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Batman Beyond

Plot

Twenty years after Batman has hung up his cowl, gangs of face-painted kids calling themselves the Jokerz roam the streets of Gotham City preying on innocents, and Bruce Wayne barely holds on to the reins of power at his company, now merged as Wayne-Powers. When troubled teen Terry McGinnis stumbles onto Bruce Wayne's secret, he pleads with him to become Batman to avenge his murdered father, who planned to blow the whistle on Wayne-Powers CEO Derek Powers. When Wayne refuses, McGinnis dons the suit and takes the fight to Powers himself, leading to an uneasy mentorship under the original caped crusader. Batman Beyond premiered in 1999, seven years after the launch of Batman & Robin, itself considered one of the most faithful adaptations of a superhero comic in the past few decades. Although created in part to capitalize on the exploding teen market, Batman Beyond easily won the hearts of comic fans of all ages by extending the Batman mythos while sticking with the elements that made it popular in the first place: action, pathos, and the blending of superhero and film noir detective aesthetics. ~ Emru Townsend, Rovi

Episodes

Batman Beyond: Tech Wars (1999)
This hour-long sampling of the popular WB series finds Bruce Wayne and his alter ego joined by another would-be caped crusader: a teen named Terry who hopes to fight the bad guys who caused his father's death. The first installment finds Batman, Robin, and Terry in a bit of a spot when their powers are reversed. In other episodes in this collection, the crew has to battle a belligerent time traveler and a gene-splicing maniac. ~ Michael Hastings, Rovi

Batman Beyond: Season 01 (1999)
In the decaying, crime-ridden Gotham City of the future, embittered millionaire Bruce Wayne is persuaded to pass along the mantle (and mask and cowl) of legendary "Caped Crusader" Batman to teenager Terry McGinniss in Season One of the animated series Batman Beyond. The two-part pilot establishes the fact that Terry has been given this honor because he has stumbled onto Wayne's long-buried secret identity, and because the teen wants to avenge the death of his own father by a sinister cartel bent on world domination. The elderly Wayne instructs Terry in the intricacies of his high-tech, gadget-laden Batsuit and shows him how to navigate the new flying Batmobile. Meanwhile, Wayne's business partner Derek Powers, the secret brains behind the conspiracy, works overtime to scuttle Terry McGinniss/Batman's crusade to restore law and order to Gotham City. Also in the opening episode, we are introduced to the Jokerz, a gang of "Clockwork Orange"-like street punks who have enshrined the memory of the "old" Batman's prankish nemesis, the Joker. Other villains whom the new Batman tangles with this season are shapeshifting female saboteur Inque; the Royal Flush Gang, so named because they were card-like costumes and go by the names of King, Queen, Jack, Ten and Ace; Shriek, who can demolish skyscrapers with his high-pitched sound waves; the mesmerindign Spellbinder, Curare, a ninja assassin; Derek Powers' son Paxton, every bit as ruthless and demonic as his dad; and even a revitalized Mr. Freeze--or rather, Mr. Freeze's cryogenically frozen head. Plus: Just as Terry McGinnis had accidentally glommed onto the fact that Bruce Wayne and the earlier Batman were one and the same, so to does his discover in a rather spectacular fashion the fact that the current police commissioner of Gotham City, silver-haired Barbara Gordon, once went by the name of Batgirl. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Batman Beyond: Rebirth, Part 1
Batman Beyond: The Winning Edge
Batman Beyond: Spellbound
Batman Beyond: Disappearing Inque
Batman Beyond: A Touch of Curaré
Batman Beyond: Ascension
Batman Beyond: Rebirth, Part 2
Batman Beyond: Black Out
Batman Beyond: Golem
Batman Beyond: Meltdown
Batman Beyond: Heroes
Batman Beyond: Shriek
Batman Beyond: Dead Man's Hand

