8 Small Details You Only Notice Rewatching Gotham

7. The No Man's Land Map

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Talk about an Easter egg!

As a result of Cataclysm, Gotham's fourth season ended with Gotham City becoming a No Man's Land. For those familiar with the comic book realm of the Dark Knight, both Cataclysm and No Man's Land are titles of two continuous comic arcs that ran from early 1998 until the very end of 1999.

Mirroring those truly game-changing stories, Gotham did its own spin on those two years of funny back antics. But not just did Gotham mirror the loose premise of both Cataclysm and No Man's Land, the show went even further and based its No Man's Land layout on the map of the comic book No Man's Land.

The only slight difference between these two maps - Gotham's No Man's Land map being on the left, the comic book No Man's Land map being on the right - is that the Gotham map features an area known as the Narrows.

For a simple answer to why the Narrows is on one map but not the other, that's because the Narrows was an area of Gotham City first introduced in 2005's Batman Begins - which was released six years after the No Man's Land comic book run.

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