This manbat has a distinctive advantage over batman and he is forced to flee on the batcycle but even going through the subways isnt enough to evade the creature. This is the image gallery of francine langstrom character design by kevin nowlan. See image of meredith macrae, the voice of francine in batman. Francine worked with her husband kirk at the gotham zoo, studying the behavior of bats.
Batman the animated series fanfiction archive fanfiction. Animation brought the character into a gorgeous and timeless art deco version of gotham city, and using vill. The beast knew what chemicals were needed to bring itself about. After a very difficult fight, batman managed to shoot shebat with the antidote, and francine. Kirk and francine later make a cameo in new batman adventures episode chemistry, where they are seen at bruce waynes.
In her feral state, she forced the plane door open and flew out. Francine arrives at the lab and discovers that the creature is her husband. Alfred pennyworth, alice pleasance, arthur reeves, bane, batgirl, batman, bud and lou, catwoman, chuckie sol, clayface, david strange, francine langstrom, gotham city police department. Developed by bruce timm, paul dini, and mitch brian, and produced by warner bros. In the batman beyond comic series set decades after batman. After batman is able to create an antidote to turn kirk. On leather wings is the secondaired episode of batman. It was written by mitch brian and directed by kevin altieri. The movies have tried, but we count down some of the ways batman. Kirk manages to find francine before she leaves gotham and tries to convince her to stay, but she transforms into shebat and drags kirk to the top of a bridge, where batman provides an.
Francine later witnessed a fight break out between manbat and batman. Parobeck was just a natural for this style, and as bruce timm has acknowledged, his work ended up influencing the visual development of batman. Francine langstrom francine langstrom is the wife of kirk langstrom, the first manbat. Alfred pennyworth, alice pleasance, arthur reeves, bane, batgirl, batman, bud and lou, catwoman, chuckie sol, clayface, david strange, francine langstrom, gotham city police department harvey bullock james gordon renee montoya, harvey bullock, james gordon, renee montoya, hamilton. March, had a strong belief that bats would be better survivors in the future than humans, and created a formula to create the potential new breed of dominant species, the manbat. But it also brings the drama, especially between dr. The animated series was revamped into the new batman adventures, langstrom as manbat never appeared in the new show. The animated series is an american television series based on the dc comics superhero batman, which was produced by warner bros.
Kirks wife, francine, is so distrustful of her husband that she decides to leave him. The animated series francine appears in the series, voiced by meredith macrae. This second injection also seems to be ineffective, but at last it takes effect and francine returns to her normal self. Seeing him sifting through his files, march pulls a gun on batman though he mentions its full of tranquilizers for some reason. While investigating the sceen of the crime batman finds a hair and a recording with a strange animal sound on it. Just as before, batman chases the flying rodent throughout gotham, and this is an episode thats big on the action, between the aerial and rooftop fight scenes. Sadly, most browser are unable to play this format. Francine and march tried to help him, but the formula had already taken control of kirk, and he stole various pharmaceutical chemicals as the manbat. But tell me that the worlds greatest detective cant recognize that manbat is wearing francine langstroms bright, pink slacks.
But that ignores that one of the large appeals of batman is that he uses the tools of evil people. Animation, it originally aired on fox kids from september 5, 1992, to september 15, 1995, with a total of 85 episodes. Batman, the softie, allows kirk and francine to have their moment and exits quietly in his batwing. The creative minds never ran out of juice, as it were, and the ras al ghul episodes are especially interesting an enjoyable.
Later, francine startled her father, who, unknown to her, was recreating the mutagen to intentionally begin the new manbat race. The scene also has an appearance by francines father, dr. Batman the animated series a list of 33 titles created 14 nov 2014 top batman. In fact, it was the batman who first revealed to francine that her husbandtobe, kirk langstrom, had mutated himself into a hideous manbat. The animated series is not far removed from a form of moral pedagogy. Following the success of tim burtons film adaptation of the character, warner bros. The series has since aired in reruns on various other broadcast and cable networks, including the wb, cartoon network, boomerang and the hub. The animated series on leather wings when a mysterious creature starts stealing from several chemical plants the police with the exception of commissioner gordon start a massive man hunt for the dark knight. My inner beast, a batman the animated series fanfic fanfiction. Robert march whos voiced by rene auberjonois of all people, one of the creators. Celebrating the continued legacy of batman, its hard to gloss over the importance of batman. He promised me he would never take the manbat serum.
