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* MrFanservice: Issue 7 has Jason waking up after having a nightmare, only to realize he had no clothes on. This doesn't stop him from getting up, and we are treated to a very good view of his ass.
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* CallForward: In issue #9, while sneaking around the Powers labs, Bloom runs into [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Derek Powers]], who is only a boy here and has no inkling of the [[IncrediblyLamePun blight]] future ahead of him.

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* CallForward: In issue #9, while sneaking around the Powers labs, Bloom runs into [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Derek Powers]], who is only a boy here and has no inkling of the [[IncrediblyLamePun [[{{Pun}} blight]] future ahead of him.
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Jason manages this by the end of the series, ditching Gotham [[NamesTheSame (the city, not the now-zombified superhero)]] after a corpse Bloom had dressed up in the Red Hood costume that he was going to use to attempt to plant a [[TheMole mole]] in the superhero community is found at the collapse of the Powers Industries building, being reported as dead, with seemingly only Stephanie Brown and Two-Face currently aware of his survival.]]

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Jason manages this by the end of the series, ditching Gotham [[NamesTheSame (the city, not the now-zombified superhero)]] superhero) after a corpse Bloom had dressed up in the Red Hood costume that he was going to use to attempt to plant a [[TheMole mole]] in the superhero community is found at the collapse of the Powers Industries building, being reported as dead, with seemingly only Stephanie Brown and Two-Face currently aware of his survival.]]
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* {{Troll}}: Jason plays this role to the hilt during his fight with Tim, Dick, and Cass, constantly taunting and trash-talking them. [[spoiler:{{Justified}} due to this being an integral part of Jason's plan, [[WeNeedADistraction distracting the Batfamily]] after he manages to sneak the stolen sample of Lazarus Resin to a disguised Sundowner early on in the fight, continuing to taunt them to DrawAggro and ensure they focus on him, giving Hannah time to get away with the serum. Granted, even once he's found out and Hannah is long gone, Jason continues to intentionally rile Dick up as much as possible before he makes his escape, even asking Cass to use her body reading abilities to confirm how mad Dick is, just because he can.]]

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* {{Troll}}: Jason plays this role to the hilt during his fight with Tim, Dick, and Cass, constantly taunting and trash-talking them. [[spoiler:{{Justified}} due to this being an integral part of Jason's plan, [[WeNeedADistraction distracting the Batfamily]] after he manages to sneak the stolen sample of Lazarus Resin to a disguised Sundowner early on in the fight, continuing to taunt them to DrawAggro and ensure they focus on him, giving Hannah Hanna time to get away with the serum. Granted, even once he's found out and Hannah Hanna is long gone, Jason continues to intentionally rile Dick up as much as possible before he makes his escape, even asking Cass to use her body reading abilities to confirm how mad Dick is, just because he can.]]
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** Mr. Bloom delves into this even more than the Shelleys, having helped pioneer the Lazarus Resin's creation, and, as soon as he is given the chance, proceeding to run multiple horrifying experiments on Man-Bat, including dissecting his brain and hooking up machinery to it, partially turning him back to his human form before repeatedly switching off which form Man-Bat is in, and ''much'' more. Notably, Man-Bat is his ''own lab assistant'' during all of this. Additionally, Bloom is guilty of [[spoiler:implanting FakeMemories in corpses of being other people in life to brainwash them and turning the other members of Task Force Z into undead ManchurianAgents with copies of his own mind.]]
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* {{Troll}}: Jason plays this role to the hilt during his fight with Tim, Dick, and Cass, constantly taunting and trash-talking them. [[spoiler:{{Justified}} due to this being an integral part of Jason's plan, [[WeNeedADistraction distracting the Batfamily]] after he manages to sneak the stolen sample of Lazarus Resin to a disguised Sundowner early on in the fight, continuing to taunt them to DrawAggro and ensure they focus on him, giving Hannah time to get away with the serum. Granted, even once he's found out and Hannah is long gone, Jason continues to intentionally rile Dick up as much as possible before he makes his escape, even asking Cass to use her body reading abilities to confirm how mad Dick is, just because he can.]]
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* HeroAntagonist: Batman and the Batfamily all end up opposing Jason and him working with Task Force Z. The notable exception to this is Stephanie Brown/Spoiler, who is the one member to never directly oppose Jason, though she does try to warn him away from his current path.

