Batman: Dark Victory: Difference between revisions

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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 ~~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.}}

* [[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,

* [[Bald of Evil]]: Both Calendar Man and Sofia Falcone.

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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 series)|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.

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

** 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]]'' 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."

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[Five-Bad Band]]: The "Freaks"

** [[Big Bad]]: Two Face

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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 ''[[~~The Godfather (Film)|~~The Godfather]]'', often lampshaded by [[Beat]] panels of the other characters staring dumbfounded at the person who just quoted it.

* [[Homage]]: Lots to ''[[The Godfather]]'', often lampshaded by [[Beat]] panels of the other characters staring dumbfounded at the person who just quoted it.

* [[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.}}

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* [[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 By Cremation]]: Almost happens to [[Catwoman (Comic Book)|Catwoman]].

* [[Murder by Cremation]]: Almost happens to [[Catwoman (Comic Book)|Catwoman]].

* [[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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* [[To the Bat Noun]]

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: What the Joker implies {{spoiler|Harvey Dent}} still is.

* [[What Happened to ~~The~~ Mouse?]]?: The fate of Carmine Falcone's body. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|It is revealed that Two Face has kept it as a trophy using Mister Freeze's technology.]]}}

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]?: The fate of Carmine Falcone's body. {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|It is revealed that Two Face has kept it as a trophy using Mister Freeze's technology.]]}}