Injustice Gods Among Us: Year 3 (2014) #4 Transcript

SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE:

SCENE #1: HELL

ETRIGAN ROARS AND HOWLS IN PAIN. A DEMON APPROACHES HIM, LOOKING CONCERNED.

DEMON:
Lord Etrigan? What is it?

ETRIGAN:
A gruesome death. Agonizing pain.

HE GRABS THE DEMON BY HIS THROAT.

ETRIGAN: (CONT’D)
And what was one is now in twain.

HE GRABS HIS HEAD IN BOTH PAIN AND SORROW, THROWING THE DEMON WITHOUT LOOKING INTO A WALL.

ETRIGAN: (CONT’D)
Jason Blood, my host, has died. Our two bound souls have been untied. Abandoned here is Etrigan... Gone forever my form of man.

SCENE #2: THE HOUSE OF JASON BLOOD

JOHN CONSTANTINE IS LOOKING AT A BLOOD COVERED, SKELETOL HAND.

JOHN CONSTANTINE:
Jesus!!

HUNTRESS, BATWOMAN AND BATMAN ARE LOOKING AROUND WILDLY. KLARION TURNS HIS HEAD AROUND TO FACE ANOTHER DIRECTION. ZATANNA IS TRYING TO ACTIVATE A PROTECTIVE SPELL. CATWOMAN IS WATCHING THE DOOR.

ZATANNA:
Tcetorp lla edisni siht esuoh! (Protect all inside the house)

MAGIC ORBS FORM OUT THE PALMS OF HER WHITE GLOVED HANDS.

BATMAN:
What is it? What are we up against?

CONSTANTINE GETS UP FROM THE GROUND.

JOHN CONSTANTINE:
I don’t know!

KLARION PUTS HIS FINGER TIPS TO HIS HEAD. TEEKL LOOKS ALERT.

KLARION:
I’ll take a look. Teekl. Go.

TEEKL SCAMPERS OFF, IN THE DIRECTION OFF. THE DOOR.

HARLEY QUINN NOTICES DETECTIVE CHIMP HAS BEEN KNOCKED DOWN, HIS HAT IS LYING NEXT TO HIM.

HARLEY QUINN:
The monkey is down!

SHE RUNS OVER TO HIS LISTEN TO HIS CHEST, WHILE ALFRED IS TENDING TO HIM. A POOL OF BLOOD IS POURING FROM HIS HEAD. CONSTANTINE COMES OVER TO SEE IF HE IS OKAY.

JOHN CONSTANTINE:
Is he alive?

ALFRED PENNYWORTH:
He’s alive.

HARLEY QUINN:
But his breathing’s shallow.

HARLEY PICKS UP THE HAT AND LOOKS AT IT SADDLY.

HARLEY QUINN: (CONT’D)
And his little hat fell off.

KLARION’S EYES WIDEN WITH FEAR.

KLARION:
Constantine.

JOHN CONSTANTINE:
What is it, Klarion? What do you see?

SCENE #3: OUTSIDE THE HOUSE

TEEKL LOOKS UP INTO THE SKY.

KLARION: (V.O.)
Oh, this isn’t good... It’s the Spectre.

PEOPLE ARE RUNNING AWAY AS THE SPECTRE TOWERS OVER THE HOUSE, STRIKING IT WITH MYSTICAL GREEN LIGHTNING.

Cold, Cold Heart (Batman Arkahm Origins) Transcript

SCENE #1: GOTHCORP

NORA FRIES IS FLOATING IN CRYOGENIC COOLANT, HER EYES CLOSED. ICE CRYSTALS FORM OVER THE GLASS AS THE CRYOGENIC PROCESS STARTS TO HAPPEN. MR. FREEZE GIVES A LONGING LOOK AT HER, BEFORE TUNING HIS BACK AND WALKING AWAY.

SCENE #2: WAYNE MANOR

A PAIR OF FINGERS CARESS A GOLD STATUE WHICH IS HOLDING A DIAMOND SHAPED HEART OVER IT’S HEAD. THE PLAQUE AT THE BOTTOM READS “WAYNE FOUNDATION: HUMANITARIAN OF THE YEAR.” THE AWARDS WINNER IS FERRIS BOYLE, C.E.O OF GOTHCORP.

FERRIS BOYLE: (O.S)
People caring for people. Compassion. That’s the foundation Gotham was built on.

FERRIS BOYLE IS STANDING ON A STAGE, SEVERAL OTHER PEOPLE ARE BEHIND HIM. A CROWD IS WATCHING HIM, CLAPPING ENTHUSIASTICALLY. ABOVE THE STAGE IS A PICTURE OF BRUCE WAYNE AND BOYLE HOLDING A CHECK.

