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* EvilCounterpart: [[spoiler:James Gordon Jr.]] views himself as Dick Grayson's morally-inverted counterpart, as his lack of remorse contrasts with the hero's compassion.
--> '''The villain:''' You see, this place is special, Dick. It is a city of '''nightmares'''. And I'm yours. I'm the '''face you see in the glass'''. A man with no conscience. No empathy.
--> '''The villain:''' You see, this place is special, Dick. It is a city of '''nightmares'''. And I'm yours. I'm the '''face you see in the glass'''. A man with no conscience. No empathy.
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** The events of "Hungry City" occur due to the pirate Tiger Shark murder one of Sonia Branch's friends for black-mail purposes.
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* CrazyPrepared: Dick describes himself as overcautious, which is an understatement considering the measures he takes when preparing to go out on his missions.
** Dick has a tazer hidden in the finger of his glove for when he gets held up frombehind.behind.
** When Dick has to go on a seafaring mission, he foresees he may need to hold his breath for a long while and ingests a significant amount of pure oxygen in advance.
** Dick has a tazer hidden in the finger of his glove for when he gets held up from
** When Dick has to go on a seafaring mission, he foresees he may need to hold his breath for a long while and ingests a significant amount of pure oxygen in advance.
* LikeFatherUnlikeSon:
** James Gordon is a police commissioner and one of the most upstanding men in all of Gotham. His son is a remorseless, dangerous psychopath who believes empathy is humanity's biggest flaw.
** Sonia Branch is the daughter of the mafia boss Tony Zucco. She is ashamed of her father's activities and strives to disconnect herself from him, eventually securing herself an important position in Gotham Global Modern Bank. [[spoiler:Subverted when she is revealed to be as ammoral as her father. After Batman offers his help to track down the criminal who murdered her friend, she takes the opportunity to trick him into taking down another criminal who bothered her in the past, despite being aware of his innocence]].
** James Gordon is a police commissioner and one of the most upstanding men in all of Gotham. His son is a remorseless, dangerous psychopath who believes empathy is humanity's biggest flaw.
** Sonia Branch is the daughter of the mafia boss Tony Zucco. She is ashamed of her father's activities and strives to disconnect herself from him, eventually securing herself an important position in Gotham Global Modern Bank. [[spoiler:Subverted when she is revealed to be as ammoral as her father. After Batman offers his help to track down the criminal who murdered her friend, she takes the opportunity to trick him into taking down another criminal who bothered her in the past, despite being aware of his innocence]].
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* PoweredArmor: Dick wears a flying armor to pursue the dealer's plane when the flying Batmobile can't get high enough.
* ReligionOfEvil: Mirror House os an auction operation whose participants behave like a cult, believing humanity's tendency towards pointless cruelty is its "divine spark".
* ReligionOfEvil: Mirror House os an auction operation whose participants behave like a cult, believing humanity's tendency towards pointless cruelty is its "divine spark".
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* PoweredArmor: Dick wears a flying armor to pursue the dealer's Dealer's plane when the flying Batmobile can't get high enough.
* PlotArmor: Batman escapes from Tiger Shark's trap despite also stating that [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat no person should have been able to]]. [[spoiler:The hero was stuck on a sinking submarine, with the currents being too strong for him to swim against. Even if he somehow managed to leave the vessel, the underwater pressure would have been too much for a normal person to withstand, and he would have to swim for at least seven minutes before reaching the surface. Though he clarifies he was able to hold his breath for that long by ingesting massive amounts of pure oxygen in advance, the only explanation for how he could overcome the other issues is because he was "overcautious" and "[[CrazyPrepared crazy]]"]].
* ReligionOfEvil: Mirror Houseos is an auction operation whose participants behave like a cult, believing humanity's tendency towards pointless cruelty is its "divine spark".spark".
* SecretSecretKeeper: It's heavily implied that Gordon Sr. knows that the first Batman was Bruce Wayne, and that his replacement is Dick Grayson. At the end of the story, Dick believes Gordon is thanking him for helping with the investigation, but the commissioner clarifies he is thanking him "on all fronts".
