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* HypocriticalHumor: When Joker meets Batman for the first time, he asks the latter what rational person would dress up like him, despite the fact ''he'' is dressed quite ridiculous himself.
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* BaitAndSwitch: When Detective Bennett arrives at Wayne Manor to see Bruce, it seems like he figured out Bruce and the Batman are same person and he's to arrest him. Then it turns out that Detective Bennett is really an old friend of Bruce, and just wants to talk him.
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* MythologyGag: At the end of episode, Joker says "Blame it on the bats in my belfry." A nod to the 1989 film where he said "It can be truly said, that I have a bat in my belfry."
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* AllThereInTheManual: The book "Going Batty!" states that the orderly Joker attacked in Arkham Asylum is named Slam.
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* HandHidingSleeves: Joker wears a straitjacket with long sleeves that extend past his hands, allowing him to conceal weapons. The sleeves are torn by Batman.
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* NothingUpMySleeve: Joker wears a straitjacket with long sleeves that extend past his hands, allowing him to conceal weapons. The sleeves are torn by Batman.
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* NotSoDifferent: Joker gives Batman ''two'' such speeches, neither of which Batman really takes seriously.
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* BatmanColdOpen: The pre-credits scene is one of the purest examples of this in any Batman media, meant to depict how [[CurbstompBattle utterly unstoppable]] Batman is against any "normal" crooks.
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* CommanderContrarian: Despite thinking that Bruce should lead a normal, less hazardous life, Alfred prepares a cake for Batman's third anniversary and arranges for Bruce to have alibis with the ladies.
* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Despite thinking that Bruce should lead a normal, less hazardous life, Alfred prepares a cake for Batman's third anniversary and arranges for Bruce to have alibis with the ladies.
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* NoEndorHolocaust: Subverted. In Played straight in the comic adaptation of this episode, episode itself, where Batman casually cuts Joker's poison-gas balloon open ''in the fish in middle of Gotham Harbor were affected by Bay'', with zero acknowledgement of what this would do the gas ecosystem. However, the Batman released.episode's original storyboards (used in most of the picture-book and comic adaptations) show that the poison ''was'' supposed to disfigure some fish, as a shout-out to the Joker's infamous "laughing fish" scheme.
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* DramaticDrop: Alfred drops a [[PricelessMingVase Ming vase]] he was dusting when he overhears Ethan tell Bruce that he saw Batman.
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* DramaticDrop: Alfred drops a ''Ming vase'' he was dusting when he overhears Ethan tell Bruce that he saw Batman.
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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Joker asks Batman if he thinks his outfit is a "good look for [him]," referencing how the design is a departure from Joker's usual appearance.
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* ClothingDamage: The sleeves on Joker's straitjacket are torn during his fight with Batman.
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** Despite thinking that Bruce should lead a normal, less hazardous life, Alfred prepares a cake for Batman's third anniversary and arranges for Bruce to have alibis with the ladies.
* CreatorCameo: Two of this show's producers are mentioned as Arkham inmates; three more, actually depicted on-screen, are caricatures of Creator/BruceTimm, Alan Burnett, and Glen Murakami from [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries this show's predecessor]].
** Ethan is on Batman's side and admires how he can take down criminals. He's also assigned to help take Batman down.
** Despite thinking that Bruce should lead a normal, less hazardous life, Alfred prepares a cake for Batman's third anniversary and arranges for Bruce to have alibis with the ladies.
* CreatorCameo: Two of this show's producers are mentioned as Arkham inmates; three more, actually depicted on-screen, are caricatures of Creator/BruceTimm, Alan Burnett, and Glen Murakami from [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries this show's predecessor]].
** Ethan is on Batman's side and admires how he can take down criminals. He's also assigned to help take Batman down.
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* CommanderContrarian:
**CommanderContrarian: Despite thinking that Bruce should lead a normal, less hazardous life, Alfred prepares a cake for Batman's third anniversary and arranges for Bruce to have alibis with the ladies.
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* CreatorCameo: Two of this show's producers are mentioned as Arkham inmates; three more, actually depicted on-screen, are caricatures of Creator/BruceTimm, Alan Burnett, and Glen Murakami from [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries this show's
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* NotSoDifferent: Joker gives Batman ''two'' such speeches, neither of which Batman really takes seriously.
* RefugeInAudacity: The Arkham guard is utterly perplexed that someone would sneak ''into'' a cell. Joker takes advantage ofthis.this.
* SympatheticInspectorAntagonist: Ethan is on Batman's side and admires how he can take down criminals. He's also assigned to help take Batman down.
* RefugeInAudacity: The Arkham guard is utterly perplexed that someone would sneak ''into'' a cell. Joker takes advantage of
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Three years after taking the Bat mantle, Bruce Wayne has succeeded in getting rid of the ordinary crime bosses. Someone new emerges, however: the Joker. Meanwhile Chief Rojas assigns Detectives Ethan Bennett and Ellen Yin to find Batman and arrest him.
!! Tropes for this episode include:
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: After Rupert Thorne is arrested, there's a power vacuum for the weirder villains to come on out, which means the fight isn't over for Bruce.
* CommanderContrarian:
** Despite thinking that Bruce should lead a normal, less hazardous life, Alfred prepares a cake for Batman's third anniversary and arranges for Bruce to have alibis with the ladies.
** Ethan is on Batman's side and admires how he can take down criminals. He's also assigned to help take Batman down.
* CrazyPrepared: Bruce has a portable Bat alert that tells him when a crime is going on.
* ForTheEvulz: Joker had no reason to release his Joker venom on the prison guard, or to spread it to the city. He just thought Batman would be fun to play with.
* ItAmusedMe: The Joker is thrilled to have a WorthyOpponent, even if Batman won't play along with his jokes.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The guard that Joker poisoned at the beginning ends up guarding ''him'' at the end of it.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Subverted. In the comic adaptation of this episode, the fish in Gotham Harbor were affected by the gas the Batman released.
* RefugeInAudacity: The Arkham guard is utterly perplexed that someone would sneak ''into'' a cell. Joker takes advantage of this.
!! Tropes for this episode include:
* AsLongAsThereIsEvil: After Rupert Thorne is arrested, there's a power vacuum for the weirder villains to come on out, which means the fight isn't over for Bruce.
* CommanderContrarian:
** Despite thinking that Bruce should lead a normal, less hazardous life, Alfred prepares a cake for Batman's third anniversary and arranges for Bruce to have alibis with the ladies.
** Ethan is on Batman's side and admires how he can take down criminals. He's also assigned to help take Batman down.
* CrazyPrepared: Bruce has a portable Bat alert that tells him when a crime is going on.
* ForTheEvulz: Joker had no reason to release his Joker venom on the prison guard, or to spread it to the city. He just thought Batman would be fun to play with.
* ItAmusedMe: The Joker is thrilled to have a WorthyOpponent, even if Batman won't play along with his jokes.
* LaserGuidedKarma: The guard that Joker poisoned at the beginning ends up guarding ''him'' at the end of it.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Subverted. In the comic adaptation of this episode, the fish in Gotham Harbor were affected by the gas the Batman released.
* RefugeInAudacity: The Arkham guard is utterly perplexed that someone would sneak ''into'' a cell. Joker takes advantage of this.
