History Characters / DCAUBatmanBeyond

* AFormYouAreComfortableWith: A shocking and disturbing example. Starro hides in plain sight by attaching himself to [[spoiler: {{Superman}}, in one of the biggest twists of the series and as a ContinuityNod to SupermanTheAnimatedSeries]], and in the process taking over his mind and body until Terry manages to free him from Starro's control. The scariest part? Starro managed to maintain the masquerade for ''years''.

* CaughtInTheRain: Terry and Melanie.

%%* KnifeNut: Jack

* [[NiceGuy Nice Girl]]: Possibly the nicest character in the series. The only people she's ''not'' pleasant to are the show's JerkJock, her one-time StalkerWithACrush and her boyfriend when she's been StoodUp one too many times.

* VictoriousChildhoodFriend: Well, it's implied that Terry and Dana have been dating since they were at least 14, since she knows who "Big Time" is, so...
** [[spoiler:By the time in "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueUnlimitedS2E13Epilogue Epilogue]]," she wishes to be with Terry despite his worries that she might get hurt. Terry plans to propose to her, and she likely accepted.]]

* BerserkButton: Don't mess with either Bruce or Terry.

* ILetGwenStacyDie: His father's death was Terry's big motivation for super-heroics.
* InTheBlood: A heroic version that is about as contrived as one can possibly believe.[[note]]Cadmus leader Amanda Waller believed that Batman was the keystone in the war on crime in Gotham City and that he would always be needed. Collecting genetic samples that Bruce Wayne left around the city due to the various scrapes and bumps he takes in his line of work, Amanda picked out a target couple to inject these samples into, Warren and Mary [=McGinnis=], overwriting Warren's reproductive DNA with Bruce Wayne's. Terry is then born as the biological offspring of Bruce Wayne. In order to bring this full circle, Waller attempts to have Terry's parents murdered to invoke the same feelings in Terry but the assassin doesn't go through with it. The project was thought to be over and done with until Terry's father is murdered...at which point he stumbles on the Batcave and dons the Batsuit...thus becoming Batman.[[/note]]

* DatingCatwoman: Ten and Batman. Bruce comments on it.

* ReformedButRejected: [[spoiler:In ''B.B. 2.0'', Melanie attends the same college and wants to make up with Terry, but he rejects her for her past. They later make up.]]

* NonActionGuy: out of all the Jokerz, Ghoul has the worst record in fighting Batman.

* TheAtoner: After recovering his MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment which was [[spoiler: murdering Terry's father.]]

* OperaGloves: A rare male example.

* MythologyGag: To TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Ace the Bat-Hound.

* AdaptationalBadass: Spellbinder was based on an obscure SilverAge Batman villain from the comics.

* EvilOldFolks: Not strictly evil, nor even worse than morally ambiguous in a ManipulativeBastard sort of way, but he's a bit of a {{Jerkass}}. If nothing else, the man has a ''serious'' case of schadenfreude.

* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: After hanging up the cowl, Bruce appears to have taken advantage of this instead of the playboy façade he used in his prime.

* TheAtoner: Terry had an argument with his father and left the house in a huff the night his father died, leaving him to wonder if things would have been different if he'd stayed home that night.

%%* TheMentor

* OffscreenTeleportation: In "Sneak Peek," Terry does an extended chase scene following Ian Peek down floor after blockaded floor as fast as he can. The instant he falls through the final floor (right after Terry arrived), an elderly Bruce appears...although he was left hundreds if not thousands of feet away in no rush to chase after them.
* OldMaster: He regularly chides Terry for not listening to him, often when Terry falls into the same sorts of traps as he did in his cape-wearing days.

-->'''Bruce:''' Sure, Ra's, why not? Anything to hold off TheGrimReaper another few seconds. I take it back. You don't ''cheat'' death; you whimper in fear of it.\\

* TookALevelInJerkass: Took one between ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'', becoming more cynical and anti-social. He's gotten even worse in the [[ComicBook/BatmanBeyond comic series continuation]], having treated Terry, Dick, and Barbara as pawns.

* WhenEldersAttack: Fits this trope occasionally. Given that this is Batman as a senior citizen, he is much more effective than average.

* DamselOutOfDistress:
** She is ''not'' go willingly when the Kobra organization kidnaps her and tries to make her their new queen.
** When she is cornered by a gang of Jokerz, Batman intervenes and tells her to run. She interprets this as running to ''tackle one of the thugs.''

