with Kayodai Ken, the only man to beat him in hand to hand combat.)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (flashbacks show Bruce falling in love with Andrea Beaumont, their relationship and her father's (and the pre acid bath Joker's) involvement with the Velestra crime family, Carl and Andrea Beaumont's subsequent hiding in Europe and Bruce becoming Batman)
Batman: The Mechanic (Earl Cooper builds the Batmobile for Batman)
Batman: Robin's Reckoning (Acrobat Dick Grayson is orphaned during a performance; Bruce Wayne takes him in as his ward; Bruce reveals his secret to Dick and decides to train him as Robin; Tony Zucco, the Flying Graysons' murderer is kicked out of his uncle Arnold Stromwell's house and begins a life on the run)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (The Gangster who will be known as the Joker murders Carl Beaumont on Sal Velestra's orders.)
Batman: The Clock King : (Temple Fugate takes Lawyer Hamilton Hill's advice and takes his break early leading to a VERY bad day)
Batman: Mad Love: (The Joker is born when a mobster is accidentally thrown into a vat of acid battling Batman)
Batman: Pretty Poison (New District Attorney Harvey Dent breaks ground on Gotham State Penitentiary while Pamela Isley watches the extinction of the Wild Thorny Rose because of it.)
Batman and Robin : Bane: (In a Cuban High security prison, Project Gilgamesh, a government project to create super soldiers goes horribly awry when Bane is created and escapes)
Batman: Joker's Favor: (Mild mannered accountant Charlie Collins crosses the Joker who lets him live because he promises to do a favor for him in the future.)
Batman: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? (Daniel Mockridge squeezes computer game designer Edward Nygma out of the profits he is entitled to after creating the wildly popular Riddle of the Minotaur game)
Batman: Heart of Ice: (Victor Fries is transformed into Mr. Freeze due to a tragic cryogenic "accident" after Ferris Boyle learns Freeze was using company money to save his wife Nora from a terminal disease and disrupts the process, effectively ending both lives)
Batman: Mad Love (Harleen Quinzell is seduced into becoming the Joker's assistant Harley Quinn after treating him at Arkham)
Batman: On Leather Wings (Batman saves Kirk Langstrom who has turned into the Man-Bat after an experiment goes awry; earliest point in the DCAU modern continuity and series premiere of Batman: The Animated Series)
Batman: Christmas With the Joker (Batman and Robin confront the Joker who has taken hostages at Christmastime)
Batman: Nothing to Fear (Batman has his first confrontation with the Scarecrow)
Batman: The Last Laugh (The Joker goes on a crime spree using a new form of laughing gas; Alfred is infected; Batman defeats Joker and manages to find an anti-dote for Alfred)
Batman: Pretty Poison (Batman meets Poison Ivy who poisons her new fiance Harvey Dent because he caused the Wild Thorny Rose to become extinct; Batman defeats Ivy and her monster plants and finds an anti-dote for Harvey)
Batman: P.O.V. (Detective Harvey Bullock, Officer Renee Montoya and Officer Wilkes have wildly differing takes on how Batman affected a police raid and are temporarily relieved of duty; Montoya investigates and manages to get all three of their jobs back)
Batman: The Forgotten (Bruce Wayne temporarily loses his memory after Boss Biggis conks him on the head and forces him to work in a chain gang but Alfred rescues him.)
