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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she was subjected to from [[EvilOldFolks Mabel Cartwright]] aka "[[TheDreaded the Queen of Hearts]]" -- having hot tea poured on her hands, her hair [[TraumaticHaircut forcibly cut]], and in general being violently assaulted, all the while forced to care for her abuser.
** Even wheelchair-bound, Mabel controls her family to make them meet her demands and gets violent at the drop of a hat, to the point where ''[[MadDoctor August]]'' is practically a [[ExtremeDoormat doormat]] to her; he even tries to defend her by feebly insisting to Alice that his mother doesn't hate her and then striking her when she insults Mabel. If she was [[TheChainOfHarm responsible]] for her son turning out the way he did, [[FridgeHorror just what other lengths did August have to go to please his abusive, ungrateful, and selfish mother?]]

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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she was subjected to from [[EvilOldFolks Mabel Cartwright]] aka "[[TheDreaded the Queen of Hearts]]" -- having hot tea poured on her hands, her hair [[TraumaticHaircut forcibly cut]], and in general being violently assaulted, beaten, all the while forced to care for her abuser.
** Even wheelchair-bound, Mabel controls her family to make them meet her demands and gets violent at the drop of a hat, to the point where ''[[MadDoctor August]]'' is practically a [[ExtremeDoormat doormat]] to her; he even tries to defend her by feebly insisting Mabel to Alice that his mother doesn't hate her and then striking her when she insults Mabel.Alice. If she was [[TheChainOfHarm responsible]] for her son turning out the way he did, [[FridgeHorror just what other lengths did August have to go to please his abusive, ungrateful, and selfish mother?]]
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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she was subjected to from [[EvilOldFolks Mabel Cartwright]], to the point that Alice nicknamed her "[[TheDreaded the Queen of Hearts]]".
** Even wheelchair-bound, Mabel controls her family to make them meet her demands and gets violent at the drop of a hat, to the point where ''[[MadDoctor August]]'' is practically a [[ExtremeDoormat doormat]] to her. If she was [[TheChainOfHarm responsible]] for her son turning out the way he did, [[FridgeHorror just what other lengths did August have to go to please his abusive, ungrateful, and selfish mother?]]

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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she was subjected to from [[EvilOldFolks Mabel Cartwright]], to the point that Alice nicknamed her Cartwright]] aka "[[TheDreaded the Queen of Hearts]]".
Hearts]]" -- having hot tea poured on her hands, her hair [[TraumaticHaircut forcibly cut]], and in general being violently assaulted, all the while forced to care for her abuser.
** Even wheelchair-bound, Mabel controls her family to make them meet her demands and gets violent at the drop of a hat, to the point where ''[[MadDoctor August]]'' is practically a [[ExtremeDoormat doormat]] to her.her; he even tries to defend her by feebly insisting to Alice that his mother doesn't hate her and then striking her when she insults Mabel. If she was [[TheChainOfHarm responsible]] for her son turning out the way he did, [[FridgeHorror just what other lengths did August have to go to please his abusive, ungrateful, and selfish mother?]]
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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she was subjected to from [[EvilOldFolks Mabel Cartwright]], to the point that Alice nicknamed her "the "[[TheDreaded Queen of Hearts]]".

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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she was subjected to from [[EvilOldFolks Mabel Cartwright]], to the point that Alice nicknamed her "the "[[TheDreaded the Queen of Hearts]]".
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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she endured from Mabel Cartwright, who she was essentially MadeASlave to. The old hag was so obsessed with her vanity that she was hatefully jealous of Alice, to the point of figuratively and literally disfiguring her. It's no wonder she gets nicknamed the "Queen of Hearts".
** Even wheelchair-bound, [[EvilOldFolks Mabel]] controls her family to make them meet her demands and gets violent at the drop of a hat, to the point where ''[[MadDoctor August]]'' is practically a [[ExtremeDoormat doormat]] to her. If she was [[TheChainOfHarm responsible]] for her son turning out the way he did, [[FridgeHorror just what other lengths did August have to go to please his abusive, ungrateful, and selfish mother?]]
** [[spoiler:TheReveal that Mabel wanted to transplant the late Gabi Kane's face onto hers in a delusional attempt to regain her beauty. When Alice locates it, the audience is treated to a full view of Gabi's ''dismembered head'' in August's freezer. This scarred Alice so much, she snapped and adopted her maniacal villain persona. Her first act? [[TheDogBitesBack Burning Mabel alive]].]]

