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* WhamEpisode: ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57328897 Mad Hatter]]'' starts off with [[spoiler: Jervis using a broadcasting station to hypnotize potentially thousands of people into killing themselves]].

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-->''The villains have Gotham City all to themselves, with no Batman to pester them! They’ll cause chaos, chill out and maybe team up as they enjoy the city, all while getting to know each other better.''

A fanfiction based on a discord Role-play group taking place in world of ComicBook/{{Batman}}, except without, well Batman. Him and the rest of the Bat Family have mysteriously disappeared, leaving the rogues gallery unrestrained.

While initially they start to get to know each other better, the plot truly kicks off when [[spoiler:a drugged Mad Hatter forces thousands of civilians to kill themselves]].

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-->''The ->''The villains have Gotham City all to themselves, with no Batman to pester them! They’ll They'll cause chaos, chill out and maybe team up as they enjoy the city, all while getting to know each other better.''

A fanfiction based on a discord Role-play group taking place in world of ComicBook/{{Batman}}, ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', except without, well Batman. Him and the rest of the Bat Family have mysteriously disappeared, leaving the rogues gallery unrestrained.

While initially they start to get to know each other better, the plot truly kicks off when [[spoiler:a a drugged Mad Hatter forces thousands of civilians to kill themselves]].
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Black Mask has genuine affection for his surrogate daughter Annie]].

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:
** Penguin has his adopted son, Martin.
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[[spoiler: Black Mask has genuine affection for his surrogate daughter Annie]].
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* Idiosyncrazy: Most of the Rogues have some kind of fixation. Catwoman is a known exception.

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* Idiosyncrazy: Most of the Rogues have some kind of fixation. Catwoman is a known exception.
** Mad Hatter: The works of Lewis Caroll, with particular favor to ''Literature/AliceInWonderland
** Two-Face has his coin, duality, and law & order
** The Riddle: Riddles (duh)
** Poison Ivy: Plants
** Scarecrow: Fear
** Black Mask: Masks, whether real or metaphorical



* TrainingFromHell: [[spoiler: Deathstroke subjected Annie to being electrocuted, burned, and melted as a part of her training.]]



* PsychoPscychologist:

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* TrainingFromHell: [[spoiler: Deathstroke subjected Annie to being electrocuted, burned, and melted as a part of her training.]]

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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In mainstream canon Stefano Mandragora is killed by Huntress early in her career. [[spoiler: Here, he is killed after her death by an impostor.]]

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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In mainstream canon canon, Stefano Mandragora is killed by Huntress early in her career. [[spoiler: Here, he is killed after her death by an impostor.]]



* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes:

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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: [[spoiler: Black Mask has genuine affection for his surrogate daughter Annie]].


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* PsychoPscychologist:
** The doctors in Arkham who subject Jervis Tetch to his own machines, driving him further insane.
** Jonathan Crane has elements of this, [[spoiler: especially with his "Therapy Session" with Riddler, where he has Riddler restrained against his will and sedated]].


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* VitriolicBestBuds: Catwoman and Riddler have this dynamic, constantly snarking at each other.
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* AbusiveParents: Black Mask notes that Deathstroke stabbed his son through the heart and forced his daughter to gouge her eye out. [[spoiler: Black Mask is this to Annie, since he forces her to train with [[TrainingFromHell Deathstroke.]]]]


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* AdaptationalVillainy: [[spoiler:Annie in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' was an amnesiac piece of Clayface who was otherwise an innocent young girl. In Chapter 20, she is revealed to be one of Black Mask's enforcers and surrogate daughter]].


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* TrainingFromHell: [[spoiler: Deathstroke subjected Annie to being electrocuted, burned, and melted as a part of her training.]]
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The first chapter can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57325747 on Ao3]]. The series page is [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1718797 here]].

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The first chapter can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57325747 on Ao3]].AO3]] or [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13568738/1/Gotham-s-Finest-Villains fanfiction.net]]. The series page is [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1718797 here]].here on AO3]].
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* CharacterTitle: Several chapters of the fic are simply titled the name of a character who is prominent in it.

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* DarkIsEvil: Black Mask, who wears a black skull mask.



* PatchworkFic: The series takes inspiration from several Batman mediums, most notably''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.

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* PatchworkFic: The series takes inspiration from several Batman mediums, most notably''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.notably ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.

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* AllLowercaseLetters: Killer Croc tends to speak like this.



* WhamEpisode: [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57328897 ''Mad Hatter'']] starts off with [[spoiler: Jervis using a broadcasting station to hypnotize potentially thousands of people into killing themselves]].

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://archiveofourown.''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57328897 ''Mad Hatter'']] Mad Hatter]]'' starts off with [[spoiler: Jervis using a broadcasting station to hypnotize potentially thousands of people into killing themselves]].

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* AdaptationalSexuality: In the Comics Poison Ivy is usually is portrayed as bisexual and TheVamp. Here she's demisexual, and has very little interest in sex or kissing.

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* AdaptationalSexuality: In the Comics comics, Poison Ivy is usually is portrayed as bisexual and TheVamp. Here she's demisexual, and has very little interest in sex or kissing.kissing.
* BedlamHouse: Arkham Asylum, as usual.


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* CardboardPrison: Black Mask breaks [[spoiler: Two-Face and Mad Hatter out of Arkham a few weeks after they are confined there]].


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* VillainProtagonist: As every role-player plays a villain, regardless of who's perspective the story is in, it's gonna be this.

