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Batman (1989)

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Batman (1989)	comment	Tim Burton's blockbuster film about the eponymous superhero that took the world by storm in 1989 and started the Batman film series. It also set the template for the discourse around modern big-budget superhero films.Billionaire Bruce Wayne (Michael Keaton) has been fighting crime in Gotham City as Batman for some time when this film starts, but is an enigma to a city unsure of both what he is and whether he even actually exists or if he's just an urban legend. The plot here chronicles his battles with Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson), a mob enforcer who goes insane after falling in a vat of chemicals and terrorizes Gotham as The Joker.An Academy Award deservedly went to Anton Furst's amazing set design, which was partly inspired by Brazil and Metropolis, and became just as influential as those films in dystopic set design.Batman also revolutionized the home video industry — it was the first financially successful film to be released for the home market the same year as its theatrical release, and for only $19.99. It became a stocking stuffer in many homes that Christmas and went on to earn $150 million on home video alone. Now, even blockbuster hits are released in home video as soon as their theatrical runs are over (sometimes even before they end).The film's soundtrack was a collaboration between Oingo Boingo frontman and prior Burton associate Danny Elfman and Prince, with Elfman writing the incidental music and Prince contributing lyrical songs. Each performer's material would wind up on its own soundtrack album, with Prince's release additionally being billed as a proper studio album from him.See also Batman: The Animated Series, which took some cues from the Burton films and actually launched the same year as Returns (this film's sequel) and went on to produce a few movies of its own. The notorious Catwoman film in 2004 has no continuity connection with these,note a picture of the Returns version of Catwoman appears in the film as the past bearers of the mantle of Catwoman are discussed, though but it's worth noting that the whole idea of doing a film about her alone was inspired by Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in '92.Sequels included Batman Returns, Batman Forever, and Batman & Robin.Not to be confused with Batman: The Movie based on the Television Series with Adam West.The universe of this film was featured in Crisis on Infinite Earths (2019) as Earth-89, with a cameo by Robert Wuhl as Alexander Knox. In 2023, Michael Keaton returned to play this version of Batman once again in The Flash movie set in the DC Extended Universe, which focuses on The Multiverse.Just like with Superman '78 before it, DC started publishing a Batman '89 series in 2021, featuring the continuing adventures of the versions of the characters as seen post-Returns, while ignoring Forever and Batman & Robin.
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Batman (1989) / int_105f4bd9	type	Villain: Exit, Stage Left
Batman (1989) / int_105f4bd9	comment	Villain: Exit, Stage Left: The Joker attempts this. He fails.
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Batman (1989) / int_10e7d43c	type	Fanfare
Batman (1989) / int_10e7d43c	comment	Fanfare: A dark one for the opening, and a triumphant one at the end.
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Batman (1989) / int_1133e720	type	Fat Slob
Batman (1989) / int_1133e720	comment	Fat Slob: Lt. Max Eckhart, who may have been inspired by Harvey Bullock.
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Batman (1989) / int_12336d7d	type	Table Space
Batman (1989) / int_12336d7d	comment	Table Space: The dinner scene between Bruce Wayne and Vicki Vale provides the image and quote line for this trope.
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Batman (1989) / int_125e12c4	type	Second-Hand Storytelling
Batman (1989) / int_125e12c4	comment	Second-Hand Storytelling: The beginning has two Mooks telling stories about the rumor of the Batman. Since Batman dresses up as a bat to play on criminals' fears, this scene is very effective at showing that it's working.
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Batman (1989) / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
Batman (1989) / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: Bob Kane's signature can be seen on the opinion cartoon handed to Knox; Kane himself was originally supposed to play the cartoonist but had to drop out at the last minute. A more literal example is Burton playing one of the Joker's goons during the museum scene (or so rumor has it).
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Batman (1989) / int_128e4ba8	type	Gatling Good
Batman (1989) / int_128e4ba8	comment	Gatling Good: The Batwing is equipped twin Gatling guns, used to completely fail to hit The Joker.
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Batman (1989) / int_1397e10d	type	Rage Against the Reflection
Batman (1989) / int_1397e10d	comment	Rage Against the Reflection: As part of the buildup to the reveal of the Joker's face, he asks for a (hand) mirror to see the results of the surgery he's just gotten from a Back-Alley Doctor. The audience doesn't see the reflection, but when he does, he evilly laughs for the first time as he smashes the mirror. (This was later parodied in The Simpsons episode that was the former trope namer for Lisa Needs Braces, when she gets the ridiculously old-fashioned ones.)
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Batman (1989) / int_13d7a65e	type	The Artifact
Batman (1989) / int_13d7a65e	comment	The Artifact: The Joker's quip about putting his face on the one dollar bill. This was originally meant to set up a funny little detail in the parade scene, in which the money he tosses to the crowd would indeed have his face printed on them. This gag was cut from the film, though it was still included in both the novelization and comic book.
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Batman (1989) / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Batman (1989) / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: During Joker's "pen is mightier" scene, Bruce is so shocked to see Jack Napier still alive that he gets winged by a bullet and does not even notice it. (To make matters worse, during the massacre he is standing directly behind one of the assassins and does nothing to stop him.)
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Batman (1989) / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
Batman (1989) / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: Than the '60s version by far. It's long since been surpassed by The Dark Knight Trilogy, which itself has been surpassed by The Batman (2022), but at the time it was a massive change from what the general public's idea of what Batman was like (comic fans had been used to the darker "Dark Knight"-style Batman for years - even before The Dark Knight Returns - due to comics pushing back against his campy TV image).
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Batman (1989) / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Batman (1989) / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: A crooked police lieutenant to Jack Napier near the film's beginning: "The future? You mean when you run the show? You ain't got no future, Jack!" (This culminates in an Ironic Echo at the factory, when Napier kills the lieutenant with a single shot.) What's humorous about this is that the errongeous double negative means he's actually, unintentionally saying, "You've got a future, Jack!" The Joker saying things like, "Feel free to drop in," and, "Sometimes I just kill myself," while standing on the ledge of an improbably high bell tower. Alicia is worried that Carl Grissom might find out about her affair with Jack. During The Joker's parade:
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Batman (1989) / int_16fdd774	type	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle
Batman (1989) / int_16fdd774	comment	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: Happens to Vicki while being forced to climb the bell tower of Gotham Cathedral by her captor the Joker. She falls and loses one of her high heels. The Joker then throws away the offending shoe, seemingly to taunt the pursuing Batman and/or make Vicki move faster. Her other shoe is later seen discarded further up the stairs.
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Batman (1989) / int_171ef47c	type	Not-So-Harmless Villain
Batman (1989) / int_171ef47c	comment	Not-So-Harmless Villain: Averted. When Batman takes on half-a-dozen of the Joker's goons in the alley, a sequence was filmed where Bob is actually able to hold his own in a one-on-one knife-fight with the Bat. For whatever reason, this was cut to Bob just abandoning the others and running.
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Batman (1989) / int_17521f7f	type	Clothes Make the Superman
Batman (1989) / int_17521f7f	comment	Clothes Make the Superman: This influenced Tim Burton's casting of Michael Keaton and costume designer Bob Ringwood's decision to give Batman sculpted armor instead of tights—the seemingly small, meek Bruce Wayne taps into something primal and dreadful and otherworldly when he puts on this incredible Bat-armor.
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Batman (1989) / int_1972ef89	type	Railing Kill
Batman (1989) / int_1972ef89	comment	Railing Kill: Jack Napier fires at Batman, who is intervening in the botched Axis Chemicals job. Batman deflects the bullet with his armored gloves, Napier gets hit by the glass the deflected bullet shatters (which implants itself in his cheeks), tumbles over the railing in the typical way (taking a lot of steps to do so), and falls into a vat of acid (which permanently bleaches his skin and ostensibly results in the nerve damage to his mouth that causes his permanent "smile" due to the open cheek wounds from the glass). One quick trip to a back-alley plastic surgeon later, and Jack's dead...but The Joker lives.
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Batman (1989) / int_1aa76d29	type	Death by Origin Story
Batman (1989) / int_1aa76d29	comment	Death by Origin Story: Bruce's parents were killed when he was a child, motivating him to become Batman.
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Batman (1989) / int_1b010521	type	Diesel Punk
Batman (1989) / int_1b010521	comment	Diesel Punk: Batman's technology in this adaptation has a distinct dieselpunk feel, and special mention goes to the Batmobile, which is essentially a jet engine on wheels.
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Batman (1989) / int_1b395eea	type	Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure
Batman (1989) / int_1b395eea	comment	Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure: Batman does this to the Joker using the Batwing.
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Batman (1989) / int_1b55d429	type	Shoot the Television
Batman (1989) / int_1b55d429	comment	Shoot the Television: Done twice by the Joker. The first is when he takes a boxing glove gun to the TV for mention of Batman in connection to an assassination that Joker pulled off on one of Grissom's underbosses, demanding to know, "What kind of a world do we live in where a man dressed up as a bat gets all of my press?!" The second time, Joker shoots the television screen with a real gun after learning on the news that his poisoning scheme involving beauty products has been foiled by the Batman.
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Batman (1989) / int_1b5fa24a	type	The Brute
Batman (1989) / int_1b5fa24a	comment	The Brute: Lawrence, Joker's only other named goon, who is also Bald of Evil and never seen without his Cool Shades. He frequently carries around a ghetto blaster to provide the background music. The guys Batman fights in the bell tower at the end.
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Batman (1989) / int_1b711f57	type	Faceplanting into Food
Batman (1989) / int_1b711f57	comment	Faceplanting into Food: When the Joker fills the air of a museum with a lethal nerve gas, two of the patrons eating in a restaurant die and faceplant into the food on their plates.
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Batman (1989) / int_1b7d59b6	type	Death by Materialism
Batman (1989) / int_1b7d59b6	comment	Death by Materialism: The Gothamites who attend Joker's festival.
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Batman (1989) / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
Batman (1989) / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: Admit it, when the Batwing is silhouetted by the moon and becomes the Batman logo, it's pretty cool (and cute.) The Joker reassures Gotham that he's on the level because he's "taken off his mask." However, the viewer knows he's lying because he's wearing makeup to appear more normal and hide his true Joker face.
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Batman (1989) / int_1bb7211b	type	The Hyena
Batman (1989) / int_1bb7211b	comment	The Hyena: Joker, true to form, laughs quite a lot.
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Batman (1989) / int_1bbb76bc	type	Abandoned Area
Batman (1989) / int_1bbb76bc	comment	Abandoned Area: Gotham City Cathedral in the climax is clearly abandoned. The building's decrepit state factors heavily in the climax, with crumbling parts of the structure causing several people to fall.
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Batman (1989) / int_1c263b9f	type	The Purge
Batman (1989) / int_1c263b9f	comment	The Purge: The Joker murders all the other crime bosses in Gotham, acting on the "advice" of a victim's corpse:
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Batman (1989) / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
Batman (1989) / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: The Joker enjoys classical (or at least orchestral) music, and he plays it on three "romantic" occasions: Percy Faith's "A Summer Place" while meeting Vicki in a museum cafÃ©; Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer" while bringing some flowers (which, in a vile twist, are already wilted) to Vicki's apartment; and a sentimental waltz while he is, uh, ravishing Vicki on the roof of the city's Gothic cathedral. Interestingly, the latter piece—Danny Elfman's "Waltz to the Death"—is actually quite beautiful and grand, and would be completely innocent were it not exclusively associated with a disfigured mass murderer. He also quotes Edgar Allan Poe to Vicki in one scene, and, fittingly, it is a line from "The Raven," which is about a deceased sweetheart (his previous lover Alicia has either killed herself or been killed by Joker himself. He's furthermore a fan of Francis Bacon, it seems. He is also mentioned in his police file as having an aptitude for art, which puts an interesting perspective on his actions when he and his goons vandalize most of the works at the Gotham Museum of Art (or when he dismisses most of Vicki's photography...except the ones of war and death). Presumably, he fully appreciates and understands all of this stuff on an artistic level, but still feels like smashing it to bring it up to his own twisted sense of aesthetic standard. When he brings Alicia in, she says, "Jack, you said I could watch you improve the paintings." Then there's Jack/The Joker's fashion sense. The first thing he does upon seeing Knox is critique his tie.
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Batman (1989) / int_1c7987a	type	Newspaper Backstory
Batman (1989) / int_1c7987a	comment	Newspaper Backstory: The first big exploration of Bruce Wayne's backstory is an old news clipping tracked down by Vicki Vale and her partner Knox, which has the headline of "Thomas Wayne Murdered" and shows the face of young Bruce Wayne, the only survivor of what happened to his parents. Knox then asks: "What do you suppose something like this does to a kid?" The big Flashback of the murder, which shows young Jack Napier as the killer in this continuity, comes in a later scene.
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Batman (1989) / int_1cf185e6	type	Unflinching Faith in the Brakes
Batman (1989) / int_1cf185e6	comment	Unflinching Faith in the Brakes: Batman tells the Batmobile to stop, and it does...JUST in time.
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Batman (1989) / int_1d3d3c32	type	Welcome to the Big City
Batman (1989) / int_1d3d3c32	comment	Welcome to the Big City: Gotham City is revealed to be a Wretched Hive by showing a hapless tourist family getting accosted by beggars, prostitutes, and finally, a pair of armed robbers.
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Batman (1989) / int_1eda7a32	type	I Own This Town
Batman (1989) / int_1eda7a32	comment	I Own This Town: Crime boss Carl Grissom has this position, Harvey Dent and Commissioner Gordon's vow to bring him down leads to the accident that transforms Jack Napier into the Joker (though another part of it is Grissom setting Jack up to be killed by corrupt cops on his payroll after learning that Jack is having an affair with his mistress Alicia); while this does lead to Grissom's death, the Joker and his actions make Gotham far worse.
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Batman (1989) / int_1f17e9fe	type	High-Altitude Interrogation
Batman (1989) / int_1f17e9fe	comment	High-Altitude Interrogation: Batman does this to a Bit Part Bad Guy at the beginning of the film. Interestingly for a trope that's generally used as a death threat, just before Batman holds the guy over the edge of the building, he tells the mook, "I'm not going to kill you."
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Batman (1989) / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
Batman (1989) / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: The Joker claims that Alicia "threw herself out of a window", but its unclear if she really did (as a result of the Joker) or if he actually murdered her.
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Batman (1989) / int_1fc325dd	type	Do Not Adjust Your Set
Batman (1989) / int_1fc325dd	comment	Do Not Adjust Your Set: The Joker does this twice. He hijacks a local TV station's news program to present a faux commercial warning the city of Gotham that he's poisoned their beauty products. He broadcasts a sort of fireplace-broadcast calling out to Batman and gets the city to forget that he went on a murder spree by promising to pay them a ton of money.
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Batman (1989) / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Batman (1989) / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: Some of this can be heard a little more than midway through the film as the Batmobile is speeding away from the city and toward the Batcave, as part of Danny Elfman's "Descent Into Mystery" suite. In the published film score, the Latin reads:
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Batman (1989) / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
Batman (1989) / int_20a14df0	comment	Wrong Genre Savvy: The Joker often behaves as if he's the protagonist of a wild romantic comedy where Vicki is the Defrosting Ice Queen. This fails to explain why he's also cast himself as the Romantic False Lead!
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Batman (1989) / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Batman (1989) / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: What Bruce thinks the world is, as it's that world that killed his parents and the reason he's Batman. Gotham is a cesspool of crime and violence. The police are completely incapable of containing the mob, much less the Joker, and the average citizen is so morally bankrupt that the Joker can publicly take credit for a wide scale act of terror (poisoning all of Gotham) and just needs to drop a lot of money on the crowd at a parade to get back into their good graces.
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Batman (1989) / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
Batman (1989) / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: Batman. The earliest example is the muggers at the beginning. One isn't pleased that his buddy turns a gun on the kid. Guess which one gets put through a door. He kills henchmen left and right, sends Vicki mixed signals about what's going to become of their relationship, and overall seems to be more obsessed with enforcing the law and getting vengeance on The Joker than actually doing good. With Vicki, though, it's not so much him being a dick, it's that he himself is unsure exactly where their relationship might go or if it has a future at all, and he does, in the end, try to tell her the truth about him after deciding they just might have a chance.
Batman (1989) / int_21f3aa44	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_21f3aa44	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_21f3aa44
Batman (1989) / int_222969af	type	All There in the Script
Batman (1989) / int_222969af	comment	Alicia (the Joker's moll) is played by Jerry Hall, whose natural accent is an unlikely mixture of Texas (where she was born) and British. She skews toward "educated Texan" as Alicia until her very last scene, when she shifts into Cockney for no particular reason. ("Jayack, you sahd you'd let me wotch you improve the paintings.") Could be justified in-story by the fact that Alicia (as the script makes clear) is heavily into drugs by that point, and British accents can sometimes sound stereotypically narcoleptic to American ears.
Batman (1989) / int_222969af	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_222969af	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_222969af
Batman (1989) / int_229c2ec8	type	Uriah Gambit
Batman (1989) / int_229c2ec8	comment	Uriah Gambit: Involves crime boss Carl Grissom manipulating his lieutenant Jack Napier into being killed as punishment for sleeping with Grissom's girlfriend, a plot that drastically backfires.
Batman (1989) / int_229c2ec8	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_229c2ec8	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_229c2ec8
Batman (1989) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Batman (1989) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: The Joker's helicopter, which first appears after Batman uses the Batmobile to blow up Axis Chemicals, and again later as the Joker's means of escape from the top of a building. The metal tray Bruce finds on Vicki Vale's makeup table and hides under his clothes, which saves his life when the Joker shoots him.
Batman (1989) / int_22cf536c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_22cf536c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_22cf536c
Batman (1989) / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
Batman (1989) / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Billy Dee Williams's version of Harvey Dent, as the role would be recast with Tommy Lee Jones in Batman Forever. This arc was resurrected in the Batman '89 comics.
Batman (1989) / int_23698fa8	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_23698fa8	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_23698fa8
Batman (1989) / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Batman (1989) / int_237404cc	comment	A crooked police lieutenant to Jack Napier near the film's beginning: "The future? You mean when you run the show? You ain't got no future, Jack!" (This culminates in an Ironic Echo at the factory, when Napier kills the lieutenant with a single shot.) What's humorous about this is that the errongeous double negative means he's actually, unintentionally saying, "You've got a future, Jack!"
Batman (1989) / int_237404cc	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_237404cc
Batman (1989) / int_2482df9c	type	Companion Cube
Batman (1989) / int_2482df9c	comment	Companion Cube: The Batmobile.
Batman (1989) / int_2482df9c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2482df9c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2482df9c
Batman (1989) / int_25524784	type	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Batman (1989) / int_25524784	comment	No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Batman dishes a pretty brutal one to the Joker in the final climax, complete with Punch! Punch! Punch! Uh Oh... from the latter. However, Joker manages to escape further wrath by using his own Playing Possum technique against him (which Batman had used only two minutes ago to evade a similarly nasty beatdown from one of his goons).
Batman (1989) / int_25524784	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_25524784
Batman (1989) / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
Batman (1989) / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: While the movie takes place more or less in the present day, reporters use very old fashioned cameras, and a lot of the film's elements seem to be from The '40s...yet Batman himself has very modern technology, far better than anything that existed when the movie was made!
Batman (1989) / int_259d5879	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_259d5879
Batman (1989) / int_25bc8511	type	Generation Xerox
Batman (1989) / int_25bc8511	comment	Generation Xerox: The first scene where a family is mugged by some ruffians is near-identical to what Bruce went through as a child. Of course, this time the bad guys won't be getting away.
Batman (1989) / int_25bc8511	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_25bc8511	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_25bc8511
Batman (1989) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Batman (1989) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: From Batman: The Dark Knight Returns: In her background, Vicki Vale has covered a conflict in Corto Maltese, a disputed territory which appears in the graphic novel. The imagery of Martha Wayne's pearl necklace being ripped off her neck and the pearls dropping onto the streets in Bruce's flashback. The Joker card in Jack Napier's "lucky deck" is patterned after the card the villain leaves to mark his crimes in his first comic book appearance. The Joker's real name, "Jack Napier," is a reference to the late Alan Napier, who played Alfred in the 1960s Batman series, hidden behind a more obvious pun on "jackanapes." Jack Napier becomes the Joker by falling into chemicals, which is (possibly) his origin in The Killing Joke (which was released the year prior to this movie and along with The Dark Knight Returns was Tim Burton's inspiration to direct the film).
