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In the futurist Gotham occupy byBatman Beyondit seems thatBruce Wayne ’s bad reverence have total to life and his mission to fight criminals has give out . This can be seen inBatman Beyond : Neo - Year . The first government issue was written by Jackson Lanzing and Collin Kelly with art by Max Dunbar .

This series picks up withBruce Wayne dead and Neo - Gotham alert . The urban center has rule out Terry McGinnis as it ’s protector , but Terry is n’t giving up so easily . He is ascertain now more than ever to carry on Bruce Wayne ’s effort against criminality , but he has many forces working against him . He tries to enter commissioner Barbara Gordon to his side , but Terry is blindsided to memorise that the commissioner is retiring . Without Bruce Wayne or Commissioner Gordon to help , Terry is truly on his own now .

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Neo - Gotham is still in trouble and necessitate protecting , but people in the metropolis keep citing the flat crime rate as a reason not to occupy . Barbara Gordon even uses that as an excuse to put out . But flat just think that crime is not rising or getting forged . It ’s still spoiled and needs to be fought , but people are growing complacent by this condition quo . Batman had made it his ultimate commission to fight criminality . He would never be satisfied with a flat crime rate . He would desire to rule out it . The fact that everyone in the city , include a former protégé , is fine with a flat criminal offence rate means thatBruce Wayne ’s foreign mission ultimately fail .

It ’s almost ironic that it took the dying of Bruce Wayne for this to happen , too . Even in his old age , Bruce was still crusade the same fight and train the next multiplication to do the same . So Bruce ’s decease is not just heartbreaking on a practical level for offence - scrap in the city , it ’s also metaphorical and emblematic of how crime is viewed in Gotham . Without the original Batman present to take a stand , the metropolis has just grown complacent .

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Thegood news for Bruce is that Terry is not like everyone else . Other protégés of Batman , including Dick Grayson and his son Damien , are nowhere to be catch in their former home . But Terry is determined now more than ever to continueBruce ’s pursuit to fight criminals in the city . Right now , the shivery part for him is that includes the metropolis itself , but ifBatman Beyond ’s account is any meter reading , he ’s not going to give up so easily .

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