'Justice League: Crisis On Infinite Earths' Goes Beyond In Part Two Trailer

A beloved Batman of the future comes 15 years back as the multiverse collapses

It’s not yet been two weeks since Warner Bros. Home Entertainment released the first part of its animated Crisis on Infinite Earths adaptation. Now, they’re all ready to tease the second of its three parts with its first individual trailer. And while this adaptation may not entirely follow the Arrowverse’s lead for the medium of animation, it seems Justice League: Crisis On Infinite Earths - Part Two will include a character seen outside of their original iteration’s universe for the first time.

Released on Twitter, the trailer starts with the Anti-Monitor’s shadow demons ascending. Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman prepare to fight them off, joined by multiversal Bat-Family members including Huntress, a Barbara Gordon Batgirl, a Damian Robin and…TERRY MCGINNIS? Oh yeah and the Monitor has more plans for Kara.

Well, back to Terry it is someone in a Batman Beyond suit but the likelihood is too high that it’s Terry for it not to be. It would mean the first (controversially) biological son of Batman has shown up in a Crisis on Infinite Earths adaptation for the first time. Created and developed for his own DC Animated Universe series by Paul Dini, Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett, Batman Beyond ran for 52 episodes across three seasons from 1999 to 2001, well after the 1985 run of the original Crisis on Infinite Earths comic event. Set in 2039, Terry McGinnis (voiced by Will Friedle) fights crime as Batman in Neo-Gotham under the guidance of an elderly Bruce Wayne. After the end of his series, he appeared on Justice League Unlimited (including the episode “Epilogue” set farthest in the universe’s timeline thus far, revealing his true paternity), and in 2012 a DC Nation short celebrating Batman’s 75th anniversary. Terry would start appearing in comics, initially ones made as tie-ins to the show, then ones that appeared to be non-DCAU stories involving that world, before finally a version rooted in the main comics’ DC Universe, debuted in the post-Flashpoint New 52. And yes, he therefore has coexisted in the comics with Bruce’s son Damian.

While the appearance could be an iteration from a comics-based universe or a near-identical one, and thus be the first film or TV appearance of a non-DCAU Terry/Batman Beyond, executive producer Butch Lukic has recently indicated he may very well be the DCAU’s exact one, saying "In the second movie, you’ll see one or two characters from other animated universes." Of course, Terry has starred in his own animated movie, 2000’s Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, but getting new onscreen iterations has been unsuccessful, with one attempt with a desire for Clint Eastwood as Bruce happening closer to the series’s original run, and a more recent attempt that would’ve followed the ill-fated Batgirl in the new DCEU The Flash would’ve allowed for as part of Michael Keaton’s Batman renaissance.

The penultimate film of the Tomorrowverse, a cast list specific to it hasn’t been released, but it at the very least stars the main trinity of Darren Criss as Superman, Stana Katic as Wonder Woman and Jensen Ackles as Batman/Bruce Wayne return of course, while Criss and Katic take on additional roles as the Earth-2 Superman and Superwoman respectively, as well as Matt Bomer as The Flash/Barry Allen, Meg Donnelly as Supergirl, Jimmi Simpson as Green Arrow/Oliver Queen, and Zachary Quinto as Lex Luthor. The film also features Aldis Hodge as Green Lantern John Stewart and his Power Ring, Alexandra Daddario as Lois Lane, Ike Amadi as J’onn J’onzz the Martian Manhunter, Amazing Man and Professor Ivo, Alastair Duncan as Alfred, Ashleigh LaThrop as Iris West, Keesha Sharp as Vixen, Nolan North as Green Lantern Hal Jordan, and Amazo, Liam Mcintyre as Aquaman and Johnny Quick, Cynthia Hamidi as Dawnstar, Harry Shum Jr. as Brainiac 5, and Matt Lanter as Blue Beetle and Ultraman, New cast includes Ato Essandoh as Michael Holt aka Mr Terrific, Erika Ishii as Doctor Light/Dr. Hoshi & Huntress, David Kaye as The Question, and Lou Diamond Phillips as The Spectre & Owlman.

A release date for Part Two hasn’t been confirmed other than for later this year. Part One, while already on digital, has its 4K UHD and Blu-ray release this Tuesday, January 23.

Sources: Comic Book Resources, ComicBookMovie