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Bat-Family
Batman 4.0 (Terry McGinnis)
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The Batman of the year 2027 after Tim Drake is killed. He's also Bruce's son, though he's not aware of that or at least pretends to.
- The Atoner: Terry believes his time as Batman makes up in some small part for all the trouble he caused as a delinquent.
- Byronic Hero: Terry is physically attractive. He is motivated to become Batman to seek justice against his stepfather's murderers. He remains as Batman to make up for his delinquent past. As Batman he is intelligent, perceptive, cunning and adaptable in situations.
- Cool Car: His Batmobile flies.
- Deadpan Snarker: Terry's much more chatty than Bruce.
- Determinator: Has endured beat-downs just as bad as, if not worse, than his father Bruce. He once jumped up to become Batman with four cracked ribs.
- Empowered Badass Normal: While not on the level of Bruce, he still has decent agility and is a good street-fighter without the Bat-suit, putting up a good fight against thugs before he ever had access to the Beyond Batsuit. With the Beyond Bat-suit, the criminals are in for a futuristic nightmare.
- Good Is Not Soft: While he's much nicer than his father, he makes up for it by being much less ready to rescue villains from their own fate.
- Nice Guy: He's more than willing to fight against the Jokerz to defend people, and that's before he became Batman. Also, stands up to bullies who pick on others at school.
- Official Couple: With Dana Tan.
- Powered Armor: The high-tech Batsuit was developed to compensate for Bruce's advancing age, and eventually passed on to Terry when he became Gotham's new savior.
- Battle Boomerang: Batarangs in different varieties: Dispensable, Electric, Explosive, and batarangs specially designed for restraining and/or reeling in.
- Comm Links: Allowed Terry to keep in constant contact with Bruce and Max at the Batcave.
- Invisibility Cloak: Built-in cloaking device that enables almost complete camouflage. Its only weakness is that he becomes visible if UV light is shined on him.
- Rocket Boots: Enabling thrust for Flight.
- Super-Senses: Enhanced visual assistance that allowed him to see in the dark. The visor could also serve as digital binoculars and an infrared filter. Visual from the Batsuit could be fed back to the main computer in the Batcave; it could also receive visual from the main computer, allowing for superior tactical planning.
- Super-Strength: The Batsuit's neuromuscular amplification gave Terry superhuman strength, agility, and endurance by amplifying his physical abilities at least tenfold.
- Super-Toughness: The suit granted significant resistance to water, electricity, heat and radiation.
- Pragmatic Adaptation: Unlike what they did in JLU, here Terry's mom was an old flame of Bruce's. The two broke up after Jason was killed and she gave birth to Terry in 2007.
- You Fight Like a Cow: Terry likes to talk when he's kicking your ass.
Bruce Wayne
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Oracle 2.0 (Maxine "Max" Gibson)
Maxine "Max" Gibson was Terry McGinnis's friend, and later an invaluable ally in his life as the second Batman.
- Black and Nerdy: She has quite the advanced computer programming skills.
- Legacy Character: Max Gibson becomes the new Oracle after Barbara Gordon.
- Lovable Nerd: A very sexy computer whiz.
- Mission Control: Takes over as this from Barbara.
- Nonconformist Dyed Hair: Like in the series she has dyed pink hair.
- Proud Beauty: She calls herself damned sexy in her file.
- Secret Secret-Keeper: Max found out about Terry's secret so he recruited her into the team where she became the new Oracle.
- Statuesque Stunner: While not a beauty queen, she's still quite pretty and her height is 5'11"/180cm, which is taller than Terry.
- Tomboyish Name: Her real name is "Maxine," but she prefers "Max".
Dana Tan
Dana Tan is Terry's long-time girlfriend, and later fiancée.
- Asian and Nerdy:
- Cain and Abel: Her sister Dorothy Tan is Dottie of the Laugh Pack.
- High-School Sweethearts: Has been dating Terry since high school, and right before graduating, he proposed.
- Official Couple: With Terry.
- Practically Different Generations: Her estranged sister Dorothy is a decade older than she is.
- Uptown Girl: Dana comes from affluent family while her boyfriend is from a middle-class background.
Robin Beta (Matt McGinnis)
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Terry's younger brother, who would later take the role as Robin alongside Helena Wayne.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: To signify his new relationship with Warren, he now has brown hair instead of black.
- Alliterative Name: Matt McGinnis.
- Legacy Character: He and Helena are the sixth and seventh person to become Robin.
- Related in the Adaptation: Rather than Bruce's biological son, he's the son of Warren and Julie, making him Terry's half-brother.
Robin Alpha (Helena Wayne)
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The daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: She's the second woman to become Robin after Steph.
- Badass Family: She's the daughter of Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle.