FERRIS BOYLE: (CONT’D)
And I have proudly built GothCorp on that same foundation.

BRUCE WAYNE AND ALFRED ARE AMONGST THE CROWD, SMILING AND CLAPPING ALONG WITH THE OTHERS.

FERRIS BOYLE: (CONT’D)
That’s why we’re called, the People Company.

THERE IS A CHEER FROM THE CROWD.

FERRIS BOYLE: (CONT’D)
Thank you so much. Please. No, thank you.

ALFRED PENNYWORTH:
Mister Boyle seems to be after your title as Gotham’s biggest philanthropic industrialist.

BRUCE WAYNE:
Gotham needs more people like him.

BOYLE SIDLES OVER TO HIM WARMLY. HE OPENS HIS ARMS WIDE AND THEY GIVE EACH OTHER A FIRM HANDSHAKE.

FERRIS BOYLE:
Bruce! I am blown away by your support.

BRUCE WAYNE:
It’s well deserved. You’re going to change the world, Ferris.

FERRIS BOYLE:
Hey. We’ll change it together, right?

ALFRED PENNYWORTH:
Pardon me, Mister Boyle, the press is waiting. This way, please?

ALFRED GESTURES IN THE DIRECTION AND BOLE FOLLOWS HIM OUT. A PIANO STARTS TO PLAY.

FEMALE PRESENTER (O.S)
Well, I’d say the future is looking very, very bright for Gotham. Now it’s almost midnight and you all know what that means.

THE PIANIST CRACKS HIS KNUCKLES AND CHANGES THE TUNE. THE PRESENTER THROWS HER ARMS UP WITH JOY.

FEMALE PRESENTER (CONT’D)
Now let’s get this New Year Eve party going with a...

SHE CHANGES ALMOST IMMEDIATELY, SHUDDERING AND WRAPPING HER ARMS TIGHTLY AROUND HER SHOULDERS. ICE FORMS AROUND HER, FREEZING THE SCREEN.

FEMALE PRESENTER (CONT’D)
Forget to pay your heating bill, Bruce?

THERE IS A FLASH BEHIND THEM AND THEY ARE ALL THROWN FROM THE STAGE. ICE SHARDS FORM AS EVERYONE SCUTTLES AWAY, SCREAMING AND RUNNING IN PANIC.

THUG:
Happy New Year everybody.

PENGUIN’S THUGS BARGE INTO THE ROOM, THROUGH THE GIANT HOLE MADE BY THE ICE EXPLOSION, FIRING OFF MACHINE GUN AND BEGINNING TO ROUND UP ALL THE GUESTS. SHOUTING INAUDIBLE THREATS AND ORDERS.
MR. FREEZE STOMPS THROUGH LAST, IGNORING TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO SHUFFLE AWAY WITHOUT GETTING TO THEIR FEET. ONE PERSON HAS HIS LEGS STUCK AND IS STRUGGLING TO BREAK THE ICE. FREEZE SHOVES HIM, SENDING HIM HURTLING IN THE AIR, BEFORE CATCHING HIM WITH HIS GUN, FREEZING HIM MID-AIR.

MR. FREEZE:
Bring me Ferris Boyle.

BRUCE WALKS AWAY, WHILE EVERYONE ELSE IS BUSY, ACTIVATING THE COMM LINK IN HIS EAR.

BRUCE WAYNE:
Alfred, where’s Boyle?

THERE IS NO REPLY.

BRUCE WAYNE: (CONT’D)
Alfred?

HE MAKES HIS WAY INTO THE GRAN HALLWAY.

Killer Croc (Batman Arkham City)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Asylum

After Killer Croc was transferred to Arkham City, he made his home for a little while in a makeshift room, where he slept on a dirty mattress. He had managed to remove his shcok coller, before leaving the room permanetly and living in the subway maintance access of the sewer. 

Batman finds him in the access after triggering a switch with his remote control batarang. Croc smahes through the wall, roaring that he is not welcome. Batman tells him that he is not here to fight and demands him to let him pass. Croc notices that Batman smells diffrent and of death, sating that he doesn't need to fight him. He promises that he will feed on Batman's corpse when he was dead, before stomping away and diving into a broken pipe.

The Scarecrow's Message (Batman Arkham City)

Throughout Arkham City, Batman picks up three incoming signals on a radio transmission Chanel (700,500), (500,900) and (200,500) which give out a string of letters. 

Batman hacks into the final broadcast, using the password "Scarecrow" to successfully gain access to the third message for decoding.

