Gotham: Into the Woods: A Review

Well, it’s been more than a minute since our last episode of Gotham, so let’s talk really quick about “Into the Woods”.

                                                                  No, not that.  Stop that.

Yes, “Into the Woods”.  So we kick off with Bruce and Kat running away from a thief they stole from, resulting in both teenagers leaping to the next roof top, and Bruce openly mocking the full adult criminal who’s probably about to have a coronary from the whole event.  This is punctuated by Bruce tossing some of the ill-gotten cash off the roof top.  Why did he do that, I have no idea.  Maybe he was just caught up in the moment; maybe he likes it when Selena beats him for throwing away the money they could have died trying to get.  I don’t know.

But that’s not why you’re here.  You’re here because of Jim Gordon, on the run from the law and trying to clear his name.  Through Bullock’s, ahem, contact inside internal affairs (imagine the Harvey Bullock from the animated series “distracting” someone like that!) Gordon obtains a tape recording of the anonymous tip placed to IA about his involvement in the Galavan murder.  Gordon, after running afoul of the law yet again, because “lay low” means make a spectacle of yourself in Jimbo’s mind, he takes it to Ed Nygma to see if he can clean it up and they can identify the man who framed him.

Oh good old Ed cleans it up, and during their conversation leading to the fateful playback, Gordon figures out that Ed was the one who set him up.  Ed gets the upper hand by shocking Gordon and prepares to deal with him by driving him out to the woods and burying him.  Gordon wakes up and takes off, but not before getting shot in the leg.  After a brief chase, Ed loses Gordon, but not before spelling out the entire situation to him; that he’s trying to dodge the rap for killing Kristen Kringle.

Gordon finds his way back to Selena, which is weird because as far as I knew this was a new place for her to stay at so how would he know where to find her?  I suppose he could have asked around, because as man bleeding from an open wound on his leg asking about a teenage girl doesn’t draw any suspicion.

Well, then again, this IS Gotham.

So he passes out on the couch and Bruce calls in Alfred for an assist.  While back at stately Wayne Manor, Alfred does a fair amount of berating both Bruce and Gordon for their questionable judgement calls as of late, but ultimately is willing to help both out.

They convince Selena to tip off the police about Gordon’s activities, making sure Nygma overhears.  Gordon has gone to track down the Penguin to find out where Kristen Kringle is buried.

Let’s talk about Penguin for just a bit.  Grieved over the loss of his father, which is understandable considering until about two episodes ago he didn’t know the man existed and he showed honest to goodness love towards the often abused Oswald.  About to be kicked out, he strikes a deal with his stepmother; he will stay on as the family’s servant and they don’t throw him out into the cold.  They abuse the crap out of him and plot to fake his suicide, but they will let him stay for a little while if only to save cash on actual servants.  While performing his duties in the kitchen he discovers the decanter of liquor that had been tainted (at the cost of one of the household dogs) and plots his revenge.  It’s a very “Cinderella” story; if Cinderella murdered, mutilated, cooked and fed her step siblings to her evil step mother, only to brutally stab her to death after the big reveal.

Like Disney by way of Stephen King!

Nygma treks out into the woods (TITLE!) and starts digging up Kristen to move her body when he’s confronted by Gordon.  Holding the disposed detective at gun point, he gives a full confession only to be swarmed by police, led by Barnes, and is taken into custody, clearing Gordon’s name in one fell swoop.

Gordon is offered his job back, and will return to work after tracking down more information on the Wayne’s murder.  Barnes agrees, but only if he promises to call Leslie Tompkins.  Later Gordon tries to call, but can’t bring himself to talk to her.  His brooding is interrupted by Barbra Keane, who’s fresh out of Arkham.

Meanwhile back at the manor, Alfred tells Bruce that the mysterious computer is fixed, but if he’s going to pursue the secrets of his father, he’s going to have to leave Selena and his life on the streets behind.  Granted it was more akin to an elaborate sleep over, but still the decision is hard but he tells an angry Selena that his place is in the Manor.

There were a lot of strong points to this episode and everyone brought their A-game.  I didn’t necessarily appreciate seeing how Bullock stays off of IA’s radar, but I guess it makes sense.  This is clearly not a show for kids.  It was great to see the Penguin unleashed again, and you can tell this re-born bird of crime is going places.

