Batman Beyond began airing on January 10, 1999 and ended its run on December 18, 2001 with 52 episodes.

In the pilot we begin in approxiamately 2019, and an aging Bruce Wayne/Batman is having increasing difficulty handling criminals he once subdued with ease.Many of his allies have passed away and his partners, Dick Grayson, Barbara Gordon, Tim Drake, and Selina Kyle are still alive and have grown up and left or had falling outs with Bruce after their retirement from their alter-egos. One night, a heart attack forces Batman to betray a lifelong principle by threatening a criminal with a gun (the same one that murdered his parents), despite already wearing a new, high-tech Batsuit.

Subsequently, Bruce Wayne decides to retire the Batman persona, and crime fighting in general, permanently.Terry McGinnis

In 2039, Bruce meets 16 year-old high school student Terry McGinnis. McGinnis is smart and. a reformed troublemaker with a deeply ingrained sense of personal justice. During the pilot episode, he saves a fellow passenger on a commuter rail from being hassled by one of the Jokerz, and later single-handedly takes on an entire gang of them to defend his girlfriend, ultimately resulting in a harrowing high-speed motorcycle chase through Neo-Gotham’s expressways.

The chase ultimately ends at the doorstep of Wayne Manor, where a fleeing Terry runs into the elderly Bruce Wayne. Bruce and Terry fend off the Jokerz side-by-side, but the exertion aggravates his heart condition. Terry helps Bruce back to the manor, and while staying there, he discovers the entrance to the Batcave, and later returns to “borrow” the Batsuit to avenge the death of his father. As crime and corruption are beginning once again to rear their ugly heads in Gotham, Bruce ultimately allows Terry to assume the mantle of Batman.

Terry continues the battle against crime tutored by Bruce, and aided by a new high-tech Batsuit that augments his abilities, fires Batarangs from the wrists, flies using jets fired from the feet, allows eavesdropping through a hypersensitive touch microphone, and provides camouflage abilitities.

1 by Dave Johnson