Bat-Mite is a recurring character in Batman: The Brave and the Bold.
History[]
Bat-Mite appears in the episode "Legend of the Dark Mite!" trying to make Batman a better hero. Batman eventually manages to trick Bat-Mite into going away, but he later impersonates Ace the Bat-Hound and found out about the trickery. He then decides to turn Batman into his "toy" but Batman gives Bat-Mite a chance to become the actual Batman. But Bat-Mite's imagination grows wild, pitting him against many of the Batman rogues, including Two-Face, Killer Moth, and Catwoman. Batman saves him, and Bat-Mite apologizes to Batman. Batman tells him that he doesn't have to blindly follow his footsteps, and he can do anything he wants with his powers. After Green Arrow stops a robbery, a character similar to Bat-Mite in a Green Arrow costume, appears, proclaiming that he is his "biggest fan".
He also appears in a later episode called "Emperor Joker!", where he goes to observe Batman's ultimate fight with the Joker. While they are fighting, Bat-Mite falls in love with the Joker's assistant Harley Quinn. When Batman was getting beat up by Joker and his henchmen, Bat-Mite tries to give his powers to Batman, but he misses and ends up giving his powers to the Joker. With his powers, Joker recreated the world in his image and killed Batman repetitively. Bat-Mite and Harley defeated the henchmen while Batman overcame the Joker until he was forced to give his powers back to Bat-Mite. After that, Harley said she wasn't interested in Bat-Mite because her true love was Joker.
In "Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!", Bat-Mite hosts a look at different renditions of Batman, including a Japanese manga version of the Dynamic Duo, and a team-up between the Dynamic Duo and Scooby-Doo in the style of The New Scooby-Doo Movies.
In "Mitefall", Bat-Mite has grown weary of the campy "Brave and the Bold" Batman and hatches a plot to get the show canceled and replaced with a more gritty Batman. He inserts several "jump the shark" elements into the show, such as changing Aquaman's voice to that of Ted McGinley, giving Batman unusual costumes and guns, and moving the show to Malibu. Though his plan is successful, "The Brave and the Bold" is replaced with a CGI Batgirl series – featuring Batman as a guest character – and Bat-Mite fades from existence, since such an obscure and campy character wouldn't fit into a new, more gritty series.
The four episodes then end with Bat-Mite parodying Porky Pig's "That's all, folks" line.
Appearances[]
Batman: The Brave and the Bold[]
Season 1[]
Season 2[]
- Emperor Joker!
- Bat-Mite Presents: Batman's Strangest Cases!