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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Even with the changes to canon we've already seen, no one's buying that the show would kill off Poison Ivy while she was still a teenager.
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Directed by Creator/DannyCannon
Written by Creator/JohnStephens
Written by Creator/JohnStephens
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* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: Barbara mocks the mobster's attempt to say "club" with an injured face impeding his speech.
-->'''Barbara:''' What's a cwub?
-->'''Barbara:''' What's a cwub?
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* CurseCutShort: When Oswald is negotiating with Barbara and Tabitha.
-->'''Tabitha:''' You can take your offer and [[AssShove stick it up]]--\\
'''Barbara:''' We'll think about it, Ozzie.
-->'''Tabitha:''' You can take your offer and [[AssShove stick it up]]--\\
'''Barbara:''' We'll think about it, Ozzie.
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* GenreSavvy: Gordon shows he has no intention of getting close enough to Fish for her to touch (and control) him.
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** At Peabody's safe house, Gordon captures one of Hugo Strange's mutants, [[spoiler:who appears to be a version of the [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]]]].
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** At Peabody's safe house, Gordon captures one of Hugo Strange's mutants, [[spoiler:who who appears to be a version of the [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]]]].Man-Bat]].
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Lee has moved on from Gordon. Gordon while heartbroken knows better than to try to damper her new-found happiness.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Lee has moved on from Gordon. Gordon Gordon, while heartbroken heartbroken, knows better than to try to damper her new-found happiness.
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* ExactEavesDropping: Gordon arrives at Leslie's home at the precise right moment to hear someone inside, look through the window, see her kissing another man and realize she's moved on with her life without him, and quietly leave without creating a really awkward situation.
* ForcedToWatch: Selina can't stop Ivy from being [[PlotRelevantAgeUp (seemingly)]] killed from Fish's goons.
* ForcedToWatch: Selina can't stop Ivy from being [[PlotRelevantAgeUp (seemingly)]] killed from Fish's goons.
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* ExactEavesDropping: ExactEavesdropping: Gordon arrives at Leslie's home at the precise right moment to hear someone inside, look through the window, see her kissing another man and realize she's moved on with her life without him, and quietly leave without creating a really awkward situation.
* ForcedToWatch: Selina can't stop Ivy from being [[PlotRelevantAgeUp (seemingly)]] killedfrom by Fish's goons.
* ForcedToWatch: Selina can't stop Ivy from being [[PlotRelevantAgeUp (seemingly)]] killed
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* RapidAging: Marv, one of the Indian Hill escapees, has the power make a person age decades in a matter of seconds just by touching them with his bare hands. He uses this power to kill people.
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* RapidAging: Marv, one of the Indian Hill escapees, has the power to make a person age decades in a matter of seconds just by touching them with his bare hands. He uses this power to kill people.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Penguin publicly calls out the GCPD for doing so little to deal with Fish and the other monsters, and keeping the city in the dark about it.
* WrapItUp: Gordon's attempts to win back Leslie fails in one wordless scene in the first two minutes of the episode.
* WrapItUp: Gordon's attempts to win back Leslie fails in one wordless scene in the first two minutes of the episode.
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* VillainHasAPoint: Penguin publicly calls out the GCPD for doing so little to deal with Fish and the other monsters, and keeping the city in the dark about it.
* WrapItUp: Gordon's attempts to win back Leslie fails in one wordless scene in the first two minutes of the episode.it.
* WrapItUp: Gordon's attempts to win back Leslie fails in one wordless scene in the first two minutes of the episode.
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** At Peabody's safe house, Gordon captures one mutant of Hugo Strange's mutants, [[spoiler:who appears to be a version of the [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]]]].
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* CompleteTheQuoteTitle: The title is the first part of "Better to reign in hell than serve in Heaven" from ''Literature/ParadiseLost''.
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** The mutant who Gordon captures at Peabody's safe house appears to be a version of the [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]].
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** The mutant who Gordon captures at At Peabody's safe house house, Gordon captures one mutant [[spoiler:who appears to be a version of the [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]].Man-Bat]]]].
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** The mutant who Gordon captures at Peabody's safe house appears to be a version of the [[BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]].
** The mutant who Gordon captures at Peabody's safe house appears to be a version of the [[BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]].
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** Valerie Vale is either an {{Expy}} or an older relative of [[BatmanSupportingCast [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast Vicki Vale]].
** The mutant who Gordon captures at Peabody's safe house appears to be a version of the[[BatmanSupportingCast [[Characters/BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]].
** The mutant who Gordon captures at Peabody's safe house appears to be a version of the
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* CallForward: Gordon remarking to Bullock that "Gotham will never run out of monsters to hunt."
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* CallForward: CallForward:
** Gordon remarking to Bullock that "Gotham will never run out of monsters to hunt.""
** Valerie Vale is either an {{Expy}} or an older relative of [[BatmanSupportingCast Vicki Vale]].
** The mutant who Gordon captures at Peabody's safe house appears to be a version of the [[BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]].
