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Gotham by Gaslight (Comic Book)

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Gotham by Gaslight (full title: A Tale of the Batman: Gotham by Gaslight) was written by Bryan Augustyn and penciled by Mike Mignola, and became the first Alternative Continuity Graphic Novel under DC Comics' Elseworlds imprint. The initial printing was before Elseworlds existed, but it was later included as the first story.Taking place in 1889 in a Victorian-esque Gotham City, it follows the story of how Bruce Wayne became Batman in an age without modern technology, learning from Dr. Sigmund Freud and training under Sherlock Holmes. During this time, he investigates the brutal murders of one Jack the Ripper.Despite not being sold often, the series has had a good standing amongst fans and creators, even gaining a sequel entitled Master of the Future. The costume has appeared in several games as a popular alternate costume for Batman and even had its own senario in the Infinite Crisis video game. It was ranked #13 on IGN's Greatest Batman Stories.It also has an Animated Adaptation called Batman: Gotham by Gaslight as part of the DC Universe Animated Original Movies line.A series called Gotham By Gaslight The Kryptonian Age by Andy Diggle and Leandro Fernandez expands the world including the equivalent of the Justice League.
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Rescue Romance
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Rescue Romance: The woman Bruce Wayne is courting becomes quite enamored of the Bat-Man after he rescues her from a mugging. After he saves her life a second time in the daylight, she gets a close enough look to realise they're the same person, and encourages him to continue acting as Gotham's savior.
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Tempting Fate
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Tempting Fate: Figuring that Bruce Wayne will have been hung by the time the body has been found, Jack the Ripper decides to kill one last victim before fleeing Gotham. Guess who turns up for a Big Damn Heroes... As his World Fair opens, Mayor Tolliver is telling his valet that nothing can go wrong on such a beautiful day when LeRoi does a Super Window Jump into his midst.
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Underestimating Badassery
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Underestimating Badassery: Jack the Ripper has no idea that Bruce Wayne and the Bat-Man are the same person; he's framing Bruce purely out of spite towards the Wayne family. When the Bat-Man does a Dramatic Unmask, he's genuinely shocked. LeRoi doesn't think much of the Bat-Man when they finally clash, and ends up paying the price with his defeat. He ignores Bruce's warning that his zeppelin is on the verge of blowing up and thinks the Bat-Man is just fleeing out of cowardice.
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Adaptational Job Change
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Adaptational Job Change: Jim Gordon, before becoming Commissioner, is an inspector instead of Lieutenant or Captain.
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing
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Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Jacob comes off as a friend to Bruce, but in truth is Jack the Ripper, out seeking petty vengeance against Bruce for Martha rejecting him.
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Frame-Up
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Frame-Up: The Ripper plants his bloody knife in the Wayne mansion, then tips off the police.
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Ax-Crazy
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Ax-Crazy: As one would expect, Jack's a complete and utter psychopath.
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Super Window Jump
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As his World Fair opens, Mayor Tolliver is telling his valet that nothing can go wrong on such a beautiful day when LeRoi does a Super Window Jump into his midst.
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Not Helping Your Case
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Not Helping Your Case: After the Ripper plants the murder weapon in the Wayne mansion, Bruce is arrested by Tolliver who's eager to close the case. Bruce can't reveal what he's really been doing at night, as the public see little difference between the Ripper and the Bat-Man at this stage. It doesn't help that he was in London at the time of the Ripper murders (and Bruce kicks himself for not investigating them at the time). Even the fact that his father was a doctor is used to handwave the medical skill of the killer. A witness is called to say she saw Bruce at the scene of the murders; even though she's an obvious lush, Bruce is effectively Convicted by Public Opinion.
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Public Domain Character
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Public Domain Character: Sherlock Holmes is referenced by Freud (though not by name) as Bruce's previous teacher.
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Tranquil Fury
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Tranquil Fury: Despite his calm demeanor, Batman is clearly angry when he meets Jack.
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Psycho Knife Nut
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Psycho Knife Nut: Jack the Ripper, to no one's great surprise, commits his murders with a knife. The specific type of knife he uses ultimately gives him away, as it belonged to the Civil War medical detachment where Jacob Packer was a doctor's assistant to Thomas Wayne.
