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** The Bat later pulls the same thing with Steel's mechanical arm.
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[[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] is a ridealong technician who pretends to be the happiest person around. Reality is, she hates Luthor, she detests the City and dreams of escaping and looking for the mythical Franchise/WonderWoman. One day she saves a man from getting gunned down, and is noticed by the Gardeners. Her father James Gordon reveals she's his adoptive daughter whom he rescued form Luthor's experiments, and now she has to run away or will be terminated.
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[[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] is a ridealong technician who pretends to be the happiest person around. Reality is, she hates Luthor, she detests the City and dreams of escaping and looking for the mythical Franchise/WonderWoman. One day she saves a man from getting gunned down, and is noticed by the Gardeners. Her father James Gordon reveals she's his adoptive daughter whom he rescued form from Luthor's experiments, and now she has to run away or will be terminated.
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* SoftGlass: Batman does this several times:
** In issue #1, Batman bursts through the window of the Gordon household to capture Kara and her father.
** In issue #11 he throws himself through a window of the Garage to catch the gang by surprise.
** In issue #1, Batman bursts through the window of the Gordon household to capture Kara and her father.
** In issue #11 he throws himself through a window of the Garage to catch the gang by surprise.
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* WorldOfActionGirls: Most of heroes are female.
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* WellIntentionedExtremist: Lex Luthor is confident that he can save the remains of mankind, but he can only achieve this if everybody follow his orders; so he keeps people mind-controlled and caged inside "his" walled city and represses dissenters brutally. He doesn't get why people rebel against him.
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* AwfulTruth: After being told Kara didn't kill her father Barbara sets out to ascertain the truth and discover who killed James Gordon and why:
-->'''Barbara:''' I wish that was true, Kara, I really do, but this goes so much deeper than either of us. They framed you because the truth is insane. If people in The Garden knew...\\
'''Kara:''' If they knew '''what'''?\\
'''Barbara:''' I... rghh... Dad was working on... a project for Governor Luthor. Something... deep in the Lexes. Top secret. An alien. Luthor wanted it... controlled. He wanted to... harness its power... Gahhhh... I don't know why. But dad... He couldn't let it happen. He hacked his ridealongs. Kept the alien off the grid. Changed her memories. Changed my memories. That was ten years ago. That's the day we became sisters.
-->'''Barbara:''' I wish that was true, Kara, I really do, but this goes so much deeper than either of us. They framed you because the truth is insane. If people in The Garden knew...\\
'''Kara:''' If they knew '''what'''?\\
'''Barbara:''' I... rghh... Dad was working on... a project for Governor Luthor. Something... deep in the Lexes. Top secret. An alien. Luthor wanted it... controlled. He wanted to... harness its power... Gahhhh... I don't know why. But dad... He couldn't let it happen. He hacked his ridealongs. Kept the alien off the grid. Changed her memories. Changed my memories. That was ten years ago. That's the day we became sisters.
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* DeadpanSnarker: As per usual, Kara's wit is pretty dry:
** In chapter #7:
--->'''Nightwing:''' So you know what I do?\\
'''Supergirl:''' No, but I have this sneaky feeling you're gonna tell me.
** In chapter #9:
--->'''Kara:''' Yeah. Okay. This is a murder trap. I'm walking into a murder trap.
** In chapter #7:
--->'''Nightwing:''' So you know what I do?\\
'''Supergirl:''' No, but I have this sneaky feeling you're gonna tell me.
** In chapter #9:
--->'''Kara:''' Yeah. Okay. This is a murder trap. I'm walking into a murder trap.
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* WeNeedADistraction: In chapter 10, Kara slips in the Garden to get Barbara out of there. On their way out both girls are being chased by Batman, so Kara's biker gang provides several distractions to force him to give up the chase: Big Barda and Harley Quinn blow up a chunk of the wall surrounding the city and Zatanna and Silver Banshee sneak in the city and wreak havoc.
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* BeingWatched: Barbara suspects she is being watched after sending a message to the rebels, hoping reach her sister out. Of course, she's being watched by the Bat.
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* FamilyOfChoice: After defecting, Kara misses her sister left back in the city tyrannically ruled by Luthor. Natasha Irons tells she understands but the biker gang is now her family.
-->'''Natasha Irons:''' I know that feeling. The loved one you can't shake. It's hard. But you gotta remember... You got new family now. Them you left behind are just cogs in Luthor's machine. Rule number one at the Garage: We ride for our sisters.
-->'''Natasha Irons:''' I know that feeling. The loved one you can't shake. It's hard. But you gotta remember... You got new family now. Them you left behind are just cogs in Luthor's machine. Rule number one at the Garage: We ride for our sisters.