* ShoutOut: Bixby Rhodes' alias is [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Roadrunner]], and he quotes the cartoon character's famous {{Catchphrase}} to taunt Batman.
--> '''Roadrunner:''' ''Meep, meep'', sucker.
* PlotArmor: Batman escapes from Tiger Shark's trap despite also stating that [[NoOneShouldSurviveThat no person should have been able to]]. [[spoiler:The hero was stuck on a sinking submarine, with the currents being too strong for him to swim against. Even if he somehow managed to leave the vessel, the underwater pressure would have been too much for a normal person to withstand, and he would have to swim for at least seven minutes before reaching the surface. Though he clarifies he was able to hold his breath for that long by ingesting massive amounts of pure oxygen in advance, the only explanation for how he could overcome the other issues is because he was "overcautious" and "[[CrazyPrepared crazy]]"]].
* ReligionOfEvil: Mirror House
* SecretSecretKeeper: It's heavily implied that Gordon Sr. knows that the first Batman was Bruce Wayne, and that his replacement is Dick Grayson. At the end of the story, Dick believes Gordon is thanking him for helping with the investigation, but the commissioner clarifies he is thanking him "on all fronts".
* ShoutOut: Bixby Rhodes' alias is [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Roadrunner]], and he quotes the cartoon character's famous {{Catchphrase}} to taunt Batman.
--> '''Roadrunner:''' ''Meep, meep'', sucker.
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* AmbiguousEnding: It's unclear in the last story whether the threat of the day was actually stopped or not.
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear what exactly created James Junior's mental problems: brain damage from the fall during ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', a genetic defect, or Gotham itself.
* ArchnemesisDad: Inverted with the Gordons
* ArcVillain: The Dealer for "Black Mirror" and Tiger Shark for "Hungry City"
* ArcWelding: [[spoiler: James Jr.]] is revealed to have played a part in ''everything'' villainous throughout all three arcs of this story.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: James Gordon, Jr.]]
* BodyHorror: The Man-Bat serum and Killer Croc mutagen show up in the first story
* CainAndAbel: James Jr and Barbara have had this relationship in the past. [[spoiler: And still do.]]
* CallBack: [[spoiler: James Jr falls off Gotham Bridge like his father did in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne''.]]
* CassandraTruth: Barbara seems to feel that she's the only one to see that [[spoiler: her brother is a psycho killer. Subverted when it's revealed Dick bugged James Jr when they met and Jim swiped one of James Jr's pills to analyze. Turns out to be a good thing they did.]]
* CoolShip: Tiger Shark's Bond villain-esque submarine
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear what exactly created James Junior's mental problems: brain damage from the fall during ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', a genetic defect, or Gotham itself.
* ArchnemesisDad: Inverted with the Gordons
* ArcVillain: The Dealer for "Black Mirror" and Tiger Shark for "Hungry City"
* ArcWelding: [[spoiler: James Jr.]] is revealed to have played a part in ''everything'' villainous throughout all three arcs of this story.
* BigBad: [[spoiler: James Gordon, Jr.]]
* BodyHorror: The Man-Bat serum and Killer Croc mutagen show up in the first story
* CainAndAbel: James Jr and Barbara have had this relationship in the past. [[spoiler: And still do.]]
* CallBack: [[spoiler: James Jr falls off Gotham Bridge like his father did in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne''.]]
* CassandraTruth: Barbara seems to feel that she's the only one to see that [[spoiler: her brother is a psycho killer. Subverted when it's revealed Dick bugged James Jr when they met and Jim swiped one of James Jr's pills to analyze. Turns out to be a good thing they did.]]
* CoolShip: Tiger Shark's Bond villain-esque submarine
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* AmbiguousEnding: It's By the end of the story, it's unclear in the last story whether the threat BigBad has successfully carried out his master plan. [[spoiler:James Jr. implies he has tainted Gotham's supply of baby formula with the day inverted diaxamene several days before the heroes could suspect anything. When Dick conducts a forensics exam on the factories, he is unable to detect any traces of prions, which means Jr. was actually stopped either lying or not.
had committed the crime so long ago the impurities have been washed away. Gordon Sr. ultimately concludes the only way to find out if the babies were turned into psychopaths is to wait for them to grow up]].
* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear what exactly created James Junior's mental problems: brain damage from the fall during ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', a genetic defect, or being raised in an environment such as Gothamitself.
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*ArcVillain: ArcVillain:
** TheDealer for central threat in "Black Mirror" is the Dealer, an auctioneer who collects items that belonged to supervillains and Tiger Shark for auctions them to wealthy people. Batman becomes aware of his operations after a vial of Killer Croc's mutagen accidentally falls into the hands of a young boy, transforming him into a monster.
** The events of "HungryCity"
* ArcWelding: [[spoiler: James Jr.]] is revealedCity" occur due to have played a part in ''everything'' villainous throughout all three arcs the pirate Tiger Shark murder one of this story.
Sonia Branch's friends for black-mail purposes.
* AnArmAndALeg: After turning into a crocodile monster, Dana bites off the arm of his bully.
* BigBad:[[spoiler: James [[spoiler:James Gordon, Jr.]] is the main villain of the overarching narrative. [[spoiler:A serial killer who views empathy as a weakness, he returns to Gotham City with the intent of torturing his family members and turning infants into dangerous psychopaths by infecting them with a special drug. He also expresses a desire to challenge Batman, whom he views as a dark reflection of himself]].
* BodyHorror:
** A twelve-year-old boy is infected with Killer Croc's mutagen and turns into a rabid beast. A panel shows his eye morphing into a crocodile's before he emerges from the water as a reptilian monster.
** The Dealer consumes the Man-Bat serum in a desperate attempt to fight off Batman. This causes him to mutate into a hideously deformed bat-like creature.
* CainAndAbel: Barbara views her brother James Jr. as a monster, because she suspects him of murdering her friend Bess. [[spoiler:The final chapter reveals their animosity actually dates back to when they first met, and he resents her for being able to immediately tell that there was something seriously wrong with his psyche]].
* CallBack: [[spoiler:James Jr falls off Gotham Bridge like his father did in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne''.]]
* BodyHorror: The Man-Bat serum and Killer Croc mutagen show up in the first story
* CainAndAbel: James Jr and Barbara have had this relationship in the past. [[spoiler: And still do.]]
* CallBack: [[spoiler: James Jr falls off Gotham Bridge like his father did in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne''.]]
* CassandraTruth: Barbara seems to feel that she's the only one to see that [[spoiler: her [[spoiler:her brother is a psycho killer. Subverted when it's revealed Dick bugged James Jr when they met and Jim swiped one of James Jr's pills to analyze. Turns out to be a good thing they did.]]
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* AnArmAndALeg: After turning into a crocodile monster, Dana bites off the arm of his bully.
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** A twelve-year-old boy is infected with Killer Croc's mutagen and turns into a rabid beast. A panel shows his eye morphing into a crocodile's before he emerges from the water as a reptilian monster.
** The Dealer consumes the Man-Bat serum in a desperate attempt to fight off Batman. This causes him to mutate into a hideously deformed bat-like creature.
* CainAndAbel: Barbara views her brother James Jr. as a monster, because she suspects him of murdering her friend Bess. [[spoiler:The final chapter reveals their animosity actually dates back to when they first met, and he resents her for being able to immediately tell that there was something seriously wrong with his psyche]].
* CallBack: [[spoiler:James Jr falls off Gotham Bridge like his father did in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne''.]]
* CainAndAbel: James Jr and Barbara have had this relationship in the past. [[spoiler: And still do.]]
* CallBack: [[spoiler: James Jr falls off Gotham Bridge like his father did in ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne''.]]
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* DamselInDistress: Happens in the last story
* DeadpanSnarker: Both Batman and Red Robin.
* EldritchLocation: Gordon hypothesizes that Gotham is one, driving people towards madness and evil.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Dick invokes this trope at the end.
* HeyYouHaymaker: “Hey [[spoiler: Junior]]... Can I play too?”
