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''Batman: Holy Terror'' is an {{Elseworld}} story, one of Creator/{{DC|Comics}}'s first official forays into the genre, written by Alan Brennart and drawn by Norm Breyfogle.
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* HiredByTheOppressor: The world has fallen under a Christian theocratic government that persecutes all non-Protestants, plus "deviants" and anyone who uses magic, but this does not stop them from employing Dr. Saul Erdel, a Jewish scientist who was trying to open portals to other planets, or Zatanna Zatara, who openly identifies as magic user (and who is canonically of both Romani and Catholic descent.)
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** Charles McNider- known in canon as Doctor Mid-Nite- was a member of the underground resistance against the state when he was younger.
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** Charles McNider- [=McNider=]- known in canon as Doctor Mid-Nite- was a member of the underground resistance against the state when he was younger.
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* TheEmpire: In the world of ''Holy Terror'', the United Kingdom and the Americas are all under the control of the Commonwealth, a brutal theocratic regime. Its also ruthlessly expands its territory throughout the Western Hemisphere and not [[HolierThanThou even other Christian nations are safe from them]].
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* TheEmpire: In the world of ''Holy Terror'', the United Kingdom and the Americas are all under the control of the Commonwealth, a brutal theocratic regime. Its It also ruthlessly expands its territory throughout the Western Hemisphere and not [[HolierThanThou even other Christian nations are safe from them]].
* HeroOfAnotherStory:
** Charles McNider- known in canon as Doctor Mid-Nite- was a member of the underground resistance against the state when he was younger.
** Oliver Queen is allegedly executed for his support of underground Jewish pornographers; considering the nature of this world and Oliver's role in canon as ComicBook/GreenArrow, he was likely involved in the resistance in some capacity himself.
** Charles McNider- known in canon as Doctor Mid-Nite- was a member of the underground resistance against the state when he was younger.
** Oliver Queen is allegedly executed for his support of underground Jewish pornographers; considering the nature of this world and Oliver's role in canon as ComicBook/GreenArrow, he was likely involved in the resistance in some capacity himself.
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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: [[spoiler: Erdal has found a way to turn Barry's off, killing him through friction.]]
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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: [[spoiler: Erdal has found a way to turn off the force field that Barry's off, body generates to protect him from friction when he runs, killing him Barry through friction.]]friction]].
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Terry, one of the speedsters, has speed powers, but can't control the vibrations that his body goes through when he uses them, resulting in him constantly exploding and reforming himself. The psychological effects have left him with persistent mania.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Terry, one of the speedsters, has speed powers, but can't control the vibrations that his body goes through when he uses them, resulting in him constantly exploding and reforming himself. The psychological effects have left him with persistent mania.mania.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The theocracy that is Commonwealth has a very dim view on homosexuals, to the degree that conversion therapy is enforced.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The theocracy that is Commonwealth has runs a very dim view on homosexuals, to the degree that conversion therapy is regime where homophobia and Antisemitism are enforced.
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* MythologyGag: The title is likely a hod to Robin's "[[MadLibsCatchphrase Holy [object], Batman!]]" catchphrase from the [[Series/Batman1966 60s TV series]].
* NonIndicativeName: Given that it's run by Saul Erdel, who in the "normal" DC continuity brought ComicBook/MartianManhunter to Earth, one would assume that the "Green Man" referenced by Project Green Man is J'onn himself. [[spoiler:It's actually Kal-El, who was executed when Dr. Erdel deemed him too rebellious, using such a concentrated amount of Kryptonite radiation to do so that it caused Kal-El's body to turn a sickly green color.]]
* NonIndicativeName: Given that it's run by Saul Erdel, who in the "normal" DC continuity brought ComicBook/MartianManhunter to Earth, one would assume that the "Green Man" referenced by Project Green Man is J'onn himself. [[spoiler:It's actually Kal-El, who was executed when Dr. Erdel deemed him too rebellious, using such a concentrated amount of Kryptonite radiation to do so that it caused Kal-El's body to turn a sickly green color.]]
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* MythologyGag: MythologyGag:
** The title is likely a hod to Robin's "[[MadLibsCatchphrase Holy [object], Batman!]]" catchphrase from the [[Series/Batman1966 60s TV series]].
* NonIndicativeName: Given ** Dr. Erdel mentions that it's run by Saul Erdel, who in the "normal" DC continuity brought ComicBook/MartianManhunter to Earth, one would assume that the "Green Man" referenced by he was working on teleportation experiments before he got involved with Project Green Man is Man, alluding to his hand in bringing J'onn himself. [[spoiler:It's actually Kal-El, who was executed when Dr. Erdel deemed him too rebellious, using such a concentrated amount of Kryptonite radiation J'onzz to do so Earth.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: The theocracy thatit caused Kal-El's body is Commonwealth has a very dim view on homosexuals, to turn a sickly green color.]]the degree that conversion therapy is enforced.
