Knightsong 2 - The Chilling Melodies of Batman (Mad Hatter)

[AGrayPhantom]

The Mad Hatter is always so underrated as a villain, especially ever since Poison Ivy stole his mind control schtick.

Batman: The Animated Series was a really, really good show. They don't make them like this anymore, and for good reason. I wonder, just how much would it cost to make a show like this nowadays?

[Meow4evr]

0:26 - 0:37 Batman's theme: Mad hatter style :p

[HyaenusDominae]

One person is not Batman.

[CheesyGranola]

Y'know, when I was growing up I had never seen any Mad Hatter episodes, so I thought he was a lame villain. Then I went back and watched Perchance to Dream.

I was HORRIBLY wrong.

[ninjasauceshadow]

Underrated character imo. Everyone loves Scarecrow, Joker, and Two Face in the new movies but i think that the Mad Hatter is the closest we can get to our reality for a villain. I think he would really fit the Nolan Batman movies. Oh well. 

[CyanOcelot]

@ninjasauceshadow our reality can have mind controll hats? awesome!

[Videogamester11]

@ninjasauceshadow I agree. I can see Mad Hatter in Nolan's bat universe as an eccentric british man obsessed with Alex and Wonderland and killing innocent people.

[KnightAlbert]

I thought the episode where Batman lives in a world made out of his imagination and desires was so touching, thanks also to the music at 1:28

[mzmudcat]

Oh, Roddy McDowall. <3

[evilemperordude]

I have a hard time seeing the Hatter in the New Batman Adventures as even being the same character as this one.

[TheDoctorofOdoIsland]

@evilemperordude It's not like they ACT particularly different from each other.... What did he appear in, "Knight Time" and "Over the Edge"? Not enough time to show any change of character.

[sillygrl23]

This was one of my favorite episodes :D Chalk it up to me being a big Alice in Wonderland fan lol

[Burkemper100]

You're mighty in Gotham Batman but in Wonderland the Mad Hatter reigns surpreme.haha.

[antropopellazgu]

The next villain of the batman series must be the Mad Hatter played by Johnny Depp.

[GtstTypeM]

I thought those episodes were genius... Infact most of them are... Batman TAS FTW

[xHollowfiedx]

@iffjs

Exactly. what i loved about his look as the original was he looked like he just grabbed a long coat and top hat and said there i am the mad hatter. In the newer ones he just looks like a generic rip off of the actual mad hatter.

[Bobzeaux]

I just realized something. You'd think that Batman, the World's Greatest Detective, would have instantly recognized the iconic 10/6 on the circuit card that he finds. Obviously he's never read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and neither has he seen ANY of the various movies. Man, his childhood DID suck if he was so preoccupied with becoming a crimefighter that he missed out on this story completely. :(

[HPOwner1]

@Bobzeaux Batman is the world's greatest detective? I disagree I say The Question is the world's grestest Detective.

[drumsticks57]

@Bobzeaux Actually, in the comics I believe, it's said that Alice in Wonderland was one of his favorite books as a child. I guess the series doesn't follow that.

[TheGurry]

Perchance to Dream was amazzzing. It's one of my favourite episodes. The character is really great too, very sympathetic.

[buckdich1]

Are these the only tracks you have? I really like the theme from the episode with the Joker's christmas special. Do you have that?

[frements]

fraptious day hoo colie i know its a lice refrence but love it when he says it mad hatter is one of my fave storys and villains i love the set up in most bmtas the villains are twisted right away this is a perfect set up my fave screen is when they are at the tea party screen and he gose after batman with a ax you can see his mind permently gone and cracked ( look at his eyes ) and from here he thinks hes the mad hatter who obbsed with lewis carol

[ScorpioBornIn69]

"You may be all mighty in Gotham, Batman. But in Wonderland, the Mad Hatter is the one who reigns supreme! Ha! Ha! Ha!"

