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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: It's subtle, but Alfred seems caught off guard when Bruce's clone is happy to have shepherd's pie for dinner, when the real Bruce had earlier shown disinterest at the idea. Time will tell if this snowballs into something more.

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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: It's subtle, but Alfred seems caught off guard when Bruce's clone is happy to have shepherd's pie for dinner, when the real Bruce had earlier shown disinterest at the idea. Time will tell if this snowballs into something more.



* SpotTheThread: Inverted. All the Council needed to do to notBruce was to remove the two moles on the right side of his face for 5 to completely look like Bruce.
* TomTheDarkLord: Hallucination!Penguin mocks Nygma's choice of villain name, saying that it doesn't sound all that threatening. This from the guy whose moniker is "The ''Penguin''."

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* SpotTheThread: Inverted. All the Council needed to do to notBruce was to remove the two moles on the right side of his face for 5 him to completely look like Bruce.
* TomTheDarkLord: Hallucination!Penguin mocks Nygma's choice of villain name, "The Riddler", saying that it doesn't sound all that threatening. This from the guy whose moniker is "The ''Penguin''."
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Directed by Creator/TJScott

Written by Creator/MeganMostynBrown & Creator/TzeChun
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* JacobMarleyApparel: Edward's drug-induced hallucinations of the Penguin reflect how (Edward thinks) he died; not only is Oswald's "ghost" wearing the same suit he wore when Ed shot him, but he's dripping wet and covered in algae and seaweed, and his lips are turning blue.
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* SpotTheThread: Inverted. All the Council needed to do to notBruce was to remove the two moles on the right side of his face for 5 to completely look like Bruce.
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* WhamShot: Bruce, having been drugged by his clone, wakes up in a cell. Looking out a window, he sees that he's now in some location amongst snowcapped mountain.

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* WhamShot: Bruce, having been drugged by his clone, wakes up in a cell. Looking out a window, he sees that he's now in some location somewhere amongst snowcapped mountain.snow-capped mountains.
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* MovingTheGoalposts: During Lucius's Battle of Wits with Nygma, he gives right answers to his riddles, but Nygma insists that they're not the ''right'' right answers. They have to be the answers ''he's'' thinking of.

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* MovingTheGoalposts: During Lucius's Battle of Wits with Nygma, he gives right answers a valid answer to his riddles, one riddle, but Nygma insists that they're it's not the ''right'' right answers. They have valid answer. It has to be the answers answer ''he's'' thinking of.



* MythologyGag: When Hallucination!Penguin breaks out into a song for Ed, he finally wears his comic counterpart's iconic top hat and tuxedo, albeit for a few seconds.

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* MythologyGag: When Hallucination!Penguin breaks out into a song for Ed, he finally wears his comic counterpart's iconic top hat and tuxedo, albeit for just a few seconds.



* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: During the climax, Lucius realizes that the killer is Nygma, when he refers to Lucius as "Foxy". As Lucius notes, Ed is the only one who calls him that.

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* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: During the climax, Lucius realizes that the killer is Nygma, Nygma when he refers to Lucius as "Foxy". As Lucius notes, Ed is the only one who calls him that.
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Has nothing to do with familiarity with in-universe fiction.


* GenreSavvy: Bruce notes that his clone is wearing identical clothes and now has had a haircut that looks like his. It's clear he figures out (although a second too late) exactly what is planned.
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* MovingTheGoalposts: During Lucius's Battle of Wits with Nygma, he gives right answers to his riddles, but Nygma insists that they're not the ''right'' right answers. They have to be the answers ''he's'' thinking of.
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* TomTheDarkLord: Hallucination!Penguin mocks Nygma's choice of villain name, saying that it doesn't sound all that threatening.

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* TomTheDarkLord: Hallucination!Penguin mocks Nygma's choice of villain name, saying that it doesn't sound all that threatening. This from the guy whose moniker is "The ''Penguin''."
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* MuggingTheMonster: Selina's associates beat Bruce and knock him down when she leaves. Then he gets up and shows them that he doesn't need her protection.
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Uh, I wouldn't be to sure about that.


* ShipSinking: When Penguin wakes up after being shot by Nygma, he makes it abundantly clear that he no longer has any romantic feelings for him; instead, he just wants to kill him.
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* ShipSinking: When Penguin wakes up after being shot by Nygma, he makes it abundantly clear that he no longer has any romantic feelings for him; instead, he just wants to kill him.
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* CallBack: Lucius turning out to be Nygma's antithesis goes along with the fact that he solved many of Nygma's riddles during his and Bruce's time at Arkham, explaining why Nygma recognizes him.
* CaptainObvious: When Clone!Bruce stabs the real Bruce with a syringe, he goes unconscious as his doppelganger says "powerful knockout drug"...this needs no further explanation.


