A indicate ended around 2002 with 52 episodes & of these Direct-to-Videos pic under its belt, and no plans to revive a series in the close first. Even so, there was the short lived spin-byproduct likewise placed in the DC Animated Universe's first.

A final episodes of Batman Beyond (them a share Justice League Limitless arc) was besides a basis for Bruce Timm's next indicate - Justice League, which eventually led to the latest indicate; Justice League Unlimited.

A setting & characters of Batman Beyond was as well briefly revived within 2004 for an episode of Static Shock in which Static is accidentally transported xl years into a first. Justice League Unlimited revisted the world of Batman Beyond twice inside 2005. A 1st instance featured Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern transported fifty years into a new to prevent the period-travelling villain using the support of the new Justice League Limitless cast - including Terry McGinnis (Batman). A 2nd instance occurred when you took a episode Epilogue, where i personally see truth secret origin of the first Batman.

Story

A story is placed some thirty to forty years from either present day Gotham City, a darker & supplementary futurist city. An aged Bruce Wayne is no longer take a breath to fight criminal elements when he when wont to. When you took a battle, hampered by age & the heart disease, he breaks using the womb-to-tomb principle by threatening the malefactor using the gun to keep the upper hand. Aghast & shocked at what he was forced to wash, Bruce retires from either crime combat indefinitely.

Of these day, he rescues high school student Terry McGinnis from either the box of Jokerz (teen gang members world health organization idolise Batman's archenemy The Joker, who has been missing for decades); a travail sets off his cardiopathy, & Terry has to help him back to Wayne Manor. When there, Terry discovers a entrance to the Batcave, and "borrows" a Batsuit to search retribution against a men world health organization murdered his father. Even as a criminal elements lead off to threaten Gotham once again, Bruce allows Terry to use his Batman vary-ego.

Young McGinnis continues the battle against crime tutored by Bruce, & aided by a fresh black-&-red, high-hi-tech batsuit that augments his abilities, fires Batarangs from either either a carpus, flies applying jets laid-off from the feet, allows eavesdropping across a allergic touch mike, & will bring camouflage abilities. He has his have rogues gallery, such as a seductive, shapeshifting Inque, the confusing mesmerizer Spellbinder, and a bitter, deaf healthy skillful Shriek, though now and then he is forced to face his wise man's old foes, like a atrophying Mr. Freeze, Bane (elderly, wasted, and dying from his consumption of Venom, the substance that gave him his strength), the immortal Ra's al Ghul, and even The Joker.

Terry's greatest foe is Derek Powers, the remorseless billionaire world health organization took above WayneCorp & was late inadvertently mutated into the radioactive monstrosity world health organization known as himself Blight. Powers experienced Terry's father murdered for discovering his bioweapon program. the number one year ended by having a face-off between Batman & Blight aboard an abandoned nuclear-powered submarine, around which Powers wwhen in hiding when his identity as Blight was revealed to the globe by his challenging boy Paxton, world health organization wanted Powers's job. Max Gibson occurs as 17 month old computer genius world health organization discovers Batman's secret identity, Terry was a Tomorrow Knight. Since she found Terry's vary-ego she's been helping him sustaining all about from either computer hacking, to babysitting, to coming higher by having excuses for Terry's girlfriend, Dana Tan. Max plays an integral a share inside Batman's war in crime.

Episode Guide

Year I	Year Ii	Year 3
One- One Rebirth (I)	Two- One Splicers	Three- One ''King's Ransom
One- Two Rebirth (Deuce)	Two- Two Globe Mover	Three- Two Untouchable
One- Three Black Out	Two- Three Joyride	Three- Three Inqueling
One- Four Golem	Two- Four Misplaced Soul	Three- Four Heavy Time
One- Five Meltdown	Two- Five Hidden Agenda	Three- Five Away from a Past
One- 6 Heroes	Two- 6 Bloodsport	Three- 6 Speak There are no Evil
One- 7 Shriek	Two- 7 It used to be that Burned	Three- 7 A Call for (Single)
One- 8 Dead Human's Hand	Two- 8 Hooked Higher	Three- 8 A Call for (Two)
One- 9 A Winning Edge	Two- 9 Rats!	Three- 9 Betrayal
One-10 Fascinated	Two-10 Mind Games	Three-10 Curse of Kobra (One)
One-11 Disappearance Inque	Two-11 Revenant	Three-11 Curse of Kobra (Ii)
One-12 The Touch of Curaré	Two-12 Babel	Three-12 Countdown
One-13 Ascension	Two-13 Terry's Friend Dates the Golem	Three-13 Unmasked
	Two-14 Eyewitness
	Two-15 Final Cut
	Two-16 A Go Resort
	Two-17 Armory
	Two-18 Sneak Peek
	Two-19 A Eggbaby
	Two-20 Zeta
	Two-21 Plague
	Two-22 April Moon
	Two-23 Lookout man of the Endure Cosmos
	Two-Two dozen Payback
	Two-25 In which's Terry?
	Two-26 Ace in the Hole

Project Batman Beyond
A Justice League Unlimited episode "Epilogue," set 15 years fallowing a guide of the Batman Beyond'' series, reveals that Bruce Wayne is actually the transmitted father of Terry & his immature brother Mat, due to a inherited alteratiin on Terry's father, Warren McGinnis, by Amanda Waller using Project Cadmus nanotechnology. In a equivalent episode, Terry proposes to his longtime girlfriend Dana, balancing a bequest of existence a Batman by using the family happiness that Bruce Wayne never detected.

