[Comprehensive British and American] Gotham Mayor Simulator

Dick looked up, smiling at the scene.

The red-haired little girl in the picture was frightened by the sudden flight, but what followed was a surprise. Gotham City was lit in the rain, and the lights penetrated the rain curtain. Irene held the gargoyle's neck and looked down, as if seeing a gray In the swamp, she was rising on the light—it reminded Dick of the day he became Robin, the first Robin of Batman, and the first to wear a Robin uniform, with bare legs from Swinging from one high-rise in Gotham to another, even with all that has happened since, Dick is sure, he never regrets being Robin.

...it was the best day of his life.

He was holding a Coke, and sitting beside him was Barbara. As a former Batgirl, if Barbara hadn't been approached by the clown, she would have dealt with her opponents with agility, but now her actions are limited, and she has changed from Batgirl to As an oracle, it can only be used as a logistics support staff.

This made Dick feel complicated——

It's not because the companions suffered irreversible injuries, but even with such injuries, Gotham City at that time still didn't get better. They were like pulling a ship that was about to sink, barely making it float on the water, But there was no land to dock on.

On the screen, the little girl Irene is clutching the bedsheets and hugging the gargoyle's neck. The camera zooms out and overlooks the entire city. Among the flickering lights, something bathes in the lights and flies towards them. Rather, it's Ai Lin. The gargoyle under Lin entered the other phalanx like a bird returning to its nest——

It was a group of gargoyles, appearing from all directions of the city. As the camera rotated, viewers could see a perspective that "Irene" couldn't see. scene layer.

Everyone who knew where it was was stunned.

Wayne Tower is a landmark building in Gotham City. It was built by Bruce's great-grandfather. It stood there when Gotham was first established. The viewing floor is a huge platform that is open to everyone for free. Everyone who has been to Gotham People who visit the city will come to Wayne Tower to check in.

The following generations of the Wayne family were responsible for maintaining this place, and Dick naturally came here. He once wore Robin's uniform and ate sandwiches on the top floor, and he also went up to the top floor as Wayne's adopted son, overlooking the city in the rain.

Gotham City shaped them.

It’s an amazing feeling to see a familiar building in a movie. You can stare at every frame of the movie, and maybe you can find your own home. Dick smiled and said to Barbara: “I think this Kind of like an urban promo for Gotham City, Babs."

"Of course," Barbara glanced at him, pushed her glasses, and smiled easily, "Why do you think Bruce invested in this, it's not a money-losing business."

This is the "business" that makes this city better. The city you live in is the place where the plot of the animated movie takes place. Your school and your shop will even appear on the screen, and the citizens of Gotham City will have a cohesive bond. , and the recognition of Gotham City, after deciding to make such a movie, the whole company is running for it, and the whole country will know that there is such a city as "Gotham"... She may not be the safest, maybe forever Covered in rain, but she is also a, great city.

Dick shrugged, and he glanced away without any trace, with a slightly strange expression on his face.

They sat in the second row, the third row was the Damian six, but Dick noticed that the far right of the third row was probably his little brother Tim, the fourth row was the Avengers superhero, and the fifth row sat Looking at the object of his attention, Red Hood.

Dick and Barbara didn't come to the movies just to rest. Dick didn't tell Tim, but he told Barbara that he was concerned about "Red Hood." As a result, Barbara sent Vivi a direct message, Asked that the Red Hood might watch the movie at 2 o'clock in the morning, so they decided to "coincidence".

Unfortunately, they didn't expect that the movie ticket for the Red Hood was given by the Dylan manager of Felix Media Company - which didn't match up at all - and Wei Wei, in order to let several trumpets sit together, Bought a ticket, so the location of the two of Dick is not very suitable for a coincidence.

And it's not the right occasion, Dick thought, he didn't expect so many people to come, "acquaintances."

On the screen, Irene wrapped herself in a sheet and disguised herself as a large caterpillar pendant on a gargoyle. More and more gargoyles appeared around them. On the circular viewing platform, they formed a circle of three The three-layer circle outside the first layer is like a silent army, which makes people creepy.

But zooming in, you can see——

There were gargoyles with underwear and rags hanging from their wings, apparently formerly used as drying racks; others were painted red and black and had two footprints on top of their heads, the way statues always get; Not the most outrageous thing, a gargoyle opened its mouth and a Robin bird built a nest, and a few birds that were waiting to be fed made chirping sounds. Irene noticed with sharp eyes that other gargoyles were standing, but that The gargoyle squatted halfway, and in this posture, the bird's nest in its mouth was stable, and it was not even wet by the rain.