Batman (1989) / int_26ac510e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_26ac510e
Batman (1989) / int_2745f935	type	Gas Mask Mooks
Batman (1989) / int_2745f935	comment	Gas Mask Mooks: The movie has a futuristic example in the Wayne Manor armory. Disconcertingly, it's just there, practically begging for some kind of backstory. Did Bruce make it as an art project of some kind? Is it a Wayne Industries prototype? Did it come from a horrifying, still-recent chemical war? We don't never know.
Batman (1989) / int_2745f935	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2745f935	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2745f935
Batman (1989) / int_28114487	type	Bald of Evil
Batman (1989) / int_28114487	comment	Lawrence, Joker's only other named goon, who is also Bald of Evil and never seen without his Cool Shades. He frequently carries around a ghetto blaster to provide the background music.
Batman (1989) / int_28114487	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_28114487	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_28114487
Batman (1989) / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
Batman (1989) / int_2854b56d	comment	Uncertain Doom: It's unknown whether or not all the Gotham mob bosses in the board meeting are actually killed by the Joker. Of the nine members, only Rotelli and Ricorso are confirmed, on-screen kills.
Batman (1989) / int_2854b56d	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2854b56d	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2854b56d
Batman (1989) / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Batman (1989) / int_28a5213a	comment	Small Name, Big Ego: Alexander Knox is set up as one, but he's mostly an aversion (if not an outright inversion). He fancies himself a great investigative reporter, even though he famously has a "useless reputation" and his coworkers at the Gotham Globe offices relentlessly mock him for being one of the few people in Gotham City who actually believe in Batman. In addition, when he meets Vicki Vale and is instantly smitten with her, he jokingly asks if she has come to photograph him nude, and boasts that in that case she will need a long lens. Vicki actually ends up liking Allie despite his more annoying qualities, however, and in the end he is vindicated when the people of Gotham come to realize that he was right about Batman after all.
Batman (1989) / int_28a5213a	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_28a5213a
Batman (1989) / int_28ea0e57	type	Cock Fight
Batman (1989) / int_28ea0e57	comment	Cock Fight: Invoked. Upon seeing Bruce at Vicki's apartment, The Joker comments: "Well, miss Vale... another rooster in the henhouse!"
Batman (1989) / int_28ea0e57	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_28ea0e57	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_28ea0e57
Batman (1989) / int_2a195285	type	Revolvers Are Just Better
Batman (1989) / int_2a195285	comment	Revolvers Are Just Better: Joker brings down the Batwing using a revolver with a really Freudian barrel.
Batman (1989) / int_2a195285	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2a195285
Batman (1989) / int_2b2249a8	type	You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses
Batman (1989) / int_2b2249a8	comment	You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses: The Joker actually puts on glasses and says this to Batman during their final confrontation. Batman promptly punches the glasses and his face.
Batman (1989) / int_2b2249a8	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2b2249a8	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2b2249a8
Batman (1989) / int_2b6c866	type	Saved by the Platform Below
Batman (1989) / int_2b6c866	comment	Saved by the Platform Below: Happens twice in the Gotham City Cathedral. Batman lets one of the Joker's thugs knock him around and toss him over the edge of a platform, but grabs onto the structural supports just below and out of sight. When the thug peeks down, Batman swings his legs up to grab him by the neck, slam his head into the bell, and dump him down the shaft. Later, as Batman and Vicki Vale peer over the edge of the balcony to see if the Joker has truly fallen, he surprises them by yanking them over, having landed on a ledge a few feet down.
Batman (1989) / int_2b6c866	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2b6c866
Batman (1989) / int_2b812abd	type	Going for the Big Scoop
Batman (1989) / int_2b812abd	comment	Going for the Big Scoop: This is Vicki Vale's role.
Batman (1989) / int_2b812abd	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2b812abd	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2b812abd
Batman (1989) / int_2c628d38	type	Worf Had the Flu
Batman (1989) / int_2c628d38	comment	Worf Had the Flu: Because Batman is hurt after his plane is shot down, he's trudging along as he follows Joker and Vicki up a long flight of stairs. He's off his game for most of the climax, especially in his fight against a Giant Mook who gives him quite a beating after countering one of his intimidation moves.
Batman (1989) / int_2c628d38	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2c628d38	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Batman (1989) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: The Joker, as usual. Though the film states that Jack Napier was at least a little crazy to begin with ("wild mood swings [...] emotionally unstable" reads Napier's police file), seeing his disfigurement is what finally snaps him.
Batman (1989) / int_2d4fa515	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2d4fa515	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
Batman (1989) / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Before he becomes a Monster Clown, Jack Napier has already been a sadistic killer for decades who loves to make children into orphans just for kicks, and then do them in, too.
Batman (1989) / int_2d6f00e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2d6f00e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2d6f00e4
Batman (1989) / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
Batman (1989) / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": Batman says it after Vicki Vale asks if all products are poisoned.
Batman (1989) / int_2d92c43c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2d92c43c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2d92c43c
Batman (1989) / int_2e22f7d4	type	Minimalistic Cover Art
Batman (1989) / int_2e22f7d4	comment	Minimalistic Cover Art: The movie only seemed to have one design for its main promotional material: the iconic Batman logo on a black background and nothing else. The teaser poster, the Prince soundtrack album, the Licensed Game by Ocean Software (who added only their own logo in the same colors), the original VHS release, and the original DVD cover don't even have a title.
Batman (1989) / int_2e22f7d4	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2e22f7d4	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2e22f7d4
Batman (1989) / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
Batman (1989) / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: The Joker is quite fond of these (fitting, given his history as a mobster): "If this clown could touch Grissom, I'd have handed him his lungs by now." "If we can't work out our differences, why, we'll just shake hands and...that'll be it." "Time to pay the check." "Hair color so natural, only your undertaker knows for sure!" Now comes the part of the show where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives." There's also a milder example when Rabid Cop Eckhardt, explaining how two hoodlums Batman has captured were physically incapacitated, says that they "slipped on a banana peel."
Batman (1989) / int_2eb94abd	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2eb94abd	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2eb94abd
Batman (1989) / int_2f50c5bf	type	Theme Music Power-Up
Batman (1989) / int_2f50c5bf	comment	Theme Music Power-Up: When watching the movie, the minute you hear any version of Danny Elfman's classic Batman theme, there's gonna be some kicked ass. No questions asked. This applies to Batman Returns as well.
Batman (1989) / int_2f50c5bf	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_2f50c5bf	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_2f50c5bf
Batman (1989) / int_2f94135c	type	Thou Shalt Not Kill
Batman (1989) / int_2f94135c	comment	Thou Shalt Not Kill: Averted, which may come as quite a shock to younger tropers more used to the modern Batman films where this trope is enforced. In fact, this movie is an attempt to return to the earliest version of Batman's character, where he did kill. He doesn't start killing until after he finds out that the Joker killed his parents. His first scene plays the trope straight. Any mentions of him killing prior are played as an Urban Legend, with no confirmation of truth given.
Batman (1989) / int_2f94135c	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_303079ba	type	Phallic Weapon
Batman (1989) / int_303079ba	comment	Phallic Weapon: An example that pays off twice. First, the Joker shoots down Batman's plane with a ridiculously long-barreled revolver pulled from the front of his baggy clown pants. Then, immediately afterward, he uses this gun to take the Girl of the Film hostage, and keeps it pointed at her throughout the film's long and sexually charged climax (and as if that were not enough, relieves the leading lady of some of her clothes while he's at it).
Batman (1989) / int_303079ba	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_303079ba	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_303079ba
Batman (1989) / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
Batman (1989) / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: The last of the goons Batman has to fight before getting to Joker himself. He actually manages to beat the living piss out of Bats at first, although to be fair, our hero has already been seriously injured prior to this.
Batman (1989) / int_3036294e	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_3036294e	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_3036294e
Batman (1989) / int_30e6200f	type	Missing Steps Plan
Batman (1989) / int_30e6200f	comment	Missing Steps Plan: The Joker plans to "run the city into the ground" and murder everyone at the Anniversary parade. He never gives any hint of what benefit that will be to organized crime, which is why the other mob bosses think he's crazy. Justified, in that Jack is crazy and just wants to watch the world burn.
Batman (1989) / int_30e6200f	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_30e6200f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_3133d1d7	type	Hollywood Acid
Batman (1989) / int_3133d1d7	comment	Hollywood Acid: The goop that Jack Napier falls into is astroturf-green and has the consistency of a milkshake. It's later casually described as "acid". Later in the same film, the Joker's trick flower squirts acid strong enough to eat through thick metal in seconds (when he sprays it on the bolts holding up the church bell).
Batman (1989) / int_3133d1d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_3133d1d7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Batman (1989) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Before Bats takes out the muggers at the beginning, one chastises his partner for pointing his gun at a kid. The mob is legitimately horrified about Jack Napier/Joker's actions during the mob meeting. Jack's partner doesn't anticipate him shooting Bruce's parents and looks a bit stunned at it. It could even be that he intentionally saved Bruce by distracting Jack when he was about to shoot the boy.
Batman (1989) / int_319e4a2f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Batman (1989) / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Alfred, in a bittersweet way, pushes Bruce and Vicki together. When asked why, he says, "If not now, when?"
Batman (1989) / int_31da1e24	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_31da1e24	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_326a44a1	type	Create Your Own Villain
Batman (1989) / int_326a44a1	comment	Create Your Own Villain: Despite changing the Joker into being the mugger who killed the Waynes, a lot of people really enjoyed the exchange Batman and the Joker have at the end where they wonder who really created whom.
Batman (1989) / int_326a44a1	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_326a44a1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_33029735	type	Dies Wide Open
Batman (1989) / int_33029735	comment	Dies Wide Open: This happens to anyone who is affected by the Smylex chemical in the poisoned beauty products, and it also includes the Joker's grin, as a pair of models and a news reporter demonstrate. This also happens to the Joker when we see his body on the pavement at the end of the film.
Batman (1989) / int_33029735	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_33d0b177	type	Attack of the Town Festival
Batman (1989) / int_33d0b177	comment	Attack of the Town Festival: The Gotham 200th Anniversary Festival is in trouble because people are scared of high crime in the city, and the conflict between the Joker and the gangsters as well as the Joker's poisoning of the population both make it worse. Despite all this, the mayor insists that the Festival must occur so businesses will come back to the city. Eventually, the mayor does give in when it becomes obvious that it's simply too dangerous to hold a festival...which is The Joker's cue to pick up the slack. Plus, he's giving out free money! Why, how could that hurt anyone?
Batman (1989) / int_33d0b177	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_33fa230b	type	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!
Batman (1989) / int_33fa230b	comment	Your Princess Is in Another Castle!: Batman is dead-serious about killing the Joker. He sends a remote-controlled Batmobile to bomb the chemical factory that makes Smylex to hopefully take out the Joker along with it. Sure, Batman kills a ton of mooks, but the Smylex is already on its way and the Joker taunts Batman, telling him that he's not at the factory.
Batman (1989) / int_33fa230b	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_33fa230b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_3429147e	type	When the Clock Strikes Twelve
Batman (1989) / int_3429147e	comment	When the Clock Strikes Twelve: The Joker tells Gotham that during his festival, he will dump twenty million dollars in cash on the crowd at midnight. It turns out to be a festival of death, courtesy of his Smylex gas balloons.
Batman (1989) / int_3429147e	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_3429147e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_34c3144b	type	Lured into a Trap
Batman (1989) / int_34c3144b	comment	Lured into a Trap: Boss Grissom sends Jack Napier and his team to retrieve incriminating information from Axis Chemical so Lieutenant Eckhardt and his team of corrupt cops can kill them. Napier manages to figure out the score before the ambush, though.
Batman (1989) / int_34c3144b	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_34c3144b	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Batman (1989) / int_34dcfc96	comment	Bob is the kind of staunchly loyal henchman that most any villain would be grateful to have, which makes Joker's shooting of him a major Kick the Dog moment.
Batman (1989) / int_34dcfc96	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_34dcfc96	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_34f1b472	type	Mad Artist
Batman (1989) / int_34f1b472	comment	Mad Artist: The Joker describes himself as "the world's first fully-functioning homicidal artist"; he disfigures his girlfriend Alicia Hunt and fails in his attempt to disfigure Vicki Vale.
Batman (1989) / int_34f1b472	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_34f1b472	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_34f8042a	type	Gratuitous French
Batman (1989) / int_34f8042a	comment	Gratuitous French: The Joker enjoys pronouncing a few phrases in French as part of his Wicked Cultured persona.
Batman (1989) / int_34f8042a	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_34f8042a	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_34f8042a
Batman (1989) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Batman (1989) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: The Joker has shades of this, as it is implied that he created the binary compound (CIA files on a nerve agent classified DDID) for the Smylex poison.
Batman (1989) / int_3517000d	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_3517000d	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_3517000d
Batman (1989) / int_354077f9	type	Plummet Perspective
Batman (1989) / int_354077f9	comment	Plummet Perspective: Used to horrifying effect, with the Joker's point of view shot of how far he has to fall to his bone-shattering death on the pavement of Gotham. His blood-chilling scream makes it all the more nightmarish. Almost makes you feel sorry for the bastard. It's also used when the Joker and Vicki are climbing up the bell-tower's interior: Joker throws one of Vicki's high heels over the side, and we get a shot showing it plummeting down the tower.
Batman (1989) / int_354077f9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_356b1efb	type	Hammerspace
Batman (1989) / int_356b1efb	comment	Hammerspace: A few of the Joker's weapons and gag props are able to be hidden on his person in ways that would be impossible in real life. His pistol with a barrel the length of his leg can be smuggled in his trousers without affecting his stride (though as we see later in the cathedral, the barrel can be retracted to a smaller length; though that gets into ruining the interior smoothness of the barrel, necessary for a gun to work). After getting punched in the face, the Joker is able to prepare a wound-up pair of chattering teeth to spit out. After pulling Batman and Vicki over the ledge of the cathedral and offering the latter a hand, it's revealed that the Joker somehow managed to switch his real hand with a fake one without either of his victims noticing.
Batman (1989) / int_356b1efb	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_35b241c0	type	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Batman (1989) / int_35b241c0	comment	Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: John Dair (Vinnie Ricorso) was a British actor playing an Italian-American character. He lapses into his natural accent during his very last scene (when he is talking to the newspaper reporters on the steps of City Hall): "Mistuh Grissom asked me, as a pussonal favuh, to take care of all his businesses until he retuhns." Alicia (the Joker's moll) is played by Jerry Hall, whose natural accent is an unlikely mixture of Texas (where she was born) and British. She skews toward "educated Texan" as Alicia until her very last scene, when she shifts into Cockney for no particular reason. ("Jayack, you sahd you'd let me wotch you improve the paintings.") Could be justified in-story by the fact that Alicia (as the script makes clear) is heavily into drugs by that point, and British accents can sometimes sound stereotypically narcoleptic to American ears.
Batman (1989) / int_35b241c0	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_370fcc49	type	Meaningful Appearance
Batman (1989) / int_370fcc49	comment	Meaningful Appearance: Vicki wears a white dress, jacket, and shoes at the climax. By the end of the scene, she's lost the jacket and the shoes, and the dress is noticeably dirtied. Coincidence? The white dress also makes sense if you interpret the climactic cathedral scene from a religious perspective. In the dress, Vicki looks a lot like a bride, an association that is only strengthened when the Joker tells her, "I've got to get you to the church on time."
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Batman (1989) / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Batman (1989) / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Surprisingly the movie fits on the idealistic side, although not quite to the point of The Dark Knight, but for Batman's actions, he becomes publicly loved and gets the girl, and The Joker is dead, although he has to take the cynical route to get there. It is mostly cynical, but it too is a case of Earn Your Happy Ending.
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Batman (1989) / int_373e2b9f	type	Murder the Hypotenuse
Batman (1989) / int_373e2b9f	comment	Murder the Hypotenuse: The reason Grissom tries to get Jack killed or jailed.
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Batman (1989) / int_38119dcf	type	Not the Fall That Kills You
Batman (1989) / int_38119dcf	comment	Not the Fall That Kills Youâ€¦: Batman uses his grapple gun to save himself and Vicki Vale after they fall off a huge cathedral. He fires the gun and then attaches it to his belt. The grappling hook lands in the belfry, slides across the floor and then bites into a bit of stonework, and suddenly Batman and Vicki are suspended in the air, swinging romantically back and forth while searchlights play across the cathedral for no very good reason. All this without a) breaking the stonework, b) breaking off whatever attaches the gun to the belt, c) breaking the belt, d) breaking Batman in half at the waist, or e) tearing Vicki from Batman's arms to go plummeting to her doom.
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Batman (1989) / int_3823c722	type	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...
Batman (1989) / int_3823c722	comment	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill...: When the Joker looks through a collection of Vicki Vale's photographs, he says "crap" five times for normal pictures, and "Now that's good work" when he gets to the gruesome Corto Maltese picture.
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Batman (1989) / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Batman (1989) / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Bruceâ€™s ploy with the tray depends entirely on Joker shooting him in the chest (as opposed to the head) and not the other ways heâ€™s killed people already (poison, stabbing, electrocution).
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Batman (1989) / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Batman (1989) / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Downplayed, but at one point, Jack Napier does exactly the same "spin one card around the rest of the deck" move that McMurphy does when we first meet him in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Batman (1989) / int_392372f9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_399b3dbe	type	Money to Throw Away
Batman (1989) / int_399b3dbe	comment	Money to Throw Away: Shortly before the movie's climax, Joker throws away a lot of money to people. Admittedly, it isn't real money. It is just a ploy to get the residents of Gotham into the fresh air so the Joker can poison them all.
Batman (1989) / int_399b3dbe	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_3ac2a3e3	type	Deadly Gas
Batman (1989) / int_3ac2a3e3	comment	Deadly Gas: This is the Joker's favorite method of killing people. He does it twice: once in the museum where he set up a meeting with Vicki, and once in the big parade scene with parade-float balloons full of the gas. Batman takes the balloons away in the Batwing and sends them well away from the city in order to stop him.
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Batman (1989) / int_3aec9e5e	type	Properly Paranoid
Batman (1989) / int_3aec9e5e	comment	Properly Paranoid: Subverted with Jack when Grissom enacts his Uriah Gambit. Jack is understandably confused about why the Axis Chemicals job is being delegated to him. The novelization plays it up more, with Jack observing that he has long since been promoted beyond B&E and petty theft work within Grissom's outfit. But Grissom is the Boss and Jack still works for him (and in his ego and arrogance, it also never occurs to Jack that Grissom could be setting him up until it's too late).
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Batman (1989) / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
Batman (1989) / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The Joker holds a parade in downtown Gotham City to celebrate the town's 200th anniversary, showering 20 million dollars on the streets to lure the crowds in... so that he can gas them all to death.
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Batman (1989) / int_3bcef6d9	type	Camera Sniper
Batman (1989) / int_3bcef6d9	comment	Camera Sniper: When Vicki spots Bruce visiting the spot where his parents died, the camera goes into this style.
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Batman (1989) / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Batman (1989) / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: During Bruce and Vicki's first date, Alfred entertains them with a tale about when he gave Bruce a horseback riding lesson and ended up injuring his ankle and getting covered in mud.
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Batman (1989) / int_3c111ce6	type	Pistol-Whipping
Batman (1989) / int_3c111ce6	comment	Pistol-Whipping: The father who's knocked out by a mugger's pistol while leading his family through the back alleys of Gotham City.
Batman (1989) / int_3c111ce6	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_3c111ce6	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Batman (1989) / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: Photographers rely on flash-bulb cameras, while Batman has a small, personal jet plane and a rocket car. However, this might explain why the Batwing couldn't hit an unmoving target with no obstacles in between from about 500 meters away in ideal conditions with automatic fire and a locked-on targeting mechanism.
Batman (1989) / int_3c5ae1a1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
Batman (1989) / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: The Joker, even more so than usual. Rest in peace, Bob...
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Batman (1989) / int_3cb68bd3	type	Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon
Batman (1989) / int_3cb68bd3	comment	"If this clown could touch Grissom, I'd have handed him his lungs by now."
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Batman (1989) / int_3cf10fcf	type	Click Hello
Batman (1989) / int_3cf10fcf	comment	Click Hello: During the shootout at Axis Chemical early in the film, Bob forces Batman to release Jack by drawing his gun on Commissioner Gordon.
