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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

* [[The Atoner]]

* [[Badass]]:

** [[Badass Normal]]: Before stealing the suit, and whenever he's not wearing it.

** {{spoiler|[[Badass Abnormal]]}}: Arguably this, since it is revealed in [[Justice League Unlimited]] that he was {{spoiler|genetically engineered to have Bruce Wayne's genetics.}}

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Clothes Make the Superman|Clothes Make The Batman]]: Which Terry expresses concern over in the episode "Lost Soul". By the end, he proves that he's Batman even without the suit.

'''Terry''': Good. *beat* Hey, this guy had my father ''murdered'' and all he's done since is hide from the law! Well, no more hiding for Mister Derek Powers. Now everyone can see him for what he is...even in the dark. }}

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: His relationship with Ten/Melanie. Also in the mini-comic series he does get his very own Catwoman.

** He's got quantity. Terry's much more chatty than Bruce.

* [[Delinquents|Delinquent]]: Reforming.

* [[Hurting Hero]]

* [[I Let Gwen Stacy Die]]: His father's death was Terry's big motivation for super-heroics.

* [[Official Couple]]: With Dana.

* [[Ordinary High School Student]]

* [[Thou Shalt Not Kill]]: Terry takes a somewhat more loose approach to this than Bruce did. He won't personally kill, but he won't go out of his way to save criminals, either. He indirectly killed one person in the pilot alone, and it would have been two if Powers didn't have good doctors.

** He ends very frequently killing one shot villains, mostly because the fights are set up in such a way that he has no choice but to.

* [[Triple Shifter]]

* [[Troubled but Cute]]

* [[Unwanted Harem]]

* [[You Killed My Father]]: Said to Blight/{{spoiler|Derek Powers}} word for word. Also his origin story (as it is true for the original Batman).

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: This apparently [[Hannibal Lecture|serves him well]] in his fight vs {{spoiler|The Joker}}

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''.}}

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]

* [[Heroes Love Dogs]]: Understandable, since Ace is his only companion at Wayne Manor other than Terry.

'''Barbara Gordon''': No, I don't hate him. I hate what he's become. Such a great man...so alone. }}

* [[The Mentor]]

* [[Older and Wiser]]: And way, way scarier than before. As in, the time travel episode of [[Justice League Unlimited]] has him unsettling himself and a 50 year old [[Static Shock|Static]].

* [[Playing Gertrude]]: [[Kevin Conroy]] voices Bruce in both the original series and ''Beyond'', and manages to make the aging between both series very believable.

* [[Seen It All]]

 

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

* [[Action Girl]]

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

* [[The Not Love Interest]]: One rejected script had Dana break up with Terry and Terry being comforted by making out with Max.

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Secret Keeper]]

* [[Teen Genius]]: She's at the very top of her class and casually breezes through examinations of all sorts without trying and is a very good hacker.

 

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

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

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: The longer the show ran, the more her screen time seemed to shrink. She was one of the major characters in the first season; by the end, it would have been unsurprising if [[Viewers Are Goldfish|less-attentive viewers]] didn't even know she was the [[Love Interest]].

* [[First Girl Wins]]

* [[Love Interest]]: Her main role in the show.

* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Dana's father ''really'' does not like Terry because of his [[Delinquents|delinquent]] past.

* [[Secret Keeper]]: {{spoiler|Eventually becomes this, as revealed in "Epilogue."}}

* [[Silk Hiding Steel]]: A nice girl in a nice dress, who, as noted above, doesn't take well to being kidnapped.

* [[Stood Up]]: Constantly by Terry. Type 3.

* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: Well, it's implied that Terry and Dana have been dating since they were at least 14, since she knows who "Big Time" is, so...

 

=== Ace ===

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

* [[Canine Companion]]

* [[Loyal Animal Companion]]

* [[Mythology Gag]]: To [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]] Ace the Bat-Hound.

* [[Team Pet]]

 

 

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

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]

 

=== 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.

=== Barbara Gordon (Stockard Channing [seasons 1 and 2], Angie Harmon [season 3]) ===

 

 

 

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Cool Old Lady]]

* [[The Commissioner Gordon]]: Like father, like daughter. {{spoiler|Except that her relationship with Batman was generally far worse. It got better over time.}}

* [[Happily Married]]: To Sam.

* [[Inspector Javert]]: She was quick to believe the worst about Batman at first, though to her credit, she wises up when it's not his fault. And to be fair, in at least one case she literally witnesses him kill Mad Stan (it was an illusion, but the guy put a lot of work into it).

** Spellbinder (the illusionist himself) was quick to point out, however, how easily and quickly Barbara fell for it.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Though that's ''reasonable'', not ''[[Good Is Not Nice|nice]]''.

** Sometimes she's not even that reasonable. "Eyewitness" is a good example where she willfully holds the [[Idiot Ball]].

