Thos. Rex, ESQ
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Gotham Knights came out between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight, and I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for a sequel to the animated movie to bridge the gap between The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises? I had two ideas that I was bored and wrote it and thought I'd like to share!
One Cold, Dark Knight
Victor Fries is the owner of a small air conditioning service and repair provider called 'Mr. Freeze.' His wife is shot after witnessing a mob killing and is left for dead. Grievously injured she is rushed to the hospital, but a crooked doctor is alerted and purposefully botches her life saving emergency surgery. The doctor and several mob lieutenants are tried for her murder, but the evidence is insufficient to convict them. When the many months long case is finally adjourned Gotham finds itself in the throes of a freezing whiteout situation. Victor outfits his 'Mr. Freeze' van with snow chains and a plow, and purchases a metallic ruger pistol (it's retro look is reminiscent of Mr. Freeze's eponymous freeze gun), deciding to personally avenge his dead wife against the exonerated defendants. Meanwhile, Batman is particularly active on this night due to the emergency situation the whiteout has created across Gotham.
Fries begins systematically executing the mobsters who were responsible for his wife's death at their houses and businesses and setting the locations on fire. Batman and Gordon quickly connect the killings to the Nora Fries murder trial and Batman races to stop him from killing the doctor and potentially injuring hospital staff and patients. The batpod would unsuccessfully come up against Fries' van here and get disabled in a snow bank. Arriving at the hospital (which is operating by generator and is rushing to transfer the especially infirm to a different facility) first, Fries confronts the doctor, but Batman intervenes and tries to convince to Victor to stand down and that he'll ensure the doctor faces justice. The doctor, meanwhile, surreptitiously, gets a gun from his desk, shoots Fries and tries to escape. Batman chases through the hospital, but is himself shot and injured. Fries, however, reappears and shoots the doctor in the stomach, saving Batman. Victor makes to kill the struggling doctor, but Batman points out that the doctor's injuries aren't fatal and that Victor can still make the right decision. Victor throws his gun away and sits in front of a broken window, smoking as the snow pours in.
The major themes here would be the loneliness and emptiness that both Batman and Fries feel. I imagine Gotham being mostly empty because the whiteout has forced everyone inside, so Bruce and Victor are actually the only two people ever shown outside, and therefore, always alone with themselves. A lot of silence (that is no dialogue). There'd also be a sort of bizzaro-Dark Knight thing going on here; in the same way that Joker corrupted Two-Face, Batman redeems Fries. This would take place slightly before the events of The Dark Knight Rises.
Batman?
Conspiracy theorist hackers launch a campaign to infiltrate police and other municipal computer systems in an attempt to root out corruption. Imagine an Anonymous/Wikileaks hybrid. They launch denial of service attacks and release sensitive information to the public. The group's leader, calling himself E. Nigma, uses online video upload sites and old fashioned "letters to the editor" to raise awareness. He communicates almost exclusively in complicated cyphers designed to challenge law enforcement or anyone smart enough to preempt their cyber attacks. The media quickly re-dubs E. Nigma the "Gotham Riddler." When Wayne Enterprises comes under attack, Bruce and Lucius Fox are forced to engage the Riddler at his own game.
This would all play out something like an episode of Law & Order: Gotham City. We wouldn't actually see the Riddler doing this, but see it happen through Batman's perspective. A couple different suspects would all be featured, each one with some of what we know to be the Riddler's quirks so we ourselves can't be sure who the real Riddler is. A given suspect might be the Riddler, one of his hacker goons, or completely innocent. Some of the suspects would actually be named as Riddler's known comic book aliases for further confusion. Batman and Gordon would ultimately find enough evidence to arrest one of the suspects, but there would be some doubt for the viewer as to whether this is the real Riddler or not. A parallel storyline would feature Gordon's former unit, Major Crimes, now led by Harvey Bullock, trying to figure out Batman's identity. This takes place a few weeks after the events of The Dark Knight and the first time a wary Bruce has gone out in the suit since then.
