The fact that this villain was created for the show specifically might explain why it's not as interesting. Riots... at that stodgy Ivy, Yale... that caused him to bump his head & suddenly believe he's a pharaoh? "just some dude got knocked on the head in some unspecified 'riot" -that's a pretty boring origin story for a Batman villain.
I know it's a silly over the top show so I wouldn't nitpick errors in dynasties, costuming or even that the "Gotham Museum" had a completely different establishing shot of a different building a few episodes back. But it kept bugging me that Bruce Wayne (who was presented as an expert in this field) and others, kept calling the goat headed statue the "Sphinx". It absolutely nothing like the Sphinx (a reclining lion with a human face), which even the most casual viewer back then would be at least faintly familiar with. How hard would it have been to either make a Sphinx prop? Or just call it some "Egyptian god" statue if you don't want to get into the specific deities (it looks more like "Khnum" , a god with a head of a goat).
The fact that this villain was created for the show specifically might explain why it's not as interesting. Riots... at that stodgy Ivy, Yale... that caused him to bump his head & suddenly believe he's a pharaoh? "just some dude got knocked on the head in some unspecified 'riot" -that's a pretty boring origin story for a Batman villain.
I know it's a silly over the top show so I wouldn't nitpick errors in dynasties, costuming or even that the "Gotham Museum" had a completely different establishing shot of a different building a few episodes back. But it kept bugging me that Bruce Wayne (who was presented as an expert in this field) and others, kept calling the goat headed statue the "Sphinx". It absolutely nothing like the Sphinx (a reclining lion with a human face), which even the most casual viewer back then would be at least faintly familiar with. How hard would it have been to either make a Sphinx prop? Or just call it some "Egyptian god" statue if you don't want to get into the specific deities (it looks more like "Khnum" , a god with a head of a goat).