The chase ultimately ends at the doorstep of Wayne Manor, where a fleeing Terry runs into the elderly Bruce Wayne. During the pilot episode, he saves a fellow passenger on a commuter rail from being hassled by one of the Jokerz, and later single-handedly takes on an entire gang of them to defend his girlfriend, ultimately resulting in a harrowing high-speed motorcycle chase through Neo-Gotham's expressways.
In 2039, Terry McGinnis (born on August 18, 2023) is an athletic sixteen year-old high school student, and reformed troublemaker with a deeply ingrained sense of personal justice.
The events which caused all of this was finally revealed in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker. It is implied by virtue of his continuing to fight crime long after he should have, and his retaining of the costumes worn by Robin, Nightwing, and Batgirl, that even before he had a heart attack, something horrible transpired that caused Bruce to sever his ties with the Justice League and forbid his disciples from ever again assuming their alter-egos. Bruce Wayne is now a virtual recluse, spending his later years living in bitter isolation with no companion but his guard dog, Ace. Gotham City is now a futuristic megalopolis equipped with staggering high rises and hovering/flying vehicles.
The story then fast-forwards twenty years. Subsequently, Bruce Wayne decides to retire the Batman persona, and crime fighting in general, permanently. One night, a heart attack forces Batman to betray a lifelong principle by threatening a criminal with a gun (the same one that murdered his parents), despite already wearing a new, high-tech Batsuit. His allies, Alfred Pennyworth, Lucius Fox, James Gordon, Harvey Bullock, Renee Montoya and Leslie Thompkins have passed away of natural causes while his partners, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Tim Drake, and Selina Kyle are still alive and have grown up and left or had falling outs with Bruce after their retirement from their alter-egos. In the pilot episode, which is set approximately in the year 2019, an aging Batman is having increasing difficulty handling criminals he once subdued with ease.
#BATMAN BEYOND COMIC SERIES#
This series is the chronological end to what is known as the DC Animated Universe, though the actual end is the Justice League Unlimited episode, " Epilogue" being set about sixteen years later. It is worth noting that in The Zeta Project's first season episode "Shadows", there is a crossover with Batman Beyond in this continuity, the story takes place between the episode "Countdown" and the series finale "Unmasked." There was a short-lived spin-off, The Zeta Project. A direct-to-video movie, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, was released but plans for a second feature and another season were cancelled in favor of a Justice League animated series. Beyond is a futuristic continuation of the The New Batman Adventures, which was cancelled in favor of a more youth oriented Batman.īatman Beyond began airing on Januand ended its run on Decemwith 52 episodes. Lauren Tom Batman Beyond (also known as Batman of the Future in some regions) is an American animated television series created by The WB Television Network.
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