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* ItsAllJunk: Barbara Gordon is tricked into believing her sister murdered their father. At one point she rips up Kara's comics. Then she remembers they were their father's and feels even worse.
-->'''Barbara:''' I tried hating you. On one particularly bad night, I tore up your illegal comics. It was only afterward I remembered they were Dad's. I tried hating him, too. That didn't work either.
-->'''Barbara:''' I tried hating you. On one particularly bad night, I tore up your illegal comics. It was only afterward I remembered they were Dad's. I tried hating him, too. That didn't work either.
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* LoveIsAWeakness: It's Harley Quinn's view that love is both needless and hurtful.
-->'''Harley:''' 'Cuz really, who needs love? It's like inking a bull's eye on your heart and givin' some rando a crossbow.
-->'''Harley:''' 'Cuz really, who needs love? It's like inking a bull's eye on your heart and givin' some rando a crossbow.
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* MissingMom: Barbara and Kara's mother died when they were very young. Kara barely remembers her.
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* OpenSaysMe: Several examples:
** Supergirl, Nightwing and Catwoman are sneaking in a secret facility and attempting to open a door but the retinal scan doesn't work. Kara -who is shielding her partners from a laser barrage- loses her patience and punches the door down.
** Batgirl needs to make her way in a rebel hideout. At the door, she's asked the password. Barbara not even answers anything. She just kicks the door down.
** Supergirl, Nightwing and Catwoman are sneaking in a secret facility and attempting to open a door but the retinal scan doesn't work. Kara -who is shielding her partners from a laser barrage- loses her patience and punches the door down.
** Batgirl needs to make her way in a rebel hideout. At the door, she's asked the password. Barbara not even answers anything. She just kicks the door down.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Big Barda trains Kara after the latter joins the gang.
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* JumpingOnAGrenade: In issue #2 Kara saves Jason Todd's life by throwing herself on top of a bomb. Her body bore the brunt of the blast, but since it was a ''solar-powered'' bomb she came out unscathed (not that a normal bomb would damage her either, but she didn't know about her invulnerability in the time).
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* ADickInName: Dick Grayson tries -and fails- to use Kara as a bait to escape from an Amazo robot, which gives us the next exchange:
-->'''Dick:''' We've got one option-- split up!\\
'''Kara:''' But it''ll keep following one of us!\\
'''Dick:''' Exactly!\\
'''Kara:''' What? Come back, you complete and total dick!\\
'''Dick:''' What can I say, it's in the name!
-->'''Dick:''' We've got one option-- split up!\\
'''Kara:''' But it''ll keep following one of us!\\
'''Dick:''' Exactly!\\
'''Kara:''' What? Come back, you complete and total dick!\\
'''Dick:''' What can I say, it's in the name!
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* DefiantToTheEnd: James Gordon is apprehended by the GArdeners and it's clear he's going to be killed off right after being interrogated in relation to his daughters:
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* DefiantToTheEnd: James Gordon is apprehended by the GArdeners Gardeners and it's clear he's going to be killed off right after being interrogated in relation to his daughters:
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** Harley Quinn helped ComicBookLexLuthor perfect his mind-controlling devices. When she realized they were turning people into drones unable to love someone other than Lex, she defected.
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** Harley Quinn helped ComicBookLexLuthor ComicBook/LexLuthor perfect his mind-controlling devices. When she realized they were turning people into drones unable to love someone other than Lex, she defected.
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* AudienceSurrogate: Kara is the viewpoint character who explains what to live in the city ruled by Luthor is like and asks the rebel group questions about the life in the wastelands.
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* IronicEcho: Kara and Dick are running from a killer robot. Dick tells her "And whatever you do-- Don't slow down!" to which Kara replies "Wasn't planning on it?!". Dick tries to use Kara as a bait to escape, but the robot chases him down. Dick is being cornered when Kara reappears to save him shouting "Don't slow down!". Dick replies "Wasn't planning on it."
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* CasualDangerDialog: In chapter 4, Dick Grayson and Kara Gordon argue as to what Dick's batons are called as being chased down by a killer giant robot. Kara lampshades it:
-->'''Kara:''' You really think this is the time for a semantics debate?
-->'''Kara:''' You really think this is the time for a semantics debate?
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* DidntSeeThatComing: Dick and Kara are being chased down by a killer robot. Dick decides to split up so the robot chases ''her''... but it goes after ''him''. Dick's reaction?