** The title is likely a hod to Robin's "[[MadLibsCatchphrase Holy [object], Batman!]]" catchphrase from the [[Series/Batman1966 60s TV series]].
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* RedHerring: Given that it's run by Saul Erdel, who in the "normal" DC continuity brought ComicBook/MartianManhunter to Earth, one would assume that the "Green Man" referenced by Project Green Man is J'onn himself. [[spoiler:It's actually Kal-El, who was executed when Dr. Erdel deemed him too rebellious, using such a concentrated amount of Kryptonite radiation to do so that it caused Kal-El's body to turn a sickly green color.]]
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* GrandInquisitorScene: Towards the end of the book, Bruce confronts a magistrate in the star chamber and demands information about who ordered the deaths of his parents. The old man informs him that the star chamber doesn't work that way - the twelve magistrates of the secret council all vote by secret ballot, so that no one magistrate knows how the others voted.
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* GrandInquisitorScene: Towards the end of the book, Bruce confronts a magistrate in the star chamber Star Chamber and demands information about who ordered the deaths of his parents. The old man informs him that the star chamber Star Chamber doesn't work that way - the twelve magistrates of the secret council all vote by secret ballot, so that no one magistrate knows how the others voted.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Zatanna willingly works for the theocracy. [[spoiler: Jonathan and Martha Kent handed the child they found over to the authorities, although it's not clear they knew what the authorities would do with him]].
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* RequiredSecondaryPowers: [[spoiler: Erdal has found a way to turn Barry's off, killing him through friction.]]
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* RapidAging: The speedster Joshua is cursed to age at a rate of three years every week. By the time Batman and Barry find him, six months later, he looks like an old man and Barry says he will be dead in a month. Joshua, by the way, is ''three years old''.
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* TheCowl: By the end of the story, Rev. Bruce Owen Wayne becomes this world's version of Batman.
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* TheCowl: By the end of the story, Rev. Bruce Owen Anthony Wayne becomes this world's version of Batman.
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* MythologyGag: The title is likely a hod to Robin's "[[MadLibsCatchphrase Holy [object], Batman!]]" catchphrase from the [[Series/{{Batman}} 60s TV series]].
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* MythologyGag: The title is likely a hod to Robin's "[[MadLibsCatchphrase Holy [object], Batman!]]" catchphrase from the [[Series/{{Batman}} [[Series/Batman1966 60s TV series]].
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* NonIndicativeName: Given that it's run by Saul Erdel, who in the "normal" DC continuity brought ComicBook/MartianManhunter to Earth, one would assume that the "Green Man" referenced by Project Green Man is J'onn himself. [[spoiler:It's actually Kal-El, who's perpetually bathed in who was executed when Dr. Erdel deemed him too rebellious, using such a concentrated amount of Kryptonite radiation to keep him under control.do so that it caused Kal-El's body to turn a sickly green color.]]
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* HolierThanThou: Catholicism is considered "heathen" by the Commonwealth. According to the news segment at the start of the story, Brazilian Catholics are said to be losing after a fierce war with the Puritans, and Peru is the last country in the Western Hemisphere outside of the Commonwealth's yoke.
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* BuryYourGays[=/=]CureYourGays: The Commonwealth actively persecutes gay men and women. Some are subjected to brutal treatment to try and "cure" them. Others are just plain killed off.
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* MythologyGag: The title is likely a hod to Robin's "[[MadLibsCatchphrase Holy [object], Batman!]]" catchphrase from the [[Series/{{Batman}} 60s TV series]].
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* MessianicArchetype: [[spoiler:Superman, ''much'' more than usual. He's introduced seemingly dead in a CrucifiedHeroShot, and just looking at him causes Bruce to mourn his loss and know that he was "our greatest hope", murdered as a threat to the state. Erdel's bullets even hit his side and bounce off in the same pattern as Christ's spear wounds, killing Dr. Erdel and saving a grateful Batman's life. Given the theological nature of the book, this is justified somewhat.]]
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* NonIndicativeName: Given that it's run by Saul Erdel, who in the "normal" DC continuity brought ComicBook/MartianManhunter to Earth, one would assume that the "Green Man" referenced by Project Green Man is J'onn himself. [[spoiler:It's actually Kal-El, who's perpetually bathed in Kryptonite radiation to keep him under control.]]
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NOT to be confused with ''ComicBook/HolyTerror''.
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* AndIMustScream: Some of the Project Green Man experiments had terrible results:
** Joshua, one of the speedsters, is a three-year-old boy whose speed powers cause him to age three years for every week. After six months, he looks like an old man, and Barry speculates that he'll probably be dead in another month.
** Corinne, another speedster, has hyper-accelerated thought processes, but her body moves at regular speeds.
** Gus, a third speedster, gained actual speed powers, but his bones grow at an accelerated rate to the rest of his body.
