Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (also known as Batman of the Future: Return of the Joker is a 2000 American direct-to-video superhero mystery animated film featuring the DC Comics' superhero Batman and his archenemy, the Joker. It is set in the continuity of the animated series Batman Beyond, in which Bruce Wayne has retired from crime fighting, giving the mantle of Batman to high-school student Terry McGinnis, and serves as a sequel to both Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures. As in the TV series, Will Friedle and Kevin Conroy star as Terry McGinnis and Bruce Wayne, respectively, and Mark Hamill, who voiced the Joker opposite Conroy in Batman: The Animated Series and The New Batman Adventures, reprises his role. Animation services were done at the Japanese animation studio, TMS Entertainment. The story follows McGinnis, the new Batman and his mentor Bruce Wayne as they face the latter's archenemy the Joker, who has returned after mysteriously disappeared for decades, leading Terry to discover what happened during Bruce's final battle with the Joker as Batman. In order to save Gotham City from the Joker's latest attack, Terry must confront the villain himself.