Batman (1989) / int_3cf10fcf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_3d2c6d30	type	Skewed Priorities
Batman (1989) / int_3d2c6d30	comment	Skewed Priorities: Napier's plastic surgeon. He knowingly has a psychotic hitman in his chair, on whose face he did a botch job, and he's concerned about his patient smashing what few tools he has to work with. When Batman foils his poison parade scheme, the Joker seems more upset over losing his balloons themselves than as the source of his Smylex gas.
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Batman (1989) / int_3d543714	type	This Just In!
Batman (1989) / int_3d543714	comment	This Just In!: Said when the Joker's tainted products come to light (just before the female reporter signs off).
Batman (1989) / int_3d543714	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Batman (1989) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Batman vs. Joker in the climax. Joker is completely out of his league in a straight fight and is beaten to a bloody pulp; he lands one punch to Batman's gut and does nothing but hurt his own hand. The goon who tries intimidating Batman with his fancy swordplay and savage screaming. First, Batman indulges him by blocking all of his attacks and pushes him back, but when the undeterred swordsman tries it again, Batman decides enough is enough and knocks him out with a single kick.
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Batman (1989) / int_3d7e196f	type	Matching Bad Guy Vehicles
Batman (1989) / int_3d7e196f	comment	Matching Bad Guy Vehicles: The Joker's goons chase the Batmobile in cars painted with purple bodies and green rooves.
Batman (1989) / int_3d7e196f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_3ed8a8b9	type	I'm Melting!
Batman (1989) / int_3ed8a8b9	comment	The Joker's "I'm Melting!" from The Wizard of Oz after Vicki Vale throws water on him.
Batman (1989) / int_3ed8a8b9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Batman (1989) / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Vicki Vale. "Bats," she points out, upon seeing the animals in the Batcave. "His parents were murdered in that alley. That's why he went there," while checking Bruce Wayne's newspaper files motivated by having seen him going to the alley. Then when she sees Joker's Smylex gas flowing out of a balloon, she comments, "Smylex gas." In the first and third example, the referred items are in plain sight not only to her but to the audience as well.
Batman (1989) / int_3eee0728	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_405f6f52	type	Recycled Soundtrack
Batman (1989) / int_405f6f52	comment	Recycled Soundtrack: The music cue that plays when Bruce Wayne sets the roses down at the street his parents were shot down on had previously been used in Tim Burton/Danny Elfman's previous collaboration Beetlejuice when the Maitlands realize they're dead.
Batman (1989) / int_405f6f52	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_405f7e7b	type	Armed Legs
Batman (1989) / int_405f7e7b	comment	Armed Legs: Towards the climax, Batman faces one of the Joker's mooks who tries to drop kick him while blades extend from his boots. Batman instead just punches him in the nuts and moves on.
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Batman (1989) / int_40652d02	type	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You
Batman (1989) / int_40652d02	comment	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You:
Batman (1989) / int_40652d02	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_40652d02
Batman (1989) / int_4143f84f	type	Leg Focus
Batman (1989) / int_4143f84f	comment	Leg Focus: Vicki Vale's introduction includes a gratuitous Male Gaze shot of her legs as she rests them atop her desk.
Batman (1989) / int_4143f84f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
Batman (1989) / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Vicki Vale when Joker kidnaps her toward the end of the movie.
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Batman (1989) / int_429732d8	type	Bat Signal
Batman (1989) / int_429732d8	comment	Bat Signal: The film ends with the gift of the signal to the city in order to symbolize Batman's help and serve as a public notice
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Batman (1989) / int_443b78cd	type	Tranquil Fury
Batman (1989) / int_443b78cd	comment	Poor Bob as well, after Joker has just been decisively pissed off and now wants to blow off some steam. He's had his little outburst, but there's a Tranquil Fury brewing under his crackpot exterior, something his loyal lackey fails to notice.
Batman (1989) / int_443b78cd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_443f9d8a	type	Ask a Stupid Question...
Batman (1989) / int_443f9d8a	comment	Ask a Stupid Question...: When Batman tells Vicki, "Get in the car," she replies, "Which one?" Cue Batmobile. Lampshaded by the screenplay:
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Batman (1989) / int_44990492	type	Parody Commercial
Batman (1989) / int_44990492	comment	Parody Commercial: After the Deadline News incident listed above, the Joker hijacks the airwaves with this to reveal himself as responsible for the Smylex deaths and cheerily inform Gotham that more people are doomed because they're already unknowingly using the tainted products. He even spoofs the Brand X trope to prove his point.
Batman (1989) / int_44990492	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Batman (1989) / int_44bd31e2	comment	Trope Codifier: This was not the first Superhero movie, but it was the one that showed that superheroes could be treated with artful, dead seriousness and still make a ton of money. It also altered the archetype of the Summer Blockbuster, changing it from "huge, mass-marketing machines that are as much made to sell merchandise as they are to sell tickets" to "huge, mass-marketing machines that are as much made to sell merchandise as they are to sell tickets and are based on an existing property that the audience already has an attachment to."
Batman (1989) / int_44bd31e2	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_45d0c643	type	Intimidation Demonstration
Batman (1989) / int_45d0c643	comment	Intimidation Demonstration: The Joker's sword-wielding mook gives a display in sword swinging before attacking Batman.
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Batman (1989) / int_46ee4d3	type	Eye Take
Batman (1989) / int_46ee4d3	comment	Jack Napier during the raid at Axis Chemicals. When he finds out that all the information his team has been sent to gather has been removed, he does an Eye Take when he realizes he's been set up.
Batman (1989) / int_46ee4d3	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Batman (1989) / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: After Batman foils the Joker's balloon plan with his Batwing, the Joker kills Bob because Bob didn't tell him that Batman had it (as if he could have possibly known!), though it's possible he just shoots him out of anger.
Batman (1989) / int_474e3977	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_479d4e5a	type	Would Hurt a Child
Batman (1989) / int_479d4e5a	comment	Would Hurt a Child: Jack Napier attempts to murder Bruce Wayne shortly after murdering his parents. Although he ultimately doesn't go through with it due to his accomplice, the mere fact that he attempts to do so, and provides a nightmarish grin during, indicates that Jack Napier has absolutely no problem hurting or murdering children. A news report mentions baby powder is one of the products found to contain Smylex, though it's unlikely that actual babies would receive a second cosmetic required for the lethal combo.
Batman (1989) / int_479d4e5a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
Batman (1989) / int_479f9ad0	comment	Averted, which may come as quite a shock to younger tropers more used to the modern Batman films where this trope is enforced. In fact, this movie is an attempt to return to the earliest version of Batman's character, where he did kill.
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Batman (1989) / int_4807342c	type	Easily Swayed Population
Batman (1989) / int_4807342c	comment	Easily Swayed Population: After killing dozens of people with poisoned beauty products, all it takes for Joker to fix his image is to throw a lot of money out to Gothamites during a parade...and he still tries to kill them all again with Smylex gas in the balloons.
Batman (1989) / int_4807342c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_48c99e19	type	Death by Adaptation
Batman (1989) / int_48c99e19	comment	Death by Adaptation: Sorry, no Joker Immunity today. One of The Joker's men who chases Batman into the alleyway after the museum gas attack gets used as a Bulletproof Human Shield in the novelization.
Batman (1989) / int_48c99e19	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_48c99e19	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_48d9e12d	type	Funetik Aksent
Batman (1989) / int_48d9e12d	comment	John Dair (Vinnie Ricorso) was a British actor playing an Italian-American character. He lapses into his natural accent during his very last scene (when he is talking to the newspaper reporters on the steps of City Hall): "Mistuh Grissom asked me, as a pussonal favuh, to take care of all his businesses until he retuhns."
Batman (1989) / int_48d9e12d	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_48d9e12d	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Batman (1989) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Anton Furst won an Academy Award for his set design which, along with Blade Runner, re-invented the German Expressionist set. It went a step further when a visiting Bob Kane remarked that Furst had built Gotham City.
Batman (1989) / int_49d59be9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_49d59be9
Batman (1989) / int_4ae67a53	type	Laughing Gas
Batman (1989) / int_4ae67a53	comment	Laughing Gas: Subverted. Unlike the gases he uses in other incarnations, Joker's Smylex gas just kills people without making them laugh first. For the chemical to actually cause a victim to die laughing, it has to be applied onto the skin in a particular combination of beauty products.
Batman (1989) / int_4ae67a53	featureApplicability	-0.3
Batman (1989) / int_4ae67a53	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4ae67a53
Batman (1989) / int_4ae690ca	type	Laughing Mad
Batman (1989) / int_4ae690ca	comment	Laughing Mad: It's The Joker, for Chrissakes!
Batman (1989) / int_4ae690ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_4ae690ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4ae690ca
Batman (1989) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
Batman (1989) / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Alicia is physically and psychologically tortured by Joker, then winds up killing herself.
Batman (1989) / int_4b316d47	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_4b316d47	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4b316d47
Batman (1989) / int_4b52ff08	type	May Contain Evil
Batman (1989) / int_4b52ff08	comment	May Contain Evil: The movie has the Joker lace beauty products with the ingredients for his trademark Smilex poison. The twist is that the contaminated products aren't poisonous on their own; they have to be mixed when the consumer uses multiple products together, making it harder to find the cause of the poisoning.
Batman (1989) / int_4b52ff08	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_4b52ff08	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4b52ff08
Batman (1989) / int_4c519f69	type	Kiss Up the Arm
Batman (1989) / int_4c519f69	comment	Kiss Up the Arm: Gender-Inverted and parodied when Vicki Vale kisses up the Joker's arm.
Batman (1989) / int_4c519f69	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_4c519f69	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4c519f69
Batman (1989) / int_4c798fd5	type	Shock and Awe
Batman (1989) / int_4c798fd5	comment	Shock and Awe: Joker's lethal joy buzzer.
Batman (1989) / int_4c798fd5	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_4c798fd5	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4c798fd5
Batman (1989) / int_4c98584	type	Bloody Smile
Batman (1989) / int_4c98584	comment	Bloody Smile: Joker, naturally, sports a bloody smile in the bell tower after Batman smashes him in the mouth a few times. He also tries the old "bloody chattering teeth" gag.
Batman (1989) / int_4c98584	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_4c98584	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4c98584
Batman (1989) / int_4ce7d3b2	type	Electric Joybuzzer
Batman (1989) / int_4ce7d3b2	comment	Electric Joybuzzer: "Antoine got a little hot under the collar!"
Batman (1989) / int_4ce7d3b2	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_4ce7d3b2	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4ce7d3b2
Batman (1989) / int_4e6e4dc7	type	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much
Batman (1989) / int_4e6e4dc7	comment	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much: The Joker sadly informs Vicki that his girlfriend Alicia "threw herself out of a window," although given Alicia's fate prior to her death with her boyfriend killed, her lover rendered a disfigured lunatic, and said lover using her as a living canvas by mutilating her beautiful face, it's perfectly believable that she did exactly that.
Batman (1989) / int_4e6e4dc7	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_4e6e4dc7	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4e6e4dc7
Batman (1989) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Batman (1989) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "Where've you been spending your nights?" Eckhardt knows about Jack's affair with Alicia (and it's implied he informs Grissom off-screen before the Boss' first scene). In-universe, during the Joker's "Smylex" video: During the apartment confrontation, the Joker repeats his, "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" Catchphrase, which clues Bruce in to the fact that he's the one who killed his parents.
Batman (1989) / int_4e7c4536	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_4e7c4536	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_4e7c4536
Batman (1989) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Batman (1989) / int_50b05d30	comment	The earliest example is the muggers at the beginning. One isn't pleased that his buddy turns a gun on the kid. Guess which one gets put through a door.
Batman (1989) / int_50b05d30	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_50b05d30	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_50b05d30
Batman (1989) / int_50f17484	type	Fake-Out Opening
Batman (1989) / int_50f17484	comment	Fake-Out Opening: The movie begins with a couple of guys mugging a couple and their young son, and...the parents live? Then Batman shows up and beats up the muggers.note The fact that the father is called "Harold" and he acts like a wide-eyed tourist rather than a millionaire clues people that they're not the Waynes.
Batman (1989) / int_50f17484	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_50f17484	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_50f17484
Batman (1989) / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Batman (1989) / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The Joker, naturally. Notwithstanding having his bullet shatter some glass which flies back into his face, he's got a prop or gag prepared anytime he's put in harm's way. Chased up a tower? His goons are already there with an ambush plan ready. Batman punches him in the teeth? He has wind-up chatterteeth ready. Thrown off the ledge of a very tall building? He finds a foothold and pulls his victims over it. For added measure, the Joker also manages to put on a prop hand seconds later without being noticed. Falling to his death? He makes sure to activate a bag of laughs to make it seem like he's still alive (though they could have been activated by the impact). Batman's no slouch in this department, either. How often do those giant clippers for stealing parade balloons come in handy? Of course, it goes without saying that Batman belongs under this trope, considering he has his own page for it.
Batman (1989) / int_50f66629	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_50f66629	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_50f66629
Batman (1989) / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
Batman (1989) / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Lt. Eckhardt. Napier hands him the bribe money in a sandwich!
Batman (1989) / int_51300dbf	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_51300dbf	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_51300dbf
Batman (1989) / int_51640e80	type	Bond One-Liner
Batman (1989) / int_51640e80	comment	Bond One-Liner: The Joker gets a few, such as, "Antoine got a little hot under the collar," and, "The pen is truly mightier than the sword."
Batman (1989) / int_51640e80	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_51640e80	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_51640e80
Batman (1989) / int_519c2e3a	type	Trashcan Bonfire
Batman (1989) / int_519c2e3a	comment	Trashcan Bonfire: A barrel with a fire in it appears in two different scenes of people watching the Joker's TV broadcast outdoors. The first is a shot of members of a motorcycle gang, the other is of a construction site.
Batman (1989) / int_519c2e3a	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_519c2e3a	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_519c2e3a
Batman (1989) / int_5290f613	type	A FÃªte Worse than Death
Batman (1989) / int_5290f613	comment	A FÃªte Worse than Death: The 200th Anniversary celebration, where the Joker hosts the partyâ€”and then releases the Smylex gas.
Batman (1989) / int_5290f613	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_5290f613	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_5290f613
Batman (1989) / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Batman (1989) / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: When Batman takes on his first on-screen mooks, the first words that come out of his mouth are "I'm not gonna kill you." When he finds out the Joker killed his parents, after saying Joker's own line to his face, he flat-out tells him, "I'm gonna kill you." He eventually does, albeit unintentionally. The movie begins with Batman standing above the city looking down on the street at a family that is being mugged and ends with him standing above the city again, this time looking up at the Bat Signal, which the city will institute to call upon him for help moving forward.
Batman (1989) / int_53224e46	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_53224e46	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_53224e46
Batman (1989) / int_53d45fa8	type	Back-Alley Doctor
Batman (1989) / int_53d45fa8	comment	It's never revealed what happens to the Back-Alley Doctor who transforms Jack Napier into the Joker. However, the Joker attributes his, "If you gotta go, go with a smile!" declaration at the parade to the surgeon, implying that he may have been killed.
Batman (1989) / int_53d45fa8	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_53d45fa8	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_53d45fa8
Batman (1989) / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Batman (1989) / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Bob, the Joker's right-hand man, who seldom speaks but is actually quite good at his job. You could say that he's the perfect henchman, which makes the Joker's eventual shooting of him just plain wrong, even for supervillainy. Pre-Joker Jack himself is this to Carl Grissom.
Batman (1989) / int_53f5119f	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_53f5119f	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_53f5119f
Batman (1989) / int_544d3a44	type	Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction
Batman (1989) / int_544d3a44	comment	Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction: The key element of Joker's Brand X stunt is that the police are trying to figure out which particular product he's tainted. This is a wild goose chase because he's tainted hundreds of chemicals that other companies use for their products, all with chemicals that are harmless by themselves and therefore untraceable but cause one to Die Laughing when used together, similar to how mixing bleach with ammonia produces chlorine gas.
Batman (1989) / int_544d3a44	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_544d3a44	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_544d3a44
Batman (1989) / int_54575dc6	type	Flat Scare
Batman (1989) / int_54575dc6	comment	Flat Scare: The Joker pulls this on Vicki Vale. Understandably, Vicki screams.
Batman (1989) / int_54575dc6	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_54575dc6	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_54575dc6
Batman (1989) / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Batman (1989) / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Two examples, one right after the other, during the scene in Vicki's apartment. The first is when Bruce, challenging the Joker, picks up a poker and bellows "YOU WANNA GET NUTS?! COME ON! Let's get nuts!" Then, after a long stretch of acting like a deluded fool following his transformation, the Joker retaliates by unexpectedly switching back to the persona of Jack Napier for an in-universe Call-Back in a refreshingly chilling moment that contrasts how he (as the Joker) has been acting for much of the film. Then blam. When the Smylex gas is released in the streets of Gotham City, Alexander Knox immediately grabs a mask and baseball bat from the trunk of his car and goes after the Joker's goons, managing to scatter away one of the balloons.
Batman (1989) / int_562abd51	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_562abd51	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_562abd51
Batman (1989) / int_57541097	type	Near Misses
Batman (1989) / int_57541097	comment	Near Misses: Inverted. Batman (in the Batwing) strafes the Joker who just stands in the middle of the street with his arms out, taunting him. Batman opens fire with everything he's got, but he just shoots the ground on either side. Even the missiles miss. Joker then fires one shot from his long-barreled revolver and Down Goes the Batwing!
Batman (1989) / int_57541097	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_57541097	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_57541097
Batman (1989) / int_58030b25	type	Visual Innuendo
Batman (1989) / int_58030b25	comment	Visual Innuendo: Subverted. Vicki notes Batman could have given the information on how to prevent Smylex poisoning directly to the newspapers, and Bats agrees, adding, "You have something I want." Cue a dramatic cape embrace and bats flying, with Vicki finding herself in her bed afterward. She then feels her chest and groans, "He took the film."
Batman (1989) / int_58030b25	featureApplicability	-0.3
Batman (1989) / int_58030b25	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_58030b25
Batman (1989) / int_5989e397	type	Enemy Mime
Batman (1989) / int_5989e397	comment	Enemy Mime: The Joker's goons masquerade as mimes at the courthouse.
Batman (1989) / int_5989e397	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_5989e397	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_5989e397
Batman (1989) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Batman (1989) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Despite Joker being a known murderer and psychopath who publicly broadcasts the time and place of his whereabouts for the evening, the police force takes absolutely no measures to respond to this until after he has already killed dozens of Gothamites and proceeds with his escape plan. Sure, certain Gotham police are corrupt, but surely that can't mean the entire force is so incompetent? This is explained in the shooting script and the novelization, both of which make clear that Joker had laced the police department's coffee with a paralytic (but non-lethal) toxin that physically incapacitates most of Gotham's finest.
Batman (1989) / int_59907e4f	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_59907e4f	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_59907e4f
Batman (1989) / int_5a0e88d8	type	Bring It
Batman (1989) / int_5a0e88d8	comment	Bring It: Batman to Bob, the Joker's chief henchman, and the Joker to Batman while he's about to attack in the Batwing. And Michael Keaton's famous "YOU WANNA GET NUTS?! COME ON! Let's get nuts!"
Batman (1989) / int_5a0e88d8	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_5a0e88d8	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_5a0e88d8
Batman (1989) / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
Batman (1989) / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: At the beginning, we see Batman silently gliding down in the background to take on two unsuspecting robbers.
Batman (1989) / int_5b565147	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_5b565147	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_5b565147
Batman (1989) / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Batman (1989) / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: Happens to one of the Joker's goons during the battle in the top floor of Gotham Cathedral. Batman bangs his head against a giant bell and sends him hurtling to his death down the long stair shaft. The Joker. We even see exactly how far down he has to fall, as well as a close-up of his corpse embedded in the pavement. A more mature/disturbing example than most, as we see him struggle in vain to hold on to the ladder for almost a minute before he falls.
Batman (1989) / int_5bdcc85a	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_5bdcc85a	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_5bdcc85a
Batman (1989) / int_5d5cc3fd	type	Through the Eyes of Madness
Batman (1989) / int_5d5cc3fd	comment	Through the Eyes of Madness: Bruce's memory of his parents being murdered looks especially dramatized in an already stylistic film. The killer is silhouetted until Bruce's memories of his face become clear, and his voice has a deep echo that doesn't sound human. It goes a long way in explaining Bruce's disconnected personality.
