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Directed by Creator/TJScott

Written by Creator/DannyCannon & Creator/MeganMostynBrown
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: Josie Mac's sparring match is conducted improperly. Neither she or her opponent are wearing headgear or mouth guards, and the match ends with Josie knocking the other man out cold, which is never done intentionally in sparring.
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* WouldHitAGirl: Alfred, seeing Selina for the first time in several months, greets her and then slugs her in the jaw for [[GothamS1E19BeastsOfPrey her murder of Reggie]]. (If killing the man who almost killed him seems like an odd sticking point, that's just how good chums they were.)

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* WouldHitAGirl: Alfred, seeing Selina for the first time in several months, greets her and then slugs her in the jaw for [[GothamS1E19BeastsOfPrey [[Recap/GothamS1E19BeastsOfPrey of her murder of Reggie]]. (If killing the man who almost killed him seems like an odd sticking point, that's just how good chums they were.)
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** It's also not the [[BatmanReturns first time]] that a VillainWithGoodPublicity has made a deal with the Penguin to win a mayoral race, as part of a plan to get building plans approved.

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** It's also not the [[BatmanReturns [[Film/BatmanReturns first time]] that a VillainWithGoodPublicity has made a deal with the Penguin to win a mayoral race, as part of a plan to get building plans approved.
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Has nothing to do with familiarity with in-universe fiction.


* GenreSavvy: Penguin is suspicious upon meeting Galavan that his "heroics" confronting Jerome might not have been what they seemed, and instantly knows he's correct when he sees Barbara.
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* BilingualBonus: Edward's date with Miss Kringle is at the Chez Moi... or "my (his) place".
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* UngratefulBastard: Selina killed Reggie in order to protect Bruce. Alfred ''slaps her'' for it.
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* TrainingFromHell: From Bruce's perspective, how Alfred starts off keeping his promise train him: instead of picking him up after school, Alfred drops off sneakers and exercise clothing and leaves for home.

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* TrainingFromHell: From Bruce's perspective, how Alfred starts off keeping his promise to train him: instead of picking him up after school, Alfred drops off sneakers and exercise clothing and leaves for home.
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* ThePurge: An apparently good-guy version. Barnes's first action upon arriving at the station is calling out the most obviously corrupt officers and having them fired.

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* ThePurge: An apparently good-guy version. Barnes's first action upon arriving at the station is calling out the most obviously corrupt officers and having them fired.firing them.
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* MythologyGag: This isn't the first time in the Batman mythos that [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries a crooked official is the "target" of a drive-by shooting he himself arranged during a public speech]]. Galavan even is the first to duck, just like Gil Mason in "Shadow of the Bat."

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* MythologyGag: This isn't the first time in the Batman mythos that [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries a crooked official is the "target" of a drive-by shooting he himself arranged during a public speech]]. Galavan is even is the first to duck, just like Gil Mason in "Shadow of the Bat."
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Alfred in Gotham has always been a bit mean, and is also retired from the original special forces, a killer among killers. Hitting a girl who has often led his surrogate son into danger is kind of a light day for him and nothing new


* TookALevelInJerkass: Alfred punches Selina, a ''kid'', in the face, then tells her Bruce's life would be "a damn sight better without [her] in it." Though some viewers believe he was completely justified as she ''did'' murder Reggie and was perfectly fine with Fish murdering Gordon. Call it karma

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* TookALevelInJerkass: Alfred punches Selina, a ''kid'', in the face, then tells her Bruce's life would be "a damn sight better without [her] in it."
** She ''did'' murder Reggie and was perfectly fine with Fish murdering Gordon. Call it karma

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* TookALevelInJerkass: Alfred punches Selina, a ''kid'', in the face, then tells her Bruce's life would be "a damn sight better without [her] in it."
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" Though some viewers believe he was completely justified as she ''did'' murder Reggie and was perfectly fine with Fish murdering Gordon. Call it karma
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** It's also not the [[BatmanReturns first time]] that a VillainWithGoodPublicity has made a deal with the Penguin to win a mayoral race, as part of a plan to get building plans approved.

