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In 2004, Loeb and Sale produced a follow-up titled ''[[Catwoman: When in Rome]]'', focusing on [[Catwoman (
Not to be confused with the 1939 film ''[[Dark Victory (film)|Dark Victory]]'' starring [[Bette Davis]].
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* [[Action Girl]]: Detective Julia Lopez
* {{spoiler|[[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: Two-Face and crew stumble into the Batcave entirely by accident while escaping their own demolished sewer lair. Batman and a debuting Robin stop them from capitalizing though.}}
* [[Back for
* [[Bad Cop, Incompetent Cop]]: The Gotham City Police Department is still a cesspool of corruption and greed, but Gordon is working to clean it up and has already made significant progress since ''Year One'' and ''The Long Halloween''. Many characters discuss the different stages of the GCPD, remembering the distant past when it was full of proud and honest cops, the immediate past when it was filled with nothing but disgust, and the present, when people on both sides of the line are hoping to direct the future to one or the other,
* [[Bald of Evil]]: Both Calendar Man and Sofia Falcone.
* [[Bat Deduction]]
* [[Batman Gambit]]: A given.
* [[Bat Signal]]: The traditional signal makes several appearances.
* [[Break the Cutie]]: Mario Falcone honestly believes that he can make the Falcone family a legitimate and respected part of Gotham City's upper crust, much like the Wayne's, {{spoiler|and even helps the DA's office take down the remainder of his family's criminal organization}}. It does not end well.
* [[Cain and Abel]]: {{spoiler|Sofia Falcone and her brother Alberto}}.
* [[Circus Brat]]: Dick Grayson
* [[Officer O
* [[The Commissioner Gordon]]: This series sees Gordon's actual promotion to Commissioner and the continued evolution of his relationship with Batman.
* [[Dating Catwoman]]: Bruce Wayne and Selina Kyle are already in a steady relationship as their doubles become attracted to one another, and they actually break up as the series progresses.
* [[Death
* [[Early
* [[Evil Matriarch]]: Sofia Falcone Gigante has taken over her father's place. Lucia Viti, Sofia's cousin and daughter of the late Carla Viti, appears as a potential rival for Sofia.
* [[Eviler Than Thou]]: The Joker gives this to {{spoiler|Two-Face}}.
* [[Expy]]:
** Detective Julia Lopez, a Hispanic woman that is one of the few honest Gotham cops that Commissioner Gordon selects to serve in his elite investigative taskforce, is a re-imagining of recurring Batman supporting character Renee Montoya, a character created for ''[[
** This series continues to portray Calendar Man ala Hannibal Lecter, as was previously done in ''[[The Long Halloween]]''.
** [[Officer O
* [[Fat Bastard]]: Tony Zucco.
* [[Finger in
* [[Five
** [[Big Bad]]: Two Face
** [[Co
** [[Evil Genius]]: Mr. Freeze
** [[The Brute]]: Solomon Grundy
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* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "You're all wet. And now I'm all wet, too..." says Porter to her lover.
* [[Happily Married]]: Harvey Dent draws on this to overcome Poison Ivy's seduction powers and states that "Harvey" is a married man. Of course, Harvey's status does not impact what ''Two-Face'' is allowed to do with a woman...
* [[Homage]]: Lots to ''[[
* [[Joker Jury]]: In this case, a Two-Face one.
* [[Karmic Death]]: {{spoiler|Tony Zucco, the [[Fat Bastard]] who murdered Dick Grayson's parents, has a coronary and dies while Batman and Robin pursue him.}}
* [[Luke, You Are My Father]]: {{spoiler|Selina Kyle has reason to believe she is Carmine Falcone's illegitimate daughter.}}
* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: {{spoiler|''The Calender Man''}} of all people.
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Mario Falcone claims that, with his majority control of the legitimate Falcone businesses, Sofia Falcone is no longer allowed to use the Falcone name. She now uses "Sofia ''Gigante''," which had previous been used as her middle/nickname. "Gigante" is the Spanish word for "Giant", and Sofia clearly is [[The Big Girl]] of the Falcone siblings.
* [[The Mole]]: {{spoiler|District Attorney Janice Porter is sleeping with and feeding information to Two-Face, Mario is feeding Porter information on the Falcone Crime Family, and Detective Laureen Wilcox is working for the Falcone Crime Family}}
* [[Murder
* [[Obfuscating Disability]]: {{spoiler|Sofia Falcone}}.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Alberto Falcone really is cured of his homicidal tendencies, and this is what results in Sofia strangling him.}}
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* [[The Starscream]]: Joker constantly tries to undermine Two-Face's authority though Dent keeps him forcibly in check. {{spoiler|Joker eventually just shoots him at the end.}}
* [[Taking Up the Mantle]]: Detective Lopez is considering leaving the force at the end of the series, but Gordon convinces her to stay when he explains that Chief O'Hara wanted to make the Gotham Police a respectable and honorable organization again. {{spoiler|Now that O'Hara is dead Gordon will need a new Chief of Police, and Lopez decides to continue where O'Hara left off}}.
* [[To the Bat Noun]]
* [[Well
* [[What Happened to
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