Batman Beyond
Summary
Neo - Gotham ’s dour future tense is protect byBatman Beyond : the alter ego of Terry McGinnis , who is ordinarily under the watchful eye of Bruce Wayne . However , when Terry journey back in fourth dimension to vote down Brother Eye , the AI was already wait for him in the present , conduct to tragedy . Despite doing everything in his power to get out of Batman ’s trace , one surprising character put on the bonnet for the sake of the future : Tim Drake .
DC’sFutures Endeventwas a huge crossing of almost every DC book that had been relaunched with the New 52 . With both a rogue AI named Brother Eye and Darkseid reckon to mold the Earth in their own ikon , the series was responsible for loopingBatman Beyondinto main DC persistence , as well as bestow back pre - Crisis characters from Earth-2 .
Because of how that upshot altered the DCU , Batman Beyond#1 byDan Jurgens , Bernard Chang , Marcelo Maiolo , and Dave Sharpe gaveTim Drake , a Robin often overshadowed by his peers , the sentence - traveling risky venture of a lifetime , even though he was decidedly not looking for one .
There are many mortal characters in the Bat - Family , but one member just gained a weapon that would let him remold the entire multiverse .
Tim Drake Became Batman Beyond
Panel fromBatman Beyond#16 by Dan Jurgens, Stephen Thompson, Lisa Jackson, and Dave Sharpe
future tense Endimagined a bleak future for the New 52 ’s fibre . The Teen Titans had been slaughtered , Superman go away from Earth to hound Brainiac , and a Batman - created AI meant to protect the world became self - mindful , believe the biggest scourge to world was humans . To fix his preceding misapprehension , theBruce Wayne ofBatman Beyonddeveloped a time travel gadget to halt his rogue AI , but Terry McGinnis film the trip alternatively . Unfortunately , he traveled only 30 years back or else of 35 ; Brother Eye ’s intrigue were already in move , andTerry was pop by a bionic man bearing his wise man ’s face .
Tim accepted his fate , put on the futurist hood to finish up the fight .
Tim Drake , having falsify his demise when the other Titans died , had withdraw from superheroics , vary his name and becoming a bartender . However , after Terry ’s Batman died in front of him , Tim accepted his fortune , get into the futurist cowling to cease the fight . He and other DC heroes come after in get the better of Brother Eye , but Tim , in Terry ’s courtship , was fling 30 year into a novel future subsequently , andTim wasforced to become Batman in a metre he did n’t realise . Due to timeline change , he was unable to go back to his own past times , trapping him in Neo - Gotham incessantly .
This Former Robin Becomes the Caped Crusader
The New 52 change Tim Drake ’s backstory : he figured out Bruce Wayne was Batman and forced his way into the Bat - Family . He declare himself Red Robin , concern in forging his own itinerary forward . It ’s the same reasonhe never need to become Batman . at last , Terry had n’t actually die , but was brainwashed by Brother Eye and Spellbinder . When Tim freed his friend , he explain that he was n’t Batman , but he was interested in this intrepid Modern populace and want to travel , seeing where he was needed . He give the cowl back to Terry and push off into the dark . Tim Drake may have actuate beyond Batman , but only becauseBatman Beyondwas back .
Tim Drake ’s time as Batman Beyond is collected inThe New 52 : time to come ’s End Vol . 3,andBatman Beyond : Brave New Worlds , available now from DC Comics .
