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* Cleverly subverted and exploited by Loeb and Sale with [[spoiler:Sofia's facial scars from ''The Long Halloween''. For the entire series, the scars are on the wrong side of Sofia's face and it looks like it's a significant continuity error (or alternately that Sale opted for ArtEvolution between projects). Instead, it eventually turns out the scars being on the wrong side of Sofia's face is a plot point and crucial to the resolution of the mystery.]]

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* ** Cleverly subverted and exploited by Loeb and Sale with [[spoiler:Sofia's facial scars from ''The Long Halloween''. For the entire series, the scars are on the wrong side of Sofia's face and it looks like it's a significant continuity error (or alternately that Sale simply opted for ArtEvolution of Sofia's design between projects). Instead, it eventually turns out the scars being on the wrong side of Sofia's face is a plot point and crucial to the resolution of the mystery.]]
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* Cleverly subverted and exploited by Loeb and Sale with [[spoiler:Sofia's facial scars from ''The Long Halloween''. For the entire series, the scars are on the wrong side of Sofia's face and it looks like it's a significant continuity error (or alternately that Sale opted for ArtEvolution between projects). Instead, it eventually turns out the scars being on the wrong side of Sofia's face is a plot point and crucial to the resolution of the mystery.]]
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** At Carmine Falcone's birthday memorial in the first issue, Selina remarks that it's hot out, "but not as hot as the night Johnny Viti got married," which is exactly what she herself predicted people would someday say in the first issue of ''The Long Halloween''.
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* TeacherStudentRomance: [[spoiler:Issue #12 reveals Porter became infatuated with the pre-DA Harvey Dent while she was at Gotham University (and before he married Gilda). When Porter returns to Gotham and becomes the new DA, Two-Face capitalizes on this old infatuation to turn Porter into his mole inside Gotham law enforcement.]]
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** When the Falcones are all held for questioning by Gordon after the Mother's Day attacks, Batman and Porter spar outside the interrogation room. Batman questions her and Alberto's history together at Harvard, but Porter states Alberto had already left for Oxford by the time she transferred to Harvard. She also gets angry Batman is digging into her private life. [[spoiler:When she later goes missing in issue #12, Bruce investigates Porter's apartment and finds a Gotham University yearbook. He discovers Porter had transferred to Harvard from Gotham University and that she knew the then-Professor Harvey Dent (who left her a personal note in the yearbook). Most interestingly, Porter switched schools the same year Harvey married Gilda. Reading between the lines, Bruce correctly infers Porter and Harvey had an affair and that Two-Face capitalized on that old attraction to use Porter as a mole.]]
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* DeathByOriginStory: The Flying Graysons.

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* DeathByOriginStory: The As this story is partly an updated retelling of how Dick Grayson entered Bruce Wayne's life and became Batman's sidekick Robin, we of course see Dick's parents the Flying Graysons.Graysons get killed.
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** Gillian Loeb, who was part of the BigBadDuumvirate in ''Year One'' and whose crimes including be league with Falcone and Maroni, ordering a firebombing on an abandoned building (which killed some homeless people), attempting to use Gordon's affair with Sarah Essen to blackmail him, and being an accessory to the kidnapping of Gordon's son. His brief appearance in ''DV'' had him rub Gordon's face in Harvey's transformation into Two-Face and the [[spoiler:death of Chief O'Hara]] and not-subtly imply he's going to use what happened to try to get his job back from Gordon, which is halted by his death shortly thereafter.

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** Gillian Loeb, who was part of the BigBadDuumvirate in ''Year One'' and whose crimes including be being league with Falcone and Maroni, ordering a firebombing on an abandoned building (which killed some homeless people), attempting to use Gordon's affair with Sarah Essen to blackmail him, and being an accessory to the kidnapping of Gordon's son. His brief appearance in ''DV'' this story had him rub Gordon's face in Harvey's transformation into Two-Face and the [[spoiler:death of Chief O'Hara]] and not-subtly imply he's going to use what happened to try to get his job back from Gordon, which is halted by his death shortly thereafter.
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* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Chief O'Hara is depicted with a mustache, when his incarnation in [[Series/Batman1966 the live-action show he originated from]] and his Earth-One and Earth-Two counterparts were all clean-shaven.

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* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Chief O'Hara is depicted with a mustache, when his incarnation in [[Series/Batman1966 the live-action show he originated from]] and his Earth-One and Earth-Two counterparts (aside from the latter having one by the time he takes over as police commissioner during Helena Wayne's career as the Huntress) were all clean-shaven.



* BaldOfEvil: Both Calendar Man and Sofia Falcone.

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* BaldOfEvil: Both Calendar Man and Sofia Falcone.Falcone are bald criminals.

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%%* ActionGirl: Detective Julia Lopez

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%%* * ActionGirl: Detective Julia LopezLopez is a female cop who endures the violent crimes investigated in the story and confronts the criminals.
* AdaptationalHairstyleChange: Chief O'Hara is depicted with a mustache, when his incarnation in [[Series/Batman1966 the live-action show he originated from]] and his Earth-One and Earth-Two counterparts were all clean-shaven.

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* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Tony Zucco, the FatBastard who murdered Dick Grayson's parents, has a coronary and dies while Batman and Robin pursue him.]]

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[[spoiler:Tony Zucco, the FatBastard who murdered Dick Grayson's parents, has a coronary and dies while Batman and Robin pursue him.]]



* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The fate of Carmine Falcone's body. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope It is revealed that Two Face has kept it as a trophy using Mister Freeze's technology.]]]]

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The fate of Carmine Falcone's body. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope It is revealed that Two Face has kept it as a trophy using Mister Freeze's technology.]]]]



** ''”I can only tell you something, Dick, something I wish I said a long time ago to someone else. You are not alone. I imagine you will never be again.” ''

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** ''”I --> '''Alfred''': "I can only tell you something, Dick, something I wish I said a long time ago to someone else. You are not alone. I imagine you will never be again.” ''"
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* OffModel: As stated under {{Foreshadowing}}, this is ''very'' cleverly used with [[spoiler:Sofia Gigante and the facial scar Catwoman inflicted at the end of ''The Long Halloween''. The scarring is now on the wrong side and initially it seems Tim Sale either goofed or redesigned the character in the interim between the two maxi-series. It's ultimately revealed the scarring being on the wrong side is deliberate in-story and a major plot point.]]

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