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* TheFaceless: The Court of Owls members always wear masks that hide their identities. While we learn the backstories of several of their Talon assassins the court members themselves remain anonymous and unexplored.
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* InterfaceScrew: A rare non-video game example. At one point while Batman is in the Court's Labyrinth the panels rotate 90 degrees, then another 90 degrees a few pages later before returning to normal.
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* ActionPolitician: One of the only Court of Owls targets to fight back against their assassins is a city councilman who shoots at his attacker with a pistol.
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* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Penguin has this opinion of the Talon that was sent to kill him, once he sees the undead assassin getting up from a would-be fatal wound to the neck:
-->'''Penguin:''' Oh, for the love of...how much more ''screwed up'' does this night have to get?
-->'''Penguin:''' Oh, for the love of...how much more ''screwed up'' does this night have to get?
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** Hell, in between crossover issues, flashbacks within those issues, flashbacks within the main story, and issues that take place after All-Star Western but before the main story, you could say this whole crossover takes DistantPrologue UpToEleven.
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** Hell, in between crossover issues, flashbacks within those issues, flashbacks within the main story, and issues that take place after All-Star Western but before the main story, you could say this whole crossover takes DistantPrologue UpToEleven.up to eleven.
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* BreakoutVillain: The Court of Owls have since been adapted to video games, animated media, and television as a result of the storyline's popularity, with Creator/MattReeves even citing them as a potential villain for his [[Film/TheBatman2022 Batman trilogy]].
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** The Court of Owls threatens Commissioner Gordon to leave the Bat-Signal turned off when the Court is ready to make their move, and to not warn his daughter. Of course, Gordon tries to call Barbara...only to discover that the Court accessed all the phone lines, and start bombing police headquarters. But the ''real'' gambit doesn't reveal itself until [[spoiler: Gordon makes it to the Bat-Signal and turns it on...only to discover, as a modified signal projects the image of an owl over Gotham's skyline, that the Court of Owls]] ''[[spoiler: wanted him to do this all along!]]''
** Near the very end, Batman corners one of the members of the Court of Owls and tells her that her husband fled without telling her, and that the Court is falling apart. She remains defiant while he's in the room... but when he leaves, she calls up her husband in a panic. And Batman traces the call to find out where the Court's gathering for a meeting.
** And shortly thereafter, during the final confrontation, one comes from [[spoiler: Lincoln March--after deciding that the Court of Owls had to die after supposedly being targeted by one of their assassins, he injected himself with the formula that resurrects and regenerates the Talons, then puts his own name on their hit list. Sure enough, one of the Talons shows up and kills him... allowing him to come back from the dead and put his master plan to usurp the Court of Owls into action.]]
** Near the very end, Batman corners one of the members of the Court of Owls and tells her that her husband fled without telling her, and that the Court is falling apart. She remains defiant while he's in the room... but when he leaves, she calls up her husband in a panic. And Batman traces the call to find out where the Court's gathering for a meeting.
** And shortly thereafter, during the final confrontation, one comes from [[spoiler: Lincoln March--after deciding that the Court of Owls had to die after supposedly being targeted by one of their assassins, he injected himself with the formula that resurrects and regenerates the Talons, then puts his own name on their hit list. Sure enough, one of the Talons shows up and kills him... allowing him to come back from the dead and put his master plan to usurp the Court of Owls into action.]]
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** The Court of Owls threatens Commissioner Gordon to leave the Bat-Signal turned off when the Court is ready to make their move, and to not warn his daughter. Of course, Gordon tries to call Barbara...only to discover that the Court accessed all the phone lines, and start bombing police headquarters. But the ''real'' gambit doesn't reveal itself until [[spoiler: Gordon makes it to the Bat-Signal and turns it on...only to discover, as a modified signal projects the image of an owl over Gotham's skyline, that the Court of Owls]] ''[[spoiler: wanted Owls ''wanted him to do this all along!]]''