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The Resenter
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The Resenter: Thomas Wayne helped Jacob Packer through law and medical school, even getting him work when he flunked out. Instead of being grateful for his benefactor, he resents Thomas' success and when Martha rejects his advances he hires a hitman to have them both killed. Even then Jacob always feels that women are mocking and rejecting him just like Martha did, so he murders women to cope with his madness.
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Death by Adaptation
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Death by Adaptation: Unlike the real life Jack the Ripper (as we know anyway), Jack is killed when Inspector Gordon shoots him during the killer's final attempt to kill Batman.
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Motive Rant
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After his identity is revealed, the Ripper flashes back, as part of his Motive Rant, to when he was spurned by Martha Wayne, which drove him to murder.
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Flashback
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Flashback: Wouldn't be Batman without it. At the start, Bruce Wayne is relating his recurring dream (of witnessing the murder of his parents by a highwayman) to Sigmund Freud, whom he's been studying under. Freud offers to treat Bruce as a patient instead of a student, but he rejects his help and returns to Gotham. After his identity is revealed, the Ripper flashes back, as part of his Motive Rant, to when he was spurned by Martha Wayne, which drove him to murder.
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10-Minute Retirement
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10-Minute Retirement: Bruce hangs up the cowl after Jack the Ripper is caught, as catching his parents murderer was the reason he created Batman in the first place. He comes out of it to deal with Alexandre, and sticks to it full-time as a result.
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Sword Fight
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During his Sword Fight with Batman, LeRoi breaks his robot pilot Antonio (which he blames Batman for) and smashes a gaslamp. He dies when his zeppelin proceeds to crash into the ocean while bursting into flame.
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Enter Stage Window
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Enter Stage Window: After his Big Entrance and ultimatum, LeRoi jumps out of a nine-story building, to everyone's confusion. Later we see he grabbed hold of a rope ladder hanging from his zeppelin.
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Thrown from the Zeppelin
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Thrown from the Zeppelin: A literal version with Mayor Tolliver, who is kidnapped from his home by LeRoi and given an aerial view of him turning his heat ray on the Gotham World Fair. LeRoi then pushes him out the door and he crashes into the midst of his fellow politicians who are demanding to know why the Mayor hasn't turned up to deal with the crisis.
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Gilligan Cut
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Gilligan Cut: Bruce insists he will be found innocent of murder. The next panel is the newspaper headline declaring Bruce guilty.
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The Commissioner Gordon
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The Commissioner Gordon: James Gordon himself, naturally, helps Batman during the investigation. Interestingly, he's drawn to resemble Theodore Roosevelt who was Police Commissioner of New York City a few years later.
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Bat Scare
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Bat Scare: Young Bruce survived his parents' murders because the culprit's shots startled a flock of bats into flight, distracting and confusing the attacker.
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From Bad to Worse
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From Bad to Worse: Yeah, Batman can't catch Jack the Ripper, but at least he's able to watch over the city he loves. Oh, he's in jail after being framed for Jack's crimes and the killings have stopped. Well, at least the defense is strong... but it turns out that he's been sentenced to death.
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Convicted by Public Opinion
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Convicted by Public Opinion: What unfortunately happens to Bruce when he’s accused of the Ripper murders.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: In Gotham by Gaslight it's Jack the Ripper, whose grisly killing spree is what starts the plot. In Master of the Future, Alexandre LeRoi threatens to destroy the Gotham World Fair.
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom
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Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Martha Wayne spurning Jacob Packer's advances (her already being married is a side note) created Jack the Ripper. In turn, Jacob lusting after Martha and pulling a mix of If I Can't Have You… and Murder the Hypotenuse on her and his best friend Thomas when she said no created the Batman, as Bruce would train himself as an investigator and a fighter in order to bring his parents' killer to justice.
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Made of Iron
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Made of Iron: Batman gets beaned in the head with a board and slashed in the chest, but isn't deterred in the slightest.