Batman: Be a Clown (The Joker takes Mayor Hill's son under his wing but Batman rescues him)
Batman: Two-Face (District Attorney Harvey Dent becomes the villain Two-Face after a run-in with Rupert Thorne; Batman vows to save his friend from himself)
Batman: It's Never Too Late (Batman convinces aging Mob boss Armold Stromwell to turn state's evidence against Rupert Thorne)
Batman: I've Got Batman in My Basement (Some kids rescue an incapacitated Batman from the Penguin)
Batman: The Cat and the Claw (Batman meets Catwoman (Selina Kyle) and they both face off against Red Claw; After Red Claw's defeat Batman turns Catwoman over to the authorities for burglary)
Batman: Heart of Ice (Batman learns that Mr. Freeze was transformed from a scientist into a villain and exposes Ferris Boyle's culpability in his transformation while protecting him from Victor Fries' vengeance)
Batman: See No Evil (Batman fights a man in an invisibility suit and protects his daughter from him)
Batman: Beware the Gray Ghost (Batman teams up with Simon Trent, the man who played the Gray Ghost on TV to stop a bomb plot;. He reveals Trent's significance to his life when Trent realizes the Batcave is modeled after his headquarters on his old show)
Batman: Prophecy of Doom (Batman exposes astrologist Nostromos as a charlatan)
Batman: Feat of Clay (Actor Matt Hagen is turned into the creature Clayface by Roland Daggett's men; He is apparently killed while battling Batman but Batman thinks his death scene may have been another performance)
Batman: Make 'Em Laugh (The Joker goes undercover to participate in the Annual Gotham Laugh-off but is heckled off the stage)
Batman: Joker's Favor (The Joker calls in his marker on Charlie Collins who actually winds up helping Batman defeat his plot to kill the Commisioner)
Batman: Vendetta (Killer Croc frames Harvey Bullock for a mob snitch's disappearance and Batman has his first confrontation with him)
Batman: Fear of Victory (Robin is nearly paralyzed with Fear when the Scarecrow infects him with his toxin but he and Batman manage to stop him from infecting a stadium full of people).
Batman: The Clock King (Temple Fugate re-emerges to inflict his revenge on Mayor Hill now known as the Clock King; Batman stops him and Fugate disappears)
Batman: Appointment in Crime Alley: (Batman's yearly pilgrimage to Crime Alley with Leslie Thompkins is interrupted by Roland Daggett trying to blow it up to make room for new condos;. He is unsuccessful but is still not implicated in his crimes)
Batman: Mad as a Hatter (Obsessive stalker Jervis Tetch uses mind-control devices and the guise of the Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland to woo the woman he is stalking; Batman manages to stop him)
Batman: Dreams in Darkness (Batman gets infected with the Scarecrow's fear toxic and is locked up in Arkham; He escapes and stops the Scarecrow from dumping the hallucinogen into Gotham's water supply)
Batman: Eternal Youth (Batman rescues Alfred and his friend Maggie from a health spa run by Poison Ivy that turns clients into trees)
Batman: Perchance to Dream (the Mad Hatter puts Batman into a dream world where his parents are alive and he has never been Batman; he escapes preferring to live a life that is painful but is at least real.)
Batman: The Cape and Cowl Conspiracy (Batman tricks death trap specialist Josiah Wormwood into revealing where he hid a storage key by duping him into a game of cat and mouse with the Batman)
Batman: Robin's Reckoning (Batman and Robin finally corner Tony Zucco and take him down)
Batman: The Laughing Fish (The Joker tries to patent his smiling "Joker Fish" and Batman must stop his most ludicrous scheme ever.)
Batman: Night of the Ninja (Kayodai Ken returns, now a professional thief and battles Batman/Bruce Wayne and is finally beaten by him. He now knows Batman's secret identity.)