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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she endured was subjected to from [[EvilOldFolks Mabel Cartwright, who she was essentially MadeASlave to. The old hag was so obsessed with her vanity that she was hatefully jealous of Alice, Cartwright]], to the point of figuratively and literally disfiguring her. It's no wonder she gets that Alice nicknamed the "Queen her "the "[[TheDreaded Queen of Hearts".
Hearts]]".
** Even wheelchair-bound, [[EvilOldFolks Mabel]] Mabel controls her family to make them meet her demands and gets violent at the drop of a hat, to the point where ''[[MadDoctor August]]'' is practically a [[ExtremeDoormat doormat]] to her. If she was [[TheChainOfHarm responsible]] for her son turning out the way he did, [[FridgeHorror just what other lengths did August have to go to please his abusive, ungrateful, and selfish mother?]]
** [[spoiler:TheReveal What fully caused Alice to snap? [[spoiler:The discovery that Mabel wanted to transplant the late Gabi Kane's face onto hers in a delusional attempt to regain her beauty.hers. When Alice locates it, the audience is treated to a full view of Gabi's ''dismembered head'' in August's freezer. This scarred Alice so much, she snapped and adopted her maniacal villain persona. Her first act? [[TheDogBitesBack Burning Mabel alive]].]]
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** [[spoiler:TheReveal that Mabel wanted to transplant the late Gabi Kane's face onto hers in a delusional attempt to regain her beauty. When Alice locates it, the audience is treated to a full view of Gabi's ''dismembered head'' in August's freezer. Worse, this scarred Alice so much, she snapped and adopted her maniacal villain persona. Her first act? [[TheDogBitesBack Burning Mabel alive]].]]

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** [[spoiler:TheReveal that Mabel wanted to transplant the late Gabi Kane's face onto hers in a delusional attempt to regain her beauty. When Alice locates it, the audience is treated to a full view of Gabi's ''dismembered head'' in August's freezer. Worse, this This scarred Alice so much, she snapped and adopted her maniacal villain persona. Her first act? [[TheDogBitesBack Burning Mabel alive]].]]
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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she endured from Mabel Cartwright, who she was essentially MadeASlave to. The old hag was so obsessed with her vanity that she was hatefully jealous of Alice, to the point of figuratively and literally disfiguring her. It's no wonder she gets nicknamed the "Queen of Hearts"--A

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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she endured from Mabel Cartwright, who she was essentially MadeASlave to. The old hag was so obsessed with her vanity that she was hatefully jealous of Alice, to the point of figuratively and literally disfiguring her. It's no wonder she gets nicknamed the "Queen of Hearts"--AHearts".



* The ending to "A Lesson From Professor Pyg" reveals that Marquis is actually a sociopath after an incident when he was a child where he got zapped in the forehead by the Joker's electric joy buzzer. Ryan watches some old home videotapes she got from Jada and one of the most disturbing ones shows that while on a camping trip with his parents when he was a teenager, Marquis made his father a burger with peanut butter on it, which his father was allergic to, and he just stood there ''laughing'' while his father was suffering from a terrible allergic reaction.
** The very last scene of the episode shows Marquis looking at himself in the mirror and smears blood across his lips to form a large smile that looks like the one of the psychotic clown who made him that way.

