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Batman: The Imposter (Comic Book)
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Batman: The Imposter is a three-issue prestige format limited series published by DC Comics in 2021 as part of their Black Label imprint written by Mattson Tomlin, The Batman's original co-screenwriternote For unknown reasons, he is no longer credited as such on the movie's IMDb page (and director of other unrelated movies and short films), and illustrated by Andrea Sorrentino.The series is set in an Alternate Continuity where Bruce Wayne has been active as Batman for around three years. While he's been making a difference, he's also made some powerful enemies. All the traditional power brokers of Gotham resent the disruption the Batman has brought to town…and it seems one of them has a plan to neutralize him. There’s a second Batman haunting Gotham’s rooftops and alleys — and this one has no qualms about murdering criminals, live and on tape.With the entire might of the Gotham City Police Department and Gotham’s rich and powerful coming down on his head, Batman must find this imposter and somehow clear his name…but how can you prove your innocence from behind a mask? | |
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Canon Foreigner: Blair Wong was created for this comic. | |
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Parental Abandonment | |
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Parental Abandonment: Bruce Wayne, of course. Both of Blair Wong’s parents were also murdered in front of her when she was a child. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Tends towards Downer Ending. While Batman does stop the murderous imposter, his legacy remains tarnished, perhaps irrevocably, since it's impossible for the authorities and the public to really know which Batman did what. The wealthy and the powerful of Gotham remain opposed to Batman, so he's unlikely to ever enjoy again the limited leeway he once did with the GCPD. Detective Blair Wong knows his true identity, and is ambivalent about him at best, further complicating his situation. The one positive for Bruce by the end of the story is that he's come to some kind of an understanding with Leslie Thompkins, and even sends Arnold Wesker to her for therapy. | |
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Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Due to Bruce's somewhat different circumstances from most other interpretations, he has no close friends or support system, since Alfred quit when he was a child, and Gordon was fired from the GCPD for working with him. He was a highly disturbed child diagnosed with OCD and acute anxiety, who was prone to violent outbursts. As an adult, he remains an emotionally damaged individual, who falls in love with Blair Wong, but has no qualms about manipulating her to gather intel from the GCPD's investigation of Batman. His therapy sessions with Leslie do help him to an extent but by the end he hasn't changed that much, and his circumstances as Batman have gotten even worse since the authorities and the public still view him as a dangerous vigilante at best and a serial killer at worst. | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! | |
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: This is what kicks off the central plot. Sometime prior to the events of the mini, Batman and Captain Gordon exposed a couple of judges with Mob links. This in turn led to all the convictions handed down by those judges being overturned and dozens of violent criminals being released. The imposter Batman is a disgruntled cop who blames Batman for this and tries to "set things right" by killing the released criminals and framing the vigilante for it. | |
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Deconstruction | |
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Deconstruction : In taking a punishingly realistic approach to Batman and his world, this mini ends up deconstructing several conventions of the Batman mythos, including Bruce's relationships with his close friends and allies, his equation with the GCPD, his skills as a fighter and the logistics of his one-man war on crime. Alfred Pennyworth is traditionally depicted as being Bruce Wayne's surrogate father, mentor, butler, and closest confidant all rolled into one, usually unwavering in his support for 'Master Bruce' and his crusade. In this continuity, however, Alfred, as a mere butler, finds himself utterly unable to cope with being the guardian to a traumatized, rage-filled, and disturbed child who's also technically his boss. So, he resigns and Bruce is packed off to a boarding school in Russia instead. The iconic partnership between Batman and Jim Gordon ended in this continuity with Gordon being discredited and drummed out of the police force for working with a vigilante—a far more realistic outcome for a cop in his position than the usual status quo. Leslie Thompkins, far from being another surrogate parent to Bruce who is largely supportive of his crusade, is depicted here instead as someone who refuses to blindly enable his violent vigilantism and forces him into therapy by threatening to expose his true identity once she discovers it. (Although this is very Depending on the Writer even in mainstream continuity; Leslie's attitude to Batman has ranged from "largely supportive" to "will murder a child to make him stop", and is generally somewhere in the middle.) All the property destruction and chaos caused by Batman's war on crime is unlikely to endear him to Gotham's wealthy and powerful, who in turn pressurize the police into taking a tougher stance on the vigilante. The story begins with Batman being seriously injured and on the verge of death following an encounter with armed store robbers—the kind of low-level criminals whom, in more mainstream adaptations, he would be able to take down almost effortlessly. Here we see all too well the very real physical risks involved in even the smallest acts of vigilantism. Instead of using an ostentatious vehicle like the Batmobile, Batman gets around Gotham inconspicuously using an elaborate network of ziplines and hidden motorcycles. Even this isn't inconspicuous enough, however, since the GCPD finds and confiscates many of the motorcycles and cuts the ziplines. Far from being the impeccable and dignified manor-house it's usually depicted as being, Wayne Manor here is a mess since Bruce lives alone without a staff or butler—Alfred having quit during Bruce's troubled childhood years. | |
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Secret-Keeper: The story kicks off with Leslie Thompkins learning that Bruce Wayne is Batman, and keeping his secret while using it to coerce him into attending therapy sessions with her. By the end, Detective Blair Wong knows the truth as well, and chooses to keep it to herself due to her own complicated feelings about Bruce and Batman. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
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Demoted to Extra: Alfred Pennyworth and James Gordon only receive a few mentions, compared to the central members of the supporting cast they are elsewhere. | |
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Knight Templar | |
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Knight Templar: The Imposter who's murdering criminals. | |
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Race Lift | |
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Race Lift: Leslie is Caucasian in most of her portrayals, but is Black in this comic. | |
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Action Girl: Blair Wong naturally counts as this, being a detective of the GCPD. | |
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Depending on the Writer | |
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Leslie Thompkins, far from being another surrogate parent to Bruce who is largely supportive of his crusade, is depicted here instead as someone who refuses to blindly enable his violent vigilantism and forces him into therapy by threatening to expose his true identity once she discovers it. (Although this is very Depending on the Writer even in mainstream continuity; Leslie's attitude to Batman has ranged from "largely supportive" to "will murder a child to make him stop", and is generally somewhere in the middle.) | |
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