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* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off a man's head with a revolver.
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* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off a man's head with a revolver.revolver.
* WomanScorned: Tabitha does not take well to seeing her brother and Barbara kiss.
* WomanScorned: Tabitha does not take well to seeing her brother and Barbara kiss.
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* DisposableVagrant: Two of the young men laughing at Jerome's antics on TV then stab a homeless man to death.
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* FreudianExcuse: Jerome has a story about his mother and one of her lovers abusing him that at least sounds genuine.
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* OrgyOfEvidence: Gordon is suspicious of the sheer number of clues found at Cicero's place.
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* MinorMajorCharacter: Despite only appearing in four episodes total before being KilledOffForReal, Jerome's legacy is that he serves as the inspiration for the future [[CompleteMonster Joker]], whomever he may be.
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* MinorMajorCharacter: Despite only appearing in four episodes total before being KilledOffForReal, Jerome's legacy is that he serves as the inspiration for the future [[CompleteMonster Joker]], Joker, whomever he may be.
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* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Jerome has this posthumously as his antics set up many laughing-killers who find his nihilism and violence funny.
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* EyeScream: To kill him, Jerome knifes his dad through the eye.
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-->'''Jerome''': True.
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-->'''Jerome''': True.True, but that's not the point.
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* FamousLastWords:
-->'''Paul Cicero''': You will be a curse upon Gotham. Children will wake from sleep, screaming at the thought of you. Your legacy will be death and madness.
-->'''Paul Cicero''': You will be a curse upon Gotham. Children will wake from sleep, screaming at the thought of you. Your legacy will be death and madness.
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* InsultBackfire: When Gordon is on the phone with Jerome:
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* InsultBackfire: InsultBackfire:
** Jerome's father's FamousLastWords to his son were that he'd be a curse upon Gotham and that his legacy would be of death and madness. Jerome seems to be delighted by the prospect.
** When Gordon is on the phone with Jerome:
** Jerome's father's FamousLastWords to his son were that he'd be a curse upon Gotham and that his legacy would be of death and madness. Jerome seems to be delighted by the prospect.
** When Gordon is on the phone with Jerome:
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* BallroomBlitz: Jerome and Barbara hold a fancy charity event hostage full of wealthy guests by pretending to be the entertainment.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Obviously, how Jerome seemed set up in every way to become the Joker only to die at Galavan's hands.
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* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Jerome's list of demands once he takes hostages -- $47 million, a helicopter, his dry cleaning, and a pony.
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* InsultBackfire: When Gordon is on the phone with Jerome:
-->'''Gordon''': You son of a bitch.
-->'''Jerome''': True.
-->'''Gordon''': You son of a bitch.
-->'''Jerome''': True.
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* EvilLaugh: Jerome's is shown to be copied by the other lunatics he inspires.
** Cobblepot considers getting one of his own.
** Cobblepot considers getting one of his own.
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* NotSoDifferent: Barbara claims that she and Jim are the same, both having "a dark side", and that because of it, they'll get back together.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Jerome, Barbara and their {{Mooks}} start shooting up the benefit and taking hostages, Selina slips out a rear entrance.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: After Jerome is killed, Barbara escapes via a trapdoor.
* VillainousLegacy: Jerome is killed at the end of the episode, but his actions are shown to have inspired numerous other lunatics throughout the city, one of whom may yet go on to become the real Joker.
** The producers went on record after the episode aired to state that they consider the Joker to be less a person, and more of an "ideology"; the implication seems to be that there'll never be ''one'' Joker, but many who take up the mantle.
* VillainousLegacy: Jerome is killed at the end of the episode, but his actions are shown to have inspired numerous other lunatics throughout the city, one of whom may yet go on to become the real Joker.
** The producers went on record after the episode aired to state that they consider the Joker to be less a person, and more of an "ideology"; the implication seems to be that there'll never be ''one'' Joker, but many who take up the mantle.
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* MinorMajorCharacter: Despite only appearing in four episodes total before being KilledOffForReal, Jerome's legacy is that he serves as the inspiration for the future [[CompleteMonster Joker]], whomever he may be.