Batman (1989) / int_5d5cc3fd	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_5d5cc3fd	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_5d5cc3fd
Batman (1989) / int_5dca2bb	type	Kill on Sight
Batman (1989) / int_5dca2bb	comment	Kill on Sight: When Lieutenant Eckhardt leads the Gotham police officers into Axis Chemicals, he shows them a picture of Jack Napier, who Carl Grissom wants dead for canoodling with his mistress Alicia, and tells them, "Shoot to kill. Know what I mean?" When Commissioner Gordon arrives on the scene, he immediately takes over command of the cops from Eckhardt, telling everyone that he wants Napier taken alive and that any man who opens fire on Napier will answer to him. Not that it makes much difference since a number of the cops still continue to fire at him anyway.
Batman (1989) / int_5dca2bb	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_5dca2bb	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_5dca2bb
Batman (1989) / int_5f3bb274	type	Late-Arrival Spoiler
Batman (1989) / int_5f3bb274	comment	Late-Arrival Spoiler: Bruce Wayne is Batman. This isn't revealed until over halfway into the film, but unless you've never been exposed to any Batman-related media at all, you know this one before it begins.
Batman (1989) / int_5f3bb274	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_5f3bb274	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_5f3bb274
Batman (1989) / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Batman (1989) / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: The cop who tells Gordon about Eckhardt trying to kill Napier at Axis Chemicals. Batman of all people. By showing up at Axis Chemicals and dropping Jack Napier into that vat of chemicals, he ruins the police's best chance of building a solid case against Grissom's gang.
Batman (1989) / int_60194b82	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_60194b82	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_60194b82
Batman (1989) / int_603f1a80	type	Pragmatic Adaptation
Batman (1989) / int_603f1a80	comment	Pragmatic Adaptation: Having The Joker (rather than Joe Chill) kill Batman's parents makes this the most personal grudge ever between the two. Also, Batman uses much more violent methods and doesn't hew to the comic version's Thou Shalt Not Kill stance, but come Batman Forever, he gives Dick Grayson a powerful yet understated speech about why using lethal force on villains is morally wrong, speaking from experience.
Batman (1989) / int_603f1a80	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_603f1a80	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_603f1a80
Batman (1989) / int_605cf3f	type	Something Only They Would Say
Batman (1989) / int_605cf3f	comment	Something Only They Would Say: This is how Bruce realizes the Joker is the thug who killed his parents. He repeats the phrase to Joker at the beginning of their final confrontation just before decking him. Also:
Batman (1989) / int_605cf3f	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_605cf3f	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_605cf3f
Batman (1989) / int_613ca729	type	Request for Privacy
Batman (1989) / int_613ca729	comment	Request for Privacy: Boss Grissom is having a council of war with Jack Napier and his advisers. When he makes a decision on what to do Grissom says "That's all, gentlemen" and shoos the advisers out. He then has a conversation with Jack where he asks him to take care of the problem (and sets him up to be taken out).
Batman (1989) / int_613ca729	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_613ca729	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_613ca729
Batman (1989) / int_6140b3f2	type	Form-Fitting Wardrobe
Batman (1989) / int_6140b3f2	comment	Form-Fitting Wardrobe: The Batsuit is made to look like it.
Batman (1989) / int_6140b3f2	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_6140b3f2	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_6140b3f2
Batman (1989) / int_62e7f243	type	Instant Armor
Batman (1989) / int_62e7f243	comment	Instant Armor: A push of a button (or a voice command) on the Batmobile covers it in armor.
Batman (1989) / int_62e7f243	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_62e7f243	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_62e7f243
Batman (1989) / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
Batman (1989) / int_62f9d08e	comment	Freeze-Frame Bonus: Of sorts. When Bruce turns away from The Joker at the fireplace, watch carefully— he's putting the metal tray in his jacket.
Batman (1989) / int_62f9d08e	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_62f9d08e	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_62f9d08e
Batman (1989) / int_63b12059	type	Villainous Friendship
Batman (1989) / int_63b12059	comment	Villainous Friendship: The Joker and his right-hand man Bob seemed to have a pretty good relationship. Bob was the second in command of The Joker's group of thugs back when he was Jack Napier. After Jack's transformation into The Joker, Bob stayed by his side as his loyal right hand man. Bob was very loyal to his boss and did everything he was asked with a "Yes sir!" The Joker seemed to value his loyalty pretty well, telling him "you are my number one guy", though you might notice he's quoting what Grissom said to him before trying to have him killed. Unsurprisingly, The Joker later shoots and kills Bob with no hesitation just to vent his anger after Batman foiled one of his plans, and never so much as thinks twice about it..
Batman (1989) / int_63b12059	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_63b12059	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_63b12059
Batman (1989) / int_6411dac8	type	BadassNormal
Batman (1989) / int_6411dac8	comment	Badass Normal: Knox, of all people, manages to get rid of one Smylex balloon all by himself.
Batman (1989) / int_6411dac8	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_6411dac8	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_6411dac8
Batman (1989) / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
Batman (1989) / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: Played with.
Batman (1989) / int_648fe274	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_648fe274	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_648fe274
Batman (1989) / int_65163c3a	type	Evil Tower of Ominousness
Batman (1989) / int_65163c3a	comment	Evil Tower of Ominousness: The Anton Furst-designed Gotham City is a city full of these. Carl Grissom's penthouse suite definitely qualifies, though, to say nothing of the 1,000-foot-tall cathedral.
Batman (1989) / int_65163c3a	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_65163c3a	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_65163c3a
Batman (1989) / int_658f7193	type	Lack of Empathy
Batman (1989) / int_658f7193	comment	Lack of Empathy: When Batman reveals to The Joker that he murdered his parents, thus meaning that The Joker made him first, The Joker mocks Batman for turning his own "you made me" back on him, culminating in "How childish can you get!?"
Batman (1989) / int_658f7193	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_658f7193	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_658f7193
Batman (1989) / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Batman (1989) / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Melancholic Batman, sanguine Joker, phlegmatic Vale, and choleric Knox.
Batman (1989) / int_65bc92fc	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_65bc92fc	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_65bc92fc
Batman (1989) / int_67101c52	type	Rooftop Confrontation
Batman (1989) / int_67101c52	comment	Rooftop Confrontation: Near the beginning of the movie, the title character confronts and fights two robbers on the roof of a building where they're counting their ill-gotten gains.
Batman (1989) / int_67101c52	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_67101c52	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_67101c52
Batman (1989) / int_67a70f33	type	Creepy Circus Music
Batman (1989) / int_67a70f33	comment	Creepy Circus Music: "Waltz to the Death", by Danny Elfman, is The Joker's Leitmotif. The theme actually sounds more like something from the 19th century (think Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite), but it's played on rather loud horns that remind one of a circus band; and while it's not very creepy in itself, the two scenes during which it's played certainly are (the Joker gleefully shooting a man several times and the Joker forcing the film's Damsel in Distress to dance with him - at gunpoint - atop Gotham City's cathedral).
Batman (1989) / int_67a70f33	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_67a70f33	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_67a70f33
Batman (1989) / int_67f56a51	type	Thrown from the Zeppelin
Batman (1989) / int_67f56a51	comment	Thrown from the Zeppelin: The Joker brings in the "mob bosses" (or at least mob lieutenants) of Gotham and introduces himself as the new big boss, then explains his grand plan. Rotelli opts out, and as they shake hands he gets the "joy buzzer" from the Joker, which rather gruesomely kills him, as a lesson to everyone else. The Joker then goes on to order the deaths of the other bosses.
Batman (1989) / int_67f56a51	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_67f56a51	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_67f56a51
Batman (1989) / int_67fedd35	type	Bizarrchitecture
Batman (1989) / int_67fedd35	comment	Bizarrchitecture: Anton Furst's Gotham practically exemplifies this.
Batman (1989) / int_67fedd35	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_67fedd35	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_67fedd35
Batman (1989) / int_682c066c	type	Horrifying Hero
Batman (1989) / int_682c066c	comment	Horrifying Hero: This film is the first, and one of only two (the other being Batman Begins) to truly invoke this trope: A flawless combination of Bob Ringwood's theatrical costume design, Michael Keaton's performance and the visceral musical score of Danny Elfman, Batman becomes a mythical, demonic figure that strikes such raw terror into the heart of evil that the average petty thug can only incoherently scream to the police: "I'm telling ya, man: A Giant Bat!"
Batman (1989) / int_682c066c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_682c066c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_682c066c
Batman (1989) / int_68832e62	type	Human-Focused Adaptation
Batman (1989) / int_68832e62	comment	Human-Focused Adaptation: Despite the fact that the character of Batman is a human being himself, he is portrayed in the film as a mysterious figure of the night who spends most of his time in the shadows, which makes him come off as a very distant character from the audience. While this often comes to terms with the fact that he's heavily overshadowed by the Joker in terms of screentime, it also comes to the point that both Alexander Knox and most certainly Vicki Vale seem like the main P.O.V. characters in the film, as they are two regular human beings immersed in this world of Gotham, and most of what we learn about Bruce Wayne and his masked alter ego comes from their perspective.
Batman (1989) / int_68832e62	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_68832e62	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_68832e62
Batman (1989) / int_6941e30b	type	Room Full of Crazy
Batman (1989) / int_6941e30b	comment	Room Full of Crazy: Briefly. When The Joker is snipping photos out of magazines, the final shot shows that the room, floor to ceiling, is covered in photo clip outs.
Batman (1989) / int_6941e30b	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_6941e30b	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_6941e30b
Batman (1989) / int_69ebf1d7	type
Batman (1989) / int_69ebf1d7	comment	"Bang!" Flag Gun: Naturally, the Joker has one. He uses it while dancing with Vicki Vale atop the bell tower, fake-moaning about how he "can't go on" and pretending to blow his head off with it, which elicits one of Vicki's numerous screams.
Batman (1989) / int_69ebf1d7	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_69ebf1d7	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Batman (1989) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	During The Reveal of The Joker during the That Man Is Dead scene, which he starts by shooting Grissom, a circus calliope breaks out.
Batman (1989) / int_6b2b3b59	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_6b2b3b59	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_6b2b3b59
Batman (1989) / int_6c71ab1d	type	I Want Them Alive!
Batman (1989) / int_6c71ab1d	comment	I Want Them Alive!: As Commissioner Gordon arrives at Axis Chemicals to respond to Jack Napier's break-in, he orders the cops that he wants Napier taken alive and that anyone who opens fire on Jack will answer to him, overriding Eckhardt's orders to Kill on Sight.
Batman (1989) / int_6c71ab1d	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_6c71ab1d	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_6c71ab1d
Batman (1989) / int_6d7026fa	type	Punny Name
Batman (1989) / int_6d7026fa	comment	Punny Name: Jack Napier is a pun on jackanapes, an old term for a rascally person, or in some cases a jester.
Batman (1989) / int_6d7026fa	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_6d7026fa	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_6d7026fa
Batman (1989) / int_7012424f	type	Stealth Hi/Bye
Batman (1989) / int_7012424f	comment	Stealth Hi/Bye: When Batman faces off against Jack Napier in the Axis Chemicals factory, Jack Napier bends down to pick up his gun. When he straightens up and looks again, Batman has disappeared. A few seconds later, he reappears out of nowhere. After Bruce Wayne has been shot by the Joker and apparently killed in Vicki Vale's apartment, he somehow manages to get out of the room without her seeing him.
Batman (1989) / int_7012424f	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7012424f	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7012424f
Batman (1989) / int_723943a9	type	Deducing the Secret Identity
Batman (1989) / int_723943a9	comment	Deducing the Secret Identity: Love interest Vicki Vale eventually figures out Bruce Wayne is Batman. First by following Bruce to the alleyway where his parents were shot to place the roses, after he lied that he'll be going on a business trip. Then while Batman is taking her to the Batcave, she notices Batman has the same grim expression as Bruce at the city hall press conference, after coming from the alley. Later, Bruce pulling a Stealth Hi/Bye after Vicki saw the Joker leave her apartment. Lastly, Alexander Knox shows her the newspaper of the Waynes' murder and she sees young Bruce staring towards the camera with the same grim expression. Before the climax, Alfred takes her to Bruce at the Batcave, likely having told Alfred she knows, and he has no reason to deny it.
Batman (1989) / int_723943a9	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_723943a9	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_723943a9
Batman (1989) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Batman (1989) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Ever danced with the Devil in the pale moonlight?"
Batman (1989) / int_7464705c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7464705c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7464705c
Batman (1989) / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Batman (1989) / int_762b9223	comment	Played for Laughs with the Joker and his goons imitating the poses of the ballerina paintings and sculptures they pass by as they vandalize the museum.
Batman (1989) / int_762b9223	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_762b9223	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_762b9223
Batman (1989) / int_765a1683	type	Enemy Rising Behind
Batman (1989) / int_765a1683	comment	Enemy Rising Behind: The Joker's goons shoot Batman while he's on the ground, then turn away. He rises up from the ground behind them, then proceeds to beat them up.
Batman (1989) / int_765a1683	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_765a1683	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_765a1683
Batman (1989) / int_767dbf00	type	Superhero Movie Villains Die
Batman (1989) / int_767dbf00	comment	Superhero Movie Villains Die: The Joker doesn't have the same death-defying abilities of his comic counterpart.
Batman (1989) / int_767dbf00	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_767dbf00	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_767dbf00
Batman (1989) / int_76c0e85d	type	High-Voltage Death
Batman (1989) / int_76c0e85d	comment	High-Voltage Death: Seen via the Joker's amped-up Electric Joybuzzer which basically cooks the guy he's holding.
Batman (1989) / int_76c0e85d	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_76c0e85d	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_76c0e85d
Batman (1989) / int_76cbbc0b	type	George Lucas Altered Version
Batman (1989) / int_76cbbc0b	comment	George Lucas Altered Version: The 30th anniversary 4K remaster changes the ring of the film to be a cool blue and updates many of the sound effects to be more realistic.
Batman (1989) / int_76cbbc0b	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_76cbbc0b	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_76cbbc0b
Batman (1989) / int_7870735b	type	From Bad to Worse
Batman (1989) / int_7870735b	comment	From Bad to Worse: Jack Napier is at first merely a cowardly criminal who only kills for money. After his toxic transformation in a cesspool of chemicals, he becomes an insane serial killer who is hellbent on mass murder for his own entertainment. Also, his attempt to get his face fixed. It's already bleached white by the chemicals, which also turn his lips red and his hair green. The facial surgery doesn't fix any of those problems but instead gives him a new one by giving him a permanent, freakish grin.
Batman (1989) / int_7870735b	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7870735b	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7870735b
Batman (1989) / int_79ba6777	type	Pocket Protector
Batman (1989) / int_79ba6777	comment	Pocket Protector: The metal tray Bruce Wayne puts under his coat before confronting the Joker at Vicki Vale's apartment, which ends up saving him when the Joker shoots him. Only hinted at in the theatrical release, but the reason Grissom calls Jack's deck of cards his "lucky deck" is that they once stopped a bullet from killing him. Sharp eyes will notice that the Joker card Jack looks at has a bullet hole in it.
Batman (1989) / int_79ba6777	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_79ba6777	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_79ba6777
Batman (1989) / int_7a163538	type	Brooklyn Rage
Batman (1989) / int_7a163538	comment	Brooklyn Rage: The Joker's goons flash some of this on occasion.
Batman (1989) / int_7a163538	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7a163538	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7a163538
Batman (1989) / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
Batman (1989) / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Even before he becomes the Joker, Jack is shown having a liking for stylish purple suits. After he becomes the Joker, his men all start wearing purple leather jackets, and they look pretty good in them too. Played for Laughs with the Joker and his goons imitating the poses of the ballerina paintings and sculptures they pass by as they vandalize the museum.
Batman (1989) / int_7a3dd888	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7a3dd888	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_7b2118c5	type	Bait-and-Switch Comparison
Batman (1989) / int_7b2118c5	comment	Bait-and-Switch Comparison: The Joker, after kidnapping Vicki Vale: "As though we were made for each other... Beauty and the Beast. Of course, if anyone else calls you beast, I'll rip their lungs out."
Batman (1989) / int_7b2118c5	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7b2118c5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_7b7d3b91	type	Twinkle Smile
Batman (1989) / int_7b7d3b91	comment	Twinkle Smile: In the Joker's first broadcast warning about his Smylex products, there are cut-outs of the two models he's murdered. Each cut-out has a twinkle appear on its smile.
Batman (1989) / int_7b7d3b91	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7b7d3b91	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7b7d3b91
Batman (1989) / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
Batman (1989) / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: Just barely averted in the museum scene, when the Joker and his men are playing Prince's "Partyman" on their boombox. As anyone who saw the music video for that song could tell you, there's a break in the lyrics in which a Kim Basinger lookalike lip-syncs the Vicki Vale line "Oh, I love purple!" The tape player is switched to Percy Faith's "A Summer Place" as the Joker sits down across from Vicki. If the player had been left on the Prince song just a few seconds longer, Vicki would have heard herself delivering a line from the movie that (in-universe) she has yet to speak!
Batman (1989) / int_7b8b3def	featureApplicability	-1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7b8b3def	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7b8b3def
Batman (1989) / int_7d152a2d	type	Agent Mulder
Batman (1989) / int_7d152a2d	comment	Agent Mulder: Alexander Knox, at least to his disrespectful colleagues, who joke that he must believe in Bigfoot as well. Vicki Vale, meanwhile, also believes in Batman — or at least says she does — but still could qualify as an Agent Scully due to the "nerd / babe" dynamic Knox has with her.
Batman (1989) / int_7d152a2d	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7d152a2d	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7d152a2d
Batman (1989) / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Batman (1989) / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: During a meeting of the crime lords of Gotham, called by the Joker, Antoine Rotelli decides to mouth the latter and openly refused to take orders from him. The Joker responded to this by electrocuting Rotelli with his joy buzzer. After the kills Rotelli, Vinnie Ricorso decides to challenge the Joker's position of power by filing a false affidavit to take over all of Grissom's businesses. This resulted in the Joker murdering him by stabbing him the throat with a pen.
Batman (1989) / int_7eb73553	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7eb73553	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7eb73553
Batman (1989) / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Batman (1989) / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Batman accidentally drops Jack Napier into a vat of chemical acid which turns him into the Joker and makes him partially responsible for the subsequent murders.
Batman (1989) / int_7fbb2a3	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7fbb2a3	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7fbb2a3
Batman (1989) / int_7fd4c90c	type	Spontaneous Crowd Formation
Batman (1989) / int_7fd4c90c	comment	Spontaneous Crowd Formation: The Joker announces he will be giving away free money at a parade. Despite knowing he's a murderer, the crowd shows up on schedule and he kills a good lot of them.
Batman (1989) / int_7fd4c90c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7fd4c90c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7fd4c90c
Batman (1989) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Batman (1989) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: We know Jack's a bad guy, but the exchange between Jack and Alicia ("You look fine." "I didn't ask.") in the original trailer let everyone know that this Joker was not only Wicked Cultured, but a badass as well.
Batman (1989) / int_7febc23b	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7febc23b	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7febc23b
Batman (1989) / int_7fff034b	type	Kent Brockman News
Batman (1989) / int_7fff034b	comment	Kent Brockman News: When the first Smylex deaths are reported on, the news uses photos of the victims' corpses in the upper-right corner, rather than a picture of them from when they were alive (especially notable given that the victims were models).
Batman (1989) / int_7fff034b	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_7fff034b	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_7fff034b
Batman (1989) / int_816560ca	type	Crash in Through the Ceiling
Batman (1989) / int_816560ca	comment	Crash in Through the Ceiling: Batman famously rescues Vicki Vale from the Joker by dramatically entering through the skylight.
Batman (1989) / int_816560ca	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_816560ca	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_816560ca
Batman (1989) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Batman (1989) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The Joker, and also Carl Grissom.
Batman (1989) / int_823c6e3e	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_823c6e3e	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_823c6e3e
Batman (1989) / int_8504b817	type	Where the Hell Is Springfield?
Batman (1989) / int_8504b817	comment	Where the Hell Is Springfield?: While the location of Burton's (and Schumacher's) Gotham City is never provided, it is obviously in the United States (note the American flag in Harvey Dent's office) and is almost certainly a fantasy version of New York, given all the No Communities Were Harmed references: Flugelheim Museum (Guggenheim Museum), Gotham Plaza (Rockefeller Plaza), Lady Gotham (Statue of Liberty), and (in the screenplay only) Broad Avenue (Broadway). The producers said that Gotham was New York City with no building limitation statutes.
