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''Batman: Thrillkiller'' is an alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} ComicBook/{{Batman}} continuity released under the ''{{Elseworlds}}'' ''Creator/{{Elseworlds}}'' imprint. It consists of the 1997 3-issue miniseries ''Batgirl and Robin: Thrillkiller'' and the 1998 one-shot ''Batgirl and Batman: Thrillkiller '62'', both written by Creator/HowardChaykin.
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** ComicBook/TwoFace in the mainstream continuity was ultimately a tragic figure who was constantly trying and failing to reform. His counterpart Duell is a DirtyCop racketeer who ends up becoming [[ComicBook/TheJoker Bianca Steeplechase]]'s first {{Dragon}} and has zero redeeming qualities. However he is a DecompositeCharacter with Harvey Dent appearing separately.
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** The Mr. Freeze analogue, Dr. Creator/{{Otto|Preminger}} [[Creator/GeorgeSaunders Saunders]], takes his name from two of the Mr. Freeze actors from ''Series/Batman1966.''
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'''''Batman: Thrillkiller''''' is an alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} continuity released under the Elseworlds imprint. It consists of the 1997 3-issue miniseries ''Batgirl and Robin: Thrillkiller'' and the 1998 one-shot ''Batgirl and Batman: Thrillkiller '62''.
It's 1961 and Gotham is incredibly corrupt. The police have been entirely bought by the mob, except for Commissioner Gordon and Detective Bruce Wayne. Meanwhile, two new vigilantes have shown up, Batgirl and Robin, to take down the police. During all the chaos, crime boss Bianca Steeplechase declares war on the two vigilantes...
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!!This comic contains examples of:
* TheSixties: The miniseries is set in 1961. The '''62'' one-shot is set in 1962.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** The Joker gets a real name here, going by Bianca Steeplechase to correspond with the comic's gender change.
** Robin's real name is Richart Graustart instead of Dick Grayson, which is an alias he adopted.
** [[spoiler:Harley Quinn is Hayley Fitzpatrick instead of Harley Quinn.]]
* AdaptationOriginConnection: [[spoiler:Batman is inspired by Batgirl, instead of the other way around.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Selina Kyle never becomes a jewel thief, with her only criminal past being something in sex work.
** Like in most adaptations, Harvey Bullock's dirty past isn't acknowledged here.
** Edward Nygma is a kindly psychiatrist as opposed to criminal mastermind ComicBook/TheRiddler. While he's implied to be a quack, he's not evil.
** Harvey Dent gets this by way of DecompositeCharacter, being a straightforward heroic DA instead of the secret identity of ComicBook/TwoFace.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** ComicBook/TwoFace in the mainstream continuity was ultimately a tragic figure who was constantly trying and failing to reform. His counterpart Duell is a DirtyCop racketeer who ends up becoming [[ComicBook/TheJoker Bianca Steeplechase]]'s first {{Dragon}} and has zero redeeming qualities.
** Killer Croc may be a violent criminal, but he's never been the bodyguard to a Nazi.
** [[spoiler:At the time of the comic's release, Harley Quinn was still a villain and Joker's gleeful sidekick in the mainstream continuity, but her tragic elements are omitted in this canon.]]
* AdaptationalWimp:
** Selina Kyle never becomes ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, simply being a stripper and informant in this continuity.
** Roy Harper cameos, but as ComicBook/GreenArrow does not exist in this continuity, he does not become Speedy.
* AlternateContinuity: To Franchise/{{Batman}}. In the official DC Multiverse, it's designated as Earth-37.
* BareYourMidriff: Batgirl does this in her costume.
* BatmanGrabsAGun: Robin takes up firearms to go after the criminals who [[spoiler:murdered his family]].
* BigBad: Bianca Steeplechase, a drug baroness trying to control Gotham and this continuity's version of ComicBook/TheJoker.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: {{Averted}}, Batgirl gets her wonderful toys from a contact in the CIA.
* CivvieSpandex: Robin wears what looks like a varsity jacket.
* ClearMyName: Bruce busts out of jail after he's framed for murder to take down the mob who framed him.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler:The Mayor of Gotham is revealed to be in Bianca's pocket.]]
* CrapsackWorld: This is the standard Gotham of crime bosses and universally corrupt police, but with extra systemic sexism and homophobia laced in.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** [[spoiler:Selina Kyle is thrown out a window by Bianca, despite being alive in the mainstream continuity.]]
