Those cartoons, particulalry JLU, made it clear to me how people don't read comics due to distribution. I was in high school when it aired (so, older than the intended audience) and everyone fucking LOVED it, the jocks, the girls, everyone, to the point most of my class would watch it in the school auditorium whenever we had post-lunch prep-school.
DCAU Thread
Jaxon Jackson
Joseph Murphy
JLU being good is also a big factor.
Josiah Lopez
yeah fair enough
Michael Mitchell
Ryder Rogers
Matthew Garcia
I've said it before and I'll say it again: the DCAU deserves all the praise it got and gets, but everything from TNBA onward has ironically crystalized and tied down Batman and his corner of DC to a now-aging pop culture default in it, the same way the Superman movie's kept Superman tied to 1978. Too many aging fanboys constantly harp on the glories of Conroy, Hamill, etc. being DA BEST or THE REAL VERSIONS versus a lot of new and sometimes just as good interpretations in comics or other media themselves. This is only going to get worse and worse IMO the way I'm sure no one quite realized what the 1978 movie did for Superman in the bad as well as the (obviously very) good.
Ryan Perry
Reminder that a lot of stupid ideas Tom King had about Batman, like there not being a Bruce Wayne or how Batman can't be happy and Batman at the same time, came from TNBA.
Lincoln Jenkins
Reminder that Epilogue completely defeated the point of Terry being his own Batman by making him directly blood related to Bruce
Levi Jenkins
Series? No. More DCAU films? Maybe.
Jordan Myers
It was a DCAU finale. It's why the ending mirrors the first episode of BTAS