Batman (Terry McGinnis)

Terry McGinnis
Batman (Terry McGinnis)
Publication information
Publisher	DC Comics
First appearance	Batman Beyond "Rebirth, Part 1 (1999)"
First comic appearance	Superman/Batman Annual #4 (June 2010)
Created by	Bruce Timm Paul Dini (based on Batman by Bob Kane and Bill Finger)
Voiced by	Will Friedle
In-story information
Alter ego	Terrence "Terry" McGinnis
Team affiliations	Justice League Unlimited Batman Family
Partnerships	Bruce Wayne
Notable aliases	Batman II The Tomorrow Knight The second Dark Knight The Dark Knight of Tomorrow Batman Beyond
Abilities	Peak physical condition Highly skilled martial artist and hand-to-hand combatant Highly skilled detective Utilizes high-tech suit, weapons and equipment Skilled acrobat Skilled motorcyclist High intellect Utilizes high-tech equipment, suit, and weapons

Terrence "Terry" McGinnis is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Bruce Timm and Paul Dini and first appeared in the pilot episode of the animated television series Batman Beyond (1999–2001), voiced by Will Friedle.

Terry McGinnis is the vigilante known as Batman in the future, having taken over the name after the aging Bruce Wayne went into retirement. In the DC animated universe continuity, he is also Wayne's biological son.

McGinnis was created for the Batman Beyond animated television series, as a continuation of The New Batman Adventures, originally meant as a character for the DCAU. For a long time, he was not considered a character for the main DC Universe. Countdown introduced Earth-12, an alternate universe with its own version of Terry McGinnis and other Beyond-like characters. Batman #700 by Grant Morrison was the first comic to depict McGinnis as existing in the future of Batman and the characters of the mainstream comic book DCU, though his origin differs somewhat from Terry's, as does the timeline and the circumstance of his becoming Batman. In Batman # 700, Terry's mentor is not Bruce, but Damian Wayne, who had become the third Batman after Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson (in other words Terry would be the fourth Batman).

The 2010 story Superman/Batman Annual #4 returned to the DCAU Terry's story, as later did a 2011 Batman Beyond miniseries. From 2012, DC began publishing three Terry-related comic books: Batman Beyond and Justice League Beyond most prominently, though the character also appears in Superman Beyond. Terry officially entered mainstream DC continuity in the 2014 New 52 maxiseries, The New 52: Futures End. It has since then produced two separate comic book series, the first in 2015 where Tim Drake has replaced Terry as Batman, and the second one in 2016 which is part of DC Rebirth where Terry has become Batman once again.