#Gotham Justice Triumvirate

[arielrothbart]

The heart of the city is on fire 🎵

Got to draw them…they are forever my love and pain 😭

I was planned to turn on the bat signal on the back, but hum…I’ll just put it here, Maybe the colored one is better* idk, My brain is kindda dead right now

[whipbogard]

*cries softly*

[dctrfate]

Do you think barry allen should be leader of the justice league? If not who should be

he'd be so mediocre as a team leader....like critical fact to remember about barry allen is that he's an introvert and perfectly happy with his three—count 'em—three friends that aren't either his nephew or his wife. and it's not like barry's incapable of being in a position of power (see jla: year one) it's just that it's not a role he could function his best in. barry is more often than not a solo act and even more so he doesn't possess the skill-set needed in order to improve a team of disfunctional superheroes rather than just manage it. he'd be decent at it but not great.

all in all i prefer the current triumvirate (bruce, clark, diana) as the default team leaders. they're a staple of the line-up and while i do think bruce would definitely be more of the obvious authority figure i also don't think he'd spend that much time outside of gotham. like realistically batman is not going to show up to fight cyborgs in australia if superman is already on the case and has it handled. therefore, triumvirate.

[inamindfarfaraway]

If we can’t have Batfamily movies and all Batman movies must be set in the early years before Robin, at least let us have one about the Gotham Justice Triumvirate. With Harvey Dent in the central role. Here’s my pitch:

Badass DA and wonderful person Harvey.

Harvey and Jim Gordon and Batman’s friendship. Jim and Harvey are friends! They’re two normal humans hanging out with a vigilante/living shadow cryptid who has no concept of normal human interaction! Think of the in-jokes they must have! Near the beginning, after Batman pulls his trademark disappearing act on them Harvey asks if Jim thinks he’ll ever say goodbye to them. Jim’s reply is some form of “when hell freezes over”, maybe even “Yeah - when he’s seeing you off to Arkham and me to Blackgate.” They laugh.

Harvey and Bruce Wayne’s friendship.

The fun and dramatic irony of writing Bruce and Batman as completely separate characters.

Depending on the timeline, possibly a cameo of newly fostered little Dick Grayson! To whom Harvey is like an uncle.

Gilda’s character being fleshed out. Exploring her side of the marriage and views on her husband’s career and mental decline and alliance with the Bat.

Harvey and Gilda’s relationship. And her and Two-Face’s relationship! He doesn’t care for Bruce, but he does love her equally while she apparently doesn’t even know he exists prior to him killing people. That’s an interesting dynamic.

Mafia intrigue and drama as the heroic trio finally bring down the previously untouchable Maroni empire.

Judicial, political and police force intrigue and drama as Harvey and to a less examined extent Jim fight to preserve their moral integrity in and reform their deeply corrupt institutions.

“For Gotham” is a key phrase, and may be the title. It’s said by each member of the triumvirate at different points when demonstrating or discussing how far they’re willing to go and how much hope they have for their city and its people.

Accurate, in-depth DID representation with Harvey and his protector alter not yet named Two-Face, who, reasserting himself after years if not decades of repression, resentment and ingratitude by the person he’s only ever wanted to protect slowly grows into a persecutor. Now Harvey’s wary, dismissive treatment of him is very understandable because of how terrifying DID can make life when you don’t understand it/your alter(s), and the need for control and excessive responsibility his childhood of abuse and neglect has cemented in him. But it’s still damaging. Other than lash out sometimes at people making Harvey feel threatened (Pre-)Two-Face hasn’t really done anything wrong before the events of the movie. They’re two sides of the same badly scarred coin each just trying to survive and make sense of their pain, equally sympathetic and valid… at least at the start. An element of the tragedy is that Two-Face could have healed and been a true friend to Harvey, if different choices were made and different chances were given. But the pressure of the Maroni case, a lifetime of unresolved trauma and post-traumatic stress from their father and each other, some plain bad luck and some mistakes lead to him becoming another abuser and a supervillain besides.

