RIP Kevin Conroy, you will always be The Definitive Batman

[Vixus]

Thank you, for nearly 30 years of inspiration to so many of us growing up, by giving life to one of the best characters in any medium - the embodiment of good and justice!

[Devsman]

He's got big shoes to fill for sure.

I do think a few other VAs did a good job as well. Not as good but good.

Bruce Greenwood had a good performance in Under the Red Hood, and I liked Rino Romano's Bruce Wayne in The Batman (cartoon). Then there was Roger Craig Smith in Arkham Origins--he had a line or two that flopped but I felt like on the whole he sounded the part remarkably well.

Anyway, while I do think there are other good options out there going forward, I agree. Kevin Conroy is slated to remain unrivaled for a long time.

[Septimus-Prime]

He was The Batman we needed & deserved...no one can take that away from him, no one...

[Icedfate]

what i always thought was cool about kevin conroy's interpretation ks that he talks in a normal voice as batman and then pitches his voice upwards into a fake voice as bruce wayne. because batman is his true self and bruce wayne is the costume.
somethign that other actors, like christian bale didn't understand.

edit : edit, also mark hamill is the definitive Joker , in my mind.
yeah, i hated heath ledger joker at first, but i have come to respect his version.
looking back, jack nicholson was actually not bad. when i watch his other films, now i can't help but see Joker face. .
i haven't watched joaquin pheonix joker yet.
i expect everyone can agree that jared leto is the worst one.
and caesar romero is just in a class all by himself, dunno where to put him.

but sorry, this is about the voice of batman, which i'm sorry to hear about it literally 20 minutes ago

[ShaDoW]

Batman is dead.

[Kaiser9110]

Originally posted by Icedfate:

what i always thought was cool about kevin conroy's interpretation ks that he talks in a normal voice as batman and then pitches his voice upwards into a fake voice as bruce wayne. because batman is his true self and bruce wayne is the costume.
somethign that other actors, like christian bale didn't understand.

Unfortunately he stopped doing that after the original Batman TAS. In the New Batman Adventures, the Justice League shows, and the Arkham games he spoke with the same monotone Batman voice whether or not he was in costume or in the board room.

RIP legend.

[DerRitter]

Originally posted by ShaDoW:

Batman is dead.

Gotham Knights can go F itself

[Devsman]

Originally posted by Kaiser9110:

Originally posted by Icedfate:

what i always thought was cool about kevin conroy's interpretation ks that he talks in a normal voice as batman and then pitches his voice upwards into a fake voice as bruce wayne. because batman is his true self and bruce wayne is the costume.
somethign that other actors, like christian bale didn't understand.

Unfortunately he stopped doing that after the original Batman TAS. In the New Batman Adventures, the Justice League shows, and the Arkham games he spoke with the same monotone Batman voice whether or not he was in costume or in the board room.

RIP legend.

It makes sense in-universe, though. In NBA, Batman Beyond and Justice League, he was an older Batman than in TAS. And since in-universe, the Batvoice is the fake, it shows that over time he got deeper into the Batman persona and Bruce Wayne became more and more the fake one.

I don't really remember much Bruce dialog in the Arkham games, but it's been a while since my last playthrough.

[SenMithrarin85]

this is how the batman died

[ShaDoW]

Originally posted by DerRitter:

Originally posted by ShaDoW:

Batman is dead.

Gotham Knights can go F itself

Who said anything about that? I was talking about Kevin Conroy. The Batman character is pretty much dead without him.

[Kaiser9110]

Originally posted by ShaDoW:

Originally posted by DerRitter:

Gotham Knights can go F itself

Who said anything about that? I was talking about Kevin Conroy. The Batman character is pretty much dead without him.

Bit of an exaggeration. Plenty of men have portrayed Batman over the near-century since his inception. Greenwood was a better Batman imo.

[HerculeHolmes]

Originally posted by Devsman:

He's got big shoes to fill for sure.

I do think a few other VAs did a good job as well. Not as good but good.

Bruce Greenwood had a good performance in Under the Red Hood, and I liked Rino Romano's Bruce Wayne in The Batman (cartoon). Then there was Roger Craig Smith in Arkham Origins--he had a line or two that flopped but I felt like on the whole he sounded the part remarkably well.

Anyway, while I do think there are other good options out there going forward, I agree. Kevin Conroy is slated to remain unrivaled for a long time.

You know who should be given a chance for the role? Will Friedle.

I'd like to hear his take on Bruce Wayne/Batman played straight. Kevin Conroy mentored him during production of Batman Beyond and if you listen to the series, he has the same voice change for Terry McGinnis/Batman.

Not looking for a voice replication or anything, but somebody cast him in a DC animated adaptation sometime as Bruce.

[Devsman]

Originally posted by HerculeHolmes:

Originally posted by Devsman:

He's got big shoes to fill for sure.

I do think a few other VAs did a good job as well. Not as good but good.

Bruce Greenwood had a good performance in Under the Red Hood, and I liked Rino Romano's Bruce Wayne in The Batman (cartoon). Then there was Roger Craig Smith in Arkham Origins--he had a line or two that flopped but I felt like on the whole he sounded the part remarkably well.

Anyway, while I do think there are other good options out there going forward, I agree. Kevin Conroy is slated to remain unrivaled for a long time.

You know who should be given a chance for the role? Will Friedle.

I'd like to hear his take on Bruce Wayne/Batman played straight. Kevin Conroy mentored him during production of Batman Beyond and if you listen to the series, he has the same voice change for Terry McGinnis/Batman.

Not looking for a voice replication or anything, but somebody cast him in a DC animated adaptation sometime as Bruce.

I could totally see that.