Batman Beyond Finally Expands on the Cartoon's Best Line
Warning! Contains spoilers for Batman Beyond: Neo Year #3!
The Batman Beyond comics have finally made a callback to one of the show’s best lines. Batman Beyond was a cartoon following the adventures of a futuristic version of Batman, Terry McGinnis as he learns from an aged Bruce Wayne how to be a hero. The series only had three seasons, but it has gained a cult following and spawned a variety of comics series, including the currently running Batman Beyond: Neo Year.
Batman Beyond: Neo Year focuses on Terry continuing his work as Batman after the Living Gotham AI and kills his mentor Bruce Wayne. He must quickly come to terms with the original Batman’s death and figure out how to be Batman free from Bruce’s guidance. All of this while also having to deal with Living Gotham trying to kill him as well. This has forced him to constantly hide his identity from others and assume a false persona. But despite this hardship, it has also enabled him to understand his predecessor on a deeper level than ever before.
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In Batman Beyond: Neo Year #3 by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelley, and Max Dunbar, Terry is attending the retirement party of Commissioner Barbara Gordon in order to investigate the new CEO of Wayne-Powers, Donovan Lumos. He takes on the alias of Neal Gibson and then ponders something that Bruce said in the seventh episode of the Television show, “Shriek.” There, Bruce had explained that Shriek had failed to make him believe that he was hearing voices in his head because he never mentally called himself «Bruce.» It provides another reason why Batman keeping his identity secret is useful, but it is also much deeper than that. While Terry joked about the
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