Batman: Cat Scratch Fever (Roland Daggett is behind a plot with Dr. Milo to infect a virus into Gotham's pet population to spread to humans so he can sell the cure; Catwoman (recently paroled) gets infected and Batman has to save her)
Batman: The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne (Blackmailer Doctor Hugo Strange uses his mind-reading device to learn that Bruce Wayne is Batman and intends to sell the information to the highest bidder; Batman manages to discredit him)
Batman: Heart of Steel (The Computer HARDAC manages to replace important Gotham citizens with robot duplicants to replace all of humanity but Batman and Barbara Gordon (whose father has been replaced) manage to stop him)
Batman: If You're So Smart, Why Aren't You Rich? (Batman has his first confrontation with computer genius Edward Nygma, now going by the name the Riddler, who is seeking revenge on Daniel Mockridge)
Batman: Joker's Wild (Batman must stop Joker from destroying a casino built in his image because the owner is counting on it to commit insurance fraud)
Batman: Tyger Tyger (Dr Emil Dorian turns Selina Kyle into an actual Catwoman to mate with his feline hybrid Tygrus; Batman stops him and manages to cure Selina with Tygrus' help)
Batman: Moon of the Wolf (Dr. Milo blackmails Anthony Romulus into committing crimes for him to cure his lycanthropy but Batman stops him)
Batman: Day of the Samurai (The Ninja returns again and kidnaps Yoru Sensai's star pupil Karai to extort the fabled Death Touch from him;. Batman saves her and Kayodai Ken dies in a volcanic explosion)
Batman: Terror in the Sky (Batman is convinced that Kirk Langstrom is taking the Man-Bat serum again but this time it turns out to be his wife Francine who is infected; Batman manages to save her)
Batman: Almost Got 'Im (Batman infiltrates a card game with Two-Face, Poison Ivy, the Penguin and the Joker to find out where Joker has stashed a kidnapped Catwoman)
Batman: Birds of a Feather (Veronica Vreeland manipulates a reformed Penguin into resuming his life of crime)
Batman: What is Reality? (The Riddler traps Commissioner Gordon in a Virtual Reality Simulator but Batman and Robin manage to free him; The Riddler is left in a catatonic state)
Batman: I Am the Night (After Jim Gordon is nearly killed in a police raid Bruce seriously considers the negative effects he's had of being Batman)
Batman: Off Balance (Batman meets Talia and has his first encounter with Ra's Al Ghul's Society of Shadows and Count Vertigo)
Batman: The Man Who Killed Batman (Batman cons a nebbishy mobster into thinking he killed him to gain evidence on Rupert Thorne)
Batman: Mudslide: (Clayface is apparently killed battling Batman while searching for a cure)
Batman: Paging the Crime Doctor (Rupert Thorne's brother Dr. Matthew Thorne is forced to perform an emergency operation on Rupert with the help of a kidnapped Leslie Thompkins; after Rupert tries to betray them both Matthew turns himself into the police)
Batman: Zatanna (Magician Zatanna is framed for a bank robbery and is helped out of her jam by Batman who she realizes is the boy who studied with her father when she was younger)
Batman: The Mechanic (The Penguin uses Earl Cooper to take control of the Batmobile but is defeated by Batman)
Batman: Harley and Ivy: (Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn team up for the first time)
Batman: The Demon's Quest (Batman meets and battles Ra's Al Ghul who offers him the opportunity to be his successor but declares him an enemy when he refuses)
Batman: Shadow of the Bat (Barbara Gordon becomes Batgirl to help her father when he is framed by the new district attorney and Two-Face for taking bribes )
Batman: Riddler's Reform: (After the Riddler tells Batman he's given up his life of crime Batman tells him he can't stop himself so he decides to finish Batman off once and for all; His death trap fails and Batman refuses to tell him how he got out of it)
Batman and Robin: Make 'Em Laugh (The Joker gets revenge on the Laugh-Off Judges by using the Mad Hatter's Mind Control chips to turn them into the villains Condiment King, Pack Rat and Mighty Mom to ruin their careers;. Batman and Robin manage to reveal this plot to the public)
Batman: Blind as a Bat (Bruce has serious misgivings about the new Stealth jet created by Wayne Enterprises because it has weapons systems. After the Penguin steals it and terrorizes Gotham it is the last time he is willing to create a weapons system; Bruce is temporarily blinded but manages to defeat the Penguin anyways)
Batman: His Silicon Soul (A HARDAC Bat-Duplicant who thinks he is the real Batman tries to restart HARDAC's mission of replacing humanity with robots but his nature is so similar to Bruce's that he self-destructs when he mistakenly believes he has killed Batman)
Batman: Fire From Olympus (Batman has his first encounter with deluded shipping magnate Maxie Zeus who believes himself the God of Olympus)
Batman: Read My Lips (Batman encounters his most bizarre foe yet when he goes up against a Ventriloquist, whose dummy Scarface calls the shots in the mob gang)
Batman: The Worry Men (The Mad Hatter uses his mind control devices to make wealthy Gothamites (including Bruce Wayne) give him their fortunes without realizing it; End of Batman: The Animated Series)
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (Batman is reunited with true love Andrea Beaumont. Learns she is in fact the Phantasm, a villain seeking retribution on her father's killers by way of murder.)
