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** [[Badass Damsel]].
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Yet another [[Trope Namer]].
* [[Depending Onon the Writer]]: Her relationship with Batman is this, especially now that they're together. Her and Bruce have been depicted as star-crossed soul mates, each other's booty call, and everywhere in between.
** Sometimes, Selina Kyle/Catwoman ''herself''. Along with her backstories. She's been seen through prostitution in the grim and gritty streets of Gotham, an orphaned (and problem) child whose parents committed suicide, a high socialite to sharing low apartments with others, and some all of the above.
* [[Femme Fatale]]: Most of the time.
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* [[Heel Face Revolving Door]]: Is she ever.
* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Gives such a speech to Batman during the ''Hush'' arc. It doesn't work.
* [[Licked Byby the Dog]]: In "Hush", and by Superman's dog, no less.
* [[Kindhearted Cat Lover]]
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Her life.
* [[Most Common Superpower]]: They're always well endowed. I guess the difference is how big''ger'' they are or not. It just [[Depending Onon the Artist|depends on the artist]].
* [[Noble Demon]]
* [[Pirate Girl]]: Capitana Felina, the [[Elseworlds]] version of Catwoman in ''Batman: Leatherwing''.
* [[Rape Asas Backstory]]: Several Post-crisis origins.
* [[Roof Hopping]]: Especially when being chased by Batman.
* [[Sensual Spandex]]
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* [[Morality Pet]]: For Selina.
* [[Redheaded Hero]]
* [[Put Onon a Bus]]
* [[The Runaway]]: She ended up on the streets after running away from [[Abusive Parents]].
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: Holly was killed during a 1988 storyline in ''[[Action Comics Weekly]]''. [[Ed Brubaker]], unaware of said storyline, brought her back. This was [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] in a short story he later wrote titled "Why Holly Isn't Dead", in which Holly complains about [[Canon Dis Continuity]] and Selina suggests [[Continuity Reboot|Continuity Reboots]] as an explanation.
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== Huntress (Pre-Crisis / New 52) (Helena Wayne) ==
 
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 Onon Infinite Earths]]'' happened, and all of the Earth-Two characters "never existed".
 