* TeenGenius: She's at the very top of her class and casually breezes through examinations of all sorts without trying and is a very good hacker.

* BettyAndVeronica: The Betty to Ten's Veronica for Terry's Archie because she's his childhood friend and Ten is a villain.

* InspectorJavert: She was quick to believe the worst about Batman at first, though to her credit, she wises up when it's not his fault. And to be fair, in at least one case she witnesses him kill Mad Stan (it was an illusion, but the guy put a lot of work into it). Spellbinder (the illusionist himself) was quick to point out, however, how easily and quickly Barbara fell for it.

* PartTimeHero: He does resent the loss of his free time to fighting villains, and there's considerable friction between him and Bruce, who treats normal life as just a cover for crime-fighting, since he [[BecomingTheMask became the mask]] long ago and never took it off despite never physically putting it on for forty years.

%%* DarkIsNotEvil

* PlayingGertrude: Creator/KevinConroy voices Bruce in both the original series and ''Beyond'', and manages to make the aging between both series very believable.

* CastingGag: Mad Stan closely resembles Spider from ''Film/JohnnyMnemonic'', even going so far as to mimic his "information overload" rant (minus the profanity.) Henry Rollins played both roles, and Stan was probably modeled after Rollins' performance.

* OnlyFriend: He sort-of becomes this to [[spoiler:Mr. Freeze]]. When he tries to convince him to escape the collapsing complex, [[spoiler:Freeze]] simply replies with: "Believe m, you're the only one who cares."

%%* WakeUpGoToSchoolSaveTheWorld

%%* SpotlightStealingSquad

* MoodWhiplash: She was very distrustful of Batman at first, but by the end of the second-part episode, she sees him as a worthy teammate.

** Justified in how tragically the future turned out for him. For all the time and effort he put in to save Gotham as Batman, in a way, he failed. He essentially lost his company to Derek Powers, who uses it to carry out the kind of atrocities Ra's Al Ghul spoke about in the Demon's Quest. Old Gotham is shown to be slums that New Gotham was built over. His friends have all died (Alfred, Commissioner Gordon, and presumably Lucius Fox) or left him (Barbara, Dick, and Tim). Harvey Dent/Two-Face, who he spent a good portion of his career trying to help get back to sanity by paying for surgery and presumably therapy, ended up even succumbing to a third personality. Bruce's body is too weak and damaged to do good as Batman, and he can't even do good at Wayne Enterprises because it's under the control of Powers. He has essentially been sitting in Wayne Manor at the start of the series for 20 years waiting to die.

* BigBadWannabe: He views himself as a Machiavellian plotter, but he seems to be nothing more than a smug CorruptCorporateExecutive. He's never seen to succeed in any of his schemes. And it only takes a simple plan by Paxton to expose him as Blight to the public, and he's finished as a major threat to Gotham.
** Justified, in that his condition is shown and stated to be affecting both his body and his mental state.

* GenreSavvy: He goes out of his way to keep a closer eye on the city than usual if Bruce is out of town. At first because he doesn't want to disappoint Bruce, but later because he ''knows'' that if Bruce is gone, something is ''bound'' to happen.

* GenreSavvy: During "Betrayal," after Terry's been kidnapped and dropped the Batsuit, Bruce calmly tells Max to relax and that he'll be there before hanging up. A minute later, after she's picked up the mask, he calls back and warns her not to even try it.

* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: Her daughter Deanna injected her with a dissolving agent and assumed it killed her. Ever the GenreSavvy crimefighter, Terry knew better. The end of the episode shows that Terry is right to think this, and Inque later appears in a ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'' episode set farther in the future.

* OnlyFriend: He sort-of becomes this to [[spoiler:Mr. Freeze]]. When he tries to convince him to escape the collapsing complex, [[spoiler:Freeze]] simply replies with: "Leave me. You're the only one who cares."

* BroughtDownToNormal: "Lost Soul" had a businessman's computerized consciousness take over his Batsuit, forcing him to go it with just a utility belt and {{Nightwing}}'s domino mask rather than {{flight}}, {{invisibility}}, SuperStrength, etc. Turns out he picked up a few of the bat-skills from Bruce after all.

[[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Characters/DCAU-BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesRoguesGallery See here for info dealing with him in the rest of the DCAU]].