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Character Name: Terry McGinnis/Batman [II]
Fandom: DC Animated Universe - Batman Beyond
Source:Terry and Batman Beyond - though please note that I believe some of the information as presented on these pages to be inaccurate to varying degrees. Additionally, Batman Beyond is only the (probably) chronologically final chapter of the DC Animated Universe, which includes Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Static Shock, Gotham Girls, and The Zeta Project (along with all related movies) in addition to Batman Beyond. If you guys REALLY WANT a complete history of all things DCAU - excluding the comics, whose canonical status is under debate anyway - then I can give it to you, but the other 6 series, flash cartoon, and 3 movies don't really have much to do with Batman Beyond other than 'and then before Terry there was Bruce and he had adventures.'
Character History:As with all other forms of Batman, like, ever, Batman Beyond takes place in Gotham. That being said, this is a far different Gotham than the original Dark Knight patrolled some 40 years earlier. Among the obvious differences are hovercars, fashion trends that include 'splicing' one's DNA with a variety of animals, and the fact that Asia appears to have taken over the world - or at least to be well on the way, based on the number of Asian characters splashed across buildings. Technology has clearly advanced, kids talk with funny new slang, people tend to carry laser guns rather than guns that shoot bullets, and physical cash appears to have been completely replaced with plastic cash cards. But hey, this is still Gotham, and some things never change. In the 20 years since Batman retired, Gotham has sunk back into the darkness it's always been known for. Gangs and criminals roam the streets. The current D.A., Sam Young, and his wife, Commissioner Barbara Gordon, try to hold the city together. Still, there's only so much they can do.
Batman Beyond 'starts' when an aging Bruce Wayne decides to hang up his cape for good. A mission went wrong when his heart decided that both he and it were getting too old for this, and he had a heart attack while attempting the rescue of a kidnap victim. As a result Bruce was forced to threaten a criminal with a gun, in order to ensure his survival and the survival of the girl he was rescuing, and that was the end of that. He retired the suit, turned off the power in the Batcave, promising to never again return to the night life. And, unlike other versions of the multiverse where one of the sidekicks might have taken over the role, or taken up the slack before Bruce's heart decided to force retirement, once Bruce was gone there was no one left to do so. About twenty years before this, the Joker had gotten his hands on Tim - the second and last Robin - and tortured him, twisting him and driving him insane, in such a way that led to Bruce firing everyone and largely refusing to even speak to any of his former partners, to avoid endangering them in such a way ever again. In the end this meant that, with him gone, the days of Gotham's superheroes were past.
Or, well, that was the idea.
The plot of the show proper starts 20 years after Bruce's retirement, when a boy named Terry McGinnis is 16 years old.
Terry's history is a liiiittle complicated, and it starts long before Bruce was actually retired. Some time back when Bruce was still doing the crime-fighting thing, there was a woman named Amanda Waller in charge of an organization known as Cadmus, which was dedicated to protecting the world from the potential threat that could be the result if superheroes ever went rogue. After a while of fighting this holy crusade against all metas, Amanda decided that actually Batman was a really good idea, and that the world should always have a Batman. For some reason she also seemed to believe that Batman was required by universal law or something to have Bruce's magicgenes, so one day she swiped some of Bruce's DNA and engineered a virus thingie with it and then set about tracking down a couple whose psych profiles matched those of Martha and Thomas Wayne as closely as possible. Who she ended up with were Warren and Mary McGinnis.
So, in order to set Project Batman Beyond in motion (i c wat u did thar DC) she somehow got into Warren what he thought was a flu shot but which was actually Bruce!virus, and somehow resulted in altering the DNA of Warren's reproductive material so that it was instead actually Bruce Wayne's. Sort of. Clone Bruce Wayne. Or something.
So then Warren and Mary went on to have their first kid, a boy they named Terry, who looks just like Bruce which makes sense because he's genetically Bruce's son (or. Clone!Bruce's?) even if he's technically biologically Warren's.
Are you confused yet? That's okay I am too.
