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== Main Characters ==

Terry returns home to find his father murdered, apparently in retaliation by the Jokerz. However, his father's boss Derek Powers, the man who now runs Bruce Wayne's old company, shows up asking about a disk his father apparently had before his death, and not in a nice way. Realizing that the Jokerz were ''not'' his father's killer(s), Terry heads back to Wayne to try to convince him to help. When Bruce refused to get directly involved, he steals the last Batsuit and takes off to settle things on his own. After foiling a plot by Powers to sell a devastating chemical weapon to rogue nations, Terry is accepted by Bruce to carry the mantle of Batman.

 

* [[Animal Motif]]: The Bat

* [[Anti-Hero]]: [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|Type II]].

The original Batman from earlier in the [[DCAU]], Bruce is originally reluctant to let Terry take up the mantle of the Bat, but he eventually gives in and becomes Terry’s mentor and Mission Control.

 

 

* [[Badass]]:

** [[Badass Grandpa]]: {{spoiler|At least if Terry's future with Dana is cemented in "Epilogue," he ''will be''.}}

 

=== Maxine "Max" Gibson ([[Cree Summer]]) ===

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Affirmative Action Girl]]: Deliberately added to the show to try to up the show's female viewership.

 

=== Dana Tan ([[Lauren Tom]]) ===

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: The Betty to Ten's Veronica for Terry's Archie.

* [[Bob Haircut]]: In [[Justice League Unlimited|JLU]]'s "[[Fully-Absorbed Finale|Epilogue]]." She gets straight bangs, too.

 

=== Ace ===

* [[Berserk Button]]: Don't mess with either Bruce or Terry.

* [[Canine Companion]]

 

=== Warren McGinnis (Michael Gross) ===

* [[Amicably Divorced]]: Though the [[Justice League Unlimited|JLU]] episode {{spoiler|Epilogue}} reveals that {{spoiler|Bruce is the boys' biological father}}, opening a possibility that given Terry and Matt's black hair, which considering Mary's red hair and his brown hair is genetically improbable, {{spoiler|suspicions of infidelity on Mary's part may have had a factor}}.

* [[Death by Origin Story]]

 

=== Mary McGinnis (Teri Garr) ===

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Amicably Divorced]]: Though the [[Justice League Unlimited|JLU]] episode ''Epilogue'' reveals that {{spoiler|Bruce is the boys' biological father}}, opening a possibility that Warren may have {{spoiler|suspected Mary of infidelity}} given Terry and Matt's black hair, which considering Mary's red hair and Warren's brown hair is genetically improbable.

 

=== Matt McGinnis (Ryan O'Donohue) ===

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Although understandably he is very young, and some of his antics could be seen as a coping mechanism for losing his father at a young age.

The former [[Batgirl]], she has put aside her cowl and has now taken her father’s place as Gotham’s Police Comissioner.

 

 

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Cool Old Lady]]

=== Sam Young (Paul Winfield) ===

Gotham City's District Attorney and Barbara Gordon's husband.

* [[Bald Black Leader Guy]]

* [[Black Dude Dies First]]: Not for real, [[Lampshade Hanging|but at the rate the villains keep targeting him]]...

 

=== Howard Groote (Max Brooks) ===

* [[Megane]]

* [[Nerd]]

 

=== Bobbi "Blade" Summer (Melissa Disney) ===

* [[Alpha Bitch]]: She's actually fairly apathetic, but has the look down pat, and is more than content to do things such as throw most of a school assignment on Terry, or manipulate a classmate to make another guy jealous.

* [[White-Haired Pretty Girl]]

 

=== Chelsea Cunningham (Yvette Lowenthal, Rachel Leigh Cook) ===

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Blue Eyes]]

 

=== Nelson Nash ([[Seth Green]]) ===

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Asshole Victim]]: It's really difficult to feel sorry for him when Willie destroys his expensive car, and continuously hounds him with his new powers.

 

The corrupt CEO and co-owner of Wayne-Powers Enterprises. After being exposed to his own nerve gas, he is treated with high levels of radiation. He glows green in his natural form, so he must wear an artificial skin that only lasts temporarily and must be regularly replaced. The skin wears out more quickly if he gets angry.

* [[Badass Boast]]: In "Meltdown," as he takes down Mr. Freeze:

{{quote|'''Blight:''' And behold, I shall be a blight upon the land, and everything I touch shall wither and die!}}

 

A woman who is able to transform into a liquid after being paid to be a human test subject for a mutagen. She works as a freelance saboteur and is often hired by powerful corporations.

* [[Body Horror]]: In her other form.

* [[Combat Tentacles]]: One of her main combat tactics.

 

A bullied nerd at Terry's high school. He steals a giant construction robot from his father and, after an accident, is able to control it with his thoughts. He uses it to take revenge on his bullies. Though Batman destroys the robot, Willie is left with telekinetic powers.

* [[Abusive Parents]]: Willie's dad is an aggressive macho idiot.

* [[Alliterative Name]]

 

Mr. Freeze is still the severed head in a jar that last appeared in ''[[The New Batman Adventures]]''. Dr. Stephanie Lake creates a clone body for him and transfers his brain patterns into it, hoping to use the same procedure for Derek Powers.