Music! Harvey has a theme, Two-Face has a theme. They hit opposite beats and parallel each other a lot yet never quite harmonize well. The coin (and the destruction and despair it represents) has a leitmotif that slowly rises to prominence in both. This motif is also associated with Christopher Dent. Harvey and Gilda have a love theme. Bruce and Batman have distinct themes that complement each other perfectly when played together, and when Bruce’s emotions shine through in Batman or Batman’s grimness peeks out of Bruce elements from the other piece are mixed in. The concept that Gotham’s ‘soul’ can be saved and humanity is worth fighting for has an uplifting theme, the main theme of movie and an antithesis to the coin’s, that has sections and elements woven into each member of the triumvirate’s themes and is repeatedly reprised in different tones.

Harvey’s external plot is making Gotham a better place, specifically via dismantling the Maroni crime family. The structure of most of the movie builds up to the climax of the trial of Salvatore Maroni himself. Maybe there are even recurring shots of Harvey’s calendar with an increasing number of days crossed out, to really drive the countdown home. To the main characters, it’s a beacon of confidence; a chance to prove law, and law for the good of the people, does hold power in Gotham, to send a message to everyone that things can and will get better. Nothing (and no one) is beyond redemption. To the audience, it’s a doomsday for Harvey we’re helpless to stop that taints every victory and happy moment on the path toward it.

His internal plot is grappling with his severe psychological issues rooted in his nightmarish childhood. He goes to therapy, he’s in a good place right before the start. But the first scene is… rough.

He visits his alcoholic father Christopher in the cheap hotel Chris, reduced to a pathetic old man, is staying in. Though he still calls him Dad and wants to try to reconcile, it’s clear he understands his regular, brutal beatings and otherwise generally neglectful parenting style (at least half the time) were wrong and he’s uncomfortable and tense. Chris solemnly presents him with a coin. The coin he would flip every night to ‘decide’ to beat him or not, which always, always came up heads for punishment. He said it was fair and that paradigm - that that his desires and actions don’t matter, he was just always bad inside and always deserves to suffer, in short that Harvey’s fate isn’t in his control - shaped the system’s entire personalities and worldviews, Harvey striving to prove it wrong and over years of bearing trauma and triggering experiences, his much more cynical protector internalizing it. With trembling fingers Harvey picks up the coin and looks at both sides. Two heads. The music cuts out. Dolly zoom on him that makes the room appear to close in around him, as a boy’s pleas, cries and screams of agony echo and he dissociates. Two-Face, who always acknowledged the flip was rigged, switches in. He smiles ruefully and says in a calm, quiet voice, “I understand.” Then he lunges to his feet, punches Christopher to the ground, grabs him by the throat and slams him against the wall, right fist raised to strike. He is now anything but calm. “Why? Why did you do it? Not the beating, that was just because you’re a sick bastard and took your anger out on the person least able to do anything about it. But why use the coin, why make it a game? Why lie? To shift responsibility even more? Just for fun? Tell me! Why would you bother to put a little spark of hope into your son’s eyes only to crush it? Answer me!” Instead of answering, Chris notes he’s bleeding; his right fist is closed so tight his fingernails have punctured his skin and the coin inside it is cutting into his palm. The shock of seeing that damn coin literally, physically hurting him brings tears to Two-Face’s eyes. He looks back up at his father, full of only raw grief and sadness for himself and his alter. His voice breaks. “Why, Dad? Did you really… not feel anything good when you looked at me?” “Did you really believe every time?” is all his father can say. Two-Face’s expression hardens, his fists clench again and he squares his shoulders. “Only half of me did. Goodbye, Christopher,” he says bitterly. The second he slams the door his facade of strength crumbles. He falls to his knees, sobbing and heavily dissociating. Cradling his head in his hands and raking them through his hair smears blood on and in the right half of his face and hair. Cue title card!

