Post by Z451 on Jan 16, 2014 2:17:18 GMT
Batman
Bruce Wayne is 55 years old and has retired as Batman; and levels of crime are rising.
Wayne, finding his retirement difficult, becomes Batman again.
He first faces Harvey Dent, who was believed to have been cured, after successful plastic surgery.
Dent holds the city for ransom with a bomb.
When Batman defeats Dent, he discovers that Dent's evil "Two-Face" persona has returned.
Batman saves 13-year-old Carrie Kelley from an attack by a gang called the Mutants.
Kelley buys herself an imitation Robin costume and searches for Batman, seeking to help him.
She finds Batman at the city dump where he fights an army of Mutants.
Though Batman defeats the Mutant army with his weaponry, the Mutant leader beats him in combat.
Kelley distracts the leader long enough to allow herself and Batman to escape.
With the help of retiring Commissioner James Gordon and the new Robin, Batman defeats the Mutant leader on his own terms.
The Mutants disband and some rename themselves the Sons of Batman, using excessive violent force with good intentions.
Batman's return stimulates The Joker to awaken from a catatonic state at Arkham Asylum.
With renewed purpose, The Joker manipulates his caretakers to allow him to appear on a television talk show; he murders everyone in the television studio and escapes.
Batman and Robin track him to a county fair, where he has already murdered many people.
Batman defeats the Joker in a violent confrontation, almost killing him.
To incriminate Batman for murder and thus defeat him, the Joker snaps his own neck.
After another confrontation with the Gotham police and a citywide manhunt is begun, Batman escapes.
Superman diverts a Russian nuclear warhead which detonates in a desert.
The United States is hit by an electromagnetic pulse and descends into chaos during the resulting blackout.
In Gotham, Batman realizes what has happened and he and Robin turn the remaining Mutants and the Sons of the Batman into a non-lethal fighting force, leading them against looters and ensuring the flow of essential supplies.
In the midst of a nuclear winter, Gotham becomes the safest city in the United States.
The U.S. government sees this as an embarrassment and orders Superman to remove Batman.
Oliver Queen (the former Green Arrow) predicts to Wayne that the government lackey Superman and the maverick Batman will have a final confrontation.
Superman demands to meet Batman.
Knowing that Batman may die, Wayne symbolically chooses Crime Alley— where he first became Batman.
He relies on Superman's weakness caused by his near-death in the nuclear blast.
Superman tries to reason with Batman, but Batman uses his technological inventions and mastery of hand-to-hand combat to fight him.
During the battle, Superman compromises Batman's exoframe, and Queen wields a kryptonite-tipped arrow to greatly weaken Superman.
Batman suddenly has a heart attack, apparently dying.
Alfred Pennyworth destroys the Batcave and Wayne Manor and dies from a stroke, exposing Batman as Bruce Wayne, whose fortune has disappeared.
After Wayne's funeral, it is revealed that his death was staged using chemicals that can suspend his vital life signs.
Clark Kent attends the funeral and winks at Robin after hearing Wayne's heartbeat as he leaves the cemetery.
Sometime afterward, Bruce Wayne leads Robin, Queen, and the rest of his followers into the caverns beyond the Batcave and prepares to continue his war on crime.
He plans to assemble an army to bring order back to the world.
In the current DC Multiverse, the events of The Dark Knight Returns and its associated titles are designated to occur on Earth-31.
Links
Wikipedia> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark_Knight_Returns
DC Wiki> dc.wikia.com/wiki/Bruce_Wayne_%28Earth-31%29
Batman Wiki> batman.wikia.com/wiki/Batman:_The_Dark_Knight_Strikes_Again
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