Data James

***The Storyline***
*This article contains information revolving around the WDb channel storyline.*

* Now
* Future

**Data James** is a copy of James Strecker created by Prime Mattie Savannah Pahl.

## Origin

September 14th, roughly a year after being locked in James's basement, Mattie (pushed to the brink of insanity) retreats to a hidden room that they dug out in the basement during renovations. In Mattie's Laboratory, experiments were run, synthesizing James' DNA that was collected throughout the house. Poison Ivy's character arc in the DCAU was the key to figuring out the (digital) cloning process. Once the perfect digital replication of James' body and consciousness was created, Mattie dubbed their creation "Data James" and passed on the "Will It Canon" show idea that James had picked up and abandoned following a single episode.

Despite the fact Mattie states "he could make boatloads of extra content while i looked for a way to get out of this place", their notes indicated that one reason Data James was created was to serve as a content mill. However, those notes also suggest Mattie may have already been aware of the multiversal hosts of The Vanishing Point. This would seem to indicate that the adversarial relationship between Mattie and Data James was more about power and spite towards James than as a means of alleviating James' demands for content.

## The Future?

Despite having left the computer in the present, Data James is seen to have appeared in the future, still inside the computer, during the Earth-12 "Will it Canon?" Via time travel. Since Mattie's laptop was left in the past when they traveled through time, its currently ynclear what the future hodls for Data James.

## Appearances

* "JUSTICE LEAGUE: CRISIS ON TWO EARTHS" - Part of the DC Animated Universe? | Will It Canon?
* BATMAN ADVENTURES VOL 2 Timeline! The Part-Time Dark Knight
* "JUSTICE LEAGUE vs THE FATAL FIVE" - Part of the DCAU? | Will It Canon?
* SPLICING - Origins of Batman Beyond's Genetic Mutation | The Vanishing Point
* TEEN TITANS vs The DCAU - The Same Universe? The Same Robin? | Will It Canon?
* Earth-12 is NOT the DC Animated Universe...Here's Why | Will It Canon?
* Every Easter Egg You Missed in the BATMAN The Adventures Continue HOLIDAY SPECIAL!
* BATMAN: THE ADVENTURES CONTINUE - Broken or Beautiful? | Will It Canon?
* DC's Biggest Secret: The POISON IVY Clone Theory Explained (death)
* The Teen Titans Finale is Perfect BUT…. (Resurrection)

## Trivia

* The first Will It Canon episode featured Prime James instead of Data James.
* When filming the Crisis on Two Earth WIC James didn't know he was a program yet.
* It is possible that Data James never acquired a lab coat because Mattie didn't want to reward James with what he wanted.
	+ He would later receive a labcoat in his redesign in “Teen Titans Finale was great BUT….”
* Data James is canonically barefoot.
* Data James can take one sip of coffee
	+ Well, he could. He’s dead now.
* Will it Canon? writer Mattie Savannah Pahl claimed that Data James would have said Brainiac Attacks is canon if that episode wasn't recorded by the "real" storyline James.
	+ Levi Church debunked this on their Discord thread, citing the Fatal Five WIC, where Data James stated Brainiac Attacks was not canon.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/jtstrecker/status/1577853342557970434
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/jtstrecker/status/1577853388426838016
3. ↑ https://twitter.com/MattiePahl/status/1577852310893473792
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/MattiePahl/status/1577892032592642049