Batman Beyond's One Rule is Actually Stricter than Bruce Wayne's
Warning! Spoilers for Batman Beyond: Wake ahead!
While many superheroes adhere to a set of morals, few are as memorable and absolute as Batman’s rule disallowing himself from taking lives and as successor Batman Beyond actually took that one step further. This one rule is often a key component of most iterations of Batman, and is often a non-negotiable condition when the Caped Crusader teams up with other heroes or villains. While Bruce Wayne’s rule is infamously rigid, Terry McGinnis has interpreted Batman’s rule in an even stricter way.
In Batman Beyond: Wake by Jackson Lanzing, Collin Kelly, and Max Dunbar, Bruce Wayne has died in Terry McGinnnis’ arms. Slain by an unknown assailant, the Caped Crusader says a final, heart-wrenching goodbye to his protégé, spurring on the young man to track down the killer. As Terry works his first case without a mentor in his ear, he discovers that the assailant is an artificial intelligence calling itself the Living Gotham, a natural forming neural network born as an after-effect of Neo-Gotham’s technological development. After contemplating destroying the new foe, Terry decides against it, opting to instead destroy the Batcave and face the Living Gotham a different way.
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The Living Gotham is everywhere in Neo-Gotham. As a neural network that naturally formed from the millions of connections, technologies, and devices that make up Neo-Gotham, there is nothing beyond the Living Gotham’s reach, easily proving this by hacking Bruce’s pacemaker and killing him in its first minutes of life. With such a dangerous AI as a foe, it seems like Terry’s only recourse would be to take down the Living Gotham as quickly as
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