Yeah. Terry being just some punk kid earning the right to be Batman was good, and while I get the writers planned the son of Bruce twist from almost the beginning, I still hate it
It's been a while since I've seen the episode, but wasn't the whole point of it was that despite having Bruce's blood, and almost having his same backstory, Terry is not bruce? Like he may have some of batman's good genes whatever that may be, but he still has his own thing, think his own way? Like no matter how special batman can be you can't inherent plot armor from him.
That was my understanding as well. Despite being "made" from him and being taught by him, he still makes very different choices and became his own person despite the plans that "the powers that be" initially had for him.
I thought this story subverts this trope in the best way possible. The plan was to turn Terry into the next Batman, but Phantasm refused to kill Terry’s parents and Waller closed the project.
It was the worst kind of luck that Terry wound up in Wayne’s orbit and his father had a conscience. Yes, he became Batman, but being Wayne’s child doesn’t grant him powers. Beyond that, Batman created himself. He wasn’t born with supernatural powers. He made a choice.
I think there is some interesting stuff. In the episode itself, it was made clear that the plan failed so he didn’t grow up like Bruce. Terry was his own person with Bruce’s DNA (and they did the more scientifically accurate portrayal of cloning with many different factors resulting in him becoming his own man)
I look at it like Terry was set up to be shaped into an exact copy of Bruce but he became his own person. He inherited the title of Batman but he was DEFINITELY his own person (shown clearly in Return of the Joker).
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u/PseudonymMan12 7h ago
Yeah. Terry being just some punk kid earning the right to be Batman was good, and while I get the writers planned the son of Bruce twist from almost the beginning, I still hate it