In Comic Books
Outside of Rebirth’s comic incarnation in Batman Beyond Limited Series issues 01 & 02, and one story set within season 1 of the television series in issue 03, Blight makes his one and only appearance post his apparent death in the episode Ascension, in issue 18 of the main Batman Beyond comic. Having survived the submarine explosion, Powers swam to shore, only to become the new target of the hunter Stalker. After injecting Terry with a non lethal radiation poisoning, Stalker attempts to use Batman as bait to lure out the now utterly insane Blight, who has been hiding in the Gotham sewer system, after the hunter had apparently already tried to capture and kill him before. Once confronted with Batman, Blight appears to have been completely affected by the radiation in his system, which has caused him to forget his original identity as Derek Powers, referring to himself only as Blight, and blaming Batman for all that has happened to him. After a long fight in a steel mill, Blight is engulfed in melted steel and apparently killed, leaving only his corpse as a dead magma covered statue. Stalker having thanked Batman for his trouble, subjects Terry to a powerful electrical shock, causing him to pass out. When he awakes, both the hunter and Blight’s remains are gone. At the end of the comic, Terry questions Bruce as to what Stalker was going to do with Blight; a cut to one last panel reveals Stalker in a cave alone, with all the trophies of the dead captured targets he has killed.
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