[ScorpioBornIn69]

If I were the Mad Hatter, I would put micro chips in all the corrupt politicians in Washington to end all corruption.

[gameshow1241]

the voice of the mad hatter was roddy mcdowell who played bookworm on the on batman tv series

[pytko3]

This episode was based on a very disturbing true story, about a computer programmer who had a crush on an office secretary. When he asked out one day she coldly rejected him, and the next day, he quietly walked in and killed her, four other coworkers and then, killed himself.

[skedardestroyer]

We're havin a lil party.....and ole JERVIS here has the invitations!

[wwebatmanmaniac]

@skedardestroyer Trial!

[Oni64]

absolutely loved this series and the music too, it had a powerful orchestra playing that felt like a movie. Some songs reminded me of the old 50's shows like I love Lucy too.

Nowadays cartoon's have shitty soundtracks.

[GoodwoodAlpha]

One, two, one, two,

Through and through

The vorpal blade went

Snicker-snack!

He left it dead

And with its head

He went galumphing back!

[WindOfSolitude]

They say in order to defeat the batman, you have to be as mad as a hatter! why am I quoting that? lol

[bob11cow]

i love the mad hater but the penguin is cooler can you do 1 like this but the penguin !!! themes!!

[bob11cow]

i love batman mad hatter but i love the penguin more can you do 1 like this but the penguin plz?!

[gArBgebIN]

anyway u have the music from the episode "the forgotten"... that was one of the best

[faustrocket565]

Batman must hate Disney because it wasn't until arkham asylum when I noticed that it was more than one villian that came from alice in w.land

[Sener]

@faustrocket565 Thank you for your comment, but Alice in Wonderland is not a creation or property of Disney at all... Those villains were inspired by the work of Lewis Caroll

[apex2000]

@Sener wow now i feel old after reading faust's message, i sincerly thought everyone had heard of the alice books, even if had never read them. yeah alice in wonderland is one of i think a pair of books, infamous for being stranged and hidden subtext and double meanings.... surprising how many quote "children's storys" even some nursery rhymes have some dark stuff in them or dark origins (and we just love them all teh more for it)

[faustrocket565]

@faustrocket565 ok ok I only say the disney part because the kid celebritieswho are from there

[Zoras88]

@faustrocket565

what other villains are from Wonderland?

[faustrocket565]

@Zoras88 well I played arkham asylum and I noticed that mad hatter wasn't the only character from wonderland to be a batman villain but those fattys that are known as twiddledee and twiddledum, idk how to spell their names right just so you know.

[WhiteTiger225]

@faustrocket565 Disney is an evil supercorp now right next to Viacom :/ We need Batman to take them down.

[faustrocket565]

@WhiteTiger225 I'm with you man

[zombiemaster3]

perchance to dream was arghuably the best episode ever in any bat man cartoon very strange and it gets u thinking all thanks to mad hatter probley the fourth best villian in batman

[Whysosrz]

Perchance to Dream was a creepy episode.

[SpexGuy1118]

@Whysosrz Not just creepy... Mysterious.

[stitchgrl777]

Thanks so much for posting these. I own the dvds but I just can never get enough of EVERYTHING about this show. It was just brilliant and deep and classic from beginning to end.

[xp80]

Nicely done

[lankyGigantic]

In my opinion, this series was a LOT better than the new batman adventures, the latter looked more like batman beyond with a 40's feel tbh

[Kingdom007Hearts]

as a kid who grew up with Batman TAS, when i saw Perchance to Dream for the 1st time i was kinda sad for bruce at the book scene where he starts to realize that his dream was fake and that his parents were still killed.

plus the ending is kinda weird, in the sense that, to 'wake himself up' he basically commits suicide in his dream by jumping off the clocktower

great series of course

[Leekduck]

You know your mad when your teeth are bigger then your eyes

[4thtroika]

Poor Jervis.

[Midnightblue32]

Does anyone know where I can get the full set of songs?

