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** The Riddler putting [[spoiler:Robin and Chase]] in death traps is reminiscent of the many {{Cliffhanger}}s from the Creator/AdamWest series, which often had the heroes caught in some dangerous trap set by the [[MonsterOfTheWeek villain of the week]].
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** Strangely enough, the Riddler is a unique combination of the hyperactive spandex trickster of UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and the suave businessman-like personality of UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}. This was partially explained in the novelization by having his mind getting fried from using The Box; he is the trickster when in the Riddler costume and the businessman when acting as the CEO of [=NygmaTech=].

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** Strangely enough, the Riddler is a unique combination of the hyperactive spandex trickster of UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} and the suave businessman-like personality of UsefulNotes/{{the MediaNotes/{{the Bronze Age|OfComicBooks}}. This was partially explained in the novelization by having his mind getting fried from using The Box; he is the trickster when in the Riddler costume and the businessman when acting as the CEO of [=NygmaTech=].
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-->'''Two-Face:''' The Bat's taught you well. Noble. ''(pulls his gun)'' Stupid, but noble.


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-->'''Two-Face:''' The Bat's taught you well. Noble. ''(pulls his gun)'' Stupid, but noble.
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* CoolGuns: In keeping with his odd personality, Two-Face wields a pair of German-made revolvers, one blued, one stainless, when he crashes the Riddler's reception. The stainless revolver has pearl grips. Two-Face proves to be quite the gun nut, packing everything from an RPG-7 (in a baby carriage!), to a grenade launcher, to a minigun mounted onto the hood of his car.
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* BrokenAesop: Bruce spends the entire movie telling Dick he can't kill Two-Face because it's wrong and won't fix anything. Finally, towards the end, Dick (as Robin) learns his lesson and saves Two-Face from dying even though it results in him getting captured. [[spoiler:And then ''Batman'' kills Two-Face anyway.]]
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** Batman is introduced gearing up, and then standing next to Batmobile, ready for action. Then Alfred asks him if he'd like to take a sandwich with him (a pretty blatant product placement tie-in ["[[GutturalGrowler I'll get drive-thru]]" was ''on every channel'' in 1995], but still in-character from Alfred).

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** Batman is introduced gearing up, and then standing next to Batmobile, ready for action. Then Alfred asks him if he'd like to take a sandwich with him (a pretty blatant product placement tie-in ["[[GutturalGrowler I'll ["I'll get drive-thru]]" drive-thru" was ''on every channel'' in 1995], but still in-character from Alfred).
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* DramaticIrony: When Two-Face holds everyone at the circus hostage and threatens to blow everyone up with a bomb, unless Batman, due to Two-Face correctly suspects that Batman is among the circus audience, stands up and reveals himself. Although Bruce Wayne decides to just that, but because everyone is loudly panicking no one including Two-Face can hear him.

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* DramaticIrony: When Two-Face holds everyone at the circus hostage and threatens to blow everyone them up with a bomb, unless Batman, due to who Two-Face correctly suspects that Batman is among the circus audience, stands up and reveals himself. Although Bruce Wayne decides to do just that, but because everyone is loudly panicking panicking, no one including Two-Face can hear him.
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* NerdHoard: Bruce shows Dick his vintage car and motorcycle collection. It's done in an offhand way (suggesting Dick fill up his motorcycle with gas before heading off). It even has a classic geeky exchange "Only ten of these were made!" "I have another one right here."
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* DramaticIrony: When Two-Face holds everyone at the circus hostage and threatens to blow everyone up with a bomb, unless Batman, due to Two-Face correctly suspects that Batman is among the circus audience, stands up and reveals himself. Although Bruce Wayne decides to just that, but because everyone is loudly panicking no one including Two-Face can hear him.
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* {{Metapuzzle}}: Shortly before the climax of the movie, Bruce discovers via BatDeduction that the seemingly-standalone riddles that were put to him by the Riddler were part of a greater-scope riddle whose solution reveals the identity of the Riddler himself. Namely, the hints given upon solving each riddle are numbers, which are associated with letters from the alphabet: 13 (from the first riddle) becomes M, 18 (from the second) becomes R, and 5 (from the third) becomes E. So, MRE, or Mr. E (as in ''Mr. Edward Nygma''). It also helps that Mr. E is pronounced identically to ''mystery'', which is synonymous with ''enigma'' and relates to ''riddle'', further connecting the Riddler and Edward.

