Batman Beyond
word of advice : Spoilers ahead forBatman Beyond : Neo - Year#2
In the neo - tech futurity of DC Comics , Bruce Wayne is no longer Batman as the claim has been passed down to another , one whose stories are severalise on the pages ofBatman Beyond – and while Batman ’s successor was trained by the original himself , he is really more like thePunisherthan sports fan realize .
Terry McGinnis took up the Batman mantle after Bruce Wayne retired from the biography of crime fighting following an incident that he could n’t forgive himself for . During the terminal days of being Batman , Bruce bump himself facing a work party of common criminals who were able to get the upper hand over the Caped Crusader . As they attempted to fetch up him off mightily then and there , Batman grabbed a hired gun that was loose on the earth and threaten to scoot them if they did n’t back off . While he made it out of the post alive , Bruce vow to never put on the batsuit again . year by and by , Bruce took Terry McGinnis under his wingand give him a high - technical school interlingual rendition of the batsuit , effectively slide by the torch to the next coevals as well as teaching the same morals Bruce survive by throughout his prison term as Batman , including the inexcusable human activity of using a gun while fighting crime – though Bruce ’s teachings did n’t cease Terry from taking a page out of the Punisher ’s playbook .
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InBatman Beyond : Neo - Year#2 by Collin Kelly , Jackson Lanzing , and Max Dunbar , Bruce Wayne is gone and Terry McGinnis is left face perhaps his most grave villain without a mentor . That villain is none other than Gotham City itself . The metropolis had been taken over by artificial intelligence , one that had access to every single camera and all other technical functions that were create within Gotham . In an campaign to stay off the city ’s microwave radar , Terry ditched the Batman Beyond suit and created a new costumethat was way more practical for the situation and much harder to track . One of the newfangled suit ’s functions was a face trail bike which turned Terry ’s face into unrecognizable static in the eyes of any television camera that blemish him , take in it so Gotham never knew his location or his identity .
Terry using a font dirt bike in this issue ofBatman Beyondis strikingly similar to how the Punisher continuously got away with killing criminals in the street in the remote future of the Marvel Universe . InPunisher 2099 , Jake Gallows aka the Punisher also uses a look dirt bike so that the many cameras put in seat by law enforcement would n’t discover his undercover identity element , just as Terry had done while work to take down the evil A.I. that had fill over Gotham . WhileTerry stayed true to Batman ’s teachingsand never plunk up a gun , he still used a method acting of vigilantism similar to that of the with child proponent of guns - in - law-breaking fighting in existence . Even though Batman would never O.K. of the Punisher ’s methods , a face scrambler is actually a somewhat good idea when fighting criminal offense in a gamy - tech time to come where everything everyone does is under the watchful eye of the powers that be .
Batman Beyond ’s Terry McGinnis is more like thePunisherthan rooter realize , but since the similarities have nothing to do with guns , even Bruce Wayne would assuredly approve .
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Batman Beyond : Neo - Year#2 is available now from DC Comics .