So yeah, there are only a couple of months between that day and the Maroni trial. He can’t bring himself to throw away the coin despite knowing he probably should. Gilda can’t understand why and urges him to leave it behind. He says it’s “too important” and “a reminder”, although of what, he can’t verbalize. The coin eventually ends up being habitually fidgeted with and kept on his person like a lucky charm. He’s trying to ‘redeem’ his trauma, turn it into something good, by drawing on it to motivate him to fight for justice, but the coin in practice is just a trigger. His PTSD, guilt complex and self-worth and control issues are dragged to the forefront and he dissociates more frequently. He falls further and further into obsessive workaholism. Loses sleep. Misses therapy sessions. All that matters is giving the absolute most he can to his city. Rest can wait, quality time with his wife and friends can wait, Harvey Dent the person can wait until the case is closed. Until after the trial. Everything will be better after The Trial.

The Trial happens. Everything is not better.

Maroni unscrewing his flask occurs in the background of the shot out of focus. When the acid is thrown, it sprays through the air in slow motion. We see Harvey and the witnesses’ (including Gilda and Bruce) shock transitioning to panic and horror as he flinches away too slowly, the coin in his hand flung into midair revolution and a wayward drop of acid approaching it. With a last close-up on his wide left eye reflecting Maroni’s smirk, cut to black. The most tortured screams you can imagine ring in our ears. No music in any of this.

Harvey and Two-Face’s mental health sinks to rock bottom during their hospital stay. Gilda, Bruce and Jim’s visits comfort Harvey little, especially since Batman duty calls Bruce away at a critical point (remember, nowhere in the script does it say Bruce is Batman). They’re given the coin back and discuss that life isn’t fair, but it should be… if they played their dad’s game now, it would be fair. All that work, all the blood and sweat and tears Harvey put into Gotham and this is how Gotham thanks him. He was never going to change things. Not playing by the rules of a rigged game, at least. It was never up to him. He never had it in him to be good, to be someone not worthy of punishment, let alone to improve other people’s lives. Flipping the coin, Harvey whispers with shattered eyes, “I understand.” Of course, seeing their scars is the last straw. Two-Face switches in, literally locking an anxious Harvey in a dark repressed chamber in their inner world to stop him getting in his way, and escapes hospital. Gilda, on her way to his room, begs him to stop and he hesitates but, genuinely sorrowful, decides his quest for justice takes precedence and runs into the stormy night, the shadows and rain obscuring his trail. She calls him, phone in a death grip. Fade out to its continual ringing.

This might be too weird and artsy but what if from the Fuck My Life I’m Listening To A Coin Now toxic epiphany onward, the shot composition is roughly pretty much symmetrical? Within shots or with shots mirroring each other. Not perfectly, obviously, but like. Rewind looking for it and it’s there.

The penultimate scene is another rooftop rendezvous and this time Harvey isn’t present; we and his friends feel his absence. Batman regretfully tells Jim and shows him footage of a new criminal taking the underworld by storm: the fledgling Two-Face. Jim is first disbelieving, then devastated and turns his back so Batman won’t see him cry. He angrily tells Batman not to comfort him, and to leave now that he’s given him the shitty news, because that’s all he ever does for him. We pull back to show Batman is staying, pained, guilty and truly having no idea how to proceed. Jim assumes he’s already silently vanished. Once he collects himself and goes inside to inform his subordinates, Batman lingers in front of the Batsignal where they took their shared vow. “Goodbye, Harvey,” he says softly.

The epilogue is Two-Face’s confrontation with Maroni. Several months later, the Mafia don’s out of prison already thanks to the, again, incredibly corrupt legal system. Two-Face acts venomously calm and civil while holding him at gunpoint. He remarks how long and hard Harvey worked just to bring Maroni to court, and how now with some broken laws and spilt blood here Maroni is in front of him in a fraction of the time. Helpless, like he was in that courtroom. He explains his “fair” game to kill him or not in a speech clearly quoted from Christopher, shows him both sides of the coin, tosses it and stares at the unseen outcome in his hand. “Lucky,” he announces, making Maroni slightly relax - a little spark of hope put into his eyes, you could say. Suddenly Two-Face shoots him twice in the heart. “For Gotham, not you.” Harvey switches in (implicitly his alter’s guilt is a positive trigger for him as his anger is for Two-Face) to find his alter has committed murder, with a smoking gun in his right hand and flecks of blood on that hand and his suit. He staggers back in horror and drops the gun and coin. A pang of practically physical pain interrupts his calling Jim to turn himself in, because he can’t choose that, can he? He falls to his knees. With trembling fingers he picks up the coin and, pleading under his breath to just have this one chance, flips it. It comes up scarred. Two-Face resumes control. He smashes the phone under his heel and stands. The final shot is him walking purposefully toward the camera so it zooms in on the vertical divide of his suit jacket.

