The Man Who Killed Batman is the fifty-first episode of Batman: The Animated Series. It first aired on February 1, 1993. It was written by Paul Dini and directed by Bruce Timm.
As it pours on Gotham City, a man hurriedly runs to Rupert Thorne's office. He gets inside and introduces himself, but Thorne already knows who he is — Sidney, The Man Who Killed Batman. Sidney, however, doesn't appreciate his newfound fame, as now everyone wants to kill o...
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The Man Who Killed Batman is the fifty-first episode of Batman: The Animated Series. It first aired on February 1, 1993. It was written by Paul Dini and directed by Bruce Timm.
As it pours on Gotham City, a man hurriedly runs to Rupert Thorne's office. He gets inside and introduces himself, but Thorne already knows who he is — Sidney, The Man Who Killed Batman. Sidney, however, doesn't appreciate his newfound fame, as now everyone wants to kill or fight him. So Sidney tells his story...
Sidney is an insignificant, meek man who wants to move up in the underworld, and agrees to go on a drug run as a lookout. However, he does not do this for evil, but to make himself much more worthy on the Earth. The other mobsters, however, see Sidney as bait for Batman if he attempts to stop the run. Unfortunately, Batman does show up, and Sidney apparently fights him, while actually the "fight" is nothing but a simple tussle exaggerated by the shadows of the warehouse they were fighting in,...
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