Batman: The Animated Series

Heart of Ice - S1-E3

Revealing mistake: When Batman - disguised as a security guard - opens his utility belt, the belt opens and shows a configuration of buttons and a split-second later, a key card materializes out of thin air in front of the buttons. (00:11:30)

Phaneron

Prophecy of Doom - S1-E22

Revealing mistake: When the passengers are evacuating the sinking ship after the bomb goes off, there is a shot shown from above, of passengers running up the stairs. Many of the character designs for the passengers are repeated throughout the shot. For example, a blonde woman in a purple dress can be seen three times in the shot. (00:02:36)

Casual Person

Be A Clown - S1-E11

Revealing mistake: When Mayor Hamilton Hill speaks to his geriatric butler as he is tying up the birthday banner, the butler's right hand is miscolored in some frames and becomes part of the banner, same purple color. (00:03:55)

Sammo

It's Never Too Late - S1-E6

Revealing mistake: The cane of the 'mysterious' drunk that happens to be not too far from Thorne's table is hovering instead of being properly hanging off the edge of the table in a couple of shots. (00:03:00)

Sammo

Two-Face (1) - S1-E17

Revealing mistake: When the paper with Harvey Dent's picture on the hospital bed is burning, there are a few frames with the words "CUT THESE FRAMS" [sic] that can be seen through the flames. (00:20:30)

Sammo

Be A Clown - S1-E11

Revealing mistake: At the beginning of the shot with the creepy clown that sends his unicycle crashing and begins juggling, the kids in the background are frozen in place for the first frames, then start moving. (00:05:15)

Sammo

Pretty Poison - S1-E9

Revealing mistake: Harvey Dent has been poisoned. Commissioner Gordon picks up the phone; there's a mistake in the animation here, with the telephone cord clipping through. (00:08:50)

Sammo

Heart of Ice - S1-E3

Other mistake: When Batman is watching the security footage of Victor Fries' accident, at first Fries is addressing the camera directly which follows him and pans according to his movements and Ferris Boyle interrupting him, which would suggest a second person was in the room with a handheld camera. But after Ferris Boyle enters the room and orders Fries' experiment terminated, there are several cuts from various angles in the room suggesting surveillance cameras. The surveillance style footage also often conveniently cuts to the face of whichever person happens to be speaking or will cut to a certain angle in order to put emphasis on the action, all of which would require multiple mounted cameras and purposeful editing by either Boyle or one of his subordinates, which would be completely illogical since they don't want anyone to see the footage in the first place. (00:12:20 - 00:13:55)

Phaneron

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Two-Face (1) - S1-E17

Trivia: Harvey Dent's demanding of a mirror to see his scarred visage at his doctor's reluctance is very similar to the Joker demanding a mirror from his surgeon in the 1989 "Batman" film. (00:20:30)

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Answer: She escaped off-screen and created a copy of herself to fool everyone.

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