Batman (1989) / int_8504b817	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_8504b817	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_8504b817
Batman (1989) / int_85ac41e1	type	Grappling-Hook Pistol
Batman (1989) / int_85ac41e1	comment	Grappling-Hook Pistol: This movie was the first to give him an actual grapple gun, as opposed to the batarang with a rope tied to it he relied on before. In the film, Batman asks Vicki Vale her weight to find out if his device will be able to hoist both of them off the ground. She lies about her weight, and the device malfunctions halfway up. In another instance, he uses one that fires hooks in two opposite directions. Instead of lifting him off the ground, this allows for rapid horizontal movement by acting as a zip line. It has continued all the way into the re-imagined franchise.
Batman (1989) / int_85ac41e1	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_85ac41e1	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_85ac41e1
Batman (1989) / int_85b3a814	type	Stuka Scream
Batman (1989) / int_85b3a814	comment	Stuka Scream: Just after the Batwing does an Immelmann maneuver, apparently just to make a Bat Symbol out of a Full Moon Silhouette, it screams into a dive back toward Gotham City using this sound effect.
Batman (1989) / int_85b3a814	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_85b3a814	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_85b3a814
Batman (1989) / int_85c5db50	type	In Love with Your Carnage
Batman (1989) / int_85c5db50	comment	In Love with Your Carnage: The Joker, as usual. Batman's method of dispatching his mooks earns him a verbatim Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?, and Vicki's portfolio with her grisly photos from the Corto Maltese earns his praise.
Batman (1989) / int_85c5db50	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_85c5db50	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_85c5db50
Batman (1989) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Batman (1989) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: It's never revealed what happens to the Back-Alley Doctor who transforms Jack Napier into the Joker. However, the Joker attributes his, "If you gotta go, go with a smile!" declaration at the parade to the surgeon, implying that he may have been killed. Seven thugs accompany Jack when he raids Axis Chemicals. One is shot by the dirty cops, Batman catches two more, and Bob escapes, but the fates of the other three are never shown.
Batman (1989) / int_863fa679	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_863fa679	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_863fa679
Batman (1989) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Batman (1989) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: Napier, not even flinching as Eckhardt draws a gun on him: "Better be sure." "He's out there right now, and I've got to go to work." (Cue the attack on Axis Chemicals.)
Batman (1989) / int_86b21114	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_86b21114	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_86b21114
Batman (1989) / int_871cff0c	type	Create Your Own Hero
Batman (1989) / int_871cff0c	comment	Create Your Own Hero: Jack Napier's murder of Bruce Wayne's parents was the event that caused him to become Batman. Ironically, Batman himself would later cause the accident which results in Napier becoming The Joker.
Batman (1989) / int_871cff0c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_871cff0c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_871cff0c
Batman (1989) / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Batman (1989) / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The Batsuit makes Batman immune to bullets themselves, but not to the concussive force involved with them, something that is also true with Bulletproof vests in real life which isn't usually shown in media, even in the otherwise realistic The Batman (2022).
Batman (1989) / int_875615dd	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_875615dd	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_875615dd
Batman (1989) / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
Batman (1989) / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: The opening scene has a couple and their young son getting mugged...but no, this isn't Batman's origin story, as revealed when we see Batman himself looming high above watching the whole thing go down and waiting to make his move.
Batman (1989) / int_8797239c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_8797239c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_8797239c
Batman (1989) / int_87ede6fc	type	That Man Is Dead
Batman (1989) / int_87ede6fc	comment	That Man Is Dead: Used in the reveal of the Joker's face. "Jack is dead, my friend. You can call me...Joker. And as you can see, I'm a lot happier." The original line was a lot more blunt and angrier, with the Joker stepping out of the shadows and shouting, "DO I LOOK LIKE FUCKING JACK?!"
Batman (1989) / int_87ede6fc	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_87ede6fc	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_87ede6fc
Batman (1989) / int_88e7f8b8	type	Batman Cold Open
Batman (1989) / int_88e7f8b8	comment	Batman Cold Open: There's one after the opening credits. It introduces the audience to Batman in action, as he attacks two small-time muggers on the rooftops.
Batman (1989) / int_88e7f8b8	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_88e7f8b8	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_88e7f8b8
Batman (1989) / int_892552b	type	Kung Fu-Proof Mook
Batman (1989) / int_892552b	comment	Kung Fu-Proof Mook: One of the Joker's mooks actually gives as good as he gets from Batman. Then Batman kills him.
Batman (1989) / int_892552b	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_892552b	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_892552b
Batman (1989) / int_898d0f32	type	Teeth Flying
Batman (1989) / int_898d0f32	comment	Teeth Flying: The Joker does the "dentures" version as a gag with wind-up chattering teeth when Batman hits him in the mouth.
Batman (1989) / int_898d0f32	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_898d0f32	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_898d0f32
Batman (1989) / int_8b68d9a7	type	Stalker with a Crush
Batman (1989) / int_8b68d9a7	comment	Stalker with a Crush: The Joker becomes this due to twisted infatuation when he sees a picture of Vicki Vale. Vicki Vale as well towards Bruce Wayne when he avoids her after what was really just a one night stand. She follows him, takes photos of him without his knowledge, and looks up his police records just to figure him out.
Batman (1989) / int_8b68d9a7	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_8b68d9a7	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_8b68d9a7
Batman (1989) / int_8e7ada2c	type	Technically a Smile
Batman (1989) / int_8e7ada2c	comment	Technically a Smile: Batman smiles a couple of times. It's easily the scariest expression he's got.
Batman (1989) / int_8e7ada2c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_8e7ada2c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_8e7ada2c
Batman (1989) / int_8ea29181	type	Raised Hand of Survival
Batman (1989) / int_8ea29181	comment	Raised Hand of Survival: After Jack falls into the vat of chemicals, his hand (with whitened skin and in a half-dissolved glove) breaks the surface of the wastewater stream outside the Axis plant, showing he's still alive.
Batman (1989) / int_8ea29181	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_8ea29181	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_8ea29181
Batman (1989) / int_8eac3f0e	type	People Fall Off Chairs
Batman (1989) / int_8eac3f0e	comment	People Fall Off Chairs: A news anchor does this as she dies laughing from the effects of The Joker's "Smilex" chemical found in her makeup.
Batman (1989) / int_8eac3f0e	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_8eac3f0e	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_8eac3f0e
Batman (1989) / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
Batman (1989) / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Lieutenant Eckhardt, Carl Grissom, Antoine Rotelli, and Vinnie Ricorso, all of whom are murdered by the Joker. However, the victims are so corrupt and selfish that the Joker's murders of them seem justified. Joker himself also qualifies.
Batman (1989) / int_8ed5c6e4	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_8ed5c6e4	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_8ed5c6e4
Batman (1989) / int_8fc70212	type	Voice Clip Song
Batman (1989) / int_8fc70212	comment	Voice Clip Song: "Batdance" makes a song using much of the film's dialogue.
Batman (1989) / int_8fc70212	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_8fc70212	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_8fc70212
Batman (1989) / int_9013aef6	type	Mask of Sanity
Batman (1989) / int_9013aef6	comment	Mask of Sanity: Even before the chemical dip that turned him into the Joker, it's heavily implied that Jack Napier was always Ax-Crazy, hiding it under a professional mobster persona that occasionally slipped up when someone called him crazy; Bruce reviews Napier's criminal records and discovers he was a psycho with a "head full of bad wiring" before he even made it to junior high. If anything, the chemical bath didn't really break his mind as much as it just set Joker's impulses free.
Batman (1989) / int_9013aef6	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9013aef6	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9013aef6
Batman (1989) / int_90839b9d	type	Ripping Off the String of Pearls
Batman (1989) / int_90839b9d	comment	Ripping Off the String of Pearls: Jack Napier's partner tears the pearl necklace from Martha Wayne's throat right before Jack shoots her and Thomas. Interestingly, the pearls come off in one unbroken string when tugged, but individual pearls fall to the ground in dramatic fashion after Thomas and Martha have been shot.
Batman (1989) / int_90839b9d	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_90839b9d	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_90839b9d
Batman (1989) / int_90a088fd	type	Flash Mob Cover-Up
Batman (1989) / int_90a088fd	comment	Flash Mob Cover-Up: Joker appears among some mimes in order to perform a murder with a deadly quill pen, and he arranges a parade with balloons full of poisonous Smylex gas.
Batman (1989) / int_90a088fd	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_90a088fd
Batman (1989) / int_90d2c6d6	type	Blood-Stained Glass Windows
Batman (1989) / int_90d2c6d6	comment	Bloodstained Glass Windows: Batman's final confrontation against The Joker takes place on top of Gotham Cathedral.
Batman (1989) / int_90d2c6d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_90d2c6d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_90d2c6d6
Batman (1989) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Batman (1989) / int_90e31482	comment	The Axis chemical plant is falling to pieces. It's little wonder that Jack Napier falls into a vat of chemicals. Justified, as Jack turns on a bunch of the machines and makes them run at unsafe levels to create a diversion for the cops. The vat full of chemicals? You can see it being filled in the background of several shots as a result of these actions. Laser-Guided Karma indeed.
Batman (1989) / int_90e31482	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_90e31482	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_90e31482
Batman (1989) / int_91b8be8a	type	Death by Disfigurement
Batman (1989) / int_91b8be8a	comment	Death by Disfigurement: The Joker burns his girlfriend Alicia's face with acid to make her a "work of art." She later commits suicide by throwing herself out a window...or so he says. Knowing the Joker, anything's possible.
Batman (1989) / int_91b8be8a	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_91b8be8a	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_91b8be8a
Batman (1989) / int_932da128	type	Monster Clown
Batman (1989) / int_932da128	comment	Monster Clown: The Joker. He's already a little off his rocker, but when his skin is bleached white he goes full-on crazy.
Batman (1989) / int_932da128	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_932da128
Batman (1989) / int_947ac4b0	type	White Mask of Doom
Batman (1989) / int_947ac4b0	comment	White Mask of Doom: Alicia wears one after the Joker transforms her into a living "artistic masterpiece" (he scars half of her face).
Batman (1989) / int_947ac4b0	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_947ac4b0	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_947ac4b0
Batman (1989) / int_94860a65	type	Un-Confession
Batman (1989) / int_94860a65	comment	Un-Confession: Bruce Wayne tries to tell Vicki Vale that he's Batman, but he's interrupted by the arrival of the Joker. He even mouths it twice, "I'm Batman. I'm Batman."
Batman (1989) / int_94860a65	featureApplicability	1.0
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_94860a65
Batman (1989) / int_94c1e2f7	type	Grave-Marking Scene
Batman (1989) / int_94c1e2f7	comment	Grave-Marking Scene: Bruce Wayne regularly deposits a pair of roses at the site of his parents' murder.
Batman (1989) / int_94c1e2f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_94c1e2f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_94c1e2f7
Batman (1989) / int_94c57c5c	type	Abduction Is Love
Batman (1989) / int_94c57c5c	comment	Abduction Is Love: Joker is obsessed with Vicki Vale and nabs her near the end of the movie, taking her up to the top of the cathedral with the intent of escaping with her.
Batman (1989) / int_94c57c5c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_94c57c5c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_94c57c5c
Batman (1989) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Batman (1989) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: When Jack Napier first looks into the plastic surgeon's mirror and sees his "clown face," for a brief moment we hear—very softly—the sound of his sobbing. A moment later he goes into hysterical denial, starts laughing...and doesn't ever stop. He also has another one near the end when Batman steals his gas balloons that have been unleashed on Gotham.
Batman (1989) / int_957e5fc2	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_957e5fc2	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_957e5fc2
Batman (1989) / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
Batman (1989) / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: The Joker (a given with this character in any incarnation). This version of the character takes the Faux Affably Evil trope so far that he seems to look like a funny Monster Clown. Being portrayed by Jack Nicholson certainly helps. The film actually reminds us with a flashback toward the end exactly why Jack Napier is a very bad man.
Batman (1989) / int_95b7c400	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_95b7c400	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_95b7c400
Batman (1989) / int_964ea66c	type	A-Team Firing
Batman (1989) / int_964ea66c	comment	A-Team Firing: When Batman in the Batwing fires More Dakka at the Joker. It strafes the ground up to him and riddles the parade float behind him even though his locking mechanism gets Joker, a stationary target, dead in its sights. The bullets manage to hit spots on the float that would be physically impossible to reach without going through the Joker's body first. The tie-in book to the film shows that the Joker was initially supposed to literally dance around the bullets and rockets.
Batman (1989) / int_964ea66c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_964ea66c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Batman (1989) / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: Did Batman try to save Jack, only to have his glove come off, or did he shake Jack's hand loose? Burton's deliberate framing of the shot makes it extremely ambiguous.
Batman (1989) / int_96a33f11	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_96a33f11	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_96a33f11
Batman (1989) / int_9723e2cd	type	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?
Batman (1989) / int_9723e2cd	comment	Where Does He Get All Those Wonderful Toys?: True of every incarnation of Batman, but Jack Nicholson's Joker is the trope namer. Sadly, we never get to see the second part of this. The Joker turns to his goons and says, "Well, don't just stand there — go ask him!!"
Batman (1989) / int_9723e2cd	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9723e2cd	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9723e2cd
Batman (1989) / int_978937d6	type	Brand X
Batman (1989) / int_978937d6	comment	Brand X: In the Joker's Smylex commercial, at the "blind taste test," a man who is tied to a chair and gagged (Disclaimer: "Not An Actor") is said to have been using Brand X. ("Oh No!")
Batman (1989) / int_978937d6	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_978937d6	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_978937d6
Batman (1989) / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
Batman (1989) / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Based on his parting comment in the alley scene ("Where've you been spending your nights?"), it's strongly implied it was Eckhardt who informed Grissom about the affair between Jack and Alicia (and also as retaliation for the alley confrontation). This simple act of petty spite sets off a chain of events that not only ends up unleashing the Joker upon Gotham, but also gets both men (and Alicia) killed (by Jack both pre and post-chemical dip) and ultimately breaks the Mob's strangehold on Gotham.
Batman (1989) / int_99ddfcec	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_99ddfcec	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
Batman (1989) / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: "Sometimes I just kill myself!" is indeed a very poor choice of words for the Joker to utter prior to getting an escape via helicopter ladder and plummeting back to Earth whilst being weighed down by a heavy, granite, gargoyle statue (courtesy of Batman firing a grappling hook tying the Joker's leg to the statue).
Batman (1989) / int_9bca83eb	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9bca83eb	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9bca83eb
Batman (1989) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Batman (1989) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: While working for decayed, old-fogey, crime boss Carl Grissom, Jack Napier's colleagues are forced to dress in the kind of extremely frumpy "old-man" clothes that even your grandfather wouldn't be caught dead wearing and look like they're playing old-school gangsters for Halloween. Once Napier becomes the Joker and assumes control, they undergo a startling sartorial metamorphosis: everything form-fitting and in a sexy, dark shade, including dark purple, leather jackets; tight, black pants; stylish, black hats; and the Cool Shades. Oh, and some of them have apparently learned kung-fu.
Batman (1989) / int_9bcd82c0	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9bcd82c0	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9bcd82c0
Batman (1989) / int_9cc1a329	type	Upper-Class Twit
Batman (1989) / int_9cc1a329	comment	Bruce Wayne himself indulges in this trope somewhat to strengthen his Upper-Class Twit persona:
Batman (1989) / int_9cc1a329	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9cc1a329	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9cc1a329
Batman (1989) / int_9cde2df1	type	Hand Cannon
Batman (1989) / int_9cde2df1	comment	Hand Cannon: Joker shoots down the Batwing using a revolver with a three foot long barrel (the comic adaptation has Batman identify what it fires as some kind of explosive shell).
Batman (1989) / int_9cde2df1	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9cde2df1	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9cde2df1
Batman (1989) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Batman (1989) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The muggers that attack a family at the start of the film get roughed up by Batman. Learning that the Joker killed Bruce's parents years before should tell you how their final confrontation is going to go. "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" The Joker and Vicki Vale do so on top of the church. The Joker and Batman have their own "dance" later, though which one is the "devil" is up to debate. Additionally, the first time we hear that question asked is at Vicki Vale's apartment when the Joker attempts to kill Bruce Wayne. Given the strange look on Bruce's face after the Joker asks him that question, one might assume that Bruce is confused or doesn't understand what the question means. It's actually an epiphany, because that question was also asked to Bruce as a child by the killer of his parents. The card Jack pulls from his "lucky deck?" The Joker. Becomes an in-universe Call-Back, which spurs Jack's Rage Against the Reflection later when he realizes the symbolism. The suit Jack is wearing in that scene is purple. A subtler one comes from Vicki having to climb the "many" stairs of Wayne Mansion, having to remove her heels. Same thing happens in the church with The Joker. When The Joker hisses and breathes in Grissom's voice, "You...are my number one...guy!" to Bob, Bob should have realized it was a threat. Having seen the Batmobile operated remotely earlier, it makes sense when it turns out Batman isn't in the car during the assault on Axis Chemicals.
Batman (1989) / int_9d12bbc1	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9d12bbc1	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9d12bbc1
Batman (1989) / int_9dad9e49	type	Western Zodiac
Batman (1989) / int_9dad9e49	comment	Western Zodiac: When Vicki calls him crazy, the Joker responds "I thought I was a Pisces"
Batman (1989) / int_9dad9e49	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9dad9e49	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9dad9e49
Batman (1989) / int_9dd2329c	type	Camera Abuse
Batman (1989) / int_9dd2329c	comment	Camera Abuse: When Jack falls into the vat of chemicals, some of them splash onto the camera.
Batman (1989) / int_9dd2329c	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9dd2329c	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9dd2329c
Batman (1989) / int_9eac471e	type	False Teeth Tomfoolery
Batman (1989) / int_9eac471e	comment	False Teeth Tomfoolery: Played with. After the titular character socks the Joker in the mouth, he gets up with his hands cupped over his face, moaning, and then appearing to spit out some clacking clockwork teeth that were presumably hidden in his hands - he never lost his actual teeth (or at least not the lot).
Batman (1989) / int_9eac471e	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9eac471e	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9eac471e
Batman (1989) / int_9edbda07	type	Elite Mooks
Batman (1989) / int_9edbda07	comment	Elite Mook: The mook at the top of the bell tower smacks Batman around pretty well for a little while.
Batman (1989) / int_9edbda07	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9edbda07	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9edbda07
Batman (1989) / int_9fbf8969	type	Cut Lex Luthor a Check
Batman (1989) / int_9fbf8969	comment	Cut Lex Luthor a Check: Jack Napier is apparently enough of a savant in "science" (biology) and chemistry to invent a near-untraceable poison capable of causing people to laugh uncontrollably before dying with an impossibly huge smile on their faces...and apparently works as a run-of-the-mill thug. Justified in that he clearly only wants to inflict violence and suffering upon others and doesnâ€™t really care that much about money.
Batman (1989) / int_9fbf8969	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9fbf8969	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_9fde2eb1	type	Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
Batman (1989) / int_9fde2eb1	comment	"Time to pay the check."
Batman (1989) / int_9fde2eb1	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_9fde2eb1	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_9fde2eb1
Batman (1989) / int_a18042f1	type	Left the Background Music On
Batman (1989) / int_a18042f1	comment	Left the Background Music On: In several scenes, what appears to be background music turns out to be emanating from a boombox that the Joker has a mook follow him around with.
Batman (1989) / int_a18042f1	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_a18042f1	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
Batman (1989) / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: According to Danny Elfman, the opening theme was inspired by Bernard Herrmann's opening theme to Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959). It also sounds exactly like the opening few notes of The Batman (Serial)'s introduction theme, although whether or not this was intentional isn't confirmed.
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Batman (1989) / int_a1a1491e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_a38ed1f7	type	Coat Cape
Batman (1989) / int_a38ed1f7	comment	Coat Cape: Vinnie Ricorso wears his overcoat like this for both scenes he's in.
Batman (1989) / int_a38ed1f7	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_a38ed1f7	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_a38ed1f7
Batman (1989) / int_a3eae597	type	Award-Bait Song
Batman (1989) / int_a3eae597	comment	Award-Bait Song: "Scandalous!" by Prince may be considered this.
Batman (1989) / int_a3eae597	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_a3eae597	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_a4070b5e	type	Stripped to the Bone
Batman (1989) / int_a4070b5e	comment	Stripped to the Bone: Mobster Antoine Rotelli gets incinerated into a charred black skeleton by the Joker's buzzer.
