Batman as Horror | BTAS “On Leather Wings” – Bat-Breakdown Watch Along

Описание: Welcome to Bat-Breakdown with a new watch-along series where I revisit Batman across comics, animation, and film to explore what truly makes the Dark Knight endure.

For this episode, I’m starting where many fans first fell in love with the character:

Batman: The Animated Series – Episode 1: “On Leather Wings.”

Before Gotham saw Batman as a hero, it saw him as something else entirely.

A creature.
A myth.
A monster in the sky.

This episode frames Batman through the lens of horror, as the city hunts him while he investigates a series of terrifying pharmaceutical robberies that lead to the tragic transformation of Dr. Kirk Langstrom into Man-Bat.

In this watch-along, I react to the episode and then break down:

• Why “On Leather Wings” is one of the strongest introductions to Batman ever made
• How BTAS presents Batman as an urban legend before a superhero
• The horror roots of Man-Bat and Langstrom’s self-experimentation
• Addiction, loss of control, and the old monster-movie DNA inside Batman
• What this episode tells us about how Gotham truly sees the Dark Knight
This is not just a rewatch — it’s a discussion about tone, character, and why Batman works when he is treated as something frightening as well as heroic.