Dick: "..." I always felt that the appearance of those Robin birds contained some private goods.

Then, through the performance of BGM, the movie screen tells the audience——

The big boss who summoned the gargoyles to Wayne Tower is about to appear. Who is this guy hiding in the dark side of Gotham City and waiting for an opportunity?

Coincidentally, everyone who watched the movie this early morning...has not read the spoiler.

Dick didn't want to read spoilers, and the tweets were also crossed out. Barbara didn't show it whether she had seen it or not. Of course, Vivi didn't understand it. I didn’t have a chance to watch the movie either—the Avengers is affiliated with S.H.I.E.L.D., and Nick Fury, the head of S.H.I.E.L.D., has recently issued a mission, so the official superheroes of the Avengers are either completing the mission or perfunctory. After all, there are no aboveboard movie watchers, and it is not good to meet fans taking pictures.

The little girl Irene on the screen didn't dare to breathe, only a pair of smart eyes were exposed from under the sheet, her heart was beating non-stop, darkness fell, and a huge shadow enveloped the picture.

——Dick's expression suddenly became a little strange.

Then, the camera suddenly zoomed in on the face of a new character appearing in the circle of gargoyles, to be precise, the lower half of the face.

The "Batman" who appeared on the screen said in Batman's signature deep and husky voice: "Boys, the lurk is over-"

"It's time to counterattack Gotham and turn this place into our country!"

Irene on the screen widened her eyes in surprise, and the audience outside the screen let out their first burst of laughter.

The first one to laugh out loud was Stark, who was not too serious about watching the excitement. The relationship between Iron Man and Batman can only be said to be mediocre. Being both superheroes did not prevent him from laughing at each other, but thinking that this is a public place, He quickly stopped talking, and then muffled laughter came from all over the movie theater.

Damian in front of them looked puzzled, the boy looked a little angry, as a child raised by the League of Assassins, because of his mother's education, Damian always thought that Batman was a warrior, if he wasn't really firm and brave, How could he become the provider of half of his genes, but after his mother entrusted him to Batman, Damian chose not to contact his father for the time being, but to observe the situation first.

Then he saw Bruce Wayne who left his own city (going to Washington), Batman who became a cat and bat meme on the Internet (it is said that there are real shots), standing on the back of a gargoyle in the promotional video The goofy Batman (…), and now, is the doomed Batman villain of the animated film.

Everyone else was laughing, only Damian was upset.

Batman's current preferred heir, Robin, is a guy who is better at company management and information search than fighting. Damian didn't regard him as a contender for the heir at the beginning. The eldest brother of the family left Gotham early, and now he is stupid Sitting in the front row and giggling, as for the other dead man...he knew Todd, of course he knew, assassins don’t fight unprepared battles, especially Todd had been trained in the League of Assassins, and according to his mother Thalia, although that man was powerful, But it is too easy to be affected by emotions, and he believes that he can defeat him.

But the ambitious little bird came to this city, intending to become an eagle soaring over the city, but found that his father not only blackmailed himself in the movie he invested in, but also the vigilantes were about to lose their jobs.

... After the parchment problem is settled, we can go back to the League of Assassins.

The 12-year-old heir to the League of Assassins thought with despair.

While he was thinking wildly, Batman on the screen had finished reading the villain's lines, and beside him, Professor Daisy, who had eaten biscuits and shrunk, seemed to understand, and devoted himself to the movie.

However, she is always half a beat behind the others——

Vivi: "Ooooh!"

Daisy: "...Oh."

It's this kind of slowness.

Vivi: "Batman just wants to save Gotham."

Bella: "But the method he used is wrong. You cannot use criminal methods to stop criminals from committing crimes."

Anna: "The way to defeat the old rules should be to establish better and more reasonable new rules on the old rules, and naturally eliminate the old rules."

Daisy: "... oh...but he chose another way."

Damian on the far right looked down at Professor Daisy's black hair, and silently chose to shut up.

Batman in the movie did choose another way. He decided to use the gargoyle to occupy the city, and then turn everyone into puppets to stop the dispute at all.

—Of course the real Batman wouldn't do that.

— but the real Batman wouldn't have the ability to turn his body into a shadow either.

Of course, the movie is Batman who has been transformed by magic. It is impossible for this movie to restore Batman's character and way of acting. It will be caught and analyzed by the villain. There are always people who want to know the identity behind the bat. In the movie, the magic is changed to Knowing that Batman is a superpower (superpower bat?) who can blend into the shadows, he can control gargoyles. His dream is that Gotham City will become a city with simple folk customs without disputes, but he used the wrong method... Batman heard A special person came to Gotham City with an artifact that could satisfy wishes. He asked all the gargoyles to find this artifact. As long as they found it, his purpose would be achieved.