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* The ending to "A Lesson From Professor Pyg" reveals that Marquis is actually a sociopath after an incident when he was a child (during the Kanes' accident) where he got zapped in the forehead by the Joker's electric joy buzzer. Ryan watches some old home videotapes she got from Jada and one of the most disturbing ones shows that while on a camping trip with his parents when he was a teenager, Marquis made his father a burger with peanut butter on it, which his father was allergic to, and he just stood there ''laughing'' while his father was suffering from dying of a terrible allergic reaction.reaction and his mother futilely tried to help him.
** The very last scene of the episode shows Marquis looking at himself in the mirror and smears smearing blood across his lips to form a large smile that looks like the one of the psychotic clown who made him that way.
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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she endured from Mabel Cartwright, who she was essentially MadeASlave to. The old hag was so obsessed with her vanity that she was hatefully jealous of Alice, to the point of figuratively and literally disfiguring her. It's no wonder she gets nicknamed the "Queen of Hearts".

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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she endured from Mabel Cartwright, who she was essentially MadeASlave to. The old hag was so obsessed with her vanity that she was hatefully jealous of Alice, to the point of figuratively and literally disfiguring her. It's no wonder she gets nicknamed the "Queen of Hearts".Hearts"--A



* "Fair Skin, Blue Eyes" gives us the Candy Lady, an entirely mundane woman who lives by a simple thesis - that she can kidnap any foster child off the streets, hold them for sixty days, and emotionally abuse them until they're begging to be sold off to a gang, and absolutely no one will ever stop her, or even know what she's doing. What makes her even scarier is that probably everyone watching the show has met or at least seen a woman who looks and sounds like her.

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* "Fair Skin, Blue Eyes" gives us the Candy Lady, an entirely mundane woman who lives by a simple thesis - that she can kidnap any foster child off the streets, hold them for sixty days, and emotionally and psychologically abuse them until they're begging to be sold off to a gang, and absolutely no one will ever stop her, or even know what she's doing. What makes her even scarier is that probably everyone watching the show has met or at least seen a woman who looks and sounds like her.
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* "Off With Her Head" details the most horrific part of Alice's backstory: the decade of physical and emotional ''torture'' she endured from Mabel Cartwright, who she was essentially MadeASlave to. The old hag was so obsessed with her vanity that she was hatefully jealous of Alice, to the point of figuratively and literally disfiguring her. It's no wonder she gets nicknamed the "Queen of Hearts".
** Even wheelchair-bound, [[EvilOldFolks Mabel]] controls her family to make them meet her demands and gets violent at the drop of a hat, to the point where ''[[MadDoctor August]]'' is practically a [[ExtremeDoormat doormat]] to her. If she was [[TheChainOfHarm responsible]] for her son turning out the way he did, [[FridgeHorror just what other lengths did August have to go to please his abusive, ungrateful, and selfish mother?]]
** [[spoiler:TheReveal that Mabel wanted to transplant the late Gabi Kane's face onto hers in a delusional attempt to regain her beauty. When Alice locates it, the audience is treated to a full view of Gabi's ''dismembered head'' in August's freezer. Worse, this scarred Alice so much, she snapped and adopted her maniacal villain persona. Her first act? [[TheDogBitesBack Burning Mabel alive]].]]
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* In the [[SeasonFinale Season Finale]] of season 3/[[GrandFinale Grand Finale]] of the show "Are We Having Fun Yet", there's [[TheStinger a scene at the very end]] where reporter Dana Dewitt and her cameraman are reporting on the ruined part of Gotham city left after the Joker's explosive blimp plot. Then, out of nowhere, they're both attacked by a [[BodyHorror mangled figured with exposed bones]] that [[DroppedABridgeOnHim kills them both unceremoniously]]. [[NothingIsScarier We have no idea where it came from, or who/what it is or was]]. Worse yet, the last shot is the figure walking out into the distance, [[ParanoiaFuel meaning it's still out there ready to wreak more havoc]]. [[CutShort And with the cancellation of the series]], [[AbortedArc we'll never see how]] [[KarmaHoudini the Bat-team manages to subdue this creature]].

