Stories by @gwynplaine

Poison Ivy

Pamela Isley is a nerdy and introverted botanist working at Gotham Botanical Gardens. She is working on a way of using plants to cure many human ailments. Pamela loves plants, so much to the point of where she prefers them over humans, and often spends more time in the greenhouse than at the bar with what friends she has. Pamela is also a strong environmentalist, and often shows up at protests about preventing the forest or some form of large vegetation from being destroyed. At one protest, Pamela meets famed botany professor Jason Woodrue, and the two bond over their shared love of vegetation and all things plant related. They soon become lab partners and create new innovations in the field of botany. One night, Pamela and Jason stayed overnight in the lab working on a new project, a formula that could allow people to feed themselves with the rays of sunlight, thus solving world famine and a bunch of other problems. As she walked in to check on her husband, she discovered that he was funding his research with help from the Moxan crime family. Jason saw her, and valuing his love of science more than his girlfriend, she tried to kill her by knocking her into a shelf of untested chemicals. Pamela didn’t die, however. One of the chemicals she was exposed to was the new solvent she has been working on that day. She immediately went home and killed her husband with the use of her new abilities. She now had poisonous nails and venom soaked lips.

Penguin

Born into Gotham’s 2nd richest family, Oswald Cobblepot had it rough due to his physical deformities, which included a beak-like nose and fingers that resembled flippers. Oswald was the black sheep of the Cobblepot family, always bullied by his 3 brothers, his father, and the children at his boarding school, who nicknamed him Penguin. His sainted mother was the only person who ever showed him any kindness, and therefore he would always do anything to protect her. Eventually, with only birds for friends and a brilliant mind, Oswald took the “treat others the way you want to be treated” rule to heart, and he sought revenge on all of those who wronged him, managing to either kill or threaten anyone who treated him poorly. With his brothers gone and his father dead from pneumonia, Oswald took his nickname to heart and used his family’s fortune to make himself the king of Gotham’s Criminal Underworld.

Riddler

Edward Nashton was a narcissistic and egotistical homicide detective working for the GCPD in 1990s Gotham City. He has a huge obsession with puzzles and riddles, often treating the cases he worked on as a giant puzzle. He doesn’t solve crimes out of the goodness of his own heart, but instead because he wants to be hailed and praised by everyone for being so smart, as he felt he deserved all of the attention in the world. He’s also the most eccentric person on the force, always dressed in bright green and has a habit of giving important information in the form of a riddle. Unfortunately, after a while he gets so good at solving murders that there’s no challenge to it anymore, and Edward enjoys nothing more than a challenge. One night while at his girlfriend’s house, he murders her in a blind rage after she insulted his intelligence. Seeing a golden opportunity, Edward disposes of her body and frames an escaped serial killer named Victor Zsasz for the crime. He does it all so flawlessly, that no one on the force is able to figure out it was him for a few months. Unfortunately, Edward simply can’t keep it a secret, and soon realizes that he could prove his intellectual superiority in a different way. Instead of solving crimes, he’ll actively commit them, and leave behind riddles and puzzles to see if the police could decipher them in order to figure out his next crime. He then adopts the name: The Riddler, in lieu of his gimmick.

Two-Face

As a boy, Harvey Dent grew up as the son of Gotham’s most notorious District Attorney. A very split man, Dent's father would gamble, get drunk, and abuse his son constantly, always deciding whether he would beat him or not on the flip of a coin. Somehow, Harvey was able to hide all of his rage and lunacy from everyone else. To all of Gotham, he soon became the smartest and most courageous district attorney in the city. However, Harvey bottling up all of his rage from over the years only made things worse, as it manifested into an evil split personality that represented all of his anger and hate; and it all came out the moment the gangster Sal Maroni threw a bottle of acid on Harvey’s face during his trial, severely disfiguring the left side of his head. Rallying several cops who are sick of corruption to his cause, Harvey becomes one of Gotham’s biggest threats, as he goes on a reign of terror, brutally punishing all whom he deems wicked.

Batman: Blades

Set during Batman’s 5th year of crime fighting, a new vigilante has appeared in Gotham City, calling himself the Cavalier, a swashbuckling hero. He starts to exceed Batman in popularity, due to his charismatic and theatrical personality, and even begins to win over Batgirl after helping her stop Black Mask’s smuggling operation at the Gotham Dockyard. The Cavalier is revealed to be Mortimer Drake, a wealthy British socialite incharge of Gotham City’s 1st National Bank. He was inspired by Batman and became a crimefighter in order to battle evil and satiate his thrill-seeking urges. During his time as one of Gotham’s protectors, a thief is robbing rich apartments, and Cavalier is seemingly unable to catch this knave. It’s later revealed that Mortimer is the jewel thief, and has been committing these robberies in order to flatter a woman he’s fallen in love with. His drive to impress his girlfriend and protect Gotham begins to weigh on his mental state, and he snaps after he accidentally kills The Eraser, a criminal cleaner who gets rid of evidence at crime scenes. Realizing he’s now on Batman’s radar, he challenges Batman to a duel for who’ll be Gotham’s protector.

