Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Batman Beyond Return of the Joker also known as Batman of the Future Return of the Joker in Europe and Australia is a 2000 directtovideo animated film featuring the comic book superhero Batman and his archenemy, the Joker. It is set in the continuity of the animated series Batman Beyond, in which Bruce Wayne has retired from crime fighting, giving the mantle of Batman to high school student Terry McGinnis, and serves as a sequel to both Batman The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures. As in the TV series, Will Friedle and Kevin Conroy star as Terry McGinnis and Bruce Wayne, respectively. Mark Hamill, who played the Joker opposite Conroy in Batman The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures, reprises his role.

In NeoGotham City, the Joker mysteriously resurfaces after having disappearedyears ago, taking over a faction of the criminal gang Jokerz. On his orders, they steal hightech communications equipment. Despite the intervention of Terry McGinnis Bruce Waynes successor as Batman, the Joker escapes. Bruce insists that the Joker must be an impostor, claiming to have witnessed the Jokers death after their last battle. Unwilling to let Terry face the Jokerimpostor or notBruce demands that he return the Batsuit. The Joker attacks Bruce in the Batcave, leaving him for dead. Terry, after fending off an attack from the Jokerz, finds Bruce near dead from the Jokers trademark toxin and quickly administers an antidote, tending to Bruce with the help of Barbara Gordon, who is now the commissioner of the GCPD.At Terrys insistence, Barbara reluctantly tells him what really happened to the Joker. Decades earlier, after Nightwing Dick Grayson moved to the adjoining city of Bldhaven to fight crime on his own, the Joker and Harley Quinn kidnapped Tim Drake, Dicks successor as Robin, disfigured him to look like the Joker, and tortured him for three weeks, at which point Tim revealed Batmans secrets. During the final battle, although the Joker attempted to make Tim kill Batman, Tim because a trace of his former self remained turned on the Joker and killed him before suffering a mental breakdown. Batman and Batgirl Barbara buried the Jokers body in a mineshaft deep beneath Arkham Asylum, while Harley fell into a pit while fighting Batgirl and was presumed dead. One year after the incident, Tim was successfully rehabilitated, but Bruce forbade Tim from being Robin again, blaming himself for what happened and vowing to never again endanger another young partner. Tim eventually settled down with a wife and family and now has a career as a communications engineer. ........

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