...until the 'New 52' reboot, where Earth-Two is not the previous Earth-Two. In the New 52 Earth-Two, Helena Wayne was trained by her father to be the perfect Robin. Somehow or another, she ended up in the main 52-verse, where she took on the identities of Huntress and Helena Bertinelli.
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* [[The Unfavorite]]: Often comes off this way not only in the Bat-family (with Batman) but in ''Birds of Prey'' (with Oracle).
** Of course, a lot of Oracle's animosity is rooted to Huntress' past relationship with Dick Grayson.
*** And the fact that Huntress spent a good deal of the beginning of ''[[Batman: No Man's Land (Comic Book)|Batman No Mans Land]]'' using the Batgirl identity.
* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: [[Inverted Trope|Inverted]], it's specifically because they had "No strings attached" sex in the past that this has developed between herself and Dick Grayson.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: In her early appearances, Huntress really wanted Batman to acknowledge her as being as good a hero as him. She's gotten over it for the most part, but a bit still lingers as seen in ''Hush''.
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* [[Deus Angst Machina]] / [[Death By Origin Story]]: This happened to Michael Lane in a degree that rivals Tim Drake's [[Deus Angst Machina]]. His son was hit by a car and died at age three. His wife committed suicide within a year. Only six months after her death, Michael's two siblings (his last living relatives) were murdered by an apparent [[Religion of Evil|Satanic cult]].
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: When he wants to be.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|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 (Video Game)|Assassin's Creed]]''.
* [[Doing in Thethe Wizard]]: Completely [[Averted Trope|averted]] in Michael Lane's series, where the Suit of Sorrows is only described as "cursed" or "magic."
* [[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.
* [[Friend Onon the Force]]: Pete Farrelli, probably Mikey's only real friend in the world, since Father Day is pretty much using him to accomplish the ends of the Order of Purity, and {{spoiler|Adrian Paratino is actually working for Ra's al Ghul}}.
* [[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.
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* [[Servile Snarker]]: Adrian Paratino, Michael Lane's assistant, is ''very'' snarky.
* [[Theme Serial Killer]]: The Crusader murdered several members of the Order of Purity in manners based on the martyrdoms of various Christian saints.
* [[Tomato in Thethe Mirror]]: Has happened to poor Mikey a few times, him being crazy and all.
* [[Tragic Hero]]: [[Played Straight]], then [[Double Subverted]], though possibly [[Justified Trope|justified]], making this [[Zig Zagged]]. Explanation; Michael has many flaws and is willing to kill people when he deems it necessary, which gets him trouble with [[Batman]] when he was [[Grant Morrisons Batman|Bat-Devil]]. However, he himself is aware of these flaws (when not wearing the Suit of Sorrows), but [[There Are No Therapists|can't seem to be able to do anything about it]], or for some reason doesn't want to. On the other hand, the factors that led to him to becoming so messed up, which are exacerbated by extensive use of the Suit of Sorrows, make it pretty hard to blame him for what he's done. See [[Freudian Excuse]] entry above for more information.
* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: With Adrian Paratino ''and'' Pete Farrelli.
* [[Voice Withwith an Internet Connection]]: Adrian Paratino again.
* [[Will They or Won't They?]]: Michael Lane had this with his sister-in-law, Jenny Lane. {{spoiler|[[They Do|They did]] it in a flashback from issue 16}}.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: The Suit of Sorrows is said to have driven all of its wearers insane. It only took 6 weeks to take this effect on Michael Lane's predesessor.
* [[You Fail Religious Studies Forever]]: The second series is filled with this.
** According to this book, ''faith'' is the eighth deadly sin. Which makes no sense at all when you take a look at Hebrews Chapter 11, in [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]]. Yeah, you'd think they'd want to take a look at that thing before going around bashing Christianity.
** And apparently, the Apocrypha is real, a la [[The Da Vinci Code]]. (Spoiler: [[Real Life|In reality]], it is hilariously erroneous. Kind of like an Classical Greek version of some [[New Age]] jargon).
** He's supposed to be Chrstian, but Azrael doesn't show up ''anywhere'' in Christian texts. The only he connection''might'' have is an incredibly vague one based on a somewhat similar name.
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== Harvey Bullock ==
 
Perhaps the most controversial member of the Gotham Police. He has a reputation for taking bribes and wrangling Miranda Rights, yet Commissioner Gordon and his partner Renee Montoya trust him unconditionally. Bullock was a "bishop" in the government agency [[Checkmate]], but eventually returned to Gotham. He was one of the few who stayed in Gotham during No Man's Land. After Jim Gordon retired after being shot during the storyline ''Officer Down'' - when the man who shot him [[Off Onon a Technicality|walked free]] - Bullock killed the culprit and left the force. He became a PI.
 
After ''[[Infinite Crisis]]'' and the return of Jim Gordon as Commissioner, Bullock returned to the force as well.
 
* [[Cowboy Cop]]
* [[Dirty Cop]]: [[Depending Onon the Writer|Can be at times]].
* [[Donut Mess Withwith a Cop]]
* [[Good Cop, Bad Cop]]: With Montoya, he was the bad cop.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: Harvey is [[The Movie Buff|quite knowledgable in classic film]].
* [[If You Kill Him You Will Be Just Like Him]]: Pulls this one on Renee Montoya before taking the matter into his own hands.
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Noble Bigot Withwith a Badge]]: "Noble" may be a stretch. Not entirely loathable, at least.
* [[Perma Stubble]]
* [[Police Brutality]]
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* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: When partnered with Bullock. She [[Character Development|changed]].
* [[Canon Immigrant]]: From ''[[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Batman the Animated Series]].''
* [[Coming Out Story]]: Being forcibly outed sucks.
* [[Clear My Name]]: The plot of an arc in ''[[Gotham Central]]''.
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...What? No, she is ''[[Expy|not]]'' Lois Lane! She has [[Heroes Want Redheads|red hair!]] She is completely, 100% different!
 
