Vandal Savage may be the main villain of this movie as he has at one point gone under the name of Jack the Ripper.
Jossed.- Though it's possible he does exist, and may have motivated Gordon into wiping out the "whores" of Gotham.
- It's also possible he bought his knife from Sparkles the Unicorn Pixie.
Alfred or Jim Gordon will be the Ripper
Because they're above suspicion to the audience.- Confirmed. It's Gordon.
Superhumans and aliens are in the Gaslight Universe, with the twist being that they're the in-universe reason for the technological revolution.
Maybe Kryptonian, Martian, Thanagarian, and other sorts of alien technology are reverse-engineered centuries later in the Gaslight Universe?- As for their powers, those powers could lead to biological warfare in later centuries. Say, a virus made from Greek God's magic, or simply enhanced soldiers.
If superhumans exist in the Gaslight Universe, this is what the powered superheroes would be like. Anyone can post their own ideas for Steampunk-era superhuman superheroes here.
- Superman: A former Bodybuilder who discovers his superhuman powers after his biological parents land on Earth. He has all the same powers as the original Superman, but he struggles to control them while living in Victorian England.
- Wonder Woman: A feminist who is granted powers by the Greek Gods after saving a Pagan tribe from some racist assholes.
- Later on, Batman might gain bat-related powers from a magical totem.
- All three of the Robins get magical totems that grant them bird-based superpowers.
- Cyborg: Victor Stone ends up with steampunk cybernetics that grant him low-level cybernetic powers after a carriage accident.
- Starfire: A young Tamaranean woman lands on earth and later on meets up with a now-teenage Dick Grayson. They become a battle couple together. Starfire has better control of her powers and teaches Superman how to control his powers (ironically, Starfire is a teenager and Superman is an adult, yet Starfire has better control of her powers).
- Raven: A young woman who is Trigon's doorway, because that's a multidimensional origin story anyway. The twist is that this version of Raven gain demonic magical powers after being gang-raped by demons (note: this is NOT to be sexist, if anything, she takes back her life by using her powers to, first, fight back against the rapist demons and defeat them, and then go after various other villains.)
- Beast Boy: Young Garth Logan gets injected with alien blood by an alchemist to save his life. His family has to live in exile after Garth develops the power to morph into animals and he is at a few points bullied for having non-human DNA mixed with his human DNA.
- The Flash: A police officer named Barry Allen is on foot while he chases a suspect on a carriage one day, and he unknowingly taps into the speed force, gaining super-speed.
- Kid Flash: Inherited his speed-based powers from his uncle after tapping into the Speed Force.
- Wonder Girl: Is a clone of Wonder Woman created by the US military with the help of that same alchemist that granted Beast Boy his powers. Wonder Girl has the same powers as Wonder Woman.
- Martian Manhunter: Is a Martian with the same powers as his mainstream counterpart that landed on Earth and shape-shifted into a black man, leading to so many misunderstandings.
- Aquaman: The son of an Atlantean Woman and a human male sailor, and he inherited his magical and mutation-based powers from his mom and rules his kingdom with the helpful advice from the Queen of Britain.
- Green Lantern Hal Jordan: A young zepplin pilot who gets a Magitek ring that grants him various powers, said ring was given to Hal from a dying alien that came from a planet of aliens that mastered both magic and science.
- Green Lantern Alan Scott: A blacksmith discovers a magical ring that somehow flew into his workplace, that same magical ring grants him a variety of powers.
- Green Lantern Jon Stewart: A black man who becomes a constable for the Coast City police, and he gets a magical ring from a dying alien, and that alien's race's culture puts a lot of emphasis on will-power, and they learned magic. The ring accepts Jon Stewart because of his immense will-power.
- Hawkgirl: A Thanagarian Woman with the same powers as her mainstream counterpart who ended up in Victorian London after being abandoned by her colleges from being deemed "too weak" compared to them.
- Green Arrow: A young man who ends up on an island and finds a magical bow and magical arrows that have various effects. He also finds a magical quiver that grants him infinite arrows.
- Impulse: Has super-speed after solving a math equation that allows him to tap into the speed-force.
- Black Canary: An Irish Woman who unlocks her meta-gene that grants her a powerful sonic-scream after a failed rape attempt against her.
- Firestorm: Two men fuse together thanks to alchemy, and develop fire powers thanks to the fuse.
- John Constantine: A former Scotland Yard detective who quits his job in disgust of the corruption within the police service, so he becomes a private detective and then later on learns magic from a spell-book and becomes a paranormal investigator.
- Zatanna: A stage magician who discovers that she is capable of literal magic and decides to become a hero to honour her presumed dead father. Is also John Constantine's girlfriend. When she discovers that her father is still alive, this motivates her to use her powers to enforce justice even MORE.
- Zatara: Zatanna's father who is secretly alive and uses his magic to fight criminals behind the scenes. He will eventually reveal to Zatanna that he is still alive. Though he will be skeptical of her sexual and romantic relationship with John Constantine, John will eventually earn Zatara's respect and trust by proving to Zatara that he can be a hero and a gentleman.
