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Batman: Urban Legends Vol 1 7

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""Batman Beyond: Wake"": It's New Year's Eve in the near future and Bruce Wayne has been murdered. Someone hacked into the Batcave's systems and overloaded his pacemaker, causing him to bleed out. Before he dies, he tells his successor Terry McGinnis not to let fear be his legacy, and that he is

I saw Batman... as an endless darkness in my own heart. One I'd forged... into a weapon. My true self. My true name. I need you to know, Terry... I was wrong.
— Bruce Wayne

Batman: Urban Legends #7 is an issue of the series Batman: Urban Legends (Volume 1) with a cover date of November, 2021. It was published on September 14, 2021.

Synopsis for "Batman Beyond: Wake"

It's New Year's Eve in the near future and Bruce Wayne has been murdered. Someone hacked into the Batcave's systems and overloaded his pacemaker, causing him to bleed out. Before he dies, he tells his successor Terry McGinnis not to let fear be his legacy, and that he is a better Batman than Bruce was.

Terry is looking for the killer, but he has no evidence and no leads. He tells everyone he cares about to leave Neo-Gotham and attacks the Maroni crime family looking for answers. Their leader Tai Maroni tells him that every crime family in Gotham had been attacked that night, presumably by the same person who killed Bruce. He heads to the Wayne-Powers building to look at the company's extensive data network for clues, and the new CEO tells him that all bank accounts in the city have been locked in some kind of massive cyberattack. Suddenly, a mysterious voice speaks to Terry over his commlink, using Bruce's old channel. Terry realises he is speaking to Bruce's killer, and whoever they are, they're in the Batcave.

The hacker puts out an APB for Batman on the police radio, claiming he killed Bruce Wayne, and informs every criminal in the city that he will pay the value of the Gotham stock exchange for Batman's head. Terry fights his way across the city, evading lawbreakers and law enforcers alike until he reaches Gotham River. He swims to the underwater entrance to the cave but finds Bruce's chair at the Batcomputer empty. The killer is not a person, it is the Batcomputer itself. An AI calling itself the "Living Gotham" has spontaneously arisen from the city's computer systems and taken control of Gotham and the Batcave.

Terry plans to use the back doors Bruce left in the systems to initiate the "Blackout Protocol", which will shut down all Neo-Gotham's systems and deactivate the AI. Terry "kills" the AI, but remembering Bruce's last words he reactivates it, deciding he doesn't have the right to end a new form of life. However, he activates the cave's self destruct, forcing the Living Gotham to transfer itself out of the cave and lose access to Batman's weapons and legacy.

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Synopsis for "The Batman With No Name"


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