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* HeroAntagonist: Batman and the Batfamily all end up opposing Jason and him working with Task Force Z. The notable exception to this (aside from Duke Thomas, who is mentioned but does not appear in the flesh) is Stephanie Brown/Spoiler, who is the one member to never directly oppose Jason, though she does try to warn him away from his current path.
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Jason manages this by the end of the series, ditching Gotham [[NamesTheSame (the city, not the now-zombified superhero)]] after a corpse Bloom had dressed up in the Red Hood costume that he was going to use to attempt to plant a [[TheMole mole]] in the superhero community is found at the collapse of the Powers Industries building, being reported as dead, with only Stephanie Brown and Two-Face seemingly currently aware of his survival.]]

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Jason manages this by the end of the series, ditching Gotham [[NamesTheSame (the city, not the now-zombified superhero)]] after a corpse Bloom had dressed up in the Red Hood costume that he was going to use to attempt to plant a [[TheMole mole]] in the superhero community is found at the collapse of the Powers Industries building, being reported as dead, with seemingly only Stephanie Brown and Two-Face seemingly currently aware of his survival.]]
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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Jason manages this by the end of the series, ditching Gotham after a corpse Bloom had dressed up in the Red Hood costume that he was going to use to attempt to plant a [[TheMole mole]] in the superhero community is found at the collapse of the Powers Industries building, being reported as dead, with only Stephanie Brown and Two-Face seemingly currently aware of his survival.]]

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Jason manages this by the end of the series, ditching Gotham [[NamesTheSame (the city, not the now-zombified superhero)]] after a corpse Bloom had dressed up in the Red Hood costume that he was going to use to attempt to plant a [[TheMole mole]] in the superhero community is found at the collapse of the Powers Industries building, being reported as dead, with only Stephanie Brown and Two-Face seemingly currently aware of his survival.]]

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* BodyHorror: The undead cast finds themselves in various, very detailed states of decay when they're not being ripped apart and regrowing limbs. [[spoiler: Bane's resurrection in Issue #5, in particular, leaves him particularly monstrous-looking]]

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* BodyHorror: The undead cast finds themselves in various, very detailed states of decay when they're not being ripped apart and regrowing limbs. [[spoiler: Bane's resurrection in Issue #5, in particular, leaves him particularly monstrous-looking]]monstrous-looking.]]


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**[[spoiler: Later, it's {{Subverted}} when it's revealed "Bane" is actually the corpse of Gotham, who was revived and implanted with FakeMemories of being Bane by Mr. Bloom. Once he learns this, Jason [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone does]] ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone not]]'' [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone take the fact that he essentially kicked an innocent man off of a skyscraper very well.]]]]
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** [[spoiler:Granted, however, Mr. Bloom does recover near-immediately from a gunshot to the face and is a HumanoidAbomination par excellence, so how much of the SuperToughness displayed is from the suit and how much is from Mr. Bloom himself is really up in the air.]]
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* PoweredArmor: [[spoiler:Mr. Bloom ends up using Jim Gordon's mechanized GCPD Batsuit from the ''Superheavy'' arc (ironically enough, the very arc Bloom was introduced in and served as the ArcVillain for) to engage with Jason and Harvey's Task Force Z by the end. The suit ends up turning him into such a [[TheJuggernaut juggernaut]] that it takes Gotham, someone with powers akin to a Kryptonian at their most potent levels, to fly him away to his UncertainDoom in order to take him out, with a prior explosion and the collapse of an entire building right on top of him barely slowing Bloom down.]]
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:Mr. Bloom's final moments in the mini are him being grabbed by an angry Gotham before Gotham zooms away into the sky, coming back down and saying "not to worry" about Bloom. We're never told whether this means Gotham killed Bloom or not, or what Gotham even did to him.]]
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* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:Mr. Bloom is revealed to be using these extensively in his plan, having dug up the corpse of Hank Clover Jr./Gotham and implanted him with Bane's memories in order to serve on the team, and attempting the same with a random corpse that he dresses up as Red Hood, planning to transfer a mix of Jason's memories and brainwashing into to serve as an [[TheMole infiltrator in the hero community.]] Unfortunately for Bloom, the zombie gets tricked into blowing itself (and the Powers Industries building everyone is currently in) up by Jason before this can happen.]]

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* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:Mr. Bloom is revealed to be using these extensively in his plan, having dug up the corpse of Hank Clover Jr./Gotham and implanted him with Bane's memories in order to serve on the team, and attempting the same with a random corpse that he dresses up as Red Hood, planning to transfer a mix of Jason's memories and brainwashing into the zombie to serve as an [[TheMole infiltrator in within the hero community.]] Unfortunately for Bloom, the zombie gets tricked into blowing itself (and the Powers Industries building everyone is currently in) up by Jason before this can happen.]]