Anyway Waller somehow had figured out that Bruce had decided to be Batman when he was 8, and his parents were murdered after leaving a theatre, and so this became a key element in Project Batman Beyond. Pretty much the entire plan can be boiled down to:
Step 1: Clone Bruce
Step 2: Kill Parents
Step 3: ???
Step 4: BATMAN!
Having accomplished step 1, it was time to move on to step 2. So, when Terry was 8 years old and leaving a theatre with his parents, Waller hied Bruce's ex-fiance to whack Terry's folks. Luckily for Terry, poor kid, said ex-fiance backed out when she was about 2 seconds from beheading Terry's parents in front of his horrified eyes, and the little family went blissfully on, none the wiser. Also fortunately, this little incident got Waller to think that hang on, maybe there was something a little wrong about orchestrating murder to create Batman, so she left Terry's family alone. Less fortunately, a few years after this incident (and after his younger brother Matt had been born) his parents decided to get a divorce.
They separated when Terry was 13 or 14 years old, and he reacted in a fairly typical teenage manner. He was an angry kid and wanted to take it out on the world and his parents, and consequently got involved in a gang run by a friend of his, Charlie Bigelow. The exact nature of the crimes he engaged in while in said gang are a little unsure. He tells a friend that they stuck mostly with small time stuff, "busting windows and shoplifting," but it seems quite likely that he was downplaying the severity because he dislikes that time in his life, based on a later conversation that he had with Bruce. He was probably involved with drugs, at the very least. Anyway, regardless of what he did or did not do, he was apparently never caught at anything serious (though to be fair this might be because his hobbies seem to have involved parkour and more parkour back in those days, judging by some of the moves he busts as Batman) until one day, when Charlie decided he wanted to move his gang up in the world. He planned some kind of heist, and took Terry along. Apparently he didn't know what was going on when they first started out, but he went with it even after he found out what was going down.
And then the next thing you know there's cops everywhere, and off he went for 90 days in Juvenile Hall.
Luckily for Terry this was a turning point; the 3 months in juvie appear to have been a wake-up call, and he straightened out when he was released. He still had a temper on him, and was still prone to getting into fights and such, but shed most of his habits upon entering High School and generally went from the kind of kid who will break windows to the kind who beats up bullies. He also got himself a girlfriend, Dana Tan, who was undeniably a good influence. All in all his life was working out pretty well.
Then his dad (Warren, that is; nobody knows about the Bruce thing) got murdered. He discovered a new nerve gas/biological weapon/virus (the show cannot make up its mind on this point) that his boss Derek Powers, the CEO of WaynePowers, was using the company to manufacture and got killed for his troubles. Powers tried to cover his tracks by framing the Jokerz (a gang who wears clown makeup and such and plays cruel pranks in emulation of the original Joker, who vanished 40 years prior) for the murder. Warren, however, had managed to leave some kind of trail, and Terry quickly discovered that all was not well in the state of Denmark. And, if he hadn't accidentally discovered that Bruce Wayne had once been Batman a few days prior, things might have ended very differently. But they did, and he had, so Terry took the disk of incriminating evidence to Bruce, because he had been Batman and still was Bruce flippin Wayne, surely he could do something about rotten stuff at WaynePowers. But Bruce refused to help him, and told Terry to take the disk to the police. Terry tried things Bruce's way, but when that didn't work out decided to take matters into his own hands. He broke into the Batcave and stole the high-tech Batsuit that Bruce had been using shortly before his retirement, somehow figured out how to use it without seriously injuring himself in about 3 seconds, and headed off to seek justice and revenge. After a few speedbumps involving Bruce expressing his extreme displeasure with the fact that Terry had just helped himself to his equipment were overcome without Terry dying, and Terry explained his reasons for taking matters into his own hands, Bruce agreed to help Terry find and stop the illegal shipment of that nerve gas/virus/toxin/whatever that was taking place that night. Terry managed to Not Die and apparently did it well enough to impress Bruce, who came to visit his apartment and offer him a job as his "assistant" shortly thereafter, provided Terry could live up to his exacting standards. Terry jumped at the opportunity. And for his pains spent the next who knows how long being perpetually sleep deprived and beating up and being beaten up by various criminals. Ah, the life of glamor.
