Break the Haughty: Jason believed that his lethal brand of vigilante justice brought results and made him better than less ruthless crimefighters. in May 2012, written again by Grant Morrison and penciled by Chris Burnham, as part of the "Second Wave" of DC's company-wide title relaunch, the New 52. At the end of the Pyg arc, Batman and Gordon meet to arrest the gang and Gordon states he wishes he could burn the circus base down to the ground. In the final issue of that arc, it's explained that the phrase is a corrupted form of " Zorro in Arkham", the last thing Thomas Wayne said to his son before being killed.

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A lot of things happen in this volume – Leviathan attacks Gotham, Damian Wayne is killed by his clone and Talia avenges her son. Tampering with Food and Drink: Red Hood poisons Blackgate Prison this way, with 82 confirmed dead and hundreds more in critical condition as part of his gambit to kill every inmate. Arch-Enemy: As the leader of the Leviathan Organization, Talia Al Ghul is hoping to, through high grade enough evil, become Bruce's. Bat Deduction: Occurs in "The Butler Did It," where a flashback shows Batman and Robin figuring out that the Joker is going to attack a sea plane display.Continuity Snarl: All of which seem to stem from Morrison's apparent uncertainty of whether or not their run has connections to the wider DC Universe. saw the release of Kill Your Boyfriend, with artist Philip Bond, originally published as a Vertigo Voices one-shot. Broad Strokes: A necessity as Morrison's run was concurrently running with the Flashpoint and New 52 reboot.

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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Jason's violent and lethal methods of crime fighting causes the crime lord El Penitente to send up Flamingo, a nigh-unstoppable assassin who is known to eat human faces. I'm trying to convert Indian storytelling to a western style for people raised on movies, comics, and video games. As the name suggests, Batman supposedly dies in this comic book story, however, that does not happen until the Final Crisis, and this story is used as a lead-up to that. This small-scale convention, curated by Morrison, featured a number of comics industry guests, including Robert Kirkman, Darick Robertson, Jason Aaron, Jim Lee, Gerard Way, Jonathan Hickman, Frank Quitely, J. Renaming the X-Men comic New X-Men, Morrison ignored the convoluted plot threads that had seemed to plague the X-family of books for years, and instead focused on the original idea of a mutant school run out of Charles Xavier's mansion.

In spite of his age, his criminal genius has shown to nearly best Batman in terms of physicality and mentality, with only a blade through his eye by Damian to truly end his threat once and for all.

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The following year, Morrison wrote the adaptation of the video game Area 51 home console game [61] for Paramount in development with CFP Productions producing. Talia and Batman cross swords in the Batcave, but before Batman can defeat her, Talia is shot by Kathy Kane: the former Batwoman and current head of Spyral. The members ended up reacting quite differently, running the spectrum of this trope; some, like El Gaucho and Man Of Bats, ended up thriving and being quite content operating within their local spheres of influence rather than as an international JLA-style powerhouse (and Man Of Bats actually prefers being a defender of the little guy).

Jason Todd begins as an arrogant, trigger-happy Anti-Hero Black Sheep of the Bat-family and ends the series as still an aloof asshole who likes to push buttons, but is generally overwhelmed by Bruce's continuing kindness towards him to finally try to leave behind his Red Hood days and prove himself a worthy addition to Batman Incorporated as the new Wingman. Rewatch Bonus: Once you know that Oberon Sexton is really the Joker and that he's been working against Simon Hurt from the start of Batman and Robin, nearly all of his dialogue and the "dominoes" theme take on additional meaning, providing considerable Foreshadowing.

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Giving them the unofficial title of "revamp guy", DiDio asked them to assist in sorting out the DC Universe in the wake of the Infinite Crisis. That same year, Morrison sold the screenplay Sleepless Knights to DreamWorks with Guillermo del Toro attached to direct.Hurt and Talia both fancy themselves as avatars to Satanic deities who exist only to plunge humanity into ruin for the sake of it. Earning countless spin-off miniseries and specials, the Justice League reclaimed its place atop DC's hit titles list. Other issues include The Society of Super-Heroes a pulp version of the DC characters; [98] The Just – set on a world of celebrity youngsters; [99] Pax Americana, drawn by Frank Quitely, [100] [101] Thunder World – a Captain Marvel book; [102] the Multiversity Guidebook; [103] Mastermen – which includes a fascist version of the Justice League. Forced Addiction: During the "Batman Reborn" arc, Professor Pyg creates an aerosol-based narcotic that he has his "Dollotrons" spread across Gotham by sneezing on people.