![]() ![]() Whilst his men kept the GCPD busy, Jack activated machinery around the plant to make detection more difficult and cover his escape. Napier reluctantly agreed to help Grissom, despite the card's advice.īreaking into the chemical plant with his men, Napier discovered the ruse after they broke into the main office vault to discover it was empty. The card happened to be a Joker (which, coincidentally, was the very thing that he later became). When Grissom informed Jack of his entrusted task with stealing incriminating documents from the plant, he consulted his lucky deck to pull a random card's face towards him. During the fight, Jack attacked the officer when he insulted him, the officer not retaliating due to his friend and associate Bob threating him.Įventually, Grissom discovered Napier's affair with Alicia and decided to set him up to be killed by Eckhardt at Axis Chemicals. Eckhardt to learn what Dent and the GCPD had been investigating. ![]() They'd be happier some place else", as well as heavily implied that he'd kill Dent brutally if the latter even attempted to move in on Grissom. Jack doubted the competence of Grissom's leadership of the crime family and also snidely retorted to a news broadcast of Harvey Dent's speech about decent people living in Gotham: " Decent people shouldn't live here. At some point, Jack entered into an affair with Grissom's mistress, Alicia Hunt. In stark contrast to his later hilarious attitude, Jack's persona was rather sarcastic and grumpy, and he prided himself on a dignified and handsome appearance. Jack often toyed with a lucky deck of playing cards, which saved his life on one occasion by taking an otherwise fatal gunshot for him. Jack Napier as Carl Grissom's right-hand man.Īs Jack aged, he worked his way up in the Mafia ranks and eventually became the right-hand man of Mob Boss, Carl Grissom. ![]() " He can't run this city without me." ―Jack Napier to Alicia Hunt about Carl Grissom. While this was likely intended as a sadistic and snarky remark, little did Jack know this was a prediction that would seal his fate, as he and the child would meet again years later. Deciding to spare the boy, Napier told Bruce he'd " see him around" before leaving. Before he could shoot him, a horrified Chill convinced him to flee the scene before police arrived. Planning to kill their son Bruce, Jack stepped out of the shadows and aimed his gun, asking his signature question. Thomas Wayne attempted to fend off Chill as he stole a necklace from his wife, Jack shot them both in cold-blood. Napier also got into a sadistic habit of asking his victims whether they " danced with the Devil in/by the pale moonlight" before he shot them.Īs a young man, Jack and his associate Joe Chill ambushed the Wayne family whilst they returned home from the Monarch Theatre. He also implied that he may have also murdered people, including his own parents, since he was a kid. When he was fifteen, Jack was convicted of assault with a deadly weapon. He also turned to a life of violent crime. In his school years, Jack proved himself to be emotionally unstable, but was highly intelligent, and showed aptitude in art, science and chemistry. What we’ll do with these characters in the future remains to be seen, but it was never meant to be an Easter egg scene, to say like, ‘Oh guess who we’re using in the next movie.’ It was meant to be something delicious for the audience to sort of experience those two characters meeting, and in fact for the Unseen Prisoner to say to him, ‘Riddle me this,’ which is of course right out of ‘Batman’ 66.Born in Brooklyn, Jack Napier came to live in Gotham City. Reeves continued: “So that was critical, actually, to the ending of the movie and to the finishing of the Riddler’s arc as well. “This for me was tracking because Paul and The Riddler was in the action of the third act in a very particular way, and the last we’d seen him he was saying ‘Boom!’ in his window as the bombs went off, and we hadn’t yet seen him take in the fact that Batman had been able to pull things back from the brink and that his plan had not played out, I really wanted to see the end of that arc for Riddler.” “A lot of people ask me, ‘Is this a set up for another movie?’ and to be honest it really isn’t,” Reeves says in the commentary. Reeves has since revealed that the character, played by actor Barry Keoghan, is The Joker.Īn earlier scene between Robert Pattinson’s Batman and the character at the prison was cut, according to Reeves, who discussed all this on director’s commentary for “The Batman.” Spoiler warning: At the end of “The Batman,” director Matt Reeves has a scene where Paul Dano’s The Riddler is at Arkham Asylum, sharing a cell with an “Unseen Arkham Prisoner” with a distinct laugh. ![]()
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