History Fanfic / Batman1939

* IllegalGamblingDen: Batman and Diana visit one to get a favor from the woman running it. Overlaps with Legitimate Businessmen's Social Club for the restaurant front hiding it.

* LegitimateBusinessmensSocialClub: A restaurant in Columbia hides a gambling and cockfighting operation run by a don referred to only as ''Abuela''. Overlaps with Illegal Gambling Den.

%%** According to the author, [[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} Lieutenant Slade Wilson]] has no physical enhancements.

* AnArmAndALeg: Faust loses an arm while fighting.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: Barbatos, King of Bats is a bat larger than an office building.
%%* AwfulWeddedLife: The Wellingtons, members of the same social circle as Bruce Wayne.

* BlackBossLady: Amanda Waller, which has to be one of the most astonishing achievements in the series given the fact that this is the early '40s. Multiple characters comment on this.

* Geas: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Batman. He tricks one of the henchmen opposing them into hitting Zatanna, breaking the agreement between Faust and Shadowcrest and allowing the latter to remove the henchman.

%%* InformedSelfDiagnosis: In the Batcave with Alfred after the Fort Morrison affair.

%%* WorthyOpponent:
%%** Batman to Lt. Slade Wilson, and vice versa.
%%** [[spoiler: Batman to Wonder Woman.]]

** Diana hangs on to the landing gear of several planes in order to get back to the U.S. from South America.

* CrazyPrepared: Bruce has contingency plans for hundreds of scenarios, no matter how unlikely they may be, including someone trying to de-orbit the Moon. He has motor vehicles stashed around Gotham City for emergency use. He has 40 encrypted phrases stored by a double-blind service that can be issued to any of fourteen P.O. boxes, and a key in the Batcave allows Alfred to decode their meanings based on the encrypted message and which P.O. box it went to. A side story depicts his elaborate staging of his takedown of a counterfeiting operation to make him seem superhuman, building up the Batman mythos.
* TheCorruption: Faust starts corrupting Shadowcrest's magic to gain control of the house.

* UndersideRide: Batman sometimes rides the undersides of train cars to get around. He even has hammocks installed under a few.

* RealityIsOutToLunch: Magic, and in particular the Emergent Sea, doesn't always follow the laws of physics. The Emergent Sea is a space that wraps around on itself so that crossing the "boundary" puts a body at the opposite end. It's water doesn't have the surface tension that would make a high-speed impact fatal. A pair of prank glasses are known to make someone fall in the direction they're looking when they put on the glasses, even if that direction is "up," which has allegedly led to some mage children's deaths.

* HealingHands: [[spoiler:Sindella]] magically heals Batman's injuries.

* SelfDestructingSecurity: The hidden compartment within the glove compartment of Bruce's Ford coupe is booby-trapped to incinerate the contents if a button isn't pressed within a certain amount of time after opening it.

** Multiple people use a telepathic radio as a LieDetector; the radio starts on a long-winded, alliterative rant synopsizing the situation until a character either aggressively or politely makes it get to the point.

* RunningGag: In ''Three's Company'' women in different scenes are each reading a paperback book with a brawny cowboy on the cover, and the same book appears in a secret vault of books.

* Telepathy: A mystical radio can tune in to a station that reads the minds of its listeners.

* RealityIsOutToLunch: Magic, and in particular the Endless Sea, doesn't always follow the laws of physics. The Endless Sea is a space that wraps around on itself so that crossing the "boundary" puts a body at the opposite end. It's water doesn't have the surface tension that would make a high-speed impact fatal. A pair of prank glasses are known to make someone fall in the direction they're looking when they put on the glasses, even if that direction is "up," which has allegedly led to some mage children's deaths.

* RealityIsOutToLunch: Magic, and in particular the Endless Sea, doesn't always follow the laws of physics. The Endless Sea is a space that wraps around on itself so that crossing the "boundary" puts a body at the opposite end. It's water doesn't have the surface tension that would make a high-speed impact fatal. A pair of prank glasses are known to make someone fall in the direction they're looking when they put on the glasses, even if that direction is "up," which has allegedly led to some magi children's deaths.

* AnomalousArt: Praying mantises emerge from a painting to attack Felix.
* AnArmAndALeg: Felix loses an arm while fighting.

* CantLiveWithoutYou: Felix ties his life to Giovanni's so that killing him will kill Giovanni.

* TheCorruption: Felix starts corrupting Shadowcrest's magic to gain control of the house.

* ExactWords: Shadowcrest agrees not to obstruct Felix or his lackeys with any force under its control, knowing Batman and Catwoman are coming in and are not under its control.

* Geas: {{Invoked|Trope}} by Batman. He tricks one of the henchmen opposing them into hitting Zatanna, breaking the agreement between Felix and Shadowcrest and allowing the latter to remove the henchman.

* HealingFactor: Felix slowly regenerates his arm after losing it.

* LeonineContract: The spirit of Shadowcrest agrees not to obstruct Felix's efforts to destroy the property in exchange for Felix's promise to undo his [[CantLiveWithoutYou bond]] to Giovanni and to let Giovanni and Zatanna leave unharmed.

* SummoningRitual: Felix performs a ritual to summon Barbatos, King of Bats.
* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: From the observatory Felix can scry almost every other room in the house.
* Telepathy: A mystical radio can tune in to a station that smarizes the thoughts of its listeners.

** Batman flashes back to a moment in his training during a fight.

* {{Flashback}}: Batman flashes back to a moment in his training during a fight.