DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family

The fate of Gotham is in your hands.

RELEASED 13 Oct 20200h 31m★ 7.1 TMDB

Tragedy strikes the Batman's life again when Robin Jason Todd tracks down his birth mother only to run afoul of the Joker. An adaptation of the 1988 comic book storyline of the same name.

WATCH NOTE

2020 interactive extended-length animated short written, directed and produced by Brandon Vietti. Covers the Batman story only, excluding the packaged shorts Sgt. Rock, Adam Strange, Death and The Phantom Stranger. Linear versions include Under the Red Hood: Reloaded, Jason Todd’s Rebellion, Robin’s Revenge and Red Hood’s Reckoning; these overlap the interactive work. Exact runtime and complete branch-specific appearance coverage remain unresolved.

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Where it fits in the DC universe

DC Showcase - Batman: Death in the Family is title 10 of 94 in our Animated Elseworlds viewing sequence. Explore this branching animated companion alongside Batman: Under the Red Hood, which supplies its story baseline. The Blu-ray lets you choose alternate outcomes, while digital editions present linear versions. The four other packaged DC Showcase shorts are separate adventures.

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