[lisardo]

I'd love to have the BTAS soundtrack. Where can you get it or buy it? Off one of the links in your description maybe? Please tell me, I'd love to acquire it! Shirley Walker is the best!

[Sener]

There have been several albums released, containing different tracks from different episodes.

Unfortunately they're all sold out. They always sell out really quickly.

[anton1990]

Best Mad Hatter ever!

[Sener]

Better than Tim Burton's :D

[anton1990]

Yeah, bu that character was based on the character from Lewis Carolls book, not the comic book figure.

[Talloweed]

@Sener And despite being a comic book villain, Batman's Hatter manages to somehow be truer to the source material than Burton's. ;)

[ghostbuster56]

I just bought bought batman volume 1 on dvd

[okonh0wp]

i watched batman as a kid, i was between 8-11 in those years 92-95, but i didn't think it was an ingenous show or anything. i just watched it because i liked batman and that was the only batman that was on. i thought the music was really good, i noticed it was a little dark which had its flaws, but i found the animation really bland, the characters didn't really have distinctive featueres or anything.

[Leekduck]

Haha the Picture at 4:20

Batman: I Burnt up your copy copy of Alice in wonderland

[TMNachoT]

FANTASTIC!!!!

[TheAdmirableAdmiral]

Guys don't jump the gun Nolan is contemplating not making another movie altogether. We'd be lucky to get another movie let alone see the forgotten villains of the Batman universe.

[LightWarrior23]

Nolan's style is too flat and realistic to handle the Mad Hatter.

[MisterHayt]

Don't think so

Mad Hatter could be like in "Arkham Asylum : a serious House on a serious Earth" where's Hatter is a Pedophile

Could be a Pedophile in Nolan's

But I want Burton'coming back :'(

[joynerkt]

If I was him I would stop. He just got lucky with heath. No other villians can top the joker. Espeally not in nolan's realistic verson. that is his weakness. he's not that great at fantasy jobs.

[Tycho86]

I know everyone wants to see The Riddler in the next Batman film, but I have always wanted to see The Mad Hatter make his big screen debut and I hope Nolan uses his character in the near future.

[TMNachoT]

Me too, i like hatter!

[iffjs]

I really loved the old version of the Mad Hatter in BTAS. I'd like how you could feel sorry for him and how human he was. Just a man who got his heart broke and had a bad day. I really dislike the makeover they gave him later on in the series. I also don't like the other versions of the Mad Hatter in comics. Especially the hinted pedophilia about the character.

[bsus1412]

not to mention, seeing little alternative, secluded himself within his own fantasy. the end of "Perchance to Dream" was so sad and proved just how human he was.

[bored614]

@iffjs y not th pedophilia kinda makes sense and makes him more real and more devious

[DannyPhantomBeast]

@iffjs

More recently, they kinda turned that "hint" onto itself that he just identifies with children better than adults. I think it works. (Then again, he's the kinda guy who depends on the writer,)

[WolfGodfather]

@iffjs I liked the idea, but not how it was interpreted.

[samprastherabbit]

@iffjs I strongly recommend you stay away from Grant Morrison's version of him in Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth then.

I prefer this version of him as well- I think the villains work best when they're more tragic people up than twisted and evil fiends.

[escottish140]

@iffjs: Mad Hatter is one of those characters that only had a handful of GREAT comic stories with him in it. I highly recommend GOTHAM CENTRAL: UNRESOLVED TARGETS (Vol 3), one of the best Hatter stories in comics plus most beautiful Hatter art in comics too, JOKER'S ASYLUM II: MAD HATTER one-shot which came out last year, great story, art is decent, and DETECTIVE COMICS #841 (written by Paul Dini, who wrote the Hatter stories for the BTAS as well, although the art is horrible).

[krazypyroboi05]

i hate how they made jervis in the final season of batman t.a.s. he looked so not like the original. hell even penguin got a make over and got all 5 fingers.