But what about Gordon?

So not too long ago, last week I believe, I proclaimed that Gordon was bad at his job and this week kinda sorta didn’t convince me otherwise.  He’s a decent detective, but ultimately it came down to him being in the right place in the right time and having an opponent who gave all but a power point presentation for his evil plan.

I’m glad we got a reasonable conclusion to the storyline, at least as reasonable as you can get with Gotham, and it’s important for viewers like myself to not judge it by either the rules of real life police work or by the standards of criminal procedural shows.  It’s not fair to the show at large because it’s so very different, so very grounded as being a comic book that you can’t measure it by the same lengths.

So did we get redemption for some off kilter story telling?  Yes and no; Gordon’s return from the gutter was expected, but putting a character that’s eventually going to be Police Commissioner through that kind of thing really questions his qualifications for that job.  Nygma being locked away in Arkham was nice, Penguin returning from his sniveling form was satisfying because you really hated those three, and I’m interested to see where they go with the “healed” Barbra.  The Bruce, Selena, Alfred dynamic was a little more subtle this time around but Alfred was making a good point, that Bruce needed to focus on one thing or another, but he can’t have both right now.

So while I don’t think Gordon is any better at his job than he was last episode, I think the show redeemed some of itself for me to keep me interested in where this is all going.

Til next time.

Jim Gordon...What were you Thinking?

(Quietly banging head into desk) Okay, okay, okay…so recall how made a blog on March 10^th about how Jim Gordon was bad at his job because his ethical choices have really, really, really sucked.  I almost wish I did v-logs just so you could actually see how agitated I am at what I saw on last week’s Gotham.

Seriously, we’re talking hands shaking I am so mad at this show right now.

So, I love the Penguin subplot, that was very well done and I frankly wish Reubens had been with the show longer, but take what you can get.

Bullock’s big plan to help Gordon clear his name is to have him escape Blackgate under the ruse that he was killed by a fellow inmate, and is aided by Carmine Falcone.

That’s your plan.  That is the absolute best you can come up with?  “Carmine still has the resources to…” do a prison break?  Yes, actually that I believe, but you’d think that it would make more sense for Carmine to come out of the shadows, use a judge he had in a back pocket to overturn the conviction and have Gordon freed that way.  Sure he wouldn’t be a GCPD detective anymore, but he could work to clear his name without having to hide from literally the entire city.

But he faked his death, they won’t be looking for him! I hear you saying it, and here’s the problem with that.  The warden is still alive.  He saw, physically saw Jim Gordon alive and escaping and was knocked out.  Unless that guard proceeded to pummel the warden to death after Gordon fled, there’s a very credible witness to tell the police that Jim Gordon is a fugitive in the wind and decidedly not dead, which makes the whole “free to clear your name” thing a lot more complicated.

So let’s look at the absolute best case scenario.  Jim Gordon clears his name.  He can’t legally be reinstated into the GCPD, or join any other law enforcement agency.  While he may have been sent to prison under false pretenses, he still knowingly and willingly escaped of his own accord and that’s still a crime.  Will they throw him behind bars for it?  Eh maybe not, but he’s still guilty of it.  With that on his record, the closest thing he can do to law enforcement might be as a life guard at the public pool.

The major issue I’m having is that a police procedural show, even one based on a comic book, should have some foundation in actual law enforcement practices.

Justice Leage: We are....Family?

Today I want to take a second or two to talk about a theory I recently saw on Nerdist on YouTube.  Specifically that Wonder Woman, Aquaman, and the Flash from the DC cinematic universe may actually be Kryptonians, or perhaps descendants of ancient Kryptonians.

The principle of the theory is that it would be easier to explain their amazing abilities by chalking them up to Kryptonian heritage, adding that they would be less affected or completely immune to Kryptonite because they had that weakness bred out over time.  The idea stems from two places.  The first is from Man of Steel where Jor-El, explaining the history of Krypton, talks about ancient Kryptonian colonies, citing why there was a Kryptonian scout ship located on Earth, buried under ice for thousands of years.  Okay, that’s our jumping off point which actually leads into the second place, Wonder Woman’s sword.

Nerdist pointed out in their video that there is some writing on the blade that is decidedly not ancient Greek and theorized that the writing isn’t simply decorative, since the production company spends a lot of time with attention to details.  Here’s what I could find as far as the blade was concerned.