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** Near the very end, Batman corners one of the members of the Court of Owls and tells her that her husband fled without telling her, and that the Court is falling apart. She remains defiant while he's in the room... but when he leaves, she calls up her husband in a panic. And Batman traces the call to find out where the Court's gathering for a meeting.
** And shortly thereafter, during the final confrontation, one comes from [[spoiler: Lincoln March--after deciding that the Court of Owls had to die after supposedly being targeted by one of their assassins, he injected himself with the formula that resurrects and regenerates the Talons, then puts his own name on their hit list. Sure enough, one of the Talons shows up and kills him... allowing him to come back from the dead and put his master plan to usurp the Court of Owls into action.]]
** Near the very end, Batman corners one of the members of the Court of Owls and tells her that her husband fled without telling her, and that the Court is falling apart. She remains defiant while he's in the room...
** And shortly thereafter, during the final confrontation, one comes from [[spoiler: Lincoln March--after deciding that the Court of Owls had to die after supposedly being targeted by one of their assassins, he injected himself with the formula that resurrects and regenerates the Talons, then puts his own name on their hit list. Sure enough, one of the Talons shows up and kills him...
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* BigBad: As an organization, the Court of Owls serves this role. [[spoiler: Later, their top agent - Lincoln March, AKA Thomas Wayne Jr. - usurps this role by killing off most of their top members, and it's implied that his plan all along was to usurp the Court.]]
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* BigBad: As an organization, the Court of Owls serves this role. Owls. [[spoiler: Later, their top agent - Lincoln March, AKA a.k.a. Thomas Wayne Jr. - usurps this role by killing off most of their top members, and it's implied that his plan all along was to usurp the Court.]]
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* TheDeterminator: Batman gets especially broken in the arc, suffering from a mental breakdown after being trapped in a labyrinth for eight days, gets stabbed, and is beaten down, yet is able to fight back and defeat the Court the same night he escapes from their labyrinth.
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* TheDeterminator: {{Determinator}}: Batman gets especially broken in the arc, suffering from a mental breakdown after being trapped in a labyrinth for eight days, gets stabbed, and is beaten down, yet is able to fight back and defeat the Court the same night he escapes from their labyrinth.
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* PoweredArmor: When the Talons force Batman and Alfred to retreat to a panic room deep within the lair, the former breaks out a mecha-suit to even the odds (being considerably wounded at the time and all).
** [[spoiler: Lincoln March, Bruce's alleged younger brother,]] dons a much more streamlined version of this trope--its theme reminiscent of an owl--for the final battle. Its features include jet thrusters, plastic explosive, and claw gauntlets. The suit is said to be the modern incarnation of the Talon suit.
** [[spoiler: Lincoln March, Bruce's alleged younger brother,]] dons a much more streamlined version of this trope--its theme reminiscent of an owl--for the final battle. Its features include jet thrusters, plastic explosive, and claw gauntlets. The suit is said to be the modern incarnation of the Talon suit.
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* PoweredArmor: PoweredArmor:
** When the Talons force Batman and Alfred to retreat to a panic room deep within the lair, the former breaks out a mecha-suit to even the odds (being considerably wounded at the time and all).
** [[spoiler: Lincoln March, Bruce's alleged youngerbrother,]] brother]], dons a much more streamlined version of this trope--its theme reminiscent of an owl--for the final battle. Its features include jet thrusters, plastic explosive, and claw gauntlets. The suit is said to be the modern incarnation of the Talon suit.
** When the Talons force Batman and Alfred to retreat to a panic room deep within the lair, the former breaks out a mecha-suit to even the odds (being considerably wounded at the time and all).
** [[spoiler: Lincoln March, Bruce's alleged younger
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* WhamEpisode: ''Batman'' #7 and ''Nightwing'' #7 both reveal that [[spoiler: Dick Grayson was meant to be recruited into the Talons]] and the Court unleashes all of the Talons on Gotham.
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** ''Batman'' #7 and ''Nightwing'' #7 both reveal that [[spoiler: Dick Grayson was meant to be recruited into the Talons]] and the Court unleashes all of the Talons on Gotham.
