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* KickTheSonOfABitch: This is how Dick sees killing a wounded Batman after he killed an entire SWAT team and Kory.


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* PayEvilUntoEvil: This is how Dick sees killing a wounded Batman after he killed an entire SWAT team and Kory.
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* BlackEyesOfEvil: Dick gets these along with the dark veins around the eyes that Rachel gets, after surrendering to his DarkSide.

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* BlackEyesOfEvil: Dick gets these along with the [[TaintedVeins dark veins veins]] around the eyes that Rachel gets, after surrendering to his DarkSide.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Trigon successfully corrupts Dick Grayson with a worst-case scenario nightmare and has Rachel captive and powerless to do something against him.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Dick gets these along with the dark veins around her eyes that Rachel gets when using her SuperpoweredEvilSide.

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* TheBadGuyWins: Trigon successfully corrupts Dick Grayson with a worst-case scenario nightmare and has nightmare, with Rachel captive and powerless to do something anything against him.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: Dick gets these along with the dark veins around her the eyes that Rachel gets when using her SuperpoweredEvilSide.gets, after surrendering to his DarkSide.



* {{Cliffhanger}}: For the entire first season. The whole episode is OnlyADream designed to trap Dick Grayson in a scenario wherein he embraced his inner darkness. Trigon is summoned, [[DarkestHour things are looking bleak.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Dick isn't happy that Dawn has asked Hank to help paint the room, even though she's pregnant and needs help doing so. Dawn in turn isn't happy that Dick is working with his ex, Kory.

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: For the entire first season. The whole episode is OnlyADream designed to trap Dick Grayson in a scenario wherein he embraced his inner darkness. Trigon is summoned, [[DarkestHour things are looking bleak.
bleak]].
* CrazyJealousGuy: Dick isn't happy that Dawn has asked Hank to help paint the room, even though she's pregnant and needs help doing so. Dawn in turn isn't happy that Dick is working with his ex, ex-girlfriend Kory.



* TheOnlyOne: Justified as Dick is not the only hero, but the only friend that Bruce Wayne has had that's still alive.

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* TheOnlyOne: Justified as Dick is not the only hero, but the only friend {{only friend}} that Bruce Wayne has had that's who's still alive.



* WeaksauceWeakness: Kory goes to use her fire powers on Batman, only to find he has a freeze gun.

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* WeaksauceWeakness: Kory goes to use her fire powers on Batman, only to find he has a freeze gun.gun, presumably taken from Mr. Freeze himself.

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* BlackEyesOfEvil: Dick gets these along with the dark veins around her eyes that Rachel gets when using her SuperpoweredEvilSide.



* {{Cliffhanger}}: For the entire first season. [[spoiler: The whole episode is OnlyADream designed to trap Dick Grayson in a scenario wherein he embraced his inner darkness. Trigon is summoned, [[DarkestHour things are looking bleak.]]]]

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* {{Cliffhanger}}: For the entire first season. [[spoiler: The whole episode is OnlyADream designed to trap Dick Grayson in a scenario wherein he embraced his inner darkness. Trigon is summoned, [[DarkestHour things are looking bleak.]]]]bleak.
* CrazyJealousGuy: Dick isn't happy that Dawn has asked Hank to help paint the room, even though she's pregnant and needs help doing so. Dawn in turn isn't happy that Dick is working with his ex, Kory.



* MythologyGag: A reversal of both ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' and ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' as Jason is wheelchair-bound and James Gordon's dead. Also references James Gordon, Barbara Gordon, and Superman, and shows a shot of the Batsignal.

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* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
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A reversal of both ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' and ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' as Jason is wheelchair-bound and James Gordon's dead. Also references James Gordon, Barbara Gordon, and Superman, and shows a shot of the Batsignal.Batsignal.
** A dead Harvey Dent is shown with his blood covering half of his coin.
** Even in a simulation, [[JokerImmunity you can't kill the Joker]].



* TheOnlyOne: Justified as Dick is not the only hero, but the only friend that Bruce Wayne has had that's still alive.



* WretchedHive: Firmly establishes Gotham as such. Though it has always been, in the dream at least it has gotten worse.

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* WeaksauceWeakness: Kory goes to use her fire powers on Batman, only to find he has a freeze gun.
* WretchedHive: Firmly establishes Gotham as such. Though it has always been, in the dream at least it has gotten worse. The cab driver refuses to drop Dick anywhere downtown, and even the place he does drop him looks like the WrongSideOfTheTracks.

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* BlatantLies: Trigon tells Rachel that Dick chose his path, but every time we saw Dick choosing to return to his family there was AGlitchInTheMatrix and something happened to make Dick change his mind.



* LotusEaterMachine: An inversion as it starts off this way with Dick married to Dawn in a happy family life, then goes FromBadToWorse in order to drive Dick over the DespairEventHorizon.
* RightThroughTheWall: Dick stays at a NoTellMotel during his return to Gotham, and the sound of someone having sex in the next room serves as MoodDissonance when he's on the phone to his family in California. Then the [[WallBangHer banging]] suddenly [[DomesticAbuse gets a lot louder]], activating his ChronicHeroSyndrome.



* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Batman brutally murdered his rogues gallery, including throwing the Joker off a building and onto a car, then stabbing him with a Batarang when he's in the ICU.

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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Batman brutally murdered his rogues gallery, Rogues Gallery, including throwing the Joker off a building and onto a car, then stabbing him with a Batarang when he's in the ICU.
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* WretchedHive: Firmly establishes Gotham as such.

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* WretchedHive: Firmly establishes Gotham as such. Though it has always been, in the dream at least it has gotten worse.
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* KickTheSonOfABitch: This is how Dick sees killing an wounded Batman after he killed an entire SWAT team and Kory.
* MyGodYouAreSerious: The reaction of the detective when Dick tells him Gotham City's wealthiest citizen and known playboy is really Batman.

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* KickTheSonOfABitch: This is how Dick sees killing an a wounded Batman after he killed an entire SWAT team and Kory.
* MyGodYouAreSerious: The reaction of the detective when Dick tells him Gotham City's wealthiest citizen and known playboy is really Batman.

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* TheBadGuyWins: Trigon successfully corrupts Dick Grayson with a worst-case scenario nightmare and has Rachel captive and powerless to do something against him.



* TheBadGuyWins: Trigon successfully corrupts Dick Grayson with a worst-case scenario nightmare and has Rachel captive and powerless to do something against him.
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* MyGodYouAreSerious: The reaction of the detective when Dick tells him Gotham City's wealthiest citizen and known playboy is really Batman.
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* ShoutOut: When Kori tells Dick that she is working for the FBI, she mentions avoiding [[Series/TheXFiles "the guys in the basement"]].
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* DeadGuyJunior: Dick's hallucination son is named Johnny, after Dick's father.
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* {{Cliffhanger}}: For the entire first season. [[spoiler: The whole episode is OnlyADream designed to trap Dick Grayson in a scenario wherein he embraced his inner darkness. Trigon is summoned, [[DarkestHour things are looking bleak.]]]]

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* TheBadGuyWins: Trigon successfully corrupts Dick Grayson with his worst case-scenario nightmare and has Rachel captive and powerless to do something against him.

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* TheBadGuyWins: Trigon successfully corrupts Dick Grayson with his worst case-scenario a worst-case scenario nightmare and has Rachel captive and powerless to do something against him.him.
* KickTheSonOfABitch: This is how Dick sees killing an wounded Batman after he killed an entire SWAT team and Kory.
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* TheBadGuyWins: Trigon successfully corrupts Dick Grayson with his worst case-scenario nightmare and has Rachel captive and powerless to do something against him.
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* TheStinger: Superboy in Cadmus.

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* TheStinger: Superboy in Cadmus.[[ComicBook/{{Superboy}} "Subject 13"]] escapes from captivity from Project Cadmus, but before he goes, he rescues [[ComicBook/{{KryptoTheSuperdog}} a dog]] from a green glowing cage.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Batman brutally murdered his rogues gallery, including throwing the Joker off a building and onto a car.

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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Batman brutally murdered his rogues gallery, including throwing the Joker off a building and onto a car.car, then stabbing him with a Batarang when he's in the ICU.
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* TheStinger: Superboy in Cadmus.
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* {Hallucinations}: The entire episode is Trigon messing with Dick's head.

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* {Hallucinations}: {{Hallucinations}}: The entire episode is Trigon messing with Dick's head.

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* {Hallucinations}: The entire episode is Trigon messing with Dick's head.



* StartOfDarkness: As Jason explains, Joker killed Commissioner Gordon. Batman ended up flipping his lid and vowing revenge.

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* StartOfDarkness: As Jason explains, Joker killed Commissioner Gordon. Batman ended up flipping his lid and vowing revenge. The entire hallucination is supposed to be the start of Dick's.

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* StartOfDarkness: As Jason explains, Joker killed Commissioner Gordon and apparently crippled Jason. Batman ended up flipping his lid and vowing revenge.

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* StartOfDarkness: As Jason explains, Joker killed Commissioner Gordon and apparently crippled Jason. Gordon. Batman ended up flipping his lid and vowing revenge.revenge.
* WretchedHive: Firmly establishes Gotham as such.
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* MythologyGag: A reversal of both ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' and ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' as Jason is wheelchair-bound and James Gordon's dead.

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* MythologyGag: A reversal of both ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' and ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' as Jason is wheelchair-bound and James Gordon's dead. Also references James Gordon, Barbara Gordon, and Superman, and shows a shot of the Batsignal.

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Dick takes a dark journey back to Gotham in the finale.

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Dick takes Season Finale. To Dick's shock, a dark journey back wheelchair-bound Jason Todd approaches him with a desperate plea: return to Gotham and stop Batman from his murderous rampage.

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* MythologyGag: A reversal of both ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'' and ''ComicBook/ADeathInTheFamily'' as Jason is wheelchair-bound and James Gordon's dead.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Batman brutally murdered his rogues gallery, including throwing
the finale.Joker off a building and onto a car.
* StartOfDarkness: As Jason explains, Joker killed Commissioner Gordon and apparently crippled Jason. Batman ended up flipping his lid and vowing revenge.
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Dick takes a dark journey back to Gotham in the finale.

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