The letters form the message from Jonathan Crane, stating that he is alive and that he will destroy Gotham and make Batman suffer for his defeat at Arkham Asylum a year before.

The exact message reads: "I will return Batman. You will pay for what you did to me. Fear will tear Gotham City to shreds."

Giovanni Luchese (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Giovanno Luchese was a high ranking member in the Black Mask's gang and served as Sionis' body double if their was ever any need for him to do so. He is 31 years old with a long history of warrants from the G.C.P.D for assaults both physical and with a weapon.

On Christmas Eve, Black Mask had Luchese present at Lacey Towers when he began feeling paranoid about someone tailing him. In the corridor outside, Sionis gives him a replace mask and tells him to go check out the safe house, while he goes around and gets in via the balacny (whether they were aware of Joker's presence was never specified) to get a drop on anyone if they are there.

The Joker knew that this was not the true Sionis and killed him instantly when he enters the safe house and catches sight of Tiffany Ambrose hanging from the chandelier. His death in enough of a distraction for Sionis to atack Joker. However Joker wins and before dragging Sionis off, covers up the murder with a molotov cocktail so that no DNA could be identified and make it look like the real Black Mask was dead.

A little while later Penguin visits Lacey Towers to gloat about a rival being eliminated, however is furious to discover that their was no pacemaker and realizing Sionis was still alive.

His body is discovered on Christmas Eve, with enough charing to destroy any evidence of identifying the body. However Batman identifies him after hacking into the National Criminal Database.

Tiffany Ambrose (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Tiffany Ambrose is Roman Sionis' girlfriend, with a prior of drug trafficking. She was murdered by the Joker, several days before Christmas Eve, when he took Black Mask hostage.

Black Mask was paranoid about people tailing him, so he ordered her to wait for him at his safe house in Lacey Towers. She had sent him a frightened text, asking who was the "Joker." He replies that it was no one that mattered and that he would be there as quick as he could.

She had been shopping for groceries on the night of her death and had just put them on the counter and checked her phone again when she is grabbed from behind and has her head slammed hard against it. Joker strings her up from the chandelier like an angel, still alive just unconscious and waits for the real target.

She is awoken by the smell of burning from a Molotov cocktail Joker uses to burn the evidence with  and seeing that Roman was in danger tries to struggle violently to get down. Joker decides he is going to force Roman to kill her, making Sionis shoot the woman he loved.

Her body was discovered on Christmas Eve still hanging from the chandelier.

Mad Hatter (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham City

Jervis Tetch was a former neurologist with the theory that the concept of free will was a lie and that it is nothing more than chemicals, that could be taken over and controlled.

From a young age he was obsessed with the works of Lewis Carol and perceived himself to be the living incarnation of the Mad Hatter.

At some point in time he had obtained a hat shop in the Bowery district, where he continued with his work on hypnotic control. His obsession with Alice in Wonderland led him to believe that "his Alice" was out there somewhere and needed to be found. 

His first victim was a young woman called Stephanie Williams, who he had lured her back to his lab, dressed, drugged and eventually killed when he realised she was not "Alice." Over a period of time he had killed several girls, but was still at large on Christmas Eve.

He had perfected his mind controlling technology, forming a gang with technology built into masks. He also kidnapped another girl, who he intended to bring back to Wonderland. He learnt about the Batman and seeing himself at a disadvantage, decided to trap him so he could use his technology to manipulate him to join his side.

On Christmas Eve, Hatter sent a transmission to Batman after a personal invitation to come to a tea party from three of his henchmen, introducing himself as a part time haberdasher. He tells Batman that he has a business proposal for him, but is interrupted by the terrified girl. He silences her, laughing and excusing her actions as she has been through quite a lot, but she will be much better soon.

In the Hat Shop, the Mad Hatter is just putting the final tweaks onto his technology, pleased that it is working with the exception of the henchman being controlled not addressing him as "sir." After Batman arrives, he shoves him against the clock demanding to know where "Alice" is. However a brief exchange, Hatter expresses his disappointment at them not seeing "eye to eye", tricking Batman to stare directly into the clock face and warping his mind into Wonderland.

Batman overcomes this manipulation, finding the Hatter has "Alice" and has a knife ready to slit her throat if he doesn't leave. Batman knocks him down with a reverse Batarang, before smashing him unconscious and leaving him for the G.C.P.D with evidence against him 

Titan Antidote (Batman Arkham Asylum)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Asylum

The antidote is a plant spore that grows deep beneath Arkham Island, within Killer Croc's lair, which Poison Ivy says that is the only way to reverse the affect of the Titan Strain.

