Who Is That Masked Man?In our world, ask anyone if they know who Batman is, and they will. He's probably more famous than the president, the Pope, or Kanye. Anyone who knows Batman probably knows h...

Full HouseJack Napier is a petty crime lord, a jack who wants to be king. But the king of this deck of Gotham City mobsters—Carl Grissom—sees Jack as more of a nine of diamonds, or maybe even a...

Blonde AmbitionIf noted photographer Annie Leibovitz suddenly changed careers and started snapping shots in a war zone, she would be Vicki Vale. Vale also looks like a supermodel herself, someone w...

Argument and Re-ButlerAt first glance, Alfred looks your typical butler who wandered in from the set of Upstairs Downstairs (the PBS show that preceded Downton Abbey and came out around when this m...

Beat ReporterKnox is a reporter who's new to the scene. And by "new to the scene," we mean "not a character from the Batman comics." Instead, he was added to the Batman universe just for this movie...

Big BossCarl Grissom is the head honcho, the top dog, the big cheese, the godfather, the boss man, the big enchilada, the big gun, and the king banana of Gotham City crime. He runs the city. Minor...

Skin DeepAlicia, played by Mick Jagger's ex Jerry Hall, is the girlfriend of Carl Grissom and secret lover of Jack Napier. They both call her "Sugar Bumps," and it's strange that two men would have...

Bad Cop, Bad CopEckhardt is the corrupt cop in cahoots (say that five times fast) with Carl Grissom. We have to wonder if the corruption runs deeper, because a crime boss can't run a city with only...

They Love a Parade We're lumping all the so-called good guys into one section because they're so ineffective, they don't deserve more. If these law enforcers and legislators were better at their jo...

Family ResemblanceTuning into Batman for the first time, you might expect an origin story of the titular hero. If you do, you might expect the family blindly wandering the streets of Gotham—a hus...