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I much prefer Batman Beyond then Beware the Batman.


Anyone here seen Batman Beyond? I think that's probably the best incarnation of Batman ever. Season 1 was definitely the best, or at the very least the most consistently good season. Inque, Curare, Shriek, and especially Blight were all good villains. It also had an arc, that of Terry McGinnis being the Successor to Bruce and inching closer to finding his father's killer and making the connection between Derek Powers and Blight. I mean Bruce's Story as Batman had been done to death and I thought Terry made a better Batman then him even though he had to work so hard to earn the Mantle of The Bat from Bruce. There were a lot of excellent action scenes, too. I particularly liked the battle where Shriek blocked out all the sound waves.

Seasons 2 and 3 were inconsistent. I didn't much care for the introduction of Max, I have no idea why the writers never brought back Blight, and there were a lot of clunkers with quite a few lame villains. But even at its worst, BB still had consistently good animation, voice acting, and a very edgy tendency to push what was allowable on Saturday morning TV to the max. Return of the Joker was the best and I hated the Epilogue episode where they ruined the Mask of Zorro angle for that "oh it turns out you're his son" crap. Melanie Walker aka 10 of the Royal Flush Gang is way hotter then Dana Tan and had more character development then her. I wished that show had lasted longer because they only scratched the surface on it and i heard it was cancelled in favor of that The Batman cartoon from 2004. 

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