 

They’re right, that’s not simply ancient Greek.  It actually looks like a conglomeration of several writing styles from the ancient world.  So here is it: It’s possible that the ancient Kryptonians who came to Earth in the scout ship over 5000 years ago encountered ancient humans and were considered gods due to their amazing powers.  Wonder Woman is, by accounts in the film, a daughter of Zeus, who could be the leader of the ancient Kryptonians, and probably figures as the chief god of any polytheistic religion.  Her amazing abilities stem from this heritage.  Atlantis, founded by an offshoot of these Kryptonians and Aquaman, again possibly the son of Poseidon, also half Kryptonian.  Barry Allen could be of the blood line of Kryptonians and only had his powers activated by a bolt of lightning due to them lying dormant for generations.

Sounds pretty straight forward, but there are a few hiccups in the theory.  Namely the writing style established for Kryptonians by Man of Steel

 

None of these symbols looks like anything on the sword for Wonder Woman.  Something should cross over but none of these symbols even come close to matching up.  If Kryptonians founded the writing style for Ancient Greece, you’d think at least a few of their symbols would have surfaced, but they are completely different.

The second major problem comes from a story telling aspect.  This theory, while straight forward is also incredibly lazy.  Part of what makes the Justice League such a great story telling platform is that you have a group of characters from a very diverse background.  Everyone brings something very different to the table and if you tie in three of your major characters, characters who historically have very unique back stories and make them all cousins, you start turning the JLA into the superhero equivalent of the mafia.  It just feels out of place and I hope they don’t do it.  I would hate for them to explain the extraordinary away in one hand wave as “They’re all basically Kryptonians.”

Supergirl + Flash...Dawn of Cuteness?

Alright, so it happened.  I hope to God you guys watched it.  If you haven’t, check out CBS Access or CBS online and see if you can grab it real quick (an hour of your life you won’t regret) and come back because we are going into some serious spoiler territory here.

I don’t often do reviews of stand-alone episodes, but this is different.  This is one of my absolute favorite shows, the Flash, teaming up with the gang from Supergirl.  This episode worked on a lot of different levels.  First of all, if you are like me and only have a tenuous relationship with Supergirl (ie. I’ve watched one, count em one episode so far) this episode served as a great jumping off point as during its events it re-established Supergirl’s premise.  In many ways I came into this show like Barry did.  I’m unfamiliar with the scope of the Supergirl Universe so I really get to know these characters roughly the same time Barry does and he serves as a great entrance point for new watchers.  Like Barry, it doesn’t take the audience long to get up to speed as to who everyone is, at least their fundamental roles on the team.

Secondly, this episode came out less than a week after Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice broke a few box office records, and before Marvel’s Civil War epic due out later this summer.  That said it actually serves as a big refreshing gulp of wholesome in a sea of hero vs hero media.  Barry and Kara have personalities that naturally click with each other.  Grant and Melissa’s personal and professional history helps in this as well, but ultimately the actors have just this fantastic chemistry with each other and that shines through the whole episode, so much so that I rather wish this had been an hour and a half long episode rather than the standard 48-50 minute running time.  That certainly would have ironed out a few problems.

So what’s the story?  Well roughly around the same time Silver Banshee is coming into her power set and attacking people at CatCo (still sounds like a pet store-terrible name) Kara is knocked unconscious by a sonic blast and hurled out of a window when she is saved by none other than The Flash.  Realizing they both have powers, Barry and Kara get to talking, discovering that Barry has traveled here from Central City, and an entirely different universe.  Barry is looking for what his people call “Earth 2” to have a final face off with a villain named Zoom, but for more of that go see The Flash.  Seriously watch it.

Barry hooks up with Team Supergirl in an effort to find a way back to his universe, but while they are doing that, Silver Banshee springs Livewire from jail.  Both have a hate for Supergirl, and Livewire isn’t too fond of Cat Grant either, so they team up to bring down the cheerleader of steel.  Thinking she only has to contend with Livewire, Supergirl enlists the aid of the Flash (who is more than willing to lend a superfast hand) and they go to face the villain with absolutely no battle plan, despite Barry’s suggestions that they have one ready.  Supergirl is confident that with their combined powers they’ll make short work of the villain and is understandably surprised when Silver Banshee shows up to tip the scales.  Receiving a beat down, Barry suggests a strategic withdraw, and the two regroup to assess the situation.  During this time Kara shares some of her recent personal struggles with Barry who can actually relate to those very specific situations.

