Batman Beyond: Season 1 (DC Comics Classic Collection)

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Batman Beyond: Season 1 (DVD)

From the ingenious team that brought audiences the Emmy Award-winning Batman: The Animated Series comes the continuing legend of The Dark Knight with a futuristic twist as Bruce Wayne trains a new Batman for the 21st century.

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Batman Beyond was once the futuristic follow-up to the acclaimed Batman: The Animated Series from the team of Paul Dini, Alan Burnett, Andrea Romano, and others (though less self-winking for comics fans than that series). High school kid Terry McGinnis’s run-in with a biker gang known as the Jokers results in a possibility encounter with a wealthy recluse named Bruce Wayne. McGinnis soon discovers that 20 years ago Wayne was once Batman, but has since retired from active duty. Not getting any lend a hand from Wayne, McGinnis swipes the Bat suit–now tricked-up with enhanced strength, flight capability, and nifty gadgets–and sets out to right a fallacious perpetrated by his father’s former business partner, Derek Powers. Subsequent adventures in the 13-episode season maintain some teen hang-ups in addition to supervillains, who are mostly new apart from for Bane and Mr. Freeze. Excellent voice work is by Will Friedle (McGinnis), Kevin Conroy (continuing his role from Batman: The Animated Series), Stockard Channing (as Commissioner Barbara Gordon), and guest stars including Star Trek‘s George Takei. –David Horiuchi