Ok, this is probably blasphemy but....

[OpaqueGiraffe17]

I’ve finally finished binging Batman TAS, great show it lives up to the hype in almost every category except one.
Kevin Conroy’s performance. Good god was he disappointing in this show. I loved him in the Arkham games but he was awful for the vast majority of this show. By the time they updated the animation style and brought in Tim Drake there was great improvement and he finally started to sound like his badass Arkham self. But for the first 70 episodes or so? Really bad compared to his latter work, often downright cringey.



Am I alone on this one? Or do a lot of people think it took a while for him to hit his stride?

[Pohzee]

I like his early BTAS voicework better. It sounds a little stuffy I guess and definitely less growly than his later work, but I found it to be more expressive. He kinda phoned it in for Arkham Knight IMO.

[OpaqueGiraffe17]

I like his early BTAS voicework better. It sounds a little stuffy I guess and definitely less growly than his later work, but I found it to be more expressive. He kinda phoned it in for Arkham Knight IMO.

For all of Arkham Knights shortcomings, personally he wasn’t one of them for me. I thought he was good in all 3 Arkham games. Killing Joke however, he and Hamill definitely either phoned it in were just miscast for Alan Moore’s Batman and Joker. Because I never really bought them as fitting the more conflicted Batman and Joker from that comic. The guys who voiced them in the Telltale games would have nailed it, imo.

[byrd156]

You're crazy.

[Kurisu]

I’ve always thought Conroy was a bad actor lol.

[TheJudge95]

I don't know if it was the writing or his performance but I didn't like his Batman in Arkham City or Arkham Knight - had too much of a hard edge and none of the pathos from the Animated Series.

[Frontier]

I enjoyed Conroy a lot in the Arkham games but even he expressed how difficult it is to record for those games compared to doing voicework for the cartoons/movies.

[Photon Torme]

Seemed quite solid throughout to me.

[Vinsanity]

I prefer first season honestly when you can tell there is a difference between Bruce and Batman.

I don't think it is blasphemy. I actually prefer Batman Brave and the Bold and Batman Beyond than BTAS and even prefer The Batman over TNBA

[Clark_Kent]

I don't think it's blasphemy at all, in fact Bruce Greenwood is my favorite animated voice. It's all subjective man.

[charliehustle415]

I’ve finally finished binging Batman TAS, great show it lives up to the hype in almost every category except one.
Kevin Conroy’s performance. Good god was he disappointing in this show. I loved him in the Arkham games but he was awful for the vast majority of this show. By the time they updated the animation style and brought in Tim Drake there was great improvement and he finally started to sound like his badass Arkham self. But for the first 70 episodes or so? Really bad compared to his latter work, often downright cringey.



Am I alone on this one? Or do a lot of people think it took a while for him to hit his stride?

You're wrong

[K. Jones]

I grew up on B:TAS so I'm hardly unbiased in thinking that he's great, but I do think Conroy starts out a little hesitant and doesn't always hit his mark until finding a stride later on. I was thinking of the first season B:TAS episodes compared to like, how Batman comes across in Justice League, and I definitely think the JL/JLU Batman voice is more refined, confident and in addition to growly and stern ... cool. Like more chill. More Bat-Zen.