Batman Beyond is scary

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|| CONTENT ||
0:00 - childhood officially decimated
0:41 - rebirth
3:40 - return of the joker
6:50 - epilogue
9:46 - credits

|| mystery song of the day ||
[Verse 1]

I couldn't wait for you to come and clear the cupboards
But now you're gone and leaving nothing but a sign
Another evening I'll be sitting reading in between your lines
Because I miss you all the time

[Pre-Chorus]

So, get away
Another way to feel what you didn't want yourself to know
And let yourself go
You know you didn't lose your self-control
There's no end of the rainbow
Turn away
Another way to be where you didn't want yourself to go
And let yourself go
Is that a compromise?

[Chorus]

So what do you wanna do, what's your point of view?
There's a party, screw it do you wanna go?
A handshake with you, what's your point of view?
I'm on top of you, I don't wanna go
'Cause I really wanna stay at your house
In the palace it all works out
But you know how much you broke me apart
I'm done with you, I'm ignoring you
I don't wanna know, ah-

[Verse 2]

And I'm awarе that you were lying in the gutter
'Cause I did everything to be there by your side-ide
So when you tell me I'm the reason, I just can't believe the lie-es
And why do I still wanna call you (Call you, call you, call you)

[Chorus]

So what do you wanna do, what's your point of view?
There's a party, screw it do you wanna go?
A handshake with you, what's your point of view?
I'm on top of you, I don't wanna go
'Cause I really wanna stay at your house
In the palace it all works out
But you know how much you broke me apart
I'm done with you, I'm ignoring you
I don't wanna know, ah-

[Bridge]

Oh-oh oh-oh-oh
I don't know where I'm going

[Pre-Chorus]

So, get away
Another way to feel what you didn't want yourself to know
And let yourself go
You know you didn't lose your self-control
There's no end of the rainbow
Turn away
Another way to be where you didn't want yourself to go
And let yourself go
Is that a compromise?

[Chorus]

So what do you wanna do, what's your point of view?
There's a party, screw it do you wanna go?
A handshake with you, what's your point of view?
I'm on top of you, I don't wanna go
'Cause I really wanna stay at your house
In the palace it all works out
But you know how much you broke me apart
I'm done with you, I'm ignoring you
I don't wanna know, ah

[parkerboy]

Honestly, Terry's story as Batman still feels like there is so much potential wasn't explored.

[elin]

The best part of Batman Beyond is that Terry wasn't a Bruce Batman clone, he was his own brand of Batman.

[SavantPete]

I feel like Bruce finally grew up in Beyond. He finally realized he can't stop all crime and there is a limit to what a man can do, he understands how dangerous that lifestyle is and didn't want to burden Terry

[evrypixelcounts]

I just realized it's a better executed version of the MCU's Spiderman, A billionaire takes in a teenager, and gives him a high-tech suit, and wants him to be better a better hero and person than the he ever was. I love this show so much, not to sound cliche, but it was ahead of it's time

[charlesmitchell]

“Tim is the Ultimate victim of Bruce’s World. Someone who all he is is a costume. The skin of Batman. The Skin of Joker. The skin of Robin with not much left underneath it. As an adult who’s merely a host running away”. Such a Powerful statement that sums up the tragedy of Tim Drake’s Robin in the DCAU

[juliiju]

Can we take a second to appreciate the Batman Beyond soundtrack? And not just the show's soundtrack, because the Return of the Joker theme is too cool for how underrated it is.

[hattoripool]

What really makes the Whole Joker Chip thing scary are the implications it has. Did the Joker actually cut open Tim’s head and surgically put the chip in his Brain or was it just connected to his neck and interacting with his Brain because there’s a deleted version of the opening that suggest that the chip might have been surgically put deep inside of Tim’s Brain. Another implication that I thought about is did Tim have kids with his wife willingly or was that just the Joker slightly influencing him because I can easily see the Joker making Tim have kids with his wife so that he could eventually make them his sidekicks if you know what I mean

[scottroxford]

Man you wanna talk about a show that just does everything right? The opening alone tells you everything you need to know, the future is bleak and dark but despite that there's still a chance for it to be saved by a new generation. I honestly feel it's the best out of all the DCAU shows and that says a lot about its quality.

