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About a year or so before the debut of the Batman Beyond cartoon, Amblin Entertainment released the film The Mask of Zorro. Both feature a badly-aging hero passing his disguise on to an (originally in BB's case) unrelated young successor from the wrong side of the tracks, and a sometimes contentious relationship between the mentor and the protege.

Has anyone heard anything that suggests Batman Beyond was inspired by The Mask of Zorro? Given that Douglas Fairbanks' film The Mark of Zorro is cited as one of the influences on Batman's creation and early development, it would make for an interesting symmetry.