Batman: Legends Of The Dark Knight

An animated anthology movie based on actual Batman comics

MANY HAPPY RETURNS: We find out through flashbacks that The Joker has a habit of attacking Gotham City every month, as a way of giving Batman a birthday present. Then one month, Joker doesn’t attack, which sends Batman and the GCPD into a paranoid frenzy. THE BEAUTIFUL UGLY: Two-Face kidnaps a seemingly innocent man named Aidan Bennet, and holds him hostage in an abandoned courthouse. It’s revealed that Aidan was the prime suspect in Harvey Dent’s first case as D.A., that being a museum robbery gone wrong that involved the death of a security guard. Aidan was released on a technicality, but Harvey knows that he commited the crime, and now it’s time for judgment. SOLITAIRE: Having escaped Arkham Asylum, The Riddler steps out into Gotham City and breaks into Wayne Tower. As the story goes on, we find out that Riddler was abused by a guard in Arkham Asylum who would never let him have any enjoyment, and the guard has been hired as Wayne Tower’s chief of security. STUDY HALL: Tired of constantly battling the Batman and losing, Jonathan Crane decides to call it quits. He thus sneaks out of Arkham Asylum and flees the city. He then forges his own teaching credentials, creating a false identity. With these, Crane gets himself a job at an upstate college, living the quiet life of a psychology professor. He even begins a friendship with a book smart student named Molly Randall. But it all comes crashing down when Molly is beaten by her boyfriend.