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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In mainstream canon Stefano Mandragora is killed by Huntress early in her career. [[Here, he is killed after her death by an impostor.]]

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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In mainstream canon Stefano Mandragora is killed by Huntress early in her career. [[Here, [[spoiler: Here, he is killed after her death by an impostor.]]


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* IronicNurseryTune: Scarecrow sings "Three Blind Mice" while using lab rats in his experiments. Later he chants a variation of "This Little Piggy", while [[spoiler: gassing the Gotham City Police Department with fear toxin.]]


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* SecretKeeper: Even though he is missing, neither Catwoman nor Black Mask revealed Bruce Wayne is Batman to anyone.
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* AdaptationalSexuality: In the Comics Poison Ivy is usually is portrayed as bisexual and TheVamp. Here she's demisexual, and has very little interest in sex or kissing.

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* AlternateContinuity: Is one to the Franchise/TheDCU.

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* AlternateContinuity: AlternateUniverseFic: Is one to the Franchise/TheDCU.



* EvenEvilHasStandards: Most of the villains are disgusted with [[spoiler: Mad Hatter murdering countless civilians.]]



* IJustWantToHaveFriends: One of Scarecrow's motivations, as he grew up isolated by his peers.



* PayEvilOntoEvil: Catwoman routinely murders child sex traffickers. Not many people can blame her.

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* PayEvilOntoEvil: PatchworkFic: The series takes inspiration from several Batman mediums, most notably''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
* PayEvilUntoEvil:
Catwoman routinely murders child sex traffickers. Not many people can blame her.
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* DeadPersonImpersonation: [[spoiler: One of Black Mask's followers is disguising herself as Huntress.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler: Helena Bertinelli/Huntress is killed by Black Mask sometime before the fic starts.]]
* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: In mainstream canon Stefano Mandragora is killed by Huntress early in her career. [[Here, he is killed after her death by an impostor.]]


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* PayEvilOntoEvil: Catwoman routinely murders child sex traffickers. Not many people can blame her.
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* WhamEpisode: [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57328897 Mad Hatter]] starts off with [[spoiler: Jervis using a broadcasting station to hypnotize potentially thousands of people into killing themselves]].

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57328897 Mad Hatter]] ''Mad Hatter'']] starts off with [[spoiler: Jervis using a broadcasting station to hypnotize potentially thousands of people into killing themselves]].
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* JekyllAndHyde: Harvey Dent and Two-Face, as expected. [[spoiler: He also has a third personality, "The Judge"]].
* NeverMyFault: Mad Hatter [[spoiler: refuses to admit responsibility for forcing thousands to commit suicide, blaming Poison Ivy instead.]]
* SecretIdentityIdentity: Black Mask claims Batman's mask is his "true face".

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While initially they start to get to know each other better, the plot truly kicks off when [[spoiler:a drugged Mad Hatter forces thousands of civilians to kill themselves]].



* AlternateContinuity: Is one to the DCU.

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* AlternateContinuity: Is one to the DCU.Franchise/TheDCU.
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** In the mildest sense. Black Mask is still a ruthless sadistic TortureTechnician, but claims he's trying to contain crime rather than pursuing power, greed, and fulfilling his sadism.
** Jonathan Crane/Scarecrow is a NiceGuy to his friends who mainly wishes to target bullies, mobsters, cops, and the Gotham Elite.
* BadPeopleAbuseAnimals: In the first chapter Black Mask is in, he skins a cat alive and threatens Catwoman that he'll do it to every cat in Gotham.
* BlackAndGrayMorality: On one hand we have Catwoman and the band of rogues she hangs out with who cause mischief and meyhem for Gotham. On the other hand, there's Black Mask, a ruthless crime lord, who tortures people to death and helps run child sex trafficking rings.


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* DisabledInTheAdaptation: Holly Robinson is deaf in this version.


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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Black Mask believes the only way for crime in Gotham to be reduced is if he's in charge of it.
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* WhamEpisode: [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57328897 Mad Hatter]] starts off with [[Jervis using a broadcasting station to hypnotize potentially thousands of people into killing themselves]].

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* WhamEpisode: [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57328897 Mad Hatter]] starts off with [[Jervis [[spoiler: Jervis using a broadcasting station to hypnotize potentially thousands of people into killing themselves]].
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-->''The villains have Gotham City all to themselves, with no Batman to pester them! They’ll cause chaos, chill out and maybe team up as they enjoy the city, all while getting to know each other better.''

A fanfiction based on a discord Role-play group taking place in world of ComicBook/{{Batman}}, except without, well Batman. Him and the rest of the Bat Family have mysteriously disappeared, leaving the rogues gallery unrestrained.

The first chapter can be read [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57325747 on Ao3]]. The series page is [[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1718797 here]].
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!!This series displays the following tropes:

*AlternateContinuity: Is one to the DCU.
*BroadStrokes: The note on the first chapter claims that this is the case, where several events of the comic happened but it is overall an alternate continuity with differences.
*HeroKiller: [[spoiler: Black Mask has killed both Stephanie Brown/Robin and Helena Bertinelli/Huntress.]]
*VillainousFriendship: Several, including between Mad Hatter and Harvey Dent (although not with [[JekyllAndHyde Two-Face]]), Poison Ivy and Catwoman and Harley Quinn, and Catwoman with Riddler and Scarecrow.
*WhamEpisode: [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23852209/chapters/57328897 Mad Hatter]] starts off with [[Jervis using a broadcasting station to hypnotize potentially thousands of people into killing themselves]].

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