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Not to be confused with ''The New Batman Adventures'', the 1997 retool of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.

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Not to be confused with ''The New Batman Adventures'', the 1997 retool of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. The episode [[Recap/TheAdventuresOfBatmanAndRobinE19DeepFreeze Deep Freeze]] had a robot of Bat-Mite who says "I just wanna help!"
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* ExactWords: Catwoman frames Batgirl in "Trouble Identity" for stealing an invention. Batman recognizes Batgirl is innocent, but without evidence to prove it, he tells her and Gordan that she'll be delivered to the police station soon. He then privately tells Batgirl that they're taking a little detour to Catwoman's location first.


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* HeroicWannabe: Bat-Mite constantly wants in on the action and to help his heroes, only to usually cause malfunctions or other screw-ups.
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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Bat-Mite for some reason has green skin.

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Bat-Mite for some reason has green skin.skin, as do other inhabitants of his home dimension Ergo.
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* LamePunReaction: In "This Looks Like a Job for Bat-Mite", Bat-Mite groans at Zarbor's "up-pity" pun.
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* MarsNeedWomen: The Ergonian Bat-Mite is sometimes shown to have a crush on the human Batgirl.

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* MarsNeedWomen: MarsNeedsWomen: The Ergonian Bat-Mite is sometimes shown to have a crush on the human Batgirl.

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"Too many to list" is basically admitting to being too lazy to give specific examples, and it's not really clear if Bat-Mite is intended to be a child, since it's clearly shown that it's normal for his kind to be small in stature.


* AdaptationDyeJob: Clayface in the comics had blond hair in his human form as Matt Hagen, who in this cartoon is depicted with brown hair.



* BaldOfEvil: Zarbor is a villain from Bat-Mite's home dimension Ergo with a bald head.



* GladIThoughtOfIt: Mr. Freeze is prone to this.

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* GladIThoughtOfIt: Mr. Freeze is prone to this.taking credit for ideas his henchman Professor Frost came up with.
* GoofyPrintUnderwear: Bat-Mite is shown wearing heart-print boxers in the Bat Message segment of the second part of the two-part episode "Have an Evil Day".



* MarsNeedWomen: The Ergonian Bat-Mite is sometimes shown to have a crush on the human Batgirl.



* PrecociousCrush: Bat-Mite to Batgirl.
* {{Pun}}: Too many bad ones to list.
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* RoboticReveal: Zig-zagged in "The Chameleon", where Batman deduces that the titular villain's shape-changing abilities are because he is a robot, but the Chameleon turns out to have been controlled from within by a diminutive human scientist named Dr. Devious after being destroyed.
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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: "Bite-Sized".

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* IncredibleShrinkingMan: "Bite-Sized"."Bite-Sized" has the villain Electro shrink our heroes.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Sweet Tooth sounds like Creator/PaulLynde.

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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** "Trouble Identity" features a butler who sounds like Creator/BorisKarloff.
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Sweet Tooth sounds like Creator/PaulLynde.

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* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Bat-Mite for some reason has green skin.



* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Almost every episode.

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* EverybodyLaughsEnding: Almost every episode.episode ends with the heroes laughing.
* FatBastard: Sweet Tooth and his band of candy-addicted children are overweight criminals.


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* VillainousGlutton: True to his name, the villain Sweet Tooth loves to eat candy and other forms of junk food.


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* YouDontLookLikeYou: Bat-Mite looks very different from how he appeared in the comics, having green skin, rounder eyes with yellow sclera and a purple costume.
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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Time and time again, Batman, Robin and Batgirl express their frustration at Bat-Mite's misguided efforts to "help" them.

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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Time and time again, Batman, Robin and Batgirl express their frustration at Bat-Mite's misguided efforts to "help" them.them and have on occasion been indicated to resent his mere presence.

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* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: As one might expect from a Filmation cartoon, each episode ends with the heroes providing a moral for the audience.