* HollywoodSatanism: The Dealer plays with this. His alias is Etienne Guibourg, a 17th century monk caught performing demonic rituals.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Dealer and Tiger Shark both escape]]
* LackOfEmpathy: [[spoiler: James Jr sees this as the next step in human evolution and is going to push it with baby formula tainted with his altered meds.]]
* DeadpanSnarker: Both Batman and Red Robin.
* EldritchLocation: Gordon hypothesizes that Gotham is one, driving people towards madness and evil.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Dick invokes this trope at the end.
* HeyYouHaymaker: “Hey [[spoiler: Junior]]... Can I play too?”
* HollywoodSatanism: The Dealer plays with this. His alias is Etienne Guibourg, a 17th century monk caught performing demonic rituals.
* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Dealer and Tiger Shark both escape]]
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* DamselInDistress: Happens in the The last story
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* EldritchLocation: Gordon hypothesizes that Gothamis one, driving somehow drives people towards madness and evil.
* GoodIsNotDumb: The BigBad tries to make a point that Batman's empathy is his biggest weakness. Though the hero concedes that he is a softy, this doesn't mean he would be stupid enough to blindly trust him. [[spoiler:When Dickinvokes this trope and James Jr. first met, the former implanted him with a dermal tracker, allowing the villain to be located and defeated at the end.
*climax of the story]].
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* HollywoodSatanism: TheDealer plays with this. His Dealer's alias is Etienne Guibourg, a 17th century monk caught who was executed after being accused of performing demonic rituals.
rituals. This is a reference to the villain's philosophy that what distinguishes human beings from other animals is the capacity to be evil, which he promotes in his cult-like auctions.
* KarmaHoudini:[[spoiler: The Batman is unable to apprehend [[spoiler:the Dealer and Tiger Shark both escape]]
Shark. The former goes down in a plane crash, but the [[UncertainDoom coast guard cannot find his body]]. The latter manages to escape, albeit at the cost of his yacht, which he detonates in an attempt to kill Batman]].
* LackOfEmpathy:[[spoiler: James [[spoiler:James Jr is a psychopath who sees this empathy as a weakness. He wants to enforce what he believes to be the next step in human evolution and is going to push it with by tainting baby formula tainted with his altered meds.]]meds, which are designed to attack specific regions of the brain and make the victims as remorseless as himself]].
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* NotMeThisTime: Who hit Barbara Kean with Joker toxin? [[spoiler: James Jr]].
* PoweredArmor: Dick has one for when the flying Batmobile can't get high enough.
* ReligionOfEvil: Mirror House has this as its mission statement, believing humanity's tendancy towards pointless cruelty is its "divine spark".
* SlasherSmile: Dick busts one out a couple times when he wants to rub it in a criminal's face.
* SocialDarwinist: [[spoiler: James Jr believes that empathy is weakness and looks to eradicate it in the next generation of Gothamites by mixing his psychopathy-enhancing formula to baby formula in the city.]]
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: James Jr reveals he saved Dick from the mob at Mirror House]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Hey, sis."]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Ben Wolff strung up in his own basement, his limbs and lower jaw hacked off, TheReveal that, yes, James Jr has been EvilAllAlong.]]
* PoweredArmor: Dick has one for when the flying Batmobile can't get high enough.
* ReligionOfEvil: Mirror House has this as its mission statement, believing humanity's tendancy towards pointless cruelty is its "divine spark".
* SlasherSmile: Dick busts one out a couple times when he wants to rub it in a criminal's face.
* SocialDarwinist: [[spoiler: James Jr believes that empathy is weakness and looks to eradicate it in the next generation of Gothamites by mixing his psychopathy-enhancing formula to baby formula in the city.]]
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: James Jr reveals he saved Dick from the mob at Mirror House]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Hey, sis."]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Ben Wolff strung up in his own basement, his limbs and lower jaw hacked off, TheReveal that, yes, James Jr has been EvilAllAlong.]]
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* NotMeThisTime: Who hit Barbara Kean is infected with Joker toxin? [[spoiler: toxin shortly after said villain has escaped from prison. When Batman confronts the Joker, the latter begins incessantly repeating "[[MadnessMantra wasn't me!]]" [[spoiler:He is not lying. The real culprit is James Jr]].
