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Batman TAS Episode: Showdown
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Trivia
- First appearance of Malcolm McDowell in the DCAU. He would go on to voice Metallo on Superman: The Animated Series.
- This was Elizabeth Montgomery's last acting role before her death on May 18, 1995. This episode was first broadcast almost four months after her death. Montgomery was famous for her role of Samantha Stevens in the 1960s sitcom Bewitched.
- The territorial governor is voiced by Patrick Leahy, the Democratic Senator from Vermont and (as of 2007) the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Leahy is a huge fan of the Batman comics, and also has small cameo appearances in the live-action films Batman and Robin, The Dark Knight, and The Dark Knight Rises.
- David Warner and Malcolm McDowell appeared together in another time-travel adventure, the film Time After Time, in which H.G. Wells (McDowell) travels from Victorian England to modern-day San Francisco, in pursuit of Jack the Ripper (Warner).
- There are at least two references to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
- Hex makes reference to himself being like a "bad penny".
- Although Hex loses his hat, it somehow returns to him at the end of the episode.
- In "The Demon's Quest", Ra's says he has no sons, which is why he wants Batman to be his heir. As of this time, it is likely that Ra's had lost track of Arkady, and in any case had already disowned him.
- This was Jonah Hex's first appearance in the DC Animated Universe. He appears again, as a much younger man, in the episode "The Once and Future Thing Part One: Weird Western Tales" of Justice League Unlimited. Strangely, that episode takes place in 1879, only four years prior to this one, yet Hex seems to have aged several decades in between.
Historical References
- The Phoenix is floated with hydrogen gas, which was the only gas used in airships until the early 1900s, and suffered from the disadvantage of being highly flammable. Helium, the non-flammable alternative, was first discovered in 1868 (15 years before the episode takes place), but the process of producing it was not discovered until the 1890s. Because the United States had a monopoly on helium production during the early years, hydrogen continued to be used in German airships until the 1950s, including the infamous Hindenburg, which caught fire and exploded in 1937.
- Hydrogen burns with an almost invisible flame and, because it's lighter than air, rapidly rises. If a cannon ball did burst a cell and ignite the gas the cell in the blimp would quickly collapse and the flames would head up.
- The first Transcontinental Railroad was actually completed in 1869, with the "golden spike" being ceremonially driven at Promontory, Utah. That railroad connected Sacramento, California, with Omaha, Nebraska.
- A second line was completed in 1882, connecting Atchison, Kansas, with Santa Fe, New Mexico, with a further line running to Los Angeles, California.
- Two railroads were completed in 1883, the year this episode takes place: the Southern Pacific Railroad, linking New Orleans, Louisiana, with Los Angeles, and the Northern Pacific Railway, linking Chicago, Illinois, with Seattle, Washington.
- Duvall mentions being a Heidelberg fencing champion. Academic fencing was a craze in the late 1900s, especially at German universities like Heidelberg. Any scars, or "smites", resulting from the fight, would be seen as a badge of honor, and it appears Duvall suffered one too, on his right cheek. This is somewhat strange, as the smites were usually on the left side of the face, the result of a right-handed swordsman.
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