Gotham Girls

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Gotham Girls

Format Animated comedy/drama with film noir elements.
Run time 3–5 minutes per episode (more with interactive elements)
Creators creators
Written by writers
Main Cast Adrienne Barbeau
Arleen Sorkin
Diane Pershing
Tara Strong
Jennifer Hale
Bob Hastings
Tom Kenny
Produced by producers
Artwork by artwork
Music by music
Country USA
Network Internet (gothamgirls.com / www2.warnerbros.com)
Original run 2000 –
2002 - present
No. of episodes 30 (3 series of 10)
IMDb page

Gotham Girls is an American animated Flash cartoon series created and produced jointly by Warner Brothers and Noodle Soup Productions about the females of Gotham City. Episodes starred Harley Quinn, Poison Ivy, Batgirl and Catwoman in short stories of varying length about the daily lives of the characters (from the DC comics universe).

It is also the name of a related comic book series.

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[edit] Flash cartoon series

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Gotham Girls is one of the few series of Flash animations made by a professional publisher of mainstream cartoons, and features professional voice-acting by the same actresses and actors as those who voiced the television series. Its use of Flash (and also vector graphics) enables the animation to appear undistorted and unpixellated at any size/resolution.

Each episode features a mini-game or puzzle which can be played while the clip downloads, as well as an interactive feature which allows viewers to help a character make a certain decision.

Other features of the website include downloadable trailers (1, 2), screensavers, desktop backgrounds, internet chat buddy icons, as well as biographies of the characters (additional bios can be viewed by clicking on the occasional flapping bat image appearing in the bottom-right corner while watching the show itself at certain points) and an online version of the classic game Othello (aka Reversi) featuring the Gotham Girls.

The series lasted for three seasons (10 episodes each), with each episode released month-by-month. While the first two seasons featured primarily comedic episodes, the third season attempted to make the show more serious. These episodes linked directly to Batman and Mr. Freeze: Sub-Zero. This is because Dora is doing this for revenge on men, for her sister was "killed by Mr. Freeze", or so Dora thinks. Dropping the magician Zatanna from its lineup and adding a host of new characters to the cast, including Detective Renee Montoya, each episode from this series tied into the next, forming a collective thirty-minute whodunit. The storyline also dealt with issues not seen since Batman: The Animated Series, such as the corruption of the Gotham Police Force, Poison Ivy's environmental crusade and Commissioner Gordon's wavering faith in costumed superheroes.

The series finale, "Cold Hands, Cold Heart" aired in 2002, wrapping up the mystery and ending the website. GothamGirls.com remains online as an archive of the series, however the visible website only links to the animations for Series 3. Some fans were disappointed that Batman himself did not make even a cameo appearance in the show, but that did nothing to degrade the quality of its run.

[edit] Series 1

  1. The Vault
  2. Lap Bat
  3. Trick or Trick (part 1)
  4. Trick or Trick (part 2)
  5. A Little Night Magic
  6. More Than One Way
  7. Precious Birthstones
  8. Pave Paradise
  9. The Three Babes
  10. The Gardener's Apprentice
  11. Lady-X

[edit] Series 2

  1. Hold That Tiger
  2. Miss Un-congeniality
  3. Strategery
  4. Baby Boom
  5. Cat 'N' Mouse
  6. Bat'ing Cleanup
  7. Catsitter
  8. Gotham Noir
  9. Scout's Dis-Honor
  10. I'm Badgirl

[edit] Series 3

  1. Ms.ing in Action
  2. Gotham in Pink
  3. Hear Me Roar
  4. Gotham in Blue
  5. A Cat in the Hand
  6. Jailhouse Wreck
  7. Honor Among Thieves
  8. No, I'm Batgirl
  9. Signal Fires
  10. Cold Hands, Cold Heart

[edit] Cast

[edit] The Afterlife

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After its run on the internet, many networks offered to pick-up the webisodes and air them during commercial breaks. Other networks offered to turn the show into a full-lengthed series, having a problem set up by Harley and Ivy, or Catwoman, in one episode, and then in the following episode, it would be resolved by Batgirl (this is similar to what the 1960's Batman TV show did in the first two seasons of their show.) None of these offers were picked up because the rights for the characters were tied up in the new Batman movies and The Batman animated series.

[edit] Comic series

Cover to Gotham Girls #2. Art by Shane Glines.
Cover to Gotham Girls #2. Art by Shane Glines.

A highly successful five-issue Gotham Girls comic book mini-series was produced by DC Comics in 2002 written by Paul Storrie, riding on the popularity of the online animated series and providing more mainstream publicity for its internet-based predecessor. It starred Poison Ivy, Harley Quinn, Catwoman, Batgirl and Renee Montoya, and each issue spotlighted one of these characters to a certain degree. The story, which took place in the DC animated universe, involved a vial of chemicals that the three villainesses fought over, as they also tried to avoid capture by Batgirl and Detective Montoya.

[edit] Batman: Harley and Ivy

There was also a sequel mini-series of sorts to the Gotham Girls comic mini-series, titled Batman: Harley and Ivy. This 3 issue mini-series followed the continued misadventures of Harley and Ivy.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

 v • d • e The Bruce Timm DC animated universe
Television series: Batman: The Animated Series | Superman: The Animated Series | The New Batman Adventures | The New Batman/Superman Adventures | Batman Beyond | Static Shock | The Zeta Project | Justice League | Justice League Unlimited
Feature-length films: Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Batman & Mr. Freeze: SubZero | Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker | Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman
Comic books: Batman Adventures | Superman Adventures | Justice League Adventures | Batman Beyond | Gotham Girls
Web cartoons: Gotham Girls
Video Games: DCAU Video Games
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