History Recap / BatmanBeyondS1E1E2Rebirth

* HistoryRepeats: While the circumstances differentiate, the death of Terry's father leads to Terry becoming Batman, much like when Bruce became Batman decades ago after losing his parents.

* EvenEvilHasStandards: The Kaznian diplomat that Powers was selling the nerve gas to is visibly unnerved by its effects on animals and humans. Subverted in that he buys the gas anyway.

* KarmaHouidini: Zigzagged with Derek Powers. Legally, he's able to get away with the development of the nerve gas and the murder of Warren (as Powers had reclaimed the evidence from Terry and thus he and Bruce have no way to prove it). Personally, however, Powers ''does'' pay for it with his viral exposure, radiation treatment, and mutation.

* BigNo: Powers after being exposed to his nerve toxin.

* HurtingHero: Terry realizes this about Bruce after he refuses to do anything about Powers' nerve gas project.
-->'''Terry:''' Something happened to you, didn't it? And it wasn't just that you got old.

* BittersweetEnding: Realizing his city still needs a hero, Bruce accepts Terry as [[LegacyCharacter the new Batman]]. Meanwhile, Powers has not only been treated of his own plague with a radiation treatment, [[CreateYourOwnVillain he's become a radioactive being who may pose a threat]]...
* BreakOutTheMuseumPiece: The new Batsuit is at least 20 years old by the time Terry wears it, but he mentions that it's still cutting-edge.

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Once they obtain the disk, Powers orders Fixx to stand down from shooting at Terry. This obviously backfires on them in the most awesome way.

After Terry's father Warren is murdered, Terry 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...

* AdventureRebuff: Bruce refuses to help Terry at first. Once Terry steals the batsuit, Bruce shuts it down remotely, but eventually decides to let him become the next Batman.
* ArtEvolution: Musical example. The Pilot's prologue follows the familiar, traditional orchestral scoring that had been part and parcel of the DCAU since BTAS. After the TimeSkip, the scoring then shifts into ''Beyond'''s now-familiar electronica. Bruce Timm has confirmed on the DVD Commentary this was deliberately done to help sell how different the show was going to be from its predecessors.

* 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. This is the final nail that leads him to hang up his outfit for good.
* BittersweetEnding: Realizing his city still needs a hero, Bruce eventually accepts Terry as [[LegacyCharacter the new Batman]]. Meanwhile, Derek Powers has not only been treated of his own plague with a radiation treatment, [[CreateYourOwnVillain he's become a radioactive being who may pose a threat]]...

* BigNo: Derek Powers after being exposed to his nerve toxin.
* CareerEndingInjury: Bruce's bad heart (and [[DentedIron his deteriorating physical state in general]] [[HeroicRROD 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]]

* ChekhovsGun: A relatively quick one; during the action at the hoverpad, the bad guys had to hurry the loading of the nerve gas and the takeoff, leaving a single canister behind conscpicuously. Batman would soon use this lone canister to distract Powers.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: The kidnappers in the opening scene watch a TV news report of the kidnapping, followed by a business news item that shows that Bruce Wayne is now considerably older than he was in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' and introduces Derek Powers as a rival trying to take over his company.

** Bunny Vreeland, the kidnapped young woman in the prologue is [[WordOfGod confirmed]] to be the daughter of Veronica Vreeland, a recurring character from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
** Derek Powers is also trying to sell the nerve gas to the Eastern European nation of Kasnia, which had been introduced in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS1E1To3TheLastSonOfKrypton pilot]] (and would remain the DCAU's go-to fictional European country through ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'').
* CommonalityConnection: Bruce initially demands that Terry hands the batsuit back after he steals it. Terry manages to win his sympathy by saying that this is his one chance to catch his father's killer, while referring to Bruce's loss of his own parents. It is what convinces Bruce to aid him.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Derek Powers in spades. In the intro, it is mentioned that he had repeatedly attempted hostile takeovers of Wayne Enterprises, eventually succeeding and transforming the company into Wayne-Powers. And he only gets worse from there.

* DentedIron: It doesn't matter how skilled Bruce is, he still grows old and can't do the kind of things he did when he was younger and healthier.

