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| Kevin Conroy | ... |
Batman /
Bruce Wayne
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| Efrem Zimbalist Jr. | ... |
Alfred Pennyworth
(voice)
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| Edward Asner | ... |
Roland Daggett
(voice) (as Ed Asner)
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Mari Devon | ... |
Summer Gleeson /
Dispatcher
(voice)
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| Brock Peters | ... |
Lucius Fox
(voice)
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| Ed Begley Jr. | ... |
Germs /
Stagehand
(voice)
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| Ron Perlman | ... |
Clayface /
Matt Hagen
(voice)
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Richard Gautier | ... |
Teddy Lupus /
Cop
(voice) (as Dick Gautier)
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| Scott Valentine | ... |
Raymond Bell
(voice)
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A disfigured actor is forced to frame Bruce Wayne.
This is the history - we'll be seeing at least two more episodes of this character - of "Matt Hagen" a.k.a. "Clayface," an film actor who winds up disfigured after an auto accident and then becomes up addicted to some gooey substance which will transform his face. It's a lot faster than plastic surgery, he's told , and it works great.
The brown goo gives "Hagen" an instant face transplant and he can either go back to being a handsome movie star or be anyone he wants. In this episode, he uses it one time to fake being Bruce Wayne during a crime. Wayne, of course, is innocent, but accused and he/Batman have to prove their innocence.
The problem with the goo, by the way, like a lot of quick fixes, is that it doesn't last and it's addicting, so -Hagan/Clayface keeps going back to the place where the stuff is hidden: in lab belonging to bad guy "Roland Daggett," the guy who wants to take over Wayne Enterprises. It's like a drug, and Hagen has to have it.
Included in this episode is a thug called Bell whom Batman calls a "scumwad." That's a good name; never heard that one before.
Wayne is arrested and put in jail, ending this first part of a two-part episode.