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
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Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Jacob was rejected by Martha Wayne (rather harshly, but this could just be in his narcissistic mind), but this reasoning to why he commits the ripper murders is firmly established to be petty, vindictive and misogynistic.
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The Bluebeard
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The Bluebeard: The Joker is mentioned as a con artist who married rich old ladies and then poisoned them. He tried to take poison himself after being caught, but it only paralyzed his face into the distinctive Slasher Smile as shown on his mugshot.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Freud and Holmes know each other well.
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Freudian Excuse
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Freudian Excuse: Or so Jack the Ripper claims. He made an advance to Martha Wayne and she just laughed at him, driving him to kill other women whom he feels are doing the same. However it's obvious that Jacob always had a screw loose, and that he's just a charming sociopath who murdered the Waynes out of envy over their genuine success.
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Charles Atlas Superpower
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Charles Atlas Superpower: Played With. Batman will bleed, sweat, and be visibly shaken. He's human and not afraid to show it.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: While the original Gotham By Gaslight was a dark story (its mood heightened by the atmospheric art of Mike Mignola), Master of the Future was more of an adventure yarn In the Style of Jules Verne.
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Hoist by His Own Petard
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Jacob Packer is hoist by four petards. The first one is hiring a highwayman to kill Martha and Thomas Wayne, which creates Batman when the highwayman fails to kill Bruce, who was with them. The second is becoming a killer himself, specifically Jack the Ripper, which would warrant the attention of a crimefighter like Batman should he start to operate in Gotham City, which he does. The third is using Thomas' surgery tools in his murders, which is how Bruce figures out it's him. Being close friends with a surgeon would have given Packer access to said surgeon's tools, which, being rather sharp, would make them excellent weapons for a silent, out-of-sight murder. The fourth is framing Bruce for his crimes, which motivates him to try and solve the case quickly, allowing him the distraction of mind to block his bias from ruling out Jacob as the killer. In a calm environment and able to take his time, Bruce would have overthought the picture of Packer with Thomas as a coincidence and dismissed Packer as a suspect due to the man's public persona and Bruce's personal relationship with him. During his Sword Fight with Batman, LeRoi breaks his robot pilot Antonio (which he blames Batman for) and smashes a gaslamp. He dies when his zeppelin proceeds to crash into the ocean while bursting into flame.
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Jack the Ripper has no idea that Bruce Wayne and the Bat-Man are the same person; he's framing Bruce purely out of spite towards the Wayne family. When the Bat-Man does a Dramatic Unmask, he's genuinely shocked.
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Action Girl: Julie has no fighting abilities, but it takes plenty of nerve to run into a burning building to save a little girl.
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Lightning Bruiser: Batman is at least 7' in this story. He towers over everyone and can still move like a ninja.
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Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Batman, the world's greatest detective, vs Jack the Ripper, history's most infamous uncaught Serial Killer.
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Red Herring: Two unnamed men, described as a prince and a royal phycisian, are seen arriving in Gotham, and appear to be Prince Albert and Sir William Gull, who were put forth as the culprits of the Ripper murders in Stephen Knight's Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution. That's the extent of their involvement.
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Historical AU: Gotham by Gaslight transplants the contemporary-era characters into Victorian England.
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Big Damn Heroes
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Figuring that Bruce Wayne will have been hung by the time the body has been found, Jack the Ripper decides to kill one last victim before fleeing Gotham. Guess who turns up for a Big Damn Heroes...
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Honorary Uncle: The irreverent "Uncle Jake" Packer took this role for Bruce Wayne.
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Death Ray
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Death Ray: LeRoi has a nefarious device attached to his zeppelin that can focus the rays of the sun.
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Well-Intentioned Extremist: Alexandre LeRoi seeks to prevent the pollution-choked future he foresees, though he privately admits he enjoys dishing out death and destruction so it's likely this is just an excuse. Even Cobblepot who's secretly backing LeRoi for the sake of his slum clearance project is revealed to be running an Insurance Fraud scam, though he's shocked by the scale of death involved.
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Evil Is Petty
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Evil Is Petty: Jack’s true motivation is just petty spite for being rejected by a woman he was lusting after.
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