* [[Secret Keeper]]: She knows Bruce's secret. She's also one of the few people who knows about {{spoiler|the circumstances surrounding the Joker's death}}, but chooses to keep quiet about it.

 

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

* [[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.

 

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

* [[Alliterative Name]]

* [[Blue Eyes]]

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: With Dana.

 

=== 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.

* [[Butt Monkey]]

* [[Expy]]: Of [[Spider-Man|Flash Thompson]].

* [[Hidden Depths]]: The eggbaby episode revealed that Nelson is surprisingly good as a father, if his grade was anything to go by. Remember, Max did his math homework so he'd raise the kid by himself.

 

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:

* [[Big Bad]]: Of Season 1. He technically played the [[Man Behind the Man]] for most of it, but Mr. Freeze and his worsening condition forced him to take a more direct approach.

* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: "[[You Killed My Father]]" doesn't really narrow it down, Terry.

* [[Create Your Own Villain]]

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Gives one to Mr. Freeze, of all people.

* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]

* [[Irony]]: His transformation into Blight. He was ''[[Corrupt Corporate Executive|already evil]]'' long before his transformation. Afterward, his exterior simply matched what was within.

* [[Light Is Not Good]]: He emits a bright radioactive green glow. This contrasts with Batman, who is dark, and can even turn invisible.

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Apparently died in the Season 1 finale. He was never seen again, though the possibility that he was out there, hungry for revenge, hung over his son Paxton.

* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: His son Paxton is basically just him with brown hair.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: His mental state starts deteriorating from ''the pilot episode forward'' as his hope of being cured dwindles...and as he embraces the power of being Blight.

* [[Walking Wasteland]]

 

 

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.

* [[The Juggernaut]]: The only member of Terry's [[Rogues Gallery]] that he was never able to beat on his own. All of his victories against her were owed to by the aid of others.

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Her daughter, Deanna, injected her with a dissolving agent and assumed it killed her. Ever the [[Genre Savvy]] crimefighter, Terry knew better. The end of the episode shows that Terry is right to think this, and Inque later appears in a ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' episode set farther in the future.

* [[Shapeshifting]]

** [[Morphic Resonance]]: She always has a black coloration with the blank, white eyes (her human form is black all over, with chalk white skin and normal eyes). Batman [[Exploited|exploits]] this when he recognized her, after Inque very nearly loses him by impersonating a member of a group of walruses.

** [[Shapeshifter Default Form]]: She has a "human" form that imitates her original human body, though she can only get the shape right, not the color. Her regular form is much more simplistic, humanoid with an oval-shaped head with a single white dot on it for an eye.

** [[Shapeshifter Weapon]]: Mostly [[Combat Tentacles]], but has used blades and giant needles

 

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]]

* [[Bond Creatures]]: Willie treated the Golem like this was the case after he discovered he could control it himself.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]: After a while in juvie with nothing better to do than hit the gym.

* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: For Blade.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: A man, who can control a giant robot via electricity, named Watt. It's pretty self-explanatory.

* [[Not Me This Time]]: In the tie-in comic, the Golem (or what's left of it) starts attacking people. Terry goes to Willie, who claims that while it's not him, the Golem did send him the message that it found a new master, so he still might have a connection to it. It ''wasn't him,'' either.

* [[Prisons Are Gymnasiums]]

* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]: Though he ditched them after becoming buff.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: Willie was more than willing to kill his father with his new control over his robot, even with Terry trying to reason, "But he's your father!" Only for Willie to respond, "Not for long."

* [[You Are What You Hate]]: Nelson did a pretty good job of humiliating Willie in front of their peers. But when Willie returns, more powerful than ever, he now understands what enjoyment Nelson got bullying people weaker than him.

 

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]]

* [[The Atoner]]: He genuinely did want to try to make up for all the pain he caused. Too bad nothing ever goes his way.

* [[Creepy Monotone]]

** In addition to freezing his traitorous girlfriend to death (with a [[Gory Discretion Shot]]) he also freezes an oncoming car in a block of ice and encases a squad of soldiers shooting at him. This may be the biggest killing spree he's ever gone on in the shows.

* [[Despair Event Horizon]]: Sometime between {{spoiler|his new body regressing back to requiring sub-zero temperatures}} and {{spoiler|Derek Powers' and Dr. Stephanie Lake's betrayal.}} At that point, revenge is the only thing he has left (again).

* [[He's Back]]

* [[An Ice Person]]

* [[Mad Scientist]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: Saving a kitty cat from an oncoming train, letting go a man who tried to shoot him in revenge for killing his family decades before, and even starting a charity dedicated to helping the victims of his previous actions and naming it after his beloved wife, Victor really wanted to make up for all the horrible things he had done.

* [[Powered Armor]]: Upgraded with the option to emit even more powerful ice blasts from his hands.