** Gordon remarking to Bullock that "Gotham will never run out of monsters to hunt.
** Valerie Vale is either an {{Expy}} or an older relative of [[BatmanSupportingCast Vicki Vale]].
** The mutant who Gordon captures at Peabody's safe house appears to be a version of the [[BatmanSupportingCast Man-Bat]].
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* TooDumbToLive: Ivy petulantly telling the Indian Hill escapees to leave her alone or she'll tell everyone about them. Selina can only groan.
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* TooDumbToLive: Ivy petulantly telling the Indian Hill escapees to leave her alone or she'll tell everyone about them. [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Selina can only groan.groan]].
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* ExactEavesDropping: Gordon arrives at Leslie's home at the precise right moment to hear someone inside, look through the window, see her kissing another man and realize she's moved on with her life without him, and quietly leave without creating a really awkward situation.
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* ShoutOut: The episode's title is a reference to ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', where Satan proclaims, after finding himself and Beelzebub in Hell, "better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven."
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* ForcedToWatch: Selina can't stop Ivy from being killed from Fish's goons.
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* ForcedToWatch: Selina can't stop Ivy from being [[PlotRelevantAgeUp (seemingly)]] killed from Fish's goons.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Fish asks this of Ivy regarding the fugitives, Ivy foolishly confirming she hasn't...yet.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: When Fish asks this of Ivy regarding the fugitives, fugitives' hideout, Ivy foolishly confirming confirms she hasn't...yet.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: Fish asks this of Ivy regarding the fugitives, Ivy foolishly confirming she hasn't...yet.
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* CallForward: Gordon remarking to Bullock that "Gotham will never run out of monsters to hunt."
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* RapidAging: Marv, one of the Indian Hill escapees, has the power make a person age decades in a matter of seconds just by touching them with his bare hands. He uses this power to kill people.
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* BountyHunter: Gordon has taken up this line of work after leaving the GCPD, specializing in capturing Indian Hill escapees.
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* CuttingTheKnot: The TropeNamer is referenced by Nygma, when advising Penguin on simply taking the direct route when dealing with Fish.
* ForcedToWatch: Selina can't stop Ivy from being killed from Fish's goons.
* ForcedToWatch: Selina can't stop Ivy from being killed from Fish's goons.
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* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: Even with the changes to canon we've already seen, no one's buying that the show would kill off Poison Ivy while she was still a teenager.
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* GenreSavvy: Gordon shows he has no intention of getting close enough to Fish for her to touch (and control) him.
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* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Lee has moved on from Gordon. Gordon while heartbroken knows better than to try to damper her new-found happiness.
* AesopAmnesia: Selina forgets that working with Fish is something she always regrets, since she's always out of her depth.
* AesopAmnesia: Selina forgets that working with Fish is something she always regrets, since she's always out of her depth.
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* PowerAtAPrice: The more Fish uses her powers, the more her body rejects the foreign DNA and breaks down.
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* BadGuyBar: Barbara and Tabitha have opened one.
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* BoomHeadshot: Penguin executes the gang leader who tried to hustle Barbara this way.
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* HeKnowsTooMuch:
** The Court of Owls sends a Talon to abduct Bruce in order to stop him investigating their control of Wayne Enterprises.
** Fish's gang tries to kill Ivy for stumbling onto their hideout.
** The Court of Owls sends a Talon to abduct Bruce in order to stop him investigating their control of Wayne Enterprises.
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* MistakenIdentity: In what will probably be a running theme, Ivy mistakes Bruce's copy for him.
* MuggingTheMonster: A gang tries to shake down Barbara, thinking she's just someone stupid enough to build in their territory without anything to back it up with. She and Tabitha kill two of them and beat the crap out of their leader.
* MuggingTheMonster: A gang tries to shake down Barbara, thinking she's just someone stupid enough to build in their territory without anything to back it up with. She and Tabitha kill two of them and beat the crap out of their leader.
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Third season premiere. [[WikiMagic Needs recap by next week.]]
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* BatmanGambit: Gordon figures out Fish's attempt to bait him into leading her to Peabody, and goes along with it. It backfires.
* CarFu: The mutant Gordon is fighting in the beginning of the episode gets run over and killed by a truck.
* KarmicDeath: Peabody is killed by one of the people she experimented on in Indian Hill.
* InsultBackfire: When Butch is trying to defend himself from Barbara's accusations:
-->'''Butch''': Hello, she's crazy. She was in Arkham!
-->'''Penguin''': Hello, so was I!
* MysteriousWatcher: Bruce's doppleganger is observing him from a distance.
* TimeSkip: The episode opens shortly after the last season finale, and then jumps ahead six months.
* TooDumbToLive: Ivy petulantly telling the Indian Hill escapees to leave her alone or she'll tell everyone about them. Selina can only groan.
* VillainousFriendship: Penguin has been visiting Nygma in Arkham and bringing him gifts.
* VillainHasAPoint: Penguin publicly calls out the GCPD for doing so little to deal with Fish and the other monsters, and keeping the city in the dark about it.
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