Gotham City

Gotham City. A dark, menacing place where nobody wants to be caught outside after dark. Crooks and Robbers roam the streets the second night falls. No man, woman, or child is safe when the darkness strikes. Gangs and mafias rule the city, and members are seen on every street corner and in every alleyway. Indoors is the safest place to be. That's where most people seem to resort to, except for four young adults at only 14 years of age. Their names? Jack Rector, Ethan Thomas, Logan Gutierrez, and Johnny Karate. This daring bunch of adolescents did whatever they pleased, no matter the risk. Thatś exactly what got them into this mess. It was a normal Friday afternoon. Well, as normal as it can get in the most dangerous city in the U.S. Summer had just begun,…

genre of television series is drama. In dramas there is usually a protagonist which would represent the Apollonian aspect by bringing peace and order to an otherwise negative situation and an antagonist which would represent the Dionysian aspect by trying to bring chaos to the protagonist. One example of this art form would be the television series called Gotham. In this series there is a city known as Gotham where crime is abundant, this could be viewed as a Dionysian city.…

GOTHAM’S GREATEST ENGINEERS (whole group discussion) Welcome campers back to The Science of Superpowers! Today, we look to rebuild Gotham City. The hometown of Batman, the city has been ransacked by the various villains and needs to be reconstructed. Can Gotham pass the three design challenges as you work together to rebuild Batman’s most prized possession? As you make your way through the lesson, add to the conversation by either reading directly from the Background Information or by ad-libbing…

The Arkham series has come a long way since Rocksteady 's first installment - Arkham Asylum, back in 2009. The series reached new heights with the sequel Arkham City in 2011. Gone were the restraints of the asylum, with an entire city being explorable. Gliding through the sky at night with the city lights glistening in every direction was a joy to behold, and bringing justice to the streets of Gotham felt as fun as it was brutal. With Batman: Arkham Knight, Rocksteady has taken what was so…

He does good for the city but does not consider himself to be a superhero. He is not tempted by his darker side, "I've seen what I have to be to fight men like him" he rejects the only way to stop the joker, a chaotic freak. In connotation with his chaotic make up, with no rules. During the final battle in Gotham streets, between Batman and Joker, the Joker screams "hit me" as Batman drives towards him, wanting to bump into him. Batman avoids breaking his own rule "not to kill evildoers but…

Wayne Enterprise which takes place in Gotham City. Bruce witnesses his parents’ murder as a child and was raised by Alfred Pennyworth which is also his butler. Bruce Wayne later in his adult life became Batman to fight criminals and stop all the crime in Gotham City. Superman story begins in a different planet called Krypton, and his real name…

Batman Mortality Throughout The Dark Knight Returns, Batman faces not only the current batch of Gotham's criminals, but criminals from his past, the Gotham Police, and eventually Superman. On top of all of these outward enemies, time is certainly not on Batman's side. Batman has to consider and confront his own mortality while he tries to clean up Gotham City's unending criminal element. Frank Miller does this to show to the reader that while Batman has done and continues to do impressive feats…

just human. The interaction between Bruce and Ra’s Al Ghul has challenged my ideas about justice. It made me think about the interactions between these two characters. Early in the film, Bruce finds himself at the League of Shadows hideout in search of a new path. This is where he loses his fears of bats. Bruce didn’t agree with the methods of the league, Ducard tells Bruce, “When Gotham falls, the other cities will follow in short order. Nature’s balance will be restored and Man will finally…

As Joker is burning the money in this scene, he says, “This town deserves a better class of criminal. And I’m going to give it to them.” Much of the film is dedicated to exploring what kind of criminal and what kind of hero Gotham City deserves. Bruce Wayne seems to be a white-collar criminal, who engages in the kind of corporate crimes that attract our real-life two-faced prosecutors. He takes corporate resources to pursue his own interests, uses deceptive means to obtain a majority stake in…

Gotham is a relatively new episodic television series, highly anticipated following the box office success of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy. The Fox program revolves around a pre-Batman Gotham City, where it appears a big emphasis is placed on telling the origin stories of many Batman comic supporting characters. Christopher Nolan’s three films follow the narrative of Bruce Wayne/Batman from how he became a superhero to his circumstances as a superhero. However, these films could not…