** The kidnapper in the DistantPrologue has no qualms against brutally beating Bruce with a metal bar while he's incapacitated and in agony on the ground from a heart attack, but quickly freaks out and bails when [[BatmanGrabsAGun Bruce threatens him with a fallen gun]].
** The Jokerz at Terry's first scene (named Scab in later appearances), once he realizes Terry is not afraid of duking it out with him.

* TheDragon: Mr. Fixx to Derek Powers. He is the one who murders Terry's father.
* DramaticIrony: The Jokerz trying to intimidate Bruce during the confrontation outside Wayne Manor in Part 1. They have ''no'' idea they're facing off with their namesake and inspiration's arch-enemy -- or that they're childishly trying to emulate a force of pure evil that they could ''never'' measure up to (and that Bruce's mocking dismissal of them is ''completely'' justified).

* GetOut: Bruce screams this at Terry after catching him in the Batcave.

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

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

** Terry also has one after his father's funeral.

** During the battle with Batman, Derek Powers gets exposed to his own nerve gas, quickly suffering from the effects.
** Terry and Fixx's climatic struggle ends when he knocks him backwards into the transport shuttle's control panel, the [[ElementalPunch electrified brass knuckles]] he was wearing short-circuiting the panel and causing it to crash into the Gotham bay, eventually drowning Fixx.

* HowDoIShotWeb: Ziggzagged. After stealing the Batsuit from the Batcave, Terry takes a few minutes to get used to the suit's flight patterns. However, he manages to use the suit's other functions (notably the fingertip microphones that he used to eavesdrop on Powers). It's implied that Terry took some time to figure out some of the suit's abilities when making his way to Derek's offices, but he still shows himself to be a remarkably quick study in using its abilities, especially the Batarangs.

* {{Irony}}: After Warren's murder, Terry laments their argument and feels they could have fought off the Jokerz together if he'd stayed at home. After discovering it was Mr. Fixx in Part 2, however, Terry's subsequent fight in the climax proves he and Warren ''couldn't'' have won that fight. Terry is barely able to beat Fixx even with the technological edge provided by the Batsuit. Had he not disobeyed Warren, Terry would have surely perished alongside his Father.
* ItsAllMyFault: While not responsible for his father's death, Terry blames himself for leaving him unprotected to his murder after being out for too long when he stormed off. He believes he should have stay if he had known about the attack.

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

* {{Leitmotif}}: In the Pilot's prologue, Shirley Walker's iconic Batman theme is reprised when Bruce begins his rescue of Bunny Vreeland.

'''Bruce:''' (''smirking'') ''[[PretenderDiss Sure]]'' you are.

** Terry also can't believe Bruce wants him to go to the GCPD as he'd pointed out at the end of Part I that they were cozy with Powers. Bruce doesn't tell him ''why'' Barbara should be trusted (i.e. she used to be Batgirl). Had he told Terry, it might've swayed him. It's justified, though, as Bruce has only just met Terry and doesn't know or trust him yet (and sharing Barbara's secret isn't his decision to make). Moreover, given revelations later in the Season, there's also old bitterness between Bruce and Barbara that's strained their working relationship.
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Once they obtained the disk Derek orders his men to stand down and cease from chasing after Terry. This obviously backfires on them in the most awesome way.
* NotSoDifferentRemark: When Bruce threatens to shut down the Bat Suit again, Terry for all intents does this with him. Terry brings up the Wayne murders, how Bruce lost his own parents, and how this is his one chance to nail his own father's murderer. Knowing all too well what Terry is going through right now -- the pain, rage, guilt, and need for closure -- is what ultimately convinces Bruce to stand down.
* OffhandBackhand: At the tail end of his brief 'fight' with the Jokers, Bruce does this to their leader when he attempts to hit him with a pipe from behind, with [[TheStoic nary a change in expression]]. With his cane. Age has done ''nothing'' to blunt certain skills it seems.

-->'''Terry:''' I yelled at him, Mom. He grounded me and I wouldn't listen. The things I said--!

* RedHerring: Terry thought that the Jokerz killed his father. When he investigated Derek Powers, Terry overhears that the man's right-hand man was the one who did it.
* ReflexiveResponse: Derek Powers easily shoots down the batarang that 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.

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

** Derek Powers is also trying to sell the nerve gas to the Eastern European nation of Kasnia, which has been introduced in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesS1E1To3TheLastSonOfKrypton pilot]] (and would remain the DCAU's go-to fictional European country through ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'').

