Anyone else feel Batman Beyond Villains are underrated/under used
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Terry was pretty much Spider-Man being a high school, fast mouthed super hero
Blight/Derek Powers exchange with Terry of "how little Terry saying he killed his father narrows down Derek figuring out who he is" is peak "amoral businessman"
Inque, Spellbinder, and Curaré were my favorites. I enjoy the spin on Bruce's villains they brought to the table too. I don't follow the comics, so I don't know which were original to the animated series.
Agreed. A lot of them show up again throughout the show, but it'd be nice to see the represented elsewhere more often (games, collectibles, etc). A few apparently show up in the comics but every time I looked into it the current Beyond comics storyline seemed super derivative of old Batman villains.
Royal Flush gang, Spellbinder, and Inque are favorites of mine but the show had a ton of great villains and monsters.
Royal Flush gang, Spellbinder, and Inque are favorites of mine but the show had a ton of great villains and monsters.
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The Royal Flush Gang now have their Batman Beyond designs in the main comics but other than that it doesn't see much is done with them.
Well it's in the future and the series in done where else are they supposed to be used besides in comics?
Most of villains mirrors OG Batman villains. Too bad they were only planned to be written as one episode viallins.
Inque - Clayface
Spellbinder- Scarecrow
Big Time - Two Face
Blight - Mr Freeze
Chapell - Bane
Inque - Clayface
Spellbinder- Scarecrow
Big Time - Two Face
Blight - Mr Freeze
Chapell - Bane
I really liked Blight and liked the idea that the primary antagonist also had a secret identity all of his own. But then Terry learned the secret identity, and that was like the last Blight was ever heard from ever again. The end.
That was the problem, i think. Derivative characters. "The same but different."
God dammit.
laughing my ass off here
I'd love to see more of Terry's villains but the whole "Batman of the future" thing keeps them out of the "present" timeline.
Remember when he knocks himself out so Batman couldn't question him?
Goat Villain.
Anything, really. Beyond is a nostalgia well and I don't think they've gotten a single collectible unless there's a HeroClix I'm unaware of. There's also no reason why they can't show up in other cartoons when there's a time travel or alternate dimension plot.
This feels like it's pushing it a little. Inque/Spellbinder are close but Inque feels far more dangerous and precise than Clayface, while Spellbinder has a narrower niche than Scarecrow.
I can see the similarities to the others listed if I squint but they're so far removed from the OG versions it's hard for me to think of them as derivative.