Jr, who got his hands on the toxin by purchasing it during one of the Dealer's auctions]].
* PoweredArmor: Dickhas one for wears a flying armor to pursue the dealer's plane when the flying Batmobile can't get high enough.
* ReligionOfEvil: Mirror Househas this as its mission statement, os an auction operation whose participants behave like a cult, believing humanity's tendancy tendency towards pointless cruelty is its "divine spark".
* SlasherSmile: Dick bustsone out a couple times smile when he wants to rub it in a criminal's face.
face. [[spoiler:This is what makes James Jr. realize that a new person has taken on the Batman's mantle, as Bruce was too stoic to display such an expression]].
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* VillainousRescue:[[spoiler: James [[spoiler:James Jr reveals he saved Dick from the mob at Mirror House]].
*House. He has only done so because he gets a thrill out of challenging Batman and didn't wish their game to end prematurely]].
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''The Black Mirror'' is the first Franchise/{{Batman}} ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' story by now-acclaimed writer Creator/ScottSnyder. Creator/ScottSnyder.
Written pre-ComicBook/New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of ComicBook/RedRobin, ComicBook/{{Oracle}}, and Jim Gordon.
Written pre-ComicBook/New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of ComicBook/RedRobin, ComicBook/{{Oracle}}, and Jim Gordon.
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''The Black Mirror'' is the first Franchise/{{Batman}} story by now-acclaimed writer Creator/ScottSnyder. Written pre-ComicBook/New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of Red Robin, Oracle, ComicBook/RedRobin, ComicBook/{{Oracle}}, and Jim Gordon.
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''The Black Mirror'' is the first Franchise/{{Batman}} story by now-acclaimed writer Creator/ScottSnyder. Written pre-ComicBook/New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of Red Robin, Oracle, and Jim Gordon. ''The Black Mirror'' collects three separate storylines: "Black Mirror" where Dick faces off against an auction house of super villain trophies, "Hungry City" where Dick must solve the murder of a bank employee left in the stomach of an orca, and "Skeleton Cases" where Jim and Barbara Gordon deal with the return of sociopath James Gordon Jr to Gotham. ''The Black Mirror'' was published in the pages of ''Detective Comics'' and was so acclaimed that Snyder was moved to the main ''Batman'' series following the New 52 reboot.
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''The Black Mirror'' is the first Franchise/{{Batman}} story by now-acclaimed writer Creator/ScottSnyder. Written pre-ComicBook/New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of Red Robin, Oracle, and Jim Gordon.
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* "Black Mirror" where Dick faces off against an auction house of super villaintrophies, trophies
* "Hungry City" where Dick must solve the murder of a bank employee left in the stomach of anorca, and orca
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* "Skeleton Cases" where Jim and Barbara Gordon deal with the return of sociopath James Gordon Jr to
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''The Black Mirror'' is the first Franchise/{{Batman}} story by now-acclaimed writer Creator/ScottSnyder. Written pre-New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of Red Robin, Oracle, and Jim Gordon. ''The Black Mirror'' collects three separate storylines: "Black Mirror" where Dick faces off against an auction house of super villain trophies, "Hungry City" where Dick must solve the murder of a bank employee left in the stomach of an orca, and "Skeleton Cases" where Jim and Barbara Gordon deal with the return of sociopath James Gordon Jr to Gotham. ''The Black Mirror'' was published in the pages of ''Detective Comics'' and was so acclaimed that Snyder was moved to the main ''Batman'' series following the New 52 reboot.
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''The Black Mirror'' is the first Franchise/{{Batman}} story by now-acclaimed writer Creator/ScottSnyder. Written pre-New52, pre-ComicBook/New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of Red Robin, Oracle, and Jim Gordon. ''The Black Mirror'' collects three separate storylines: "Black Mirror" where Dick faces off against an auction house of super villain trophies, "Hungry City" where Dick must solve the murder of a bank employee left in the stomach of an orca, and "Skeleton Cases" where Jim and Barbara Gordon deal with the return of sociopath James Gordon Jr to Gotham. ''The Black Mirror'' was published in the pages of ''Detective Comics'' and was so acclaimed that Snyder was moved to the main ''Batman'' series following the New 52 reboot.
