Batman Beyond - Blog Posts

Meet Riddler Beyond: The Quizmaster Queen

In this universe, Edward Nygma (The Riddler) uploaded his mind to the internet while on his deathbed. He then lived inside of Neo Gotham’s internet for several years, jumping from device to device until someone important discovered him. Barbara Grayson, the 18 year old daughter of Barbara Gordon (Batgirl) & Dick Grayson (Nightwing) discovered him while surfing the internet, as she had inherited her mother’s skill with computers. Despite everyone in her school loving The Joker, Two-Face, and Bane, Barbara loved The Riddler for his personality and intelligence, not to mention sense of style. Wanting to be a superhero like her parents used to be, Barbara made a deal with Riddler. He would mentor her in how to be a detective if she promised not to turn him over to the GCPD. She now works as a cyber-vigilante, sometimes aiding Batman Beyond in his protection of Neo Gotham.

The Joker King

As far back as he can remember, Douglas Tan was obsessed with The Joker. He decorated his room in every piece of Joker merchandise he could get his hands on, and tried to research as much about the Clown Prince of Crime that he could. Unfortunately, his parents saw his fascination as an “Unhealthy Obsession”, and they tried their best to distance their son from anything Joker related. They got rid of his merchandise, deleted all of his hard drives containing information, and even sent him to multiple therapists. Doug was a lot like his father though, as when he sent his mind on something, he’d never let it go. He later joined a Jokerz gang, as he saw it as a prime opportunity to spread chaos in The Joker’s name. However, all the Jokerz did was petty vandalism, loitering, and they sometimes even fought other Jokerz. After being sent to prison for the umpteenth time, Doug had an epiphany, and thought he finally knew what The Joker’s message truly was. No matter what you do, nothing matters. Everything ends eventually, no matter how far your legacy reaches past your death. Wanting to spread this wisdom with his fellow Jokerz, he began proselytizing to these people, and became their messiah in a way. After finally getting out of prison, Doug and his friend Pally Otchee went around recruiting Jokerz from other cities, planning on having all of them converge on Gotham. Once he had them all meet up in the Gotham Cemetery, he secretly sprayed them all with hypnotic drugs using hidden misters in the trees. He then convinced all of them to wear bomb vests and to suicide bomb themselves all over Gotham in order to destroy it in the name of The Joker. During the ensuing chaos, Doug headed to the hospital to kill the family that abandoned him, since his father was in a coma after Doug elbowed him in the face. He was stopped by Batman Beyond, but Doug managed to incapacitate him by constantly knocking him on the head in order to keep him delirious. His then took Batman to a construction site, and planned to hang him from the top. Batman managed to escape from the noose, and he along with a couple other heroes tried to stop Doug, who had completely lost it, and had gone full Joker crazy. His sister then ran on the scene, and Doug took her hostage. An explosion caused Doug to loose his footing, and he wound up toppling over the side of the building. His foot got tangled in a rope he was standing on, and his head ended up getting banged on the side of the building, killing him instantly. At least he died with a smile on his face, like a true Joker.

The Joker King

Doug Tan was a troubled youth who admired the Joker and wanted nothing more than to emulate him. After years of admiration, his parents got rid of all of Tan's Joker paraphernalia, viewing it as an unhealthy obsession. His idolization of the Joker continued, however, eventually leading Tan to join up with the Jokerz. He was dissatisfied with the childish nature of the gang and the petty crimes they committed. He had plans to make unite the various Jokerz around the country and bring honor to their namesake. Eventually Doug was imprisoned and was able to spread his vision while incarcerated. Soon Tan was named the Joker King and had a united force of every Joker behind him. Bringing all the Jokerz to Gotham City was phase one of his plan. The Joker King used hypnotic drugs in a mass gathering of Jokerz to carryout mass destruction on Gotham's infrastructure. Members of the Jokerz gang were strapped with explosives and "willingly" taking out buildings along with themselves. Joker King confronted his family at a hospital, but they were saved by the combined efforts of Bruce and Terry. Later Joker King got the upper hand on Batman, but he was saved by Dick Grayson. After a final showdown between Batman and the Joker King, his reign of terror ended when his foot is caught by some rope and he fell off the ledge. The swing from the rope caused Tan's body to slam against the concrete wall of an unfinished building. The trauma inflicted to Tan's head killed him instantly, but he died with a smile, like a true Joker.

Batman Beyond - Cast

Set in 2065, a rebellious high schooler named Terry McGinnis’ life changes forever the day he meets Bruce Wayne. Discovering Bruce Wayne was Batman, he steals the new Batsuit and uses it to get revenge on his father’s killer. Meanwhile, Terry’s girlfriend’s deranged brother Doug Tan (a.k.a. Joker King) has secretly become a tyrannical cult leader and is rallying all of the Jokerz (crazy teens who dress up as clowns and cause chaos) together and instructing them to blow themselves up in order to destroy Neo-Gotham in the name of The Joker. Having no choice, Bruce and Terry reluctantly work together to stop the chaos and save Gotham from the Joker King’s madness.

Who’s your favorite member of The Jokerz?

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Joker King

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Terminal

Happy new years! I ended up deciding to just make a whole small post dedicated to all the DC art I've done this past month. I hope to find time to create AND post more in 2025

I'll probably end up adding final touches (AND finishing) to some of these, I also have just some ship kid posts that I'll be posting separately along with other pieces

It's be an over all extremely fun year for me but it's also been a struggling last few months with just me trying to experiment with my art (hence my disappearances and etc)

Forgive me on that, anyway here's some art!

I intend to get stuff that I've finished, or nearly have, out daily after this night.