-->'''Dick:''' We've got one option-- split up!\\
'''Kara:''' But it''ll keep following one of us!\\
'''Dick:''' Exactly!\\
'''Kara:''' What? Come back, you complete and total dick!\\
'''Dick:''' What can I say, it's in the name!\\
'''Amazo:''' Targeting defector-- Richard Grayson Alpha priority.\\
'''Dick:''' Ah dang. Not how I saw that going '''at all'''.
-->'''Dick:''' We've got one option-- split up!\\
'''Kara:''' But it''ll keep following one of us!\\
'''Dick:''' Exactly!\\
'''Kara:''' What? Come back, you complete and total dick!\\
'''Dick:''' What can I say, it's in the name!\\
'''Amazo:''' Targeting defector-- Richard Grayson Alpha priority.\\
'''Dick:''' Ah dang. Not how I saw that going '''at all'''.
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* InsistentTerminology: Dick's electric batons are NOT called sticks. They're batons. Get it right.
-->'''Nightwing:''' Unless you count electric batons? Not a whole lot.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Electric sticks are our only hope?\\
'''Nightwing:''' Batons. They're called batons.
-->'''Nightwing:''' Unless you count electric batons? Not a whole lot.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Electric sticks are our only hope?\\
'''Nightwing:''' Batons. They're called batons.
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* OilSlick: Dick Grayson's bike is equipped with this. Dick even calls it...
-->'''Nightwing:''' Deploying '''Oil Slick!'''
-->'''Nightwing:''' Deploying '''Oil Slick!'''
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'''Big Barda:''' She needs out help.\\
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'''Big Barda:''' She needs out our help.\\
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Franchise/{{Batman}} or [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Jason Todd]] are usually heroes. In this universe, the former is Luthor's chief enforcer and the latter leads a road gang.
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* AdaptationalVillainy: Franchise/{{Batman}} or and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Jason Todd]] are usually heroes.heroes (well, somewhat in Jason's case). In this universe, the former is Luthor's chief enforcer and the latter leads a road gang.
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* MindRape:
** Lex took control of Gotham City and put mind-controlling devices in everyone's heads. James Gordon exploited that in order to protect Kara by rewriting her memories and altering Barbara's. The thought that he did to his birth daughter to save his adoptive one keeps him up at night.
** In Apokolips, mind-rapes are an everyday occurrence.
--->'''Big Barda:''' For showing compassion, Granny would condemn me to a thousand mindyears of all-pain.
** Lex took control of Gotham City and put mind-controlling devices in everyone's heads. James Gordon exploited that in order to protect Kara by rewriting her memories and altering Barbara's. The thought that he did to his birth daughter to save his adoptive one keeps him up at night.
** In Apokolips, mind-rapes are an everyday occurrence.
--->'''Big Barda:''' For showing compassion, Granny would condemn me to a thousand mindyears of all-pain.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: James Gordon is apprehended by the GArdeners and it's clear he's going to be killed off right after being interrogated in relation to his daughters:
-->'''The Bat:''' How did you do it?\\
'''James Gordon:''' Ask your boss. He's the who put source code in everyone's brains.\\
'''The Bat:''' You're saying you created her memories.\\
'''James Gordon:''' I'm saying '''go to Hell''', Bruce. That's what I'm saying.
-->'''The Bat:''' How did you do it?\\
'''James Gordon:''' Ask your boss. He's the who put source code in everyone's brains.\\
'''The Bat:''' You're saying you created her memories.\\
'''James Gordon:''' I'm saying '''go to Hell''', Bruce. That's what I'm saying.
* PietaPlagiarism: In the third issue Batman carries a hurt Batgirl in his arms after she has been knocked down.
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* StepfordSmiler: Anyone observing closely could tell Kara's smiles as working as a computer technician were fake.
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* StepfordSmiler: Anyone observing closely could tell Kara's smiles Kara smiled constantly and pretended to be brimming with happiness as working as a computer technician were fake.for Lex Luthor. Reality is, she hated Luthor, her job and her oppressed, walled hometown and dreamed of escaping and finding freedom anywhere; but she never showed it.
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* TearsOfBlood: Blood oozes from James Gordon's eyes while he tells Kara she's been found by the Gardeners and has to run away now.
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* AirVentPassageway: Kara, Dick and Selina crawl into a vent to break into a secret facility belonging to Luthor.
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* EyeBeams: Kara finds out about her heat vision by accident while on a mission.
-->'''Kara:''' Last time I rode out I shot a giant laser out of my eyes.
-->'''Kara:''' Last time I rode out I shot a giant laser out of my eyes.
