Enough Robins to make David Attenborough blush.
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00:00Now Gotham, given that it is only one city, has approximately a million too many heroes within it.
00:06You'd think that having Batman exist in a city would mean it was largely regarded as covered, right?
00:10But apparently not, as the place is a spandex hotspot even outside the yoga meet at Robinson Park.
00:16And even when they leave, it seems that you can take the Wonder Kids out of Gotham,
00:20but you can't make them stay there, as countless former Robins and Rejects return to the scene of
00:24Infinite Crimes, just to see if they can't finally get an iota of approval out of their overlord Batman.
00:30Spoiler alert here, you're better off getting blood from various stones.
00:33Between exiled birds, surprise superheroes, and individuals we all forgot existed,
00:37there's enough free labour working under Batman in Gotham that he's either legally a charity,
00:42which would explain all the orphans, or should be paying a pretty hefty tax bracket.
00:46So what we're going to do today is take up the mantle of the Joker and take a look through his strange lens
00:51as to all of these oddities that are roaming the streets of Gotham and what he thinks of them.
00:55As I'm Jules, this is WhatCulture.com, and this is Batman, what Joker thinks of every Gotham hero.
01:01Number 15. Gotham and Gotham Girl
01:03Kind of wild that we spent so many years without any metahumans in Gotham's hero roster,
01:08and then we got like three real fast.
01:10But the crazier their powers are, the easier they are to control.
01:14Well, that's what my boy Bane would have me believe,
01:16given that he managed to get Gotham Girl on his side after her poor old brother died.
01:20But hey, for a while we had bright shiny twin protectors of Gotham, wasn't that great?
01:24Until one of them died horribly and gave the other some bright shiny trauma, of course.
01:28Number 14. Huntress
01:30Ah, yet another of the Bat clan to have been shot by the Joker.
01:34Actually, is Huntress even officially considered part of the Bat family anymore?
01:38It doesn't seem like she's been invited to their family barbecues in a long time.
01:41Possibly because she dropped getting dear old Daddy Bat's approval,
01:45and instead went to hang out with the Birds of Prey.
01:47It's a savvy move, really. I bet they're less judgmental about the crossbow.
01:50At least in the reboot, they've let her have a bit of backstory involving Spiral as well,
01:55although that's a blessing or a curse, depending on who you're asking.
01:58Number 13. Batwing
01:59What's the only thing stranger than a superhero who takes a gap year,
02:03a superhero who takes a gap year and never comes back?
02:06Now, it's not rare for the Wonder Kids to spread their little wings and head off to find another place to roost,
02:11but it's usually about as far as Bloodhaven, not all the way in Africa.
02:14That said, Batwing did come back for noble purposes, clearly,
02:18and definitely not to see if he still had a chance with Batgirl.
02:20Bless him, though, he's got all the fighting abilities of Kratos,
02:23and yet the worst thing that we've seen this one do is torrent a bloody film.
02:26Number 12. Azrael
02:28You know how in friend groups there's always that one kid who isn't quite friends with anyone,
02:33but hangs out with them because they think that there's a chance of getting free snacks from them?
02:36Well, that's Azrael.
02:38Now, the Flaming Sword is some great phallic imagery for sure,
02:40but it doesn't counteract the fact that the guy is a walking time bomb without any villainous interference.
02:45And where's the fun in that?
02:46If Batman gets offed by some jerk with anger issues and a magic piece of metal,
02:51people are going to be a tad disappointed, especially with the new Azrael.
02:54They just seem to have gotten more and more villainous,
02:56even if the armour does get cooler at the same time.
02:58Also, is the whole Azrael thing a little cult-like to anyone else?
03:02The Order of Purity sounds like they should be handing out promise rings,
03:05not creating human weapons and potential mass destruction.
03:08Number 11. Batwoman
03:09Batwoman is less the mother of the Bat family and more the aunt that you don't really see until you need bail.
03:15She's undeniably intimidating, but also often more than a little busy with her twin sister,
03:20a classy little supervillain known as Alice, or Red Alice, or the High Madam.
03:25And when she stopped being an issue,
03:26you tend to find Batwoman dealing with the more supernatural elements that old bats might go jump in the night at.
03:31Naturally, this is a little longer than your regular 9 to 5,
03:34so sadly she doesn't hang out with all the other spandex-clad dorks very often.
03:38Maybe that's for the best, though, all things considered.
03:41Number 10. Signal
03:42Has anyone seen this human traffic light recently?
03:45Because I sure the hell haven't.
03:47Maybe Duke was too bright to be amongst the Bat family,
03:49but then again, given that Robin wore those bright green pixie shorts for an age,
03:53that does seem a little hypocritical.
03:55He saves the day and then gets rewarded by being pumped away into a team literally called the Outsiders.
04:00Sounds like one of the Joker's plans more than one of Batsy's.
04:02Not that the Joker would miss this walking neon sign,
04:05but having a hero whose parents that he personally drove insane was quaint, if nothing else.
04:10Number 9. Spoiler
04:11Spoiler alert! She's alright, really.
04:14I mean, everyone loves a good trier, and god if this purple-clad wonder isn't one.
04:18Having a villain for a father can't be easy for anyone, trust me,
04:21and remember I'm playing the Joker at this point.
04:23Plus, you've gotta feel a little bad for her,
04:25given Red Robin's fun game of faking his own death.
