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:
“It is open to question whether the highly individualized characters we find in Shakespeare are perhaps not detrimental to the dramatic effect. The human being disappears to the same degree as the individual emerges.”
—Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872)
“There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“There are as many characters in men
As there are shapes in nature.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)