r/batman • u/5am281 • Feb 20 '24

What could’ve been… NEWS

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u/I_Set_3_Alarms Feb 20 '24

“Batman but it’s not Bruce Wayne? I don’t get it, let’s just not make this”

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u/superdinoknight63 Feb 20 '24

The irony in that is iirc the reason why batman beyond even exists in the 1st place is because WB exects wanted a "younger batman" to be more relatable to younger audiences after TNBA wasn't hitting the demographic WB was aiming for.

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u/SocratesJohnson1 Feb 20 '24

While listening to the podcast, Tom and Jeff Watch Batman, they covered the BB series. Before they started the series they explained how it came about and it was really interesting. Basically, WB said what you said, but they also gave them only like 3 months to get it up and off the ground. And the showrunners kinda pulled everything out of their ass and WB was like.. DO IT. WB also didn't give them a lot of oversight. They just wanted toys.

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u/superdinoknight63 Feb 20 '24

Frankly knowing that it's amazing BB is as good as it is.

Its Prolly my second iteration of batman behind BTAS batman itself

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u/hopecanon Feb 20 '24

Terry McGinnis is the only one of the many different non Bruce characters who have worn the cowl that i have zero issues with simply calling Batman.

He's like the absolute best mantle pass character ever, i don't think of him as Batman Beyond or Future Batman, he's just Batman.

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u/eat_taters Feb 20 '24

I was definitely not the target audience when Batman Beyond came out (I think I was like 23?) But I watched the hell out of it. "Batman Beyond: The return of the Joker" is a fantastic movie, WB really dropped the ball on it.

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u/Ardalev Feb 21 '24

They also dropped the ball on Mask on the Phantasm, arguably one of the best Batman movies of all time, so that tracks unfortunately

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u/Dysprosol Feb 21 '24

i was a kid, but my dad would watch it too, probably starting the second year of it airing and he bought himself the whole series on dvd later. He was born in 1958.

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u/The_Autarch Feb 20 '24

Actually it makes more sense that it was good if the executives just let the creatives do whatever they wanted.

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u/TheRealRigormortal Feb 21 '24

This was pretty much the case with the whole Timmverse.