One Cold, Dark Knight
Victor Fries is the owner of a small air conditioning service and repair provider called 'Mr. Freeze.' His wife is shot after witnessing a mob killing and is left for dead. Grievously injured she is rushed to the hospital, but a crooked doctor is alerted and purposefully botches her life saving emergency surgery. The doctor and several mob lieutenants are tried for her murder, but the evidence is insufficient to convict them. When the many months long case is finally adjourned Gotham finds itself in the throes of a freezing whiteout situation. Victor outfits his 'Mr. Freeze' van with snow chains and a plow, and purchases a metallic ruger pistol (it's retro look is reminiscent of Mr. Freeze's eponymous freeze gun), deciding to personally avenge his dead wife against the exonerated defendants. Meanwhile, Batman is particularly active on this night due to the emergency situation the whiteout has created across Gotham.
Fries begins systematically executing the mobsters who were responsible for his wife's death at their houses and businesses and setting the locations on fire. Batman and Gordon quickly connect the killings to the Nora Fries murder trial and Batman races to stop him from killing the doctor and potentially injuring hospital staff and patients. The batpod would unsuccessfully come up against Fries' van here and get disabled in a snow bank. Arriving at the hospital (which is operating by generator and is rushing to transfer the especially infirm to a different facility) first, Fries confronts the doctor, but Batman intervenes and tries to convince to Victor to stand down and that he'll ensure the doctor faces justice. The doctor, meanwhile, surreptitiously, gets a gun from his desk, shoots Fries and tries to escape. Batman chases through the hospital, but is himself shot and injured. Fries, however, reappears and shoots the doctor in the stomach, saving Batman. Victor makes to kill the struggling doctor, but Batman points out that the doctor's injuries aren't fatal and that Victor can still make the right decision. Victor throws his gun away and sits in front of a broken window, smoking as the snow pours in.
The major themes here would be the loneliness and emptiness that both Batman and Fries feel. I imagine Gotham being mostly empty because the whiteout has forced everyone inside, so Bruce and Victor are actually the only two people ever shown outside, and therefore, always alone with themselves. A lot of silence (that is no dialogue). There'd also be a sort of bizzaro-Dark Knight thing going on here; in the same way that Joker corrupted Two-Face, Batman redeems Fries. This would take place slightly before the events of The Dark Knight Rises.
Batman?
Conspiracy theorist hackers launch a campaign to infiltrate police and other municipal computer systems in an attempt to root out corruption. Imagine an Anonymous/Wikileaks hybrid. They launch denial of service attacks and release sensitive information to the public. The group's leader, calling himself E. Nigma, uses online video upload sites and old fashioned "letters to the editor" to raise awareness. He communicates almost exclusively in complicated cyphers designed to challenge law enforcement or anyone smart enough to preempt their cyber attacks. The media quickly re-dubs E. Nigma the "Gotham Riddler." When Wayne Enterprises comes under attack, Bruce and Lucius Fox are forced to engage the Riddler at his own game.
This would all play out something like an episode of Law & Order: Gotham City. We wouldn't actually see the Riddler doing this, but see it happen through Batman's perspective. A couple different suspects would all be featured, each one with some of what we know to be the Riddler's quirks so we ourselves can't be sure who the real Riddler is. A given suspect might be the Riddler, one of his hacker goons, or completely innocent. Some of the suspects would actually be named as Riddler's known comic book aliases for further confusion. Batman and Gordon would ultimately find enough evidence to arrest one of the suspects, but there would be some doubt for the viewer as to whether this is the real Riddler or not. A parallel storyline would feature Gordon's former unit, Major Crimes, now led by Harvey Bullock, trying to figure out Batman's identity. This takes place a few weeks after the events of The Dark Knight and the first time a wary Bruce has gone out in the suit since then.
