10 Comic Book Supervillains Who Created Their Own Worst Enemy

Batman Beyond remains one of the absolute coolest reinventions of Batman ever committed to print or screen, and at its centre is Terry McGinnis.

Terry (voiced by Will Friedle), was just a kid trying to survive high school in Neo-Gotham when his paths crossed with Bruce Wayne. Terry's father, Warren, was a scientist at Wayne-Powers, and was murdered by the company's CEO Derek Powers for having harboured evidence revealing the company's illegal viral weapons research.

Terry decides to take matters into his own hands, and ends up discovering Wayne's secret. He then steals the Batsuit and decides to go after Derek, who he realises was responsible for his father's murder.

While Terry was initially unable to take down Derek, he did accidentally seal his fate. In their debut scuffle, Powers was exposed to the deadly virus he'd been trying to keep under wraps. He has to undergo serious radiation therapy in order to stave off the infection, which transforms him into Blight, a radioactive supervillain with a healthy green glow.

Powers' decision to kill Warren McGinnis inspired Terry to become Batman, which then led to his transformation into Blight.

That said, even though Blight would eventually perish during his final confrontation with the new Batman, he did get to deliver an absolute stonker of a line beforehand. When Terry confronts Powers and tells him he killed his father, he responds by saying, "do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?"

The line itself is hilarious on its own, but to see it come out of a big glowy skeleton man following a brief pause? It's kind of wonderful.