Selina yells at Batman for interfering, despite the fact that she was clearly dying. As she’s about to be overpowered and die, Batman finally decides to intervene. While she holds her own at the beginning, she eventually loses. The woman reveals herself to be skilled in self-defense, and also to be this world’s Selina Kyle, evident from her use of a whip and from a cat being in the shot with her. Batman apparently decides to wait until Jack gets inside of a literal slaughterhouse before taking him down, despite seeing him from the rooftops. We’re introduced to Sister Leslie, a nun that takes care of orphans around the city as well as young ladies who may or may not be prostitutes (they are), as well as Commissioner Gordon and Harvey Bullock who apparently haven’t been successful in catching Saucy Jack.Ĭut to night, and we follow a young woman through alleys as she’s being pursued by both Jack the Ripper and Batman. There’s a bat-signal projector, and Hugo Strange is there, and there’s a world’s fair. We get a weird expository sequence about the city, just to make sure that the audience sees all of the guns in Chekhov’s collection. At the beginning, Batman stops three orphans from robbing a wealthy couple, and you learn that this is clearly an “adult” cartoon because one of the kids says “shit.” Batman then beats the crap out of the orphans’ boss, and sends them to an orphanage, because Victorian Batman ain’t got time for “wards.” Despite this, it’s obvious that the three orphans are this universe’s version of the first three Robins. In this universe, Batman is basically an urban legend at this point, but rumors about him scare everyone, since there aren’t any other vigilantes at this point. We start the movie off by having Jack kill Poison Ivy, who is apparently a prostitute and an exotic dancer in this universe, and has no other connection to her comic counterpart than a name and red hair. If you’re thinking “okay, that actually sounds kind of awesome,” go read the comic and don’t see this movie, because you will be disappointed. ![]() Yes, it’s actually Jack the f*cking Ripper, in America, in a setting with Batman. Perhaps something less than a King Ripper. There’s a serial killer stalking prostitutes in the night around the city. You might ask why I didn’t say Benjamin Harrison’s time in office, but I think more of you probably would ask “Who the f*ck is Benjamin Harrison?” It’s that guy. ![]() The year is… sometime in the Victorian Era, but we’re still in America, so let’s say it’s between Grover Cleveland’s administrations. It’s such a fitting setting that when someone suggested adapting it into a videogame a few years back, I thought it would be a perfect follow-up Batman game to the Arkham series. In other words, it’s the absolute perfect time for a Batman story to take place. ![]() Serial killers, muggers, and some real-life supervillain-esque crimebosses. Think about all of the fictional depictions of nights in London at that time, and that’s how this version of Gotham is depicted. In fact, it’s the first “Elseworlds” comic and is still considered one of the best ones. Gotham By Gaslight is a famous Elseworlds (alternate universe) Batman comic which takes place in a version of Victorian London that just happens to be called Gotham City.
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