** One of the amphibians has a human brain trapped in a manta-like body.
** Joshua, one of the speedsters, is a three-year-old boy whose speed powers cause him to age three years for every week. After six months, he looks like an old man, and Barry speculates that he'll probably be dead in another month.
** Corinne, another speedster, has hyper-accelerated thought processes, but her body moves at regular speeds.
** Gus, a third speedster, gained actual speed powers, but his bones grow at an accelerated rate to the rest of his body.
** One of the amphibians has a human brain trapped in a manta-like body.
* BrokenBird: In the Commonwealth universe, Arthur Curry was found by the government and tortured in the hopes of forcing him to serve them. Instead, he became catatonic.
* DrivenToSuicide: One of the amphibians ended up with human intelligence trapped in a manta-like body. Unable to cope with what he's become, he's tried repeatedly to kill himself by bashing his head against the glass of his tank.
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* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Terry, one of the speedsters, has speed powers, but can't control the vibrations that his body goes through when he uses them, resulting in him constantly exploding and reforming himself. The psychological effects have left him with persistent mania.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Terry, one of the speedsters, has speed powers, but can't control the vibrations that his body goes through when he uses them, resulting in him constantly exploding and reforming himself. The psychological effects have left him with persistent mania.
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* BadassPreacher: The Batman in this universe is an Episcopalian priest by day, and a vigilante by night.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Bruce's quest to find the people who ordered his parents' death is ultimately unsuccessful, but he instead resolves to wage war against the Commonwealth, and it's implied that he might set up this universe's equivalent of the ComicBook/JusticeLeague.]]
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Bruce's quest to find the people who ordered his parents' death is ultimately unsuccessful, but he instead resolves to wage war against the Commonwealth, and it's implied that he might set up this universe's equivalent of the ComicBook/JusticeLeague.]]
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* TheCowl: By the end of the story, Rev. Bruce Owen Wayne becomes this world's version of Batman.
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* HeteronormativeCrusader: Homosexuality is a crime in the Commonwealth.
* HeteronormativeCrusader: Homosexuality is a crime in the Commonwealth.
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''Batman: Holy Terror'' is an {{Elseworld}} story, one of DC's first official forays into the genre, written by Alan Brennart and drawn by Norm Breyfogle.
On an alternate Earth where UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell lived another ten years and the Commonwealth of England spread to the Americas, creating a brutal theocracy, Bruce Wayne launches a crusade of his own to avenge his parents, who were killed by the government.
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!!This comic contains examples of:
* AlternateHistory: On this world, UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell didn't die of malaria in 1658 (technically, he didn't die of it ''here'', either, but that's beside the point.) He lived for another decade and his Commonwealth spread to the Americas, creating a theocracy.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The theocracy featured in ''Holy Terror'' looks more Evangelical than Puritanical. Of course, Dr. [=McNider=] does mention that the government has strayed a long way from Cromwell's vision.
* CategoryTraitor: Dr. Saul Erdel is a Jewish man who works for the Antisemitic regime.
* LesCollaborateurs: The Commonwealth employs a number of those who it would otherwise persecute, including Dr. Saul Erdel (a Jew), ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (a witch), and Matt Hagan (a thief).
* {{Elseworld}}: This was one of Creator/DCComics' first official forays into the Elseworld genre.
* TheEmpire: In the world of ''Holy Terror'', the United Kingdom and the Americas are all under the control of the Commonwealth, a brutal theocratic regime.
On an alternate Earth where UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell lived another ten years and the Commonwealth of England spread to the Americas, creating a brutal theocracy, Bruce Wayne launches a crusade of his own to avenge his parents, who were killed by the government.
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!!This comic contains examples of:
* AlternateHistory: On this world, UsefulNotes/OliverCromwell didn't die of malaria in 1658 (technically, he didn't die of it ''here'', either, but that's beside the point.) He lived for another decade and his Commonwealth spread to the Americas, creating a theocracy.
* ArtisticLicenseReligion: The theocracy featured in ''Holy Terror'' looks more Evangelical than Puritanical. Of course, Dr. [=McNider=] does mention that the government has strayed a long way from Cromwell's vision.
* CategoryTraitor: Dr. Saul Erdel is a Jewish man who works for the Antisemitic regime.
* LesCollaborateurs: The Commonwealth employs a number of those who it would otherwise persecute, including Dr. Saul Erdel (a Jew), ComicBook/{{Zatanna}} (a witch), and Matt Hagan (a thief).
* {{Elseworld}}: This was one of Creator/DCComics' first official forays into the Elseworld genre.
* TheEmpire: In the world of ''Holy Terror'', the United Kingdom and the Americas are all under the control of the Commonwealth, a brutal theocratic regime.