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-->'''Batgirl:''' The truth or I '''drop''' you! Where the Hell is [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]]? Where is she '''hiding'''?
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* SuperStrength: Kara Gordon discovers her inhuman strength when she lifts a huge truck with one hand.
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* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Downplayed. Kara finds Jason Todd, leader of rival biker gang the Red Hoods, cute. Dick Grayson protests Jason isn't cute. He's scum.
-->'''Dick:''' And this one at the head of the pack, he's gaining on me with eyes ready to kill. It's Jason Todd-- you know, the lifer? The kid raised in the gang?\\
'''Kara:''' Yeah, we've met. He's cute.\\
'''Dick:''' '''I'm''' cute. '''He's''' the kind of scum who thinks the word scum is a compliment.
* ArmCannon: In the fourth issue Kara Gordon and Dick Grayson fight Amazo, a robot equipped with two laser cannons built into its arms.
-->'''Dick:''' And this one at the head of the pack, he's gaining on me with eyes ready to kill. It's Jason Todd-- you know, the lifer? The kid raised in the gang?\\
'''Kara:''' Yeah, we've met. He's cute.\\
'''Dick:''' '''I'm''' cute. '''He's''' the kind of scum who thinks the word scum is a compliment.
* ArmCannon: In the fourth issue Kara Gordon and Dick Grayson fight Amazo, a robot equipped with two laser cannons built into its arms.
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* DeathTrap: Lex Luthor's secret underground facility is protected with traps such like laser hallways and turret guns built in elevator shafts. Supergirl, Catwoman and Nightwing find them annoying and trite. Especially Nightwing.
-->'''Nightwing:''' Laser hallway. How cliché. What's next, the floor is lava? A room filled with sharks?
-->'''Nightwing:''' Laser hallway. How cliché. What's next, the floor is lava? A room filled with sharks?
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* ElaborateUndergroundBase: Kara, Dick and Selina break into a secret facility built by Lex Luthor underneath a mountain where he fabricates his army of robotical enforcers.
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* LavaPit: Parodied by Nightwing when he, Supergirl and Catwoman sneak into a secret underground facility protected with death traps and Dick wonders if they'll run into a lava pool.
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* MechaMooks: Lex Luthor's robot enforcers called "Gardeners" execute whoever gets out of line.
* MechanicalMonster: Lex Luthor has the giant robot Amazo which Kara Gordon, Dick Grayson and Selina Kyle bump into when they break into a Luthor's secret base.
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* PeopleJars: Upon breaking into a secret facility, Kara, Dick and Selina discovered Luthor kidnapped the world's greatest geniuses, imprisoned them in pods and mind-controlled them into working for him inside.
-->'''Nightwing:''' The Hell '''is''' this place?\\
'''Supergirl:''' It's a computer. A neural network of ridealongs inside cryogenically frozen geniuses. A super-cooled processor made of human brains--and every one of them has at least three [=PhDs=] at the end of their name. We're looking at the smartest people in the world.\\
'''Catwoman:''' Oh, Lex. You never did like competition.
-->'''Nightwing:''' The Hell '''is''' this place?\\
'''Supergirl:''' It's a computer. A neural network of ridealongs inside cryogenically frozen geniuses. A super-cooled processor made of human brains--and every one of them has at least three [=PhDs=] at the end of their name. We're looking at the smartest people in the world.\\
'''Catwoman:''' Oh, Lex. You never did like competition.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: In the fourth chapter, Catwoman gets Nightwing and Supergirl to help her break into a secret facility and then uses them as a bait to keep a robot guardian busy. Both Dick and Kara decide to hightail it.
-->'''Nightwing:''' You want to go in alone, Catwoman? You do you. I'm '''out'''.
* SharkPool: Parodied. Nightwing, Supergirl and Catwoman break into a secret facility protected with death traps and Dick wonders if they'll run into the mandatory shark pool.
-->'''Nightwing:''' Laser hallway. How cliché. What's next, the floor is lava? A room filled with sharks?
-->'''Nightwing:''' You want to go in alone, Catwoman? You do you. I'm '''out'''.
* SharkPool: Parodied. Nightwing, Supergirl and Catwoman break into a secret facility protected with death traps and Dick wonders if they'll run into the mandatory shark pool.
-->'''Nightwing:''' Laser hallway. How cliché. What's next, the floor is lava? A room filled with sharks?
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* TemptingFate: In the fourth chapter, Kara Gordon and Dick Grayson are fleeing a guardian robot and Nightwing suggests to get out of the facility and get on their bikes because the guardian ''obviously'' won't leave the base to chase after them. Then the guardian proceeds to do exactly that.