Anyway, Terry went from Terry McGinnis, Punk Kid and Ordinary High School Student to Terry McGinnis, Batman.
And ordinary high school student.
And Mr. Wayne's PA.
And boyfriend to a girl who really couldn't know how busy his life had suddenly become.
And Son With Responsibilities.
Life became pretty busy pretty quickly what with trying to balance two and a half lives, all while attempting to look normal for Dana and his Mom and Matt and everyone at school and then trying to keep his grades up and all the other things that a normal teenager has to juggle, PLUS trying to be more responsible around the house. As he went on, trying to fit himself into this new role of Batman and not die along the way he had lots of adventures of varying quality, got himself a rogues gallery, got himself an off-again on-again villain love interest (Ten of the Royal Flush Gang - or Melanie, as her real name is), where things generally don't go anywhere because he is (usually) still dating Dana and Terry is pretty good at being faithful. He missed lots of dates and other appointments with Dana though, who as a result breaks up with him regularly, sssso.
The only other big incident that happens in this span of time that isn't your usual 'find a villain and occasionally blow them up' (oh Terry) is that a friend and schoolmate of his, Max (Maxine) Gibson managed by complete accident to figure out he's Batman. Whoops. So she helps him out sometimes and balances that usefulness by constantly asking to be allowed out in the field with Terry. When she DOES come out with him, she rarely does all that much but make things worse, so mostly he tries to keep her away. As does Bruce.
Terry went on, sometimes training with killer robots who throw live grenades at him (oh Bruce) and generally became better and better at Batman, working and honing his skills, becoming the title that he had claimed when he first put on the suit. He teamed up with the Justice League Unlimited for a little while and managed to save everyone from Superman and the mind controlling starfish he was being possessed by, stopped a cult of snake-worshipers from dropping a bomb into a volcano to cause global warming so that they could live safely in their new half dinosaur bodies (look it was a weird episode), met Bruce as he'd been maybe when he was 50 or so, and fought by his side for a little while. He'd been at the gig for about 3 years total when something completely unexpected happened. The Joker, the original, appeared back in Gotham again.
Bruce freaked out about this and briefly forced Terry to quit being Batman in an attempt to protect him. This didn't quite work out; on his first night of being fired, some Jokerz (who were playing minions to Joker, now that he was back) had found Terry at the club that he was at with Dana. They'd proceeded to try to kill him and Dana both, Dana apparently just because she was with him. Terry put his Batman on and managed to avoid being killed, but Dana got hurt and was hospitalized. Terry sped off to see Bruce to demand some answers as to why the Jokerz had been after him, specifically, and arrived to find the Batcave busted open and a scene laid out that was nightmarishly like the scene of his father's murder. The Joker knew who Bruce was, and had attacked him. Luckily Bruce wasn't quite dead, just badly poisoned, and Terry managed to get him the antidote in time. Afterwards, as Bruce recovered, Terry convinced Barbara to tell him the story of what had happened 40 years ago, and so learned about the horrors that the Joker had inflicted on Tim.
Terry suspected that Tim's madness had not been completely cured after what Joker had done to him, and some part of J. J. (the twisted double that Joker had tortured Tim into) was surfacing, explaining the recent attacks. He flew off to Tim's workplace, where his suspicions were apparently confirmed. After escaping the trap that the Joker had laid for him, Terry spent a while dodging lasers shot from an orbiting defense satellite that the Joker had hijacked and tracked Joker back to his current hideout, where the truth came out.
Tim was the Joker- kind of.
