The essential episodes of Batman Beyond
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Batman Beyond — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Fifty years into the future, a young Terry McGinnis meets the aged and reclusive Bruce Wayne even as the boy's father discovers a foul secret of his corrupt employer that leads to his death.
- 02
Determined to bring his father's murderers to justice, Terry finally impulsively resorts to using Wayne's last Batsuit to investigate as the new Batman.
- 03
A dangerous shapeshifter in the employ of Derek Powers is out to sabotage a competing company and Batman must stand in her way.
- 04
A bullied nerd uses his newfound mental control of a giant construction robot to seek revenge.
- 05
For his own reasons, Derek Powers arranges for Mr. Freeze to have a new organic body, but things don't go according to plan.
- 06
A trio of new superheroes make their debut, but they have dark secrets that lead to a disastrous crisis Batman must stop.
- 07
An inventor of a sound-based weapon plots against Bruce Wayne.
- 08
Terry falls for a new girl, unaware that she is actually the supervillain Ten of the Royal Flush Gang.
- 09
While Terry investigates the source of illegal performance-enhancing stimulants based on Bane's venom, his mother suspects he is using them himself.
- 10
Splicing genetics into humans is the new thing among the kids at Terry's school. The city wants to make it illegal due to overly aggressive behavior in the subjects. Batman is suspicious.
- 11
When a prototype military vehicle with a disastrous flaw is abandoned and seized by Jokerz, Batman and the vehicle's creator must hunt it down before it explodes.
- 12
When a digitized consciousness of a deceased computer genius is revived, it starts causing havoc throughout the city before it decides to take over the systems of Terry's batsuit next.
- 13
A girl genius finds herself unaccountably harassed by Jokerz at school and she begins to suspect Terry is responsible.
- 14
Batman finds himself the quarry of an augmented hunter seeking the ultimate challenge.
- 15
Terry explains to Max why he needs a secret identity by telling the story of the trouble caused when he revealed it to a small boy who is then kidnapped by Kobra to interrogate him.
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