Batman: Sideshow ( Batman chases and captures an escaped Killer Croc; Beginning of The Adventures of Batman and Robin)
Batman: A Bullet For Bullock (Batman teams up with Detective Harvey Bullock to uncover an assassination plot against Harvey)
Batman: Trial (Batman's rogues put Batman and D.A. Janet Van Doren on trial at Arkham Asylum for creating them but Batman manages to free Van Doren and defeat them)
Batman: Avatar (Ra's Al Ghul attempts to divine the secrets of immortality by the Egyptian sorceress Toth Khopera. Batman and Talia manage to stop and then save him but Talia maroons Batman in the desert rather than letting him bring in her father)
Batman: House and Garden (Poison Ivy attempts to reform but only on her terms; her attempts to create a family out of plants are thwarted by Batman and Robin but not before she escapes)
Batman: The Terrible Trio (Batman goes up against spoiled college kids and defeats them easily)
Batman: Harliquinade (Batman recruits Harley Quinn to help him locate the Joker who has stolen a bomb and taken the mayor hostage)
Batman: Time of of Joint (The Clock King returns and uses time-stopping devices to try to kill Hill again; he fails and is taken in by the police)
Batman: Catwalk (Catwoman decisively decides to return to a life of crime, this time aided by the Ventriloquist and Scarface)
Batman: Bane (Rupert Thorne hires a massive assassin named Bane to kill Batman but he fails)
Batman: Baby Doll (Batman battles Baby Doll, a former child star who has been driven insane)
Batman: The Lion and the Unicorn (Red Claw kidnaps Alfred to extract information from him from his days in British intelligence; Batman and Robin manage to save Alfred and stop her)
Batman: Showdown (Ra's Al Ghul relates the story of how Jonah Hex went up against his son Arcady Duvall in the Old West so Batman will let him take his aged son home)
Batman: Second Chance (While undergoing plastic surgery to heal his physical scars Two-Face has himself kidnapped and Batman has to confront his former friend)
Batman: Harley's Holiday (On her first day out of Arkham a Harley Quinn who is TRYING to reform still manages to get into a lot of trouble)
Batman: Lock-Up (Sadistic Arkham Ward Lyle Bolton is fired and re-emerges as the villain Lock-Up who is dedicated to punishing criminals)
Batman and Robin: Deep Freeze (Mr. Freeze is kidnapped from jail by billionaire Grant Walker; he uses Fries's wife Nora as collateral to have Freeze give him the secret of immortality so he can submerge the Earth into a new ice age; Batman manages to convince Freeze that it isn't what Nora would have wanted and Walker's plans are halted; now Freeze has the frozen body of Nora with him, where-ever he is)
Batman and Robin: Batgirl Returns (Batgirl teams up with Catwoman to stop a ruined Roland Daggett's latest plot; Catwoman double-crosses Batgirl and escapes; end of The Adventures of Batman and Robin)
Batman: Subzero ( Mr. Freeze attempts to use a live-organ transplant from a kidnapped Barbara Gordon to save his wife Nora but Batman and Robin manage to stop him; Wayne Enterprises foots the bill to cure Nora and she is revived anyways although Freeze is still an outcast in the arctic)
Batman: Old Wounds (Bruce reveals his secret to Barbara Gordon and also reveals that he knows her's;. Dick Grayson confronts Bruce after learning Barbara is Batgirl;. Dick gives up the mantle of Robin)
Batman: Critters (Farmer Brown's mutant animals go on a rampage after a demonstration so a judge orders Brown to cease and desist making them)
Superman: The Last Son of Krypton (Clark moves to Metropolis, becomes Superman, meets Lois Lane, battles Kasnian agent John Corben and meets and confronts Lex Luthor for the first time; Series Premiere Of Superman: The Animated Series)
Superman Fun and Games ( Superman has his first confrontation with the Toyman who is out to kill mobster Bruno "Ugly" Manheim)
Superman: A Little Piece of Home (Superman and Lex Luthor discover the Man of Steel has a weakness against a substance called Kryptonite or rocks from his home planet.)
