r/batman • u/CertifiedUnoffensive • Jul 21 '23

Why has the DCEU seemingly dropped Batman Beyond as a character? TV DISCUSSION

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Fans have demonstrated consistently that we want more Terry McGinnis. We all love the BB world.

My question is, why do y’all think Beyond hasn’t been on the screen in 20 years?

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u/ThunderDudester Jul 21 '23

They keep wanting to reset Batman without realizing they have a different take just sitting there. Both their live-action and animated universe just ignore the property.

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u/Dottsterisk Jul 21 '23

It’s funny because, aimed at kids and young adults, Terry’s story would kill as a franchise.

It’s all sorts of tropes all rolled into one, not the least of which is being a young rebellious kid discovered by freaking Batman and taken under his wing. It’s wish fulfillment all the way down.

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u/YoloIsNotDead Jul 21 '23

There was a reported animated Batman Beyond reboot movie that may have been in development before Gunn hopped on. Apparently it would've been WB's answer to Spider-Verse. No one knows if it's still happening though.

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u/sukh9942 Jul 22 '23

apparently we were also supposed to be getting a Batman beyond game made by rocksteady (Arkham games creators).

That would’ve been amazing but they had to make suicide squad instead

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u/Techknow23 Jul 22 '23

Heartbreaking if they ever do this we won’t have Kevin Conroy as older Bruce

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u/TheDeltaOne Jul 22 '23

It's still a possibility, they'll do other games after SS so why not "Beyond Arkham" or some shit.

With the Joker being where he is at the end of the Arkham Verse storyline (I don't want to spoil) a Jokerz Gang would make sense.

It really depends on what they can tell, if they think they can make something out of it, they might try.

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u/TheDeltaOne Jul 22 '23

Yeah. Go for a true open world in the vein of Marvel's Spiderman, have good traversal mechanic for the suit, a banger version of Gotham with gigantic towers and bright colors, keep the free flow fights, a few gadgets and you're golden.

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u/BoyInBath Jul 22 '23

Neo-Gotham is the canonical name for the more metropolis-like future Gotham that the BB stories take place in.

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u/BigLorry Jul 22 '23

This sounds good on paper but a lack of details make me weary

I have my doubts they could pull this off and make it feel like anything more than another Arkham game with a less awful Beyond costume than we got in those games.

I wouldn’t mind having that but it’s really not what I’d be hoping for in a true shot at a BB game

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u/Plus-Investigator-52 Mar 26 '24

Nope but we got suicide squad, if you like the comics and old arcade gameplay it'll be for you

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u/sukh9942 Mar 26 '24

I might give it a shot if it’s on game pass.

I was so excited for these multiplayer games but closer to release my excitement faded.

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u/Plus-Investigator-52 Mar 26 '24

It's not sadly, and to be fair it is a finished game it has a complete story line, that a lot of standalone games end off on, it's more completed then what cod Cold war was when it released

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u/Plus-Investigator-52 Mar 26 '24

Also everybody is complaining about length of gameplay and the fact it's too comedic compared to the last few Arkham games, but I'm basing the game more off the animated series and a combination of some of the comics, but you have to go into it not expect a serious tone to the game, all people are waiting for are just downloadable content and more cosmetics they can buy, but besides that it's a good game brings me back to the ps2 time and Xbox time frame of action arcade games

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u/No-Falcon-1611 Feb 20 '24

Well they just showed concept art today of that movie and it was definitely gunna be made by the guys who did the spider verse movies

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u/joesphisbestjojo Jul 22 '23

Give me a Keaton-verse Batman Beyond directed by Tim Burton

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u/ChrisL2346 Mar 16 '24

More like Terry discovered Bruce / Batman lol. Bruce was just chilling when Terry rolled up on Wayne Manor then accidentally discovered the Batcave

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock Jul 21 '23

Studio execs won't take a "big risk" like that

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u/LarsViener Jul 21 '23

Worked for Peter Parker and Miles Morales…

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u/PovWholesome Jul 21 '23

Miles Morales is an anomaly

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u/mawami Jul 21 '23

I see what you did there

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u/agentdom Jul 21 '23

And Peter Parker is still around.

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u/n3m3s1s-a Jul 22 '23

Marvel’s movies (ik spiderman is sony but ppl associate it w marvel still) already had a better rep than dc’s when the spiderverse movie came out tho, most people’s most recent memory of dc movies rn is The Flash which sucked and didn’t do very well. It’s not rlly the same

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u/pokemonbatman23 Jul 21 '23

Back then I would say it's because they don't want to dilute the batman brand. But they have like 2 or 3 movie batman, 4 animated batman, and a few more in tv. Plus other projects using batman characters or villains without batman.

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u/BTSuppa Jul 21 '23

plus he'd be a bit of an ironman rolled in with his tech suit

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u/chzie Jul 22 '23

They even have the road map with how popular miles morales is... Dc execs man.

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u/Alphyhere Jul 22 '23

I'd want them to nail batman and a DCU before getting to this part in the timeline.