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* AudienceColoringAdaptation: William Austin's portrayal of Alfred Pennyworth as a tall and distinguished Englishman would serve as the basis for most versions of Alfred going forward, with even the comics redesigning him to be closer to Austin's depiction and retconning his original fat and bumbling portrayal from the golden age.
* AudienceColoringAdaptation: William Austin's portrayal of Alfred Pennyworth as a tall and distinguished Englishman would serve as the basis for most versions of Alfred going forward, with even the comics redesigning him to be closer to Austin's depiction and retconning his original fat and bumbling portrayal from the golden age.
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* ValuesDissonance: Due to the films being made around UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, when anti-Japanese sentiment was at an all-time high, the serials have quite a bit of an anti-Japanese bent to them, with the main villain, Dr. Daka, being a villainous Main/{{Yellowface}} stereotype. Needless to say, even those who otherwise enjoy the serials for what they are can agree they have not aged well in this aspect.
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* ValuesDissonance: Due to the films being made around UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, when anti-Japanese sentiment was at an all-time high, the serials have quite a bit of an anti-Japanese bent to them, with the main villain, Dr. Daka, being a villainous Main/{{Yellowface}} stereotype.YellowPeril stereotype played by a white actor in {{yellowface}}. Needless to say, even those who otherwise enjoy the serials for what they are can agree they have not aged well in this aspect.
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* AudienceColoringAdaptation: William Austin's portrayal of Alfred Pennyworth as a tall and distinguished Englishman would serve as the basis for most versions of Alfred going forward, with even the comics redesigning him to be closer to Austin's depiction and retconning his original fat and bumbling portrayal from the golden age.
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* OvershadowedByControversy: While the serials did establish aspects of the Batman mythos that are still around today, such as the current appearance of Alfred and the Batcave, nowadays they are more infamous for their WWII-era [[ValuesDissonance anti-Japanese propaganda and racism]] than anything else.
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** Gratuitously throws in a comment claiming the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment Japanese-American internment]] was justified.
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* ValuesDissonance:
ValuesDissonance: Due to the films being made around UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, when anti-Japanese sentiment was at an all-time high, the serials have quite a bit of an anti-Japanese bent to them, with the main villain, Dr. Daka, being a villainous Main/{{Yellowface}} stereotype. Needless to say, even those who otherwise enjoy the serials for what they are can agree they have not aged well in this aspect.
**Gratuitously The narrator gratuitously throws in a comment claiming the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment Japanese-American internment]] was justified.
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* HilariousInHindsight: A plot to [[Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace turn people into zombies?]]
* TooCoolToLive: Ken Colton.
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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The shot where Batman falls off the building at the end of "The Electrical Brain" wouldn't be here if it wasn't for that [[{{Narm}} bomb whistle!]]
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-->'''Narrator:''' This was part of a foreign land, transplanted bodily to America, and known as Little Tokyo. Since a wise government rounded up the shifty-eyed Japs, it's become virtually a ghost street.
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** Robin also tells Daka "You're as [[DirtyCoward yellow]] as your skin!"
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* HarsherInHindsight: After Dr. Daka demonstrates his [[RayGun radium gun]], he enthuses about its potential:
-->[[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki "We can build a lethal mechanism so destructive that it will make retaliation by the United States impossible!"]]
* HilariousInHindsight:
** A plot to [[Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace turn people into zombies?]]
** A guy named [[Creator/ChristopherNolan Nolan]] involved in [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy a Batman film]]?
* TooCoolToLive: Ken Colton.
* ValuesDissonance: Gratuitously throws in a comment claiming the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment Japanese-American internment]] was justified.
** Robin also tells Daka "You're as [[DirtyCoward yellow]] as your skin!"
-->[[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki "We can build a lethal mechanism so destructive that it will make retaliation by the United States impossible!"]]
* HilariousInHindsight:
** A plot to [[Film/Plan9FromOuterSpace turn people into zombies?]]
** A guy named [[Creator/ChristopherNolan Nolan]] involved in [[Film/TheDarkKnightTrilogy a Batman film]]?
* TooCoolToLive: Ken Colton.
* ValuesDissonance: Gratuitously throws in a comment claiming the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_American_internment Japanese-American internment]] was justified.
** Robin also tells Daka "You're as [[DirtyCoward yellow]] as your skin!"