When Joker'd had Tim in his grasp 40 years ago, he'd implanted a microchip in his brain, encoded with the Joker's personality, memories, and DNA. After years of becoming stronger in Tim's subconscious the Joker was finally starting to take over, hijacking Tim's body to continue his crime spree. The Joker informed Terry of his intention to kill Bruce, Dana, and Terry's mother and brother along with hundreds of other innocents, and then there was an epic fight where Terry got the best of the Joker by doing something Bruce had never done, and openly mocking him. Joker lost his temper, and half-succeeded in killing Terry. Terry, however, managed to use the Joker's own joy-buzzer against him to fry the chip in Tim's brain, curing him of his Joker possession, before dragging him to safety.
Tim ended up in the hospital, where Bruce came to talk to him for the first time in like 40 years, and told Terry that he was the one who made Batman worthwhile, not the other way around, daw.
Some little time after this Terry started finding goons from Metropolis were starting to flood his city, and starting to flood it with new drugs. Upon closer analysis it turned out that the drugs had trace elements of kryptonite. So Terry ended up going on a little field trip, off to Metropolis to infiltrate the gang who was helping to make and distribute the drugs.
Character Personality: Please be as detailed as possible. Minimum three paragraphs.
Powers:Crazy parkour skills I mean.
Technically none.
He does, however, have a highly technologically advanced batsuit of plot device that can do pretty much everything and has been trained by Batman to be Batman ssssso he can still pull a LOT of crazy gymnastic stunts and the like which would be impossible for the average joe.
Samples
First person: Your first person entry should be made as if your character were posting to a public network, such as Livejournal. It does not have to be their first post (ie, "OMG WHERE AM I?!"), but it does have to show that the character is perfectly aware of the fact that this is something that other people are likely to see. Please avoid excessive description in [action tags] here, as one would get in video posts - we're looking for your character's voice, the one they use for talking to others. Save the internal monologues for the third person sample.
Third Person: 300 word minimum. This is the place to show your character's inner thoughts. Give us a nice third person narrative of your character doing something, plus how they feel about it. This doesn't have to be blatant "this is what my character is thinking, designated by italics!" but should rather show your character's self via their actions and interactions with their environment.
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Character Information
Character Name: Terry McGinnis/Batman [II]
Fandom: DC Animated Universe - Batman Beyond
Source:Terry and Batman Beyond - though please note that I believe some of the information as presented on these pages to be inaccurate to varying degrees. Additionally, Batman Beyond is only the (probably) chronologically final chapter of the DC Animated Universe, which includes Batman the Animated Series, Superman the Animated Series, Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, Static Shock, Gotham Girls, and The Zeta Project (along with all related movies) in addition to Batman Beyond. If you guys REALLY WANT a complete history of all things DCAU - excluding the comics, whose canonical status is under debate anyway - then I can give it to you, but the other 6 series, flash cartoon, and 3 movies don't really have much to do with Batman Beyond other than 'and then before Terry there was Bruce and he had adventures.'
Character History:As with all other forms of Batman, like, ever, Batman Beyond takes place in Gotham. That being said, this is a far different Gotham than the original Dark Knight patrolled some 40 years earlier. Among the obvious differences are hovercars, fashion trends that include 'splicing' one's DNA with a variety of animals, and the fact that Asia appears to have taken over the world - or at least to be well on the way, based on the number of Asian characters splashed across buildings. Technology has clearly advanced, kids talk with funny new slang, people tend to carry laser guns rather than guns that shoot bullets, and physical cash appears to have been completely replaced with plastic cash cards. But hey, this is still Gotham, and some things never change. In the 20 years since Batman retired, Gotham has sunk back into the darkness it's always been known for. Gangs and criminals roam the streets. The current D.A., Sam Young, and his wife, Commissioner Barbara Gordon, try to hold the city together. Still, there's only so much they can do.
