The 10 Best Episodes of ‘Batman: The Animated Series’

The Man Who Killed Batman is one of those perfect high concept plots that sells itself to the reader immediately, just on the strength of the title and the image that goes with it. The very idea that Batman could die is unthinkable — the show itself is named after him, so even the kids the series was aimed at would have a hard time buying that he actually died — but the fact that it’s some wide-eyed, lemon-shaped goon cowering underneath that title immediately makes that question irrelevant, and replaces it with “okay, well how did this guy do it?”