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D.A.V.E. (Digital Advanced Villain Emulator) is a character that appears in the episode Gotham's Ultimate Criminal Mastermind of the The Batman, voiced by Jeff Bennett.
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Character overview
Created by Hugo Strange, D.A.V.E. is an AI that has the brainwaves of several Batman villains, thus allowing it to guess correctly most of Batman's moves, and can imitate other villains', such as the initial acrobatic feats the Joker was capable of accomplishing or Catwoman's agile gymnastic routines, or the Penguin's mastery of martial arts, making him a tough opponent to battle hand-to-hand. Its robotic body is light, resilient and flexible enough to take on Batman on far more than equal terms. D.A.V.E. is as intelligent as Riddler and Hugo Strange, giving it the psychological advantage; it can hack into any computer and control every machine it encounters. He was defeated when Batman questions D.A.V.E's own origins as D.A.V.E doesn't have an actual origin, even being unaware that he is a computer program.
Inspiration
Most obviously, D.A.V.E. is a parody of HAL 9000 and HAL's technician Dave, while the three-dot pattern in his face is similar to Brainiac, and the way D.A.V.E. figured Batman's true identity is similar to Ra's al Ghul or Bane. The voice actor for D.A.V.E. was Jeff Bennett, who also voiced H.A.R.D.A.C. D.A.V.E. is very similar to H.A.R.D.A.C., which originally appeared in the Batman: The Animated Series. D.A.V.E's destruction also pays tribute to the closing scene in The Terminator. Both instances show the characters' electronic eye slowly blinking out, after he is crushed by a heavy object. The idea of putting many criminal brain waves on a computer was also used in the 1995 movie Virtuosity.
