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"The Clock King" is the twenty-fifth episode of Batman: The Blithe Series and the first appearance of the Clock King in the DC Blithe Universe.

Contents

• one Plot
• 2 Continuity
• iii Groundwork information
  • 3.1 Home video releases
  • three.2 Production inconsistencies
  • 3.3 Trivia
• 4 Cast
• 5 Quotes

Plot

On a Gotham City subway, attorney-at-law Hamilton Hill sits next to Temple Fugate, a businessman typing intently on a laptop computer. Hill notices how tense he is, and Fugate stiffly informs him that he is preparing to announced in court to appeal confronting a multimillion-dollar verdict against his company. Hill asks if Fugate at least takes a coffee break. When Fugate says that he does, at precisely three:00, Loma suggests that he shake up his routine a bit and "have it at three-fifteen", the better to announced more relaxed in court.

Temple Fugate's heed snaps after beingness belatedly.

After returning to his role, Fugate considers this communication, and, to the utter astonishment of his secretary, asks her to put his coffee in a thermos. Fugate takes his java to a park, only just when he begins to relax, disaster strikes: he is hit by a devious ball from some children, and his papers are scattered everywhere by the wind. In his scramble to pick them up again, a dog barks and startles him, making him autumn into a fountain. He arrives late to the courthouse, and the approximate rules that since Fugate failed to appear, the verdict will stand up in default. When Fugate protests that his company will be ruined, the gauge advises "then possibly this volition teach you lot to be on fourth dimension for a change". As his lawyer shrugs apologetically and leaves, Fugate screams like a madman at the financial ruin of his career...

Vii years later, Hill is mayor of Gotham, running for re-ballot. On his way to a fundraiser, his limousine is stopped when traffic lights begin malfunctioning, creating several crashes and a major gridlock. As several motorists start blaming Hill, someone on a rooftop above releases a poster of Hill's entrada, graffitied to make him look like a devil, sending the populace into uncontrollable laughter.

Bruce Wayne, who happened to be driving ahead of Hill's limousine, makes a quick costume change and flies up to the roof of the building, where he sees Fugate, now styling himself "The Clock King". When Batman corners him, demanding answers, Fugate replies merely that "the 9:15 is always half dozen minutes early", and rolls off the building's edge, to land neatly on a passing commuter train.

Temple Fugate'southward new agenda against Mayor Hill.

Batman investigates the control center for the metropolis's traffic lights, and finds the remains of a time bomb in that location, including a highly expensive Metronex pocket picket that was used as the detonator. Batman runs the spotter'south series number, and finds Fugate'south name. Investigating his address, he finds the place empty except for a multitude of clocks. Examining Fugate'south papers, he finds information on the urban center's power and h2o networks, but the about data is on the city's clock tower.

Listening to the police band, Alfred hears of a small blackout localized to a block where the Gotham Common bank'southward main branch is located. Suspecting Fugate, Batman goes to investigate, but it is a trap: as soon every bit he enters the vault, the door slams shut behind him, and a automobile on the floor begins humming. A record recorder on pinnacle of information technology plays a message from Fugate, explaining that the machine is a vacuum pump that is slowly removing all the oxygen from within the vault. It will also detonate before Batman can burn the door open. Batman's gas masks are thus pointless, and the pump's box is rigged with a motion-sensitive flop.

Elsewhere, Colina is dedicating Gotham's new subway station, domicile of the world's first fully-automated line. But the subway train he asked for has yet to arrived, embarrassing him in front of the laughing crowd. So Fugate'south vox interrupts over the sound system, taunting Hill. And then two subway trains start hurtling toward each other from reverse ends of the same track. People flee the station in panic, and the trains crash. In the ensuing chaos, Colina disappears.

Batman contrives an escape from the trap: breaking the cassette from the recorder in half, he pulls out the tape reels and uses the tape every bit a makeshift caster system to gingerly swing the pump box toward the vault door, then hitting information technology with a batarang to detonate the bomb, blowing the door open. He sees the news message reporting Hill's disappearance, but Batman remembers the data papers and realizes where Fugate has taken Hill.

Temple Fugate has Mayor Hill running out of time.

Indeed, Fugate has Hill tied to the terminate of the 60 minutes hand on the face of the metropolis's clock belfry. At 3:15 (the same fourth dimension Hill suggested Fugate take his coffee break), the easily will pass each other, crushing Hill to death. Loma is mystified as to why Fugate is doing this, and Fugate reminds him of his courtroom date and tells him that since Hill was an attorney with the law firm representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against Fugate'southward company, Fugate now believes that the whole coffee break scenario was a ploy past Colina to beat Fugate's appeal. Hill tries to explain that it was never his intention, only Fugate refuses to heed.

