There's no reason this show and idea should have been as good as it ended up being. I think it's my favorite part of the DCAU overall and I love it even more as an adult.
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Angel Hernandez
Which villain is your favorite and why is dashes na pra greda?
Leo Davis
Nope. For me, it was Snatcher.
Hunter Morris
I love Shriek. At first he was some down on his luck dude doing what it took to keep himself afloat and then it evolved into personal beef with Batman over the loss of his hearing. Shriek and Babel were two of the best episodes in the series for me because of how well realized he was and how creative they got with his powers. Also I always got the feeling he was gay, not sure why.
Carter Davis
It was implied, that or he knew Ollie just had some sound themed kinks.
As legitimately awesome as Inque was, Shriek was badass too
Caleb Ross
And another thing that made those two episodes great were how they explored Terry and Bruce. In Shriek Bruce still saw himself as Batman in his head and Babel showed off how far Terry has come and Bruce almost fully embracing Terry as his successor with how much he's grown and done for the city.
Nolan Kelly
>There's no reason this show and idea should have been as good as it ended up being
Always found the story amusing:
Bruce was directed by the execs to make a show starring a “teenage Batman” in the hopes they would nab the little kid demographic. I think he mentioned when he showed them the opening to Batman Beyond it ended up upsetting them that he subverted their criteria and made something darker
Always found Inque really memorable, for various reasons.
Jaxson Evans
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>Max's fantasy
It hurts. And fuck Spellbinder, there's something insidious about supervillains who can fuck with people's minds on such a level like that.
The one thing I wish Batman Beyond did better was have Terry and Max (or Terry and Ten) be Endgame. But Dana was patient as fuck with Terry
Wyatt Allen
>Inque and reverse vore
>That entire episode about a literal who fetishizing her only to be mutated himself at the end
>Her daughter backstory
10/10 villainess
Robert Sullivan
I love that this random, throw away idea became something bigger. Execs wanted a young Batman show, the team was hesitant at first but banged out all of the details in one weekend.
Elijah Martinez
Spellbinder was a great update to a "classic" DC villain.
Shriek and Inque are great too. Just one of the reasons I want an Arkham Beyond game...not that I'm going to wish on that monkey paw after I saw what WB Montreal and Rocksteady have done.
My favorite, I think, still has to be Stanley Labowski. Mad Stan's just that great side-villain. He's not subtle, he's not clever, but he's a hell of a brick wall to have to punch through.
Julian Hernandez
All of Terry's Rogues gallery managed to genuinely unnerve me when I first saw the show, barring maybe the Royal Flush gang.
Sure knew how to make its villains menacing, and also tragic
Cameron Stewart
>All of Terry's Rogues gallery managed to genuinely unnerve me when I first saw the show, barring maybe the Royal Flush gang.
Wonder if Bruce Timm knew all the funny confusing feelings Inque would give young boys.
She was clearly supposed to be analogous to Clayface, and Bruce said as much, but I found her way scarier. She didn’t have his skill in shape shifting, but her sheer mobility and ruthlessness made her more intimidating.
Levi Thompson
They are Psychopaths without the excuse. That's why the Joker is terrifying and why Freeze killed himself. They cannot adapt to the future and are stuck in their ways.
Owen Ross
>ruthlessness
I think this is what got me for a lot of the villains. So many of them were unapologetically ruthless and calculating. And if they weren't, they'd have creepy abilities. And if somehow none of the above, they'd meet an unfortunate fate. More often than not they'd be some combination of all those.
That one reporter who was doomed to keep falling until he reached the centre of the earth because of his intangibility still sticks with me
Christian Cox
>The fucking cyborg gang/April Moon episode
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>Bane's fate
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There's something amazing about the way this show got around the censors.
And shit like Bane's fate where he just slowly atrophied away was kino
Zachary Fisher
>That one reporter who was doomed to keep falling until he reached the centre of the earth because of his intangibility still sticks with me
Benjamin Clark
This and the Batman TAS villains would just leave Bats and Robin alone tied up to a bomb or a cartoon villain trap so they could always get away. In this show, Terry’s villains want to personally end him.
Parker Brooks
His screams turning to laughter turning to screams...
Julian Sanders
Punished Bruce seem like a missed opportunity for Batman Beyond
Julian Smith
The ending to that April Moon episode was amazing. Also I really liked how distinct that episode's soundtrack was compared to the rest of the show, similar to the song that inspired it.
Logan Russell
I enjoyed how certain TAS villains flat out didn't show up. You get the impression they either were saved by Bruce or by themselves....or they just self destructed decades ago.
The ones that had entire episodes dedicated to them usually suffered the worst fates.
Hudson Nguyen
>And shit like Bane's fate where he just slowly atrophied away was kino
This 100%
I remember waiting for some super cool Bane beefed up by future venom and cybernetic enhancements and then his fate just kinda hit me like damn...
Isaiah Scott
I don’t know how this went pass censors, this is the bleakest episode of DCAU even darker than Superman getting a criminal sent to a gas chamber, like yeah we didn’t see what the mechanic did to the dude but it’s not hard for a child to know he’s most likely is torturing him when it fades to black.
Nolan Barnes
>No holding back
Th- that's not schwey.
Jackson Reyes
I felt more bad for his daughter having to lose her conciseness (basically dead), I know she simps for her father alot in canon but I seriously doubted she consented to this. He just claimed she did to justify his actions.
Jeremiah Parker
The Beyond continuity --- or at least, some of the tie in comics --- did actually address the issue of Superman's comparatively slowed aging.
Lois's death was treated very tactfully, back before Injustice and MoS popularized the meme that she was his last living link with morality and that her passing would break his character.
Tyler Cruz
Alexander Cook
I wish DC was willing to do more stuff with future timelines and shit but resisting the urge to go full dystopia/grimderp
Noah Rogers
Dana may have been a spaz especially in the early seasons, but she’s was faithful and I accepted Terry settling for her. Ten is hotter then all the girls but she’s has problems including having an insane family. Max is best girl for her tomboy nerd bro qualities but she could never be endgame because she falls into girlbro territory. Still the best answer to Alfred.
Angel Campbell
I still wish we could get a continuation of the Generations line but that would probably seem too Silver age for most readers these days. A Batman not grim derp nor full Adam West would cause a heart attack.
Aiden Lewis
Terry needs a decent rogues gallery to stand against Bruce Wayne's
Leo Mitchell
Batman is best when dark but not grimdark imo
Jeremiah Cook
Are the Batman Beyond comics worth reading? I really like this page. I won’t mind if you say just the tie-ins comics to the show. Because I’m looking at the official DC rebirth beyond and not interested at it at all.
Aiden Turner
It's really hard to top the Joker being depicted as a full blown Sociopath
Jose Scott
“It’s about as inside as you can get”
Jesus Christ Bruce, is this really the moment for a pun?
Hudson Walker
Mind games and Earth mover were top tier
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Henry Martinez
Clayface usually had a B-Movie monster vibe going on while Inqe is mostly faceless making creepy snake sounds and blending into shadows.
David Campbell
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It's alright. It's a lot more tactful than what Dan Jurgens added to Bruce/Barbara (that infamous love triangle between Bruce/Barbara/Nightwing, because he was angry the DCAU continuity never really shipped Dick/Barbara).