-->'''Nightwing:''' Let's ride! There's no way that thing can leave the facility-- We'll be free and clear!\\
[the guardian robot leaves the facility and chases after them]\\
'''Supergirl:''' You were saying?!
-->'''Nightwing:''' Let's ride! There's no way that thing can leave the facility-- We'll be free and clear!\\
[the guardian robot leaves the facility and chases after them]\\
'''Supergirl:''' You were saying?!
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* {{Touche}}: Jason Todd sets a bomb off to take Clayface with him. Kara quickly flings him away and tanks the blast.
-->'''Jason:''' What... What '''are''' you?\\
'''Kara:''' I'm '''super'''. And you're a suicidal '''idiot'''.\\
'''Jason:''' Touché.
-->'''Jason:''' What... What '''are''' you?\\
'''Kara:''' I'm '''super'''. And you're a suicidal '''idiot'''.\\
'''Jason:''' Touché.
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''Gotham City Garage'' is a DC comic-book series published in 2017 and set in a post-apocalyptic future. The same as ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', it's inspired by a DC Collectibles statue line.
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''Gotham City Garage'' is a DC comic-book series 2017 digital-first comic-series published in 2017 by Creator/DCComics and set in a post-apocalyptic future. The same as ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', it's inspired by a DC Collectibles statue line.
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Compare with ''ComicBook/DCBombshells'', ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', another {{Elseworlds}} story inspired by a statue line and featuring DC female heroes and villains.
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* DefectorFromDecadence: Kara used to work as a computer technician overseeing Lex Luthor's mind-control devices which kept his city's inhabitants under control, but she hated the job, the enclosed city and especially Luthor. Then she nearly got assassinated because she saved a man's life. So she manages to run away and joins Natasha Irons' rebel faction.
* HeelFaceTurn: Harley Quinn used to work for Lex Luthor, but ran away and joined the rebels.
* HeelRealization:
** Harley Quinn helped ComicBookLexLuthor perfect his mind-controlling devices. When she realized they were turning people into drones unable to love someone other than Lex, she defected.
** Barbara Gordon used to be one of the Luthor's enforcers. Then she was told her boss framed her sister for their father's murder shortly before seeing other enforcers dealing with a riot by setting fire to the rioters and understood she was ''not'' on the side of the angels.
* HeelRealization:
** Harley Quinn helped ComicBookLexLuthor perfect his mind-controlling devices. When she realized they were turning people into drones unable to love someone other than Lex, she defected.
** Barbara Gordon used to be one of the Luthor's enforcers. Then she was told her boss framed her sister for their father's murder shortly before seeing other enforcers dealing with a riot by setting fire to the rioters and understood she was ''not'' on the side of the angels.
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* OhMyGods: People swears by Lex. Seriously.
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* OhCrap: Harley Quinn reacts this way when she realizes she has gotten all to herself Barbara's undivided attention:
-->'''Barbara Gordon:''' Sorry to interrupt this romantic and very disgusting moment-- but you and I have business.\\
'''Harley Quinn:''' I sure '''hope''' so. Dayum. Oh no wait hold on. '''Real''' dayum. Actual damn.
* OhMyGods: People swears byLex. Seriously.Lex, which reveals to what extent he's controlling the post-apocalyptic world.
-->'''Barbara Gordon:''' Sorry to interrupt this romantic and very disgusting moment-- but you and I have business.\\
'''Harley Quinn:''' I sure '''hope''' so. Dayum. Oh no wait hold on. '''Real''' dayum. Actual damn.
* OhMyGods: People swears by
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* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Lex designed his mind-control devices "Lexlocks" -later "Ridealongs"- to free the masses from a pesky thing called "independent thought".
-->'''Luthor:''' I have a problem that needs solving.\\
'''Harley:''' Premature hair loss?\\
'''Luthor:''' Free will. There tiny machines can be gradted to every human mind in my garden. They can control thought, behavior, preference, happiness. Wash away the sins of the Dark Age and give the world a clean slate. But they must do so without driving the cattle insane.
-->'''Luthor:''' I have a problem that needs solving.\\
'''Harley:''' Premature hair loss?\\
'''Luthor:''' Free will. There tiny machines can be gradted to every human mind in my garden. They can control thought, behavior, preference, happiness. Wash away the sins of the Dark Age and give the world a clean slate. But they must do so without driving the cattle insane.
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* ThatManIsDead: Harley Quinzel used to work for Lex in the past. After defecting she renames herself Quinn and claims she doesn't know anybody called "Harley Quinzel".