Batman retrieves the spores from Croc's Lair and takes them to the Arkham Batcave to try and reverse manufacture the cure. However he is only able to make one dose of the anti- compound partly due to the speed it takes, as the process takes a long time and partly as the spores he collected wasn't enough. Poison Ivy's plants also smash through the Batcave, destroying the Batcomputer and every other way of manufacturing the cure.

Later Batman uses the antidote on himself, after jumping in front of a Titan dart that was meant for Gordon, forcing him to find a different way to stop the Joker, who injected himself with Titan.

Venom (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance:Batman Arkham Origins
First Mentioned: Batman Arkham Asylum

Venom is an addictive, steroidal compound which gives the user of the drug increased strength.

Bane came to Gotham to kill Batman in the one night only competition between the eight assassins, while he was also selling and experimenting on the "street drug." The experimentation was to develop a stronger venom that did not have the side affect of being addictive as Bane depends on venom, producing the prototype TN-1, which is a modified version.

Smilex (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Asylum

Smilex or "Joker Toxin\ Happy Gas" is a chemical developed by the Joker, which he used as a weapon in his first attack on Gotham, using it to poison the manager of the Gotham Merchant's Bank.

The toxin is airbourne and it caused her great pain, foricng her to laugh. The laughter was actually the sound of her dying and the more hysterically she laughed, the closer she was to death.

The toxin left her with a permanent Joker grin on it's victim's face. She was either the first or the first recorded fatality of the gas.

The Bank Manager (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

The Bank Manager was head of the Gotham Merchants Bank.

Black Mask (Joker) takes her hostage inside the vault with Sionis, while his thugs collect the money. At some point prior to Batman's arrival she is infected by Joker Toxin (smilex) and she is succumbing to the poison

Batman arrives and tries to warn Black Mask about the Joker, which the bank manager snickers at and says "the who..." when "Sionis" asks her if she had ever heard of the name. She laughs hysterically when Joker reveal himself, calling him insane while he beats Sionis for not being able to play along.Joker tells Batman to have a laugh on him after failing to shoot him, throwing the manager towards him. She is tottering and howling with glee, until he triggers the vault to explode. When Batman comes round, he finds her dead body with a jokeresk smile on her face. After scanning her, he discovers that she had been infected and that the laughter was the sound of her dying.

Later Batman hallucinates her in the elevator of the Sionis Steel Mill after being infected by an acute neurotoxin by Copperhead. She yells that he is the reason Gotham is being destroyed, stating that he should go as they would be better off with out him... "I would be alive without you."

Holly Robison (Batman Arkham City)

First Appearance: ?
First Refrenced: Batman Arkham City

During a patient interview with Catwoman, Hugo Strange claims that he has Tyger operatives training weapons on her and that she is their prisoner, threatening to kill her if Catwoman did not answer his questions.

This causes Selina great rage at Strange, calling him a "bastard." 

After Catwoman denies loving Batman, Strange tells her that Holly is safe in Gotham as he has better things to do than worry about "teenage deliquents"

Mad Hatter (Batman Arkham City)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham City

The Mad Hatter witnesses Batman saving Vicki Vale from the Joker's sniper riffles after her helicopter was shot down by Joker. He takes the opportunity to plant a remote hypnotic suggestion into his head, where he was ordered to come to his hideout.

After Batman regains consciousness after injecting himself with the "cure", which is really a knockout sedative and hypnotic chemical that made him more susceptible to suggestion, he sees Mad Hatter in his lair in a Park Row apartment under a strip club. He asks Batman if he wants more tea, laughing at Batman when he asks where he is is. Hatter tells him that he made him want to see what he wanted most and inquires if he was going to drink the tea, calling it his "my special tea... my speciality" and comparing her to "Alice" , who never did anything he wanted without a large amount of psychoactive control. He walks across the table, telling Batman that he has developed a special hat just for him, placing a specialised black rabbit mask over his head. He claims Batman is his new soldier until Batman fights the control, defeating him and smashing his hat under his foot and leaving him knocked out.

The Hatter had put rabbit masks on Arkham inmates to make them his loyal henchmen using 
built in hypnotic  controls.

Stephanie Williams (Batman Arkham City)

First Mentioned: Batman Arkham City

Stephanie Williams was a young woman, who Jervis Tetch saw to be Alice in the earlier days of his criminal activities. He lured her back to his lab, where he drugs her with tea and dresses her up, before learning that she is not Alice and kills her.

Before the Arkham Asylum riots, Strange showed her photo during one of the Mad Hatter's patient interview tapes, where he is horrified by the picture with her hair filled with blood. He doesn't recognise her at first, until Strange tells him to look closer and bursts into tears.