Batman Beyond 'starts' when an aging Bruce Wayne decides to hang up his cape for good. A mission went wrong when his heart decided that both he and it were getting too old for this, and he had a heart attack while attempting the rescue of a kidnap victim. As a result Bruce was forced to threaten a criminal with a gun, in order to ensure his survival and the survival of the girl he was rescuing, and that was the end of that. He retired the suit, turned off the power in the Batcave, promising to never again return to the night life. And, unlike other versions of the multiverse where one of the sidekicks might have taken over the role, or taken up the slack before Bruce's heart decided to force retirement, once Bruce was gone there was no one left to do so. About twenty years before this, the Joker had gotten his hands on Tim - the second and last Robin - and tortured him, twisting him and driving him insane, in such a way that led to Bruce firing everyone and largely refusing to even speak to any of his former partners, to avoid endangering them in such a way ever again. In the end this meant that, with him gone, the days of Gotham's superheroes were past.
Or, well, that was the idea.
The plot of the show proper starts 20 years after Bruce's retirement, when a boy named Terry McGinnis is 16 years old.
Terry's history is a liiiittle complicated, and it starts long before Bruce was actually retired. Some time back when Bruce was still doing the crime-fighting thing, there was a woman named Amanda Waller in charge of an organization known as Cadmus, which was dedicated to protecting the world from the potential threat that could be the result if superheroes ever went rogue. After a while of fighting this holy crusade against all metas, Amanda decided that actually Batman was a really good idea, and that the world should always have a Batman. For some reason she also seemed to believe that Batman was required by universal law or something to have Bruce's magicgenes, so one day she swiped some of Bruce's DNA and engineered a virus thingie with it and then set about tracking down a couple whose psych profiles matched those of Martha and Thomas Wayne as closely as possible. Who she ended up with were Warren and Mary McGinnis.
So, in order to set Project Batman Beyond in motion (i c wat u did thar DC) she somehow got into Warren what he thought was a flu shot but which was actually Bruce!virus, and somehow resulted in altering the DNA of Warren's reproductive material so that it was instead actually Bruce Wayne's. Sort of. Clone Bruce Wayne. Or something.
So then Warren and Mary went on to have their first kid, a boy they named Terry, who looks just like Bruce which makes sense because he's genetically Bruce's son (or. Clone!Bruce's?) even if he's technically biologically Warren's.
Are you confused yet? That's okay I am too.
Anyway Waller somehow had figured out that Bruce had decided to be Batman when he was 8, and his parents were murdered after leaving a theatre, and so this became a key element in Project Batman Beyond. Pretty much the entire plan can be boiled down to:
Step 1: Clone Bruce
Step 2: Kill Parents
Step 3: ???
Step 4: BATMAN!
Having accomplished step 1, it was time to move on to step 2. So, when Terry was 8 years old and leaving a theatre with his parents, Waller hied Bruce's ex-fiance to whack Terry's folks. Luckily for Terry, poor kid, said ex-fiance backed out when she was about 2 seconds from beheading Terry's parents in front of his horrified eyes, and the little family went blissfully on, none the wiser. Also fortunately, this little incident got Waller to think that hang on, maybe there was something a little wrong about orchestrating murder to create Batman, so she left Terry's family alone. Less fortunately, a few years after this incident (and after his younger brother Matt had been born) his parents decided to get a divorce.
They separated when Terry was 13 or 14 years old, and he reacted in a fairly typical teenage manner. He was an angry kid and wanted to take it out on the world and his parents, and consequently got involved in a gang run by a friend of his, Charlie Bigelow. The exact nature of the crimes he engaged in while in said gang are a little unsure. He tells a friend that they stuck mostly with small time stuff, "busting windows and shoplifting," but it seems quite likely that he was downplaying the severity because he dislikes that time in his life, based on a later conversation that he had with Bruce. He was probably involved with drugs, at the very least. Anyway, regardless of what he did or did not do, he was apparently never caught at anything serious (though to be fair this might be because his hobbies seem to have involved parkour and more parkour back in those days, judging by some of the moves he busts as Batman) until one day, when Charlie decided he wanted to move his gang up in the world. He planned some kind of heist, and took Terry along. Apparently he didn't know what was going on when they first started out, but he went with it even after he found out what was going down.
And then the next thing you know there's cops everywhere, and off he went for 90 days in Juvenile Hall.
