Characters
- Selina Kyle nicknamed The Catwoman, a murdered owner of the bankrupt Kit Kat Club who was blackmailing many of the city's most powerful figures.
- Private Eye "Boy Wonder" Dick Grayson, an orphaned former circus performer and ex-cop who was hired as Selina's bodyguard but was fired the day before her death.
- Batman, a mysterious vigilante believed to be on the payroll of Bruce Wayne.
- Bruce Wayne, an aloof playboy millionaire and former lover of Selina Kyle.
- Police Commissioner Gordon, the head of Gotham's Police force who is investigating Selina's death and considers Grayson among his chief suspects.
- Barbara Gordon, the daughter of Commissioner Gordon who works as Grayson's secretary, despite her father's disapproval.
- Jack, a two-bit card dealer from Las Vegas who runs an unsuccessful underground gambling racket, earning him the nickname "The Poker Joker".
- Oswald Cobblepot, a dapper racketeer also known as the Penguin who uses his matrimonial businesses as a front for dodgy dealings.
- Mister Freeze, Cobblepot's hired sociopathic gunman.
- Matt Hagen, a powerful, disfigured gangster called Clayface who is owed money by Joker.
- Edward Nigma, a guilt-riddled embezzling banker known as the Riddler, who was forced by Selina Kyle into a "business" relationship that consists of stealing for her.
- Harvey Dent, Bruce Wayne's two-faced lawyer and best friend.
- Croc, an ex-sideshow attraction who performed with Grayson in the circus when they were young.
- Oliver Queen, one of Wayne's society friends.
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Famous quotes containing the word characters:
“For the most part, only the light characters travel. Who are you that have no task to keep you at home?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light.... They are too pure to have a market value; they contain no muck. How much more beautiful than our lives, how much more transparent than our characters are they! We never learned meanness of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“I make it a kind of pious rule to go to every funeral to which I am invited, both as I wish to pay a proper respect to the dead, unless their characters have been bad, and as I would wish to have the funeral of my own near relations or of myself well attended.”
—James Boswell (17401795)