* [[Villainous Rescue]]: Saves Terry from [[Walking Wasteland|Blight]] with an ice blast, though it was mostly due to his own anger than concern for Terry's safety.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Mr. Freeze reappears halfway through the episode decked out in a new set of bulletproof [[Powered Armor]], and displays a more powerful Freeze Gun built into the suit. However, he gets [[Curb Stomp Battle|one-shotted]] by new villain [[Walking Wasteland|Blight]] in order to demonstrate the strength of the new [[Big Bad]].

 

 

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.

** Another time, his deafness was an advantage in a fight. Too bad he didn't know a building coming down behind him could possibly crush him.

* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]

 

=== 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.

* [[Blue Eyes]]: Melanie

* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Ten and Batman. Bruce comments on it.

** [[The Big Bad]]: King

** [[The Dragon]]: Queen

** [[Evil Genius]]: Melanie/Ten

** [[The Brute]]: Ace

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Melanie and Jack.

* [[Knife Nut]]: Jack

* [[Legacy Character]]: As Bruce notes in their first appearance, the family takes on new members to replace those that retire or go to prison. Ironically, even though the series takes place fifty years in the future, this version of the gang is the first to ever be featured in the DCAU. (The original version would appear later on in ''[[Justice League]]''.)

* [[Military Brat]]: Melanie

* [[Not So Different]]: This is played with in "King's Ransom"

'''Terry:''' Actually, I can relate. }}

* [[One Steve Limit]]: Averted with Ace, who shares the name with the Bat-Hound, who was named after a [[Legacy Character|previous incarnation of]] Ace, one seen in [[Justice League Unlimited]].

 

=== 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) ===

* [[The Faceless]]: We never see her face in full, though the animation studio actually did produce a drawing that had a distinctive zombie quality to it.

** Batman managed to rip her veil off after a particularly wild tackle. He was so shocked by her face she was able to effortlessly kick him, grab the veil and put it back on immediately. This scene was shot from behind her back, so [[Take Our Word for It|trust Batman on this one]].

* [[Implacable Man|Implacable Woman]]

* [[Ninja]]: Or McNinja, [[The Faceless|who knows?]]

 

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

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

* [[Evil Brit]]

* [[A God Am I]]: Has a pronounced God Complex.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: The Chimera Institute.

* [[Petting Zoo People]]: He invented the splicing process that turns people into these, and...

* [[Professor Guinea Pig]]: Used himself as the first test subject.

 

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

* [[Does Not Like Shoes]]

* [[Egomaniac Hunter]]: Before he was injured due to underestimating a wounded panther.

 

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

* [[Bomb Throwing Anarchist]]

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

* [[Mad Bomber]]

* [[Made of Iron]]: And how. In his introduction in "Rats" he survives events that would reduce most humans to a fine, red smear. Given the prevalence of superpowered humans in the DCU in general it's possible he has minor [[Super Strength]] and [[Super Toughness]] powers to be able to do all the stuff he does.

* [[Pet the Dog]]: He owns a tiny dog, whom he cares for deeply.

* [[Tattooed Crook]]: You can see an atomic symbol on the back of his neck in "Rats."

* [[Unstoppable Rage]]: "When Mad Stan's on one of his rants, he's unstoppable."

* [[Wrestler in All of Us]]: In "Rats!", he performs several wrestling moves on Terry, including a pile-driver that leaves his ears stuck in the ground.

 

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

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

* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]

 

=== 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.}}

* [[Kill Sat]]: His master plan is to use one to carve up Gotham into a smiley face.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Happens twice, averting his own [[Joker Immunity]].}}

 

=== 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.}}

* [[Immortality Immorality]]: He's avoiding death through [[Grand Theft Me]].

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}: {{spoiler|This fate ironically befalls Ra's at the end of "Out of the Past", when a loose wire falls into a Lazarus Pit and makes a massive explosion that destroys Ra's lair with Ra's inside of it, making the observation "it's safe" just before everything explodes without Ra's realizing.}}

 

=== 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.

* [[Scaled Up]]

* [[Villainous Crush]]: On Max.

 

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

* [[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''.}}

* [[Kid Hero]]: Used to be one, as the third Robin. {{spoiler|Horrifyingly deconstructed, though.}}

 

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

* [[Alien Invasion]]

* [[Brainwashed and Crazy]]: Starro does this to {{spoiler|[[Superman]] and the entire future Justice League except for Terry}}

* [[Pragmatic Villainy]]: After Terry and the Justice League thwart Starro's attempt to conquer Earth, they get rid of him once and for all by returning him and all his clones to his home planet. Starro and his clones are more than willing to return to their own planet when they're given the opportunity, instead of sticking around and trying to conquer Earth again.

* [[Starfish Alien]]: Obviously.