Real quick, its important to understand that Supergirl is still in season 1, so the titular character is going through her rookie year while Flash is already well into season 2, so he’s been there and done that, and a testament to Barry’s personality, rather than be jaded by his personal experience, he’s willing to serve as a pseudo mentor to Kara.  He understands exactly what she’s going through, more than anyone else in her world can.  He explains to her that some of the problems she is going to deal with can’t be handled by powers, only time, trial, error, and experience.  He relates to the fact that they are both used to dealing with conflict by falling back on their powers, but that can’t always be the answer.  This exchange, I think was probably the strongest moment in the episode and for both characters.  Barry is finally serving as the mentor figure, when he’s had so many mentors in his time, and he’s learning that when you teach, you learn and when you learn, you also teach.

Kara is receptive to his advice and they soon discover that Livewire and Banshee have kidnapped Kat and taken her to an open park.  There they plan to publically execute her if Supergirl and Flash don’t make an appearance.  During this very brief battle Supergirl puts herself in harm’s way to save a helicopter, while Flash is knocked out on top of a roof (so glad you were here to help buddy).  This turns public opinion, which had waned from Supergirl, back into her favor as the citizens come to her aid and actually defeat the villains for her.

Flash and Supergirl say their goodbyes as they do an impromptu race to get Barry home.  Kara later meets up with James Olsen and finally kisses him, only for him to turn into a brainwashed zombie and wander off with apparently everyone in the city as they are being controlled by Kryptonians.

Let me back up just a bit: James Olsen.  Oh I love what they did with James because he was always the coolest kid in school, and he knew he had Kara’s heart, and never had to work for it, but seemed to keep her at a distance.  When Barry enters the picture and the two instantly click you quickly see James starting to get jealous.  Again, Barry and Kara’s personalities naturally mesh, and they can relate to each other on a lot of levels.  Plus Barry has an impressive skill set to go along with his amazing powers.  He’s super smart and very likable.  Which starts to piss James off, and Mehcad Brooks pulls this off perfectly.

Now let’s look at a few negatives of the episode.  The fights feel very short and anticlimactic, which is why I think this would have been better served as an hour and a half episode.  I say hour and a half, because I think if you pushed this to a two hour episode you would have drawn it out longer than the content would allow.  Giving it an extra thirty minutes however could allow for extended fight scenes and a chance for Supergirl to really earn the city’s trust again.  A lot of that felt very rushed, but it could also indicate that the city wasn’t that mad at her after all.

I’ve heard complaints that it didn’t seem like the Flash had a lot to do here, and he didn’t, but Barry Allen did.  Barry Allen worked with the team to track Livewire, and Barry Allen mentored Kara.  This was really more about characters than it was about spectacle.  Even Winn trying to talk Silver Banshee down, that was more about character development than the actual fight inside CatCo.  Character development is really where Supergirl shines, but it could take a few lessons from the Flash in beefing up its fight scenes a bit.

One of the challenges with any Super(noun) property is that you have to balance the powers with the character and that’s not easy to do on a weekly television budget.  Flash allows a little more room to cheat because you can always have his powers do something without actually needing to show it.  A gust of wind and a sound effect and you’ve planted in your audience that the Flash did something.  Supergirl can actually use this trick too, but I think it doesn’t because that’s a very “Flash” thing.

Kat Grant is still annoying.  I don’t like her, but that’s the character.

So overall, everyone did an amazing job in their roles.  I would love to see Kara show up in Central City, I think that would really shake up some dynamics there.  The fights felt a little neutered, but that’s kind of in keeping with the show.  Hopefully we’ll see more of this kind of cross-company team ups.

Thanks for reading.

Quicksliver: Days of Futuer Past

Because I just can’t let a meme be a meme…let’s talk about the Quicksilver scene from X-Men: Days of Future Past.  You know exactly the one I’m talking about, and if you don’t, here’s a meme to jog your memory.