Luckily for Terry this was a turning point; the 3 months in juvie appear to have been a wake-up call, and he straightened out when he was released. He still had a temper on him, and was still prone to getting into fights and such, but shed most of his habits upon entering High School and generally went from the kind of kid who will break windows to the kind who beats up bullies. He also got himself a girlfriend, Dana Tan, who was undeniably a good influence. All in all his life was working out pretty well.
Then his dad (Warren, that is; nobody knows about the Bruce thing) got murdered. He discovered a new nerve gas/biological weapon/virus (the show cannot make up its mind on this point) that his boss Derek Powers, the CEO of WaynePowers, was using the company to manufacture and got killed for his troubles. Powers tried to cover his tracks by framing the Jokerz (a gang who wears clown makeup and such and plays cruel pranks in emulation of the original Joker, who vanished 40 years prior) for the murder. Warren, however, had managed to leave some kind of trail, and Terry quickly discovered that all was not well in the state of Denmark. And, if he hadn't accidentally discovered that Bruce Wayne had once been Batman a few days prior, things might have ended very differently. But they did, and he had, so Terry took the disk of incriminating evidence to Bruce, because he had been Batman and still was Bruce flippin Wayne, surely he could do something about rotten stuff at WaynePowers. But Bruce refused to help him, and told Terry to take the disk to the police. Terry tried things Bruce's way, but when that didn't work out decided to take matters into his own hands. He broke into the Batcave and stole the high-tech Batsuit that Bruce had been using shortly before his retirement, somehow figured out how to use it without seriously injuring himself in about 3 seconds, and headed off to seek justice and revenge. After a few speedbumps involving Bruce expressing his extreme displeasure with the fact that Terry had just helped himself to his equipment were overcome without Terry dying, and Terry explained his reasons for taking matters into his own hands, Bruce agreed to help Terry find and stop the illegal shipment of that nerve gas/virus/toxin/whatever that was taking place that night. Terry managed to Not Die and apparently did it well enough to impress Bruce, who came to visit his apartment and offer him a job as his "assistant" shortly thereafter, provided Terry could live up to his exacting standards. Terry jumped at the opportunity. And for his pains spent the next who knows how long being perpetually sleep deprived and beating up and being beaten up by various criminals. Ah, the life of glamor.
Anyway, Terry went from Terry McGinnis, Punk Kid and Ordinary High School Student to Terry McGinnis, Batman.
And ordinary high school student.
And Mr. Wayne's PA.
And boyfriend to a girl who really couldn't know how busy his life had suddenly become.
And Son With Responsibilities.
Life became pretty busy pretty quickly what with trying to balance two and a half lives, all while attempting to look normal for Dana and his Mom and Matt and everyone at school and then trying to keep his grades up and all the other things that a normal teenager has to juggle, PLUS trying to be more responsible around the house. As he went on, trying to fit himself into this new role of Batman and not die along the way he had lots of adventures of varying quality, got himself a rogues gallery, got himself an off-again on-again villain love interest (Ten of the Royal Flush Gang - or Melanie, as her real name is), where things generally don't go anywhere because he is (usually) still dating Dana and Terry is pretty good at being faithful. He missed lots of dates and other appointments with Dana though, who as a result breaks up with him regularly, sssso.
The only other big incident that happens in this span of time that isn't your usual 'find a villain and occasionally blow them up' (oh Terry) is that a friend and schoolmate of his, Max (Maxine) Gibson managed by complete accident to figure out he's Batman. Whoops. So she helps him out sometimes and balances that usefulness by constantly asking to be allowed out in the field with Terry. When she DOES come out with him, she rarely does all that much but make things worse, so mostly he tries to keep her away. As does Bruce.