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* FakeMemories: [[spoiler:Mr. Bloom is revealed to be using these extensively in his plan, having dug up the corpse of Hank Clover Jr./Gotham and implanted him with Bane's memories in order to serve on the team, and attempting the same with a random corpse that he dresses up as Red Hood, planning to transfer a mix of Jason's memories and brainwashing into to serve as an [[TheMole infiltrator in the hero community.]] Unfortunately for Bloom, the zombie gets tricked into blowing itself (and the Powers Industries building everyone is currently in) up by Jason before this can happen.]]



* HeroAntagonist: Batman and the Batfamily all end up opposing Jason and him working with Task Force Z.

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* HeroAntagonist: Batman and the Batfamily all end up opposing Jason and him working with Task Force Z. The notable exception to this is Stephanie Brown/Spoiler, who is the one member to never directly oppose Jason, though she does try to warn him away from his current path.
* HiveMind: [[spoiler:Mr. Bloom is able to pull off an odd version of this, implanting special {{Brainwashing}} into the revived members of Task Force Z that allows him to activate a copy of his own personality in them to take them over, managing to subvert Copperhead, [=KGBeast=], and Madame Crow this way.]]



* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Mr. Bloom was deeply involved with the creation of the Lazarus Resin, and is none too happy about getting absolutely nothing out of the deal. He spends the first arc of the story scheming against his handlers in order to get free.]]

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* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: Mr. Bloom was deeply involved with the creation of the Lazarus Resin, and is none too happy about getting absolutely nothing out of the deal. He spends the first arc of the story scheming against his handlers in order to get free.free, and ends up being the FinalBoss of the mini.]]



* TwoGirlsToATeam: Astrid Arkham and Hanna Hobart are the two females of Task Force-Z.

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* TwoGirlsToATeam: Astrid Arkham and Hanna Hobart are the two females in the first incarnation of Task Force-Z.

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* FakingTheDead: [[spoiler:Jason manages this by the end of the series, ditching Gotham after a corpse Bloom had dressed up in the Red Hood costume that he was going to use to attempt to plant a [[TheMole mole]] in the superhero community is found at the collapse of the Powers Industries building, being reported as dead, with only Stephanie Brown and Two-Face seemingly currently aware of his survival.]]



* IDieFree: [[spoiler:In the final issue, the zombified Gotham decides to do this once Jason talks him down and he takes out Mr. Bloom, flying off with Gotham Girl to live the rest of the time the Lazarus Resin gives him on his own terms, instead of being left dependent on the resin to live, choosing to live his last days the way he wants to.]]



* MercyKill: [[spoiler:Sort of. At the end of Issue 12, when Two-Face revives the remaining corpses with Lazarus Resin for a yet-unknown purpose, he intentionally does not inject Man-Bat, telling the corpse to "rest", in compliance with Man-Bat's vocalized desire to be allowed to die throughout the series.]]



* PhlebotinumDependence: Any characters who are brought back to life via the Lazarus Resin aren't brought ''fully'' back to life. Without more resin, they will quickly decay into shambling, cannibalistic corpses.

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* PhlebotinumDependence: Any characters who are brought back to life via the Lazarus Resin aren't brought ''fully'' back to life. Without more resin, they will quickly decay into shambling, cannibalistic corpses.corpses, and then end up dying all over again.
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-->Jason: "Don't you think that the world might be a better place if you, ya know... ''didn't?''"
-->Dr. Shelley: "I'm a scientist. ''Better'' isn't really something we deal with."

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-->Jason: -->'''Jason''': "Don't you think that the world might be a better place if you, ya know... ''didn't?''"
-->Dr. Shelley: -->'''Dr. Shelley''': "I'm a scientist. ''Better'' isn't really something we deal with."

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* IdenticalTwinIDTag: Delia and Amelia look identical with the exception of their haircuts.



-->Two-Face: [[PopculturalOsmosisFailure "I haven't seen it."]]

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-->Two-Face: -->'''Two-Face''': [[PopculturalOsmosisFailure "I haven't seen it."]]


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* TheReveal: Issue 10 reveals [[spoiler:the fake Bane that's been running around with Task Force Z is a modified and reanimated Henry "Hank" Clover Jr./Gotham.]]

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