-->'''Harley:''' Harley Quinn, by the way.\\
'''Kara:''' Harley... Quin-'''zel'''?\\
'''Harley:''' Never heard of her, sounds like a real piece of garbage!
-->'''Harley:''' Harley Quinn, by the way.\\
'''Kara:''' Harley... Quin-'''zel'''?\\
'''Harley:''' Never heard of her, sounds like a real piece of garbage!
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* HighAltitudeInterrogation: When they first meet, Batgirl grabs Harley Quinn, starts her JetPack up and takes her over the city to interrogate her.
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* GeniusLoci: The Canyons of Clay. Clayface is merged with the land, he controls it completely and kills all trespassers.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: Kara picks up an android's ripped arm and hammers another Gardener with it.
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* GeniusLoci: The Canyons of Clay. Clayface is merged with the land, he controls it completely exerts complete control upon it, and kills all trespassers.
-->'''Big Barda:''' But the Dark Age had not just changed the world, they say. It had not only driven the seas to vapor and burned the cities of Man. No. It had also changed '''him'''. Stripped him of his famous face. Destroyed his home. And so, they say, he came to the crossroads here... and became a new one. Welcome to the '''Canyons of Clay'''.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Whoa! Youre' telling me this place is '''alive'''?\\
'''Silver Banshee:''' No. This place is '''death'''.
* GrievousHarmWithABody: During her first battle, Kara picks up an android's ripped arm and hammers another Gardener with it.
-->'''Big Barda:''' But the Dark Age had not just changed the world, they say. It had not only driven the seas to vapor and burned the cities of Man. No. It had also changed '''him'''. Stripped him of his famous face. Destroyed his home. And so, they say, he came to the crossroads here... and became a new one. Welcome to the '''Canyons of Clay'''.\\
'''Supergirl:''' Whoa! Youre' telling me this place is '''alive'''?\\
'''Silver Banshee:''' No. This place is '''death'''.
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* ThreePointLanding: Barda leaps onto a truck's roof, landing on her two feet and right hand.
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* BloodKnight: Barda has spent years trying to break free from Granny Goddness' indoctrination, but even so she's never happier than when she fights.
-->'''Barda:''' Highfather help me. Even after all there years away from Granny's Forge... I'm never as at home as I am in '''war'''.
-->'''Barda:''' Highfather help me. Even after all there years away from Granny's Forge... I'm never as at home as I am in '''war'''.
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* NothingPersonal: When the group attempts to hijack a truck, Kara tosses the trucker out of the vehicle shouting: "Really sorry about this! Nothing personal!"
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-->'''Natasha Irons''': Throttle back.\\
'''Big Barda:''' She needs out help.\\
'''Natasha:''' Barda. I'm reading six Gardeners. That's suicide.\\
'''Barda:''' There could be six hundred.
-->'''Natasha Irons''': Throttle back.\\
'''Big Barda:''' She needs out help.\\
'''Natasha:''' Barda. I'm reading six Gardeners. That's suicide.\\
'''Barda:''' There could be six hundred.
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* BigDamnHeroes: Big Barda, Silver Banshee, Harley Quinn and Catwoman come to Kara's aid when half dozen of Gardeners are about to gun her down.
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* CainAndAbel: Bruce tries to invoke this, making Barbara believe Kara killed their father. It doesn't work.
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* BikerBabe: All female characters -Kara, Diana, Barbara, Harley, Barda...- are beautiful, kickass bikers.
* CainAndAbel:Bruce tries Batman eliminates James Gordon and then attempts to invoke this, making blame his murder on Kara Gordon to get her sister Barbara believe to hate and hunt Kara killed their father. down. It doesn't work.''almost'' works until Harley Quinn of all people tells Barbara her little sister is innocent.
* CityInABottle: Lex built a dome encircling Gotham City to protect it from the gangs of marauders roving around the wastelands... and to keep everyone controlled. Thirty-five years later, no local is certain that there's beyond the dome other than a dangerous desert.
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* CityInABottle: Lex built a dome encircling Gotham City to protect it from the gangs of marauders roving around the wastelands... and to keep everyone controlled. Thirty-five years later, no local is certain that there's beyond the dome other than a dangerous desert.
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* DomedCity: DomedHometown: The "Garden" -formerly Gotham City- is encircled by a red-lit dome.
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* TheDragon: Batman is Luthor's chief enforcer. He killed Barbara and Kara's father and tried to turn the former against the latter.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: Batman makes Barbara believe Kara killed their father to turn her against her little sister. His deceit almost works, but Harley tells Barbara the truth before she meets Kara.