Francine goes in to see kirk working on what he claims is a cure. However, it was confirmed by the dcau rossums character was named after the 1921 play. However, when batman runs some tests of langstroms blood, he learns that kirk is not transforming into the manbat, but instead, it is francine, who was accidentally infected. The animated series type of love story, funny in between. It was not until the intervention of batman was kirk cured. After further investigation, batman discovers that this manbat is not kirk, but someone else, and thus he shames francine s father into permanently destroying the formula. Francine starts to transform meanwhile, francine has left kirk, who is desperately making calls to the airport. As the wife of the former manbat, kirk langstrom, she was also known as francine langstrom. Francine shut the door with such a force, that she almost broke the window door. She was featured in the first episode on leather wings where she met bruce wayne with her father and husband kirk langstrom.
After a battle atop gotham bridge tower, and two doses of a newly devised cure, francine reverts to normal. Outside, batman is attacked by the manbat that is wearing the tattered remains of francines clothing. Francine was exposed to the serum when her father, dr. Francine attacks him and in the fight batman is nearly forced off the tower, but manages to climb back on and shoots francine with another dosage of the serum. Animation and originally aired on fox from 1992 to 1995. Shebat flew with kirk to the gotham bridge tower where she was confronted by batman. This was the first episode of the series to feature the villain manbat, and was also manbats first screen appearance. Francine runs away while batman and kirk argue over the reappearance of the manbat. At one point, the batman had captured the manbat and. My inner beast, a batman the animated series fanfic. The animated series were the secondtolast of her career.
Hes sort of an example of what it would be nice to be like. After a brief encounter with batman, manbat is subdued and taken to the batcave. It originally aired on the fox network in the united states on september 6, 1992. Batman arrives shortly and kirk denies having taken the formula deliberately. However he could not control himself in this form and he went on a rampage, which batman was blamed for due to a similar appearance. After a brief encounter with batman, manbat is subdued and taken to the batcave, where batman finds a cure and reverts the transformation permanently.
Fandom apps take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. In the first episode she was horrified to see what her husband had become a giant bat creature. The episode was loosely based on a classic comic book, where francine langstrom becomes infected with the powers of the manbat. The wife of kirk langstrom, the first manbat, francine was exposed to the serum when her father was working late in the lab one night, trying to perfect it. March rene auberjonois, francines father and the one who originally created the serum. Kirk langstrom voiced by marc singer is a zoologist at the gotham city zoo. Youve got this guy whos an alien and not truly human, but he personifies all the best qualities of humanity. While running from batman and kirk, she thought to herself. Terror in the sky is an episode of the first season of batman.
Francine and march tried to protect me, but it was too late. Tas, which originally aired on the fox kids block from 1992 to 1995, is one of the most popular and groundbreaking series in western animation. If i had to differentiate between batman and superman, id say superman is sort of about hope. After a very difficult fight, batman managed to shoot shebat with the antidote, and francine reverted to her human form. Langstrom had hoped to mix human and animal dna to creat a new species. This is the funny scene when manbat reverts back to langstrom and the two of them arguing. In this series, langstrom also has a wife named francine. D tom kenny and peter mcnicholl are just fantastic in this show.
