Grant Morrison's Batman: Difference between revisions

* [[Canon Immigrant]]: {{spoiler|[[Batman Beyond|Terry McGinnis]]}}, at least in the 'future' continuity of New Earth.

** Lord Death Man and Professor Gorilla, as well.

** Not to mention the rest of the Club of Villains. They seriously have it down to an art.

* [[Cerebus Retcon]]: Applied to the Silver Age stories. Although they are brought back from [[Canon Dis Continuity]] status, they are done so in a darker light as they are associated with drug influence or resulting from Batman's containment experiment. Many scenes from the Silver Age comics are redone in darker and creepier ways (particularly the "Robin Dies at Dawn!" and the altered version of the Joe Chill story).

* [[Injun Country]]: The stomping grounds of Man-Of-Bats and Raven Red, described by the latter as "America's own third world."

* [[It Got Worse]]: ''Batman RIP'' and ''Batman & Robin Must Die'' are full packed of HOLY SHIT moments.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Doctor Hurt and the Black Glove are convinced that they're this, having enough power and influence to blackmail, bribe and threaten their way out of any possible punishment for their deeds. {{spoiler|They didn't count on Batman, the Joker and Tahlia Al Ghul, however.}}

{{quote| {{spoiler|Jezebel Jet}}: There's nothing you can do, Bruce -- no court on the planet we can't buy, no judge or jury beyond threatening or bribing. There's ''you'' rich, down here. ''[Gestures]'' And then there's Black Glove rich. Oh! I'm just not tall enough.}}

* [[Locked Room Mystery]]: Batman #700.

* [[Louis Cypher]]: Doctor Hurt claims to be this.

* [[Mad Artist]]: Professor Pyg who also qualifies as [[Mad Scientist]].

{{quote| "I'm an artist! I can't be expected to work on antipsychotics!"}}

* [[Morality Pet]]: Inverted. Dick Grayson is this to Damian.

* [[Mythology Gag]]: Lord Death Man, a villain from Japan in ''Batman, Inc.'', is based on a baddie faced by Bats in an obscure mid-60s Batman manga. At the end of the second issue, after {{spoiler|Jiro has become Batman Japan}}, we also see Professor Gorilla, another one of the original villains from the manga.

** The Batcave West features mementos from past adventures of the Outsiders, including Black Lightning's afro mask and the costume of Dad from the Nuclear Family. There's also a giant penny with Simon Stagg's face on it, a gag on Joe Coyne's giant penny in the original Batcave.

** [[The Dark Knight Returns|Mutants]] also make an appearance in ''Batman Incorporated #1'', indecipherable slang and all.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Really, is anyone surprised a character named {{spoiler|Jezebel}} turned out to be evil?

* [[Never Found the Body]]: Flamingo is still out there...

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Three teachers at St. Hadrian's Finishing School for Girls, which is a school for female super villains and super spies, are unnamed expies of {{spoiler|[[Lady Gaga]], [[Katy Perry]], and [[Rihanna]].}}

** And the principal Ms. Hexley is an expy of {{spoiler|[[Madonna]]}}.

*** More specifically, Doctor Hurt was {{spoiler|"Thomas Wayne", an 18th century ancestor of Bruce Wayne's who worshipped a Bat Devil known as "Barbatos". However, "Barbatos" turned out to be Darkseid's Omega Adaptor, which turned Thomas immortal and insane (moreso). Bruce's parents tried to help Hurt by putting him in Willowood Asylum (a reference to an old Silver Age story where Bruce has a brother, Thomas Wayne Jr, who went insane and had to be put in an asylum), but he didn't want their pity, so (after they were dead) Hurt arranged to tarnish their names and summon "Barbatos" again using a secret box that's said to bring about the end of the world when opened. What's inside the box, though? A batarang and a note that says "Gotcha".}}

* [[Revival Loophole]]: Used in the final issue of ''The Return of Bruce Wayne'' -- Bruce Wayne has been imbued with dangerous Omega energies that will cling to him until he dies... you can see where this is going. (That's not all there is to it, though.)

** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]], actually, in that {{spoiler|Red Hood}} told {{spoiler|her}} to run.

* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: Sort of. Batman is so embarrassed by many of his sillier adventures that he hides away all evidence of them, only saying they occurred in the Black Casebook.

** Well maybe Wingman was. What El Gaucho was trying to say was that Wingman shouldn't look down on the Knight just because he's had some problems in the past. ...One of which just happened to be mind-controlled by a gorilla.

** Red Hood believed his was the next epoch in crime fighting. Then he got shot in the face.

* [[Take That]]: The Red Hood, who is laughably self-conscious about his branding as a Nineties Antihero.

** A vigilante with his own website? Unmasking your enemies live over the internet? Sounds like Jason's been reading far too much [[Kick Ass|Kick-Ass]].

** You think Darkseid just used the Omega Sanction on Bruce? WRONG. {{spoiler|After hitting Bruce with the Omega Sanction Darkseid pulls out the Ancestor Box which, as the box itself puts it: "It learns! It knows! It bonds! It lives to become the fate you can't escape! Omega is death that gives and gives forever. Omega ‘tailor makes’ an unbeatable ‘life trap’ just for you. It uses 'history’ to do it!”}}

** Aside from learning about the most important elements from RIP and Doctor Hurt, Bruce's entire narrative from RIP came from the beginning of BTROBW.

 

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