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* {{Metapuzzle}}: Shortly before the climax of the movie, Bruce discovers via BatDeduction that the seemingly-standalone riddles that were put to him by the Riddler were part of a greater-scope riddle whose solution reveals the identity of the Riddler himself. Namely, the hints given upon solving each riddle are numbers, which are associated with letters from the alphabet: 13 (from the first riddle) becomes M, 18 (from (combining 1 from the second) second and 8 from the third) becomes R, and 5 (from the third) fourth) becomes E. So, MRE, or Mr. E (as in ''Mr. Edward E[dward] Nygma''). It also helps that Mr. E is pronounced identically to ''mystery'', which is synonymous with ''enigma'' and relates to ''riddle'', further connecting the Riddler and Edward.

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-->'''Two-Face:''' The Bat's taught you well. Noble. ''(pulls his gun)'' Stupid, but noble.
* FantasyLandmarkEquivalent: The movie ups Gotham City's BigApplesauce aesthetic by giving it Lady Gotham, its very own Statue of Liberty. There's no difference apart from the Lady having "GOTHAM" across her crown, though the statue's [[CanonImmigrant since migrated]] into other pieces of Bat-media with more creative designs.
* TheFarmerAndTheViper: There's a scene where Robin saves Two-Face from falling to certain death and he gets rewarded by having a gun pointed at his face and used as a hostage.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Two-Face's scarred side wears a single fingerless glove, along with a second wristwatch.



* FantasyLandmarkEquivalent: The movie ups Gotham City's BigApplesauce aesthetic by giving it Lady Gotham, its very own Statue of Liberty. There's no difference apart from the Lady having "GOTHAM" across her crown, though the statue's [[CanonImmigrant since migrated]] into other pieces of Bat-media with more creative designs.
* FashionableAsymmetry: Two-Face's scarred side wears a single fingerless glove, along with a second wristwatch.



* MayContainEvil: The Riddler's "Box" devices sap people's intellect/thoughts and feed it to him; they don't notice because they're so transfixed by the virtual reality imagery it beams into their minds.
* ManipulativeEditing: Edward Nygma, the future Riddler, murders Fred Stickley by throwing him out a window. Then he edits the security footage to remove himself and make it look like Stickley committed suicide.



* MentalPictureProjector: The Riddler has a device capable of controlling the minds of the people who are watching the device's images via TV screens. He sees that Bruce Wayne is thinking about bats and concludes that Bruce Wayne must be Batman.



* MinimalisticCoverArt: The movie just has the movie's logo over a plain background with the release date at the bottom.
* MisappliedPhlebotinum: The Box, a 3D peripheral for television and a way to steal secrets via brainwaves. Nygma might have had more success if he'd sold it as a passive interrogation tool rather than a mass-market toy: No more of this messy [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique enhanced interrogation]]; simply set your captive in front of a Box-enhanced television and let it do its thing.
* MissXPun: A double one. [[BatDeduction When solving the riddles he's been sent]] he realises that, numerically, they represent M,R & E or Mr.E ("Mystery") for Mr Edward Nygma whose name is already a pun on Enigma which means mystery.
* MoneyToThrowAway: When Two-Face makes his final toss of the coin to determine whether or not to kill Batman near the end, Batman throws a handful of coins in Two-Face's direction to cause him to fall to his doom down the long shaft.



* MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes: Papa Grayson's life flashes before his eyes seconds before he dies. And to his surprise, there's nothing he would've done differently.
* MySkullRunnethOver: Though a bit vague, Riddler seems to be doing this. (That, or using other people's brainpower to amp his own mental function, or both.) It makes him a megalomaniac and a malfunction of the machine physically warps him.



* NapoleonDelusion: The Riddler goes insane and believes he's Batman.

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* NapoleonDelusion: The At the end of the movie, the now-institutionalized (and insane) Riddler goes insane and believes he's Batman.claims to know Batman's true identity. When pressed, he insists that ''he's'' Batman. From somewhere else inside the asylum, we hear another patient respond, "[[AndImTheQueenOfSheba And I'm Napoleon]]!"



** Bats aren't ''rodents'', Doctor Meridian.
*** In the novelization, Batman has apparently heard this line so many times he starts listing off the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_rank taxonomic ranks]] of a bat so he can specify exactly where a bat stops sharing similarities with a rodent.

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** Bats aren't ''rodents'', Doctor Meridian.
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Meridian. In the novelization, Batman has apparently heard this line so many times he starts listing off the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxonomic_rank taxonomic ranks]] of a bat so he can specify exactly where a bat stops sharing similarities with a rodent.



* NeverSuicide: The Riddler fakes the death of his boss by modifying security tapes and leaving a fake suicide note with accurate handwriting. The police are quite fooled.



** Television's often called "the idiot box," isn't it? Also, "The Box" is just a brand name...it's nondescript enough to be the most talked-about item on the shelves. Besides, who would buy it if it was called something like "the Mind Blender"?



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** During Riddler's introduction scene to Two-Face (when he's first seen in his Riddler outfit), there is an Enigma Device that is missing from the background that not only appears out of nowhere, but also becomes a central plot-important prop as Riddler demonstrates the abilities of his devices on Two-Face's wives.

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NotTheFallThatKillsYou: When Batman dives into the death trap to save Chase and Robin. When Batman attaches the cords to Chase and when he grabs Robin, they can be seen decelerating, rather than coming to a complete stop, implying the cords are elastic. This is more noticeable when Batman rescues Robin.
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During Riddler's introduction scene to Two-Face (when he's first seen in his Riddler outfit), there is an Enigma Device that is missing from the background that not only appears out of nowhere, but also becomes a central plot-important prop as Riddler demonstrates the abilities of his devices on Two-Face's wives.



* ThePaidForHarem: Two-Face's molls, [[ThemeNaming Sugar and Spice]]. (You know...Debi Mazar and ''[[Creator/DrewBarrymore Drew freaking Barrymore]]!'')

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* ThePaidForHarem: PaidHarem: Two-Face's molls, [[ThemeNaming Sugar and Spice]]. (You know...Debi Mazar and ''[[Creator/DrewBarrymore Drew freaking Barrymore]]!'')



*** Commissioner Gordon: ''(In reference to the green question mark, which is a laser beam quite obviously being projected from Nygma's island'') "Where's that comin' from?"

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*** Commissioner Gordon: ''(In reference to the green question mark, which * PowerMakesYourVoiceDeep: [[PlayedForLaughs Done for humorous effect]]:
-->'''The Riddler:''' "For if knowledge
is a laser beam quite obviously being projected from Nygma's island'') "Where's power, then '''''[[AGodAmI A GOD AM I]]!'''''" ({{beat}}) "Was that comin' from?"over the top? I can never tell!"



* ProductPlacement: Dick passes by a UsefulNotes/McDonalds restaurant while he took the Batmobile out for a ride.

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Dick passes by a UsefulNotes/McDonalds restaurant while he took the Batmobile out for a ride.



* RecycledSoundtrack: Elliot Goldenthal recycled a track from ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'' in the scene when Dick chases the gang into an alley and the fight music from ''Film/DemolitionMan''.

