Meeting Zatanna! | BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES Reaction 

Zatanna is a long-standing character in the comics, having been introduced in 1964, though her magic is real, casting spells by speaking the words backwards. She's had her own adventures, guest-starred in other heroes' comics, and been a recurring member of the Justice League. She's an old friend of Batman's in many continuities. The comics version tends to wear fishnet stockings, a nod to the classic "magician's assistant" look, but those were too fiddly to draw for this version. She's also a favourite character of Paul Dini, one of the show's creators and writers (who also wrote the first two Arkham games).

Zatanna pretending like she’s in any real danger here. Truly a magnificent performance.

Fun fact: They left out her trademark fishnet stockings because it was too hard to animate.

Darn, no reaction for The Man Who Killed Batman? Such an iconic episode. I really hope you do Robin's Reckoning, as well as Birds of a Feather, The Demon's Quest, and Read My Lips. Some of my favorites.

“Batman doesn’t have many love interests” she says, as nerds sit bolt upright and rush to their keyboard to write about Silver St Cloud and Talia Al Ghul and, and, and… But we know what you mean. He doesn’t have a “Lois Lane” in his life; a genuine romantic partner to rely on. He has a bunch of flighty non-commitments which he clearly yearns to have more seriously but can’t abandon his “real” mission to have such a life. It’s sad as hell. :( But tragedy is beautiful, so… :)

I’m probably a little biased towards this episode because Zatanna is my favorite female superhero of all time, DC, Marvel, and otherwise. I absolutely love the portrayal of her in this show, and it establishes a precedent for the DCAU of guest-star superheroes that Superman: the Animated Series would follow in season 2. Writer Paul Dini truly understands Zatanna well. You should check out the limited comic book series he wrote in the 2000s. It’s a fun little series!

2:31 love that joker foreshadowing.

The sad thing is that whenever Bruce seriously pursues a woman romantically it usually ends badly for one reason or another. Examples: Selina Kyle, Talia, Andrea Beaumont, Jezebel Jet (African Dictator and Gaslighting Super Bitch), Barbara (Ick). So maybe it's for the best he and Zatanna just stayed friends.

Meg Watch YoungJustice Series...

Yeah, you basically just met one of the most powerful humans in the DC universe, If you want more about her I suggest the solo run by Paul Dini and Justice League Dark from 2011

My favorite Female DC character Zatanna ❤❤❤❤😢, i hope james gunn gives her a propper live action movie in the DCU 🙏

This is one of my favorite episodes as well, and Zatanna is one of my favorite Batman/DC characters. I love when the episodes focus on a more human and vulnerable Bruce, and as you said, he doesnt have a lot of love interests. Bruce is clearly no James Bond, with the throwaway women. His romance actually have value, and Kevin did such a great job expressing that. Anyway, I think youll love the Robins Reckoning episodes, and I love your channel!

That intro though🤯👏👏👏👏

The ending was very telling Zatina was so sad for Bruce asking him what made you put this on. And Bruce's answer a painful memory and a promise I think it's safe to say we all felt that.

I like her character. In her earlier portrayals here, she seems to be mostly highly skilled in stage magic having both a magician father and spent her life mastering it. In her later portrayals, she has actual magical powers. (I don’t recall, but I think this was how she was in the comics originally too.)

Gotta love Zatanna

The scene with the Joker card 😆

I really love how even though he was wearing a mask and disguising his voice Zatanna could still tell she knew Batman from somewhere even if she didn't fully know it was Bruce

hi meg you should read batman urban legends issue 11-16 if you want more from this pairing

She is so powerful and so skilled in magic..😗

Maybe watch Gotham series about young Bruce and the beginning of many batman villains

Listen now, I am a HUGE batcat fan, I love Bruce and Selina and that is my favourite romantic relationship Batman has…But Bruce and Selina is hella cute, both great characters on their own right but I love seeing them together

has anyone talked about robin's reckoning. Ive been waiting for that one.

Harlequinade would be a cool one to react to.

Didn’t know I needed this content today 😂❤

feel better soon, meg!!

I love how a lot of the B:tAS show How Batman gained a majority of his skills. And the friends he made along the way. By the time the Superman show came around, amd then Justice League, there was a platform for the characters to come together in an integral universe of stories. It's really cool how the show was doing this important foundation for shows we all love now.

Man Batman's got the best girlfriends... Talia, Selina, Zatanna, heck he even charmed Harley.

My favorite scene in the episode "Zatanna" is the bittersweet goodbye moment at 9:05. ❤ ❤ Zatanna: (touches Batman's face, noticing his mask) What happened that made you put this on? Batman: A painful memory and a promise.

At this point I don't think they'd decided if the DCAU would feature real magic, hence why she's portrayed as a conventional magician here. But just wait until her Justice League appearence.

It's so disappointing that they make Zatanna out to just be an average magician, it'd be like if they had an episode with Superman and he was just a tough guy who shot himself out of a cannon.

This is a good episode and is one of the reasons why I got to know who Zatanna is!

Bruce’s eyes @1:34 are…. quite something. Anyone know what happened there?

Paul Dini, who wrote this episode, has always been not-so-secretly in love with Zatanna. He even married a stage magician, Misty Lee, in real life.

In the wider DC canon, Zatanna and John Constantine have been in a relationship, even having a child at one point. Which is somewhat fitting, both of them having actual magical powers. But Constantine is more than a little bit of a mess most of the time. Not always the healthiest person to be around.

Heck yeah Zatanna is here. One of my favorite magical heros in either DC or Marvel ever. She needs a live action appearance like yesterday

god i hope gunn can bring her into the dcu🙏🏾

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Zatanna was always a very cool badass magic girl heroine!🎩🪄

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Zatanna is a member of the JLD. Justice League Dark

Zatanna! This episode really helped elevate her popularity and recognition. :)

4:33 I didn't even think about that for a minute. 😂

In comics Zatanna one of the strongest characters

they nerfed her so much is almost comidic

Detail for Zatanna fans. Her outfit is a classic, like Batman or Superman is based upon a circus strongman or aerialist's costume. Zatanna wears the standard 'evening dress for a magician' (waist up), and the 'magician's beautiful assistant' (waist down). So she's actually an example of equality that predates many such. The classic original outfit for 'mystery men' was formal evening dress (like a stage magician), and can be seen worn by most of the earliest comic-book heroes. The Shadow, Operator X-5, The Spider, and the later Phantom Stranger all wore versions of this. Even the first true comic-book superhero, the gadget-using masked evening dress guy 'The Crimson Avenger' wore a red version of this, with a 'domino mask', typical wear to evening masked balls. Batman's large black cape is a call-back to this, but he's wearing a cowl, which he was almost the first to wear such. The Batman Animated series was set in 'the first half of the twentieth century' but with computers and TV in black and white. Glad to see they went with classic appearances for the heroes and the villains. By the way, Zatanna uses many stage magic tricks, and the psychological techniques that go with them, but she also does 'real' magic, signalled by her speaking backwards, so if the words can be understood when read backwards, 'real' magic. Abra cadabra is faux-Arabic, meaning something like 'algebra-algebra' (worth looking it up). The middle-eastern fakir was a standard form of stage magic back then.

Fun Fact: Montague Kane looks like Orson Welles and even the last name of Kane was the same last name of the character he played a role in the film of citizen kane.

The animated series artist, Paul Dini liked the comics character of Zatanna so much that he married a stage magician. The character in the cartoon here is modeled after his wife.

My least favorite representation of Zantana 😢 she could beat Superman and batman with both hands tied behind her. ssadab si anatnaz

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