It's a landmark series. The Dark Deco look of the series, especially the first two or three seasons when black paper was used, were like nothing else on air at the time Given how soild the animated offerings for DC titles have been I've the years, it's astounding, outside of Keaton era Batman and Nolan Batman, how lackluster the live action offerings have been.

You don’t have to watch Phantasm if you don’t want. Or if you do, you can whenever. It’s like an origin exploration thing. There’s also Mystery of the Batwoman. These are like long form episodes and the series is mostly episodic with some small progression (I don’t remember many big story arcs.) I would watch BTAS, then the adventures with Robin because they actually do have the different robins and that development (not Jason or Damien), if you want maybe watch Superman’s series before then watching “& Superman”, that led to some artstyle changes for BTAS I think. Static Shock is connected to it. Dunno where in the timeline though. More on the JL side of things I think. then JL and JLU, though I never really saw them in the same universe cause I watched JL/U first and the scale is just different. (Also that art style change, really separated it for me. it’s just weird thinking of the two shows as the same universe.) [spoiler]Never really liked JLU because it just got so big and so many side heroes they don’t touch upon. *I’m just not into small teams turning into big organizations. Also the intro sucks. JL intro> Still an awesome show though. [/spoiler] I also see Beyond as a separate/alternate universes. Mostly cause of the Joker Returns movie. And the fact I never watched Beyond. Saw the first few episodes of JL recently (sis was rewatching on Netflix.) and just got hit with heavy nostalgia. That space trial scene is like some sorta core memory for some reason. Essentially I just separate the shows into 3 chunks. -BTAS (including the Superman show and crossover show) (feels like its own thing) -JL/U (you don’t need to watch BTAS to understand.) -Beyond (you prolly need to see the other two to understand whats in this timeline.) [spoiler]I wrote and edited this back n forth while doing something else so I have no idea if it’s coherent.[/spoiler]

In release order of course: 91 - The Dark Knight's First Night (short) sep 92 - sep 93 - Batman: The Animated Series season 1 dec 93 - Batman: Mask of the Phantasm may 94 - sep 95 - Batman: The Animated Series season 2 sept 96 - feb 97 - Superman: The Animated Series seaons 1 sep 97 - may 98 - Superman: The Animated Series seaons 2 mar 98 - Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero sep 98 - feb 99 - Superman: The Animated Series seaons 3 sep 97 - jan 99 - The New Batman Adventures jan 99 - may 99 - Batman Beyond season 1 sep 99 - may 00 -Batman Beyond season 2 jun 00 - Lobo jul 00 - dec 00 - Gotham Girls season 1 aug 00 - dec 01 Batman Beyond season 3 oct 00 - Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker sep 00 - may 01 - Static Shock season 1 jan 01 - aug 01 - The Zeta Project season 1 jun 01 - oct 01 - Gotham Girls season 2 nov 01 - nov 02 - Justice League season 1 jan 02 - may 02 - Static Shock season 2 mar 02 - aug 02 - The Zeta Project season 2 jul 02 - nov 02 - Gotham Girls season 3 jan 03 - jun 03 - Static Shock season 3 jul 03 - may 04 - Justice League season 2 oct 03 - Chase Me (short) oct 03 - Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman jan 04 - may 03 - Static Shock season 4 jul 04 - jan 05 - Justice League Unlimited season 1 feb 05 - jul 05 - Justice League Unlimited season 2 sep 05 - may 06 - Justice League Unlimited season 3 jul 17 - Batman and Harley Quinn apr 19 - Justice League vs. the Fatal Five apr 20 - Batman Beyond (short) There you have it.

I’m not a big Batman fan really, but I had a Batman bedspread when I was young based off of this one, so I must have liked it a lot. From what I remember it was a lot less serial in form (as in, it didn’t have much of a running plot beyond a few multi-part stories) compared to other shows at the time like Spider-Man, so it might not matter too much what order you watch other things. Marvel seemed to be more into that, with crossovers between Spider-Man, Hulk (and She-Hulk) and the X-Men series a few times iirc. I never watched any of the other DC shows or films so I have no idea about those. I did catch a few episodes of Batman Beyond though and I enjoyed it. I distinctly remember quite liking ‘The Batman’ series as well which came out quite a long time later, around 2007 or 8 I think. I assume you’ve heard of it and discounted it but thought I’d mention it just in case. Edit: okay according to Wikipedia The Batman started in 2004 so my internal clock must be way off lmao

This Batman? I only know Mask of the Phantasm and Sub Zero. My timeline knowledge isn't great. But like Saturday mornings in the day, this is where it was at. Manbat (not batman, the villain) scared the piss outta me when I was a kiddo. I think Mask is technically the origin story of this DCAU Batman. Do with that what you will. Prequel, flashback... It released between season 1 and 2 when the show was still on. Batman and Mister Freeze: Sub Zero, there's episodes here but I only know Heart of Ice (S1episode???) and Deep Freeze (S2 episode???). No idea how the film fits.

One of my favorite episodes is 'Almost Got 'Im' and 'Mask of the Phantasm' is awesome. I don't know the answers to your questions off the top of my head but if you have the streaming service 'tubi,' you can find at least half a dozen animated Batman movies there (unless they removed them since the last time I checked).

I grew up watching that show.