Batman (1989) / int_a4070b5e	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_a4070b5e	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_a4070b5e
Batman (1989) / int_a426ae28	type	Multiple-Choice Past
Batman (1989) / int_a426ae28	comment	Jack Napier becomes the Joker by falling into chemicals, which is (possibly) his origin in The Killing Joke (which was released the year prior to this movie and along with The Dark Knight Returns was Tim Burton's inspiration to direct the film).
Batman (1989) / int_a426ae28	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_a426ae28	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_a426ae28
Batman (1989) / int_a4878b81	type	It's Not You, It's My Enemies
Batman (1989) / int_a4878b81	comment	It's Not You, It's My Enemies: Bruce originally views this as his issue with Vicki, until he told her. This was broken up by The Joker coming in. As revealed in the sequel Batman Returns, Vicki ends up dumping him because she cannot handle it. This ends up haunting him for the rest of the Burton-Shumacher quadrilogy.
Batman (1989) / int_a4878b81	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_a4878b81	featureConfidence	1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_a6cbef9a	type	Joker Immunity
Batman (1989) / int_a6cbef9a	comment	Joker Immunity: Averted with the trope namer's death — just as he's about to escape. Played straight big time earlier on, as Batman has all of the Batwing's weapons locked on to a perfectly stationary Joker...and misses completely.
Batman (1989) / int_a6cbef9a	featureApplicability	-1.0
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Batman (1989) / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
Batman (1989) / int_a6cda066	comment	The Joker also tries to tempt Vicki into becoming his girlfriend on three occasions: first appealing to her pride ("We're not like regular people. We're artists."), then using the Wounded Gazelle Gambit in reciting a tragic poem, and finally outright trying to seduce her with a "romantic" waltz. He outright fails on the first two tries, and then seems to have succeeded on the third try when Vicki starts returning his kisses, but it's just a Honey Trap.
Batman (1989) / int_a6cda066	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_a6cda066	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_a6cda066
Batman (1989) / int_a7078cb5	type	Bullethole Door
Batman (1989) / int_a7078cb5	comment	Bullethole Door: The Batmobile uses its machine guns to cut a hole in the door of the Axis Chemicals building so it can enter.
Batman (1989) / int_a7078cb5	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_a7078cb5	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_a7078cb5
Batman (1989) / int_a75f840d	type	Full Moon Silhouette
Batman (1989) / int_a75f840d	comment	Full Moon Silhouette: Batman does it in the Batwing, in the process imitating the Batman symbol.
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Batman (1989) / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Batman (1989) / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Batman apparently trains there as he fires several machinegun rounds and mini-missiles at a completely still and in-the-open Joker, with intent to kill as he'd done a few seconds before, and misses every shot even though his targeting mechanism is locked on to a stationary target. Then, Joker pulls a pistol with what looks like a five-foot-long barrel out of his pants and shoots down the Batwing barreling at him.
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Batman (1989) / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Batman (1989) / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: While touring Bruce Wayne's mansion with Vicki during a charity party, Alexander Knox voices his opinion that Wayne is nothing but a vain, pompous fool. He does not know that at that very moment, Bruce is preparing to transform into Batman in order to go stop the mob from sanitizing its front company paper trail.
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Batman (1989) / int_a8593e70	type	Real Time
Batman (1989) / int_a8593e70	comment	Real Time: The climax. The Joker tells his crew to meet him with their helicopter on the top of the cathedral in ten minutes. They arrive during the fight in the bell tower, which is almost exactly ten minutes later.
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Batman (1989) / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
Batman (1989) / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: Near the end of the movie, Batman is confronted with The Joker's large, muscular (and unnamed) bodyguard at the top of the bell tower. This Giant Mook proceeds to wipe the floor with Batman for the next minute or so, possibly coming closer to killing him than the Joker himself. And then Batman kills the mook himself. Comes off being unintentionally funny due to the mook looking like a big Ray Charles, the slapstick style choreography, and the rather silly way in which Batman sends the mook falling to his death.
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Batman (1989) / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Batman (1989) / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	The Joker becomes this due to twisted infatuation when he sees a picture of Vicki Vale.
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Batman (1989) / int_ab19d173	type	Art Attacker
Batman (1989) / int_ab19d173	comment	Art Attacker: The Joker describes himself as this: "I am the world's first fully-functioning homicidal artist; I make art until someone dies."
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Batman (1989) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Batman (1989) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: During The Reveal of The Joker during the That Man Is Dead scene, which he starts by shooting Grissom, a circus calliope breaks out. â€œWaltz to the Deathâ€� is a lively, joyous song that plays as Batman fights for his life against the Jokerâ€™s mooks while Vicki is held against her will by the Joker.
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Batman (1989) / int_ac560dc4	type	Save the Villain
Batman (1989) / int_ac560dc4	comment	Save the Villain: Batman tries to save Jack Napier from falling into the vat of chemicals, but fails. Failing to rescue Napier in time only transforms him into a worse villain! Seriously Batman, you had ONE job!
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Batman (1989) / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
Batman (1989) / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Jack killing Bruce's parents in his childhood, causing him to become the hero who kills him. The post-chemical dip Joker killing Grissom and then purging his lieutenants. Yes, it grants Joker full control over all organized crime in Gotham...but once he dies, his syndicate's men are easily rounded up by Gordon and the underworld's grip on Gotham is broken for good. That means Joker, ironically more than Batman, is responsible for the collapse of organized crime in Gotham by the film's end.
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Batman (1989) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Batman (1989) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Those two muggers in the opening sequence when they realize that Batman is, to say the least, Not Quite Dead. Jack Napier, when he finds himself in Batman's clutches at the factory. Vinnie Ricorso on the steps of the courthouse. ("Hello, Vinnie. It's your Uncle Bingo. Time to pay the check!") Bob, when Batman calls him out with a "come here" finger-wiggle beckoning. Gordon gets two. The first is when he realizes there's going to be a shootout at Axis. In the second one it becomes clear that the shit's really hit the fan, as Gordon's seeing Batman in the flesh for the first time, and on the scene of an already dangerous situation no less, and had until now believed him to be a rumor. Jack Napier during the raid at Axis Chemicals. When he finds out that all the information his team has been sent to gather has been removed, he does an Eye Take when he realizes he's been set up. Vicki Vale, upon realizing what is in the balloons at the parade, and thus what Joker's plan truly is. Joker himself. Although he does not really express his fear, this little dialogue sums it all up when he finds out who Batman is. Carl Grissom, three times: 1) when he sees that Napier has survived and pretends to be glad about it, 2) when Napier figures out that he set him up "over a woman" and plans to get him back, and 3) when he sees Napier is now the Joker (which is the last thing he sees). Batman himself, three times: 1) when he loses his grip on Jack's hand and drops him in to the acid, 2) when he misses The Joker with the guns/rockets from the Batwing, and 3) when he's fighting the third mook in the belltower.
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Batman (1989) / int_ad295cc3	type	Weaponized Car
Batman (1989) / int_ad295cc3	comment	Weaponized Car: The Batmobile has a heavy-duty armored shield that can be activated when it is parked, machine guns that are used to invoke the Bullethole Door effect, and special bombs that Batman uses to wipe out the Axis Chemical factory in one scene.
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Batman (1989) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Batman (1989) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Jack Napier is a good example of this before his "Jokerization." Bruce Wayne is no slouch himself. Knox bests both. When Vinnie claims that he and Carl Grissom were good enough friends to sign over his organization to him, Knox asks if they did prison time together as kids.
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Batman (1989) / int_ae8f59a6	type	Hammy Villain, Serious Hero
Batman (1989) / int_ae8f59a6	comment	Hammy Villain, Serious Hero: While most live-action Batman films tend to make the Joker more menacing and psychotic, Jack Nicholson's take leans more into his goofy, comedic nature with hammy dances, one-liners, and sight gags, really making him stand out against the brooding, serious Batman.
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Batman (1989) / int_aed29b5c	type	Die Laughing
Batman (1989) / int_aed29b5c	comment	Die Laughing: Exposure to the Joker's Smilex nerve gas causes the victim to go into spasms of uncontrollable laughter, before dying minutes later with an extra large Joker-esque 'smile' on their face. This only applies when the poison is absorbed through tampered cosmetic chemicals. The people at the art museum and the parade died in agony. Appropriately enough, the Joker himself at the end. Aside from the creepy grin frozen on the his face when he shatters all his bones on the pavement of Gotham, there's also unnervingly funny laugh from a Laughing-Bag found by Commissioner Gordon on his corpse: the laugh is just a looped recording playing over a tiny speaker. (In an early draft of the script, his unnaturally frozen smile goes away as he dies.)
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Batman (1989) / int_af9a4c89	type	Squirting Flower Gag
Batman (1989) / int_af9a4c89	comment	Squirting Flower Gag: The Joker uses the flower on his lapel to try to squirt acid on Vicki Vale and later uses it to try to drop a bell on Batman during the cathedral sequence.
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Batman (1989) / int_aff674af	type	Malevolent Mugshot
Batman (1989) / int_aff674af	comment	Malevolent Mugshot:The movie has the Joker put his face on his vehicles, which is a tribute to this tendency of his throughout the comics of the 1940s and early '50s, where he seemed obsessed with incorporating his face into everything he used.
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Batman (1989) / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Batman (1989) / int_b01abe4f	comment	During the apartment confrontation, the Joker repeats his, "Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight?" Catchphrase, which clues Bruce in to the fact that he's the one who killed his parents.
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Batman (1989) / int_b02f21f	type	Digital Destruction
Batman (1989) / int_b02f21f	comment	Digital Destruction: A minor example in the 1997 widescreen DVD, where a shot of Vicki Vale pulling a piece of lint from her mouth, believed to be a mistake, was removed and replaced with a different take. Of more concern is the 4K remaster's strong teal tint, which combined with inconsistent colour saturation makes anything white (like the Joker's face) look cyan; and plasters modern sound effects over the film's iconic original sound design.
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Batman (1989) / int_b1ff5bba	type	Offscreen Karma
Batman (1989) / int_b1ff5bba	comment	Offscreen Karma: Commissioner Gordon informs everyone at the end that the rest of the Joker's gang (those not killed at the Axis Chemicals or the final battle) have been arrested by the police.
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Batman (1989) / int_b2407a69	type	Talk to the Fist
Batman (1989) / int_b2407a69	comment	Talk to the Fist: Both the verbal and non-verbal kind appear in the movie: The first being when Batman fights a guy with a sword who after his pre-fight flourish, kicks him in the gut. After that The Joker in a joke pulls off a You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses prank while cornered. Batman punches him out anyway.
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Batman (1989) / int_b26cc887	type	Just Between You and Me
Batman (1989) / int_b26cc887	comment	Just Between You and Me:
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Batman (1989) / int_b35b6eda	type	Secondary Color Nemesis
Batman (1989) / int_b35b6eda	comment	Secondary Color Nemesis: The Jack Nicholson Joker features the classic combination of green hair, purple suit, and bright orange shirt. For an added bonus, he and his goons deface the Gotham museum of art by painting everything purple and green.
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Batman (1989) / int_b39def3c	type	Deathly Dies Irae
Batman (1989) / int_b39def3c	comment	Deathly Dies Irae: Composed by Danny Elfman; a fast-paced repeating dies irae, dies illa makes up much of the backing of the track "Descent in Mystery," which plays as Batman drives Vicki through the dark woods and into the hidden Batcave, creating an unsettling atmosphere around the location.
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Batman (1989) / int_b3f4bf22	type	Pants-Positive Safety
Batman (1989) / int_b3f4bf22	comment	Pants-Positive Safety: The Joker pulls a revolver with a ridiculously long barrel out of his Trouser Space to shoot down the Batwing.
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Batman (1989) / int_b41c411e	type	Toilet Humour
Batman (1989) / int_b41c411e	comment	Toilet Humour: Joker's, "This town needs an enema!" line.
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Batman (1989) / int_b47d95be	type	No OSHA Compliance
Batman (1989) / int_b47d95be	comment	No OSHA Compliance: The Axis chemical plant is falling to pieces. It's little wonder that Jack Napier falls into a vat of chemicals. Justified, as Jack turns on a bunch of the machines and makes them run at unsafe levels to create a diversion for the cops. The vat full of chemicals? You can see it being filled in the background of several shots as a result of these actions. Laser-Guided Karma indeed. The Batcave, especially where the Batmobile is parked. Vicki almost walks off the edge of the platform before Batman turns on the lights. The cathedral from the film's climax is falling to pieces by the time Batman manages to get to the top, also largely as a result of the Joker's actions.
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Batman (1989) / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Batman (1989) / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Played straight big time earlier on, as Batman has all of the Batwing's weapons locked on to a perfectly stationary Joker...and misses completely.
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Batman (1989) / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Batman (1989) / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: At the beginning of the film, we have a family consisting of a husband, wife, and their son, who ends up getting mugged. The husband bears most of the blame. They start out by failing to get into a cab (the husband just talks to the cabbie, only for someone else to get in and take off), ignores his son's very clear directions despite having a city map (going the wrong way, that 7th is in the direction he's pointing), then leaves the relative safety of the busy city street into an alley, where the husband continues to ignore every warning sign, and gets knocked out. The only reason they don't get killed is because the muggers aren't Jack Napier. Near-fatal example: When the police and Batman intervene on the Axis Chemicals raid, rather than take the opportunity to flee when it presents itself, Jack Napier decides to gun down Eckhardt, simply because he never liked him. Had he fled, he might have avoided a bullet through his cheeks, followed by a swan dive into a vat of chemical acid. Half of Gotham seems to be this way. It's already common knowledge that the Joker has murdered many people, but that doesn't stop them from diving at the cash he offers in public. He even says into a microphone, "Now comes the part where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives," but they're too engrossed by the flying cash to listen. A minute later, many are dead, and some who aren't dead yet still grab for cash. Poor Bob as well, after Joker has just been decisively pissed off and now wants to blow off some steam. He's had his little outburst, but there's a Tranquil Fury brewing under his crackpot exterior, something his loyal lackey fails to notice. The second of Joker's three goons at the top of the cathedral is a big guy who tries to jump down on Batman from a higher platform and promptly falls through the floor before Batman even has time to turn around, since his weight is just too much for the old, rotted wood to support when he lands. The Ray Charles thug who thoroughly kicks Batman's ass is actually dumb enough to look down into the tower shaft after sending the Dark Knight presumably falling to his death with what may have been a Groin Attack, only to have Batman throw his legs around his neck, and somehow suddenly too weak to break free, the Ray Charles thug is suddenly helpless as Batman pulls him forward, bangs his head into the bell, and then sends him falling to his well-deserved death. Vicki has a moment when she accepts The Joker's offer to "lend [her] a hand" while she's hanging from a gargoyle, although this is justified since up to this point, Joker has been extremely interested in her, so him acting like he cares about keeping her alive would be perfectly believable. Naturally the hand is a fake, which snaps off, forcing Batman to catch her.
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Batman (1989) / int_b628db4c	type	"Hey, You!" Haymaker
Batman (1989) / int_b628db4c	comment	"Hey, You!" Haymaker:
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Batman (1989) / int_b800a2e0	type	Failing a Taxi
Batman (1989) / int_b800a2e0	comment	Failing a Taxi: The tourist family in the opening scene has things especially bad. They succeed in hailing a cab, but as the father is giving directions to the hotel they're planning on staying at, someone else butts in and boards the cab before he can finish, even though they were there first. Gotham, huh?
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Batman (1989) / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
Batman (1989) / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Commissioner Gordon. Understandable since Batman isn't working with the police (yet).
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Batman (1989) / int_b9fc31d3	type	Victoria's Secret Compartment
Batman (1989) / int_b9fc31d3	comment	Victoria's Secret Compartment: Vicki Vale unsuccessfully tries to hide her photo of Batman in her blouse. He gets it from her anyway.
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Batman (1989) / int_ba7acbed	type	DramaticDownstageTurn
Batman (1989) / int_ba7acbed	comment	Dramatic Downstage Turn: Vicki Vale does one during the relationship conversation that follows her learning that Bruce Wayne is Batman.
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Batman (1989) / int_ba81efeb	type	Captive Push
Batman (1989) / int_ba81efeb	comment	Captive Push: Joker and Vicki again. Joker takes her hostage and forces her to the top of Gotham Cathedral at gunpoint. He has no need to bind her hands or anything, due to the aforementioned being-at-gunpoint. He also only starts physically pushing her along when it becomes clear that Batman is following them.
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Batman (1989) / int_baab371c	type	Chopper on Standby
Batman (1989) / int_baab371c	comment	Chopper on Standby: The Joker flies away from the Axis Chemical factory in a helicopter. Near the end, the Joker summons the helicopter to pick up him and Vickie Vale from the top of the Gotham City Cathedral.
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Batman (1989) / int_bcbf7aef	type	Plucky Comic Relief
Batman (1989) / int_bcbf7aef	comment	Plucky Comic Relief: Alexander Knox, a newspaper reporter who collaborates with Vicki Vale. He serves as a Heroic Bystander at one point, though he gets sidelined quickly...accidentally...by Vicki.
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Batman (1989) / int_bcd5bc72	type	Handshake of Doom
Batman (1989) / int_bcd5bc72	comment	Handshake of Doom: During a meeting of crime bosses, the newly-minted Joker calls for an alliance between the various mobsters. When Antoine Rotelli asks what happens if they refuse, Joker assures him there'll be no war between them; they'll just shake hands and "that'll be it." Mollified, Antoine shakes the Joker's hand...only to find that he's wearing a lethal Electric Joybuzzer, and over the next few seconds, the unfortunate gangster is fried to a crisp.
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Batman (1989) / int_bd3293fc	type	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife
Batman (1989) / int_bd3293fc	comment	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife: Jack Napier, the Number Two of the Gotham City Mob, is sleeping with his boss Carl Grissom's mistress. Grissom sets him up to be killed for this betrayal, but it doesn't take. After Jack becomes The Joker, he murders Grissom in retaliation.
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Batman (1989) / int_bd3b726e	type	Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad
Batman (1989) / int_bd3b726e	comment	Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad: The Joker joins Vicki Vale for a "date" in a museum cafÃ© and looks over her portfolio of photographs. He dismissively flips through some shots of fashion models ("Crap, crap, crap...") before coming to a group of photos depicting mass graves in a war-torn foreign land. He reacts as if they are works of great beauty and genius. About a minute later, he brings his death-masked girlfriend in to show to Vicki and removes the mask, revealing that the other woman has a heavily scarred face. He calls this "a living work of art."
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Batman (1989) / int_bd4264a3	type	Slasher Smile
Batman (1989) / int_bd4264a3	comment	Slasher Smile: Par for the course for the Joker, but even as his pre-transformation self he manages an absolutely terrifying rictus smile after he kills Bruce Wayne's parents and is about to do the same to the boy.
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Batman (1989) / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
Batman (1989) / int_beb932ca	comment	While the location of Burton's (and Schumacher's) Gotham City is never provided, it is obviously in the United States (note the American flag in Harvey Dent's office) and is almost certainly a fantasy version of New York, given all the No Communities Were Harmed references: Flugelheim Museum (Guggenheim Museum), Gotham Plaza (Rockefeller Plaza), Lady Gotham (Statue of Liberty), and (in the screenplay only) Broad Avenue (Broadway).
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Batman (1989) / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Batman (1989) / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Batman is not a stranger to this trope, but unlike most other incarnations, Burton's Batman has no problem with killing a mook. He also tries to kill the Joker and succeeds, though not in a way he expected to - a move made to stop the Joker from escaping ends up killing him.
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Batman (1989) / int_bee8baee	type	Faint in Shock
Batman (1989) / int_bee8baee	comment	Faint in Shock: When Jack Napier's mistress Alicia Hunt comes home and discovers not only that he's not dead but that he's become disfigured, she faints dead away. The Joker goes to Vicki Vale's apartment and scares her out of her wits, including apparently killing Bruce Wayne. After the Joker leaves, Vicki opens the gift box he left her. A hand holding a bunch of weeds and dead flowers pops out, and she collapses to the ground.
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Batman (1989) / int_bfad4265	type	I Have You Now, My Pretty
Batman (1989) / int_bfad4265	comment	I Have You Now, My Pretty: Joker's got to get Vicki to the church on time.
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Batman (1989) / int_c06ec61e	type	Corpsing
Batman (1989) / int_c06ec61e	comment	Corpsing: In-Universe and Played for Horror - One unfortunate news reporter does it before becoming a corpse due to Joker's deadly Smylex.