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** Alfred tries to hit on Lee only to discover that Jim & Lee are an item. In the comics Leslie Thompkins is older and sometimes an item with Alfred.
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** "The Last Laugh" is also the name of an [[Recap/BatmanTheAnimatedSeriesE4TheLastLaugh episode]] (which also features the Joker) in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''.
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* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off a man's head with a revolver.
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* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off a man's head with a revolver.
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** Jerome's face in the morgue is a rictus grin with (bloody) red lips.
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** Jerome's face in the morgue is a rictus grin with (bloody) red lips. Same as the Joker in the 1989 ''Film/{{Batman}}'' film.
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* LargeHam: Galavan's "heroic" speech standing up to Jerome is ''hilariously'' over-the top.
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* LargeHam: Galavan's "heroic" speech standing up to Jerome is ''hilariously'' over-the top.top, including speaking directly into the television camera making a live broadcast of the event.
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* {{Troll}}: After Alfred's hopes about hitting on Lee are obliterated when he sees Gordon kissing her, he accuses Bruce of knowing about their relationship and not telling him ForTheLulz. Bruce, not very convincingly, denies it.
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* ApologeticAttacker: Galavan, killing Jerome, apologizes for going off book.
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* GroinAttack: How Lee, tied to a wheel of doom, gets a hit in on Barbara.
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* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off someone's head with a revolver.
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* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off someone's a man's head with a revolver.
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* DestinationDefenestration: Gordon and Bullock throw a mook out a window to threaten the remainder in the room (to a TrashLanding)...and then throws one of the mooks who agreed to help spread the word of his search for Jerome out another window.
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* DestinationDefenestration: Gordon and Bullock throw a mook out a window to threaten the remainder in the room (to a TrashLanding)...and then throws throw one of the mooks who agreed to help spread the word of his search for Jerome out another window.
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* DepravedBisexual: Barbara starts the show making out with Tabitha and ends making out with her brother.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Jerome is apparently killed by Galavan but his actions inspire others to take up the sadistic, killing attitude.
* BattleButler: Alfred goes hand to hand with one of the gunman attacking the charity event and later takes down Jerome's armed mooks in a gunfight.
* BattleButler: Alfred goes hand to hand with one of the gunman attacking the charity event and later takes down Jerome's armed mooks in a gunfight.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Jerome is apparently killed by Galavan but his actions inspire others when everything seemed to take be setting him up as the sadistic, killing attitude.
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* BattleButler: Alfred goes hand to hand with one of the gunman attacking the charity event and later takes down Jerome's armed mooks in agunfight.gunfight alongside Gordon.
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** Jerome's face in the morgue is a rictus grin with (bloody) red lips.
* OhCrap: Selina's reaction when Gordon spots her sneaking out of the charity event.
* OhCrap: Selina's reaction when Gordon spots her sneaking out of the charity event.
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* AnyoneCanDie: Jerome is apparently killed by Galavan but his actions inspire others to take up the sadistic, killing attitude.
* BattleButler: Alfred goes hand to hand with one of the gunman attacking the charityevent.event and later takes down Jerome's armed mooks in a gunfight.
* BattleButler: Alfred goes hand to hand with one of the gunman attacking the charity
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** Bruce mentions how he, Alfred, and Gordon make am unbeatable team, just as they will in the future.
* ProphecyTwist: Jerome's father says Jerome's destiny will be to bring madness and death to Gotham. The implication to the audience is that he will be the Joker, but that seems to be ruined when he's killed by Galavan. However, his actions have inspired ''others'' to madness and casual murder.
* ProphecyTwist: Jerome's father says Jerome's destiny will be to bring madness and death to Gotham. The implication to the audience is that he will be the Joker, but that seems to be ruined when he's killed by Galavan. However, his actions have inspired ''others'' to madness and casual murder.
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* FakeUltimateHero: Galavan portrays himself as a heroic figure willing to stand up to Jerome and then stabs him at the end to save Bruce.
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* FakeUltimateHero: Galavan portrays himself as a heroic figure willing to stand up to Jerome and then stabs him at the end to save Bruce.Jerome.