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* CrazyAwesome: Played straight and lampshaded by -what a shock- Harley Quinn.
-->'''Harley:''' Nonsense is my specialty.
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->Governor Luthor's Paradise on Earth. The Last City. No sickness. No bad thoughts. No pain. Ever. Everyone happy, content, and otherwise perfect. Except me.
-->-- Kara Gordon
''Gotham City Garage'' is a DC comic-book series published in 2017 and set in a post-apocalyptic future. The same as ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', it's inspired by a DC Collectibles statue line.
It's been decades since a cataclysm dried the seas and burned the human cities. Thirty-five years ago, ComicBook/LexLuthor took over Gotham City, renamed it The Garden -the Last City on Earth- and turned it into a city where nothing bad ever happens... unless you step out of line, in which case you'll be instantly terminated by the bat-dressed Luthor's enforcers, the Gardeners.
[[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] is a ridealong technician who pretends to be the happiest person around. Reality is, she hates Luthor, she detests the City and dreams of escaping and looking for the mythical Franchise/WonderWoman. One day she saves a man from getting gunned down, and is noticed by the Gardeners. Her father James Gordon reveals she's his adoptive daughter whom he rescued form Luthor's experiments, and now she has to run away or will be terminated.
Kara makes it beyond the dome surrounding the city and is rescued by a rebel group led by Natasha Irons who is determined to take Lex Luthor down.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationalVillainy: Franchise/{{Batman}} or [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Jason Todd]] are usually heroes. In this universe, the former is Luthor's chief enforcer and the latter leads a road gang.
* AdaptationalHeroism: ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and Silver Banshee are more anti-heroic than their mainstream counterparts.
* AfterTheEnd: The story starts out many decades after a called "dark age" changed the world into a wasteland. The world's oceans evaporated and the human cities burned to ashes. Gotham is the last city on Earth and is ruled by ''Lex Luthor''.
* AGodAmI: Given the number of people swearing by Lex and reiterating Lex loves them and the fact that years are counted from the called "Luthorrise", it looks like Lex has taken his narcissism and megalomania to the extreme.
* BadassBiker: ''All'' female characters ride bikes.
* BigBad: Lex Luthor took over the last city on Earth and turned it into his private country.
* CainAndAbel: Bruce tries to invoke this, making Barbara believe Kara killed their father. It doesn't work.
* CrapsackWorld: The world is a barren, lifeless desert. Most cities are scorched ruins fought over by scavengers. And the only thriving city is under the rule of Lex Luthor.
* CrazyAwesome: Played straight and lampshaded by -what a shock- Harley Quinn.
-->'''Harley:''' Nonsense is my specialty.
* DomedCity: The "Garden" -formerly Gotham City- is encircled by a red-lit dome.
* TheDragon: Batman is Luthor's chief enforcer.
* GeniusLoci: The Canyons of Clay. Clayface is merged with the land, he controls it completely and kills all trespassers.
* KirbyDots: A beautiful green-and-white Kirby Krackle surrounds Big Barda when she starts up her cosmic rod.
* NeckSnap: Batman executes James Gordon by snapping his neck.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Big Barda was actually instructed by Granny Goodness to abandon her partners. So she refuses to leave Silver Banshee behind during the chase across the Canyons of Clay because that's what Granny would want her to.
* NoSell: A solar-powered weapon explodes in Kara's hands. It works as well as you'd expect.
* OhMyGods: People swears by Lex. Seriously.
* PunishedForSympathy:
** Kara is hunted down because she saved an innocent man from being gunned down.
** Unsurprisingly, in Apokolips mercy is punished with MindRape:
--->'''Barda:''' For showing compassion, Granny would condemn me to a thousand mindyears of all-pain.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: James and Barbara Gordon are Kara's adoptive family.
* StepfordSmiler: Anyone observing closely could tell Kara's smiles as working as a computer technician were fake.
* TakingYouWithMe: Jason Todd sets off a bomb when Clayface is about to kill him.
* WideEyedIdealist: Subverted with Kara. She's happy-go-lucky, innocent and optimistic. Barda thinks she'll have to break her cheerful idealism before it kills Kara... until they discover the "super-strong and invulnerable" thing.
* YouKilledMyFather: Subverted. Batman doctors evidence to trick [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]] into believing her sister murdered their father. She believes him and intends to get justice for her father until Harley -of all people!- reveals that's rubbish.
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->'''Kara:''' Doesn't take long to come up with the answer. My family. My past. My freedom. Everything's murky now. Enshrouded. So instead, I start with the one thing I know. Hope.
