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* TheBeard: Bruce hires one to pull an alibi on Gordon. The easiest five grand she ever made.
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* OriginalPositionFallacy: At a dinner party at Falcone's mansion, Commissioner Loeb assures Falcone and a group of Gotham's elites that Batman is actually good for them in the long run: a vigilante beating up a few street-level thugs and drug dealers helps the city's inhabitants to feel safe, "and the safer they feel, the fewer questions they ask". Then Batman crashes the party and tells the assembled elites that he holds '''all''' of them accountable for Gotham's misery, and "none of you are safe." First thing the next morning:
-->'''Loeb''': No excuses, Gordon! That vigilante bastard goes down instantly, or it's your job!"
-->'''Loeb''': No excuses, Gordon! That vigilante bastard goes down instantly, or it's your job!"
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"This is not about anger in response to something that would reasonably enrage someone"
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* BerserkButton: For Selina Kyle: don't hurt or threaten Holly for your own good...
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* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: This is the story with the famous training scene that showed Bruce with borderline superhuman strength. He's able to break a tree with the power of his kicks and destroys a stack of bricks with an open handed strike of some sort... and from the way the scene is drawn, it looks like Bruce is destroying those bricks with a ''thrust of his fingers''.
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* CreatorCameo: While perhaps not the ''first'' to do it, this story is likely the TropeCodifier for various Gotham landmarks named after past Batman creators (usually from decades ago), namedropping (Jerry) Robinson Park, the (Bill) Finger Memorial, and the (Dick) Sprang Mission.
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* NighthawksShot: The diner that becomes a sort of GoodGuyBar to Gordon and Sarah Essen. Eventually it's revealed the place is, in fact, named ''Hopper's''.
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* DirtyCop: The Gotham City Police Department is swimming with them, although Detective Flass is the most obvious example.
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* DirtyCop: The Gotham City Police Department is swimming with them, although Detective Flass is the most obvious example. Gordon's refusal to go dirty nets him a lot of enemies among his coworkers very quickly.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: When the police bomb the abandoned apartment building Batman is sheltering in, the blast ignites the thermite in Batman's utility belt, forcing him to discard it, so he only has the meagre number of gadgets in his boots and his wits to survive against the heavily-armed SWAT officers gunning for him.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: When the police bomb the abandoned apartment building Batman is sheltering in, the blast ignites the thermite in Batman's utility belt, forcing him to discard it, so he only has the meagre number of gadgets in his boots and his wits to survive against the heavily-armed SWAT officers gunning for him.
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* BrickJoke: After Gordon easily beats the crap out of Flass, he knows Flass has too big an ego to tattle and will probably say something like he got ganged up on by ten people. Later in the story, Flass recounts his encounter with Batman; the exposition is paired with a flashback showing what actually happened showing us that, yup, Flass makes himself look much better and Batman far more powerful.
* MoreDakka: Branden and the other SWAT members' response to basically anything is to bomb and blast it as much as they can; it doesn't matter to them how many innocents or even their own team mates get caught in the crossfire.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Wayne takes on a pimp selling underage girls in the RedLightDistrict, and the girl he's pimping stabs him in retaliation. Then everyone else proceeds to gang up on this outsider who's attacking one of their own.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished:
** Wayne takes on a pimp selling underage girls in the RedLightDistrict, and the girl he's pimping stabs him in retaliation. Then everyone else proceeds to gang up on this outsider who's attacking one of theirown.own.
** Batman saves a homeless woman from getting hit by an out-of-control truck, and is rewarded with the TriggerHappy cops opening fire and nearly killing him. Several more homeless people end up being killed by the police as acceptable losses as they try to kill Batman.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Branden and his other SWAT officers have this as their response to basically anything they're called in to deal with. Gordon recalls an incident where they put down a park riot so violently that not even the statues were left standing. When Loeb calls in Branden to deal with Batman, his first action is to carpet bomb the apartment building Batman is in, ''five times''.
* NonActionBigBad: The two primary antagonists of the story, the corrupt Commissioner Loeb and the mob boss Carmine Falcone. Neither is even close to a physical match for Batman, or even Gordon for that matter, but they both have many followers willing to carry out their violent orders.
