Justice League, Season Four

Amanda Waller:
As you know, I was in charge of Project Cadmus. Over the years I came to respect Batman, even trust him.

Terry:
I guess the law of averages means someone had to.

Amanda Waller:
I was the government liaison to the Justice League for a few years. I met some extraordinary people in that job, but none of them were the equal of Batman.

Terry:
[bitterly] Right, who could be?

Amanda Waller:
Not my point. I saw him save the day dozens of times with nothing but his wits, body and will. But I saw something else as the years passed - he was getting older. Slower. Soon he'd have to retire, or more likely someone would finally manage to kill him. The thought of a world without Batman was unacceptable. So, I decided to make a new one. I used my old Cadmus connections to gather the technology necessary for Project: Batman Beyond. Bruce's DNA was easy enough to obtain. He left it all over town. [Terry gives her a look] Not REMOTELY what I meant! [Cut to a shot of Batman being bandaged by a paramedic] Then I found a young Neo-Gotham couple, with psychological profiles nearly identical to those of Bruce's parents. Your father thought he was getting a flu shot; actually it was a nanotech solution programmed to rewrite his reproductive material into an exact copy of Bruce Wayne's. A little over a year later, your mother gave birth to you, a child sharing half her genetic material... and half Bruce's.