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->Governor Luthor's Paradise on Earth. The Last City. No sickness. No bad thoughts. No pain. Ever. Everyone happy, content, and otherwise perfect. Except me.
-->-- Kara Gordon
''Gotham City Garage'' is a DC comic-book series published in 2017 and set in a post-apocalyptic future. The same as ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', it's inspired by a DC Collectibles statue line.
It's been decades since a cataclysm dried the seas and burned the human cities. Thirty-five years ago, ComicBook/LexLuthor took over Gotham City, renamed it The Garden -the Last City on Earth- and turned it into a city where nothing bad ever happens... unless you step out of line, in which case you'll be instantly terminated by the bat-dressed Luthor's enforcers, the Gardeners.
[[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara Gordon]] is a ridealong technician who pretends to be the happiest person around. Reality is, she hates Luthor, she detests the City and dreams of escaping and looking for the mythical Franchise/WonderWoman. One day she saves a man from getting gunned down, and is noticed by the Gardeners. Her father James Gordon reveals she's his adoptive daughter whom he rescued form Luthor's experiments, and now she has to run away or will be terminated.
Kara makes it beyond the dome surrounding the city and is rescued by a rebel group led by Natasha Irons who is determined to take Lex Luthor down.
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!!Tropes:
* AdaptationalVillainy: Franchise/{{Batman}} or [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Jason Todd]] are usually heroes. In this universe, the former is Luthor's chief enforcer and the latter leads a road gang.
* AdaptationalHeroism: ComicBook/HarleyQuinn, ComicBook/{{Catwoman}} and Silver Banshee are more anti-heroic than their mainstream counterparts.
* AfterTheEnd: The story starts out many decades after a called "dark age" changed the world into a wasteland. The world's oceans evaporated and the human cities burned to ashes. Gotham is the last city on Earth and is ruled by ''Lex Luthor''.
* AGodAmI: Given the number of people swearing by Lex and reiterating Lex loves them and the fact that years are counted from the called "Luthorrise", it looks like Lex has taken his narcissism and megalomania to the extreme.
* BadassBiker: ''All'' female characters ride bikes.
* BigBad: Lex Luthor took over the last city on Earth and turned it into his private country.
* CainAndAbel: Bruce tries to invoke this, making Barbara believe Kara killed their father. It doesn't work.
* CrapsackWorld: The world is a barren, lifeless desert. Most cities are scorched ruins fought over by scavengers. And the only thriving city is under the rule of Lex Luthor.
* CrazyAwesome: Played straight and lampshaded by -what a shock- Harley Quinn.
-->'''Harley:''' Nonsense is my specialty.
* DomedCity: The "Garden" -formerly Gotham City- is encircled by a red-lit dome.
* TheDragon: Batman is Luthor's chief enforcer.
* GeniusLoci: The Canyons of Clay. Clayface is merged with the land, he controls it completely and kills all trespassers.
* KirbyDots: A beautiful green-and-white Kirby Krackle surrounds Big Barda when she starts up her cosmic rod.
* NeckSnap: Batman executes James Gordon by snapping his neck.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: Big Barda was actually instructed by Granny Goodness to abandon her partners. So she refuses to leave Silver Banshee behind during the chase across the Canyons of Clay because that's what Granny would want her to.
* NoSell: A solar-powered weapon explodes in Kara's hands. It works as well as you'd expect.
* OhMyGods: People swears by Lex. Seriously.
* PunishedForSympathy:
** Kara is hunted down because she saved an innocent man from being gunned down.
** Unsurprisingly, in Apokolips mercy is punished with MindRape:
--->'''Barda:''' For showing compassion, Granny would condemn me to a thousand mindyears of all-pain.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: James and Barbara Gordon are Kara's adoptive family.
* StepfordSmiler: Anyone observing closely could tell Kara's smiles as working as a computer technician were fake.
* TakingYouWithMe: Jason Todd sets off a bomb when Clayface is about to kill him.
* WideEyedIdealist: Subverted with Kara. She's happy-go-lucky, innocent and optimistic. Barda thinks she'll have to break her cheerful idealism before it kills Kara... until they discover the "super-strong and invulnerable" thing.
* YouKilledMyFather: Subverted. Batman doctors evidence to trick [[ComicBook/{{Batgirl}} Barbara Gordon]] into believing her sister murdered their father. She believes him and intends to get justice for her father until Harley -of all people!- reveals that's rubbish.
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->'''Kara:''' Doesn't take long to come up with the answer. My family. My past. My freedom. Everything's murky now. Enshrouded. So instead, I start with the one thing I know. Hope.
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