Eileen, who was eavesdropping, didn't dare to speak out. Several times, she was almost discovered by "Batman". However, the girl was quick-witted and bold. When Batman approached, she learned the sound of a small bird, and she was fooled. On the other side, after Batman left, the gargoyles flew out of the viewing platform one after another.

The night wind and the rain hit her in the face together, and Irene immediately realized that the only kid like her who knew the secret now, she should immediately find a way to stop all this and prevent Batman from changing the city.

This is a city promotional film for all ages. Dick tilted his head and leaned over to Barbara and said, "Even if we know that the ending must be happy, but the expressiveness of the film itself is awesome, you can't help but be affected by the plot of the film... "They can all see that Batman was adapted in this way to hide Batman's true identity. If you believe that Batman in reality is a strong white male wearing armor, then "ruling Gotham" is naturally nonsense In other words, if you believe Batman in the movie, you can conceal Bruce's true identity.

"Of course, but it's impossible for Bludhaven to appear in such a movie." Barbara spread her hands.

"Because Bludhaven doesn't have a generous investor—" Dick muttered.

"No," Barbara smiled narrowly, "because then the movie will definitely not be for all ages. Do you think a movie rated 21 can play a role in publicity?"

Dick: "..." He could hear that Barbara was teasing Jim and Juan.

…Jim and Juan are the girls' names for Nightwing's ass.

Come to think of it, Brudhaven even put the words "We've got the sexiest superheroes in America" ​​on a city sign, presumably having no problem letting Nightwing, aka Dick himself, sell himself.

He silently shut up and continued watching the movie.

In the movie screen, the little girl Irene is like a heroic bullfighter, trying to use a bed sheet to cover something that can be fixed, so that she can get off the back of the gargoyle - as can be seen from the previous plot, this is a Very smart kid.

However, this kind of behavior is very dangerous if there is no professional training. Yeyi can tell that the artist used Gotham's vigilante Robin as a reference when painting. The close-ups of the child even pay tribute to the iconic movements of several generations of Robin. This made him feel a little complicated. After a while, he smiled, and he began to watch the movie attentively.

After some dangerous movements, Irene slipped. Amid the sound of the sheets being torn, she hung in the air, staggering. She tried to grab the street lamp or the high platform but failed several times, and then——

"thorn"

The picture slows down, and Irene falls from mid-air.

The girl's pupils were full of panic and disbelief, but at the critical moment, the camera turned to the gargoyle, giving a close-up of the silent stone sculpture.

The gargoyle spread its wings, swooped down, and caught Irene firmly.

The wind passed by the girl's ears. She lay on the back of the gargoyle, rising and falling with the monster, as if in the deep sea. Irene was not as nervous as before, but spread her hands and looked at Gotham. night view.

The rain didn't know when it stopped.

Stars hang above the cleansed night sky, and this scene of stars shining, probably is a beautiful night scene that a girl will never forget in her entire life.

Tim sat in the corner. He didn't buy Coke or popcorn. He rested his chin and looked at the huge movie screen in front of him. When he saw this scene, he suddenly froze for a moment.

...Why did he become Robin?

At Irene's age, he was already chasing Batman and Robin. Apart from his desire to punish evil and promote good, perhaps for a moment, he also wanted to see such a scene.

Get rid of those big truths, of course what attracts him is the ability to fly in the night sky of Gotham. If it weren’t for the death of the second-generation Robin, Batman’s actions would become more and more difficult to control. Tim would not become Robin by coincidence. But he thought... he might go out on his own, with a codename of "Drake" or something.

——If you were chasing heroes when you were young, how could you not dream of heroes?

In the picture, Irene starts to pull the gargoyle, intending to turn the speechless stone sculpture to her camp. This is a girl who can talk to statues and dolls. Her intelligence and innocence are inseparable. She is a Being able to be innocent at an age, it is also the protagonist in a fairy tale. After a tense and fun action scene, perhaps because she was too entangled, this gargoyle flew lower and lower, so low that Irene only needed to jump lightly Just enough to jump to the ground.

But now it is the little girl who is entangled with the gargoyle in turn. In the process, the girl was discovered by passers-by, and the gargoyle smashed its wings while hiding, and it couldn't fly——

Gotham City in the movie has also entered a "martial law period".

