Batman, despite his peak human condition, gadgets, and funding from Bruce Wayne, is only human. The same goes for the actor who lent his voice to bring the Dark Knight to life in animated shows: Kevin Conroy.
Conroy's passing is difficult on his fans, co-workers, and DC fans. However, someone must continue his legacy and take up the mantle of Batman, inheriting the Dark Knight's cowl from Conroy just like Batman did to Terry McGuiness in the "Batman: Beyond" animated series.
As such, here are five actors that could inherit the cowl in video games and maybe in animated media, too.
Troy Baker
Troy Baker is relatively new to providing his voice to the Caped Crusader, with his most famous portrayal of the character being the Batman: The Telltale Series video game. However, he has what it takes to voice Batman.
According to CBR, Baker has the range required to play as the genius, playboy philanthropist Bruce Wayne and the stoic Dark Knight Batman without breaking a sweat.
If you need more evidence for Baker's range, he previously voiced The Joker in Splash Damage's Batman: Arkham Origins. If that doesn't shout range, nothing is.
Roger Craig Smith
Roger Craig Smith, much like Troy Baker, is an experienced voice actor. He previously lent his voice to many popular video game characters like Resident Evil's Chris Redfield and Assassin's Creed's Ezio Auditore da Firenze.
However, Batman: Arkham Origins was his first-time voice-acting as The Dark Knight. Nevertheless, Smith's portrayal of a younger, brasher, and inexperienced Batman is spot-on. Gamers can feel the Dark Knight trying to hold back his impatience and anger at the beginnings of his rogue's gallery with Smith's voice acting.
Jason O'Mara
Video games are not the only media you can see Gotham's guardian protector in action - he can also be seen in animated films, and Jason O'Mara's voice acting is spearheading this effort.
According to O'Mara's IMDb page, he has been appearing in a lot of live-action TV series and movies, such as "Resident Evil Extinction," "Agents of SHIELD," and even "CSI: Miami."
With these accolades, he was able to lend his voice to the Dark Knight for the first time in the animated movie "Justice League" War," in 2014 without a hitch.
Since then, O'Mara has been voicing Wayne and the Caped Crusader in 10 other animated movies, according to Collider. He even got to work alongside Conroy for the movie "Son of Batman," with Conroy voicing Thomas Wayne, Bruce's father, in it.
O'Mara's portrayal of Batman can be streamed on HBO Max.
Jensen Ackles
You may be familiar with Jensen Ackles in other media. For example, he previously played the role of Dean Winchester on the Supernatural TV series, per the Supernatural Wiki.
Despite his personality, however, he has quite the range; he previously lent his voice to Jason Todd in "Batman: Under The Red Hood." But this Robin soon took on the mantle of the Dark Knight in "Batman: The Long Halloween," which shows the events that became the origin story of Two-Face.
During the movie's two parts, Ackles' vocal performance brought to life a younger and untested Batman, but his performance as Jason Todd was found to be the more preferable by critics.
"Batman: Under The Red Hood" and "Batman: The Long Halloween" can be streamed on HBO Max.
Bruce Greenwood
Last but not least is Bruce Greenwood, whose vocal performance as the Dark Knight can be seen in the animated films "Batman: Gotham by Gaslight," "Batman: Under The Red Hood," and "Batman: Death in the Family."
In the last two films mentioned, Greenwood delivered a performance that could rival Conroy's, with his performance bringing out a jaded but more father-like Dark Knight following the supposed death of his adopted son, Jason Todd.
What really made him more ideal to inherit the cowl is that he could deliver lines so full of emotion you'd think he was Batman himself.
He also voice acted as the Dark Knight in the "Young Justice" TV series, with him bringing the same father-like feeling to the show in his portrayal of Batman being Robin's mentor.
"Batman: Gotham by Gaslight," "Batman: Death in the Family," and the "Young Justice" TV series can be viewed on HBO Max.
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