Being set in the future tends to attract this from time to time, whether it is Terry quipping "Who reads newspapers anymore?" (in "The Winning Edge") or reviewing the Presidents with "Clinton was the fun one, then came the boring one." (in "Mind Games"). By the time of the series a perfect score on the fictional test called the GAT is 2400 (see the example in Second Place Is for Losers), which as of 2005 it has been for the SAT.
"My father's name was pronounced 'Raysh', not 'Razz'."
In the pilot episode, a Jokerz member says "Let's put a smile on his face" while brandishing a knife. Ever since TDK came out, one may now consider it retroactive fanon that that particular Jokerz member was intentionally quoting one of the signature lines of his "hero."
In "Countdown", Zeta disguises himself as Batman to escape the NSA. Diedrich Bader would later voice two differentBatmen years later.
During "Disappearing Inque" while interrogating a captured Terry about who Bruce is, Inque asks "Is he your father? Grandfather?" Come an episode of Justice League a few years later, we find out Bruce is Terry's father.
"Zeta" starts off with a lecture about the theory that one's genetic makeup makes a person inclined to act a certain way and brings up the question of free will. Terry wonders if being Batman makes him naturally suspicious. As Terry would find out later, he does have Batman's genes that might make him naturally suspicious.
Melanie Walker (a.k.a. Ten) is the daughter of King (voiced by George Lazenby), in real life, George has a daughter named Melanie, who became one of the most successful real estate brokers in New York.
And then the Arrowverse cast former Glee stars as the Flash and Supergirl, which eventually resulted in a musical two-parter across the two shows.
The series’s comparisons to the Spider-Man mythos become this when future Spider-Man actor Andrew Garfield revealed he had a childhood friend named Terry McGinnis.
One of the members of the Justice League named Warhawk, in the episode The Call, Part 1, seemingly dies and Terry is accused of killing him. Then in Will Friedle's next big voice-over role, Kim Possible, his character Ron actually kills a Galactic Conqueror named Warhok in the Grand Finale.
While Terry and Max are going over Presidents for school, Max describes Clinton as "the fun one, then came the boring one." George W. Bush's stint as president was a lot of things, but it's probably safe to say that boring wasn't one of them. The third season was airing in 2000, so chances are the writers were expectingAl Gore, who actually has a reputation for being boring, to win the imminent election.
The respirator an elderly Bane wears in "The Winning Edge" is remarkably similar in appearance to the one he would wear in The Dark Knight Rises.
Terry, at one point, calls Ace Scooby. Ace was voiced by Frank Welker, who would provide the voice of Scooby-Doo just a couple of years later, although he was no stranger to the franchise as he's also been the voice of Fred since the first series.
Spellbinder's mask bears a resemblance to the first two worn by Tobi/ Obito in Naruto. Tobi's last mask also looks like Batman villain Onomatopoeia, who premiered in the comics around the same time, though he doesn't appear in the DCAU.
This isn't the last time that Henry Rollins (voice of Mad Stan) would play an anarchist terrorist in a sequel series of an action cartoon. In The Legend of Korra Season 3, he voiced Zaheer; who basically follows the same political ideology (though is very different personality-wise, being much more stoic than Stan). Not to mention having different abilities (Zaheer has wind superpowers rather than throwing bombs).
When Bruce regains his youth, Terry refuses to be Robin. Terry's voice actor, Will Friedle, would later voice Tim Drake a.k.a. Red Robin in Batman Ninja.
The first episode has J-Man declaring his gang's name in front of Bruce before being beaten up. 17 years later, this was seen as a metaphor for the negative reception of Jared Leto's take on the Joker in Suicide Squad (2016).
In Babel, Shriek holds Gotham's sanity hostage and demands Batman's life in exchange for their safety and sense of security. Sounds familiar, right? There's even a scene of the formerly grateful populace turning on Batman when the going gets tough.
The thug who whales on Bruce during his heart attack that led to his retirement was voiced by Rino Romano, who'd go on to voice Bruce himself.
In his second appearance, the Stalker teams up with Batman to catch shapeshifting criminal False Face. A year later, Carl Lumbly (Stalker's voice actor) takes a more prominent role in the DCAU as the shapeshifting Martian Manhunter.
The 1999 ongoing tie-in comic had its antepenultimate story consist of a two-parter titled "In Blackest Day", which featured a monochromatic villain called Black Light who used a ring enabling him to emulate the abilities of a Green Lantern. This predates DC's Blackest Night event, which revolved around a Black Lantern Corps consisting of black power rings raising the dead as zombies clad in black and white costumes, by eight years.
Whenever Bruce and Terry discuss on how to with deal with women in relationships becomes funny when Kevin Conroy came out of the closet.
The 2-part "The Call" episode introduced the future incarnation of the Justice League, which included Aquaman's daughter. Aquaman and his family would be featured in the DC Animated Universe with just a baby son then, like the main comics' continuity. In the decades after this Beyond episode aired, DC Comics retconned Aquaman and Mera's son's existence out of continuity, and later features them having a daughter.
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