Batman Beyond: Season 02 (1999)
Teenager Terry McGinniss continues following in the footsteps of his aged mentor Bruce Wayne as the "new" Batman of the 21st century in Season Two of the animated Batman Beyond. In addition to such traditional nemeses as Shriek, Inque, the Spellbinder, the Jokerz and the Royal Flush Gang, Terry-Batman has his gloved hands full dealing with several new threats to the wellbeing of Gotham City, among them Earthmover, who has a talent for creating humanoids out of dirt; Sneak Peek, a unscrupulous--and invisible--TV newscasters; Bombshell, a dangerous telepath; and crazed big-game hunter Stalker. One of the newly minted antagonists, the rogue holographic assassin Zeta, will appear in only a handful of episodes before being spun off into his own series, The Zeta Project. Although Batman Beyond is set in the future, several of issues addressed in the Season Two episodes are sure to strike a chord with contemporary audiences. The late-20th-century tendency by disenfranchised youngsters to experiment with deadly drug combinations is dramatized in an episode wherein Batman confronts the new teen craze of "splicing", or mixing one's genes with animal DNA. In other episodes, one of Terry's lady friends is harassed by a stalker; a "tough love" boot camp for troubled teens turns out to have a deadly hidden agenda; and at least one otherwise scrupulous scientist turns to a life of crime after "downsized" during an economic recession. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Batman Beyond: Splicers
Batman Beyond: Mind Games
Batman Beyond: Revenant
Batman Beyond: Terry's Friend Dates a Robot
Batman Beyond: Earth Mover
Batman Beyond: Joyride
Batman Beyond: Lost Soul
Batman Beyond: Hidden Agenda
Batman Beyond: Bloodsport
Batman Beyond: Once Burned
Batman Beyond: Hooked Up
Batman Beyond: Rats
Batman Beyond: Babel
Batman Beyond: Eyewitness
Batman Beyond: Final Cut
Batman Beyond: The Last Resort
Batman Beyond: Armory
Batman Beyond: Sneak Peek
Batman Beyond: The Eggbaby
Batman Beyond: Zeta
Batman Beyond: Plague
Batman Beyond: April Moon
Batman Beyond: Sentries of the Last Cosmos
Batman Beyond: Payback
Batman Beyond: Where's Terry?
Batman Beyond: Ace in the Hole

Batman Beyond: School Dayz (1999)
Lots of teenagers have trouble balancing the responsibilities of school and a part time job, but it's a lot harder when you happen to be the new Batman, as Terry McGinnis (voice of Will Friedle) discovers in this collection of episodes from the animated television series Batman Beyond. In "Golem," one of Terry's much-put-upon classmates, Willy Watt (voice of Scott McAfee), gets control of a construction robot and programs it to take out the bullies who have been tormenting him, forcing Terry to take on both the robot and the bullies. "The Winnng Edge" finds Terry suspected of dealing drugs when a wave of steroid abuse sweeps through his school. And Terry faces off against the Royal Flush Gang for the first time in "Dead Man's Hand," and finds himself falling for pretty Melanie Walker (voice of Olivia d'Abo), not knowing that she's actually the daughter of gang leader King (voice of George Lazenby). Kevin Conroy provides the voice of Terry's friend and mentor, Bruce Wayne, better known as the old Batman. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Batman Beyond: Crush (2000)
When Bruce Wayne (voice of Kevin Conroy) realizes he's no longer up to the challenge of fighting crime as Batman, he trains a young protége, Terry McGinnis (voice of Will Friedle), to take his place in the animated television series Batman Beyond; Batman Beyond: Crush features three exciting stories from the show's second season. In "Rats," Terry's girlfriend, Dana (voice of Lauren Tom), has her head turned by another man, but her new suitor has sinister plans. Terry's loyalty to Dana is tested when beautiful Melanie asks him to come to her aid -- little realizing she's also Ten, a member of the villainous Royal Flush Gang, in "Once Burned." And "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot" finds geeky Howard buying a feminine android so he'll have a date for his party; Cynthia turns out to be a big hit with Howard's friends, but she proves to be just a little too loyal. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Batman Beyond: Season 03 (2000)
Such formidable villains as Shriek, Inque, the Jokerz and the Royal Flush gang continue to make like difficult for the "new" Batman, aka Terry McGinniss, as he tries to purge crime from the Gotham City of 2021 AD in Season Three of the animated Batman Beyond. Adding to Terry's burden this season is an old friend who has switched over to the dark side and reemerged as criminal genius "Big Time" Bigelow; and then there's that "invulnerable" supervillain whom even Batman cannot defeat despite a veritable arsenal of high-tech crimebusting hardware. As for "original" Batman Bruce Wayne, he is not as embittered and isolated as in seasons past, though he still yearns for the days of his idealistic youth, so much so that he agrees to undergo an experiment that will shave several years off his age--an experiment which, unfortunately, carries a heavy price tag. Episode highlights during the third season include the two-part "The Call", a crossover with the like-vintage superhero cartoon series Justice League of America, with guest appearances by Superman, Aquagirl, the Green Lantern and Warhawk--one of whom will, to universal horror, emerge as the villain of the piece. And in another two-parter, Terry/Batman goes "mano y mano" with a particularly vicious ninja gang known as Kobra. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Batman Beyond: King's Ransom
Batman Beyond: Untouchable
Batman Beyond: Inqueling
Batman Beyond: Big Time
Batman Beyond: Out of the Past
Batman Beyond: Speak No Evil
Batman Beyond: The Call, Part 1
Batman Beyond: The Call, Part 2
Batman Beyond: Betrayal
Batman Beyond: Curse of the Kobra, Part 1
Batman Beyond: Curse of the Kobra, Part 2
Batman Beyond: Countdown
Batman Beyond: Unmasked