DC Animated
DCAU, DCAMU, Tomorrowverse, and standout standalones — essentials plus a complete-enough path.
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Batman: The Animated Series
The gold-standard Batman cartoon — noir, opera, and Harley Quinn’s debut.
1992 · Series · 85 ep · ~22 min
MP
1993 · Film · 76 min
A theatrical BTAS film: lost love, a new vigilante, and the Joker in the snow.
ST
1996 · Series · 54 ep · ~22 min
Bruce Timm’s Metropolis: Brainiac, Darkseid, and the DCAU Superman.
SZ
1998 · Film · 70 min
Mr. Freeze hunts a donor for Nora. Direct-to-video DCAU.
BB
1999 · Series · 52 ep · ~22 min
Terry McGinnis is Batman in a neon future; Bruce is the ghost in the cave.
RJ
2000 · Film · 76 min
The Joker comes back to Neo-Gotham. The uncut version is the one to watch.
SS
2000 · Series · 52 ep · ~22 min
Virgil Hawkins’ Dakotaverse show, later tied into the DCAU with League crossovers.
JL
2001 · Series · 52 ep · ~22 min
The seven on the Watchtower — from Secret Society to Starcrossed.
MB
2003 · Film · 75 min
Three women share a cowl. A lesser DCAU movie, still in continuity.
JU
2004 · Series · 39 ep · ~22 min
The expanded League, Cadmus, and the DCAU’s finest long game.
BH
2017 · Film · 74 min
A late, adult-aimed DCAU reunion. Optional for completionists.
FF
2019 · Film · 77 min
Another late DCAU film with Jessica Cruz and a time-displaced Legion threat.
RH
2010 · Film · 75 min
Jason Todd comes back wrong. The essential standalone Batman film.
Y1
2011 · Film · 64 min
Miller/Mazzucchelli’s year-one cop story, adapted clean.
K1
2012 · Film · 76 min
An aging Batman comes out of retirement. Mutants, Carrie, and Reagan’s America.
K2
2013 · Film · 76 min
Superman as the state’s fist. The rooftop fight that still lands.
KJ
2016 · Film · 76 min
The Joker’s one bad day — plus a padded opening the comic never needed.
SD
2007 · Film · 75 min
The DCUAOM line begins with the Death of Superman, compressed.
NF
2008 · Film · 75 min
Darwyn Cooke’s Silver Age: heroes, McCarthyism, and the Centre.
PE
2009 · Film · 67 min
President Luthor frames the World’s Finest.
C2
Owlman, a crime Syndicate, and a choice about every Earth.
AS
2011 · Film · 76 min
Grant Morrison’s dying Superman does one last year of wonders.
JD
2012 · Film · 77 min
Vandal Savage uses Batman’s contingency files. Tower of Babel, animated.
AA
2014 · Film · 76 min
Suicide Squad infiltrates Arkham. Arkhamverse, not DCAMU.
GM
2015 · Film · 76 min
A warped Trinity — not the Gunn DCU chapter of the same name.
RS
2020 · Film · 84 min
The rocket lands in the Soviet Union. What if Superman served Stalin?
2021 · Film · 83 min
1970s martial-arts Batman with Richard Dragon and Lady Shiva.
IN
2021 · Film · 78 min
The games’ Regime story, compressed into one film.
W1
2024 · Film · 83 min
Faithful animated adaptation of the first half of Moore/Gibbons.
W2
2024 · Film · 90 min
The rest of the clock: Mars, Antarctica, and a squid-shaped peace.
KF
2026 · Film · 85 min
Bane breaks the Bat in the first of a new DCUAOM Knightfall adaptation.
FP
2013 · Film · 81 min
Barry Allen breaks time. The DCAMU starts in a war between Atlantis and Themyscira.
JW
2014 · Film · 79 min
New 52 origin: Darkseid’s first invasion forges the League.
SB
2014 · Film · 74 min
Damian Wayne arrives. Deathstroke is already here.
TA
2015 · Film · 72 min
Arthur Curry is pulled into an Atlantean succession war.
BR
The Court of Owls wants Damian. Batman wants to be a father.
2016 · Film · 72 min
Batman vanishes. Batwoman, Nightwing, and Robin hold Gotham.
TT
2016 · Film · 78 min
Raven’s father Trigon tests both teams.
LD
2017 · Film · 75 min
Constantine, Zatanna, Deadman, and a magical rot in the League.
JC
2017 · Film · 84 min
Terra’s betrayal, Deathstroke’s long game, and a Nightwing-shaped hole.
HP
2018 · Film · 86 min
Waller’s squad races for a Get Out of Hell card.
DS
2018 · Film · 81 min
Doomsday walks. The DCAMU’s Superman story proper begins.
CD
2018 · Film · 90 min
John Constantine in Los Angeles. DCAMU-adjacent occult detour.
2019 · Film · 87 min
Four replacement Supermen. Only one is the real thing.
HU
2019 · Film · 82 min
A bandaged rival knows Bruce’s secrets. DCAMU Batman, late cycle.
WB
2019 · Film · 83 min
Diana’s DCAMU origin and Villainy Inc., right before the end.
AW
2020 · Film · 90 min
Darkseid wins. The DCAMU burns down so a new Flashpoint can begin.
MT
2020 · Film · 86 min
A young Clark vs. Lobo and Parasite — Tomorrowverse episode one.
JS
2021 · Film · 84 min
Barry Allen is thrown into a WWII Justice Society.
L1
2021 · Film · 85 min
Holiday killings. Harvey Dent still has both faces.
L2
2021 · Film · 87 min
The calendar killer unmasked. Two-Face is born.
GL
2022 · Film · 87 min
John Stewart takes the ring into a Sinestro–Rann–Thanagar war.
LS
2023 · Film · 87 min
A teenage Superboy is sent to the 31st century and a broken Legion.
WW
2023 · Film · 90 min
The League as gladiators with no memories on Warworld.
C1
2024 · Film · 93 min
The antimatter wave begins. Tomorrowverse’s Crisis opens.
2024 · Film · 94 min
Constantine’s bargain and a war across surviving Earths.
C3
2024 · Film · 98 min
The Tomorrowverse ends as Crisis always does: sacrifice, then a new map.