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* [[The Commissioner Gordon]]: [[Trope Namer]].

* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: He gives these speeches to Batman on a regular basis.

* [[Mind Rape]]: The Joker puts him through at least three of these. And he still doesn't crack beyond shooting the clown in the kneecap.

* [[Police Are Useless]]: In the earlier comics. He gets better in the more recent ones.

* [[Smoking Is Cool]]

* [[Two First Names]]

 

== Catwoman I (Selina Kyle) ==

* [[Put on a Bus]]

* [[The Runaway]]: She ended up on the streets after running away from [[Abusive Parents]].

* [[Sidekick]]

* [[Spy Catsuit]]

Batman and Catwoman ''finally'' confessed their love for one another, then got married and had a daughter. The daughter, Helena, had all the benefits of being rich (an excellent education, etc.), was trained by her parents to be an excellent athlete, and joined Dick Grayson's law firm. However, tragedy struck and Selena was blackmailed into donning the Catwoman suit for one more heist, which led to her death. Swearing vengeance on the blackmailer, Helena Wayne became the costumed heroine, the Huntress. No, this was not a badly written fan-fic, this was what happened on Earth-Two, during the [[Pre Crisis]] era. Even after her father, the Earth-Two Batman, died in battle with a villain after coming out of semi-retirement one last time, she continued crimefighting with Dick Grayson (''still'' going by Robin even though he was well into middle age), and joined the [[Justice Society of America]]. Then ''[[Crisis on Infinite Earths]]'' happened, and all of the Earth-Two characters "never existed".

 

 

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Played straight. Michael Lane [[Sliding Scale of Anti-Heroes|ranges from Type 3 to Type 4 all the way to Type 5]].

* [[Anti-Hero Substitute]]: Michael Lane tried to be this during the ''Battle for the Cowl'' event where he was first introduced (''[[Long Title|Batman: Battle For the Cowl: Azrael: Death's Dark Knight]]''. Dark Knight?). It didn't work out.

* [[Big Bad Friend]]: Michael Lane's {{spoiler|assistant, Adrian Paratino, actually works for Ra's freakin' al Ghul}}.

* [[Bloodier and Gorier]]: Check.

* [[Church Militant]]: Order of Purity? Check.

* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Michael Lane's series is ''made'' of this.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: When he wants to be.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: A lot of people have noted that Michael Lane's costume looks like something out of ''[[Assassin's Creed]]''.

* [[Dual-Wielding]]: Michael Lane carries ''two'' flaming swords; one red and [[Technicolor Fire|one blue]].

* [[Flaming Sword]]: Ditto. As stated before, Michael Lane has two.

* [[Heroic Sociopath]]: ''Every day''.

* [[Legacy Character]]: Applies, as Michael is only the most recent incarnation of a line of Azraels who work for Sacred Order of St. Dumas splinter group the Order of Purity. All they need is the Suit of Sorrows and a volunteer. All of the people who wore the Suit of Sorrows were eventually driven insane by it. Heck, it only took six weeks to do the trick for Michael Lane's predessor.

* [[Mook Face Turn]]: Michael Lane once worked for [[Grant Morrisons Batman|Dr. Hurt of the Black Glove]], and accepted an offer to become Azrael partly as his way of atoning for his perceived role in the demise of [[Batman]].

* {{spoiler|[[Offscreen Afterlife]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]]. Michael Lane briefly went to someplace that was obviously meant to be purgatory}}.

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]

* [[Noble Bigot with a Badge]]: "Noble" may be a stretch. Not entirely loathable, at least.

* [[Police Brutality]]

* [[Private Detective]]: when he was off the force.

Renee Montoya was an officer of the GCPD. She was Harvey Bullock's partner until he was promoted to lieutenant and stayed in Gotham during No Man's Land; it was then that a connection between her and Harvey Dent/Two-Face was first established. After No Man's Land, her new partner is Crispus Allen, a cop from Metropolis. When she is outed due to Two-Face's machinations - Two-Face being in love with her - she is disowned by her family. Renee struggles with anger issues for more than a year until Infinite Crisis breaks and {{spoiler|Cris is murdered by [[Dirty Cop]] Jim Corrigan}}. She comes close to crossing [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him|the line]] once more, and leaves the force. However, [[The Question|Victor Sage]] took her in during this stressful time and made her his protégé.

 

 

* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: When partnered with Bullock. She [[Character Development|changed]].

The acting CEO of Wayne Industries: Fox essentially runs the company, since Bruce obviously has other things to occupy his time. He and Bruce are very good friends, and similarly to Jim Gordon it is often implied that he has figured out Jim's secret, though again like Jim it is never outright stated.

 

* [[Honest Corporate Executive]]

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]

* [[The Artifact]]: Probably the only reason any one occasionally bothers to write her.

* [[Damsel in Distress]]

* [[Shallow Love Interest]]

 

== Man-Bat ==

 

Doctor Kirk Langstrom created a serum which would give humans powers of echolocation, which he tested on himself due to him growing deaf. However, the serum instead transformed him into the Man-Bat, who would sometimes terrorize Gotham City. His wife, Francine, had taken the serum later on, and she became the She-Bat, and they flew through the night together. The transformation has been treated like a curse at times, but sometimes Kirk Langstrom is in full control of Man-Bat, becoming an ally of Batman and other superheroes. In recent comics, he is more often shown to be a hero. He and his wife have two kids, the first born daughter, Becky, being able to change into a She-Bat, and the second born, a boy named Aaron, was born in Man-Bat form due to his parents' exposure to the serum.

* [[Large Ham]]: He purposefully invokes this in his original Ditko incarnation, in order to terrify criminals into submission. [[Flanderization|All subsequent versions]], though, have portrayed the Creeper persona as being [[Cloudcuckoolander|genuinely out of his gourd]].

* [[Laughing Mad]]

* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: {{spoiler|His Creeper side has been recently revealed to be demonic in nature.}}

* [[Slasher Smile]]

== Abuse (Colin Wilkes) ==

 

 

The Scarecrow abducted Colin and experimented on him with a synthetic Venom, hoping Batman would not fight children. But, realizing that despite Colin's grotesque appearance he was a child at heart, Batman used his Batrope to stick Colin's teddy bear to Crane causing him to attack Scarecrow instead of Batman. In the end, Batman prevented Colin from killing the Scarecrow by cutting his venom lines. Scarecrow was arrested, and Colin was moved to a hospital.

 

 

Though his first superheroing involved stopping robberies, he later turned to something bigger when he found children's bodies in the river. After investigating Humpty Dumpty's connection, he teamed up with Robin to take down the cause of the bodies: an illegal fighting ring for children, operated by Mr. Zsasz. Robin and Colin took him down, and shut down the operation. As a sign of gratitude, Robin gave Colin the Cycle of Abuse, a trike, because he thought Abuse looked stupid walking with his trench coat.

* [[Brains and Brawn]]: An argument can be made that he fits either or, with Damian fitting the opposite.

* [[Brother Chuck]]: Hasn't been seen since the cancelleation of ''Streets of Gotham''. And thanks to the recent DC reboot, it'll be a miracle if he ever shows up again.

* [[Healing Factor]]: When Damian asked a few days later if Colin was okay from the fight, Colin said "I... Abuse heals quick." It turns out he was mostly wearing all those band-aids because he thought they looked cool.

* [[Hulking Out]]: Albeit it doesn't require any [[Unstoppable Rage]] and he's still in full control.

** He can also do it partially, at first only affecting his leg so it would grow and break a restraint.

 

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