History ComicBook / GothamAcademy

* [TheCameo Cameos]]: Many. Including Bruce Wayne, Hugo Strange, Dr. Langstrom (Man-Bat), and more.

* CandlelitBath: Olive takes one in ''Second Semester'' #1. When the candle goes out, [[spoiler:she seemingly relights it with her mind: the first sign that she may have inherited her mothers pyrokynetic powers]].

* PlayingWithFire: Calamity gives this power to people in the [[spoiler: Silverlock family and its latest target is Olive.]]
* SetWrongWhatOnceWentRight: In the Annual [[spoiler: Derek Powers has come back in time to kill young Academy student Warren [=McGinnis=], thereby preventing [[WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond Terry McGinnis]] from ever existing.]]

* PlayingWithFire: Calamity gives this power to people in the [[spoiler: Silverlock family and it's latest target is Olive.]]

* MythologyGag: '''''Everywhere!''''' For starters, the drama teacher is Simon Trent from BatmanTheAnimatedSeries and the librarian is inspired by the Bookworm, an Adam West Bat-villain.

''Gotham Academy'' is a monthly pseudo-spinoff of the Batman series by Becky Cloonan and Brendan Fletcher that launched in 2014. As its name would imply, it's focused on the lives of the students attending Gotham's eponymous and most prestigious academy, particularly one Olive Silverlock. Attending her second year at the academy, she trudges through school life with a laundry list of personal problems and a knack for getting into trouble. Like many other so called famous schools, [[AcademyOfAdventure life at Gotham Academy is anything but normal.]]

This is not about any of that.

* BettyAndVeronica: Kyle as Betty and Tristan as Veronica to Olive's Archis

* MythologyGag: '''''Everywhere!''''' For starters, the drama teacher is Simon Trent from BatmanTheAnimatedSeries and the librarian is inspired by the Bookworm, an Adam West Bat-villain.

* MythologyGag: '''''Everywhere!'''''

* AdultsAreUseless: They always insist that nothing is strange happening at the Academy when all signs clearly say that there is.

* ArtShift: The seventh issue, which focuses on Damian and Maps, has a noticeably softer and more anime-like art style compared to the rest of the issues. Justified by the change in artist and the fact that the story is told from the ever bubbly Map's perspective much like how the main story is narrated by Olive.

* CargoShip: When Damien hands her his grappling gun, Maps fantasizes about ''marrying'' it.

* ArtShift: The seventh issue, which focuses on Damian and Maps, has a notably softer and more anime-like art style compared to the rest of the issues. Justified by the change in artist and the fact that the story is told from the ever bubbly Map's perspective much like how the main story is narrated by Olive.

* EntertaininglyWrong: Maps asks Damian if he's Batman when he pulls out a Batarang. Close, but not quite.

For over seventy-five years Gotham City has been established as a sprawling metropolis bursting at the seams crime, corruption, and vice. Only the efforts of a few brave individuals such as [[{{Batman}} The Batman]] keep the city from falling into ruin at the hands of the infamous rogues that prowl it as their favorite stomping ground.

* LighterAndSofter: Zig-zagged. Few of Gotham's most terrifying villains have shown up on the comic thus far, rendering the sense of danger and fear more muted compared to other Batman-related stories. However, the bullying present in the story as well as the clear social and psychological problems Olive has is a topic frequently touched upon as part of the ramifications of living in Gotham.

* ArtShift: The seventh issue, which focuses on Damian and Maps, has a notably softer and more anime-like art style compared to the rest of the issues.

* LighterAndSofter: Zig-zagged. Few of Gotham's most terrifying villains have shown up on the comic thus far, rendering the sense of danger and fear more muted compared to other Batman-related stories. However, the bullying present in the story as well as the clear social and psychological problems Olive has is a topic frequently touched upon in your average teen dramas and the ramifications of living in Gotham are very present.

* LighterAndSofter: Zig-zagged. Few of Gotham's most terrifying villains have shown up on the comic thus far, rendering the sense of danger and fear more muted compared to other Batman-related stories. However, the bullying present in the story as well as the clear social and psychological problems Olive has is a topic rarely touched upon in your average teen dramas.

* CoversAlwaysLie: Don't expect the covers to be indicative of what will happen in the actual comic. More often than not it doesn't.

* ArtShift: The seventh issue, which focuses on Damian and Maps, has a notably softer and more cartoony art style compared to the rest of the issues.