- Legacy Character: She and Matt are the sixth and seventh people to become Robin.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Helena has a strong resemblance towards her mother Selina.
Red Hood 2.0 (Lian Harper)
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The daughter of Roy Harper and Jade Nguyen. She's the current Red Hood and leader of The Outsiders.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: A vietnamese-american woman takes over the role of a white man.
- The Leader: She's the current leader of the Outsiders.
- Legacy Character: Takes over as Red Hood from Jason Todd.
- She's All Grown Up: She was a pretty kid, but has grown up to be a beautiful woman.
- Strong Family Resemblance: Takes a lot from her mother.
Batgirl Beyond (Nissa/Sara Diggle)
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The daughter of John Diggle and Lyla Michaels, she took the mantle of Gotham's old protector Batgirl to honor her father.
- Action Girl: Trained by her father so one day she could take the crimefighting crusade one day.
- Affirmative-Action Legacy: A half-white half-black woman taking the mantle of a (mostly) white woman legacy.
- Composite Character: She's combined with Nissa of the Batman Beyond comics and the Arrowverse's Sara Diggle.
- Disappeared Dad: Her father John and brother John Jr. were killed in a car accident while looking for her.
- Honorary Uncle: Her godfather Oliver Queen tried to pick her up after the death of her father and brother, but unfortunately, she had already left for Gotham.
- Legacy Character: Sixth person to take the mantle of Batgirl.
- Missing Mom: Her mother Lyla Michaels went missing, forcing her family to move from Star City to National City.
- Related in the Adaptation: Nissa is John Diggle's daughter here.
Villains
Blight (Derek Powers)
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The corrupt CEO and co-owner of Wayne-Powers Enterprises. After being exposed to his own nerve gas, he is treated with high levels of radiation. He glows green in his natural form, so he must wear an artificial skin that only lasts temporarily and must be regularly replaced.
- Arch-Enemy: He's the new Batman's most hated foe, as he's responsible for his father's murder.
- Bad Powers, Bad People: A walking radioactive wasteland is not the first thing that comes to mind when you think "Super Hero" and boy, does he let you know that.
- But to Me, It Was Tuesday: Just like in the series, ordering Warren's death doesn't even faze him nor does he bother to remember about it when questioned by Batman.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Not only he amorally buys companies to expand his, he also makes biological weapons.
- Dem Bones: The radiation makes him look like a glowing skeleton.
- Evil Makes You Ugly: The radioactive treatment given to him for the exposure to his own mutagenic nerve gas leaves Derek Powers looking like a pitch-black skeleton surrounded by fluorescent green tissue.
- Light Is Not Good: He emits a bright radioactive green glow. This contrasts with Batman, who is dark and can even turn invisible.
- Mutant: One of the side effects of the nerve gas he developed (and got exposed to) was that it was mutagenic and influenced by its environment. It served as the catalyst with its own "cure" to turn him to the walking meltdown.
- Sickly Green Glow: His skeleton glows green to represent the radiation coursing through his body.
- The Sociopath: Has been showing sociopathic tendencies since he was a teenager, and is ruthless, remorseless and sees people as merely means to an end.
- Team Member in the Adaptation: Powers is a member of the Court of Owls, which wasn't even created yet when Batman Beyond was airing.
Inque
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The result of a clandestine mutagenic experiment, Inque is a treacherous shape-shifting femme fatale, and foe to Batman Beyond.
- Anti-Villain: She is a brutal mercenary and one of Neo-Gotham's deadliest residents, but she really just wants to get by with the unique condition she has, as well as provide for her daughter, who she can't be with due to her underhanded work. It's somewhat understandable why she's so cruel when Terry keeps getting in her way.
- Blob Monster: The mutagen that she was a guinea pig for turned her into an inky black mass of sludge, giving her shapeshifting capabilities and thus a large arsenal of weapons to turn her appendages into.
- Combat Tentacles: One of her main combat tactics is to use her transformed arms as whips.
- Dark Action Girl: She regularly goes toe-to-toe with Batman, and usually wins, sometime even winning easily.
- Dark Is Evil: Her true form is a living black liquid, and she is one of Terry's worst enemies.
- Hired Guns: Inque is a mercenary who specializes in industrial sabotage, though she's not above assassinations if the price is right.
- Kill It with Ice: She is vulnerable to the cold and it can theoretically kill her.
- Morphic Resonance: She always has a black coloration with the blank, white eyes (her human form is black all over, with chalky blue skin and normal eyes).
- Older Than They Look: Her human form looks surprisingly youthful given the later reveal that she has an adult daughter. Presumably the experiment that gave Inque her powers also stopped her from aging.