Superman: The Way of All Flesh (John Corben is dying and Luthor replaces his brain in an android body and he becomes the villain Metallo.)
Superman: Feeding Time (After a chemical spill janitor Rudy Jones becomes the energy draining villain Parasite and kidnaps Superman to feed on his powers before he is defeated)
Superman: The Main Man: (Professor Hamilton repairs the rocket Superman came to Earth in; Superman meets and battles Lobo who is trying to retrieve a bounty on him from the species collecting Preserver but teams up with Superman to defeat the double crossing Preserver; Superman puts the Preserver's alien zoo in his new-found Fortress of Solitude)
Superman: Stolen Memories (Superman takes the rocket for a test run;. Superman meets Brainiac who has made contact with Lex Luthor, claiming to want to help mankind but secretly wanting to gather all of it's information in orbs and then destroy it; Superman retrieves the orb containing Kryptonian knowledge from Brainiac's ship after defeating him and destroying his ship)
Superman: My Girl (Clark's former sweetheart Lana Lang begins dating Lex and uses her position to spy on him for Superman who she knows is Clark; After Lex tries to have her killed the relationship doesn't last)
Superman: Tools of the Trade: (Kanto supplies Bruno Manheim and Intergang with technology from Apokalips ; Darkseid and Manheim meet as Manheim is taken to Apokolips)
Superman: Two's a Crowd (Superman recruits the Parasite to find out where a comatose man named Earl Garver has hid a bomb in Metropolis)
Superman: Blasts From the Past: (Superman releases a Kryptonian criminal named Mala from the Phantom Zone but quickly realizes she is unstable; She frees another Kryptonian named Jax-Ur and the pair tries to conquer Earth before they are defeated by Superman and returned to the Phantom Zone)
Superman: Ghost in the Machine and Justice League Unlimited: Divided We Fall: (Brianiac forces Lex Luthor to build him a new android body;. He infects Luthor with nano-technology so he can control him before Superman defeats him)
Superman: Action Figures (A amnesiac Metallo befriends two small children after washing ashore on a volcanic island; He regains his memory after Superman comes to rescue the kids from a volcanic explosion and they fight; He winds up buried in lava although he does escape at some point)
Superman: Live Wire (After being electrocuted at a concert, shock jock Leslie Willis is transformed into the villain Livewire who tangles with Superman)
Superman: Target (Lois is the target of assassination attempts by scientist Edward Lytener, a former friend and mentor; Superman saves her and Lytener is taken to prison)
Superman: Identity Crisis: (A failed clone of Superman created by Lex Luthor named Bizarro attempts to become the Man of Steel and winds up saving Lois Lane's life)
Superman: Mxyzpixilated (Mr. Myxyzptlk, a reality altering being from another dimension challenges Superman in a mind game to prove who is the superior specimen; He loses to Superman repeatedly)
Superman: Absolute Power (Jax-Ur and Mala escape from the Phantom Zone and take over the planet that rescues them)
Superman: Speed Demons (The Flash (Wally West) challenges Superman to a race around the world but soon they are both pulled into a conflict with Flash's Rogue the Weather Wizard)
Superman: Double Dose (Livewire escapes from prison and frees and teams up with the Parasite to take down Superman but both are defeated)
Superman: Solar Power (Edward Lytener returns as the villain Luminus and uses his technical knowledge to turn the Earth's sun red to depower Superman; Superman manages to reverse the condition and defeat Luminous)
Superman: Brave New Metropolis: (Lois Lane visits an alternate dimension where Superman and Lex Luthor rule Metropolis with an iron fist.)
