Grief-stricken, Terry looked through his father's belongings and found a disk that Warren had taken from his employer, Derek Powers, the new head of Wayne-Powers. Terry helped Bruce into the mansion and, in the process, stumbled upon the entrance to the Batcave.īruce kicked Terry out, but Terry returned home to find it covered in Jokerz graffiti, and discovered his father had been murdered. The strain of the fight placed substantial stress on Bruce's heart, and he collapsed. He fled onto the grounds of Wayne Manor, where an aged Bruce Wayne appeared and assisted him in defeating the Jokerz. While defending Dana from another street gang, the Jokerz, Terry found himself being chased by them to the outskirts of Gotham City. On what proved to be the last night of Warren's life, Terry stormed out of the house after an argument. Terry still had trouble relating to his father, Warren McGinnis, who accused him of being irresponsible. Terry was once a member of a street gang run by Charlie "Big Time" Bigelow, and had his fair share of run-ins with the Gotham Police Department in his early teens, even serving a three-month stint in juvenile hall.Īs he returned to high school, however, he shed some of his worst habits and acquired a girlfriend, Dana Tan. Shortly after the failed assassination, Warren and Mary had another son, Matt. When Waller realized she had crossed a line, she scrapped the project. The hired assassin, knowing what the murders had done to Batman and realized that she would be dishonoring everything he stood for, refused to subject another child to the same horrors. Knowing that genetics were not the only factor in creating Batman, Waller later hired an assassin to murder Terry's parents at the same age and under very similar circumstances as his predecessor to try to recreate these conditions. A year later, Terry McGinnis was born as a genetic son of Mary and Batman. During an apparent routine flu inoculation, Warren was administered a nanotech solution that over-wrote his reproductive DNA with Batman's. After obtaining a sample of Batman's DNA, a young couple was found that were almost identical psychological matches to Batman's father and mother: Warren and Mary McGinnis. Drawing on her old Cadmus contacts, Waller devised a scheme to give Batman a genetic "son" who would likewise be compelled to take up a life as his successor. As she watched Batman age, she realized he wouldn't be around forever and the Dark Knight would have to retire or someone would finally kill him. During encounters with the Justice League, both hostile and friendly, Amanda Waller developed a great admiration for Batman and came to believe that someone like him would always be needed.