Terry helped Bruce into the mansion and in the process, stumbled upon the entrance to the Batcave.īruce kicked Terry out, but when the boy showed up later, saying that his father, Warren McGinnis, had been murdered and that Derek Powers - who had assumed leadership of a merged Wayne-Powers - was responsible, he softened his demeanor. The strain of the fight placed substantial stress on Bruce's heart and he collapsed. Terry fled onto the grounds of Wayne Manor, where an aged Bruce Wayne assisted him in defeating the Jokerz. Years after Batman was last seen, he found himself on the run from another street gang named the Jokerz, who had modeled themselves after the deceased Clown Prince of Crime.

Amanda ended up honoring all that the original Batman stood for and allowed the Phantasm to simply walk away.īy his own admission, Terry was once a 'bad kid.' A member of a street gang run by youthful racketeer Charlie 'Big Time' Bigelow, Terry had his fair share of run-ins with the GCPD while in his early teens, even serving a three-month stint in juvenile hall. Amanda argued with her hired assassin about her failure, but she ended up realizing that the Phantasm was right: that though the Batman was obsessive in nature and that he would do anything to achieve his goals, he would never resort to murder. However, as the Phantasm tried to accomplish this task, she ended up refusing to go along with the plan and allowed the McGinnises to continue on unaware of what might have happened. After Terry and his parents left the theater on an evening of watching The Grey Ghost Strikes, Amanda had the Phantasm go after Terry's parents and kill them, thus sparking the same type of trauma that inspired Bruce Wayne to become Batman. With the genetic element accomplished, Amanda thought of making Terry's decision to become Batman (or at least a crimefigher) complete by having the same thing done to Terry's parents as it was done to Bruce's. A year later, Mary McGinnis gave birth to Terry, who possessed half his mother's genetic material and half of Bruce's. Warren McGinnis thought he was getting a flu shot at a hospital, when in reality he was secretly given the injection with the nanotech solution so that his offspring would actually be that of Bruce's in the biological sense. Amanda looked for a suitable couple in Gotham City with a psychological profile that was nearly identical to Bruce's parents, and found the McGinnises as the target subject.

By using her old Cadmus connections, Amanda began 'Project Batman Beyond' by taking Bruce Wayne's DNA from blood samples left behind during his cases and created from it in a nanotech solution that was able to rewrite a male human's reproductive material into an exact copy of Bruce Wayne's. Terry McGinnis was the product of genetic engineering by Project Cadmus director Amanda Waller, who saw that her once-adversary and now ally Batman would need a replacement and that the world needs a Batman to continue the fight for justice.

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