Gotham Knight (Visno DCEU Film #2)

A noir detective story, setting up Batman as the brains of the Justice League,

Film opens with an experienced Batman catching the Joker and dropping him off at Arkham Asylum, where we meet a pre-Scarecrow Dr. Crane and Dr. Harleen Quinzel. throughout the course of the film as we revisit Arkham, we will get scenes of Dr. Quinzel’s interactions with the Joker, setting up her fall from grace. the films primary antagonist is the often forgotten and underrated batman villain, Mad Hatter; and the plot will revolve around a series of robberies that Batman originally suspects to be Catwoman’s doing, but thru detective work discovers that it is done by unrelated thieves and then revealed to be the hatters doing all along thru his mind control, the multiple suspects setting up our reason to continuously go back to Arkham and have more interactions with the doctors about possible motives of suspects, etc. One of the suspects being a young Dick Grayson, a couple years from being orphaned, but we don’t meet him, he is only mentioned. We also meet Barbara Gordon at the Gotham Main Branch Library, where she works, setting up our first meeting of a future member of the bat family. the film ends with batman and alfred discovering the origins of the modified mind control tech being sourced from LexCorp, helping set up a connection to Superman’s universe

Story added by visno on May 16, 2024