Batman: Dark Victory: Difference between revisions

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* {{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 The Dead]]: {{spoiler|Various cops from ''[[Batman: Year One]]'' return only to die by the Hangman. A modern version of Chief O'Hara is also introduced for the same purpose.}}

* [[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,

* [[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]]

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* [[Cain and Abel]]: {{spoiler|Sofia Falcone and her brother Alberto}}.

* [[Circus Brat]]: Dick Grayson

* [[Officer O Hara|Chief O'Hara]]: He briefly appears {{spoiler|before becoming the first victim of the Hangman}}, but his personality is a far cry from [[Batman (TV)|the old 60s show]]'s version.

* [[Officer O'Hara|Chief O'Hara]]: He briefly appears {{spoiler|before becoming the first victim of the Hangman}}, but his personality is a far cry from [[Batman (TV)|the old 60s show]]'s version.

* [[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 By Origin Story]]: The Flying Graysons.

* [[Early Bird Cameo]]: The Major Crimes Unit is an established part of the Batman mythos and is a division of the Gotham City Police Department founded by Commissioner Gordon and tasked with dealing with the supervillains and major crimes in Gotham. The seeds of the MCU are planted when Gordon selects seven honest cops from the GCPD to report directly to him and help him deal with opponents that the rest of the department is too corrupt or unprepared to deal with.

* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: The Major Crimes Unit is an established part of the Batman mythos and is a division of the Gotham City Police Department founded by Commissioner Gordon and tasked with dealing with the supervillains and major crimes in Gotham. The seeds of the MCU are planted when Gordon selects seven honest cops from the GCPD to report directly to him and help him deal with opponents that the rest of the department is too corrupt or unprepared to deal with.

* [[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}}.

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** 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 ''[[Batman the Animated Series|Batman: The Animated Series]]'' and [[Canon Immigrant|adapted into the comics]],

** This series continues to portray Calendar Man ala Hannibal Lecter, as was previously done in ''[[The Long Halloween]]''.

** [[Officer O Hara|Chief O'Hara]] is inspired by [[The Untouchables|Jim Malone]] to the extent that Tim Sale drew the normally clean-shaven O'Hara with a mustache ala Sean Connery as Malone. Like Malone he gives his superior a list of honest cops to be included in a new taskforce, and this group is explicitly referred to as "untouchable."

** [[Officer O'Hara|Chief O'Hara]] is inspired by [[The Untouchables|Jim Malone]] to the extent that Tim Sale drew the normally clean-shaven O'Hara with a mustache ala Sean Connery as Malone. Like Malone he gives his superior a list of honest cops to be included in a new taskforce, and this group is explicitly referred to as "untouchable."

* [[Fat Bastard]]: Tony Zucco.

* [[Finger in The Mail]]: Someone steals the body of previous untouchable crime lord [[Big Bad]] Carmine Falcone (who was killed by Two Face in an attempt to "do what is necessary" to take down organized crime) and, later, sends his daughter, who has taken over the crime family, his ''finger'', which her aide recognizes as an "old style message," meaning that someone means to take everything from her, "piece by piece." At the end, the person who stole the body is revealed to be Two Face who, throughout the story, was acting leading nearly all of Batman's rogues gallery to take down the Falcone family and its associates.

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