Batman Beyond

<div style="text-align: right;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/terryflyng.jpg" /><!--right--></div> <strong>Batman Beyond</strong> (known as "Batman of the Future" in Europe, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, Russia and India) is an American animated television series created by The WB Television Network in collaboration with DC Comics as a continuation of the Batman legacy. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/logo.gif" /><!--center--></div> Batman Beyond began airing on January 10, 1999 and ended its run on December 18, 2001. With 52 episodes spanning three seasons and one direct-to-video movie under its belt, the series was then put on hold for the new Justice League animated series. However, there was a short-lived spin-off, The Zeta Project. It is worth noting that in The Zeta Project's first season episode "Shadows", there is a crossover with Batman Beyond; in this continuity, the story takes place between the episode "Countdown" and the series finale "Unmasked." <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/apartment.jpg" /><!--center--></div> The series is set in the chronological future of the DC animated universe, although it was released before Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, and Static Shock. Some characters from the series appeared two years later in "Future Shock", an episode of Static Shock, and then again in "The Once and Future Thing," episodes of Justice League Unlimited. The character was revisited a final time in the JLU episode "Epilogue"', which tells much about the future of Batman. <div style="text-align: center;"><img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/batcave.jpg" /><!--center--></div> Batman Beyond is said to exploit the darker side of many Batman projects, playing basically on such key elements as emotions, personal relations, fear of unknown and technological malfunctions. As such it was considerably darker than most other children's programs at the time. It is also the first Batman series to portray the hero as a teenager. - <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Beyond" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Beyond</a> <img src="http://i641.photobucket.com/albums/uu140/mrjag/terry05.jpg" /> <div style="text-align: center;"><object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://youtube.com/v/VzS1KWsMcDg&rel=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VzS1KWsMcDg&rel=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><!--center--></div>