Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (2000) — watch online on iFILM, a Warner Bros. animated sci-fi action film directed by Curt Geda. Neo-Gotham has a new Dark Knight: teenager Terry McGinnis, voiced by Will Friedle, handles the cape while an aging Bruce Wayne runs backup from the shadows. Then the Joker shows up. Alive. And that should be impossible.

Terry has faced street gangs and corporate supervillains, but nothing like this. To beat an enemy who should be dead, he needs the one story Bruce — voiced by Kevin Conroy — refuses to tell: what actually happened the night the original Batman fought the Joker for the last time. Mark Hamill returns to voice the Clown Prince in full, unsettling form.

Darker than the usual animated fare, with a third-act twist that reframes everything. Stream Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker online on iFILM.