Superman: Monkey Fun (Titano returns from space and wreaks havoc when he grows to an enormous size due to a side effect of being in space for so long and coming into contact with an alien organism. Superman and Lois manage to relocate him to his own island)
Superman: The Promethean (Superman clashes with General Hardcastle over a giant space creature which has come to Earth)
Superman: Father's Day (After a battle with Kallibak, Superman gets his first glimpse of Darkseid who swears to conquer Earth)
Superman: The Hand of Fate (Superman goes to Dr. Fate for help when the demon Karkull emerges and threatens to destroy humanity)
Superman: Bizarro's World (After wandering the Arctic Bizarro discovers the Fortress of Solitude and learns Krypton's fate from Brainiac; he tries to recreate Krypton's destruction in Metropolis. Superman stops him and finds an entire planet for him to "defend")
Superman: Prototype (A military man is the test subject for a new supersuit from Lexcorp but the inventor John Henry Irons warns Luthor that the suit isn't ready because of the neurological problems the suit may cause; After Sgt. Corey Mills goes on a rampage Superman tells Irons that when the suit is ready he would welcome some help)
Superman: The Late Mr. Kent (After investigating a death row inmate's claims that he has been framed for murder Clark Kent is witnessed to have died and Superman realizes he can't re-emerge as Clark without giving up his secret; Superman discovers the inmate was framed by Detective Kurt Bowman and brings him down;, with help from Lana Lang Clark conduct a plausible explanation for how he survived; Bowman realizes Clark is Superman in the gas chamber)
Superman: World's Finest (Batman and Superman meet and discover each other's secret identities while battling Lex Luthor and the Joker who have teamed up to destroy Superman; Lois Lane and Bruce begin to date, when she discovers his secret and decides it is too much for her to handle)
Batman: Sins of the Father (Tim Drake Becomes the New Robin after Two-Face kills his father, is rescued by Batman, and discovers his secret; Dick Grayson returns from traveling the world, takes up the mantle of Nightwing)
Batman: Growing Pains (Clayface returns and confronts Batman and Robin)
Batman: Holiday Knights (First episode produced of The New Batman Adventures. Harley and Ivy take Bruce Wayne on a shopping spree; Clayface battles Batgirl and Batman and Robin take on the Joker)
Batman: Cold Comfort (Mr Freeze returns and wreaks vengeance on Gotham citizen's most prized possessions and is revealed to now be only a disembodied head)
Superman: Heavy Metal (John Henry Irons fixes the Supersuit he built for Lex Luthor and takes up the mantel of Steel while saving Superman from a vengeful Metallo)
Batman: Mean Seasons (Model Paige Munroe, now known as Calender Girl begins her seasonal rampage in Gotham to get revenge on the executives who wanted younger models during the spring; conjecture)
Batman: Double Talk (Despite his old gang trying to trick him into making Scarface return Arnold Wesker is finally cured and living in a half-way house)
Batman: You Scratch My Back (Nightwing (Dick Grayson) makes his Gotham debut and tangles with Catwoman)
Batman: Never Fear (Robin has to reel Batman in after the Scarecrow's new fear toxin takes away his fear instead of causing it)
Batman: Mean Seasons (Calendar Girl begins her summer campaign of terror; conjecture)
Superman: Apokalips Now! (Darkseid begins his first invasion of Earth and kills Bruno Manheim; Orion comes to Earth to warn Superman; High Father declares Earth under his protection under the New Genesis Pact and Darkseid is forced to leave but not before killing Detective Dan Turpin)
Batman: Joker's Millions (The Joker's reform is short-lived after inheriting millions of dollars from an old mob boss when he spends more than he realizes he had; The Penguin reveals himself as a reformed businessman now running the Iceberg Lounge)
Batman: Love is a Croc (A love-sick Baby Doll teams up with Killer Croc on a crime-spree before he double-crosses her and Batman and Batgirl bring them down)
Batman: Mean Seasons (Calendar Girl strikes again at the fall harvest; conjecture)
Batman: Torch Song (A pyromaniac obsessed with his singer ex-girlfriend becomes the villain Firefly whom Batman must take down)
Superman: Warrior Queen (Queen Maxima of the planet Amerac tries to force Superman to become her mate)
Batman: The Ultimate Thrill (Batman confronts thrill-seeker Roxie Rocket and gets into a tussle with the Penguin along the way)
Batman: Mean Seasons (Calendar Girl is finally brought to justice by Batman and Batgirl during the holiday season)
Batman: Critters (Farmer Brown returns and unleashes his mutant monsters upon Gotham although Batman, Robin and Batgirl manage to stop them and bring him in)
Batman: Cult of the Cat (After stealing jewels from a cat worshiping cult Selina Kyle retreats to Paris)
Superman: Little Girl Lost (Superman finds his "cousin" Kara in stasis near the planet Argos' remains; she takes up mantle of Supergirl and confronts Granny Goodness)
Superman: Where There's Smoke (Superman encounters a metahuman thief named Volcana who is on the run from the government who had been exploiting her fire based powers by holding her captive.)