- Ominous Obsidian Ooze: Whatever the purpose of the experiment that transformed her, it left her a dark-hued polymorph mutant capable of assuming malleable or even liquid forms, hence why she chose the alias "Inque".
- Shapeshifter Default Form: She has a "human" form that imitates her original human body, though she can only get the shape right, not the color. Her regular form is much more simplistic, humanoid with an oval-shaped head with a single white spot on it for an eye.
- Shapeshifter Weapon: Mostly Combat Tentacles, but has used blades and giant needles.
- Superpower Meltdown: She's in the midst of one throughout the fic and is searching for a cure. Part of the reason she stays at Arkham is that their inhibitor field provides a temporary solution. Despite this, Inque still manages to be the most physically powerful foe Terry faces.
- Super-Strength: Part of her success as a criminal is due to the enhanced strength her new form provides.
- Unstable Genetic Code: She needs a steady diet of mutagens to stay stable and survive, and eventually suffers genetic damage that briefly doesn't let her return to her human form.
- Weaksauce Weakness: Her inky liquid form is vulnerable to water. Just some water can dilute her enough so that she can't form a solid shape, but it doesn't permanently kill her either, since she's usually able to eventually pull herself together from being flushed.
Willie Watt
- Alliterative Name: William "Willie" Watt.
- Humans Are Psychic in the Future: His telekinesis was treated in an oddly normal manner, although he wasn't born with it.
- Slasher Smile: He loves making these.
- Technopath: At first, he was limited to commanding a robot which he was controlling when he got electrocuted.
- Who's Laughing Now?: His ultimate goal is to push everyone around like they used to do with him.
Shriek (Walter Shreeve)
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- Clothes Make the Superman: His sound suit.
- Conspicuously Selective Perception: Variant on ignoring sounds not made by the protagonist: his suit's abilities include nullifying sound in the surrounding area. When Batman turns on the machines in a factory in order to mask his own movements, Shriek uses his suit to block out the sounds, followed by another adjustment so that he can still hear Batman moving around.
- Everything Is An I Pod In The Future: An Ur-Example. He first appeared before iPods were released, but he's a futuristic villain whose suit is made up of white plastic.
- Make Some Noise: His suit's main offensive utility is sound blasts that can shatter concrete. His fights with Batman can rack up impressive levels of collateral damage.
Spellbinder (Dr. Ira Billings)
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- Evil Is Petty: Everything he does is motivated by him being angry over being underpaid.
- Faceless Eye: His favorite gizmo.
- G-Rated Drug: Opens a VR arcade, where people can experience their greatest fantasies. However, he deliberately made the effect addictive. As soon as people leave VR, they experience intense withdrawal symptoms. He uses this to get people to steal for him.
- Greed: His main motivation. His first two schemes are all about getting money through increasingly despicable means.
- Manipulative Bastard: His specialty. His training as a psychologist and his advanced technology gives him an edge in this, and all of his evil plans involve using or brainwashing innocent people to get them to steal for him or, in the case of Barbara Gordon, to kill Batman for him.
- Mind-Control Device: His handheld Evil Eye.
- Secondary Color Nemesis: His costume is mostly orange.
- Soft-Spoken Sadist: He's usually deadpan and snarky while he psychologically destroys his enemies.
- Weak, but Skilled: He has no fighting skills, but proves a formidable opponent to Batman because of his ability to produce powerful illusions.
Mutant Leader
- Bald of Evil: Completely bald and is a violent gang leader.
- Canon Immigrant: The Mutant Leader only appeared in Batman: The Dark Knight Returns but he's transplanted in 2027.
- Cool Shades: Wears red-tinted glasses.
- Covered in Scars: His body is full of scars from his many fights.
- Hulk Speak: The Mutant's dialogue is laced with this, but he can talk normally when he wants to, implying that it's done to play up his monstrous image.
- Scary Teeth: His teeth are sharp and intimidating.
- Sleeves Are for Wimps: Doesn't wear a shirt and his sleeveless vest shows his scarred arms.
Rewire (Davis Dusk)
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- Alliterative Name: Davis Dusk.
- Shock and Awe: Rewire has the ability to absorb, generate and project volumes of electrical energy of an extremely high voltage. He increases his absorbing abilities through a mixture of Venom and Joker toxin.
Ratboy (Patrick Fitz)
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- Absurdly Spacious Sewer: A downright cavernous sewer system is his home.
- Adaptational Ugliness: He looks rather deformed when compared to his series incarnation.
- Adaptation Name Change: His last name goes from Poundstone to Fitz.
- Loners Are Freaks: Being teased for his rat-like appearance drove him to live alone in the sewers.
- You Dirty Rat!: Strongly resembles a rat and is an obsessive villain.