04:27But feeling bad for her won't stop me, the Joker, putting her in another death trap, of course,
04:32but it's nice to keep the people at home guessing.
04:34Being a trier also doesn't change the fact that she did start the whole War Games fiasco as well.
04:39Bet that was a bit of an awkward dinner in the Bats household.
04:42Number 8. Orphan
04:43Now, I'm not trying to be mean here, but naming a member of the Bat family Orphan
04:48is just about the most on-the-nose nickname possible.
04:51It's downright cruel, really,
04:53and this is coming from the mind of somebody who has skinned more than one person in their time,
04:57remember again, I am the Joker.
04:59But you know what? I kinda like this kid.
05:01Doesn't say much, is eerily good at fighting,
05:03could snap my neck seven ways to Sunday every time she's so much to seize me out the corner of her eye
05:07and doesn't.
05:08She really takes after our old man.
05:10Sure, she's a little OP to rock up in every Batman comic,
05:13but now Gotham and Gotham Girl have popped up with actual superpowers,
05:16maybe we could have her a little more, please?
05:18I just really need to see her beat up the Riddler one more time.
05:21Number 7. Red Robin
05:22If the various bird boys were a boy band,
05:25Red Robin would be the smart, reserved one.
05:27People who don't sleep much sense it in others,
05:30and it's clear from 20 paces that this boy is running entirely on the vague memory of once
05:34maybe sleeping three months ago.
05:36Which, to be fair, is maybe because he came in to take the role of Robin
05:39after it got all covered in blood from little Todd's unfortunate demise.
05:43That kind of thing makes you sleep with one eye open, you'd have to guess.
05:46He definitely loses the game of not having a totally ridiculous name, though.
05:50I mean, aren't all Robins red?
05:52Maybe he's not the smart, reserved one after all in the end,
05:55unless he's being paid off by that burger company to have the same name,
05:58but getting a quick buck that way does seem a little less noble
06:00than this one would like to believe himself.
06:02Number 6. Red Hood
06:04So let me check I've got this one right.
06:06Jason Todd killed a ton of people without remorse and with a gun,
06:10and Daddy Bats just told him off a bit?
06:13He didn't take him to jail?
06:15Is there a number limit here,
06:16or can I just say a snazzy apology and get my cape and boots in the mail?
06:19Look, I'm not bitter or anything,
06:22but when I beat a kid half to death with a crowbar and then explode him,
06:25I sort of expect that at least he stays dead.
06:28But no, this one comes back to be a bad guy
06:30and then eventually get let off for all the murder stuff?
06:33Is there a free kill rule in the Bat Clan that I never heard about?
06:36Kill one bad guy, get off scot-free?
06:38That said, it does give me the opportunity to kill the guy twice,
06:41and when an opportunity knocks, you know I will always answer.
06:44Number 5. Batgirl
06:45Oh, and speaking of when opportunity knocks,
06:48moving on.
06:50Number 4. Catwoman
06:51Now, I'm not saying that many of my crimes may have been forgiven by Batman
06:55if he were, say, I don't know, entirely theoretical in love with me,
06:58but Catwoman suggests that that might very much be the case.
07:02Worse still, I didn't even get an invitation to their wedding.
07:05Can you imagine the Joker not being invited to this?
07:07After all the moments that me and the Dark Knight have shared,
07:10I expected to be a best man, not utterly ghosted.
07:13This kind of stuff is why so many of the Robins have trust issues,
07:16you can be sure of that.
07:17Number 3. Nightwing
07:18Ah, the first red Robin, bright and shiny,
07:21always with a quip and more flips than a politician caught in a lie.
07:25Little Grayson always reminded me of myself,
07:28and remember, I am the Joker here, in a way,
07:30a way that encouraged me to try and kill him in increasingly elaborate ways, of course,
07:33but it's nice to connect with the next generation however you can.
07:36He may be doing his own thing in Bloodhaven now,
07:38but I'd like to stop in and catch up with him when I'm nearby.
07:41You know, get a coffee, catch up, mind control him into wanting to kill all of his former loved ones,
07:45just little things to show that I always will be there for him.
07:48Number 2. Robin
07:49Ah, the baby of the collective birds,
07:52who knew that so much anger could exist in somebody so small.
07:56It's nice seeing a sidekick who hasn't lost at least one parent,
07:58but then having a mother who's also a mass murderer isn't exactly ideal.
08:02However, the murderous rage it's instilled in this pint-sized brat is pretty grand.
08:06A calm and collected Batman and his raging murder tot,
08:10a glorious combination, and one I fully intend to utilise for, well, for forever, really.
08:15And number 1. Batman
08:16You never really know someone until you've been their arch rival for 80 years,
08:21killed many of their loved ones, hunted each other to the ends of the earth,
08:24and also been on one sneaky boy's holiday around Europe.
08:27So long as there is a Batman, there will always be a Joker,
08:29and remember, that's me, even if it is an apocalyptic one,
08:32where said clown's head is just in a jar.
08:34But at the risk of turning sentimental, who'd have it any other way, right?
08:38And there we go, my friends, that was Batman, what Joker thinks of every Gotham hero.
08:42I hope that you enjoyed this very silly video,
08:44and let me know what you thought about it down in the comments section below.
08:48As always, I've been Jules, you have been awesome.
08:50Never forget that, and I'll speak to you soon.
08:52Bye.