Batman: Animal Act (The Mad Hatter hypnotizes animals from Dick Grayson's old traveling circus but Nightwing and Batman manage to defeat him)
Batman: Old Wounds (Nightwing relates the story of why he quit being Robin to Tim Drake)
Superman: Knight Time: (Brainiac takes over Bruce Wayne using nano-technology and Bruce (and Batman) goes missing; Superman impersonates Batman and teams up with Robin to find Bruce and defeats Brainiac)
Batman: The Demon Within (Batman introduces Tim to Jason Blood who is bonded to the demon Etrigan;. A Witch-boy named Klarion manages to separate them to make Etrigan do his bidding but Batman is able make Jason whole again; Klarion is currently sitting on a shelf)
Superman: Absolute Power (While investigating a black hole Superman finds out Jax-Ur and Mala have escaped the Phantom Zone and are leading an alien world with an iron fist; he manages to defeat them both and they are sucked into the black hole freeing the planet from their tyranny)
Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight (Three kids relate their ideas of who Batman is and witness him take down Firefly)
Superman: Obsession: (Toyman stalks a woman named D'Arcy Mason who turns out to be a robot he built; Superman defeats him and D'Arcy keeps him in a suitcase)
Batman: Girl's Nite Out (Supergirl and Batgirl team up to take down Livewire, Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn; they relate each other's secret identities)
Superman: The Demon Reborn (Batman tries to save Superman from Ra's Al Ghul and Talia who kidnap him in an effort to use his Kryptonian DNA to rejuvenate Ra's after the Lazarus pit fails him; Batman frees Superman and they both defeat Ra's)
Batman: Chemistry (Bruce Wayne is tricked into marrying a plant woman of Poison Ivy's;. After she is destroyed the honeymoon is over; Last appearance of Nightwing in a significant role)
Superman: In Brightest Day: (Kyle Rayner becomes Green Lantern after Abin Sur gives him a power ring as he dies)
Superman: Superman's Pal (Superman gives Jimmy Olsen a communicator to call him for help which results in all of Metropolis calling Jimmy Superman's Pal; Superman rescues Olsen from Metallo who had kidnapped him to draw Superman into a trap but is defeated)
Superman: Little Big Head Man (Mr Mxyzptlk frees Bizarro from his planet and tricks him into wreaking havoc in Metropolis; the Council from the Fifth Dimension punishes Mxy for his tricks and temporarily removes his powers to force him to entertain Bizarro whom Superman returns to his planet)
Batman: Beware the Creeper (The Joker tosses reporter Jack Ryder into the same chemical vat that turned him into the Joker and Ryder emerges as the zany superhero the Creeper)
Superman: Unity: (Supergirl stops an alien Preacher from taking over Ma and Pa Kent through mind control and dominating Smallville)
Batman: Mad Love (After nearly managing to kill Batman Harley Quinn is tossed through a window by the Joker and resolves to never trust him again, a resolve that is short-lived)
Superman: A Fish Story (Superman frees a kidnapped Aquaman from Lex Luthor after sea creatures wreak havoc in Metropolis)
Batman: Judgment Day (Harvey Dent creates a third personality to balance out Two-Face's nature, the Judge, a vigilante whose campaigns against the Penguin, Riddler and Killer Croc go too far before Batman reveals who is behind them; End of The New Batman Adventures)
Superman: Legacy (Superman is brainwashed by Darkseid and attacks the Earth. His trust is lost completely by the world especially a scared Emil Hamilton; Superman battles Darkseid but doesn't manage to end his rule on Apokalips; Series Finale of Superman: The Animated Series)
