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* The late-[[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]]/early-[[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] villain Scarface always refers to Batman as "Gatman," and similarly pronounces all his B's as G's. It seems like just a strange verbal tic, until you stop to consider that Scarface is just a puppet controlled by The Ventriloquist, and the labial "B" sound is one of the hardest for ventriloquists to produce: he created Scarface's "speech impediment" as a way to work around the fact that he's really not that good.

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* The late-[[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks late-[[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]]/early-[[UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Age]]/early-[[MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks Dark Age]] villain Scarface always refers to Batman as "Gatman," and similarly pronounces all his B's as G's. It seems like just a strange verbal tic, until you stop to consider that Scarface is just a puppet controlled by The Ventriloquist, and the labial "B" sound is one of the hardest for ventriloquists to produce: he created Scarface's "speech impediment" as a way to work around the fact that he's really not that good.
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\n* People make a lot of jokes about Batman grooming his Robins to be child soldiers, but consider: Bruce's understanding of healthy father figures ends with a shellshocked eight-year-old's worldview. Everything after that, Bruce was being mentored by shady figure after shady figure before he returned to the caring parentage of Alfred. Bruce was the original child soldier, and he volunteered for it.

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