Batman arrives, and Fugate engages him with his sword pikestaff inside the gear system of the clock tower. Batman implores Fugate to finish his mad rampage, since Loma never meant him whatsoever damage, only Fugate angrily blurts out that his existent reason for revenge is because Hill fabricated him late for his appeal in the kickoff place. The two foes seem evenly matched, as Fugate reveals that he has studied Batman every bit much as Hill, and fifty-fifty learned his every move from news footage. During the fight, Fugate'southward cane becomes lodged in one of the gears, halting the minute hand a second earlier it crushes Colina. However, under the strain the entire clock begins to break up, and Fugate falls downwards into the depths of the tower. Batman has to fly out the window in fourth dimension to catch Hill as the clock hands fall off the confront.

Although he is prophylactic, Loma would not be doing election campaigns for some time. Fugate's trunk is nowhere to be found. Gordon presumes that Fugate perished in the wreck, but Batman warns that if Fugate really did learn all of his tricks and abilities, there is a strong possibility that he survived, and suspects that "it's only a matter of fourth dimension" earlier he strikes once again.

Continuity

• Batman'southward premonition almost Fugate resurfacing comes true in "Time Out of Articulation", though his way of escape is left unexplained.

Background data

Home video releases

• Batman: The Animated Serial, Book Ane (DVD)
• Batman: The Consummate Blithe Series (DVD)
• Batman: The Complete Blithe Series (Blu-ray)

Production inconsistencies

• On Clock King's notes, "Subway Station" is spelled "Saby Station".
• The confront of the clock tower where Batman and Fugate fight has an extra "9" instead of "XI" earlier the "XII".
• After Fugate says, "En garde!", he tears through the emblem on Batman's costume with his pikestaff. Withal, the tear disappears completely later on.

Trivia

• The Clock King is an original villain from DC comics, though his character is much dissimilar from the animated version. Both characters are efficiency experts who make uncanny utilise of timing, but the original Clock King was named William Tockman, and his crimes were motivated by the need to provide for his sister when he (mistakenly) believed he was dying of disease. This Clock Rex start appeared every bit a rogue of Greenish Arrow, but is probably best known for his membership in the Suicide Squad, and thus as a rogue of Batman and sometimes the Justice League.
• This Clock Rex's name, Temple Fugate, is a play on the Latin expression tempus fugit, meaning "time flies".
• This episode breaks the status quo past having Batman making all his appearances by day.
• The climactic boxing in the clock belfry is similar to the climax of the animated movie "Castle of Cagliostro", right down to someone (well-nigh, in the example of this episode) getting crushed between the hands of the clock.
• Fugate's strategy of studying Batman before engaging him direct would later exist repeated by Bane in the eponymous episode.

Cast

Role player	Part
Kevin Conroy	Bruce Wayne/Batman
Bob Hastings	Commissioner Gordon Truck Driver (uncredited)
Lloyd Bochner	Mayor Hill
Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.	Alfred Estimate (uncredited)
Mari Devon	Summertime Gleeson Miss Perkins (uncredited)
Jeff Bennett	Role Boy Cab Driver (uncredited) Cop (uncredited)
Alan Rachins	Clock Male monarch

Quotes

Batman: What kind of saboteur uses a $6,000 Metronex to trigger a time bomb?
Alfred: A saboteur with too much money?

Fugate: (taking files) I needed those five minutes ago.
Role Boy: I'k sorry, sir, simply...
Fugate: Thirty-7 pages? That would accept a copier exactly one minute and forty-nine seconds. 1 more than delay similar this and yous're fired!

Fugate: (subsequently judgment has been passed) No! You can't! I'll be ruined!
Estimate: Then perhaps this volition teach yous to be on fourth dimension for a change.

Batman: I want some answers, wise guy. Talk!
Fugate: A pity, I don't know what to tell you, Batman, except perchance that the 9:15 is e'er six minutes early on.
(He falls off the edifice and lands safely on the roof of an oncoming train as information technology speeds away)

Fugate: (To Hill) Not that it matters anymore. Now that you have an appointment to go along, at 3:xv precisely, with the Grim Reaper!

Batman: I'm here to clean your clock, Fugate.
Fugate: Don't count on it, Batman. When information technology comes to clocks, I am king. En garde!

Batman: Requite it up, Fugate. Hill committed no crime confronting yous.
Fugate: He did worse. He made me belatedly!

Fugate: I could do this all solar day, Batman, but your time is up!

Fugate: I've studied news footage of you lot, and I know that information technology takes you exactly a twentieth of a 2nd to throw a punch.
Batman: Very clever. But it merely takes me a thirtieth of a second......to do this! (Throws a kick at Fugate)

Gordon: (Surveying the damaged clock tower) How could anyone survive a wreck like this?
Batman: If I could, he could.
Gordon: Then, you recollect we'll hear from him again?
Batman: I wouldn't be surprised, Commissioner. In fact, I'd say it's only a affair of time...

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