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* RecycledSoundtrack: Elliot Goldenthal recycled a track from ''Film/{{Alien 3}}'' ''Film/Alien3'' in the scene when Dick chases the gang into an alley and the fight music from ''Film/DemolitionMan''.''Film/DemolitionMan''.
* RevengeIsNotJustice: After Two-Face kills Dick Grayson's family, he immediately plans to kill him for revenge and Batman spends the film trying to talk him out of it. When Dick finds out Bruce's secret, he wants to join so he'd find Two-Face but Bruce rejects him because he knows from personal experience that revenge won't undo the damage done to him. [[spoiler: Dick does eventually take this to heart and eventually saves Two-Face, only for the latter to betray him immediately afterwards. In the climax, Bruce causes Two-Face's death by throwing coins in the air as Two-Face is flipping his own coin, which causes him to lose balance when he tries to catch the original and tumble to his death.]]
* ReverseCerebusSyndrome: The movie is noticeably less dark than its two predecessors, even featuring a more over-the-top villain (the Riddler).
* RiddleMeThis: The trope-naming Riddler includes this trope verbatim in one of his quotes:
-->''"Riddle me '''this'''... riddle me '''that'''... who's afraid of the big, black Bat?"''
* RoomFullOfCrazy: Edward Nygma has at least one picture of Bruce Wayne in his office (which is really a cubicle that he put glass walls around to keep the other workers out) and his home is filled with yet more pictures and newspaper clippings of the same. As The Riddler, he starts sending crazy riddles to Bruce's home and office made out of newspaper clippings. He thinks Bruce Wayne is the only man who can understand his genius- when Bruce brushes him off, he snaps, murders his supervisor (after using his device on him, unintentionally stealing his brainwaves to make himself smarter).


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* RushmoreRefacement: Two-Face defaces "Lady Gotham" (a Statue of Liberty stand-in and a MythologyGag to the comics).


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* {{Safecracking}}: Batman uses this to break '''out''' of a safe that is being filled with boiling acid. He borrows a security guard's hearing aid to listen to the tumblers and crack it open.


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* SanityHasAdvantages: [[spoiler:Two-Face has Batman on the ropes, about to shoot, when Batman reminds him to flip his coin. When he does, Batman throws out a dozen or so similar coins. Two-Face tries to catch them all, and [[DisneyVillainDeath falls to his death]]]]. In the Creator/PeterDavid novelization, [[spoiler:Bats blindly throws a Batarang, hoping to knock the coin away and stymie Two-Face. It works, but Two-Face just leaps to catch the coin and falls two yards onto a girder, with the equivalent of "nice try". Then Robin calls him out on never using the coin on ''himself''. He looks at the coin, and just lets go. Robin says he didn't actually mean to ''kill'' him, and Batman says that maybe Two-Face just made his first real choice in a long time]].


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* SchematizedProp: Played with when Bruce tries to use his cars in this manner to get Dick to stay. It fails. Then Dick sees the motorcycles, and ''he'' starts rattling off specs.


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* SecondaryColorNemesis: The movie has the Riddler in green with orange hair, while Two-Face has purple scarring on one side of his face, and a half-purple suit and tie.


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* SicklyGreenGlow: This is the Riddler's visual-effects motif.


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* SmoochOfVictory: Dick Grayson (pre-Robin) gets one of these. In this case, the girl invokes this trope via directly asking him if he's gonna kiss her after saving her life, and Grayson was more than happy to comply.
-->'''Dick:''' I could definitely get used to this super hero gig.


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* StylishProtectionGear: In this movie, Bruce premieres an experimental SONAR batsuit.


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* SuicideIsPainless: Edward Nygma hacks Wayne Industries' video feed to cover up his murdering his boss, and he edits the video to make it seem he commits suicide this way.


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* SuperWindowJump: Batman does this through a ceiling window to confront ComicBook/TwoFace after he crashes Edward's event. Edward tells ComicBook/TwoFace: "Your entrance was good, his was better."
* SwivelChairAntics: Edward Nygma ties his boss to a rolling office chair and rolls [[DestinationDefenestration out a window]], then later [[NeverSuicide makes it look like a suicide]].