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* BloodKnight: Barnes appears to be one, at one point telling Lee to get ready for all the dead bad guys he'll be sending her way.



* WouldHitAGirl: Alfred, seeing Selina for the first time in several months, greets her and then slugs her in the jaw for [[GothamS1E19BeastsOfPrey her murder of Reggie]].

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* WouldHitAGirl: Alfred, seeing Selina for the first time in several months, greets her and then slugs her in the jaw for [[GothamS1E19BeastsOfPrey her murder of Reggie]]. (If killing the man who almost killed him seems like an odd sticking point, that's just how good chums they were.)
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* MythologyGag: This isn't the first time in the Batman mythos that [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries a crooked official is the "target" of a drive-by shooting he himself arranged during a public speech]]. Galavan even is the first to duck, just like Gil Mason in "Shadow of the Bat."
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* TakeThat: Two of the cops Barnes fires are named [[Series/AgentsOfSHIELD Coulson]] and [[Film/PoliceAcademy Hightower]].
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** She ''did'' murder Reggie and was perfectly fine with Fish murdering Gordon. Call it karma
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* MoodSwinger: Butch has apparently been left bipolar ever since Fish's death.


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* VisionaryVillain: Galavan plans to tear down much of Gotham's residential areas in order to build a new metropolitan skyline in their place.
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* INeverSaidItWasPoison: Nygma remarks that he's glad that Kristen's abusive former boyfriend is dead -- supposedly, he just left town.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Alfred socks Selina right in the face, and even her make-up isn't smudged.
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* FalseFlagOperation: Galavan has Penguin stage an attack on him, in order to make him look like even more of a hero. As a bonus, it directs the police's attention away from himself.


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* HoneyTrap: Theo seems to be setting his niece up as a kid-friendly version for Bruce.


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* ShutUpKirk: Gordon marches into Penguin's lair and tells him that not only do the GCPD know that he's behind the recent murders/attempted murders of mayoral candidates, but that they're under new management that won't make deals with him anymore. But, [[VillainHasAPoint as Penguin points out]], he came to say all this to Penguin ''alone'' -- no warrant, no backup, no witnesses to the fact that he and Penguin have cut deals in the past.
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* TookALevelInJerkass: Alfred punches Selina, a ''kid'', in the face, then tells her Bruce's life would be "a damn sight better without [her] in it."
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* TrainingFromHell: From Bruce's perspective, how Alfred starts off keeping his promise train him: instead of picking him up after school, Alfred drops off sneakers and exercise clothing and leaves for home.
-->'''Alfred:''' Now I clocked Wayne Manor at exactly six and a half miles, should take ninety minutes to two hours, depending on how often you stop of course. ''(Bruce gives him a BlankStare)'' You said you wanted to train, to prepare. Well, this is it.
-->'''Bruce:''' Wait! You...you expect me to...to ''walk''?
-->'''Alfred:''' No, Master Bruce. I expect you to ''run''.
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* ThePurge: An apparently good-guy version. Barnes's first action upon arriving at the station is calling out the most obviously corrupt officers and having them fired.

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* ThePurge: An apparently good-guy version. Barnes's first action upon arriving at the station is calling out the most obviously corrupt officers and having them fired.fired.
* WouldHitAGirl: Alfred, seeing Selina for the first time in several months, greets her and then slugs her in the jaw for [[GothamS1E19BeastsOfPrey her murder of Reggie]].
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Captain Barnes arrives at the precinct to try and bring law and order to Gotham and the GCPD while Theo Galavan makes a play to become mayor by blackmailing the Penguin into eliminating the competition.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Galavan blackmails Penguin by holding his mother captive and threatening her death if Penguin doesn't cooperate.
* GenreSavvy: Penguin is suspicious upon meeting Galavan that his "heroics" confronting Jerome might not have been what they seemed, and instantly knows he's correct when he sees Barbara.
* NewMeat: Barnes recruits members of the Strike Team straight out of the Academy because they wouldn't yet have their idealism tarnished by working as a cop in Gotham.
* ThePurge: An apparently good-guy version. Barnes's first action upon arriving at the station is calling out the most obviously corrupt officers and having them fired.

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