Simple question: who’s the second best Batman?

On the one hand: tremendous casting.

Mother.  Fucker.  I got nothing.  I can't believe it.  Best Batman ever here one second and gone the next.  Jesus...

I hate to interrupt an obit with complaints about the writing but:

Diedrich Bader has been doing Batman for many years now. He's not Kevin Conroy beut he's doing a very good job.

Damnit Batman’s dead. Like both the face (Adam West) and the voice (Kevin Conroy) of Batman. What the heck? Also they must retire Batman for a few years right? Like it'd be rude to try and replace Batman right out of the bat, when it's impossible to find a voice for Batman when Batman literally died.

His Bruce Wayne sounds just a little bit foppish, but not enough to make you think, “He’s built like a linebacker, but he sounds like that?”

This one hurt, man. Conroy was my Batman. He’s the standard. The bar by which all other portrayals are judged. He nailed the Bruce Wayne side of Batman as brilliantly as he did the Bat. Grew up watching his Batman; he’s the voice I hear when I read or think Batman, you know? RIP to a legend. 

I doubt there will ever be anyone else who defined the character so completely. 

I cried when I first heard the news.

The I’m am the Night speech was just perfect. Him being mad at Clark all the time early on in Justice league was also great and him telling Supes at his grave how he felt was also amazing.

He was the only person who ever really nailed different voices for Batman and Bruce Wayne without (ironically) making the distinction cartoonish. For almost two decades we’ve had movie after movie where actors adopt over-the-top grunts and growls for “Batman,” whereas Conroy achieved it with the slightest changes: A…

I’m grateful I had the chance to meet him. What an incredibly nice man. He will be sorely missed.

His is the voice in my head when I read the comics, this is an incredible loss to comic and animation fans.

This is DC Animation’s biggest loss since Dwayne McDuffie died. If we were still in office, I bet the vibe there would be similar.

I mean...she's definitely used it to her advantage as well. She's doing a Barbarella remake for chrissakes, and what is that if not a film that trades on it's star's sex appeal. (Admit it, the one thing you remember about that film is Jane Fonda in that costume).

Perhaps his crowning moment is the Justice League episode with the alternate evil League members. Conroy recorded the entire scene where Batman confronts his evil version in a single take, switching back and forth between the subtly different voices flawlessly.

Aw shit.

There will be a bunch of hot takes soon about whether he’s the best batman ever, but it really hardly matters. What’s without a doubt true is that he defined the character as much as any one person could.

In the animated series, the video games, and the various other media appearances related, he developed his batman…

Kevin Conroy is the standard by which I, and probably many many others, judge Batman. Not just the voice either. Even with live actors, I judge them if they can bring the kind of emotion and gravitas to the role that Conroy was able to with just his voice. Some of them do well, but none will ever top him. He is…