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* FollowTheLeader: There is a ''lot'' in this story taken or outright lifted from ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', including the layouts, the depiction of the deaths of the Waynes, the expository news segments, and the souped-up Batmobile.
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* CompleteMonster: [[SinisterMinister Deacon]] Joseph [[BigBad Blackfire]] is a {{cult}} leader who believes humanity is a lost cause and [[KnightTemplar deserves to be purged]]. Establishing his cult by kidnapping, torturing, and [[CrazyHomelessPeople brainwashing homeless people]] into becoming his followers, Blackfire uses them to begin butchering criminals across Gotham, from entire crime gangs to petty pickpockets. [[MindRape Brainwashing]] Batman into assisting him, Blackfire assassinates numerous politicians across the city and [[CopKiller kills dozens of police officers]] and soldiers before seizing control of Gotham City. Blackfire then allows crime and anarchy to run rampant throughout the streets, along with holding mass lynchings and executions regularly and displaying the bodies for all to see. Claiming to be immortal, Blackfire regularly [[BloodBath bathes in a huge cauldron of human blood]], having used the blood of hundreds of innocents for his baths. When confronted by Batman, Blackfire tries to force him to kill him in order to make himself a martyr and convince his followers to carry on his human-purging quest. Whether he is truly thousands of years old or just a petty con man is left ambiguous, but regardless, Deacon Joseph Blackfire was a {{narcissist}}ic and [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthropic]] psychopath who stood out as one of the few villains Batman nearly killed due to his depravity.
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* CompleteMonster: [[SinisterMinister Deacon]] Deacon Joseph [[BigBad Blackfire]] is a {{cult}} cult leader who believes humanity is a lost cause and [[KnightTemplar deserves to be purged]]. Establishing his cult by kidnapping, torturing, and [[CrazyHomelessPeople brainwashing homeless people]] into becoming his followers, Blackfire uses them to begin butchering criminals across Gotham, from entire crime gangs to petty pickpockets. [[MindRape Brainwashing]] Batman into assisting him, Blackfire assassinates numerous politicians across the city and [[CopKiller kills dozens of police officers]] and soldiers before seizing control of Gotham City. Blackfire then allows crime and anarchy to run rampant throughout the streets, along with holding mass lynchings and executions regularly and displaying the bodies for all to see. Claiming to be immortal, Blackfire regularly [[BloodBath bathes in a huge cauldron of human blood]], having used the blood of hundreds of innocents for his baths. When confronted by Batman, Blackfire tries to force him to kill him in order to make himself a martyr and convince his followers to carry on his human-purging quest. Whether he is truly thousands of years old or just a petty con man is left ambiguous, but regardless, Deacon Joseph Blackfire was a {{narcissist}}ic narcissistic and [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthropic]] misanthropic psychopath who stood out as one of the few villains Batman nearly killed due to his depravity.
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* FollowTheLeader: There is a ''lot'' in this story taken or outright lifted from ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', including the layouts, the depiction of the deaths of the Waynes, the expository news segments, and the souped-up Batmobile.
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*CompleteMonster: [[SinisterMinister Deacon]] Joseph [[BigBad Blackfire]] is a {{cult}} leader who believes humanity is a lost cause and [[KnightTemplar deserves to be purged]]. Establishing his cult by kidnapping, torturing, and [[CrazyHomelessPeople brainwashing homeless people]] into becoming his followers, Blackfire uses them to begin butchering criminals across Gotham, from entire crime gangs to petty pickpockets. [[MindRape Brainwashing]] Batman into assisting him, Blackfire assassinates numerous politicians across the city and [[CopKiller kills dozens of police officers]] and soldiers before seizing control of Gotham City. Blackfire then allows crime and anarchy to run rampant throughout the streets, along with holding mass lynchings and executions regularly and displaying the bodies for all to see. Claiming to be immortal, Blackfire regularly [[BloodBath bathes in a huge cauldron of human blood]], having used the blood of hundreds of innocents for his baths. When confronted by Batman, Blackfire tries to force him to kill him in order to make himself a martyr and convince his followers to carry on his human-purging quest. Whether he is truly thousands of years old or just a petty con man is left ambiguous, but regardless, Deacon Joseph Blackfire was a {{narcissist}}ic and [[MisanthropeSupreme misanthropic]] psychopath who stood out as one of the few villains Batman nearly killed due to his depravity.
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* FollowTheLeader: There is a ''lot'' in this story taken or outright lifted from ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', including the layouts, the depiction of the deaths of the Waynes, and the souped-up Batmobile.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Most Bat-fans, when asked "Who broke the Batman?", will answer Bane, from the Knightfall arc. Deacon Blackfire did it five years before him, though a bit differently.
** The idea of a completely isolated Gotham is most often connected with the ''No Man's Land'' arc, while this story did it eleven years prior.
* OlderThanTheyThink: Most Bat-fans, when asked "Who broke the Batman?", will answer Bane, from the Knightfall arc. Deacon Blackfire did it five years before him, though a bit differently.
** The idea of a completely isolated Gotham is most often connected with the ''No Man's Land'' arc, while this story did it eleven years prior.
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* FollowTheLeader: There is a ''lot'' in this story taken or outright lifted from ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDarkKnightReturns'', including the layouts, the depiction of the deaths of the Waynes, and the souped-up Batmobile.
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** Most Bat-fans, when asked "Who broke the Batman?", will answer Bane, from theKnightfall ''ComicBook/{{Knightfall}}'' arc. Deacon Blackfire did it five years before him, though a bit differently.
** The idea of a completely isolated Gotham is most often connected with the''No Man's Land'' ''ComicBook/BatmanNoMansLand'' arc, while this story did it eleven years prior.
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** Most Bat-fans, when asked "Who broke the Batman?", will answer Bane, from the
** The idea of a completely isolated Gotham is most often connected with the
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* FollowTheLeader: There is a ''lot'' in this story taken or outright lifted from ''TheDarkKnightReturns'', including the layouts, the depiction of the deaths of the Waynes, and the souped-up Batmobile.
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* OlderThanTheyThink: Most Bat-fans, when asked "Who broke the Batman?", will answer Bane, from the Knightfall arc. Deacon Blackfire did it five years before him, though a bit differently.
** The idea of a completely isolated Gotham is most often connected with the ''No Man's Land'' arc, while this story did it eleven years prior.
** The idea of a completely isolated Gotham is most often connected with the ''No Man's Land'' arc, while this story did it eleven years prior.
