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* ChaosArchitecture: The look of Gotham City in ''Film/Batman1989'' has changed drastically in this movie, despite having [[Creator/TimBurton the same director]].

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* ChaosArchitecture: The look of Gotham City in ''Film/Batman1989'' has changed drastically underwent some changes in this movie, despite having [[Creator/TimBurton with taller, edgier skyscrapers, a much darker visual palette and with odd statues here and there. It does build the same director]].grounds for Gotham's look in the [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries Animated Series]], but it's also not impossible to see how this could've evolved into what we see in ''Film/BatmanForever'', which escalates the size of the buildings and the statues to ridiculously impractical degrees.



* CrapsackWorld: Gotham City in this movie is an impossibly horrific location where a white collar criminal fixes the political process, people can be killed at will with no consequence, the [[ApatheticCitizens citizenry is fickle and stupid,]] and the police (who are apparently [[PoliceAreUseless completely incompetent]]) rely on an elitist vigilante with plenty of issues of his own to brutally punish the criminals. Seriously, one is left with the impression that Heath Ledger's version of the Joker from ''The Dark Knight'' would be happier here than in that movie's world.

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* CrapsackWorld: Gotham City in this movie is an impossibly horrific location where a white collar criminal fixes the political process, people can be killed at will with no consequence, the [[ApatheticCitizens citizenry is fickle and stupid,]] and the police (who are apparently [[PoliceAreUseless completely incompetent]]) rely on an elitist vigilante with plenty of issues of his own to brutally punish the criminals. Seriously, one is left with the impression that Heath Ledger's version of the Joker from ''The Dark Knight'' ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' would be happier here than in that movie's world.
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** Young Oswald Cobblepot drifts through some rather large storm drains in his carriage as a child before being found by some penguins. Several more scenes take place in the icy storm drains under Gotham, and it's also apparent that the Penguin has scavenged through sanitary sewers to get the materials needed to blackmail Max Shreck. In the video games on the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, the penultimate stage is usually set in Gotham's sewer systems where Batman battles the Red Triangle Gang in sewage, and the toxic waste created by Max Shreck serves as a hazard.

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** Young Oswald Cobblepot drifts through some rather large storm drains in his carriage as a child before being found by some penguins. Several more scenes take place in the icy storm drains under Gotham, and it's also apparent that the Penguin has scavenged through sanitary sewers to get the materials needed to blackmail Max Shreck. In the video games on the UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis, Platform/SegaGenesis, the penultimate stage is usually set in Gotham's sewer systems where Batman battles the Red Triangle Gang in sewage, and the toxic waste created by Max Shreck serves as a hazard.



* DownerBeginning: The Sega-developed games for the Genesis, Sega CD, and UsefulNotes/GameGear start with Batman's attempt to rescue the Ice Princess, only to see her fall to her death courtesy of The Penguin.

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* DownerBeginning: The Sega-developed games for the Genesis, Sega CD, Platform/SegaCD, and UsefulNotes/GameGear Platform/GameGear start with Batman's attempt to rescue the Ice Princess, only to see her fall to her death courtesy of The Penguin.
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* OrganGrinder: The Penguin's circus gang has an evil organ grinder (complete with monkey) amongst their ranks, and he is seemingly TheDragon. His organ contains a hand-cranked ''gatling gun'', and in the Super Nintendo game based on the movie, he fires bullets at Batman and then just tries to hit Batman with the organ when he gets too close.

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* OrganGrinder: The Penguin's circus gang has an evil organ grinder (complete with monkey) amongst their ranks, and he is seemingly TheDragon. His organ contains a hand-cranked ''gatling gun'', and in the Super Nintendo game based on the movie, he fires bullets at Batman and then just tries to hit Batman with the organ when he gets too close.gun''.
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** In one crowd scene, the camera briefly passes over a young man wearing a jacket with a picture of [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Gogo Dodo]].
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* DeathBySecretIdentity: Once Max finds out who Batman is, it's not long before he lights up like a Christmas tree.

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* DeathBySecretIdentity: Once Max finds out who Batman is, it's not long before he lights up like a Christmas tree. The Penguin also gets a glimpse of Bats without the cowl, but he's already moments away from death at that point, and never expressed any particular interest in Batman's identity to begin with.

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