Some viewers had wondered if the name was a version of carl grissom, a mob boss in the 1989 live action film batman who was the old boss to the joker, as his true name of jack napier first appeared in the film and was later used in the animated series. A mysterious creature is mistaken for batman, and the police send a task force after the dark knight. Arrived in her office, francine took the tissues from her desk, and wipe the tears from her face. Taken aback, francine agreed to come home, but suddenly felt very strange. The shebat unleashes a sorrowful one on gotham bridge after setting an unconscious kirk down. The animated series fan fiction love story by tayla drago ladies and gentlemen of all dc animated universe dcau cartoon fans, anime, or just the comic books of them to collectfor the first time besides loving the other series to enjoy watching, i made for the first to planning it out for a long time now of batman. Batman the animated series is often considered to be one of the best versions of batman ever to be animated. March, was working late in the lab one night, trying to perfect it. Hes working late and not at all happy to see batman dropin.
On leather wings the cartoons drama, dry wit and detective stories played as well with adults on sunday night as kids on saturday morning. Chronological appearances by publication title year, month batman. Francine langstrom experiences the effects of the bat formula. Kirk and francine have appeared all over the world of batman, from batman. Francine lee was the fiancee of scientist kirk langstrom at the time that she first encountered the batman. After further investigation, batman discovers that this manbat is not kirk, but someone else, and thus he shames francines father into permanently destroying the formula. The animated series is an american superhero animated television series based on the dc comics superhero batman. Until this video is converted in a format that your browser can stream, you can use the download link bellow to view the full resolution file on your computer. This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the dc animated movie universe and is an adaptation of francine langstrom. Francine s father listens in on kirk and batman s conversation, and walks away quietly. Sep 24, 2015 celebrating the continued legacy of batman, its hard to gloss over the importance of batman. The animated series, though the first to be produced. Batman the animated series fanfiction archive with over 1,995 stories.
This page contains a listing of all known appearances of francine march dcau. She ran to the washroom and saw herself transforming into shebat. Francine lee dc animated movie universe batman wiki. The animated series truly captured the essence of the caped crusader. This series is effectively the beginning of the dc animated universe that includes, among others, the two justice league series, superman the animated series and batman beyond. Batman arrives and tells him that his tests have proven that kirk was in fact cured, and that this is a new manbat. It is a shame in my mind that the series ended after volume three volume four is not a direction continuation of the series. Her last was the animated feature johnnys golden quest, where her costars included anndi mcafee, rob paulsen, peter renaday, pepe serna, jeffrey tambor, marcelo tubert, b. If you find an issue this character appears in that is not shown here, please edit that issue adding francine march dcau as a cast member. Manbat appears in batman the animated series as a zoologist at gotham city zoo. Dec 11, 2016 he then chases down manbat, or shebat as shes apparently known in the comics, over the skyline of gotham city. In a dazed state, francine almost fell off the bridge, but kirk had come around and caught her. It is notorious for featuring the return of kirk langstrom and the menace of the manbat, or better said, the shebat. The synopsis for this issue has not yet been written.
The animated series on leather wings francine langstrom is a scientist that workd alongside her husband kurt langstrom and her father dr. Its not entirely a red herring however, as he is responsible for the reinvention of the mutagen. I made this short trailer that covers a few good moments from tas with batman mask of the phantasm soundtrack. The animated series tv series 19921995 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The animated series, it is revealed that shortly after batman cured francine of the manbat serum, she and kirk started to live a peaceful life as they started studying sonics and had two children. The animated series e45 terror in the sky recap tv. She appears in the first episode, on leather wings, which features the first appearance of. She boarded a plane out of gotham, but kirk had followed her, saying that batman had proof that he was not the creature. March, had a strong belief that bats would be better survivors in the future than humans, and worked on a formula to create the potential new breed of dominant species, the manbat. In the end, batman cured francine, and she returned to her husband. Sep 08, 2017 but tell me that the worlds greatest detective cant recognize that manbat is wearing francine langstroms bright, pink slacks. Explore wikis xavier riddle and the secret museum wiki. The animated series be arranged in such a way that it tells an ongoing story more in the line of a standard serialized comic or modern television show. The following is a list of images featuring francine langstrom. She was featured in the first episode on leather wings where. The ancillary characters, whether it be francine or just random civilians in the street, also look sharper than what you can expect from the earlier episodes of the animated series.
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