Carter Wilson (DCAU)

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Real Name	Carter Wilson
Main Alias	Terminal
Relatives	Mrs. Wilson (mother)
Affiliation	Jokerz
Status
Alignment	Bad
Identity	Public Identity
Citizenship	American
Marital Status	Single
Occupation	Student
Characteristics
Gender	Male
Eyes	Black
Hair	Brown
Origin
Universe	DCAU
First Appearance	"Hidden Agenda" (October 16, 1999)
Last Appearance	Batman Beyond Vol 2 #12 (October, 2000)

Carter Wilson was an honor-roll student at Hamilton Hill High School, but led a double life as a member of the Jokerz.

History

At first, Carter seemed to be everything a student could be: smart, handsome, popular, star athlete, class president. Inside, he was morbidly sensitive about his reputation and his sense of achievement; this came from the constant harangues of his cold-hearted mother, who constantly pushed him to be perfect and at the top in everything. At some point, he adopted the alias "Terminal", along with a frightening costume resembling a weird cross between a zombie and an escaped mental patient. Before long, he had a gang of Jokerz under his personal command whom he dominated through his intelligence and the force of his personality. In part, this may have been his way of rebelling against his mother's strict authority. On the other hand, it was also his unconscious way of lashing out at a world that his mother portrayed as cold and unforgiving to anyone who wasn't "the best".

Later, he got the idea of using the Jokerz to further his own agenda. After he placed second in the standardized GAT test, behind Maxine Gibson's perfect score, he and his Jokerz invaded the high school at night to delete the test records. During his search of school records, Terminal also found that Max was the leading candidate to be class valedictorian. He tried to delete those records as well, but his access was blocked. He saw no way to his goal of being first other than to remove Max. One night, when Max was working late at school, Terminal had his Jokerz appear outside the school to lure Batman away, then reprogrammed school robots to attack Max inside. Batman arrived back, narrowly saving her. Later, Terminal and his thugs followed Max to a park where she was due to meet Terry McGinnis, and ambushed her. Batman arrived to save her again, and in the ensuing fight, Terminal fell into a fountain, where his makeup was washed off, and he was subsequently arrested. Hearing the news, his fellow students and supposed friends pronounced that they had always known he was a loser.

Powers and Abilities

Abilities

• Leadership
  • Charisma
• Hand-to-Hand Combat (Basic)
• Deception
• Disguise

Notes

• Terminal was voiced by Michael Rosenbaum.

Related

• 3 Appearances of Carter Wilson (DCAU)
• 1 Images featuring Carter Wilson (DCAU)
• Quotations by or about Carter Wilson (DCAU)
• Character Gallery: Carter Wilson (DCAU)

External Links

• Terminal at the DC Animated Universe Wiki

Footnotes

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