One of the best depictions of Batman ever doesn’t even put Bruce Wayne in the suit. Instead, in Batman Beyond, Wayne takes a backseat to mentor a new Batman, Terry McGinnis. The cyberpunk-meets-future-goth cartoon was a spinoff of Batman: The Animated Series and Justice League, and might be one of the coolest visions of Batman ever (at least, it was to every 10-year-old who watched it on Kids WB in the early 2000s). Batman Beyond’s following only grew when its influence made its way to comics, establishing Terry McGinnis as the Batman of the distant future.