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* NotMeThisTime: Who hit Barbara Kean with Joker toxin? [[spoiler: James Jr]]
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* NotMeThisTime: Who hit Barbara Kean with Joker toxin? [[spoiler: James Jr]]Jr]].
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear what exactly created James Junior's mental problems: the PTSD from the fall during ''BatmanYearOne'', a genetic defect, or Gotham itself.
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* AmbiguousSituation: It's unclear what exactly created James Junior's mental problems: the PTSD from the fall during ''BatmanYearOne'', ''ComicBook/BatmanYearOne'', a genetic defect, or Gotham itself.
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* CallBack: [[spoiler: James Jr falls off Gotham Bridge like he did in BatmanYearOne]]
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* CoolShip: Tiger Shark's Bond villain-esque submarnie
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''The Black Mirror'' is the first {{Batman}} story by now-acclaimed writer Creator/ScottSnyder. Written pre-New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of Red Robin, Oracle, and Jim Gordon. ''The Black Mirror'' collects three separate storylines: "Black Mirror" where Dick faces off against an auction house of super villain trophies, "Hungry City" where Dick must solve the murder of a bank employee left in the stomach of an orca, and "Skeleton Cases" where Jim and Barbara Gordon deal with the return of sociopath James Gordon Jr to Gotham. ''The Black Mirror'' was published in the pages of ''Detective Comics'' and was so acclaimed that Snyder was moved to the main ''Batman'' series following the New 52 reboot.
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''The Black Mirror'' is the first {{Batman}} Franchise/{{Batman}} story by now-acclaimed writer Creator/ScottSnyder. Written pre-New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of Red Robin, Oracle, and Jim Gordon. ''The Black Mirror'' collects three separate storylines: "Black Mirror" where Dick faces off against an auction house of super villain trophies, "Hungry City" where Dick must solve the murder of a bank employee left in the stomach of an orca, and "Skeleton Cases" where Jim and Barbara Gordon deal with the return of sociopath James Gordon Jr to Gotham. ''The Black Mirror'' was published in the pages of ''Detective Comics'' and was so acclaimed that Snyder was moved to the main ''Batman'' series following the New 52 reboot.
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* ArcWelding: [[spoiler: James Jr.]] is revealed to have played a part in ''everything'' villainous throughout all three arcs of this story.
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* BigDamnVillains: [[spoiler: James Jr reveals he saved Dick from the mob at Mirror House]].
* SocialDarwinist: [[spoiler: James Jr believes that empathy is weakness and looks to eradicate it in the next generation of Gothamites by mixing his psychosis-enhancing formula to baby formula in the city.]]
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: James Jr reveals he saved Dick from the mob at Mirror House]].
* VillainousRescue: [[spoiler: James Jr reveals he saved Dick from the mob at Mirror House]].
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Ben Wolff strung up in his own basement, his limbs and lower jaw hacked off, TheReveal that, yes, James Jr has been EvilAllAlong.]]
* SocialDarwinist: [[spoiler: James Jr believes that empathy is weakness and looks to eradicate it in the next generation of Gothamites by mixing his psychosis-enhancing formula to baby formula in the city.]]
* SocialDarwinist: [[spoiler: James Jr believes that empathy is weakness and looks to eradicate it in the next generation of Gothamites by mixing his psychosis-enhancing formula to baby formula in the city.]]
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* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Ben Wolff strung up in his own basement, his limbs and lower jaw hacked off, TheReveal that, yes, James Jr has been EvilAllAlong.]]
* SocialDarwinist: [[spoiler: James Jr believes that empathy is weakness and looks to eradicate it in the next generation of Gothamites by mixing his psychosis-enhancing formula to baby formula in the city.]]
* SocialDarwinist: [[spoiler: James Jr believes that empathy is weakness and looks to eradicate it in the next generation of Gothamites by mixing his psychosis-enhancing formula to baby formula in the city.