At the start, Terry was angry & bitingly just about this news, however he was composure plenty to allow Amanda Waller to teach you to him what led her to launder what she did. Existence a food & drug administration liaison to a Justice League, Amanda Waller slowly began to underst& & suppose that Batman was the virtually all capable individual in the League; despite non with any powers, his self-control, person nature and severity, and intense intelligence processed him the virtually all balanced and dependable fighter in the entire League. Because of this, Amanda Waller slowly began to respect & trust Bruce Wayne. Unluckily, Amanda Waller found something when a years went by: Batman was man. When such, he was inducing older & supplementary & supplementary unable to treat a daily-to-day intensities as a crimefighting superhero. She knew that of these day Batman would use at times to retire, or even there would become a risk that he'd exist as flushed by one of his enemies one of these days. Fearing that fact & believing the world universally required Batman, she decided to produce the fresh of these.

Waller, using old modems to Cadmus, gathered a technology necessary for her movement. She known as this movement "Project Batman Beyond." Bruce Wayne's DNA was obtained from either a missiin in which he had wounded - the little blood sample on the piece of cloth left at the scene of the mission. years late within Neo-Gotham, she incurred two or three that was psychologically monovular to Bruce's parents. Warren McGinnis was known as within for the routine flu shot that was actually a nanotech solution that was used to reconstruct his reproductive material to match Bruce Wayne's. The short when later on - about of these season - Mary McGinnis gave birth to Terry, world health organization was the combination of her & Bruce.

However that wasn't a prevent of Waller's project. After Terry was eight years old, he & his parents attend the film - ironically coroneted A Gray Ghost Strikes (A Gray Ghost was Bruce Wayne's hero as a baby). When it were running personal, it didn't notice soul below the babies. It was in point of fact an assassin - Andrea Beaumont, an old love of Bruce Wayne's & a enigmatic Phantasm - hired by Waller to kill Terry's parents. A trauma of seeing his parents murdered ahead of him would drive Terry to someday get Batman. Even so, a condition come higher even as Beaumont was astir to run the deed - she refused to murder Terry's parents, saying that potentially though "Batman was obsessive and would do anything to achieve his goals, he'd never resort to murder." Waller knew that Beaumont was correct, & whenever she wanted to honor Batman & his bequest, she couldn't choose a execution around cold blood of deuce guiltless humans. This led to the plan's inevitable cancellation, sequent inside Terry's brother existence natural late.

In the prevent still, Terry's father was murdered anyway, stimulating Terry to turn into a freshly Batman within his seek for payback against his father's killers. Because of this fact, Terry believes he'd been stuck with a fate of becoming Batman since he was natural. This bitterness increased after Bruce Wayne's kidneys failed & Terry happened to exist as the hone histo-compatibility match sustaining him, letting doctors to clone his kidneys & save Bruce's life. This event's little percentage of possibility (11One to 1 against) induced plenty suspicion around Terry to dog the DNA end line text, discovering that he was Bruce's hereditary boy. Believing Bruce got placed a whole tool higher, he became angry & piercingly at his mentor - thus lot then that he equated what was done to him to what a Joker did to Tim Drake in the Batman Beyond movie Link to of the Joker. This anger & bitterness mass produced Terry produce a few scenarios inside his mind wherein he abandoned all a humans he was approximately - Bruce, the Justice League, at length his lover Dana - because of his apparent curse of the Batman mantle.

Prior to he acted in his anger, he hunt Amanda Waller & broke into her house, in which she told him all about. In a final moments whilst he found the truth, she affirmed that he wasn't Bruce's clone, however his boy - he was never fated to get Batman; it was his have guide to don a legendary costume. Waller besides said that spell Terry wasn't when smart when Bruce, he for certain cared for his fellow human up to, perhaps further than, his wise man.

Waller's admission of guilt & affirmation of Terry's destiny allowed Terry to break unhampered the chains of the 'curse' that attached him, & disentangled him from either a anger & bitterness that he had since he incurred out his origins. This newfound freedom allowed Terry to eventually locate a bravery to propose to his longtime lover Dana, searching for a happiness that Bruce Wayne never did, & to truly get a freshly Batman.

Movies
Return of the Joker - A direct-to-cd feature where a Joker makes his link to to Gotham.

There was too the plotted Batman Beyond survive action feature, to exist as written by Paul Dini, however Warner Bros shelved a design & yet went using the Batman Begins concept instead. The "Batman Beyond: Year One" survive action short fan-film was processed as the tribute to the indicate by a class action of fans.

Eventually, the Direct-to-DVD sequel to Batman Beyond: Go to of the Joker was to feature Selina Kyle/Catwoman. This design never mass produced it off a ground, notwithstanding very much of a conception of this film at length mass produced it into the Justice League Limitless episode "Epilogue", which is seen by several when Batman Beyond's avowedly finale.

Comics
Such as virtually all DCAU shows, Batman Beyond experienced its have laughable series (fallowing an initial mini-series), placed in the equivalent globe of the indicate & aimed at immature readers. However further recently, around issue #22 of Superman/Batman (written by Jeph Loeb), a Batman wearing a Beyond costume appears, making his 1st raid a regular DC Comics continuity. A plot involves Bizarro getting transported to an alternate version of Gotham. Whether Terry is under this cowl, or even whether this is the regular DC universe or the parallel 1 is however to exist as seen. It seems conceivable that this can be an surrogate reality when a document prior to experienced Batzarro transported to the globe of "Red Son" Superman, an Elseworlds communist version of Superman.

Spinoffs
the television series experienced a spinoff known as The Zeta Project, featuring the shape-shifting android Zeta from a Batman Beyond episode "Zeta."