** Derek Powers is also trying to sell the nerve gas to the Eastern European nation of Kasnia, which has been introduced in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' [[Recap/SupermanTheAnimatedSeriesE1To3TheLastSonOfKrypton pilot]] (and would remain the DCAU's go-to fictional European country through ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'').

** Derek Powers is also trying to sell the nerve gas to the Eastern European nation of Kasnia, which has been introduced in the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' Pilot (and would remain the DCAU's go-to fictional European country through ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'').

* {{Irony:}} After Warren's murder, Terry laments their argument and feels they could have fought off the Jokerz together if he'd stayed at home. After discovering it was Mr. Fixx in Part 2, however, Terry's subsequent fight in the climax proves he and Warren ''couldn't'' have won that fight. Terry is barely able to beat Fixx even with the technological edge provided by the Batsuit. Had he not disobeyed Warren, Terry would have surely perished alongside his Father.

{{Irony:}} After Warren's murder, Terry laments their argument and feels they could have fought off the Jokerz together if he'd stayed at home. After discovering it was Mr. Fixx in Part 2, however, Terry's subsequent fight in the climax proves he and Warren ''couldn't'' have won that fight. Terry is barely able to beat Fixx even with the technological edge provided by the Batsuit. Had he not disobeyed Warren, Terry would have surely perished alongside his Father.

** Bruce in Part II ordering Terry to take Harry Tully's evidence to the GCPD and Barbara Gordon instead of sending it himself. Powers and Fixx are able to intercept Terry en route and recover it, thereby forcing Terry to steal the Batsuit and go after
** Terry also can't believe Bruce wants him to go to the GCPD as he'd pointed out at the end of Part I that they were cozy with Powers. Bruce doesn't tell him ''why'' Barbara should be trusted (i.e. she used to be Batgirl). Had he told Terry, it might've swayed him. It's justified, though, as Bruce has only just met Terry and doesn't know or trust him (and sharing Barbara's secret isn't his decision to make). Moreover, given revelations later in the Season, there's also old bitterness between Bruce and Barbara that's strained their relationship.

* OutsideContextProblem: Terry as Batman is this for Powers (and by extension the rest of Gotham's criminals during Season One). Be they mugger, mafioso, or corrupt CEO, none of Gotham's criminals have had to deal with a Batman in 20 years and it takes them by surprise. It's offset, though, by Terry being completely inexperienced and in over his head.

* DramaticIrony: The Jokerz trying to intimidate Bruce during the confrontation outside Wayne Manor in Part 1. They have ''no''idea they're facing off with their namesake and inspiration's arch-enemy -- or that they're childishly trying to emulate a force of pure evil that they could ''never'' measure up to (and that Bruce's mocking dismissal of them is ''completely'' justified).

* DentedIron: It doesn't matter how skilled Bruce is, he still grows old and can't do the kind of thing he did when he was younger and healthier.

* DirtyCoward: The kidnapper in the DistantPrologue has no qualms against brutally beating Bruce with a metal bar while he's incapacitated and in agony on the ground from a heart attack, but quickly freaks out and bails when [[BatmanGrabsAGun Bruce threatens him with a fallen gun]].

** Terry also can't believe Bruce wants him to go to the GCPD as he'd pointed out at the end of Part I that they were cozy with Powers. Bruce doesn't tell him ''why'' Barbara should be trusted (i.e. she used to be Batgirl). Had he told Terry, it might've swayed him. It's justified, though, as Bruce has only just met Terry and doesn't know or trust him (and sharing Barbara's secret isn't his decision to make). Moreover, given revelations later in the Season, there's also old bitternes between Bruce and Barbara that's strained their relationship.

** Bruce in Part II ordering Terry to take Harry Tully's evidence to the GCPD and Barbara Gordon instead of sending it himself.Powers and Fixx are able to intercept Terry en route and recover it, thereby forcing Terry to steal the Batsuit and go after

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

* HowDoIShotWeb: Ziggzagged. After stealing the Batsuit from the Batcave, Terry takes a few minutes to get used to the suit's flight patterns. However, he manages to use the suit's other functions (notably the fingertip microphones that he used to eavesdrop on Powers).