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* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: As one might expect from a Filmation cartoon, each episode ends with the heroes providing a moral for the audience.audience, which are called Bat Messages.


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* TheFriendNobodyLikes: Time and time again, Batman, Robin and Batgirl express their frustration at Bat-Mite's misguided efforts to "help" them.


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* UnwantedAssistance: Bat-Mite always wants to help Batman, Robin and Batgirl in fighting crime, but more often than not only frustrates them by inadvertently making things worse.
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* ClearMyName: "Trouble Identity" has Batgirl having to prove her innocence after Catwoman disguises herself as the former to frame Batgirl for stealing an invention that can create fine fabrics from trash.
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* AndKnowingIsHalfTheBattle: As one might expect from a Filmation cartoon, each episode ends with the heroes providing a moral for the audience.

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The bottom line is that it's a minor but fun little series, and a stepping-stone to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries what would come]].




The bottom line is that it's a minor but fun little series, and a stepping-stone to [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries what would come]].
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Someone should send a note to whoever came up with the video example that's incongruously on this page!

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Not to be confused with ''The New Batman Adventures'', the 1997 retool of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: In "The Pest", the Joker responds to Robin's warning that the water-powered car will explode after coming into contact with salt by retorting that he's Santa Claus.


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* TruerToTheText: Commissioner Gordon in this cartoon has an appearance more accurate to how he looked in the comics than his depictions in ''Series/Batman1966'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfBatman''.
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* AWeightyAesop: An early example occurs in "A Sweet Joke on Gotham", where Robin goes undercover to infiltrate Sweet Tooth's gang of teenagers. A plot point is made of how unfit and ill Robin becomes from living on Sweet Tooth's diet of sweets: at first Robin only has [[FatSuit a pillow stuffed under his shirt]] as a disguise. By the end of the episode, he's grown an actual BalloonBelly from eating so much candy.

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* AWeightyAesop: An early example occurs in "A Sweet Joke on Gotham", where Robin goes undercover to infiltrate Sweet Tooth's gang is comprised entirely of teenagers. A plot point is made of how unfit and ill Robin becomes from living on Sweet Tooth's diet of sweets: at first Robin only has [[FatSuit a pillow stuffed under his shirt]] as a disguise. By the end of the episode, kids he's grown an actual BalloonBelly from indoctrinated into eating so much candy.nothing but candy every hour of the day. Predictably, they turn out to be rather useless when it comes to fighting three energetic crime-fighters with balanced diets, and their teeth are in terrible shape.
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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The Riddler appears in the opening sequence (strangely wearing a red suit), but never in the show proper.

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* BaitAndSwitchCredits: The Riddler appears in the opening sequence (strangely wearing a red suit), but never in the show proper. Ironically, he would be one of the only 2 Bat-villains to appear as a member of the Legion of Doom in Hanna-Barbera's ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} Challenge of the Superfriends]]''.
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* AWeightyAesop: An early example occurs in "A Sweet Joke on Gotham", where Robin goes undercover to infiltrate Sweet Tooth's gang of teenagers. A plot point is made of how unfit and ill Robin becomes from living on Sweet Tooth's diet of sweets.

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* AWeightyAesop: An early example occurs in "A Sweet Joke on Gotham", where Robin goes undercover to infiltrate Sweet Tooth's gang of teenagers. A plot point is made of how unfit and ill Robin becomes from living on Sweet Tooth's diet of sweets.sweets: at first Robin only has [[FatSuit a pillow stuffed under his shirt]] as a disguise. By the end of the episode, he's grown an actual BalloonBelly from eating so much candy.
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* UnconventionalFoodUsage: In the episode "A Sweet Joke on Gotham City", Bat-Mite captures the villain "Sweet Tooth" in his candy-warehouse hideout... by tying him up with long strands of licorice.
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* MinimalistCast: In terms of voice talent; only four such credits were shown: West, Ward, Melendy Britt, and Lennie Weinrib.

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