The Ultimate Vampire Resource and Directory

40 years in the future. Gotham City is a futuristic metropolis equipped with staggering high rises and flying vehicles. Bruce Wayne is a recluse, living in bitter isolation with no companion but his guard dog, Ace. It is implied by virtue of his continuing to fight crime long after he should have, and his retaining of the costumes worn by Robin, Nightwing, and Batgirl, that even before he had a heart attack, something horrible transpired that caused Bruce to sever his ties with the Justice League and forbid his disciples to ever again assume their alter-egos. The events which caused all of this are revealed in Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker.

In 2039, Terry McGinnis is an athletic sixteen year-old high school student and reformed troublemaker with a deeply ingrained sense of personal justice. Terry battles against crime, tutored by Bruce and aided by a new, high-tech Batsuit that augments his abilities, fires Batarangs from the wrists, flies using jets fired from the feet, allows eavesdropping through a hypersensitive touch microphone, and provides camouflage abilities.

Maxine "Max" Gibson is a seventeen year-old computer genius who discovers Batman's (Terry’s) secret identity, and helps Terry with everything from computer hacking, to babysitting, to coming up with excuses for Terry's girlfriend, Dana Tan. Max is essentially Alfred.