No Bats In Gotham is a Batman fanfiction written by Zornech.
The fic shows a Gotham City where there never was a Batman. Due to this, everything is much different. The series seems to be an anthology by the description given by the author, with each chapter being a quick short story set in the same universe in Gotham City in different time periods.
It, all of one chapter so far, can be read here
...and it appears to be a Dead Fic. As the one who made this page, I apologize for wasting space.
It contains these following tropes:
- Adaptational Heroism: Possibly. Dick Grayson's wife Kit might be a version of Kitten.
- Adaptational Wimp: Dick Grayson doesn't seem to be a Badass Normal. Instead he seems to be a normal guy.
- The Alcoholic: the seemingly homeless man Dick gives some money is revealed to be this at the end of the first chapter. He uses the money to call his son on a payphone and ask him for another chance to fight his alcoholism.
- Alternate Universe Fic: The whole point of it.
- Anachronism Stew: Cellphones aren't mentioned or used in the first chapter. Dick's apartment has a landline that Kit uses to call the police and the homeless man Dick gave money to uses a payphone at the end of the chapter. They may just not own them though.
- Beige Prose: Downplayed Trope. Not much is described in the first chapter outside of general things, but it isn't as simple as "He walked and he was there".
- Canon Foreigner: Everyone named in the first chapter outside of Dick and possibly his wife Kit, who as mentioned above, may be Kitten.
- Everyone Loves Blondes: Dick's wife is a blonde.
- For Want Of A Nail: No Batman means no Robin, so Dick Grayson isn't a superhero at all. In-Universe Kit wonders what would have happened if Dick had gotten home just a minute later than he did.
- Gender-Blender Name: The first chapter gives us a woman named Kit and a man named Ashley.
- Happily Married: Dick and Kit Grayson.
- Moment Killer: Dick and his wife had been having a moment before they here gunshots outside their apartment.
- Police Are Useless: Averted. The police actually do catch a man who tried to rob the front desk at the Grayson's apartment building and killed the night manager while doing so.
- Tall Darkand Handsome: Dick Grayson.
- Wretched Hive: Actually, its implied Gotham isn't a complete shithole despite the murder of their apartment's night manager by Kit, who actually says she loves the city at one point.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: Mister Howard, the night manager of an apartment building, isn't even mentioned by name before his murder.