 

Got it?  Okay, because it started to come up in discussion about what exactly happened to the guard in the above picture.  At first I speculated that Quicksilver’s finger tap probably translated to getting hit with a baseball bat, but I tapped into my education in physics and forensics and now I’m going to change my answer.  Quicksilver’s finger probably translated onto the guard’s face like a bullet.  Let’s get our numbers straight:  From the time Charles shouts “No!” at the start of the sequence to the time normal speed returns, it’s about 1 minute 27 seconds, or a total of 87 seconds.  It takes Charles about 3 seconds to say “No!” so Quicksilver is moving about 29 x’s normal speed.  If you take into account the average human’s between 15-20 miles an hour.  Meaning Quicksilver is running at 435 to 580 miles an hour.  We can safely assume that since this is Quicksilver we’re talking about, we can keep our numbers to the upper end of this, so for calculations sake we’ll say 580mph.  As always I’ll spare you the math and we can safely say he’s traveling 850 feet per second (fps).  That speed, by the way, is the average speed for a bullet fired out of a revolver.  Most commercially available handguns fire rounds between 800 to 1000 fps, depending on the quality of the ammunition.

The obvious argument is that “there’s nothing saying Quicksilver’s finger was moving that fast…” but there is.  He was running when he tapped him.  In fact there’s argument to say that he was traveling even faster than our calculations because he himself was shown in slow motion.  The finger tap would have translated into force at a downward angle, like a bullet, that would have sent kinetic energy through the man’s jaw, probably shattering, and possibly connecting with him with enough force to break his neck.

Yes, Quicksilver may have actually killed that man, but not just that man.

Remember all those guys he reposition into funny poses?  Those guys were tensed up, preparing for a firefight with one of the most dangerous mutants on the planet.  Flex your arm really quick and try to force it to move with your other arm?  There’s quite a bit of resistance there.  Quicksilver basically would have shredded muscles and tendons forcing those guys to move like they did, not to mention applying “speed of bullet” force to them, like making one guy punch himself.  Or how about the guy he gave a wedgie to?  His pelvis is probably broken now, not to mention what it did to his more tender parts.

So yes, half of these guys are going to the hospital, with a few probably going to the morgue.

Maybe they should have let Magneto and Wolverine handle it?

God Lifts UP, its People who Drag You Down.

It’s been a while since I posted anything faith based in a blog, but a situation arose for a friend of mine that I think bears addressing.  I won’t get into all of her story, if you know her then you probably already know the basics, but her story is just that, her story.  You want to know, let her tell you if she deems you so worthy.

There was one particular comment during the whole thing that caught my attention and it addressed sexuality and sin and, indirectly the concept of shame and it got me thinking: What kind of being did God initially intend us to be?

To better understand that, we need to look at what affects occurred after the fall from grace.  Going to Genesis 3: 7-10 “7 Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they realized they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.

8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God as he was walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden. 9 But the Lord God called to the man, “Where are you?”

10 He answered, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid.””

We get from this passage that the immediate negative effects of disobey God is the introduction of sin into the world and with it death.  God didn’t intend for us to die, that wasn’t in the blueprints, but it’s a result of the corruption that sin brings.  But death is a pretty far off concept for Adam and Eve at this point, who live for several hundred years past this event.  No, the immediate result of this action is the feeling of shame.

Shame is a very useful tool of evil minded people and entities.  Shame, guilt, regret are all things that weigh us down as people, and if you are weighed down you can’t soar to the heights God has prepared for you.  Think about it.  Don’t you feel heavier when you are replaying your most embarrassing moment in your head, when you think about all the problems you’ve caused, all the strife going on in your life?  You do, there is an almost tangible weight holding your heart down, like…chains.

The chains of guilt, shame, and regret are very real, but they can be shed.  This is one of the points of Christ coming to Earth and walking among us, and why his actions are still being talked about two thousand years later.  His actions are an embodiment of what God wants his relationship to be with us.  To understand that, you need to look at who Christ was among the most.  He hung out with the…sinners.  The people who society shackled with…wait for it…shame, guilt, and regret.  He did that to shed them of these chains, to bring them to the heights God wants them to ascend to.