[moxie]

So many alarming concepts come up in this series, it's like a song with a cheerful tune and nightmare lyrics. I love it.

[Birthday_Shark]

Batman Beyond seems like such a terrible show when you read the summary but somehow these mad bastards made the impossibly lame one of the best superhero shows of all time.

[Longshanks]

Terry is such a great character and the concept of Batman Beyond is such a perfect setup for a series that I’m astonished it only had one, imo short lived, chance while Bruce Wayne’s Batman gets reboot after reboot.

With CG at the level that it is now, and with actors like Kevin Conroy at the perfect age to play an older Bruce, this could be a series that is ripe for lost of dramatic and powerful storytelling potential.
Then again, with the level of writing for superhero stories that aren’t called Invincible or The Boys at the level they are, perhaps it’s best for Terry to stay with his one, unsullied run as Batman.

[OrangesodaTR]

Batman Beyond was so badass and well written that when I was a kid, I had standing orders from my dad to come and find him everytime it came on so he could watch it too. Wouldn't watch any other cartoon for more than 5 mins, but he never missed Batman Beyond.

[Rixec]

I never thought the revelation about Terry being Bruce's son never took away from the message of the series. Just because he's his son it never suddenly made him forced to be all like Bruce. Terry still lived his own life, had his own personality. Children can still be independent of their parents. Plus, all the clues were there in the series itself. How neither Terry nor his brother resembled their parents that much, things like Inque asking if the "old man" was his father or grandfather, and Superman noting there was more than Terry knew about how similar he and Bruce were.

And the black and white segments were always only ever imagine spots from Epilogue, not real. So, it's not like Terry was truly ever resentful of Bruce, just his mind racing through the possibilities after he discovered he and Bruce shared DNA. He may have had some inner turmoil, but everyone goes through that at times for small problems or big.

Terry may be Bruce's son, but he never became Bruce's Batman. He imprinted his own identity onto the mask. Bruce was always taken in by the tragedy of his life, but Terry showed how one can heal, find love and joy, and still be Batman.

[KingOfMadCows]

Batman Beyond is like an (extremely successful) experiment in taking really bad and silly ideas and making them great. The whole premise of the show was thought up by WB execs who wanted to do a show about a teenage Batman in high school because teen dramas like Dawson's Creek and Felicity were the highest rated shows on the network and they were trying to draw in that audience. But the DCAU writers were able to make something great out of that cash grab idea.

The show also had to follow FCC and network guidelines about doing "after school special" episodes where they had to include anti-bullying, amti-drug, anti-peer pressure, etc. messages. But they managed to make great "special message" episodes. For example, that episode with Bane was their "very special" anti-drug episode.

[millionairesburner]

Nowadays you will NEVER have cartoons ab issues such as these even the episode where they showed how teens r treated in those trouble wards was insanely good!!

[SourRobo]

I remember watching episodes on the TV and it terrifying my folks. Meanwhile I was just sitting there completely awestruck by the experience.

[crashedfilms]

I love how old Waller is resentful of her past and she slowly starts becoming a better person throughout her late life

[austinmj]

I actually don't think making Terry biologically Bruce's son as a negative. Terry unlike the rest of the bat family wasn't adopted as a kid or trained but instead he finds his sense of justice through his own upbringing and enters the role already a young adult, not beholden to the usual pitfalls of Batman's successors.

[WardofSquid]

6:50 IIRC, the creator of Beyond was NOT very pleased with the Unlimited finale reveal b/c it undermined the message that ANYONE could “wear the mask” and be Batman, like with Miles Morales and Spider-Man. 9:00 Also wow, now THAT’S an ending you won’t hear nowadays!

[BladeBloodTear]

Batman beyond was such an amazing follow up series to Batman the animated series. Another great mention is Mr Freeze and just how much he struggles to adjust and move forward with his life only to fall back into his own misery and despair. I think of his character and the Mad Hatter from BTAS a lot with how tragic they are