** [[spoiler:Dick Grayson is poisoned by Bianca.]]
** [[spoiler:The Joker drowns in Gotham River.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Harvey Dent is a straightforward, heroic attorney here, with his qualities as ComicBook/TwoFace going to a DirtyCop named Duell.
* DepravedBisexual: Bianca Steeplechase is a ruthless crime boss who seduces a drunken lout in her plan to take the city and [[spoiler:enters into a relationship with a teenage girl who's just as crazy as she is]].
* DirtyCop: Batgirl and Robin start their careers by battling Gotham's corrupt police force.
* DisabilityImmunity: Bianca is unaffected by Batgirl's sonic weapons because she's hard of hearing.
* TheDragon: Bianca has a different one in both parts. In ''Thrillkiller'', it's racketeering DirtyCop Duell, and in ''Thrillkiller '62'' it's Nazi scientist Otto Saunders.
* {{Elseworld}}: The Batman mythos in the early 1960's.
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:''Thrillkiller '62'' ends with Bianca dead and her operation shut down, but Harley Quinn manages to escape.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Otto Szunders is a ruthless ex-Nazi MadScientist, but he doesn't like experimenting on people when they don't know what's happening.
* FrameUp: Detective Wayne is framed for [[spoiler:Selina Kyle's murder]] by Duell and his cops.
* GenderFlip: The Joker counterpart is a woman.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Bianca serves a crime boss known as Don Julio, but Julio doesn't appear in the comic proper.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]] used to lead an unspecified life of crime, but has become Detective Wayne's informant.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Robin is poisoned by Bianca.]]
* IHaveYourWife: Bianca forces a newspaper man to print an expose revealing Batgirl and Robin's secret identities under threat of killing his wife and kids. [[spoiler:Luckily, she got their identities wrong.]]
* ItsPersonal: Batgirl and Robin initially see Bianca Steeplechase as a simple mob boss to take down, until [[spoiler:she has Robin's family killed]] and they go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* KarmaHoudini:\
** The Wayne family servants seemingly get away with murdering Bruce's parents. Neither does whoever killed Barbara's mom.
** [[spoiler:Harley Quinn is still at large at the end of the comic, with Bruce making her capture top priority.]]
* KissOfDeath: Bianca has poisonous lipstick, which she uses to [[spoiler:kill Robin]].
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Barbara shows signs of PTSD relating to [[spoiler:Robin's death]] in ''Thrillkiller '62''. [[spoiler:It culminates in her putting on the Robin costume and going on a violent revenge spree against his surviving killers.]]
* MissingMom: Batgirl's mom was murdered long before the comic.
* MrFanservice: Bruce Wayne regularly appears shirtless.
* MsFanservice:
** Batgirl is a beautiful redhead who wears tight, midriff-baring clothing and is explicitly compared to a showgirl. She uses this to her advantage, since sexist thugs tend to underestimate her. In ''Thrillkiller '62'', she gets a scene in a sheer nightgown and one in her bra.
** Selina Kyle is literally a stripper, and we briefly see her performance.
* NailEm: Bianca uses a special nail polish to make her fingernails poisonous.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** Duell is a vicious DirtyCop who shakes down gay bars and condescends Batgirl for being a woman.
** [[spoiler:Harley Quinn is Bianca's gleeful sidekick and seems to be slightly xenophobic against Germans.]]
* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler:Harley Quinn appears late in ''Thrillkiller '62'', still just as in love with Joker, who is a woman here.]]
* {{Retraux}}: The art style is deliberately reminiscent of the covers of old pulp magazines.
* RevengeByProxy: Bianca retaliates against Robin's vigilantism by [[spoiler:sabotaging his acrobat family's tightropes, killing them all]].
* RichesToRags: In this continuity, Bruce Wayne's family was ruined by the depression, so he became a cop.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Harley Quinn ends the comic by killing her parents and younger brother.]]
* ShoutOut:
** The first panel of the comic prominently features a theatre marquee advertising ''Film/BenHur1959''.
** When Bianca gets ahold of Robin's glove, she explicitly compares her plan to trace him with it to ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}''.
** When describing the time skip that starts ''Thrillkiller '62'', ''Film/DrNo'' is referenced.
* StockSuperheroDayJobs: Batgirl is a wealthy socialite, [[spoiler:Batman is a freelance bum]].
* TermsOfEndangerment: Bianca loves to call Batgirl "Red."