** ''Batman'' #7 and ''Nightwing'' #7 both reveal that [[spoiler: Dick Grayson was meant to be recruited into the Talons]] and the Court unleashes all of the Talons on Gotham.
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* WhamLine: Downplayed when the dead trainer is believed to have his killer's DNA under his fingernails, identified as... Dick Grayson. However, it quickly turns out that the trainer had tried to warn Dick, grabbing and scratching his arm. And Batman, being Batman, checked Dick's alibi on principle.
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* WhamLine: Downplayed when the dead trainer is believed to have his killer's DNA under his fingernails, identified as... Dick Grayson. However, it quickly turns out that the trainer had tried to warn Dick, grabbing and scratching his arm. And Batman, being Batman, checked Dick's alibi on principle.
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* WhatTheHellAreYou: Various people have this reaction to the Talons, before finding out what they are. Draws and interesting [[ShadowArchetype parallel]] to Batman.
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* WhatTheHellAreYou: Various people have this reaction to the Talons, before finding out what they are. Draws and an interesting [[ShadowArchetype parallel]] to Batman.
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* AFatherToHisMen: General Burroughs (one target for the Court of Owls) shows concern and grief for his soldiers as they give their lives protecting him.
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* AintTooProudToBeg: When an assassin comes for high-ranking Deputy Sheriff Michael D. Davis while he's taking a bath, Davis can only say, "Please don't."
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* UncertainDoom: There's a montage of several Gothamites being attacked by the Court of Owls. A few, such as Judge Jan Spitz (who is jogging when attacked), Public Advocate John Lee (who's driving his car) and City Councilman Michael Guadalupe (who tries to fight off his attacker with a pistol) aren't killed onscreen and might have been able to avoid the assassins long enough for Batman's allies to save them.
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* UnusuallyUninterestingSight: Dr. Arkham is surprisingly calm throughout the court's attempts to kill him, which involve causing a riot at the asylum.
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* {{Workaholic}}: Deputy Davis is reading a police file as he takes a bath.
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* BreakTheHaughty: Batman starts out believing that Gotham is "his city" and that no one knows it better than him. He also refuses to believe the Court of Owls is real, even in the face of irrefutable evidence, simply because he never found evidence of them existing when he looked into them in the past and can't bring himself to believe that they could elude him for so long. He refuses to take precaution towards this new foe, even after his first battle with a Talon, and it nearly gets him killed a number of times when the Court decide to play their hand.
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* TheSpook: The Court of Owls as a whole, as we are only given a small handful of information about how the group's past and how they operate or what their plans actually are. The Court is also shown to have dozens of members, and even that is said to only be a small portion of the organization, but only the identities of three members are revealed to the reader.
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* RefusedTheCall: [[spoiler: Dick Grayson is offered one last chance to join the Court of Owls as their latest Talon by his great-grandfather, William Cobb.]] He refuses.
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* RefusedTheCall: [[spoiler: Dick [[spoiler:Dick Grayson is offered one last chance to join the Court of Owls as their latest Talon by his great-grandfather, William Cobb.]] He refuses.
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Court of Owls is rather prone to doing this, whether to their own Talons, the skilled trainer of said Talons,[[note]]once they could resurrect their dead champions, they decided that they didn't need him anymore for training replacements -- hence his death that kickstarts the story arc[[/note]] or to Mr. Freeze (who helped develop the formula that resurrected the Talons in the first place). [[spoiler: Fittingly enough, Lincoln March decides that the Court has outlived ''their'' usefulness at the very end.]]
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* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: The Court of Owls is rather prone to doing this, whether to their own Talons, the skilled trainer of said Talons,[[note]]once they could resurrect their dead champions, they decided that they didn't need him anymore for training replacements -- hence his death that kickstarts the story arc[[/note]] or to Mr. Freeze (who helped develop the formula that resurrected the Talons in the first place). [[spoiler: Fittingly enough, Lincoln March decides that the Court has outlived ''their'' usefulness at the very end.]]]]
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