We move to a different medium now, with the dynamic duo (meaning Snyder and Capullo, of course) taking from the Bat films as well as the comic books. Rather than a general concept such as background or story structure though, here the comic alludes to a very specific scene within the film. At the end of Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film the Joker (spoliers) dies after he tries to climb the rope ladders up to a helicopter and gets a wire wrapped around his ankle (the other end attached to a falling gargoyle), pulling him off and down towards the ground hundreds of feet below. Obviously the Joker doesn't die in the comic, but Red Hood One does attempt to escape on a helicopter and he does get the wire wrapped around his ankle, pulling him off. The main difference this time is that he lands within the A.C.E Chemicals factory and survives, rather than dying and going against the entire point of the eternal struggle story of which he and the Bat are part. So we have a reference to the original Batman, the iconic Batman, and the silly movie(/murderer) Batman, but we still have one thing missing...
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