Spellbinder is an Entitled Liar | Batman Beyond

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I like how, although heavily inspired by Mysterio, they went with a polar opposite design. Mysterio is mostly green, spellbinder is red. Mysterio has a big blank dome helmet, but Spellbinder has a form fitting mask with lots of patterns on it. It helps make him more unique.

It's amazing that that there are only two adaptations of Spellbinder are out there but both them manage to be better than the source material.

I forgot about Max's fantasy world in Hooked up. It's so sad that her fantasy addiction was just spending quality time with her family.

What's funny is that I'm pretty sure Bruce Timm at some point said that he wasn't even aware there already was a villain named Spellbinder before making the show.

Detestable and deceptive - nailed it, Luke. He definitely irked me more than most of the Batman Beyond villian primarily due to the abuse of his position for ill-gotten gains.

This is exactly why I always prefer to keep a critical mind open in my everyday life since 7th grade, you never know what is going on and people are not what they appear. Spellbinder who is in a power of trust where kids can go to sort out their problems and Spellbinder takes advantage of them. This goes back to a very important quote that people need to take into consideration: “Being on the side of good, doesn’t necessarily make you a good guy.”

'Sleep my friend, and you will see. The dream is my reality.' In a Gotham with so much advanced tech it'd feel weird if at least one villain didn't try this, sort of a spiritual successor to the Mad Hatter. If they ever did make 'Arkham Beyond' Spellbinder would make a good substitute for Scarecrow, trapping Terry in illusionary worlds that he must find a way out of by deactivating something that is spinning.

Honestly, Spellbinder kinda hit a bit hard for me. A school councilor with a vile ulterior motive. Someone you're supposed to count on. For me, whenever I went to the councilor, I always felt like I...couldn't trust them. I couldnt tell you why but I felt like I couldn't. Spellbinder kinda took that idea to the extreme.

I remember having a VHS as a kid that would have three episodes on it. "Spellbound", "A Touch of Curare", and "Hooked Up". Only two of them were Spellbinder episodes, but the video had both him and Batman on the cover. It was really cool as a kid.

I used to envision an Arkham: Beyond game with Spellbinder playing a similar role to Scarecrow's in coming up with fantasy segues and nightmare sequences to combat Terry. Pity that game will likely never get made... But yes, Ira Billings is a villain we all love to hate. Empathetic but not sympathetic.

"Spellbinder is an Entitled Liar." Poetic liar is more like it. XD

3:45 Ironic, Spellbinder made that Barbara ended in the same situation like her father Jim Gordon, during "Over the Edge" episode, pursuing Batman for though that he was a murderer. Making it ironic, particulary by the fact that "Over the Edge" was a nightmare of Barbara.

I always saw Spellbinder as Batman Beyond’s Scarecrow, but inverted as he seems to be more suited to trapping people in their desires rather than their nightmares. Never knew he was a preexisting character.

Spellbinder was one of the best Batman Beyond villains ever and one of my favourites from the show. I always looked at him as a combination of two classic BTAS villains, The Scarecrow and The Mad Hatter, one was about fear and the other about control, put them together and add in the theatrical illusions of Spider-Man's Mysterio, you get something like Spellbinder. He was very good at controlling people's minds and making them believe what they were seeing was real, hence the Scarecrow/ Hatter/ Mysterio combo approach. I loved his design and presence, he had a unique look and I thought they did a much better job with him than the one that was from the old comic books. His calming voice where he always says "don't be afraid, I don't bite" is the perfect way to lure his victims when he uses his eye orb to hypnotise them. If they ever do eventually make a live Batman Beyond movie, I would love to see Tom Cavanagh as Spellbinder as he would definitely nail his calm creepy and sinister presence. Thanks for a great video and keep up the good work

If he had really worn the hat and spoke in just a little more rhymes, he could have been a perfect "Mad Hatter Beyond"

Spellbinder is the EA of supervillains

I like how his motivations are mainly based on a hatred of his job.

I really like the Batman Beyond rouges gallery, there are some real gems in there.

6:57 It is hard to get into the other psychologist jobs from the school one, sorta of traps you in that career unless you want to spend money to get recertified. So i think at some point he wante a to help the students he would have chosen not just a general psychology major, but a school psychology one (basically most universities have branches for their psychologist programs but the main three you see are Marriage/Family Therapy, School and Clinical). Makes me thing at some point he did genuinely want to help kids. School psychologists make about half of what all the other types of psychologists make and so only people who really want to help kids choose it (these days it is about 50k a year on average, sometimes less which for something that requires a Masters is insanely pitiful) and makes affording such an expense harder than it should be