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[[File:dark_victory_9341.jpg|frame|"So... We're both orphans..."]]
 
'''Batman: Dark Victory''' is a 13-part comic book series written by [[Jeph Loeb]] and drawn by Tim Sale. The series is a sequel to ''Batman: [[The Long Halloween]]'' and was originally published from 1999 to 2000 by DC Comics. The series takes place primarily during the third/fourth year of Batman's career. The plot centers on a series of murders involving Gotham City police officers by a mysterious serial killer only known as The Hangman. Central to the storyline is a territory war between Two-Face and the remnants of the Falcone mob, led by Sofia Falcone. The story brings closure to many characters introduced in Frank Miller's [[Batman: Year One]], and also re-tells of the origins of [[Nightwing|Dick Grayson]], the first [[Robin]], and his adoption by Bruce Wayne.
 
In 2004, Loeb and Sale produced a follow-up titled [[Catwoman When in Rome]], focusing on [[Catwoman (Comic Book)|Catwoman]]'s movements in Italy. The story takes place during the events of Dark Victory, between Valentine's Day (when Catwoman leaves Gotham) and Thanksgiving.
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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|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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* [[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.
* [[Five -Bad Band]]: The "Freaks"
** [[Big Bad]]: Two Face
** [[Co -Dragons]]: Scarecrow and [[The Joker]] ({{spoiler|who doubles as [[The Starscream]]}})
** [[Evil Genius]]: Mr. Freeze
** [[The Brute]]: Solomon Grundy
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* [[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.
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* [[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 -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.]]}}
 
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