[astranne]

MASTERLIST MIRACULOUS X DC

Hey there! This is a part of @multifandomscribette​ works and linked to a bigger masterlist. I already made one for her, but when I tried to update the post, I couldn’t because I already linked too much. So I seperated the whole masterlist into many ones.

MASTERLIST OF MASTERLISTS

★ 〈《 ⅰ. MIRACULOUS X DC 》〉  ★

⋆ ‹ « CHATEAU DES CHEVALIERS ET MAGIE » › ⋆

Castle of Knights & Magic

# chateau des chevaliers et magie

⋆ ‹ « DAME CHANCEUSE CONTURE AU » › ⋆

Catwoman/Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn

Riddler/Penguin/Boutique

Two-Face/Scarecrow

Mad Hatter/Baby Doll

Girls Night Out

Calendar Girl/Lex Luthor

Deadshot/Talia al Ghul

Zatanna and The Magical Goddess Of Crime Alley

The Devil And The Goddess Of Crime Alley

The Angel Of Gotham Goes To The City Of Angels

Hufflepuff The Puffin

Killer Croc/Red Hood

How Tim & Mari meet

Relationship Reveal!

Fashion Show Disaster

Iceberg Lounge

Ask (Iceberg Lounge)

Sweep Me Off My Feet, Craddle Me In Your Arms

Dick’s Thoughts On Tim Dating Mari

Potential Breack Up Moments

John Constantine Doesn’t Know What To Think About The Goddess In Gotham

Mari & Mar’i

Cat’s Meow

Meet Snowball

The Wedding Of The Millennium

Side Affects Of Being A Ladybug

Adrien & Lila

Luka & Kagami

Alya & Nino

Chloe & Alix

# dame chanceuse conture

# from the ground up au

# marianne fu

⋆ ‹ « FORGOTTEN CITY AU » › ⋆

ⅰ. This Is How We Survive

ⅰⅰ. We Fight Side By Side

ⅰⅰⅰ. We Value One Another

ⅳ. We Lift One Another Up

ⅴ. We heal Each Other

ⅵ. We Become A Family

ⅶ. We Adapted And Adopted

ⅷ. We Become A Family

ⅸ. We Present A United Front

Continuation on AO3

# the forgotten city au

⋆ ‹ « GOTHAM FOR TWO » › ⋆

ⅰ. Prologue

ⅰⅰ.Chapter One

ⅰⅰⅰ.Chapter Two

ⅳ. Chapter Three

ⅴ. Chapter Four

ⅵ. Chapter Five

ⅶ. Chapter Six

ⅷ. Chapter Seven

ⅸ. Chapter Eight

ⅹ. Chapter Nine

Continuation on AO3  

# gothamfortwo

⋆ ‹ « GREY!MARI » › ⋆

ⅰ. A Day In The Life Of MDC

ⅰⅰ. Clientele Expansion

ⅰⅰⅰ. Anticipated & Appriecated

# morally grey marinette

# grey!mari

⋆ ‹ « HEADCANONS » › ⋆

Damian’s Miraculous

Marinette’s Bucketlist Is Strange #1

Marinette’s Bucketlist Is Strange #2

Dickinette In A Nutshell

Jason Is Defensive

Like Ten???

Demon Tamer

Marinette Is A Wee Bit Feral

Damians Needs Supervision

Endangered Species

Dick Is Cheesy

Dick Is A Troll

I am Darkness! I’m The Night!