* ThoseWackyNazis: In ''Thrillkiller '62'', Bianca hires an escaped Nazi to make a highly addictive drug as part of a plan to take over Gotham.
* TimeSkip: A year goes by between the end of ''Thrillkiller'' and the beginning of ''Thrillkiller '62''.
* WrenchWench: Barbara fixes her own car.
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'''''Batman: Thrillkiller''''' is an alternate Franchise/{{Batman}} continuity released under the Elseworlds imprint. It consists of the 1997 3-issue miniseries ''Batgirl and Robin: Thrillkiller'' and the 1998 one-shot ''Batgirl and Batman: Thrillkiller '62''.
It's 1961 and Gotham is incredibly corrupt. The police have been entirely bought by the mob, except for Commissioner Gordon and Detective Bruce Wayne. Meanwhile, two new vigilantes have shown up, Batgirl and Robin, to take down the police. During all the chaos, crime boss Bianca Steeplechase declares war on the two vigilantes...
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!!This comic contains examples of:
* TheSixties: The miniseries is set in 1961. The '''62'' one-shot is set in 1962.
* AdaptationNameChange:
** The Joker gets a real name here, going by Bianca Steeplechase to correspond with the comic's gender change.
** Robin's real name is Richart Graustart instead of Dick Grayson, which is an alias he adopted.
** [[spoiler:Harley Quinn is Hayley Fitzpatrick instead of Harley Quinn.]]
* AdaptationOriginConnection: [[spoiler:Batman is inspired by Batgirl, instead of the other way around.]]
* AdaptationalHeroism:
** Selina Kyle never becomes a jewel thief, with her only criminal past being something in sex work.
** Like in most adaptations, Harvey Bullock's dirty past isn't acknowledged here.
** Edward Nygma is a kindly psychiatrist as opposed to criminal mastermind ComicBook/TheRiddler. While he's implied to be a quack, he's not evil.
** Harvey Dent gets this by way of DecompositeCharacter, being a straightforward heroic DA instead of the secret identity of ComicBook/TwoFace.
* AdaptationalVillainy:
** ComicBook/TwoFace in the mainstream continuity was ultimately a tragic figure who was constantly trying and failing to reform. His counterpart Duell is a DirtyCop racketeer who ends up becoming [[ComicBook/TheJoker Bianca Steeplechase]]'s first {{Dragon}} and has zero redeeming qualities.
** Killer Croc may be a violent criminal, but he's never been the bodyguard to a Nazi.
** [[spoiler:At the time of the comic's release, Harley Quinn was still a villain and Joker's gleeful sidekick in the mainstream continuity, but her tragic elements are omitted in this canon.]]
* AdaptationalWimp:
** Selina Kyle never becomes ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}, simply being a stripper and informant in this continuity.
** Roy Harper cameos, but as ComicBook/GreenArrow does not exist in this continuity, he does not become Speedy.
* AlternateContinuity: To Franchise/{{Batman}}. In the official DC Multiverse, it's designated as Earth-37.
* BareYourMidriff: Batgirl does this in her costume.
* BatmanGrabsAGun: Robin takes up firearms to go after the criminals who [[spoiler:murdered his family]].
* BigBad: Bianca Steeplechase, a drug baroness trying to control Gotham and this continuity's version of ComicBook/TheJoker.
* CIAEvilFBIGood: {{Averted}}, Batgirl gets her wonderful toys from a contact in the CIA.
* CivvieSpandex: Robin wears what looks like a varsity jacket.
* ClearMyName: Bruce busts out of jail after he's framed for murder to take down the mob who framed him.
* CorruptPolitician: [[spoiler:The Mayor of Gotham is revealed to be in Bianca's pocket.]]
* CrapsackWorld: This is the standard Gotham of crime bosses and universally corrupt police, but with extra systemic sexism and homophobia laced in.
* DeathByAdaptation:
** [[spoiler:Selina Kyle is thrown out a window by Bianca, despite being alive in the mainstream continuity.]]
** [[spoiler:Dick Grayson is poisoned by Bianca.]]
** [[spoiler:The Joker drowns in Gotham River.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Harvey Dent is a straightforward, heroic attorney here, with his qualities as ComicBook/TwoFace going to a DirtyCop named Duell.
* DepravedBisexual: Bianca Steeplechase is a ruthless crime boss who seduces a drunken lout in her plan to take the city and [[spoiler:enters into a relationship with a teenage girl who's just as crazy as she is]].