** Wayne takes on a pimp selling underage girls in the RedLightDistrict, and the girl he's pimping stabs him in retaliation. Then everyone else proceeds to gang up on this outsider who's attacking one of their
** Batman saves a homeless woman from getting hit by an out-of-control truck, and is rewarded with the TriggerHappy cops opening fire and nearly killing him. Several more homeless people end up being killed by the police as acceptable losses as they try to kill Batman.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: Branden and his other SWAT officers have this as their response to basically anything they're called in to deal with. Gordon recalls an incident where they put down a park riot so violently that not even the statues were left standing. When Loeb calls in Branden to deal with Batman, his first action is to carpet bomb the apartment building Batman is in, ''five times''.
* NonActionBigBad: The two primary antagonists of the story, the corrupt Commissioner Loeb and the mob boss Carmine Falcone. Neither is even close to a physical match for Batman, or even Gordon for that matter, but they both have many followers willing to carry out their violent orders.
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* StupidEvil: Batman jumps in on three teenagers robbing an apartment through the balcony. Unfortunately his TerrorHero persona is ''too'' effective and scares one of them so much he falls over the railing. Batman barely manages to catch him by the ankle, but rather than being thankful that Batman saved their friend from plummeting to his death, the other two robbers take the opportunity to start pummelling Batman, even through he's the only thing keeping the third from falling twenty storeys. Some friends...
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* TerrorHero: This comic shows how Bruce took up the persona of Batman. When he first set out to clean up the streets as a vigilante, he fails miserably because criminals aren't afraid of him. While pondering what he should do, a bat crashes through his window and lands on a bust of his father. This inspires him to cloak himself as this creature of the night to terrify his enemies, just as bats frightened him as a child.
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* AnswerCut: When Gordon willingly confronts a crazed gunman unarmed, he internally hopes that his wife isn't watching the event on television, but knows she probably is. Sure enough, the dialogue boxes are right next to a panel showing her watching him on television in a live news report.
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* DecoyProtagonist: While Batman is still a main character and his early days protecting Gotham are explored, Gordon's conflict with his corrupt fellow officers gets a ''lot'' more focus in this story.
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* InsaneEqualsViolent: A one-off criminal is a paranoid schizophrenic recently released from Arkham Asylum that kidnaps three children at gunpoint. He's making some sort of demands to the police while holding a gun to the head of one kid, but because he's utterly delusional, none of his demands make any sense.
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* KnightInSourArmour: GordonGordon. He's the only good cop is a city with insanely high crime rates and only violent, corrupt cops. Even when his life and his family are threatened by his coworkers he refuses to give in.
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* OhCrap: The reaction of Falcone crime family and corrupt officials when Batman tells them he's coming after them.
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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
** The reaction of Falcone crime family and corrupt officials when Batman tells them he's coming afterthem.them.
** Gordon has this reaction twice in the story. First when he hears [[TriggerHappy Branden]] has been called in to deal with a crazed gunman holding three children hostile, and second when he finds out Flass and Loeb have photos of his infidelity.
** The reaction of Falcone crime family and corrupt officials when Batman tells them he's coming after
** Gordon has this reaction twice in the story. First when he hears [[TriggerHappy Branden]] has been called in to deal with a crazed gunman holding three children hostile, and second when he finds out Flass and Loeb have photos of his infidelity.
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* RealIsBrown: The comic portrays a much more realistic and gritty retelling of Batman's origin, and uses a far more muted colour palette than the norm at the time (or since, for that matter), with very dark and greyish watercolour hues.
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* SelfImposedChallenge: InUniverse. When Gordon gets revenge on Flass for beating him up, he throws Flass a baseball bat because he decides he needs a handicap. He ''still'' easily beats Flass with his bare hands.
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Chronologically, it is followed by a sequel story arc, ''Comicbook/BatmanYearTwo''.
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* IdleRich: Bruce cultivates this image as a cover, since who would suspect lazy, good-for-nothing Bruce Wayne with, well, ''Batman''? Gordon however is not convinced.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Bruce cultivates this image as a cover, since who would suspect lazy, good-for-nothing Bruce Wayne with, well, ''Batman''? Gordon however is not convinced.
