BATMAN 89 - Guide to Characters

ESSESENTIAL GUIDE TO

CHARACTERS WRITTEN BY SAM HAMM ART BY JOE QUINONES

ADAPTED BY THE CLASSIC FILMS OF TIM BURTON

CONTENTS

Batman/Bruce Wayne 3 Robin/Drake Winston 4 Catwoman/Selina Kyle 5 Alfred Pennyworth 6 Comissioner James Gordon Gotham city 7 Two-Face/Harvey Dent 8 Joker´s Street Gang 9 Batcave 10 Bat-vehicales 11

Batman/Bruce Wayne Alignment: Good Portrayed by: Michael Keaton He was an alter-ego and vigilante persona adopted by Bruce Wayne. Formed in response to the sudden and brutal murder of his parents when he was ten years old, Wayne used the identity to target the criminals of Gotham City, aiming to clean up crime and corruption.

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Catwoman/Selina Kyle Alignment: Neutral Portrayed by: Michelle Pfeiffer A lonely and frustrated secretary of the cooperate mogul Max Shreck, who was pushed over the edge after her boss tried to kill her to cover up his corrupt business plans. She then fashioned herself a new fearsome alter-ego, becoming a bandit and vigilante operating in Gotham City, in a nefarious scheme to get revenge on her boss. During these events, she came into contact with the crime fighting vigilante Batman, with whom she developed a love/hate relationship.

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Robin/Drake Winston Alignment: Good Portrayed by: Marlon Wayans He was a vigilante operating in Gotham City. A resident of Burnside, Drake Winston fought to protect the impoverish in the city and combat crime in the neighborhood. Robin would have several encounters with the Batman, eventually joining his crusade to help defeat Two-Face.

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Gotham city The city was founded by John T. Gotham. Due to the absence of contributing businesses due to corruption and criminal influence, the city’s tax base was crumbling.

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Alfred Pennyworth

Comissioner James Gordon

Known as the butler to the Wayne family and lifelong caretaker of the orphaned Bruce Wayne. Alfred remained his loyal confidant when he began vigilantism as the Batman.

He was the Commissioner of the Gotham City Police Department. He worked closely with the vigilante Batman to control crime in Gotham City.

Alignment: Good Portrayed by: Michael Gough

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Alignment: Good Portrayed by: Pat Hingle

Eventually Joker hijacked 200th Anniversary Parade and tried to up the scale of his mass gassings, targeting a larger crowd of what he viewed as greedy peasants.

Batman destroyed the Axis Chemicals plant in response to his parade announcement made prior.

This seemed to have little effect as the parade went on with balloons filled with poison gas and a large number of men still at his disposal operating the floats.

Batman arrived in an aerial vehicle to pull the balloons into the sky. Outraged Joker stood in the middle of Broad Avenue daring Batman to attack, as he approached Joker shot the plane down with trick gun. The vehicle smashed into the steps of the

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old cathedral, where the parade was launched. Joker planned to make his final stand in its belfry, the highest point in Gotham’s skyline.

During this time there was a recall set up by Shreck, and Penguin made his bid for Mayor. The afternoon following the Relighting of the Tree tragedy, a rally was held outside City Hall. His speech was interrupted by voice recordings he made to Batman the previous night, gloating about how he had fooled Gotham’s citizens and how he regarded them as “pinhead puppets.” The crowd grew angry, throwing tomatoes and booing him off the podium. Immediately, abandoned by Shreck and his associates, Cobblepot reacted by firing his machine gun umbrella on the crowd and fleeing into the sewers of Gotham Park. A mass gathering of radio-controlled Penguin Commandos occurred that night in Gotham Plaza after Cobblepot’s humiliation. As the prepared to fire their rocket launchers on downtown buildings they suddenly returned to the drainage gates they emerged from. In sewers of Gotham Batman instructed Alfred to jam their signal from the cave. As the Batskiboat neared the zoo’s drain tunnels, two sentries fired their rockets, but they failed to land a hit due to Batman’s piloting maneuver. When the boat reached its destination it smashed through the Arctic World exterior along with Cobblepot’s escape vehicle.

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Joker´s Street Gang Alignment: Bad Portrayed by: Prince

Were a group of criminals inspired by the late-Joker. The group often wore clown make-up and clothing to disguise themselves and prevent identification. Barring one member and the shared aesthetics, the group had no association to their preceding organization, since most of them were either dead or arrested.

Two-Face/Harvey Dent

Alignment: Bad Portrayed by: Billy Dee Williams He was the former District Attorney of Gotham City. An ambitious man, he worked alongside with the Mayor and Police Commissioner James Gordon to clean up crime and corruption to make the city’s streets safer. These efforts were also assisted by the vigilante Batman, who helped in their efforts to combat mafia and the Joker. However, after a series of riots instigated by criminals inspired by Batman and the Joker, Dent began a campaign to take down the Dark Knight and expose his identity. This also included outing officials that sanctioned his operations, including Gordon. Eventually disfigured in an incident caused by Batman-copycats, Dent began to lose his sanity, becoming a criminal called “Two-Face”.

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Bat-vehicales Batcave In the dark underground base of operations, and secondary home where he could find solitude. Bruce first discovered the cave system below Wayne Manor when he fell into them as a child, and returned to the caves after his decision to model his crime fighting persona after a bat.

Initially only using the caves to store his equipment, Bruce eventually constructed a secret headquarters within the caves to better operate independently and in secret.

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The Batmobile was Batman’s primary mode of transportation. At first, Batman often simply referred to that Batmobile as “the car”, and he later called it the Batmobile. The Batmobile was one of the most daunting components in Batman’s vast arsenal, and he kept it stored in the Batcave when it was not in use.

The Batcycle was a vehicle owned by Batman. Obtained some time before Harvey Dent’s campaign against him, it was stored in the Batcave.

After joining his operations, Drake Winston began using the Batcycle as his main vehicle of transport as “Robin”.

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