Terry went on, sometimes training with killer robots who throw live grenades at him (oh Bruce) and generally became better and better at Batman, working and honing his skills, becoming the title that he had claimed when he first put on the suit. He teamed up with the Justice League Unlimited for a little while and managed to save everyone from Superman and the mind controlling starfish he was being possessed by, stopped a cult of snake-worshipers from dropping a bomb into a volcano to cause global warming so that they could live safely in their new half dinosaur bodies (look it was a weird episode), met Bruce as he'd been maybe when he was 50 or so, and fought by his side for a little while. He'd been at the gig for about 3 years total when something completely unexpected happened. The Joker, the original, appeared back in Gotham again.
Bruce freaked out about this and briefly forced Terry to quit being Batman in an attempt to protect him. This didn't quite work out; on his first night of being fired, some Jokerz (who were playing minions to Joker, now that he was back) had found Terry at the club that he was at with Dana. They'd proceeded to try to kill him and Dana both, Dana apparently just because she was with him. Terry put his Batman on and managed to avoid being killed, but Dana got hurt and was hospitalized. Terry sped off to see Bruce to demand some answers as to why the Jokerz had been after him, specifically, and arrived to find the Batcave busted open and a scene laid out that was nightmarishly like the scene of his father's murder. The Joker knew who Bruce was, and had attacked him. Luckily Bruce wasn't quite dead, just badly poisoned, and Terry managed to get him the antidote in time. Afterwards, as Bruce recovered, Terry convinced Barbara to tell him the story of what had happened 40 years ago, and so learned about the horrors that the Joker had inflicted on Tim.
Terry suspected that Tim's madness had not been completely cured after what Joker had done to him, and some part of J. J. (the twisted double that Joker had tortured Tim into) was surfacing, explaining the recent attacks. He flew off to Tim's workplace, where his suspicions were apparently confirmed. After escaping the trap that the Joker had laid for him, Terry spent a while dodging lasers shot from an orbiting defense satellite that the Joker had hijacked and tracked Joker back to his current hideout, where the truth came out.
Tim was the Joker- kind of.
When Joker'd had Tim in his grasp 40 years ago, he'd implanted a microchip in his brain, encoded with the Joker's personality, memories, and DNA. After years of becoming stronger in Tim's subconscious the Joker was finally starting to take over, hijacking Tim's body to continue his crime spree. The Joker informed Terry of his intention to kill Bruce, Dana, and Terry's mother and brother along with hundreds of other innocents, and then there was an epic fight where Terry got the best of the Joker by doing something Bruce had never done, and openly mocking him. Joker lost his temper, and half-succeeded in killing Terry. Terry, however, managed to use the Joker's own joy-buzzer against him to fry the chip in Tim's brain, curing him of his Joker possession, before dragging him to safety.
Tim ended up in the hospital, where Bruce came to talk to him for the first time in like 40 years, and told Terry that he was the one who made Batman worthwhile, not the other way around, daw.
Some little time after this Terry started finding goons from Metropolis were starting to flood his city, and starting to flood it with new drugs. Upon closer analysis it turned out that the drugs had trace elements of kryptonite. So Terry ended up going on a little field trip, off to Metropolis to infiltrate the gang who was helping to make and distribute the drugs.
Character Personality: Please be as detailed as possible. Minimum three paragraphs.
Powers:Crazy parkour skills I mean.
Technically none.
He does, however, have a highly technologically advanced batsuit of plot device that can do pretty much everything and has been trained by Batman to be Batman ssssso he can still pull a LOT of crazy gymnastic stunts and the like which would be impossible for the average joe.
Samples
First person: Your first person entry should be made as if your character were posting to a public network, such as Livejournal. It does not have to be their first post (ie, "OMG WHERE AM I?!"), but it does have to show that the character is perfectly aware of the fact that this is something that other people are likely to see. Please avoid excessive description in [action tags] here, as one would get in video posts - we're looking for your character's voice, the one they use for talking to others. Save the internal monologues for the third person sample.
Third Person: 300 word minimum. This is the place to show your character's inner thoughts. Give us a nice third person narrative of your character doing something, plus how they feel about it. This doesn't have to be blatant "this is what my character is thinking, designated by italics!" but should rather show your character's self via their actions and interactions with their environment.