History Recap / BatmanBeyondS1E1E2Rebirth

* CareerEndingInjury / GameBreakingInjury: Bruce's bad heart ([[HeroicRROD and his deteriorating physical state in general, from all the injuries he'd sustained over his years as Batman]]) finally catches up to him during a fight with some kidnappers and [[BatmanGrabsAGun he is forced to use a gun]] to make the last attacker step down.[[note]]Though it should be noted that it's the fact that he caught himself actually resorting to drawing a firearm that convinces him to hang up his cowl, rather than his evident health problems as would be normal for this trope.[[/note]]

'''Bruce:''' Good luck.\\

''(Bruce moves his hand away from the kill switch''\\

* PostVictoryCollapse: Bruce helps Terry fight off the Jokerz, but then needs help getting back to Wayne Manor for his medicine and falls asleep in his chair right after taking it. This serves as an EstablishingCharacterMoment (building on what we saw in the DistantPrologue); he still has his fighting skills, but not the stamina to use them for very long.

* CareerEndingInjury / GameBreakingInjury: Bruce's bad heart (and his deteriorating physical state in general, from all the injuries he'd sustained over his years as Batman) finally catches up to him during a fight with some kidnappers and [[BatmanGrabsAGun he is forced to use a gun]] to make the last attacker step down.[[note]]Though it should be noted that it's the fact that he caught himself actually resorting to drawing a firearm that convinces him to hang up his cowl, rather than his evident health problems as would be normal for this trope.[[/note]]

[[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture Another twenty years later]], crime in Gotham is worse than ever and the city itself has largely fallen under the influence of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Derek Powers]], the new CEO of Wayne's former company. In a chance occurrence, Bruce meets a teenager named Terry [=McGinnis=], who shares his passion for justice and inadvertently discovers his past secret identity as Batman. After Terry's father Warren is untimely murdered, he begins to suspect foul play on the part of Powers, his former employer, and asks Bruce for help. Having long given up vigilantism, Bruce insists that the proper route would be to inform the police and have them further investigate the situation. Terry, upon finding the batsuit, has different ideas...

* BatmanGrabsAGun: Happens in the prologue. In the middle a hostage rescue attempt, the aged Bruce suffers a heart attack and receives a severe beating from a mook. He is then forced to hold off the mook by pointing a gun at him, much to his own horror.

* ChangingOfTheGuard: By the end of the episode, Bruce decides to hire Terry as his "assistant", effectively accepting him as a worthy successor to take over the duties of Batman.

* CreateYourOwnVillain: Terry causes Powers to get exposed to his own nerve gas. Later, his doctors treat him with high levels of radiation to save his life but the effects transform him into a translucent glowing green skeleton...

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Derek Powers easily shoots down the batarang Terry throws at him. He's just as quick to shoot the next thing Terry throws at him... a canister of his nerve gas, which bursts open right in front of him.

* GoodNewsBadNews: In the end, the good news from Powers' doctors is they'd stopped the deteriorating effects of the nerve gas. The bad news is he's turned into a glowing skeleton from the radiation used to treat him.

** Bruce suffers this after [[BatmanGrabsAGun being forced to use the same weapon of his parents' murder]] to defend himself against a criminal. This act convinces him to go into retirement from being Batman.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Creator/GeorgeTakei is Mr. Fixx, definitely PlayingAgainstType.

* HowDoIShotWeb: After stealing the batsuit from the Batcave, Terry takes a few minutes to get used to the suit's flight patterns.
* HurtingHero: Terry realizes this about Bruce after he refuses to do anything about Powers' nerve-gas project.

* LaughingMad: Derek Powers upon seeing his new appearance after receiving the radiation treatments.

* PostVictoryCollapse: Bruce helps Terry fight off the Jokerz, but then needs help getting back to Wayne Manor for his medicine and falls asleep in his chair right after taking it. This serves as an EstablishingCharacterMoment (building on what we saw in the DistantPrologue) -- he still has his fighting skills, but not the stamina to use them for very long.

* YouKilledMyFather: Terry's motivation for stealing the batsuit and taking on Derek Powers and Mr. Fixx.

* PostVictoryCollapse: Bruce helps Terry fight off the Jokerz, but then needs help getting back to Wayne Manor for his medicine and falls asleep in his chair right after taking it. This serves as an EstablishingCharacterMoment -- he still has his fighting skills, but not the stamina to use them for very long.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': The first episode begins with Bruce Wayne's final night as Batman, twenty years prior to the rest of the story.

* DamnYouMuscleMemory: Derek Powers easily shoots down the batarang Terry throws at him. He's just as quick to shoot the next thing Terry throws at him... a canister of his nerve gas, which bursts open right in front of him.

-->'''Mr. Fixx:''' You're pretty strong, for [[UnderestimatingBadassery some]] ''[[UnderestimatingBadassery clown]]'' [[UnderestimatingBadassery who thinks he's Batman]].\\

-->'''Mr. Fixx:''' You're pretty strong, for some ''clown'' who thinks he's Batman.\\

* HeKnowsTooMuch: Harry Tully and eventually Warren [=McGinnis=] are killed for by Mr. Fixx for knowing about the nerve gas.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: The new Batsuit is at least 20 years old by the time Terry wears it, but he mentions that it's still hi-tech.

** And inverted, as Powers' murdering Warren [=McGinnis=] for his knowledge about the nerve gas is what brings Terry and Bruce together, reviving Batman.

* GameBreakingInjury: Bruce's bad heart (and his deteriorating physical state in general, from all the injuries he'd sustained over his years as Batman) finally catches up to him during a fight with some kidnappers and [[BatmanGrabsAGun he is forced to use a gun]] to make the last attacker step down. Though it should be noted that it's the fact that he caught himself actually resorting to drawing a firearm that convinces him to hang up his cowl, rather than his evident health problems as would be normal for this trope.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Mr. Fixx has a jagged scar down from his left eye.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Harry Tully "accidentally" got exposed to the nerve gas.
** Later, Mr. Fixx makes it look like Warren was murdered by Jokerz.

* GoryDiscretionShot: The eventual fates of the test subjects of Derek Powers' nerve gas, given the horrified reaction by the Kaznian minister upon seeing the pictures.

* ImDyingPleaseTakeMyMacGuffin: Before he dies, Harry Tully passes on an infodisk about the nerve gas to Warren.

* PartingWordsRegret: Terry bitterly regrets his last conversation with his father:

* TakeOurWordForIt: We don't see the final results of the nerve gas, but the momentary disgust by the minister of Kaznia shows it's isn't pretty.

* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: The new Batsuit is at least 20 years by the time Terry wears it, but he mentions that it's still hi-tech.

'''Bruce:''' [[PretenderDiss Sure you are]].

* GameBreakingInjury: Bruce's heart condition hinders his efforts in the prologue. Though it should be noted that his desperately grabbing a gun, more than the condition itself, was what made him retire.

'''Bruce:''' [[DeadpanSnarker Sure you are]].

* CreateYourOwnVillain: [[spoiler:Terry causes Powers to get exposed to his own nerve gas. Later, his doctors treat him with high levels of radiation to save his life but the effects transform him into a translucent glowing green skeleton...]]
* DeathByOriginStory: Warren [=McGinnis=] and [[spoiler:Mr. Fixx]].
* TheDragon: Mr. Fixx to Derek Powers. [[spoiler:He is the one who murders Terry's father.]]

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: During the battle with Batman, [[spoiler:Derek Powers gets exposed to his own nerve gas, quickly suffering from the effects.]]

* LaughingMad: Derek Powers upon [[spoiler:seeing his new appearance after receiving the radiation treatments.]]