What with being a blatant [[Plagiarism]] of the [[Superman (Comic Book)|Superman]] comic books who appeared primarily during Batman's [[Dork Age]] in [[The Interregnum]], Vicki seldom shows up today. She disappeared in 1963, resurfaced in 1977 (and was promptly forgotten by the editors), and finally resumed love interest status in [[The Eighties]]...right before the [[Crisis Onon Infinite Earths]] wiped her history from existence. [[Post-Crisis]], her appearances are primarily limited to [[The Cameo|the occasional cameo]]. She's done better in alternate continuities and media, having featured in ''All-Star Batman and Robin'', [[Batman (Filmfilm)|the 1989 film]] (in which she was intended to be 1970s love interest Silver St. Cloud, whose name was deemed too silly), and ''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman vs Dracula]]''. She also has an [[Expy]] in the form of [[Batman: The Animated Series (Animation)|Summer Gleeson]].
 
All of which give her a leg up on...
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Again, only appears as [[The Cameo]], if ever. Writer / Artist Matt "Grendel" Wagner has done a fair amount of work with the character in a pair of excellent Batman mini-series exploring the time period during the [[Batman: Year One|Year One]] era, just before the "first" Joker story, "The Man Who Laughs" and [[The Long Halloween]] arc.
 
You might (but probably don't) remember her from ''[[Batman and Robin (Filmfilm)|Batman and Robin]]'', where she proudly continues her tradition of being Bruce Wayne's <s>[[The Beard|beard]]</s> <s> arm candy</s> loving girlfriend and having virtually no personality or plot-relevance. [[Pink Floyd|Shine on, you crazy diamond]].
 
* [[The Artifact]]: Probably the only reason any one occasionally bothers to write her.
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* [[Bat Out of Hell]]: Well, not literally...
* [[Chronic Villainy]]: Subverted.
* [[Mad Scientist]]: In ''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman]]'', Kirk Langstrom is crazy and became Man-Bat voluntarily. {{spoiler|Though he eventually does a [[Heel Face Turn]].}}
* [[Professor Guinea Pig]]
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: Man-Bat could be seen as this when Kirk isn't in control.
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* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: Would you believe that [[The Joker|a giggling freak with a rictus grin and green hair]] is one of the good guys?
* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjRCUhds0hU Poor Batman.]
** When Hush posed as Bruce Wayne in the comics following Batman’s apparent death, Batman's friends and allies displayed a "show of force" to demonstrate how easily they could stop him if he tried anything. Most of them just block his path when he tries to escape ([[Batman and Thethe Outsiders|Katana]] going so far as to hold a sword to his throat), but the Creeper ''picks him up like a doll and throws him across the room''. Later, he's seen in disguise personally babysitting Hush at work.
* [[Fun Personified]]
* [[Intrepid Reporter]]: So much that he slips into jerkass territory now and then. He hosts a talk show called ''You Are WRONG!'', not to say anything of the guest stars he has on just for the sake of deliberately antagonizing them.
* [[Involuntary Shapeshifting]]
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: In spite of his assholish tendencies with his fellow reporters, he’s shown to genuinely care where it counts when ex-girlfriend Vicki Vale approaches him for advice on whether or not it’s ethical to publish an incriminating story that could ruin someone’s life.
* [[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]]
* [[Make Me Wanna Shout]]: [[Depending Onon the Writer]], his laugh can range from a deadly sonic weapon to [[The Hyena|just plain annoying]].
* [[Our Demons Are Different]]: {{spoiler|His Creeper side has been recently revealed to be demonic in nature.}}
* [[Slasher Smile]]
* [[Split Personality]]: Suffers from this [[Depending Onon the Writer|depending on the story]].
* [[Stalker Withwith a Crush]]: Played straight with his DCAU counterpart and Harley Quinn, who he’s hopelessly infatuated with despite her hating him.
* [[Stripperiffic]]: His costume consists of a green speedo, red boots and gloves, and a giant, fluffy red boa. In the 2006 miniseries, the costume naturally grows on his body as another side effect of the nanocell technology with the “boa” resembling some sort of organic, tendon-like [[Body Horror|growth]].
* [[Talkative Loon]]: The Creeper is [[Motor Mouth|not a quiet or reserved individual]], as [[You Fight Like a Cow|anyone who has tried to fight him will attest]].
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