The plot took a turn for the worse, and "Batman" seemed sure that as long as he got the props, he could completely transform Gotham City, so he let all the gargoyles go out to find special wishing props. People were frightened by the overwhelming scene of gargoyles, and the police began to organize other people Catch and destroy the gargoyles.

The picture turned to Irene, the girl was squatting at the entrance of the alley, and a big guy was wearing a sheet, squatting behind her, one big and one secretly watching the situation outside, then, the girl crawled into the inside of the sheet, and straddled the gargoyle On their necks, they just slipped through the cordon without any risk. There are laughs and... tears in this paragraph.

In order to protect the gargoyle beside her that saved her life, Eileen clearly saw her father running against the flow of people, holding a missing person notice with her photo, calling "Eileen", but she couldn't recognize her father .

They passed by.

Bypassing the human wall and turning through the window, Irene and the gargoyle finally arrived at their destination. Irene knew that there was a place where they could hide without anyone, and she could still contact her father, and that was her mother's home.

After her parents divorced, her father took her out of their old home, but she still remembered the road clearly.

There was a layer of dust in the house, and the background music slowed down at this moment. The girl's eyes scanned every part of the room, and every time she saw a place, she thought of the shadow of the past. The picture was dyed with a warm yellow light, which is the past. A picture emerges, however, now there are no people from the past here.

Mom is not here.

At this time, the movie has a flashback, telling the viewers that Irene's mother dragged the box and left on the day of the divorce.

Irene has always been smart. Her initial conception, the conception of her parents together, was just empty talk, but she stubbornly believed in this impossible thing, as if she could wait until her mother came back.

The camera scanned everything in the room one by one, photos of the family of three, and more group photos of relatives and friends. In the photos, Irene was smiling brightly, but in the camera, Irene was very lost, like a lonely puppy.

She was accompanied by a larger dog, a gargoyle with a broken wing.

In the movie, the gargoyle does not have the ability to repair the body in reality. It is probably to balance the combat power of the two sides. Moreover, in this universe with superheroes, aliens, and magicians, if the one with supernatural powers One side is molded too strong to be defeated, and this part may become a tool for media bashing -

The media will misinterpret that the movie is promoting "human beings need superheroes" and "human beings can only rely on superheroes". Although this is often the case in reality, it is precisely because of the existence of superheroes that they cannot let superheroes be promoted like this.

It doesn't matter, Chaoying doesn't care.

The wet little man and the wet gargoyle in the movie sit on the edge of the bed, the phone doesn't work, the girl knows her voice is meaningless, the police won't believe her - she tried it, with this gargoyle Also become a target.

She was very depressed.

It is too much for an eight-year-old child to save the city. She is missing her warm home. Dad will definitely believe her, and she will go back to him.

Irene jumped off the bed, found her little red umbrella in the corner of the room, opened it——

The gargoyle came over, squatted down, and in the dry room, it stuffed a small horn on the top of its head under the umbrella.

Erin: "..."

Erin: "No, you can't."

It's too cheating!

It was like, like she was going to abandon some big dog.

Finally, the door of the room opened, and a strong man wearing a windbreaker, cape, and a big black umbrella walked out. His body was almost two widths wider than the others, and he looked like a dangerous person.

The road was even more uneven than before, so they had to try their best to walk along the trail. Irene rescued a trapped cat, helped up a small tree broken by wind and rain, and carried the fallen bird back to its nest. , Then she froze for a moment, and recognized it: "——this is the bird from before."

On the viewing platform they encountered a gargoyle and let the birds make a nest in its open mouth.

The drizzle was like silk, but Irene's mood became heavier.

Outside the screen, Jason folded his arms around his chest and looked up at the screen, but the previous scene was still replaying in his mind. A few frames flashed across the screen: more photos of Irene’s family and friends, Irene’s mother pulled In the scene of leaving with the suitcase, Irene's parents broke up too suddenly...

The group photo shows that Irene's mother has a twin sister.

The scattered newspapers on the ground reported a few things in words that Irene still can't understand. These pictures just flashed by, but Jason could see it. This movie pays special attention to details and easter eggs.

...he was a little upset.

It is clearly a Happy Ending holiday movie, why should such foreshadowing be buried?This is really uncomfortable for viewers who are easy to substitute when watching a movie, and whose sharp eyes can see the details the first time they watch the movie, hey.

At this moment, Jason didn't realize that he just wanted to see the old guy's jokes at first.

Wei Wei took a sip of Coke, put her head on Sheila's shoulder, and on the screen, Batman appeared for the second time.