The socially-praised Batman (DC Comics) adapted television series "Gotham" (Fox TV) looks at various levels of criminal mania coming to surface as the young detective Jim Gordon tries to cope while a very young Bruce Wayne ponders his future role in the world of urban vigilantism.
Crime drama fascinates us, since we're concerned about the problems that arise from human traffic and industrialization.
Imagine, for example, that Batman sits down in his bat-cave and analyses the following crime labyrinth:
1. Mad Hatter --- a psychopath who has kidnapped the mayor's niece for ransom
2. Penguin --- a crime-master who has threatened to blow up the Gotham Library
3. Red Hood Gang --- a band of masked spooks who are selling machine guns on the black market
4. Riddler --- a creepy logician who is claiming to develop micro-nuclear weapons
5. Two-Face & Harley Quinn (a new couple) --- this new unappealing duo is holding Batgirl hostage
6. Scarecrow --- a scary terror who has poisoned the Gotham Aquarium
7. Dollmaker --- a mad scientist who is burning corpses in front of the police station
Would we want Batman to capture all these evil-doers very easily? There's something about the complexity of modern urban crime that stirs our imagination and inspires to creatively make/tell paranoia stories.
That's why comics titles such as Dark City and City of Crime illuminate popular "macro-management almost got 'im" themes.
In other words, what is really valuable for an evaluation of the poignancy of Batman stories is a tabulation of Gotham crime-world terms (a sort of dictionary).
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