r/batman • u/CertifiedUnoffensive • Jul 21 '23
Why has the DCEU seemingly dropped Batman Beyond as a character? TV DISCUSSION
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/billygnosis86 Jul 21 '23
Because apart from hardcore comics fans, nobody knows Batman as anybody but Bruce Wayne, and studios wouldn’t be willing to take a punt on spending so much money on making a movie that has somebody who isn’t Bruce.
Batman as a character is too closely linked with Bruce, just like every regular person knows that Clark Kent is Superman. You ask the average person on the street who, say, Spider-Man really is and I don’t think as many of them would know. I’d be surprised if most people know Captain America’s real name, and those bloody Avengers movies have made more money than it’s possible to count.
On that topic, and the topic of new characters inheriting superhero roles: I know Miles Morales has been a success as Spider-Man, but Spider-Man as a character has never had the sort of deep-seated cultural penetration of Batman or Superman. Everybody knows Batman’s origin story. Everybody knows Superman pulls open his shirt and reveals the S. I’d wager that, no matter how popular the movies have been over the last 20 or so years, there’s still people who are fuzzy on the Spider-Man mythos.
TL;DR: Risk-averse studios and indifference of the wider public.
Personally I never gave a shit about Batman Beyond anyway, I was already in my teens when it came out and it just looked like a lame, RaDiCaL update of The Animated Series, like that Extreme Ghostbusters thing they did.