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TopicScarlet Fixes The Comic Book Movies: Dawn of Just Us
scarletspeed7
10/11/18 7:53:35 PM
#138:


Batman goes to pay a visit to Maroni that same evening. Catwoman, too, makes the same visit and once again the two run into one another. This time, however, Catwoman's motive is to simply out-and-out kill Maroni; however, his young son is there as well. Batman refuses to let her, and she turns on him. Maroni and his son escape in the offing, now with the knowledge that both Cobblepot and he are under investigation. Batman finds in and amongst the chaos at Maroni's home a tape recorded phone message declaring Cobblepot's involvement in Maroni's election.

With the vote for mayor only two days away, Dent is able to play the incriminating message on primetime television, and the city rebels against voting for Cobblepot. Catwoman tracks Maroni to the sewers, but is caught by Penguin and Maroni's minions. In response, Maroni grows insanely paranoid and violent, even slapping his son and calling him an idiot when his son attempts to give a beaten and broken Catwoman some water.

Penguin, witnessing abuse similar to what he experienced as a child, immediately goes off of his rocker and begins to ramble about killing the fathers of Gotham. We get the same Burtonesque plan involving penguin bombs from the original movie, and eventually we reach the same climax of the movie. Penguin seemingly falls to his death in toxic waste, and Maroni is eventually electrocuted by Catwoman after she is shot. Both appear to die, but when Batman is distracted for a moment, Selina's remains are gone. Again, the rest of the movie is playing out the same for the most part. Maroni, however, isn't dead but simply stunned, and Gordon, Dent and Batman stand on the rooftop of the GCPD and take stock of things. Maroni is destined for trial, and an entire crime syndicate will soon fall to its knees. Dent leaves, and Batman expresses regret for the death of Catwoman, who he considers a victim of the crime he has been trying so desperately to stop. Gordon says that, when she put on the mask, she stopped being a victim. "Wouldn't you agree?" he tells Batman, as he steps inside. And then there's that little reveal that Catwoman is still alive, roll credits, boom.

I feel like tonally this plot opens up a lot of space to explore how victims deal with abuse, whether it's the Penguin living with the abuse from his father, or the timid Selina Kyle being crushed under the minor abuses she faces daily and then being transformed by a major abuse into someone consumed by it. Furthermore, there's an opportunity for Batman to say, "This isn't how we do things," championing Harvey Dent's aggressive but still ethical attitudes in comparison to Selina Kyle's selfish revenge.

I know it's a little bit scattered, but for a 15 minute brainstorm, I think it actually is a great place to start.
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