[GoodGamesrlikemovies]

that and they made the riddler bald

[TheAdmirableAdmiral]

The new batman adventures may be the continuation of TAS but it doesn't carry the essence of the show, that ended after batman and robin.

[MisterHayt]

And Pedophilia is a modern problem, so I think, Nolan who is realistic, could put that in next Batman.

He put Terrorism using the Joker in TDK.

[BadassBigBoss]

@MisterHayt Gritty realism that kills all the possible space for creativity is a movie not worth being made.

[Sener]

@BadassBigBoss The truly creative people see boundaries as a way of becoming more creative :)

[BadassBigBoss]

@Sener Which is something that Nolan does not have.

[TheSmallFish1]

thanks man i love this music so much

[HlessHorseman1]

"You ruined my life! I was willing to give you any life you wanted, just to keep you out of mine!" - Tech

One of my favorite lines in the series.

[Sener]

SO true! I LOVE that line.

I have to say the Mad Hatter is a very under rated villain. I hope he gets featured in the next Batman game or movie.

Thank you for watching!

[GadGades]

I agree

he´s a good villain and underutilised. Aside from mind control, the wonderland books were all sorts of twisted worlds. there´s definitely a lot there.

[ghostbuster56]

I always thought the clock king and mad hatter were underrated villians

[Leekduck]

Clock King is epic, we need moar of him around

[lastunusedname]

Yes! That and Batman's "Why? Why did you do it?" along with the "You of all people...have the GALL to ask me that!?" That was the kind of performance you just didn't expect in a cartoon, but Conroy and McDowall really delivered on that exchange, even by their lofty standards. The fury in Bats' voice, the seamless transitions in the Hatter's, from offended to tears to almost making Batman seem like the bad guy and he a man who wanted to do good to a villain again.I really felt it, even as a kid.

[TheRealCodeBlack]

@HlessHorseman1 "WHY? You of all people have the GALL to ask me that?"

Jervis Tetch was really one of the best written characters on the show, and considering how well written everyone was on that show that's quite a feat.

[Majere567]

@HlessHorseman1 "Congratulations are in order! I Suppose..

And your right! This is a dream, a very special dream!"

That episode was great, the story was so deep.

[WolfGodfather]

@HlessHorseman1 I really like that line too. It certainly made Hatter more sympathic.

[MLee1692]

@HlessHorseman1 Seriously. Awesome line. I wish I could give you ten thumbs up for that =D

[CleFesse]

1:00 - 1:20

2:30 to 4:10 is marvelous

Clock king and Madhatter in the dark knight 3... why not ?

[Sener]

I'd love to see Mad Hatter in a movie but I'm not sure he fits in with Nolan's vision of Batman.

[chiaroscuro68]

Oh I think he'd make an excellent villain... maybe not as the main antagonist but still... He could be made into a very dark character, what with his craziness and all ;)

[MisterHayt]

He could be

Following his pedophil way, he could be a dangerous enemy in the next batman !

JERVIS RULES !

[Sener]

that is true... maybe if they made him a professional hypnotist who is also a pedophile obsessed with alice in wonderland, that could work as a very modern-type of villain. You don't see pedophile super villains every day, and it is a very current issue!

[GadGades]

I tihnk that would downgrade the villain. Making him a little girl chaser. It´s not even much of a goal for his level.

[Sener]

Yeah I understand what you mean. Not every villain has to try to take over the city, though. Or him being a pedophile could just be an extension of the character and not his ultimate goal. He'd make a great secondary villain.

[GadGades]

well apparently theres an audience for a pedophile mad hatter. I personally just don´t like it. Though I don´t want him taking over the city, just messing with people creatively. Or building his own little wonderland or something.

[MisterDrBob]

Yeah, I've written him as a secondary villain to the Riddler.

[Dmasterman]

Is there one for scarecrow?

[Sener]

Scarecrow is my #1 favorite... but no song for him has been released yet =(

[Dmasterman]

you have to repload your knightsongs 4 with a working sound of mr. freezes theme