>>112860176Shorten the time jump to just two years. Batman still fights crime but once again is the subject of a man hunt as he took the heat for Harvey Dent’s murders. Jim is in danger of losing his job because he seems unable or unwilling to really catch Batman. However just like the actual film, Dent’s death has been used to steamroll harsh anti crime bills into law, thus putting a lot of people behind bars without trial.
In keeping with Joker’s vision of “a better class of criminal”, several minor villains have emerged in the Gotham underworld, all having wound up in Arkham alongside Joker and Scarecrow. The most mysterious new criminal is a crime lord known as Penguin who appeared in the wake of the of the power vacuum caused by Dent Act arrests. Batman’s prime suspect is night club owner Oswald Cobblepot. As Bruce, he frequents The Iceberg Lounge in order to spy on Oswald.
Knowing it’s only a matter of time before Batman finds him, Penguin reaches out to a mysterious mercenary known as Bane, who relishes the chance to fight a worthy opponent like Batman. Bane agrees to work for cheap, which Penguin is all too excited to accept. I’m in his excitement, he unwittingly allows Bane to take more and more control of his resources in the name of killing Batman.
Eventually Bane deduces Batman is Bruce, and upon doing so confronts and defeats him in similar classic fashion to the real film. He then betrays Penguin by snitching to the police as to his identity. Bane, now ruler of Gotham’s underworld, enacts his master plan to break everyone out of jail, believing that prisoners are the only people worthy of freedom (or some other philosophical jargon like that).
What results is a massive crime wave which puts the now much smaller police force on the ropes. Eventually Batman rises to the challenge and defeats Bane in relatively the same fashion as the real film. Bane is vanquished and put in jail/Arkham. Batman is vindicated. The end.
