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Duel of
the Double Crossers! Original Airdate -
June 12th, 2009 When Mongul recruits Jonah Hex
to bring new gladiators to War World, the old west
bounty hunter wrangles the Dark Knight. After a change
of heart, Hex and Batman team up to take down the
violent empire.
Written by Todd Casey
Directed by Michael Chang
Animation by
DongWoo Animation
Review by Andrew
Media by Warner Bros. Animation |
Cast
Diedrich Bader as Batman Nika Futterman as
Lashina Scott Menville as Metamorpho Phil
Morris as Jonah Hex Kevin Michael Richardson
as Steppenwolf Bumper Robinson as Black
Lightning James Arnold Taylor as Arges
Gary Anthony Williams as Mongul/Mongal
Music
Theme Written and Performed by Andy Strumer
Music by Michael McCuisition, Lolita Ritmanis,
Kristopher Carter
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Review
Starting off with one of the weakest teasers in Brave/Bold’s
short history (so far), the brat squad known as the
Outsiders is back, and they’re fighting… Despero?
Considering that the only other time we’ve seen Despero
so far, the entire Green Lantern Corps got scared and
went into hiding. Now, they expect it to be convincing
that the trio of troubled youngsters would be any sort
of a match for him. Adding insult to injury, they’re
just as obnoxious as their last appearance. Metamorpho
is a clumsy-sounding hulk that morphs into commonly
cliché forms, Static Shock - err - Black Lightning fails
to be interesting whatsoever, and the diminutive Katana
is… Well, she’s not bad. The entire teaser fails to
deliver in every aspect as they don’t really seem to
learn anything by the time we find it’s a training
session cop-out.
The rest of the episode improves
slightly better, despite starting off randomly as the
19th century Bounty Hunter walks into a bar that truly
appears to belong to a long time ago - in a galaxy far,
far away. Come to find out Jonah Hex is working for the
always unexpected Mongul, as he’s forced to round up the
toughest baddies out there for War World. The next on
Mongul’s wishlist is, of course, the universally-revered
(literally it seems) Batman. For the plot’s sake, Jonah
has no problems wrangling the Dark Knight and delivering
him to Mongul to fight against the incredibly disturbing
Mongal and her female furies Lashina and Stompa -
undefeated War World champions. Admittedly, this is
actually a pretty decent use of War World, as Justice
League’s handling of the epic brawling was one of the
worst episodes of the series. It suffers from one of the
more minuscule problems of the teaser though; it’s
horribly random. Jonah Hex, Mongul, previously-Darkseid’s
female furies… It’s quite a bit to take in at once, but
probably not so bad if you’re completely unfamiliar with
any of the characters aside from Batman.
The
episode takes an odd twist, though, when Mongal
propositions Jonah Hex to betray Mongul, and proceeds to
help out Batman in his first fight. It’s done incredibly
quickly, though, and feels a little too contrived -
especially as you can easily miss the reasoning behind
any motives if you stop paying attention for even a
millisecond. The rest of the episode takes a turn for
the worse as it becomes a ridiculous romp that involves
Batman in a fight against Mongul without even a scratch
to show for it, and a pretty uninteresting ending
overall. Despite this, it’s still a decent episode for
at least one viewing as it includes some fun humor and
an interesting amount of random cameos. If you do watch
this episode, be sure to do yourself a favor and skip
the teaser.
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