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* TriggerHappy: Lt. Branden and his SWAT team.
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* TriggerHappy: Lt. Branden and his SWAT team.team who even end up shooting fellow police officers.
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* DarkSkinnedBlonde: The girl hanging all over Bruce's arm when Gordon comes calling at the manor in chapter four.
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** Commissioner Loeb also has a habit of answering his own rhetorical questions and reinforcing his own statements, yes he does.[[note]]This is a CreatorThumbprint of Miller's, used by Virgo in ''ComicBook/{{Ronin}}'' and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''.[[/note]]
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** Commissioner Loeb also has a habit of answering his own rhetorical questions and reinforcing his own statements, yes he does.[[note]]This is a CreatorThumbprint of Miller's, used by Virgo in ''ComicBook/{{Ronin}}'' ''ComicBook/Ronin1983'' and UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns''.[[/note]]
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Because it didn't have reason to be brought up. When it did, it was.
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* CanonDiscontinuity: Notice how few people acknowledge Selina Kyle's backstory as a prostitute.
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* PredatoryProstitute: Catwoman herself starts out as one of these, which is why she provides the page image, a HellBentForLeather dominatrix living in Gotham City's RedLightDistrict who doesn't hesitate to jump in when she witnesses a brawl break out on the street between Bruce Wayne and several other people.
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* TheSeventies: While the book itself was written in the '80s, the story is set roughly ten years prior to the present day, landing it somewhere in the late '70s. Gotham City here is very similar to late 70's New York (especially the red light district) as seen through ''Film/TaxiDriver'' and Miller's earlier work on ''Daredevil''.
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* TheSeventies: While the book itself was written in the 80's, the story is set roughly ten years prior from present day, landing it somewhere in the late 70's. Gotham City here is very similar to late 70's New York (especially the red light district) as seen through ''Film/TaxiDriver'' and Miller's earlier work on ''Daredevil''.
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* UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks: Was written at the very end of it. This story arc, along with ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' (also by Miller) and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (by Creator/AlanMoore) are often credited with starting the UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
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* UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks: Was written at the very end of it. This story arc, along with ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' (also by Miller) and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (by Creator/AlanMoore) are often credited with starting the UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
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* UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks: Was written at the very end of it.
** [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]]: This story arc, along with ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' (also by Miller) and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (by Creator/AlanMoore) are often credited with starting this age.
** [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]]: This story arc, along with ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' (also by Miller) and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (by Creator/AlanMoore) are often credited with starting this age.
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** [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]]:it. This story arc, along with ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'' (also by Miller) and ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' (by Creator/AlanMoore) are often credited with starting this age.the UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks.
** [[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]]:
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''Batman: Year One'' is unique in the following: It was deemed the official origin story for Batman ComicBook/PostCrisis, and remained canon despite other {{Cosmic Retcon}}s until the Comicbook/{{New 52}}, where it would eventually be replaced by Creator/ScottSnyder and Greg Capullo's ''[[ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear Zero Year]]''. It is also canon to the "Dark Knight Universe", an AlternateContinuity comprised of Miller's other ''Batman'' stories, including ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'', Dark Knight: The Last Crusade, ''[[ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns The Dark Knight Returns]]'', ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'', and ''ComicBook/DarkKnightIIITheMasterRace''.
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''Batman: Year One'' is unique in the following: It was deemed the official origin story for Batman ComicBook/PostCrisis, and remained canon despite other {{Cosmic Retcon}}s until the Comicbook/{{New 52}}, where it would eventually be replaced by Creator/ScottSnyder and Greg Capullo's ''[[ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear Zero Year]]''. It is also canon to the "Dark Knight Universe", an AlternateContinuity comprised of Miller's other ''Batman'' stories, including ''ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder'', Dark ''Dark Knight: The Last Crusade, Crusade'', ''[[ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns The Dark Knight Returns]]'', ''ComicBook/TheDarkKnightStrikesAgain'', and ''ComicBook/DarkKnightIIITheMasterRace''.