At absolutely no point in the Bible does Christ expect his followers to be perfect.  In fact, its their imperfections that he appreciates, because with your own issues comes and understanding, an empathy with people who are dealing with similar issues.  You know who make the best counselors?  The people who have walked through the same fires as you.  God knows you are a work in progress, because He’s the one doing the work.  He’s bringing you to a point where He needs you to be and its faith in Him that allows us to let Him do His work.

Regardless of what you have done or what you are going through, He’s always with you and he wants you to shed those chains of shame and guilt and regret.  Does that mean you’re going to suddenly be this perfect being?  Absolutely not.  You are going to stumble, and there will be opportunity for shame, guilt, and regret to come back.  That’s life.  But you have to make a conscious choice to let that weigh you down.  When the world looks at you and says “I’m going to spread your dirty laundry all over the place.” You look back at it and say “Okay.” Because God already loves you for who you are, and nothing the world says is going to change that, regardless of your sin.

And let me cover one other thing before I close this off:  What exactly constitutes a major sin?  Did you break up a marriage?  Did you cause someone to turn away from God?  Did you kill someone?  I don’t mean metaphorically, I mean actually directly kill someone.  Because I hear a lot of people talking about how certain types of sexuality are sins and, frankly Christ was remarkably quiet about that.  Yes the Old Testament talked a lot about how men should lay only with women and so forth but that’s when Israel was a very small nation and you got more Israelites by making babies.  Back then homosexuality was basically treason.  By the time Christ came around, this was not a problem and his ultimate silence on the matter makes me believe that was probably no longer an issue.  He wasn't exactly subtle by saying "Love is the most important thing." 

I think, as long as you aren’t violating someone’s human rights or causing deep psychological (or physical) scars you’re probably ok.

Anyway, hope that helps.

God bless.

Jim Gordon is Bad at his Job…

 

It’s right there in the title, and I mean it.  Jim Gordon is not a good policeman.  Let’s jump off with the series that chronicles his eventual rise to police commissioner, “Gotham”.  This is a detective that isn’t very effective.  Sure he starts with that white-knight thing going, the one incorruptible cop in all of Gotham, and he has a really good start, but then cracks start appearing in his veneer.  As the cases escalate in craziness, he starts going more and more to the local criminal element for help.  On more than one occasion he sought out aide from Fish Mooney and Cobblepot.  His relationship with Cobblepot has been, without a doubt, the worst for his credibility, but to make matters worse, he double-crosses Penguin.

Regardless of what I’ve said in the past about Batman’s tactics, there is one indelible truth to the man.  He doesn’t double cross.  Even when he’s had to team with his own villains, he never does it at a compromise to his own integrity, and he never lies to them about the terms of their “cease-fire”. 

And it’s not just in the series “Gotham” where this is evident.  Throughout the various incarnations (with the exception of the 1960’s where it’s apparently acceptable to have a masked vigilante do your crime fighting) the very fact that he associates with Batman and allows him to operate within the city compromises his integrity.  Batman as a vigilante cannot affect an arrest regardless of the circumstances.  Any time he stops a purse snatcher or a jay walker, never mind anything higher, that case cannot be admissible in a court of law.  In order for these cases to stick, some serious blurring of facts has to happen.  Gordon didn’t eliminate the corruption of the police force, he just tweaked it.

In the Nolan Trilogy, Gordon is aware of the ethical challenges in associating with a caped lunatic, however this is taken a step further in “The Dark Knight” when he covers up the facts surrounding the death of Harvey Dent and allows Batman to take the heat for Two-Face’s crimes.  This was at least addressed in “The Dark Knight Rises”, but the failure in that instance is that Gordon is still unethical.  He may have been unethical for the right reasons, but if he’s supposed to be the last ethical man in Gotham, he’s failed in that effort.

In the Tim Burton films he ends the first film allying himself with Batman, and the second film basically endorsing violent crime every time the Bat-Signal is lit.  I won’t address the Joel Schumacher films because, as I said in a previous blog, they are just 1966 Batman with a modern spin.

In the famous animated series, he again has to compromise himself in order to work with Batman and condone Batman’s methods.  Other police officers are seen as heels or bad because they look down on this relationship, but as law ENFORCEMENT personnel, they should look down on it.  It’s a violation of public trust to say that these crimes are bad but this crime is okay.  His hand-shaking with Batman make Bruce Way the most successful violent criminal in Gotham’s history.

Well, that’s all I’ve got.

Have a great day.