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** WhenHeSmiles: One of the characters makes a CallBack to when Dick first put on the cowl after ''FinalCrisis'' and re-debuted to the public as Batman. Dick's little smile there was proof positive that this wasn't the original Batman.
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** WhenHeSmiles: One of the characters makes a CallBack to when Dick first put on the cowl after ''FinalCrisis'' and re-debuted to the public as Batman. Dick's little smile there was proof positive that this wasn't the original Batman.
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* NotMeThisTime: Who hit Barbara Kean with Joker toxin? [[spoiler: James Jr]]
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* WhamLine: [[spoiler: "Hey, sis."]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Ben Wolff strung up in his own basement, his limbs and lower jaw hacked off, TheReveal that, yes, James Jr has been EvilAllAlong.]]
* WhamShot: [[spoiler: Ben Wolff strung up in his own basement, his limbs and lower jaw hacked off, TheReveal that, yes, James Jr has been EvilAllAlong.]]
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* SlasherSmile: Dick busts one out a couple times when he wants to rub it in a criminal's face.
** WhenHeSmiles: One of the characters makes a CallBack to when Dick first put on the cowl after ''FinalCrisis'' and re-debuted to the public as Batman. Dick's little smile there was proof positive that this wasn't the original Batman.
** WhenHeSmiles: One of the characters makes a CallBack to when Dick first put on the cowl after ''FinalCrisis'' and re-debuted to the public as Batman. Dick's little smile there was proof positive that this wasn't the original Batman.
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* CassandraTruth: Barbara seems to feel that she's the only one to see that [[spoiler her brother is a psycho killer. Subverted when it's revealed Dick bugged James Jr when they met and Jim swiped one of James Jr's pills to analyze. Turns out to be a good thing they did.]]
* DamselInDistress: Happens in the last story
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* CassandraTruth: Barbara seems to feel that she's the only one to see that [[spoiler [[spoiler: her brother is a psycho killer. Subverted when it's revealed Dick bugged James Jr when they met and Jim swiped one of James Jr's pills to analyze. Turns out to be a good thing they did.]]
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''The Black Mirror'' is the first {{Batman}} story by now-acclaimed writer ScottSnyder. Creator/ScottSnyder. Written pre-New52, ''The Black Mirror'' stars DickGrayson Dick Grayson in his closing days as Gotham's Batman. While the newly returned Bruce Wayne is busy developing Batman Inc elsewhere, Dick has developed a new crime lab for the GCPD and James Gordon in particular to use. Simultaneously, he is continuing to fight crime as Batman with the technical support of RedRobin, Red Robin, Oracle, and Jim Gordon. ''The Black Mirror'' collects three separate storylines: "Black Mirror" where Dick faces off against an auction house of super villain trophies, "Hungry City" where Dick must solve the murder of a bank employee left in the stomach of an orca, and "Skeleton Cases" where Jim and Barbara Gordon deal with the return of sociopath James Gordon Jr to Gotham. ''The Black Mirror'' was published in the pages of ''Detective Comics'' and was so acclaimed that Snyder was moved to the main ''Batman'' series following the New 52 reboot.
* CassandraTruth: Barbara seems to feel that she's the only one to see that [[spoiler her brother is a psycho killer. Subverted when it's revealed Dick bugged James Jr when they met and Jim swiped one of James Jr's pills to analyze. Turns out to be a good thing they did.]]
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* EldritchLocation: Gordon hypothesizes that Gotham is one, driving people towards madness and evil.
* EldritchLocation: Gordon hypothesizes that Gotham is one, driving people towards madness and evil.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Dick invokes this trope at the end.
* GoodIsNotDumb: Dick invokes this trope at the end.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Tiger Shark escapes]]
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: The Dealer and Tiger Shark escapes]]both escape]]
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* AmbiguousEnding: It's unclear in the last story whether the threat of ghe day was actually stopped or not.
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* AmbiguousEnding: It's unclear in the last story whether the threat of ghe the day was actually stopped or not.