Batman Imposters

A new drug is being peddled around Gotham called Joker Juice, which turns whoever uses it into green haired, white skinned lunatics. Led by the Impostor Joker, the Jokerz ran rampant through Gotham for three months, causing chaos. This leads to the rise of the Guardian Batz, a group of civilians dressed in batman costumes who are led by the Impostor Batman, a brutal vigilante who often kills the Jokerz savagely. It is later revealed that the architect behind this entire war is Winslow Heath, the head of a pharmaceutical company who was disfigured by the Joker during an attack, but managed to survive due to the amount of drugs in his system at the time. He remained in a paralytic coma for two years in Gotham Hospital while his girlfriend went missing. When he was revived, Winslow discovered the skeletal remains of his girlfriend, who had been paralyzed as well, and was eaten alive by crows. He now wants revenge on Batman for not saving his girlfriend, as well as bringing all of this misery to Gotham city.

Gotham Central

A Batman movie that is about the Gotham Police Department and what it’s like to be a cop in a city full of Super-Villains. The main plot will revolve around Commissioner Jim Gordon and Harvey Bullock investigating a series of children commiting crimes. This all happens around the time that Jim´s estranged son, James Gordon Jr, returns to Gotham. It is revealed that James Gordon Jr has had a life of mental illness, as he is unable to feel empathy. He has been taking an experimental medication that seems to be working, but is it? It is revealed that James Gordon Jr has actually modified his medication so it suppresses empathy and makes him more psychotic. He has also formed a cult of psychopathic children, whom he wants to show his ways of living.

Batman: Legends Of The Dark Knight

MANY HAPPY RETURNS: We find out through flashbacks that The Joker has a habit of attacking Gotham City every month, as a way of giving Batman a birthday present. Then one month, Joker doesn’t attack, which sends Batman and the GCPD into a paranoid frenzy. THE BEAUTIFUL UGLY: Two-Face kidnaps a seemingly innocent man named Aidan Bennet, and holds him hostage in an abandoned courthouse. It’s revealed that Aidan was the prime suspect in Harvey Dent’s first case as D.A., that being a museum robbery gone wrong that involved the death of a security guard. Aidan was released on a technicality, but Harvey knows that he commited the crime, and now it’s time for judgment. SOLITAIRE: Having escaped Arkham Asylum, The Riddler steps out into Gotham City and breaks into Wayne Tower. As the story goes on, we find out that Riddler was abused by a guard in Arkham Asylum who would never let him have any enjoyment, and the guard has been hired as Wayne Tower’s chief of security. STUDY HALL: Tired of constantly battling the Batman and losing, Jonathan Crane decides to call it quits. He thus sneaks out of Arkham Asylum and flees the city. He then forges his own teaching credentials, creating a false identity. With these, Crane gets himself a job at an upstate college, living the quiet life of a psychology professor. He even begins a friendship with a book smart student named Molly Randall. But it all comes crashing down when Molly is beaten by her boyfriend.

Batman: My Own Worst Enemy

Batman is contacted by Harvey Dent, saying that he knows about a cure for his evil personality, a chemical compound that could hopefully fix Harvey’s mental state and end Two Face forever. Unfortunately, the compound is five states away, and Batman has no way of taking Harvey along without Two Face interfering. So Batman kidnaps Two Face and hauls him across the country until they get to the cure. The main downside is that Two Face has set up some roadblocks, as he has promised a large cash prize to anyone who stops Batman from making him go away. So now Batman and Robin need to protect Harvey as they’re chased across the country by all manner of money hungry supervillains and desperate civilians.

Batman Beyond

Set in 2065, a rebellious high schooler named Terry McGinnis’ life changes forever the day he meets Bruce Wayne. Discovering Bruce Wayne was Batman, he steals the new Batsuit and uses it to get revenge on his father’s killer. Meanwhile, Terry’s girlfriend’s deranged brother Doug Tan (a.k.a. Joker King) has secretly become a tyrannical cult leader and is rallying all of the Jokerz (crazy teens who dress up as clowns and cause chaos) together and instructing them to blow themselves up in order to destroy Neo-Gotham in the name of The Joker. Having no choice, Bruce and Terry reluctantly work together to stop the chaos and save Gotham from the Joker King’s madness.