- Jonah Hex: Pretty much the same as the normal universe except there is no time travel as everybody else are contemporaries and the other difference being that he can reanimate dead people like in the movie and has additional superpowers in the form of superhuman shooting reflexes and superhuman reloading reflexes, the reason for these powers being that he was healed by Native-American shamans.
- Blue Beetle: An archaeologist discovers a magical Egyptian armor, he puts it on and he gains beetle-like powers. He becomes the superhero Blue Beetle!
- Booster Gold: Pretty much the same as the normal universe, except he'll get additional adventures both in the Victorian Era and the 21st century.
- Terry McGinnis: Pretty much the same as the normal universe, except he's from the 21st century and his suit would function as a composite of the DCAU's incarnation of Batwoman and the Batman Beyond Batsuit, with a few elements of Marvel's Ironman Armor just for the sake of a shout-out.
Alternatively, Metahumans and aliens don't exist in this universe
This movie takes place in the "real world" similar to Nolan's Batman. Clark Kent, Barry Allen, and Diana do exist, but they are humans born with special gifts. Barry is a fast guy who won many races, but he's nothing like his mainstream universe counterpart. Clark is a circus strongman who goes by the name "Superman" because of his amazing strength and agility. Diana is a human warrior born on an island.- Have to disagree with who Barry would be since, outside of his powers and superhero identity, there's nothing else about him that has to do with speed. In this world, he'd probably just be a brilliant, but otherwise totally average, police scientist. ...Although given the era and the kind of police work we see in the film I doubt the police have those yet, sooooo just a regular scientist then. ...Barry's a nerd.
- Though if the Sherlock Holmes novels (which inspired real-life police science) have already been published, then Barry may be one of the first forensic scientists.
- As for Clark, while I could see him being represented as a circus strongman in this universe, there's also the possibility that he'd be just a Kansas farmer. After all, according to "For The Man Who Has Everything" his heart's deepest desire is to just be an average farmer on Krypton with his own family. And Diana? Probably a women's rights activist. I mean this is just a couple of decades before the whole suffragette movement really got rolling and in the fairly sexist time period shown in the film, Diana would be a very welcome contrast as both a great martial artist and someone who doesn't take shit from anyone.
Alternatively, the Gaslight Universe's Clark Kent, Diana Prince, and Barry Allen start off as regular humans, but gain powers later on.
- Clark Kent gets his traditional Superman power-set later in life, but instead of outright being an alien, he gets his power-set from a alchemic formula that has DNA from a dead Kryptonian, said formula made by an alchemist working for the Victorian Era-United States Army.
- Diana gets her traditional Wonder Woman power-set later in life, from the Greek gods and goddesses of course, but instead of being born with those powers she is granted those powers as a reward for her heroics before she had said powers.
- Barry gets his traditional Speed-Force powers, but instead of an accident involving a lightning bolt and lab chemicals, he instead unlocks the Speed-Force thanks to finding a mystical crystal during one of his investigations.
Victorian Batman is possibly the world's first super hero
There is no evidence of other heroes existing in that era. Perhaps this Batman is the one who started the whole super hero genre. Jack the Ripper was supposed to be a pre-acid Joker
He was supposed to be a pre-acid Joker, but they later changed their minds because it would have been too obvious of a reveal.- Seems to lean more towards Two-Face though.
Maggie Kyle became the new head of the parish home.
In mainstream comics, the nun Selina has a relationship dating back to childhood with is her younger sister, and Maggie taking over Sister Leslie's position is a convenient way for the main characters to stay affiliated with St. Caedwalla's via a personal connection. Maggie can easily exist in the "Gaslight universe" because the backstory she gave Bruce was too condensed to mention her. Bruce adopted the Ripper's children after the events of the film.
In the climax of the film it is discovered the Ripper is Jim Gordon, who dies in the battle. Presumably to clear his name Bruce will have to expose Jim, using the evidence from his secret room. By exposing Jim's secret he will likely also have to prove that his wife, Barbra, had been driven insane by Jim's torture, as well as her allowing him to torture their children.Regardless of whether this is a crime or not during this time period (and given the horrific child labor situation of the era it may not be), it is likely Barbra would be committed to Arkham, or a similar facility, due to what she'd been through, leaving their children functionally orphaned.
Given Bruce's traditional penchant for adopting lost children, and likely a degree of self blame for having not deduced Gordon's true nature earlier, thus prolonging their torment, it is highly possible that Bruce would therefore choose to adopt the children to help them move past what Gordon did to them.
We'll get a Victorian Era Superman Vs. Batman movie as a sequel to this.
- Kryptonite in the Gaslight Universe would be created by alchemy.
- The Victorian Era world would initially fear Superman because of his alien heritage and powers.
- Superman and Batman reconcile and the middle, climax, and ending of the movie will be a battle between the Steampunk World's Finest vs. a Victorian Era Lex Luthor in a mech fuelled by steam, Kryptonite, magic, and Red Sun energy.
