Agreed. I understand that in the 60's you had to include a scene of HIP TEENS GROOVIN' TO THE LATEST TUNES in your cartoon intros or you were branded a communist, but times have changed. That bit just gives it an unfortunate Hanna-Barbera vibe.

Luckily, the show itself is generally quite good. Though it was never as good as the other DC animated series.

Aw c;mon, I'm giving it an extra star just for the guy doing the really awkward twist in the background!

Sadly, I was only gonna give it two stars to start with. The series was never as cool as the opening, and the rest orf the opening wasn't as cool as that first shot of the hand throwing the hypno-eyeball at you ...

We always liked to think that was in there because this was some cranky old man animator's idea of a future society that has descended into chaotic anarchy.

THIEVES! MURDERERS! KIDS WITH THEIR LOUD MUSIC AND THIER CLUBS!!!

I'm forced to agree.

But don't forget Justice League, where Batman had a big role. That show was amazing.

i dunno. batman is the only superhero comic i ever liked, so pairing him up with superman and such just ruins everything that make batman cool.

not to mention the use of predictable plot twists in the end of movies

maybe i was just jaded, but i couldn't get past the first episode, what with the akira bike chase and the emo kid becoming the new batman. instead of this, they should have made an entire run of dark knight returns instead of this "old zorro, new zorro" shit.

Yeah, the Akira ripoff should have bothered me, but I'd become desensitized to that kind of thing.

By the time of Batman Beyond, they might as well have been ripping of the chase scene from Mask of the Phantasm.

Pretty sure Terry was gay though. In my mind, it's the only explanation as to why he was always after the cold, prissy, and unattainable girl, rather than hooking up with the cool black chick - who, in addition to being just as hot as the other lady, was also super smart, hardcore, trustworthy (she knew all his secrets), and not a cooze.

It also explains the dancing, hairstyle, and skinny-legs-with-a-strong-upper-body.

So I never viewed him as emo. Just a closet homosexual. He was a kid though. I bet he would have come to terms with it eventually.

>the emo kid becoming the new batman.

You do know that he and his brother are actually clones of Bruce Wayne, right?

http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Terrence_McGinnis_(DCAU)

That doesn't say they were clones. That says Bruce Wayne was their biological father.

This show rocked. Deciding the Terry was Bruce's kid was stupid. Also DC ripped itself off later, with the whole Damian Wayne storyline.