Tim Is Not Okay

Cookies

Sleep Schedules

Oh Sh*t

Training Gone Wrong

Hypocrisy

Suspicious Silence

# maribat

# maribat au

# dickinette

# jasonette

# timinette

# daminette

# batfam

⋆ ‹ « KALDUR X MARINETTE AU » › ⋆

ⅰ. Strategic & Magical

ⅰⅰ. Happy Happenings

# kaldur x marinette

⋆ ‹ « OBSERVED UNBALANCE AU » › ⋆

ⅰ. Goddess!Marinette

ⅰⅰ. The Inexplicable Disappearaance Of Damian Al Ghul

ASK: Meeting, Dating & Proposing!

# observed unbalance au

⋆ ‹ « SUPER SON AU » › ⋆

ⅰ. Save The Super Son

ⅰⅰ.Familial Love Concurs All

ⅰⅰⅰ.Super Child & Super Mom

ⅳ. An Abbreviated List Of Things Said In Regards To The Justice League By Marinette Dupain-Cheng

ⅴ. Non-Super Mentor

ⅵ. Our Lady’s Protector

ⅶ. My Mama Taught Me Better Than That

ⅷ. Triumvirate

ⅸ. Son & Brother

ⅹ. Mother’s Love

ⅹⅰ. Thruth Hurts

ASK: Superson In New York

ASK: Button Baby

ASK: Protector

ASK: First Meeting

ASK: After Life

# super son au

⋆ ‹ « THE BIRD’S DANCE AU » › ⋆

ⅰ. The Ladybird Flys Again!

ⅰⅰ. Together We Fly Again!

ⅰⅰⅰ. Ask

ⅳ. Conversation Overhead

# the birds dance

⋆ ‹ « ZILI ALQATAH AU » › ⋆

ⅰ. Paris’ Zili Alqatah

ⅰⅰ. Zili Alqatah’s Family

ⅰⅰⅰ. Zili Alqatah’s Vacation

ⅰⅴ. Zili Alqatah’s Reunion

ⅴ. Zili Alqatah’s Mother

ⅵ. Zili Alqatah’s Past

ⅶ. Zili Alqatah’s Night Out

EXTRA: Light In The Darkness

Continuation on AO3  

# zili alqatah au

[upyourgeek]

DC Animated Universe's Next Entry - Batman: The Long Halloween, Part One Release Date & Trailer

Holiday murders lead Gotham City’s crime fighting triumvirate to extreme measures in Batman: The Long Halloween – an all-new entry in the popular series of the DC Universe Movies!

DC animated universe fans have been enjoying the ride so far after WB Home entertainment relaunched their animated universe — with a slate of newly told stories and origins of familiar DC characters, fans got to experience Batman: Soul of the Dragon, Superman: Man of Tomorrow, and will soon see the upcoming Justice Society: World War II. As the train continues forward on these stories, one of the…

[whipbogard]

Gotham Justice Triumvirate?

Gotham Justice Sillies more like.

[whipbogard]

Sometimes bitches be forgetting that Jim also grieved over losing Harvey

(It’s me, I’m bitches)

[whipbogard]

Matt Reeves, sir, what I would give to see this in The Batman 2 🥲

[whipbogard]

In an ideal world, the current Batman arc will end up like this 🥲

Just want multiverse Justice Triumvirate working together, please 😭🙏

This was before @two-baes stomped on my hopes and dreams by telling me that Skelly Jim is a hallucination!!! 😭😭😭😭

[whipbogard]

Found this kiddie book that’s supposed to be Bruce’s notes on people and stuff.

He mostly fit 1-2 people in a page but Harvey had a wholeass spread..

“He’s known as Two-Face, but I don’t call him that.”

BRB FEELING VERY NORMAL ABOUT THIS 😭 Bruce and his never ending faith in Harvey!! Bruce yet again reminding himself about how ridiculously handsome Harvey was!!!! And there’s also the whole Gotham Justice Triumvirate feelings too!

Bonus: this absolutely cute Arkham note on Harvey!

Wonder what he’s gonna do with those paints :’3c doodle?

[whipbogard]

do you have a bruharvey comic reading list ?