Big Time (Charlie Bigelow)
- Body Horror: He becomes a deformed hulk in his transformation into Big Time with unevenly sized appendages.
- Evil Former Friend: He starts out as a shady old friend of Terry's and becomes a true villain when he turns into Big Time.
- Genius Bruiser: Maybe "genius" is the wrong word, but he's certainly more clever than the brute he resembles.
- Large and in Charge: After his mutation, he's a hulking monster.
- Super Serum: His transformation is the result of a growth steroid for plants. Apparently learning from his example, said serum is used on dogs in another episode.
Rebel One (Zhora Mercer)
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- Composite Character: She's also based on the Beyond vigilante Payback.
- Named by the Adaptation: In the comic Rebel One's name was never revealed, but here she's named Zhora Mercer.
- Samus Is a Girl: Her suit hides her gender very well.
- Statuesque Stunner: She's 5'9"/175cm tall and beneath the mask, rather easy on the eyes.
Supporting Characters
Selina Wayne
- Happily Married: Subverted. After Tim Drake's death her marriage with Bruce was strained, Selina gave him distance for a time until she decided that she could not risk losing her husband too and felt the need to hold an intervention, fearing Bruce was dangerously close to taking his own life. Bruce did not agree with Selina's insinuations that he would take a life, even his own, after seeing what happened to his parents as a child.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Her stepson Tim Drake died in 2027.
- Silver Vixen: She has aged much more gracefully than Bruce, that's for certain.
Dick Grayson
- Action Politician: He would enter to politics by announcing to his candidacy for Gotham's next mayoral race.
- Composite Character: Him being the district attorney and Barbara’s husband by the time Terry becomes Batman is taken from Sam Young.
- Happily Married: With Barbara.
- Hello, Attorney!: On 2027 Dick became a district attorney in Gotham-Blüdhaven.
Barbara Grayson
- Abled in the Adaptation: Has regained use of her legs by this point in time.
- The Commissioner Gordon: Has taken the role from her father.
- Happily Married: With Dick Grayson.
Jason Todd
- BFG: He carries a machine gun.
- Cigar Chomper: He seems to have taken a liking for the things.
- Eye Scream: He's rocking a cybernetic left eye in 2027.
- Scars Are Forever: He still retains his battle scar and his "J" Brand marks on his face.
Damian al-Ghul
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: He later gains a scar on his left eye.
- He's All Grown Up: He wasn't bad looking as a kid, but now it's clear he inherited his parents' good looks.
- I Have No Son!: After Tim's death, the person who once hate him but had grown to respect, Damian went on a killing spree among the Joker's followers: the gang known as Jokerz. When Bruce learned of this, he disowned his son, leaving Damian to return to his mother's embrace as a member of the League of Assassins.
Warren McGinnis
- Disappeared Dad: For Terry and Matt.
- Good Parents: He treated Terry like his true son, and Terry felt the same way.
- Nice Guy: He was a hard-working person and a loving husband and father. He agreed to work for Wayne Enterprises without much issue so he could provide for his family.
- Second Love: He became this for Julie Madison.
Julie Madison-McGinnis
- Composite Character: She's combined with Mary McGinnis and Rachel Dawes as Bruce's old flame and Terry's mother.
- Former Teen Rebel: As the tattoo on her arm shows us, she had a wild side when she was younger.
- Glamorous Single Mother: Not at first, but with some help from Bruce she can now dedicate herself once more to her career on the arts.
- Open-Minded Parent: While she doesn't like that her son has become a crime-fighter, she's willing to trust him and Bruce.
Deanna Clay
- Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: She wears a tank-top that shows her toned midriff and navel piercing, albeit she's not that feminine when compared to her mother Inque.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She's basically Inque with short, red hair and a normal skin color.
Paxton Powers
- Abusive Parents: It's not at all hard to see where Paxton acquired his sociopathic tendencies from, considering he has Derek Powers as a father. Outside of an implied lifetime of emotional abuse, Derek exiles his son Paxton when he refuses to become a puppet ruler for his company, and then flat-out tries to murder him when Paxton tries to (not at all unfairly) arrange his dad's death.
- Alliterative Name: Paxton Powers.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: He learned most of it from his old man.
- Freudian Excuse: His father Derek treats him like shit, and is a sociopath who only sees him as a potentially useful pawn whenever he isn’t outright ignoring that he exists. It’s honestly surprising that Paxton didn’t turn out to be worse.
- I Lied: He says this verbatim after Batman said he was going to try to help his father, not kill him.
- Like Father, Like Son: He's very much similar to his father.
- Overlord Jr.: Paxton grew up learning from his dad's example, seizing power by any means necessary. He says this before trying to kill his father to take control of his company.
