In this video I state my case for why I think that Roland Daggett is Batman’s most detestable foe. Batman the Animated Series held many of the wealthy citizens of Gotham in contempt, but Roland Daggett is the most worthy of their scorn.
#batman #batmantheanimatedseries #RolandDaggett #clayface #catwoman
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:50 BTAS’ criticism of capitalism
2:41 Feat of Clay
6:16 Appointment in Crime Alley
9:07 Cat Scratch Fever
10:21 Catwalk
11:26 Daggett’s comic book appearances
13:48 Conclusion
14:21 Self Promotion
14:48 Next Time
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🎀We appreciate villains like Daggett because they're a healthy way to reel back in any misunderstandings some people (and some writers of Batman comics, let's be honest) that the villains of Batman are purely a result of mental illness or other such elements. Daggett is just someone who doesn't care about suffering and who has a lot of power. And that abuse of power leaks into people who, normally, would have had generally stable or well fulfilling lives, but go off the deep end when they're kicked to the very bottom. Whether that be under a thumb like Daggett's or lashing out like half the villains of the series.
please do not make random shit lobbing race agenda claims when thats obviously not what the writers were going for.
On how they attempted to "kill" Hagen, is it possible they were trying to make it look like an overdose? since hes a known addict. Like it wouldn't be great finding his body behind the factory, but since hes dying by the very thing hes addicted to that's all the police would assume, another tragic ovedose story. (whereas dying via bullet or even just disappearing would be highly suspicious since as you point out hes very high profile individual.
I really like how batman treats each villain, especially Daggett, he treats clayface with respect and in every version tries to help him. He doesn't even blame Karlo for giving into his addiction either. But Roland he despises for every right reason
Don't know, I see you somewhat as an elitist, Serum. And I particularly don't like most whom paint themselves with prestige.
Kudos for the fun editing of angry Joker. That pause, then "But I digress." Made me chuckle.
Look I appreciate your commentary on the state of things but I didn't come for yours I came for the subjects opinions. get of the soap box and analyze the story.
Capitalism is not slavery, its a slur used by socialists to demonize the free market. The alternative to a free market is basically slavery, cause then you can't choose where to use your labor.
I will say, I prefer a single guy with a distinguishable face like Roland Daggett as the representative of the corrupt elite in Gotham to an organisation of faceless rich folk like the court of owls.
Someone you can look at and say "I know this person is a reprehensible monster and I'm furious that nothing can be done to stop them despite how public they are"
Tend to find it way more effective in invoking a visceral reaction from me.
Going to start calling the primer of Ontario Dagget.
So dagget is kinda like phizer
Daggett is as bad as Thorne.
Daggett's biggest mistake was trying to frame Bruce Wayne and tried to steal his company. He tried to frame Batman! He also tried to mess with other supervillains and Catwoman. He had no idea what he was doing. He set himself up to fail.
Great video
Roland Dagget also similar to Rupert Thorn was never beaten and put behind bars.
2:18 more like acurate to reality many stories has use this as its the give a man a fish hes fed for a day teach a man to fish hes fed for a life time the point of batman is to empower the downtrodden to take back there city from the corrupt as when that day comes batman wont be needed anymore also i love how you mentioned how Daggett made a virus and sold the cure reminds me of something that happened in v for vendetta and happened recently in real life
Who was the donald trump parody that built the Joker Casino again?
13:35 "two security guards"
I know British people expect bobby helmets and checkers, but those are definitely police officers.
"These people don't value human life like we do!" says the man who ordered these people murdered. I don't think the writers could spell it out more clearly. Additionally, it's kinda hopeful that Daggett can only find incompetent mooks; competent skilled people don't want anything to do with him and would possibly turn him in.
4:21 the animation here is so smooth and clean. One of the many reasons why BTAS is a timeless masterpiece
It's funny the way that you ordered out your videos. It seems that vicious chemicals that the FDA couldn't stop him from using. Or even the torching of buildings as they go down it for a bunch of impoverished people. No, what takes him down is 1 little cat. Interesting review. Thank you for it.
Question is what will government t health care not cover? Medicare something we all pay into has no problem cutting people off when you need them, such as nursing homes. So the elderly are cut short from the very service were told to pay for when we're young. Medicare is good but it's not good enough, and because it exists we don't realize we might want better.
Then you have Medicaid which seems to have no problem forcing people from their family homes to pay for palative and hospice care.
Hears brief rant about how capitalism sucks:
Me: sighs clicks subscribe
Someone's in a mood
It's no wonder this guy has stuck with me all my life. He's so evil I hope he's in the comics he'd be a great antagonist.
Daggett is a real sleaze. He developed a virus he injected into stray cats and dogs to spread around Gotham and sell the vaccine at a very high price.
I’m sorry but you were cooking absolutely nothing with that attempt to criticize the dream sequence in the beginning lmfao
0:32 Lol, who's the personification of Communism then? KGBeast?
A very good and well reasoned episode! My only comment is that Daggett always reminded me of Marvel's Norman Osborn (AKA the Green Goblin). It's probably just the red widow's peak, but with the broader similarities between Batman and Spider-Man that have often been noted* and how he almost gets but very markedly avoids a supervillain origin story to avoid violating copyright too much (really, how many Batman villains fail to fall into their destined vat of chemicals?) I always thought there was some kind of nod there. But it's probably just the hair.
* Somewhat ironically, with Spider-Man, despite being technically one of the stronger superheroes of Marvel, often being treated as just a joke or street-level hero who is out place in the Avengers, while Batman, technically just an unpowered human, is considered a self-evident member of the Justice League.