Thursday, May 9, 2013

The off-screen deaths in: Batman Beyond, Part Three.

S1E9 0:15:22 Holy first degree murder, Batman! Batman cuts the ropes securing several massive ink rollers. These then crush two henchmen. These things are stupendously heavy. Batman totally just murdered two people.
What would Bruce do? What would Bruce do? What would Bruce do?
  
Murder, right? Yeah, Bruce would totally mu - wait...
S1E1 0:18:36 Jackson Chappell ODs on Venom and kicks the bucket from Venom? I am going to assume this unless a later episode brings him back

Death toll after S1E9: 256

S1E10 0:13:41 A hallucinating Bats takes a dive and saves himself from a fall at the last moment. Results in at least a four car pile up. One car explodes. Three dead in the street.
Surprise!
God, why do we even live here, Martha?
 

S1E10 0:13:43 Interesting note: It is here we learn that the Batsuit that Terry uses is actually mostly super techno-red. Black material is sewn over it to hide this and that the bat symbol is actually just the suit's primary color with artistic non-sewing.S1E10 0:14:34 Interesting note: Terry's school psychologist, Ira Billings, lets us know how long Terry has been The Batman. He says, "I know the past few months have been rough, with your father passing and..." So, at least all of these deaths have been spread out over several months, I suppose?


Death toll after S1E10: 259



S1E11 0:03:52 Inque has escaped and the first thing she does is turn into a hammer and smash a guard's chest. If it weren't Inque (who is still, so far, the single most murderous villain in Beyond), I would let this one go. But its fucking Inque, if she goes longer than five minutes without murdering a dozen people she has heart palpitations and cold sweats. She totally smashed in that dude's chest cavity and left him dead on the floor.
Oof, I just shit everything.
S1E11 0:04:22 Interesting note: Terry remarks that it has taken six months for Bruce to really show him around the Batcave. Seems that things have been quiet in Gotham since Bats' dance with Spellbinder in S1E10.


Death toll after S1E11: 260 (Wow, only one death with the return of Inque? I am truly shocked)


I originally did not count the following eight deaths, however due to a later scene I went ahead and added them. You see, our next villain,
Curaré, is a master assassin. And thus, I (originally) believed that she would set her goals only on her target and only subdue anyone that got in her way rather than carving a murder path. But later on in the episode she totally proves to be an absolute blood thirsty psychopath so I went ahead and added these.

S1E12 0:08:17 Curaré is seen dragging a police officer behind a hedge with a scarf. That officer is, sadly, totally dead with a broken neck.


S1E12 0:09:17 Curaré chucks a grenade filled with some sort of nerve gas into a police gunship. Three officers down.
Oh fuck, it smells like my wife's cooking!
S1E12 0:09:20 Curaré bursts into the house of her target, gasses four more officers.
Oh fuck, it smells like Steve's wife's cooking!
 S1E12 0:16:10 Curaré leaps aboard the top of the speeding train that her target resides in. She begins hacking guns in half and knocking Gotham police officers off of said train. Said train is moving at high speed and and is (there isn't a great screen shot for reference) at least ten stories off of the ground, if not higher. Eight officers plummet to a grizzly death as pavement pie.
Yeah guys, lets all stand on top of this high-speed train, nothing could go wrong

Oh fuck! Everything went wrong!

At least its not Steve's wife's ccccooookkkkkiiiinnnngggg!!!!!!!!
S1E12 0:16:30 Six more officers are shown laying on top of the train. It seems that @0:16:10 the 'lucky' officers that only had their guns chopped in half weren't so lucky after all....

S1E12 0:17:07 After Curaré disconnects the train car that holds her target, it crashes through a building. An officer is smashed against the wall, pinned from the waste down from rubble. She succumbs to injury as the assassin walks by.
Fuck...this...city...

Death toll after S1E12: 283

Alright folks twelve episodes down and in the short time that Terry has donned the cowl 283 people have perished in the city of Gotham

Most dangerous criminal thus far: Sorry Inque, you are knocked out of this because, holy shit
Curaré! I mean, Inque still has the highest kill count, but she really never had to stare into the eyes of her victims as they drew their last breath, begging for their lives. Curaré is one mean, cold mother fucker.

Saddest death so far: The twenty-three officers of the Gotham police force that met their end during Curaré's reign of terror. The brave men and women who were willing to sign up for duty in a city full of murderous super villains and a dipshit hero who occasionally causes deadly car crashes when he isn't busy straight murdering goons. We salute you, GPD. And we will NEVER forget!

Stay tuned, there are forty episodes left! See you guys next time!

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