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  • "Grinning From Ear to Ear" runs on a lot of Facial Horror in general, but at the end there is a lovely shot of Duela Dent with her entire face removed, exposed muscle and all.
  • "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 Mabel Cartwright aka "the Queen of Hearts" — having hot tea poured on her hands, her hair forcibly cut, and in general being violently beaten, all the while forced to care for her abuser.
  • "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.
  • 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 dying of a terrible allergic 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 smearing blood across his lips to form a large smile that looks like the one of the psychotic clown who made him that way.
  • In what turned out to be the show's Grand Finale, "Are We Having Fun Yet", there's 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 mangled figured with exposed bones that kills them both unceremoniously. 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, meaning it's still out there ready to wreak more havoc. And with the cancellation of the series, we'll never see how the Bat-team manages to subdue this creature.

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