yeah, dude, think about it. Don't play out the Mad Hatter like he is in the cartoon. Reinvent him. For instance, he's a single parent who's a tailor in Gotham. he pays protection money to the mob. He has one daughter. His daughter is coming up on her 12 or 13th birthday, and she wants an Alice in Wonderland birthday. So, he starts to make the costumes. He doesn't pay protection money, thus the mob burns his place down. His daughter gets trapped and he loses her. He goes insane, because he thinks he was a failure as a father, thus he tries to make up for it. He kidnaps a daughter of a prestigious Gotham family. Actually, let's make it interesting, he kidnaps a mob boss's daughter, and he tries to make her his daughter. The guy's freakin nuts right? he also gets goons because he went to another mob and told him he could hit their rivals where it would really hurt. So, no one can get near him. The cops, mob, nobody. So it up to Batman to save the girl, and in doing so, he's helping the mob (conflict of interest there). And the big scene, its his daughter's birthday, the kidnapped girl is dressed up like Alice, he's dressed up as the Mad Hatter, and they have a tea party, like his real daughter wished. And then batman crashes the party. Bap! Zow! Whack! Explosion! Batman saves the day! This all came to me while I was in the shower, btw....