The DC Comics superhero faces an uphill battle to wrest Gotham City from the vice-like grasp of deranged criminals in a 10-part animated fantasy created by JJ Abrams, Matt Reeves and Bruce Timm. In public, Bruce Wayne (voiced by Hamish Linklater) is the epitome of gaudy success and charm as a money-squandering playboy, a hedonic image he cultivates to separate himself from his masked alter ego. Batman rampages through Gotham on a mission to eradicate crime at all costs aided by trusty butler Alfred Pennyworth (Jason Watkins) and this vigilante attracts the attention of Commissioner Jim Gordon (Eric Morgan Stuart). A prime target is screen actor Basil Karlo, whose fateful decision to change his facial features using an experimental serum gives birth to vengeance-seeking villain Clayface. Meanwhile, pampered heiress Selina Kyle (Christina Ricci) finances her lavish lifestyle as Catwoman and brilliant psychiatrist Dr Harleen Quinzel (Jamie Chung) indulges her dark and depraved desires as the anarchic Harley Quinn