* [[And I Must Scream]]

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type II/IV.

 

A sound engineer whose brilliant but impractical inventions nearly drove him out of business. He is bailed out by Derek Powers, who then pressures him into becoming a hitman for him. He wears a suit with four built-in speakers that fire destructive sound blasts. After losing his hearing because of Batman, Shriek turns to supervillainy in his quest for revenge.

* [[Cut Lex Luthor a Check]]: Inverted; it's the fact that his inventions weren't cost-effective that led to his supervillain career, even if it took some pushing from Powers to get him there.

* [[Electric Instant Gratification]]: He pays his assistant Ollie by letting him use a "pleasure wand" that directly stimulates the brain's pleasure centers.

 

=== The Royal Flush Gang ===

* [[Betty and Veronica]]: Ten is the Veronica to Dana's Betty for Terry's Archie.

* [[Birds of a Feather]]: Melanie, with Terry.

 

=== Dr. Ira Billings / Spellbinder (Jon Cypher) ===

* [[Expy]]: He resembles the Mad Hatter with his hypnotic technology, with a little of Scarecrow throw in.

* [[The Shrink]]

 

=== Bane ===

* [[And I Must Scream]]: Arguably; years of Venom-abuse have made him a frail old man incapable of moving, and now Venom is the only thing even keeping him alive.

* [[The Brute]]: Used to be, see [[And I Must Scream]] above.

 

=== Curare (Melissa Disney) ===

* [[Absurdly Sharp Blade]]: Sharpened by lasers to molecule-thinness, no less.

* [[Contract on the Hitman]]: At the end of her first episode, she's targeted by the Legion of Assassins for failing to eliminate her target. She then turns the tables by taking out the entire Legion ''single-handedly'' until only one remains.

 

=== Dr. Able Cuvier (Ian Buchanan) ===

* [[Body Horror]]: After being injected with dozens of different splicing needles.

* [[Evil Brit]]

 

=== The Stalker (Carl Lumbly) ===

* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Of [[Spider-Man|Kraven the Hunter]].

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]

 

=== Mad Stan ([[Henry Rollins]]) ===

* [[Bomb Throwing Anarchist]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Blow it all up!"

 

=== Patrick "Packrat" Poundstone (Taran Noah Smith) ===

* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: His [[Freudian Excuse]].

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: Some consider [[Crazy Awesome|Mad Stan's first appearance]] the highlight of his episode.

 

=== Kobra ===

* [[Expy]]: [[Sarcasm Mode|It's really hard to]] [[G.I. Joe|guess.]]

* [[Nebulous Evil Organization]]

 

=== The Joker ([[Mark Hamill]]) ===

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: {{spoiler|This is how the Joker survives, thanks to a control chip planted in Tim Drake's neck years ago.}}

* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]: {{spoiler|Twice. The first is when Tim turns on the Joker and administers the fatal strike. The second is when Terry uses the Joker's own joy buzzer to fry the control chip in Tim's body.}}

 

=== Charlie "Big Time" Bigelow (Stephen Baldwin, [[Clancy Brown]]) ===

* [[Body Horror]]: He becomes a deformed hulk in his transformation into Big Time with unevenly sized appendages.

* [[Evil Former Friend]]: He starts out as a shady old friend of Terry's and becomes a true villain when he turns into Big Time.

 

=== Ra's al Ghul (David Warner) ===

* [[Beard of Evil]]

* [[Grand Theft Me]]: {{spoiler|On his own ''daughter'', Talia.}}

 

=== Zander (Alexis Denisof) ===

* [[Expy]]: Though they both were created at the same time, Zander's upbringing sounds scarily similar to [[Batman|Damian Wayne's]] in the comics. He's just older, while Damian left the League of Assasins at age ten and has a chance to be a hero, Zander never got out of Kobra.

* [[One-Winged Angel]]

 

=== Tim Drake (Dean Stockwell) ===

* [[Badass]]: {{spoiler|Don't look now, but, disregarding the Joker's ultimately failed backup plan, Kid Robin just [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|PERMANENTLY KILLED]] [[Joker Immunity|The]] [[Averted Trope|Joker]] in the flashback.}}

* [[Break the Cutie]]: {{spoiler|Will the cute little boy who wants to be a hero end up targeted, tortured, brainwashed and driven insane? ''Of course''.}}

 

=== Starro (the [[Starfish Alien]]) ===

* [[Alien Invasion]]

* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]: A shocking and disturbing example. Starro hides practically in plain sight by attaching himself to {{spoiler|[[Superman]], in one of the biggest twists of the series and as a [[Continuity Nod]] to [[Superman: The Animated Series]]}}, and in the process taking over his mind and body until Terry manages to free him from Starro's control. The scariest part? Starro managed to maintain the masquerade for ''years''.

=== The Jokerz===

 

 

* [[Darker and Edgier]] - Unlike the usual portrayal of the Jokerz as random [[Mook]]s that just show up to cause trouble, these particular ones are portrayed as a somewhat more serious threat.

* [[Five-Bad Band]]

* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]