* DirtyCop: Batgirl and Robin start their careers by battling Gotham's corrupt police force.
* DisabilityImmunity: Bianca is unaffected by Batgirl's sonic weapons because she's hard of hearing.
* TheDragon: Bianca has a different one in both parts. In ''Thrillkiller'', it's racketeering DirtyCop Duell, and in ''Thrillkiller '62'' it's Nazi scientist Otto Saunders.
* {{Elseworld}}: The Batman mythos in the early 1960's.
* TheEndOrIsIt: [[spoiler:''Thrillkiller '62'' ends with Bianca dead and her operation shut down, but Harley Quinn manages to escape.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Otto Szunders is a ruthless ex-Nazi MadScientist, but he doesn't like experimenting on people when they don't know what's happening.
* FrameUp: Detective Wayne is framed for [[spoiler:Selina Kyle's murder]] by Duell and his cops.
* GenderFlip: The Joker counterpart is a woman.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Bianca serves a crime boss known as Don Julio, but Julio doesn't appear in the comic proper.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} Selina Kyle]] used to lead an unspecified life of crime, but has become Detective Wayne's informant.
* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:Robin is poisoned by Bianca.]]
* IHaveYourWife: Bianca forces a newspaper man to print an expose revealing Batgirl and Robin's secret identities under threat of killing his wife and kids. [[spoiler:Luckily, she got their identities wrong.]]
* ItsPersonal: Batgirl and Robin initially see Bianca Steeplechase as a simple mob boss to take down, until [[spoiler:she has Robin's family killed]] and they go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge.
* KarmaHoudini:\
** The Wayne family servants seemingly get away with murdering Bruce's parents. Neither does whoever killed Barbara's mom.
** [[spoiler:Harley Quinn is still at large at the end of the comic, with Bruce making her capture top priority.]]
* KissOfDeath: Bianca has poisonous lipstick, which she uses to [[spoiler:kill Robin]].
* TheMentallyDisturbed: Barbara shows signs of PTSD relating to [[spoiler:Robin's death]] in ''Thrillkiller '62''. [[spoiler:It culminates in her putting on the Robin costume and going on a violent revenge spree against his surviving killers.]]
* MissingMom: Batgirl's mom was murdered long before the comic.
* MrFanservice: Bruce Wayne regularly appears shirtless.
* MsFanservice:
** Batgirl is a beautiful redhead who wears tight, midriff-baring clothing and is explicitly compared to a showgirl. She uses this to her advantage, since sexist thugs tend to underestimate her. In ''Thrillkiller '62'', she gets a scene in a sheer nightgown and one in her bra.
** Selina Kyle is literally a stripper, and we briefly see her performance.
* NailEm: Bianca uses a special nail polish to make her fingernails poisonous.
* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain:
** Duell is a vicious DirtyCop who shakes down gay bars and condescends Batgirl for being a woman.
** [[spoiler:Harley Quinn is Bianca's gleeful sidekick and seems to be slightly xenophobic against Germans.]]
* PsychoLesbian: [[spoiler:Harley Quinn appears late in ''Thrillkiller '62'', still just as in love with Joker, who is a woman here.]]
* {{Retraux}}: The art style is deliberately reminiscent of the covers of old pulp magazines.
* RevengeByProxy: Bianca retaliates against Robin's vigilantism by [[spoiler:sabotaging his acrobat family's tightropes, killing them all]].
* RichesToRags: In this continuity, Bruce Wayne's family was ruined by the depression, so he became a cop.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler:Harley Quinn ends the comic by killing her parents and younger brother.]]
* ShoutOut:
** The first panel of the comic prominently features a theatre marquee advertising ''Film/BenHur1959''.
** When Bianca gets ahold of Robin's glove, she explicitly compares her plan to trace him with it to ''Literature/{{Cinderella}}''.
** When describing the time skip that starts ''Thrillkiller '62'', ''Film/DrNo'' is referenced.
* StockSuperheroDayJobs: Batgirl is a wealthy socialite, [[spoiler:Batman is a freelance bum]].
* TermsOfEndangerment: Bianca loves to call Batgirl "Red."
* ThoseWackyNazis: In ''Thrillkiller '62'', Bianca hires an escaped Nazi to make a highly addictive drug as part of a plan to take over Gotham.
* TimeSkip: A year goes by between the end of ''Thrillkiller'' and the beginning of ''Thrillkiller '62''.
* WrenchWench: Barbara fixes her own car.
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