Let's hear it for irony!

[bechan]

So I was watching the Batman animated series on TV, and there was this one really funny episode. So basically, the show starts with a clip from some old show that Bruce Wayne used to watch as a child called "The Gray Ghost", featuring a mysterious caped crime fighter. In that episode, there is this "Mad Bomber" guy who went around... bombing things. Anywho, it goes back to the present, and someone is recreating those bombings, leaving the same ransom notes and everything. It also shows the actor who played the Gray Ghost, but now he's an old man who is having trouble paying his rent, and he can't get any other acting jobs because, as his agent tells him, "everyone still sees him as the Gray Ghost." Batman, having trouble solving this case (the cops can't figure out how the bomber is getting all these bombs planted without anyone noticing), goes to find a copy of the episode, but when he finds that they aren't available, he goes to the actor. Batman pleads, but the actor keeps telling him "Leave me alone. I'm not the Gray Ghost, that's just a part I played a long time ago," prompting a "I used to believe in what the Gray Ghost stood for." The actor replies "I told you, I'm not the Gray Ghost!" with Batman responding "I can see that, now." and leaving.

ANYWHO, where is the irony in this jaded has-been superhero actor feeling overwhelmed by expectations from his past role, as shown in a Batman cartoon? Well, the voice actor for this former Gray Ghost is none other than Adam West! XD