She is the first girl that Jervis Tetch kills and it wouldn't be the last.

Calendar Man (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham City

Julian Gregory Day was declared by Commissioner Gillian Loeb to be one of the most deadly criminals and after he is apprehended (by Batman- with G.C.P.D taking credit) he was imprisoned in Blackgate, where it was declared that he would face the death penalty for his crimes (despite the possibility he was legally insane.)

He was a patient of Harleen Quinzel, who originally deemed him insane, before being forced to change it so he would die. 

His execution date was set for Christmas Eve and was actually locked inside the execution chamber, bound to an electric chair, when Black Mask (Joker) and his goons invade the facility and free him, (although considering executing him) and says that he owes him and that would be important. He later gets away, where it is quite possible he kills Judge Harkness in revenge, killing a street Santa Claus and visiting his party, strangling him with Christmas tree lights, hanging him from his own Christmas light display.

A week later Calendar Man was still free and attacked a New Year's Eve party, where after getting a restraining order from a girl, he decided to use a flamethrower to burn all the guests.

Alberto Falcone (Batman Arkham Origins)

Quinton Flynn

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Origins

Alberto Falcone is the son of Carmine Falcone, the famous Gotham mob boss leader. 

At some point he was diagnosed with having a split personality tendancies and to stop it from manifesting he has multiple sessions with Dr. Hugo Strange. However he eventually decideds himself that he is okay, skipping two appointments and stating that he would no longer be a test subject for Strange.

He is called by Harleen Quinzel, who was Strange's intern at the time, where she gives the subtle threat that they would tell Carmine about a possible untreated medical condition and asking if they will see him at his usual time.

Alberto goes to the restraunt, Cucinotta, where he is overheard by Black Mask speaking with a tone that almost sounded like he was making decisions for the family. Sionis calls him later and tells him that if he wanted to continue talking about his future, he should do it more privatley and stating that he had the place to do it.

Eventually his psyche breaks and the persona of the Holiday emerges, making a threatening call to Sionis.

On Christmas Eve, Alberto Falcone was abducted by the Penguin, a new mob boss rivalling Falcone and taken to the Final Offer as a way to try and remove Carmine from weapons deals. He is torutured, where he continuously refuses (getting cigar smoke blown into his face) and calls Penguin a "Psychotic little bastard," and is hit in the stomach with the handle of his umbrella. Penguin starts with a cattle prod, until Alberto says he will make his father stand down from the business. However Penguin says that he doesn't hear the sound he wants to hear, poking him continuesly with the prod, until Batman arrives and begins to interrogate Penguin.

During the confusion with Deathstroke, it is most likely that Falcone escaped and fled from the ship.

Holiday (Batman Arkham Origins)

Quinton Flynn

First Appearance: ?
First Reference: Batman Arkham Origins

Holiday is the split persona of Alberto Falcone, the son of Carmine and the Black-sheep of the Falcone Crime Family.

Alberto went to sessions with Dr. Hugo Strange to try and help him, but eventually decided he was okay and skipped two appointments.

However the Holiday persona manifested itself and prior to the Christmas Eve incident and he made a threatening call to Roman Sioins late at night, telling him that he needed to get his affairs in order and that things are changing in Gotham as the "wolves descend." Sionis begins to make a threat but Holiday declares himself to answer to and be a much more powerful person than Black Mask, hanging up when Black Mask makes another threat.

Wyatt (Batman Arkham City)

First Appearance: ?
First Appearance: Batman Arkham City

Wyatt was an inmate in Arkham City, who went missing after he went investiagting in the sewers, which led to everyone believing him to have been eaten by Killer Croc, who had made his home there after being transfered to the prison.

Riddler Trophy (Batman Arkham Origins)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham Asylum

The trophy is a box, which stores gears and a small generator that powers a green neon light that lights up the question mark shaped top.

At some point prior to the Christmas Eve incident, Edward Nigma designed and created a prototype of the Riddler trophy, which he kept locked away in his secured room in his Burnley hideout. 

On Christmas Eve after Batman destroyed the data relay networks, hacked all the G.C.R Towers and collected all the data files that he had spread around Gotham, Batman investigates the room and finds the trophy at the very back of a secondary secret room, next to a prototype for the traps he developed at the same time to use in his future crimes against Gotham and Batman.

Talia's Elite Guard (Batman Arkham City)

First Appearance: Batman Arkham City (2011)

Talia's elite guard are a group of highly trained female assassins, who once picked from generations in advance by Ra's al Ghul go on to be trained to the highest level from birth.

The guard shadow her at all times to keep her safe, despite Talia being a fearce advisary already.