** Cobblepot expresses his dislike of Jerome's chaotic actions, mirroring how the Penguin and the Joker are frequently at odds.
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* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off someone's head with a revolver.
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* VillainWithGoodPublicity: Galavan's plan is to become a hero by "saving" hostages from Jerome.
* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off someone's head with a revolver.
* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off someone's head with a revolver.
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* BattleButler: Alfred goes hand to hand with one of the gunman attacking the charity event.
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* FakeUltimateHero: Galavan portrays himself as a heroic figure willing to stand up to Jerome and then stabs him at the end to save Bruce.
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* LargeHam: Galavan's "heroic" speech standing up to Jerome is ''hilariously'' over-the top.
* MythologyGag:
** Barbara dresses in a costume to act as Jerome's assistant and then [[HarleyQuinn knocks Galavan over the head with a mallet]].
** Jerome threatens someone with a realistic gun that turns out to be a water pistol, much as the Joker sometimes does.
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** Barbara dresses in a costume to act as Jerome's assistant and then [[HarleyQuinn knocks Galavan over the head with a mallet]].
** Jerome threatens someone with a realistic gun that turns out to be a water pistol, much as the Joker sometimes does.
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* TrashLanding: How the men Gordon and Bullock [[DestinationDefenestration throw out the window]] survive their falls unharmed.
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* TrashLanding: How the men Gordon and Bullock [[DestinationDefenestration throw out the window]] survive their falls unharmed.unharmed.
* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off someone's head with a revolver.
* WilliamTelling: Jerome shoots an apple off someone's head with a revolver.
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Gordon deals with the fallout of the Maniax attack on the GCPD while Jerome and his crew plan another public spectacle.
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Gordon deals with the fallout of the Maniax attack on the GCPD while Jerome and his crew plan prepares for another public spectacle.spectacle at a charity event.
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* DestinationDefenestration: Gordon and Bullock throw a mook out a window to threaten the remainder in the room (to a TrashLanding]]...and then throws one of the mooks who agreed to help spread the word of his search for Jerome out another window.
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* DestinationDefenestration: Gordon and Bullock throw a mook out a window to threaten the remainder in the room (to a TrashLanding]]...TrashLanding)...and then throws one of the mooks who agreed to help spread the word of his search for Jerome out another window.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: Implied when Tabitha makes a comment about her brother being a monster in the sack.
* DestinationDefenestration: Gordon and Bullock throw a mook out a window tomake threaten the remainder in the room (to a point...TrashLanding]]...and then throws one of the mooks who agreed to help spread the word of his search for Jerome out another window.
* FrameUp: Jerome plans on framing his father as being responsible for the Arkham breakout. [[GenreSavvy Gordon doesn't buy it.]]
* DestinationDefenestration: Gordon and Bullock throw a mook out a window to
* FrameUp: Jerome plans on framing his father as being responsible for the Arkham breakout. [[GenreSavvy Gordon doesn't buy it.]]
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Jerome kills his father to add patricide to his existing count of matricide.
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* SelfMadeOrphan: Jerome kills his father to add patricide to his existing count of matricide.matricide.
* TrashLanding: How the men Gordon and Bullock [[DestinationDefenestration throw out the window]] survive their falls unharmed.
* TrashLanding: How the men Gordon and Bullock [[DestinationDefenestration throw out the window]] survive their falls unharmed.
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Gordon deals with the fallout of the Maniax attack on the GCPD while Jerome and his crew plan another public spectacle.
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* DestinationDefenestration: Gordon and Bullock throw a mook out a window to make a point...and then throws one of the mooks who agreed to help spread the word of his search for Jerome out another window.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Barbara has taken up with Tabitha and they have an extended make-out session at the start of the episode.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Jerome kills his father to add patricide to his existing count of matricide.
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* DestinationDefenestration: Gordon and Bullock throw a mook out a window to make a point...and then throws one of the mooks who agreed to help spread the word of his search for Jerome out another window.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Barbara has taken up with Tabitha and they have an extended make-out session at the start of the episode.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Jerome kills his father to add patricide to his existing count of matricide.