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* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Wayne takes on a pimp selling underage girls in the RedLightDistrict, and the girl he's pimping stabs him in retaliation. Then everyone else proceeds to gang up on this outsider who's attacking one of their own.
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* RealityEnsues: Wayne takes on a pimp selling underage girls in the RedLightDistrict, and the girl he's pimping stabs him in retaliation. Then everyone else proceeds to gang up on this outsider who's attacking one of their own.
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* IconicAttributeAdoptionMoment: This sees Batman initially strike out crime-fighting disguised as a common thug, and doesn't assume his cape and cowl until after his first outing goes ''horribly'' wrong. He realizes a big part of it is because the criminals weren't at all afraid or intimidated by him, so he decides to up his theatricality...
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* AmazonianBeauty: This version of Catwoman.
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* BasicInstinctLegsCrossingParody: Not shown to the audience, but during Gordon's visit to Bruce Wayne, Bruce sat crossing his legs while in his robes, prompting Barbara to avert her eyes.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
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--> '''Flass''': "... I said ''posse.''"GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.
** Flass' joke:
--> '''Flass''': "... I said ''posse.''"
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: In the extras, it's shown that David Mazzucchelli based Bruce Wayne's appearance from actor Creator/GregoryPeck. This is a nod to the casting that Creator/OrsonWelles had intended for a possible ''Batman'' adaptation that never came into fruition.
** Creator/OrsonWelles planning a Batman movie is an Main/{{Urban Legend|s}} that Creator/MarkMillar [[https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-103/ started in 2003]], 17 years after ''Batman: Year One'' came out.
** Creator/OrsonWelles planning a Batman movie is an Main/{{Urban Legend|s}} that Creator/MarkMillar [[https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-103/ started in 2003]], 17 years after ''Batman: Year One'' came out.
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* ComicBookFantasyCasting: In the extras, it's shown that David Mazzucchelli based Bruce Wayne's appearance from actor Creator/GregoryPeck. This is a nod to the casting that Creator/OrsonWelles had intended for a possible ''Batman'' adaptation that never came into fruition.\n** Creator/OrsonWelles planning a Batman movie is an Main/{{Urban Legend|s}} that Creator/MarkMillar [[https://www.cbr.com/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-103/ started in 2003]], 17 years after ''Batman: Year One'' came out.
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* YourCheatingHeart:
** Gordon cheats on his wife Barbara with his partner, Det. Sarah Essen. Both know it's wrong, so Sarah requests a transfer to another city when Gordon ends the affair, and Jim eventually confesses to Barbara, vowing to work on their relationship. Also, Commissioner Loeb tries to blackmail Jim into "playing nice" by showing him pictures of the affair and later calling Barbara to tell on him. (By then, Jim has confessed, and Barbara quickly blows them off. This results in Loeb taking more ''drastic'' measures.).
** Jim also mentions one of Flass's poker buddies to be a cheater.
** Gordon cheats on his wife Barbara with his partner, Det. Sarah Essen. Both know it's wrong, so Sarah requests a transfer to another city when Gordon ends the affair, and Jim eventually confesses to Barbara, vowing to work on their relationship. Also, Commissioner Loeb tries to blackmail Jim into "playing nice" by showing him pictures of the affair and later calling Barbara to tell on him. (By then, Jim has confessed, and Barbara quickly blows them off. This results in Loeb taking more ''drastic'' measures.).
** Jim also mentions one of Flass's poker buddies to be a cheater.
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* CanAlwaysSpotACop: {{Downplayed}} with Bruce's first night out crimefighting. [[StarterVillain Stan the pimp]] can tell he's ''someone'' in disguise, though he (understandably) mistakes Bruce for a vice cop instead of an independent vigilante.
-->''That crazy vet bit...thas old, man.''
** Later on, Batman himself plays the trope straight, identifying all the cops in a sting (meant to catch him) by ''name''.
-->''That crazy vet bit...thas old, man.''
** Later on, Batman himself plays the trope straight, identifying all the cops in a sting (meant to catch him) by ''name''.
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* ResignedInDisgrace: This befalls Loeb at the end after Flass testifies against him.