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Batman (1989) / int_c1b2c63f	type	Dull Surprise
Batman (1989) / int_c1b2c63f	comment	Dull Surprise: Kim Basinger as Vicki Vale in every situation, even when confronted by The Joker after he killed an entire room of people in front of her or discovering Bruce's secret and going into the Batcave, which was brought up in many negative reviews of the movie.
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Batman (1989) / int_c37a7fd9	type	No, You
Batman (1989) / int_c37a7fd9	comment	No, You:
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Batman (1989) / int_c5385ad9	type	Horrible Judge of Character
Batman (1989) / int_c5385ad9	comment	Horrible Judge of Character: Nearly the entire population of Gotham City seems to be this. It's common knowledge that Jack has murdered multiple people and is responsible for creating the deadly Smylex. Despite this, they trust him when he says, "But one thing I am not...is a killer!" He ends up trying to kill everyone at the anniversary festival with nerve gas.
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Batman (1989) / int_c58daf16	type	The Pen Is Mightier
Batman (1989) / int_c58daf16	comment	The Pen Is Mightier: "The Pen Is Truly Mightier Than the Sword", as quoted by Joker.
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Batman (1989) / int_c5ccf60f	type	Internal Reveal
Batman (1989) / int_c5ccf60f	comment	Internal Reveal: The movie does not show or say that Bruce is Batman until Vicki discovers the Batcave over halfway into the film, but let's be real: you know that already.
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Batman (1989) / int_c64656d1	type	Mirror Reveal
Batman (1989) / int_c64656d1	comment	Mirror Reveal: After performing surgery on Jack Napier, the surgeon is horrified by Napier's face when he takes off his bandages. Napier demands a mirror. The surgeon reluctantly hands him one, but we don't get to see his reflection, only his reaction: sobbing that slowly transforms into maniacal laughter, hinting at his transformation into The Joker.
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Batman (1989) / int_c6898a73	type	Ret-Canon
Batman (1989) / int_c6898a73	comment	Ret-Canon: The Grapple Gun from the film has since been adopted into the comic book canon and other Batman media, including Batman: The Animated Series.
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Batman (1989) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Batman (1989) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Those Little Shop of Horrors dentist tools sure get around a lot since last appearing in Dead Ringers. The Corto Maltese War, mentioned here as being Vicki's last big photography project, is the name of the conflict Superman puts an end to in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (which was, in turn, a shout-out to the Corto Maltese comic book). The Joker's "I'm Melting!" from The Wizard of Oz after Vicki Vale throws water on him. In addition to the general architecture of Gotham, the Climbing Climax bears a striking resemblance to the cathedral fight in Metropolis, especially the part about the villain falling off said cathedral to his death. The Climbing Climax with the shots of the stairwell looking downward as well as elements of first scene strongly resemble Vertigo. Going for three: The Climbing Climax is most directly based on the descending climax of The Phantom of the Opera. The cartoon of the Joker's face on his Mooks' jackets and his helicopter looks like the classic comic book Joker; they are inspired In-Universe by the Joker in Jack's lucky card deck. Joker and friends ruining the art at the museum is a shout-out to the pair of episodes from the live action '60s series where Joker tries to ruin some paintings by splashing paint on them and inadvertently becomes hailed as an artistic genius.
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Batman (1989) / int_c8604049	type	The Reveal Prompts Romance
Batman (1989) / int_c8604049	comment	The Reveal Prompts Romance: There's an exchange like this between Bruce Wayne and Vicki Vale towards the end when Vale is shown into the Batcave.
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Batman (1989) / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
Batman (1989) / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Averted with Jack Napier. Bruce Wayne reviews Napier's personal history and learns that he was a complete psycho even before he made it to junior high. At best, Bruce muses that he might have a Darwinian excuse. ("He had a head full of bad wiring, I guess...") The film is one of the earliest examples of a work that tries to subvert the idea that the Joker is criminally insane and isn't responsible for his actions, an idea that only really emerged in the '70s. Like Batman: The Animated Series, it does so by making him a violent criminal even before he has his toxic bath, though in this one he is killed before we find out if he would have been thrown in an insane asylum rather than prison (the animated one gets the asylum, but the creators say it's only because he's managed to convince people that he's crazy, rather than actually being as crazy as he pretends).
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Batman (1989) / int_c94f1109	type	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry
Batman (1989) / int_c94f1109	comment	Artistic License â€“ Chemistry: Smylex is implied to be lighter than air, as balloons full of it float like helium balloons. Yet, when the Joker releases it from the balloons it sinks to the ground, which would seem to mean it's heavier than air. However, if this is the case then the balloons shouldn't be able to float in the first place. Could be explained away as the balloons being filled with both helium and smylex.
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Batman (1989) / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Batman (1989) / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: The Joker's boast about being a homicidal artist, "I make art until somebody dies." His conversation with a charcoaled Rotelli is definite proof of Cloud CuckooInsanity: Then there's this exchange, when Vicki asks Joker what he wants. The scariest aspect is that, no, he isn't joking. He even makes reference to it when defacing the famous portrait of George Washington. Bruce Wayne himself indulges in this trope somewhat to strengthen his Upper-Class Twit persona: Vicki accuses Batman of being one.
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Batman (1989) / int_cc7fae30	type	Outside-Context Problem
Batman (1989) / int_cc7fae30	comment	Outside-Context Problem: At the beginning of Batman (1989), the city officials are concerned with Boss Carl Grissom and his gangsters. They're completely unprepared and baffled by the arrival of The Joker, who decapitates the existing criminal underworld and focuses exclusively on pointless mayhem.
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Batman (1989) / int_cd70c3dc	type	CorruptCop
Batman (1989) / int_cd70c3dc	comment	Corrupt Cop: Naturally in Gotham, and they're all led by Eckhardt. However, they're not all corrupt, and an honest cop is able to inform Gordon about Eckhardt's plans to murder Napier.
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Batman (1989) / int_cf1b706e	type	Flat-Earth Atheist
Batman (1989) / int_cf1b706e	comment	Flat-Earth Atheist: It takes a great many characters quite a while to acknowledge that Batman might exist, and they're not willing to say so publicly. Alexander Knox (the only halfway-credible person who believes in Batman from the beginning) points out early on that, for the past month, there has been at least one sighting of Batman every week. However, Harvey Dent dismisses the stories of Batman sightings as tales of "ghosts and goblins," and Eckhardt insists that the slum dwellers who claim to have seen a bat-creature are "drinkin' Drano." Vicki Vale does seem to believe, but this might only be to convince Knox to join her in an official investigation of the sightings, which Vale hopes will advance her career and maybe even win her a Pulitzer Prize. Commissioner Gordon is the second major character to catch a glimpse of Batman...but he'd rather just sweep the truth under the rug, partly because it would embarrass Gotham City's police and partly because, since Batman is directly responsible for Jack Napier's near-death when the police need Napier alive as a mob informant, Gordon frankly would rather act like Batman does not exist.
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Batman (1989) / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Batman (1989) / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: In the first quarter of the film, no one (except Vicki Vale) believes in Alexander Knox's story about a shadowy vigilante figure storming into the night taking down criminals, and is often depicted as a laughing stock by his peers.
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Batman (1989) / int_d0883f7e	type	Broken Heel
Batman (1989) / int_d0883f7e	comment	Broken Heel: Subverted and then inverted quite neatly when the Joker takes Vicki hostage and then takes off her high heels to subvert this as they both ascend to the eventual Climbing Climax at the top of the very, very tall Gotham Cathedral. The inversion is that because her heels are slowing her down until the Joker gets rid of them, it allows the hero (rather than the villain, as usual for this trope) to gain ground. The other reason she's constantly taking off her heels is that Basinger is only 1.5 inches shorter than Keaton. With the heels on, Vicki is taller than Batman. Lampshaded in the film's comic-adaptation, where the Joker tells Vicki, "You'll move faster without the heels," whilst forcibly removing her shoes.
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Batman (1989) / int_d0c5fb3	type	Impossibly Cool Weapon
Batman (1989) / int_d0c5fb3	comment	Impossibly Cool Weapon: In the fight at the cathedral, Batman apparently has a gadget that is designed for the sole purpose of crushing an opponent's nuts, which he does to one of the Joker's mooks. The previously mentioned five foot revolver probably counts too, especially for the barrel's apparent collapsibility.
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Batman (1989) / int_d129e13e	type	"Eureka!" Moment
Batman (1989) / int_d129e13e	comment	"Eureka!" Moment: Vicki may have had one after seeing the news clipping of the murder of Bruce's parents. Bruce himself seems to have one when confronting Joker in Vicki's apartment, after Joker delivers his Catchphrase; it snaps Bruce out of his Let's Get Dangerous! moment. A flashback later on reveals what Bruce recognized: Jack spoke the same line to Bruce when he was a kid, a revelation which leads Bruce to discover that Jack was his parents' murderer.
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Batman (1989) / int_d332bf54	type	Lampshaded
Batman (1989) / int_d332bf54	comment	Lampshaded in the film's comic-adaptation, where the Joker tells Vicki, "You'll move faster without the heels," whilst forcibly removing her shoes.
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Batman (1989) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Batman (1989) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Jack is the one who creates the very vat of acid he falls into by screwing up all the plant's machinery, and he also creates Batman, the hero who kills him, by murdering Bruce Wayne's parents. It's also implied Eckhardt was the one who informed Grissom of Jack's affair with Alicia — something that only happened as retaliation for Jack antagonizing him in the alley scene.
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Batman (1989) / int_d485cb13	type	Psychotic Smirk
Batman (1989) / int_d485cb13	comment	Psychotic Smirk: The Joker, and surprisingly, Batman too. Two examples: when he says, "I'm Batman," to the initial mook, then when Jack Napier comments, "Nice outfit." Jack Napier in Bruce's flashback has a particularly vicious one.
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Batman (1989) / int_d498390f	type	Fruit Cart
Batman (1989) / int_d498390f	comment	Fruit Cart: Well, fruit truck...full of cabbage.
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Batman (1989) / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Batman (1989) / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Downplayed, but during the scene in Vicky's apartment, Joker chastises Bruce Wayne for his relationship with Vicky Vale despite his own pursuit of her. ("Never rub another man's rhubarb!") Yet, Jack was doing this at the beginning of the movie with Alicia and Carl Grissom. Then again, Joker could be speaking from personal experience and learned his own lesson after Grissom's Uriah Gambit.
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Batman (1989) / int_d563a53c	type	Batman Grabs a Gun
Batman (1989) / int_d563a53c	comment	Batman Grabs a Gun: Oddly averted. Although he doesn't use guns for most of the film, near the end he tries to shoot the Joker with machine guns (and MISSILES) in his Batwing. He misses completely not due to any compunction against killing but because the Joker's Plot Armor has the bullets hit everything around him while leaving him completely unharmed. He also blows up the Joker's chemical factory with dozens of his henchmen still inside. The incidents are never brought up nor reflected upon as Batman breaking his one rule.
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Batman (1989) / int_d6519b1b	type	Rabid Cop
Batman (1989) / int_d6519b1b	comment	There's also a milder example when Rabid Cop Eckhardt, explaining how two hoodlums Batman has captured were physically incapacitated, says that they "slipped on a banana peel."
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Batman (1989) / int_d7c3ba61	type	Race Lift
Batman (1989) / int_d7c3ba61	comment	Race Lift: Harvey Dent. Burton changed him from the brown-haired Caucasian he is in the comics to...Billy Dee Williams. This was intended to play into a black-and-white theme when he would become Two-Face in a sequel, but it fell through (much to Williams' dismay) when Tommy Lee Jones was cast in the role for Batman Forever. This wouldn't be explored until the Batman '89 comics which continued the Burton timeline after Batman Returns and ignored the Schumacher sequels.
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Batman (1989) / int_d7e68c39	type	Bulletproof Human Shield
Batman (1989) / int_d7e68c39	comment	One of The Joker's men who chases Batman into the alleyway after the museum gas attack gets used as a Bulletproof Human Shield in the novelization.
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Batman (1989) / int_d7ecbd57	type	You're Insane!
Batman (1989) / int_d7ecbd57	comment	You're Insane!: Ironically, the Joker invokes this on Carl Grissom. Vinnie says this quietly to The Joker while he's "disguised" as Jack. Jack smoothly replies, "Haven't you heard of the healing power of laughter?" When Vicki says it to Joker in the museum, his response is, "I thought I was a Pisces."
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Batman (1989) / int_d8d22bb0	type	Dutch Angle
Batman (1989) / int_d8d22bb0	comment	Dutch Angle: A few instances. This is Batman, after all.
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Batman (1989) / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Batman (1989) / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After Jack kills Bruce's parents and is about to shoot Bruce, too, his partner decides they should split. After Batman takes out three mooks in the street fight, Bob rises up brandishing a large knife. Batman smirks and gives him a "come hither" gesture; Bob simply drops the knife and makes tracks.
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Batman (1989) / int_d9d2ffa	type	Synchro-Vox
Batman (1989) / int_d9d2ffa	comment	Synchro-Vox: Used to mask the lips of the recent victims of Joker's toxin in order to "advertise" his Brand X. Which, in turn, is the Joker toxin that he is going to release at the Bicentennial celebration of Gotham City's foundation.
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Batman (1989) / int_da909e61	type	Villainy Discretion Shot
Batman (1989) / int_da909e61	comment	Villainy Discretion Shot: Only minimal attention is actually paid to the dozens of people Joker has killed.
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Batman (1989) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Batman (1989) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: At the beginning, we see a couple of crooks mugging a couple and their child. We're led to think this is the young Bruce Wayne and his parents Thomas and Martha, and we're about to see the murder of his parents, but then we see Batman high above looking down on the crime waiting to intervene.
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Batman (1989) / int_dc057cf3	type	Adaptation Name Change
Batman (1989) / int_dc057cf3	comment	Adaptation Name Change: Lawrence, the boombox-toting Mook, is renamed Steve in the novelization.
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Batman (1989) / int_dc1b5212	type	Sparing the Final Mook
Batman (1989) / int_dc1b5212	comment	Sparing the Final Mook: After a lengthy fight with the Joker's henchmen, Batman defeats them all except for the Joker's right-hand Bob. As Bob approaches with a knife, Batman simply beckons, daring him to fight. Bob opts to drop the knife and run, and Batman allows him to escape.
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Batman (1989) / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Batman (1989) / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: If you're seeing this movie for the first time and are familiar with its comic-book origins, you might be forgiven for thinking that Jimmy (the boy with the map whose parents are mugged in the opening sequence) is the child Bruce Wayne when you first see him. Only when his father calls him by name (telling him to put away the map) is the truth revealed— and then it becomes clear that the scene is not a flashback when Batman is seen watching the scene play out from above.
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Batman (1989) / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
Batman (1989) / int_e135b3de	comment	Pass the Popcorn: When Joker and Bruce Wayne are verbally sparring in her apartment, Vicky Vale picks up a bowl of popcorn and starts eating from it for no reason.
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Batman (1989) / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Batman (1989) / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: After rescuing Vicki Vale from the museum, Batman fights the Joker's goons, beating the crud out of all of them until only the villain's second-in-command Bob is left standing. Batman makes a taunting gesture towards Bob; Bob decides against it, drops his knife and high-tails it out.
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Batman (1989) / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
Batman (1989) / int_e2a41c3b	comment	"If we can't work out our differences, why, we'll just shake hands and...that'll be it."
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Batman (1989) / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Batman (1989) / int_e431c24c	comment	Those two muggers in the opening sequence when they realize that Batman is, to say the least, Not Quite Dead.
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Batman (1989) / int_e4965307	type	Composite Character
Batman (1989) / int_e4965307	comment	Composite Character: Vicki Vale resembles her comic counterpart in name and occupation only, as her characterization is much closer to another of Bruce Wayne's love interests from the comics named Silver St. Cloud, a blonde woman who learns about Bruce's secret identity as Batman. An early draft of the script actually named the character Silver St. Cloud, but the producers thought the name sounded too cheesy. The film forgoes Joe Chill and makes a young Jack Napier into the murderer of Bruce Wayne's parents, though his associate in the flashback of him killing Bruce's parents is confirmed to be this continuity's Joe Chill. Napier ends up the film's version of the Joker within the first third of the running time.
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Batman (1989) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Batman (1989) / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: The overweight, gruff, corrupt Lt. Eckhardt appears to be based on either Detective Flass or Pre-Crisis Harvey Bullock. Carl Grissom takes over the role of Carmine Falcone, the crime boss of Gotham before the "freaks" take over. Gotham's mayor is a pretty obvious take on New York mayor Ed Koch.
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Batman (1989) / int_e543a655	type	Light Is Not Good
Batman (1989) / int_e543a655	comment	The Joker enjoys classical (or at least orchestral) music, and he plays it on three "romantic" occasions: Percy Faith's "A Summer Place" while meeting Vicki in a museum cafÃ©; Stephen Foster's "Beautiful Dreamer" while bringing some flowers (which, in a vile twist, are already wilted) to Vicki's apartment; and a sentimental waltz while he is, uh, ravishing Vicki on the roof of the city's Gothic cathedral. Interestingly, the latter piece—Danny Elfman's "Waltz to the Death"—is actually quite beautiful and grand, and would be completely innocent were it not exclusively associated with a disfigured mass murderer. He also quotes Edgar Allan Poe to Vicki in one scene, and, fittingly, it is a line from "The Raven," which is about a deceased sweetheart (his previous lover Alicia has either killed herself or been killed by Joker himself. He's furthermore a fan of Francis Bacon, it seems. He is also mentioned in his police file as having an aptitude for art, which puts an interesting perspective on his actions when he and his goons vandalize most of the works at the Gotham Museum of Art (or when he dismisses most of Vicki's photography...except the ones of war and death). Presumably, he fully appreciates and understands all of this stuff on an artistic level, but still feels like smashing it to bring it up to his own twisted sense of aesthetic standard. When he brings Alicia in, she says, "Jack, you said I could watch you improve the paintings."
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Batman (1989) / int_e54f93d5	type	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight
Batman (1989) / int_e54f93d5	comment	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight: When Batman fights the Joker's goons, there's a dramatic fight with one using two Samurai swords. Because he's, well, Batman, he manages to outmaneuver him and then punch him into submission. (Of course, in this continuity, his costume is at least partially armored.)
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Batman (1989) / int_e5b75009	type	"Psycho" Strings
Batman (1989) / int_e5b75009	comment	"Psycho" Strings: Minor ones during The Joker's "conversation" with Rotelli's smoking corpse.
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Batman (1989) / int_e60aad64	type	Spare a Messenger
Batman (1989) / int_e60aad64	comment	Spare a Messenger: Two muggers are counting their loot on a rooftop. Batman appears and kicks one of them through a door. He takes the other one to the edge of the roof, holds him over the long drop below, and talks to him.
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Batman (1989) / int_e668a8b2	type	Charity Ball
Batman (1989) / int_e668a8b2	comment	Charity Ball: The Casino Night variant, to obtain money to bail out the Gotham City Festival.
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Batman (1989) / int_e6df8814	type	Screaming Warrior
Batman (1989) / int_e6df8814	comment	Screaming Warrior: Joker has 2-4 guys like this. One of them fights Batman in an alley with dual swords, and the other three fight in succession in the belfry scene at the end. The last guy, a Scary Black Man, provides the only real threat.
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Batman (1989) / int_e7022a49	type	Talking to the Dead
Batman (1989) / int_e7022a49	comment	Talking to the Dead: The Joker does this to Antoine Rotelli's fried corpse shortly after dismissing the mob summit (he's the one who murders Rotelli with a joy buzzer), and he apparently is "told" by Rotelli's corpse to "grease" the mob bosses immediately, to which Joker complies and responds, "You are a vicious bastard, Rotelli. I'm glad you're dead," before laughing hysterically. Whether he's only pretending to "hear" Rotelli speaking back or genuinely believes the corpse is talking to him is unclear. In either case, it effectively shows he's no longer just a psychopath and is now completely unhinged.
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Batman (1989) / int_e8dca77c	type	Adaptation Origin Connection
Batman (1989) / int_e8dca77c	comment	Adaptation Origin Connection: It turns out that The Joker is, in fact, the man who killed Bruce Wayne's parents, with Joe Chill instead as an accomplice who bailed on the whole scene after seeing Jack pull his gun on Bruce.