Lmfao I personally feel like every Harvey-centric comic is somewhat a BruHarvey comic if you squint 🤣🤣🤣🤣

This list is in no way exhaustive and I'm pretty sure I've missed out some very important stuff but nevertheless, this is what I could think off at the top of my head:

Disclaimer: I'm bad at continuity. And I won't call some of these excellent writing but they did give me all the delicious bruharv moments.

Batman - A Lonely Place of Dying - Some nice parallels between Batman and Two-Face were made in here when they're busy trying to outwit each other. This is mainly focused on Bruce's angst post-Jason's death and it is rather delicious for the angst-lover. And also origin story for Robin Tim.

Batman: Year One - That infamous scene where Batman hid under Harvey's desk. That's it. That's big reason enough for you to read it. (Harvey is also exceptionally hansum in here. Will always be one of my fav Harveys).

Two-Face: Year One - Chummy college days, Bruce hanging out at Harvey's office late and night and also the one where 2F didn't listen to the coin and spared Bruce's life :^)

Batman: Eye of the Beholder - The one where Jim introduced Harvey to Batman and then they started hanging out together and left Jim out. JK JK JK LOL but it sure felt like that 🤣 In all honesty though, this is one of--if not--the best Harvey story out there so please read it anyway!!!!

Batman: Face The Face - This takes place sometime after Batman: Hush (where if you recall, Harvey betrayed Tommy to save Bruce's ass uwu). Harvey is somewhat "cured" now that his face is fixed. He go about protecting Gotham in Bruce's absence. And oh, Harvey recalling the 30 days whirlwind of a romance with Bruce where they trained together and also went for dinner dates and movies (I KID YOU NOT)---and obviously got 2F very upset LOL.

All-Star Batman: My Own Worst Enemy - The one where Bruce and Harvey went on a cross-country trip while being handcuffed together. Also a look into their childhood together at that very weird school lol

Batman and Robin #24 - #28 (The Big Burn) - This is 2F's origin story for current continuity. The one where Harvey called Bruce a Prince (while looking at his own reflection on a knight armour) and Bruce called Harvey "dummy" affectionately. Also here we learn that Harvey had known that Bruce is Batman since forever and has been protecting that secret from 2F.

Detective Comics #989 - #993 (Deface The Face) - My beloved Gotham Justice Triumvirate reuniting and working together!!!! The ending to this arc truly fulfilled my love for that chasing game between a hero and a villain tbh uwu

Detective Comics #1020 - #1024 (Ugly Heart & Prelude to Joker War) - It started out weird enough with 2F having a cult of some sort and having real weird erotic ritual involving the coin (lbr you know I'd join this cult in a heartbeat LOL). Again, this arc emphasized on Harvey's struggles to protect Bruce and his identity from 2F. And Harvey teaming up with Bruce to beat Joker's talons!!!!! It ended with 2F being suppressed and a somewhat "reformed" Harvey in Blackgate being visited by Matches. I like this arc for a lot of shippy reasons lmfao ("Promises, promises" hehe)

Detective Comics #1062 - present - The current craze. An excellently written Harvey by Ram V and Simon Spurrier. I look forward to where this is heading! (As of now, seems like Harvey has stopped making an appearance but I sure hope he'll come back again!!!)

ADDITIONAL MENTIONS

The Doom That Came to Gotham - This is a depressing Elseworlds story with Lovecraft elements but the BruHarvey in here is absolutely golden and even more so in the movie version.

Batman 1989 Newspaper Comics - I have yet to go through this tbh but there are a lot of good bruharv moments in here and thIS ONE RIGHT HERE I s2G GETS ME ALL THE TIME

THAT IS ALL!!! Thanks for asking me this because now I have a proper record to refer to since I'm so bad with arc names and issues etc 🤣

[whipbogard]

I still obsessively think about that “OOF!” scene lol

[whipbogard]

Merry Christmas!! 🥳🎄

Can’t help but thinking about these guys celebrating Christmas together 🥺❤️

[whipbogard]

Matt Reeves

Gotham Justice Triumvirate for your consideration please 🥺

[whipbogard]

my fav bruharv trope: Jim being sO DONE