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* TakeMyHand: Near the climax of the movie, Robin does this to save the villain Two-Face from a deadly fall, preferring to see him rot in jail than to be responsible for his death. In an unusual twist, as soon as he's safe Two-Face pulls a gun and takes Robin hostage.
--> '''Two-Face''': "[[HonorBeforeReason Noble. Stupid, but noble.]]"


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* TaxonomicTermConfusion: Dr. Meridian describes bats as "flying rodents", a mistake that Batman corrects.
-->'''Dr. Chase Meridian''': Well, let's just say that I could write a hell of a paper on a grown man who dresses like a flying rodent.\\
'''Batman''': Bats aren't rodents, Dr. Meridian.


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* ThemeMusicAbandonment: The movie replaces Music/DannyElfman with Elliot Goldenthal, who provided a lighter and more traditionally heroic theme as part of the shift to a LighterAndSofter tone.


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* TimTaylorTechnology: [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Edward Nygma]] (soon to become The Riddler) straps his boss to a chair to use him as a guinea pig for his augmented reality TV system, "The Box". The man is left enraptured by the illusion, but when it starts to break down, Nygma applies "more power!" in an attempt to fix it...and ends up discovering that The Box, in addition to making people experience television in immersive 3D, [[LiquidAssets depletes their IQ and adds it to his own]].


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* TwoPersonLoveTriangle: Chase falls in love with both Bruce Wayne and Batman, and doesn't realize they're both the same guy until she's kidnapped. The triangle is resolved partway through the movie when Chase dumps Batman for Bruce Wayne. Batman, stoically, says that he understands, and manages to turn around and walk away before he breaks into a grin.
* TwoRoadsBeforeYou: It's presented as this when the Riddler has Batman choose between saving Robin or Chase. Ultimately subverted, as Batman saves them both because he chooses to be both Bruce Wayne and Batman.


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* UnsafeHaven: Dick Grayson accidentally stumbles into the Batcave, resulting in the Batcave's security alarm going off... while simultaneously ''turning on all of the gadgets and vehicles out on display'', and not actually doing anything to remove the intruder.
* VengeanceDenied: Dick Grayson wants revenge on Two-Face for the deaths of his parents and brother. Batman ultimately causes Two-Face's death, because he understands how Dick feels and doesn't want the young man to end up like himself.


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* VictoriasSecretCompartment: Bruce Wayne asks Sugar (one of Two-Face's babes) how to turn Edward Nygma's machine off. He takes the glowing green battery from her and goes in, and then Sugar produces a second, identical battery from down her cleavage and switches it on again.


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* VillainousFriendship: Riddler and Two-Face get along great and seem to be having the time of their lives in every scene they share. Even when Two-Face and his goons crash Riddler's party, he simply complains that Two-Face should have let him in on it.


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* WhileRomeBurns: Considering that Edward Nygma hasn't been publicly exposed as the Riddler, there's the appearance that he's doing this when his launch party is invaded by Two-Face and his goons.


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* WronskiFeint: In a terrestrial variant, the movie shows the Batmobile accelerating into a brick wall before using a combination of rocket boosters and a grappling hook to drive ''up the wall.'' The pursuers drive right into it.


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* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: During their brief fight after Robin gets in over his head against a vicious gang and is saved by Batman, Robin takes out his frustration upon Batman. Two-Face had placed a bomb in the circus where Robin's family had performed, threatening to set it off unless Batman revealed himself. Robin's family tried to reach the bomb, but Two-Face killed Robin's parents and brother during the attempt.
-->'''Dick:''' Bastard! It should have been you! It's your fault! If you'd told Two-Face who you were at the circus, ''they'd still be alive''!
-->'''Batman:''' If Bruce Wayne could have given his life for your family, he would have.

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