Smitten?

Alright, so back in the day kidsWB had a show called "Batman and Superman", which was my first foray into watching Bruce Wayne and his alter ego.  Twas fun to watch during those Saturday mornings.  But then "Batman Beyond" came along and the character of Batman instantly became one of my favorite characters of all time.

I've already gone over the fantastic title sequence.  But another aspect that got me coming back for more every week was the main character Terry McGinnis.  Aside from being Awesome from having Bruce Wayne take him under his wing (pun intended) and train McGinnis as his protege Batman, I was...kinda smitten with him.

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He has that same moody, dark, sometimes surly attitude but his heart is in the right place.  He's athletic and nimble.  He has his own moral code and powerful drives-- the same qualities that make Bruce Wayne/the original Batman so attractive and swoon-worthy, except that Terry is a teenager and therefore more impulsive and prone to making bad decisions.  But that just made him even more attractive, I guess, in that he's a good guy but also kind of a bad boy.  This was a character that my dorky little tween heart became smitten with, and I'm only half as embarassed about this as I think I should be.  I still look back and thoroughly enjoy the character and other characters and the storytelling, but suffice it to say that I no longer have a crush on this cartoon protagonist.  Also it's a little jarring to realize that Terry's voice actor was the same person who played Corey Matthews' brother Eric from "Boy Meets World". 

Still, I think he gives a great performance and it's a testament to his versatility (or something like that) as an actor that he's so goofy in one show and so brooding in another.