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* In what turned out to be the [[SeasonFinale Season Finale]] of season 3/[[GrandFinale Grand Finale]] of the show show's GrandFinale, "Are We Having Fun Yet", there's [[TheStinger a scene at the very end]] where reporter Dana Dewitt and her cameraman are reporting on the ruined part of Gotham city left after the Joker's explosive blimp plot. Then, out of nowhere, they're both attacked by a [[BodyHorror mangled figured with exposed bones]] that [[DroppedABridgeOnHim kills them both unceremoniously]]. [[NothingIsScarier We have no idea where it came from, or who/what it is or was]]. Worse yet, the last shot is the figure walking out into the distance, [[ParanoiaFuel meaning it's still out there ready to wreak more havoc]]. [[CutShort And with the cancellation of the series]], [[AbortedArc we'll never see how]] [[KarmaHoudini the Bat-team manages to subdue this creature]].
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** The very last scene of the episode shows Marquis looking at himself in the mirror and smears blood across his lips to form a large smile that looks like the one of the psychotic clown who made him that way.

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** The very last scene of the episode shows Marquis looking at himself in the mirror and smears blood across his lips to form a large smile that looks like the one of the psychotic clown who made him that way.way.
* In the [[SeasonFinale Season Finale]] of season 3/[[GrandFinale Grand Finale]] of the show "Are We Having Fun Yet", there's [[TheStinger a scene at the very end]] where reporter Dana Dewitt and her cameraman are reporting on the ruined part of Gotham city left after the Joker's explosive blimp plot. Then, out of nowhere, they're both attacked by a [[BodyHorror mangled figured with exposed bones]] that [[DroppedABridgeOnHim kills them both unceremoniously]]. [[NothingIsScarier We have no idea where it came from, or who/what it is or was]]. Worse yet, the last shot is the figure walking out into the distance, [[ParanoiaFuel meaning it's still out there ready to wreak more havoc]]. [[CutShort And with the cancellation of the series]], [[AbortedArc we'll never see how]] [[KarmaHoudini the Bat-team manages to subdue this creature]].
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* "Fair Skin, Blue Eyes" gives us the Candy Lady, an entirely mundane woman who lives by a simple thesis - that she can kidnap any foster child off the streets, hold them for sixty days, and emotionally abuse them until they're begging to be sold off to a gang, and absolutely no one will ever stop her, or even know what she's doing. What makes her even scarier is that probably everyone watching the show has met or at least seen a woman who looks and sounds like her.

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* "Fair Skin, Blue Eyes" gives us the Candy Lady, an entirely mundane woman who lives by a simple thesis - that she can kidnap any foster child off the streets, hold them for sixty days, and emotionally abuse them until they're begging to be sold off to a gang, and absolutely no one will ever stop her, or even know what she's doing. What makes her even scarier is that probably everyone watching the show has met or at least seen a woman who looks and sounds like her.her.
* The ending to "A Lesson From Professor Pyg" reveals that Marquis is actually a sociopath after an incident when he was a child where he got zapped in the forehead by the Joker's electric joy buzzer. Ryan watches some old home videotapes she got from Jada and one of the most disturbing ones shows that while on a camping trip with his parents when he was a teenager, Marquis made his father a burger with peanut butter on it, which his father was allergic to, and he just stood there ''laughing'' while his father was suffering from a terrible allergic reaction.
** The very last scene of the episode shows Marquis looking at himself in the mirror and smears blood across his lips to form a large smile that looks like the one of the psychotic clown who made him that way.
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* "Grinning From Ear to Ear" runs on a lot of FacialHorror in general, but at the end there is a ''lovely'' shot of Duela Dent with her entire face removed, exposed muscle and all.
* "Fair Skin, Blue Eyes" gives us the Candy Lady, an entirely mundane woman who lives by a simple thesis - that she can kidnap any foster child off the streets, hold them for sixty days, and emotionally abuse them until they're begging to be sold off to a gang, and absolutely no one will ever stop her, or even know what she's doing. What makes her even scarier is that probably everyone watching the show has met or at least seen a woman who looks and sounds like her.

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