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* WorthyOpponent: In the first half of the episode, Nygma goes on a crime spree, asking the exact same riddle to most of Gotham's intellectuals to see if they can stand up to him. When they're all dead, he tries to find out a way to truly define himself as one of the city's most dangerous adversaries. Trusting in EnemiesEqualsGreatness, he sends a riddle for [[WrongGenreSavvy Jim Gordon]], only to find out that Lucius was the one who solved it, and is ultimately the "contestant" for his game that cements him as the Riddler.
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** Penguin's still alive, Ivy found him and nursed him back to health.

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* GenreSavvy: Bruce notes that his clone is wearing identical clothes and now has had a haircut that looks like his. It's clear he figures out (although a second too late) exactly what is planned.



* GenreSavvy: Bruce notes that his clone is wearing identical clothes and now has had a haircut that looks like his. It's clear he figures out (although a second too late) exactly what is planned.



* ImposterForgotOneDetail: It's subtle, but Alfred seems caught off guard when Bruce's clone is happy to have shepherd's pie for dinner, when the real Bruce had early shown disinterest at the idea. Time will tell if this snowballs into something more.

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* ImposterForgotOneDetail: It's subtle, but Alfred seems caught off guard when Bruce's clone is happy to have shepherd's pie for dinner, when the real Bruce had early earlier shown disinterest at the idea. Time will tell if this snowballs into something more.
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* GenreSavvy: Bruce notes that his clone is wearing identical clothes and now has had a haircut that looks like his. It's clear he figures out (although a second too late) exactly what is planned.
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* MythologyGag: When Hallucination!Penguin breaks out into a song for Ed, he finally wears his iconic top hat, albeit for a few seconds.

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* MythologyGag: When Hallucination!Penguin breaks out into a song for Ed, he finally wears his comic counterpart's iconic top hat, hat and tuxedo, albeit for a few seconds.
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* MythologyGag: When Hallucination!Penguin breaks out into a song for Ed, he finally wears his iconic top hat, albeit for a few seconds.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Nygma is told by the hallucination Oswald that "The Riddler" isn't a name that will make anyone afraid. This coming from someone called "The Penguin".
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Nygma seeks to complete his transformation into Gotham's newest villain. Gordon's uncle Frank reveals some shocking secrets. The Court of Owls makes its move against Bruce.

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* BrickJoke: Nygma's first clue for the GCPD is delivered via a singing telegram dressed up as fruit. During the climax, he sends another message to Lucius via the same method.
* EnigmaticMinion: It's unclear where Frank's allegiances lie -- either he's manipulating Jim for the Court, or is a DoubleAgent genuinely trying to get Jim to help him destroy the Court from within.
* {{Hallucinations}}: Nygma spends most of the episode imagining a dead Penguin talking to him.
* ImposterForgotOneDetail: It's subtle, but Alfred seems caught off guard when Bruce's clone is happy to have shepherd's pie for dinner, when the real Bruce had early shown disinterest at the idea. Time will tell if this snowballs into something more.
* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Frank confirms that the car accident that killed Gordon's father was engineered by the Court of Owls.
* NotQuiteDead: Ivy found Penguin and has been nursing him back to health.
* TheReveal:
** Gordon's father and uncle were members of the Court of Owls, and worked to destroy it from within. This led to the Court engineering Gordon's father's death.
** It's confirmed that Bruce's lookalike is a clone.
* RuleOfThree: Nygma's test to find a new intellectual mentor/rival is a series of three riddles.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: During the climax, Lucius realizes that the killer is Nygma, when he refers to Lucius as "Foxy". As Lucius notes, Ed is the only one who calls him that.
* TomTheDarkLord: Hallucination!Penguin mocks Nygma's choice of villain name, saying that it doesn't sound all that threatening.
* VillainousBSOD: Nygma is in one for most of the episode, shellshocked from having (seemingly) killed Penguin, and being unsure who he is without his guidance. He seems to snap out of it once he takes up the mantle of Riddler.
* WhamShot: Bruce, having been drugged by his clone, wakes up in a cell. Looking out a window, he sees that he's now in some location amongst snowcapped mountain.

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