Been catching up with Season 3 of Batman Beyond. Beyond is an anime cum Blade Runner future set serial; a pension age Bruce Wayne has turned over the reigns of Batman to young buck Terry McGinnis. Cue vintage 60s Spider-Man burning-candle-at-both-ends domestic turbulence, married to mecha bastard of the week adventuring. Fantastic stuff! So pulpy. I don't think an episode goes by without someone being captured and electrocuted by some sort of death tentacle thing - another mongrel trope taking in Japanese sex threat and 20s pulp lethality. Not this this is some bat shaped knocking shop. Nope. Nope. This is Saturday morning kids TV hopped up on violence numbers.
Stand-out eps!
A Justice League of the Future two-parter: The Call. An elderly Superman, sporting a badass black and white Kryptonian get-up redesign, flips out and causes a ruckus. Terry must man-up! Flanked by the Justice League Unlimited: Big Barda, Aquagirl, Warhawk and a Dali Lama Green Lantern; Terry must bash the last son of Krypton's head in. Or at least help him regain his senses.
Also of note is a fountain of youth bubbler that sees Bruce and Terry getting mixed up in sex-swap Ra's al Ghul machinations. Heh. Episode makes a point of repeatedly stating the correct way to pronounce the master criminals name: RaySch, instead of RARhz. "Common misconception" apparently. Take THAT Christopher Nolan.
Also! It is excellent X 1000 to hear the snotty old nutter inflect: "Detective!" in his sneery terrorist voice.
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