#nostromos

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Mob Boss (being rescued): Hey! Put me down you caped freak!

Batman: 😃 *does a front flip while holding him*

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Gordon (after reading out a riddle): Do you know what this is referring to?

Batman: You don’t? *backflips off building*

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“Brucie Wayne”: I recorded this sound in my chimney, could you tell me what it is? I think it’s a bat??

Animal Doctor: Sure

Bruce: *plays unholy screaming*

Animal Doctor:

Bruce: 😇

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Batman: I’m being framed.

Alfred: (sarcastically) Ah so it wasn’t you throwing security guards out of windows?

Batman: I only do that to butlers 😎

Alfred: 🙄

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Joker (dangling over fire): You’re not gonna let me fry Batman 🥺😉

Batman:

Joker:

Batman: 😏

Joker: Batman??!

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(In a literal cult meeting, while the cult leader is talking)

“Brucie Wayne”: Wow 😅 this is very deep stuff 😌

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Nostromos

Carl Fowler was a talented but unsuccessful actor who served a prison sentence for petty larceny.  Upon his release, he and his partner, Lucas, hatched a scheme to take advantage of the superstitiousness of Gotham City’s idle rich.  

Fowler created the persona of ‘Nostromos,’ a powerful psychic who could foresee the future.  This Nostromos would make dire prognostications about the future and then Lucas would orchestrate things so these predictions came true.  Nostromos gradually accrued a group of loyal acolytes among the city’s elite, all convinced of his incredible powers.  When Nostromos predicted a financial collapse, his followers began pooling their resources into a superfund with him as the sole executer.

Among Nostromos’ followers was the estate banker, Ethan Clark, whose daughter was good friends with Bruce Wayne.  Wayne was intrigued by Clark’s conviction in Nostromos, as well as his daughter concern for him.  As such, Wayne infiltrated the burgeoning cult and was quickly able to ferret out that Nostromos was a fraud.  

Seeing his scheme begin to fail, Nostromos and his partner abducted Clark’s daughter and threatened to kill her unless Clark agreed to transfer the superfund into gold bullion that Fowler and Lucas could then abscond with.   Fortunately, Batman intervened and saved the day.  Fowler was exposed as a charlatan and he and Lucas were sentenced to prison.