Terry McGinnis

History

A hero from the DC Animated Universe. With the recreating of the Multiverse he, and theoretically all those of the DC Animated Universe, now reside on Earth-12.

Rebirth

Terry was born in Gotham City on August 18, 2023, to Warren and Mary McGinnis, a research scientist at Wayne-Powers and an astronomer at Astro-Tech respectively. By his own admission, he was once a "bad kid." A member of a street gang run by youthful racketeer Charlie "Big Time" Bigelow, Terry has his fair share of run-ins with the Gotham City Police while in his early teens, even serving a three-month stint in juvenile hall. Years after Batman is last seen, he finds himself on the run from another street gang, the Jokerz, who model themselves after the deceased Clown Prince of Crime. Terry flees onto the grounds of Wayne Manor, where an aged Bruce Wayne comes to his defense. The strain of the fight places substantial stress on Bruce's heart, and he collapses. Terry helps Bruce into the mansion and gets him his medication; Bruce proceeds to fall asleep afterwards. Before leaving, Terry notices a bat stuck inside a grandfather clock. As he tries to free it he stumbles upon the entrance to the Batcave.

After Bruce kicks him out, Terry returns home to find his father murdered, and later discovers that Derek Powers, who has assumed leadership of a merged Wayne-Powers, is responsible. He seeks Bruce's assistance in bringing Powers down, but despite Terry's insistence, Bruce, still shaken from an ordeal years earlier of having relied on a gun for self-defense, maintains that he has given up the cowl. Terry takes matters into his own hands and steals the latest incarnation of the Batsuit. Bruce admonishes him through the suit's communicator, and even shuts down the suit, leaving Terry helpless in a fight. Terry, however, is able to convince Bruce to help him confront Powers, who ordered Warren's death after the latter discovered Powers' plan to mass-produce biological weapons. In the end, Powers, who has been exposed to his own hazardous chemicals, experiences the onset of his mutation into Blight.

Convinced that there is still a need for a Batman, Bruce hires Terry as his "personal assistant" and begins secretly training him for his new role as Batman. In addition, Bruce assists Terry in the field primarily by keeping in continual contact with the boy at the Batcave.

After Powers' criminal identity is revealed to the public and he finally brings retribution to his father's killers, Terry decides to continue his role as Batman to make up for his past sins, in hope that his heroic role is his chance at redemption

Terry goes on many adventures as the Batman, growing into his role to the point where eventually even Bruce accepts him as his heir as the Bat. Eventually, he is recruited by Superman to root out a traitor in the team... who turns out to be Superman himself, under the control of the extraterrestrial creature Starro. Though initially the rest of the team distrusts him due to his perceived inexperience, Terry gains their trust by saving their lives and freeing Superman from the alien's mind control. However, he says that he would prefer to be like his mentor and only partially serve on the Justice League.

When Static is sent 40 years into the future, he is forced to work with Terry to rescue future Static from the KOBRA organization. While Terry doubts his abilities at first, he eventually develops respect for Static. Terry also sees the resemblance in both the teenage and adult version.

Abilities & Paraphernalia

Terry has received training from Bruce Wayne in fighting and has proven to be a good hand to hand fighter but not to the high levels of Bruce's other surrogate son's Tim Drake and Dick Grayson or Bruce himself.  Terry has beat enamies much stronger and with greater numbers and beaten them. Terry is in peak human condition and has high intellect. Terry has been trained to be a detective by Bruce. However it is shown in the future [when Terry is in his late twenties] he is shown taking on highly trained guards and wining with ease and being almost unprotected even with out the aid of the Bat suit.

Bat-Suit

Even though Bruce wore the same suit as Terry twenty years before him it is still concidered "before it's time". On this suit the cape has been removed and in its place two glider wings [much like Nightwing's in the Batman cartoon'] which are under his arms, he also has small rockets built in to the boots, these combined with the guilder wings enable Batman to fly some distances. The suit is also every durable, it can with stand extreme heat and cold, high voltages of electricity, water pressure, vibrations, radition and has even taken punches from Superman. The suit can also mols to it wearers hight and body shape.

The Bat suit grants Terry the following abilities.

• Enhanced strength.
• Night vision and infrared vision.
• Personal communicator which allows Terry to keep in contact with Bruce in the Batcave.
• Built in rebreather for under-water combat and exploration.
• Enhanced ballistic protection
• Dispensable Batarangs with a range of auxiliary functions, such as producing electric shocks. However, there is a limit to the amount of Batarangs the Batsuit can dispense; Batman has run out on at least one occasion. Also, the Batsuit has discs that can be fired from the tops of the hands.
• Electrical discharge throughout the suit that can be activated by pushing a button on the suits belt.
• Grappling guns built into the forearms.
• Flash grenades.
• Smoke pellets.
• Flexicuffs.
• Launchable tracers and scaners.
• A retractable password deciphere in a key form on the right index finger.
• Retractable wings under the arms to glide on.
• Rocket boots for flying.
• Touch microphone in index and middle finger which allows Terry to listen in to other rooms through solid walls.
• Drug identifier, utilized by dipping his finger's into the substance.
• Built-in cloaking device that enables almost complete camouflage (this function possibly consumes a good deal of the Batsuit's power, as Batman minimizes its usage). It allows camouflage extending into the visible light and infrared frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum. A countermeasure used by Commissioner Barbara Gordon to this in one incident where she was hunting Batman down was through tracking him using an ultraviolet light to illuminate him. The reason the invisibility plastic failed in the B:TAS episode was that sending electrical current through the material caused it to become toxic, affecting the mind as well as the body. Regardless, the original Batman may have saved samples of the plastic and/or the research notes and resolved the toxicity issues, incorporating them into the new Batsuit. 
• Retractable claws which can be used to fight enamies or cling to suffaces.
• Can link up to his Batmobile by remote.
• Built in buzz saw on the belt buckle.
• Electoshock that can be actervated by touch to defend aganst enemies like Inque or protect Terry when he's knocked out.

The suit also has a remote kill function that can be actervated in the Batcave to shut down the suit.

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