This episode features Thomas Blake as the leader of a cat-worshiping cult. In the comics, Thomas Blake was the villain known as Catman, an eccentric trapper of jungle cats who turned to crime after squandering his millions. In a post-crisis story from "The Legends of the Dark Knight" called "Heat", where Catman was re-imagined as a serial killer in a black cat costume with claw blades on his wrists where Batman and Catwoman form an uneasy alliance to take him down. While Thomas Blake is never called Catman in this episode, his animated depiction of Thomas Blake is a mashup of the two comic versions.