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Batman (1989) / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Batman (1989) / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: When Rotelli asks what would happen if they say "no," the Joker says that if they can't do business, they'll "just shake hands and that'll be it." Rotelli proceeds to shake hands. Unfortunately, Joker doesn't explain exactly what "shake hands" and "that'll be it" means: "death by joybuzzer that leaves you a smoldering corpse." The Joker during the climax says to Vicki Vale, while she and Batman are hanging onto a ledge for dear life, "Here: let me lend you a hand." He really means it, but unfortunately, he mean it literally (as in, supplying her with a fake hand that snaps off upon contact), and only Batman's intervention prevents her from falling to her death. Invoked by Knox:
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Batman (1989) / int_e9f79e23	type	Screw the War, We're Partying
Batman (1989) / int_e9f79e23	comment	Screw the War, We're Partying: The Joker, big time. Prince's "Batdance" video takes it to a new extreme.
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Batman (1989) / int_eadeb4d6	type	Climbing Climax
Batman (1989) / int_eadeb4d6	comment	Going for three: The Climbing Climax is most directly based on the descending climax of The Phantom of the Opera.
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Batman (1989) / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Batman (1989) / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: When Batman makes his way into the cathedral, the first of the Joker's goons tries a flying jump kick attack with spikes attached to his boots, but Batman subdues the goon by shooting something that vaguely resembles a spatula out of his gauntlet which strikes the goon right in his groin, causing him to let out an audible, "Uh!" just before he falls and grimaces. Later when the giant mook who resembles Ray Charles is giving Batman a humiliating beating, his last two moves appear to be punching Batman in the groin and then shoving his knee into his groin...right before Batman kills him. Shortly after that, when Batman is beating up the Joker, the Dark Knight apparently goes for a nut shot as he seemingly hits the Joker right in the groin (closely resembling a panel from Alan Moore's The Killing Joke wherein Batman punches Joker in the groin during the climactic fist fight).
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Batman (1989) / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Batman (1989) / int_eb251937	comment	Seven thugs accompany Jack when he raids Axis Chemicals. One is shot by the dirty cops, Batman catches two more, and Bob escapes, but the fates of the other three are never shown.
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Batman (1989) / int_eb716c8c	type	Big Electric Switch
Batman (1989) / int_eb716c8c	comment	Big Electric Switch: After Batman drives into the Batcave with Vicki Vale, he turns on the lights by throwing a switch.
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Batman (1989) / int_ebcbf841	type	Offing the Annoyance
Batman (1989) / int_ebcbf841	comment	Offing the Annoyance: The Joker kills Bob apparently for standing there while he's upset at Batman.
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Batman (1989) / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
Batman (1989) / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Ostensibly Jack Napier, though it's hard to tell if it's a straight example or a subversion. While he is the one who kills Carl Grissom, he does not do so as part of a plot to take over. He kills Grissom out of revenge, and then decides to take over his empire as an afterthought. Then again, comments Napier makes in passing to both Alicia and Lieutenant Eckhardt suggest that he may have been plotting Grissom's murder sometime in the future, or at the very least has been waiting for the old man to die.
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Batman (1989) / int_efe63dcf	type	Creepy Cathedral
Batman (1989) / int_efe63dcf	comment	Creepy Cathedral: Gotham City Cathedral from Batman (1989), where the Batman and the Joker have their final confrontation. Amusingly, any Catholic will tell you that Catholic churches are almost always named after a saint, and never after the city or town in which they are located (which is a Protestant tradition). Some famous cathedrals have widely used nicknames.
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Batman (1989) / int_f018c5cf	type	Offhand Backhand
Batman (1989) / int_f018c5cf	comment	Offhand Backhand: Multiple examples: Batman clobbers one of Jack Napier's men like this during the battle at the Axis Chemicals plant. The Joker does this to his ex-boss Grissom although he's already shot him several times. During the fight with the Joker's goons in the alley, Batman does this to one of them and lays him out. In another scene Batman does this to a Mook who's around the corner from him.
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Batman (1989) / int_f0508c08	type	Decomposite Character
Batman (1989) / int_f0508c08	comment	Decomposite Character: The Joker is the one who kills Bruce Wayne's parents in this continuity, with Joe Chill, the one normally responsible, said to be the man who accompanied him in the flashback of when he shot the Waynes.
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Batman (1989) / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
Batman (1989) / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: When Vicky notices that Batman has dispatched all Joker's mooks and is coming after him next, she distracts him long enough for him to get in close without being noticed by seeming to have a Stockholm Syndrome moment and start kissing up his arm, telling how much of a turn-on he is.
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Batman (1989) / int_f15193bc	type	Stairwell Chase
Batman (1989) / int_f15193bc	comment	Stairwell Chase: Batman chases the Joker up a bell tower in the finale.
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Batman (1989) / int_f16da697	type	Undying Loyalty
Batman (1989) / int_f16da697	comment	Undying Loyalty: Bob is the kind of staunchly loyal henchman that most any villain would be grateful to have, which makes Joker's shooting of him a major Kick the Dog moment. In fact, all of The Joker's men are supremely loyal. They instantly switch clothing styles to fit his new personality and help him slaughter all the other mob bosses. Even after he kills Bob, all of his men stay loyal to him and never object.
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Batman (1989) / int_f1d13e39	type	Insult Misfire
Batman (1989) / int_f1d13e39	comment	Insult Misfire:
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Batman (1989) / int_f301f892	type	Bit-Part Bad Guys
Batman (1989) / int_f301f892	comment	Back in the beginning of the movie, Nic, one of the two Bit Part Bad Guys that get their asses kicked by Batman, turns his gun on little Jimmy to intimidate the others into silence, a move that disturbs his partner.
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Batman (1989) / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Batman (1989) / int_f3626b09	comment	Now comes the part of the show where I relieve you, the little people, of the burden of your failed and useless lives."
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Batman (1989) / int_f38dccf5	type	Strolling Through the Chaos
Batman (1989) / int_f38dccf5	comment	Strolling Through the Chaos: There's a scene where the Joker's thugs tommy-gun rival mobsters on the steps of the courthouse. Naturally everyone hits the deck except Bruce Wayne, who's so busy staring at the Joker he doesn't even notice when a bullet clips his shoulder.
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Batman (1989) / int_f4bec3d	type	Magic Plastic Surgery
Batman (1989) / int_f4bec3d	comment	Magic Plastic Surgery: Jack Napier wants this sort of surgery after getting a deflected bullet to the face (that split to slice both cheeks) and getting dunked in a vat of unspecific chemicals and/or acid. The concept is averted, however, in that the best the back-alley surgeon can do is keep him from looking as horribly disfigured as he should be, so he "just" ends up as the Joker. Still, as bad as the result is, it's a wonder that the surgeon is able to close two prominent facial wounds with no visible stitches or scars.
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Batman (1989) / int_f4d00fb0	type	Deadline News
Batman (1989) / int_f4d00fb0	comment	Deadline News: Some news anchors are discussing the Joker's act of chemical terrorism on Gotham, when suddenly a female anchor starts laughing uncontrollably at a very inappropriate time and then falls over dead with the Smylex victims' characteristic grin on her face.
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Batman (1989) / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
Batman (1989) / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: A VERY hard to spot instance of this can be found on Batman's boots which sport the Nike logo on them. They can be seen very faintly in certain shots during the movie.
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Batman (1989) / int_f5418d03	type	Kitschy Local Commercial
Batman (1989) / int_f5418d03	comment	Kitschy Local Commercial: Darkly parodied when the Joker makes one of these to announce "Joker Brand Cosmetics, with Smylex," complete with him posing with carboard cutout models, shopping in a fake grocery store, and doing a side-by-side comparison with a "Brand-X."
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Batman (1989) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Batman (1989) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Well, it's not completely happy, since Batman, as the next movie reveals, is once again alone and nobody gets the girl, but everything still ends on a pretty high note for a story otherwise so firmly on the cynical end of the spectrum.
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Batman (1989) / int_f863e840	type	Dying Smirk
Batman (1989) / int_f863e840	comment	Dying Smirk: The Joker's Smylex poison is all about this, and as the trope entry reminds us, he goes out this way himself. (Considering his smile is a scar, however, he doesn't have any real choice in the matter.) It's his Pre-Mortem One-Liner to the festival attendees as well.
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Batman (1989) / int_f8ba8ea8	type	Movie Superheroes Wear Black
Batman (1989) / int_f8ba8ea8	comment	Movie Superheroes Wear Black: The Ur-Example, if not the Trope Maker. This movie was perhaps the first to turn superhero costumes black. Batman started off with a black and grey costume but quickly switched to blue and grey in the '40s and remained that way until this movie, which was an idea of Burton's. Eventually, Batman began wearing an all-black costume to match the films, and it's stuck in the live action films ever since.
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Batman (1989) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Batman (1989) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: A minor one: the news reporters look increasingly unkempt as the plot with the poisoned hygiene products unravels.
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Batman (1989) / int_fb3576b2	type	The Dog Bites Back
Batman (1989) / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: The very first thing Jack Napier does after becoming The Joker is kill Grissom as revenge for setting him up to be killed due to his sleeping with Grissom's girlfriend.
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Batman (1989) / int_fb3c0a6	type	Firing in the Air a Lot
Batman (1989) / int_fb3c0a6	comment	Firing in the Air a Lot: Some of the Joker's goons fire into the air during a chase for no particular reason.
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Batman (1989) / int_fb6b207f	type	You Killed My Father
Batman (1989) / int_fb6b207f	comment	You Killed My Father: The Joker, while still Jack Napier, murders young Bruce Wayne's parents in Bruce's childhood, and comes very close to murdering Bruce Wayne himself as well at the same time. The experience, just like in the comics (minus the Joker's involvement), turns Bruce Wayne into Batman, and during the final confrontation between himself and the Joker, he flat out tells Joker that Joker murdered his parents, meaning they've created each other.
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Batman (1989) / int_fc225bec	type	Artistic License – Physics
Batman (1989) / int_fc225bec	comment	The metal tray Bruce finds on Vicki Vale's makeup table and hides under his clothes, which saves his life when the Joker shoots him.
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Batman (1989) / int_fd184a86	type	Street Performer
Batman (1989) / int_fd184a86	comment	Street Performer: The Joker disguises himself and his Mooks as street mimes to kill one of the dissenting mob bosses.
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Batman (1989) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Batman (1989) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: When Bruce goes to Vicki's apartment, he's astonished by the size of it, noting that it has "lots of space." When the Joker appears a few minutes later, he too is impressed, also saying, "lots of space."
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Batman (1989) / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
Batman (1989) / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: To the Joker, anything can be countenanced by society — or, at least, should be countenanced — as long as it is funny, and if it is what one would presumably call a "misdeed," the question of whether it results in great suffering or mere irritation is simply irrelevant. Thus, the Joker goes about doing every "naughty" thing he can think of, just to see what will happen as a result. For example, he hijacks a television broadcast with an irreverent "commercial" taunting Gothamites for having unwittingly bought poisoned household items. He also sends the girl he lusts after a jack-in-the-box that pops up with a handful of dead flowers, which causes her to faint because she's expecting something far more deadly.
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Batman (1989) / int_fe64d5a1	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_fe64d5a1
Batman (1989) / int_fe6c146e	type	The Corrupter
Batman (1989) / int_fe6c146e	comment	The Corrupter: The Joker showers $20 million in cash on the people at the parade as poison gas-filled balloons loom over their heads, thus trying to lure them into Death by Materialism. While not shown in the film, a deleted scene kept in the comic and novelization shows the cash was actually Schmuck Bait. It was not only counterfeit, it had the Joker's face on the bill. It ties in with the foreshadowing when the Joker says he wants his face on the one dollar bill and Jack Napier's aptitude in art (as well as chemistry). To drive the point home, the crowd is chanting "Money! Money! Money!" - in time with Prince's music. The Joker also tries to tempt Vicki into becoming his girlfriend on three occasions: first appealing to her pride ("We're not like regular people. We're artists."), then using the Wounded Gazelle Gambit in reciting a tragic poem, and finally outright trying to seduce her with a "romantic" waltz. He outright fails on the first two tries, and then seems to have succeeded on the third try when Vicki starts returning his kisses, but it's just a Honey Trap.
Batman (1989) / int_fe6c146e	featureApplicability	1.0
Batman (1989) / int_fe6c146e	featureConfidence	1.0
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman (1989) / int_fe6c146e
Batman (1989) / int_fea27091	type	Buffy Speak
Batman (1989) / int_fea27091	comment	Buffy Speak: After Batsy foils his scheme to poison the city with the Batwing, the usually eloquent Joker splutters: "Why didn't somebody tell me he had one of those...things?!"
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	A FÃªte Worse than Death / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Ability over Appearance / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Action Genre / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Actually, I Am Him / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Advertising-Only Continuity / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Agent Mulder / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	All Girls Want Bad Boys / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Alternative Joke Interpretation / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Amazingly Embarrassing Parents / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Ambiguously Human / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	An Odd Place to Sleep / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Apathetic Citizens / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Armed Legs / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Artsy Beret / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Ass-Kicking Pose / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Attack of the Town Festival / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Audience-Coloring Adaptation / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Back-Alley Doctor / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Baddie Flattery / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bait-and-Switch / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bait-and-Switch Comparison / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bastardly Speech / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bat Signal / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman Cold Open / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Batman Grabs a Gun / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Big Electric Switch / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bill... Bill... Junk... Bill... / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bit-Part Bad Guys / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Blade Below the Shoulder / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bloody Smile / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Board to Death / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Brand X / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bring It / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Broken Heel / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bulletproof Vest / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Bullethole Door / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Camera Sniper / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Cannot Spit It Out / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Captive Push / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Car Cushion / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Caught with Your Pants Down / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Chaos Architecture / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Character Title / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Chopper on Standby / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Chorus-Only Song / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	City Noir / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Climbing Climax / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Clothes Make the Superman / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Clown Media / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Cock Fight / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Crapsaccharine World / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Crash in Through the Ceiling / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Creator Cameo / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Creepy Circus Music / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Crowd Panic / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Damsel in Distress / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Damsel Scrappy / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Dangerous Phlebotinum Interaction / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Deadline News / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Deadly Euphemism / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Deadly Gas / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Death by Disfigurement / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Death by Materialism / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Death by Secret Identity / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Deathly Dies Irae / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Deathly Unmasking / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Deuteragonist / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Devil in Plain Sight / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Die Laughing / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Dies Wide Open / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Diesel Punk / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Dirty Old Man / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Distracted by My Own Sexy / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Do Not Adjust Your Set / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Downloadable Content / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Dressed All in Rubber / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Early Draft Tie-In / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Easily Swayed Population / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Electric Joybuzzer / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Emerging from the Shadows / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Enemy Mime / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Enemy Rising Behind / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Engaging Conversation / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Equal-Opportunity Evil / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Everyone Hates Mimes / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Evil Plan / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Excessive Evil Eyeshadow / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Extendo Boxing Glove / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Eye Take / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Faceplanting into Food / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Failing a Taxi / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Fake Muscles / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Fandom Heresy / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Firing in the Air a Lot / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	First Installment Wins / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Floating Head Syndrome / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Forging the Will / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Founding Day / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Fountain of Memes / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Frequently Full Moon / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Frozen Face / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Fruit Cart / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Full Moon Silhouette / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Gangster Fiction / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Gas Mask Mooks / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Gatling Good / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Giant Mook / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Girls Love Stuffed Animals / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Go Out with a Smile / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Go Seduce My Archnemesis / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Going for the Big Scoop / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Gothic Punk / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Grappling-Hook Pistol / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Gratuitous French / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Grin of Audacity / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Ham and Deadpan Duo / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Ham-to-Ham Combat / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Hammy Villain, Serious Hero / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Handshake of Doom / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	"Hey, You!" Haymaker / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	High-Voltage Death / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Hollywood Acid / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	I Have You Now, My Pretty / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	I Just Like Saying the Word / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	I Own This Town / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	I Want Them Alive! / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	I'm Melting! / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Immune to Bullets / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Impossibly Cool Clothes / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Impromptu Tracheotomy / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Improvised Armour / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Inferred Holocaust / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Instant Armor / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Intimidation Demonstration / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Ironic Last Words / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	It's Going Down / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	It's Popular, Now It Sucks! / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Kent Brockman News / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Kill on Sight / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Kiss of Distraction / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Kitschy Local Commercial / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Know When to Fold 'Em / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Know When to Fold 'Em / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Leg Focus / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Lower-Deck Episode / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Lured into a Trap / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Mad Artist / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Magic Plastic Surgery / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Makeup Is Evil / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Malevolent Mugshot / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Mask of Sanity / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Matching Bad Guy Vehicles / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	May Contain Evil / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_c01688c8
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Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Minimalistic Cover Art / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Mirror Reveal / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Missing Steps Plan / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Money to Throw Away / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Mood Motif / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Movie Superheroes Wear Black / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Murder the Hypotenuse / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Musical Pastiche / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	My God, You Are Serious! / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Narcissist / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Near Misses / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Never Bring a Knife to a Fist Fight / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Newspaper Backstory / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Nightmare Fetishist / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Not a Mask / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Not His Sled / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Not Now, Kiddo / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Novelization / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Offering a Hand / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Offhand Backhand / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Offing the Annoyance / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Offscreen Breakup / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	"Oh, Crap!" Fakeout / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Old Superhero / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	108 / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Out of Focus / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Outside-Context Problem / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Outside Ride / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Parody Commercial / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Pass the Popcorn / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	People Fall Off Chairs / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Phallic Weapon / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Pistol-Whipping / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Played for Horror / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Playing Card Motifs / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Plenty of Blondes / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Plummet Perspective / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Pocket Protector / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Pop-Star Composer / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Predecessor Casting Gag / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Protagonist Title / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Psycho for Hire / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Psychological Thriller / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Rage Against the Reflection / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Railing Kill / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Raised Hand of Survival / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Raygun Gothic / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Recycled Trailer Music / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Reformulated Game / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Request for Privacy / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Revolvers Are Just Better / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Right Behind Me / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Ring-Out Boss / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Ripping Off the String of Pearls / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Rooftop Confrontation / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Rudely Hanging Up / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Saved by the Platform Below / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Screaming Warrior / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Screaming Woman / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Second-Hand Storytelling / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Secondary Color Nemesis / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Seriously Scruffy / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Shadow Discretion Shot / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Shoot the Television / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Shrouded in Myth / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Skin-Tone Disguise / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Smoke Out / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Spandex, Latex, or Leather / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Spare a Messenger / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Spared by the Cut / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Sparing the Final Mook / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Speak Ill of the Dead / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Spoiled by the Merchandise / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Spotlight-Stealing Squad / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Squirting Flower / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Squirting Flower Gag / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Stairwell Chase / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Standard Hollywood Strafing Procedure / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Starter Villain Stays / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Steven Ulysses Perhero / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Stood Up / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Street Performer / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Stripped to the Bone / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Stuka Scream / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Suddenly Shouting / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Sue Donym / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Suicidal "Gotcha!" / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Super Window Jump / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Superhero Movie Villains Die / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Superhero Paradox / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Supporting Protagonist / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Symbolic Wings / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Synchro-Vox / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Table Space / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Take My Hand! / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Talk to the Fist / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Talking to the Dead / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Technically a Smile / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Technicolor Science / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Big Rotten Apple / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Heavy / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Lopsided Arm of the Law / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Man Behind the Curtain / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Merch / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The One Thing I Don't Hate About You / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Only One / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Pen Is Mightier / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Purge / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Reveal Prompts Romance / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Social Darwinist / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The Starscream / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	The "The" Title Confusion / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Theme Music Power-Up / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Thememobile / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	They Don't Make Them Like They Used To / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	This Just In! / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Throwing Down the Gauntlet / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Thrown from the Zeppelin / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Tie-In Cereal / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Token Good Cop / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Token Motivational Nemesis / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Transforming Vehicle / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Trick Dialogue / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Trope Codifier / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Trouser Space / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Twinkle Smile / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Un-Confession / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Unaccustomed as I Am to Public Speaking... / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Uncanny Valley Makeup / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Unexpected Gameplay Change / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Unlimited Wardrobe / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Victoria's Secret Compartment / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Villainous Friendship / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Villainy Discretion Shot / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Violence Really Is the Answer / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Weaponized Car / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Western Zodiac / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	What the Hell Are You? / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	When the Clock Strikes Twelve / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Who Are You? / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	Wicked Cultured / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	You Can't Make an Omelette... / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	You Didn't Ask / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	You Wouldn't Hit a Guy with Glasses / int_c01688c8
Batman (1989)	hasFeature	You're Insane! / int_c01688c8

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