The Alphabet of Gotham

A is for Science,

Of the Applied kind.

With vehicles and gadgets,

That boggle the mind.

…

B is for Bane,

A villain most foul.

Only his mask,

Hides his dark scowl.

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Commissioner's C,

Jim Gordon's his name.

A non-crooked cop?

That's worthy of fame.

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D is for Dawes,

Or Rachel, most fair.

Whose exploded pieces,

Ended up in the air.

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E's escalation,

Such as Batman clones.

Hocky pants, shotguns?

Bruce lets out a groan.

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F is for Fox,

Lucius cunning.

Who in the third film,

Gets Bruce back in the running.

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G is for Gotham,

Batman's domain.

And thanks to him,

Things won't be the same.

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H is for Harvey,

Or Two-Face, my bad.

Gotham's white knight,

Who became mad.

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I is for IMAX,

How Batman is viewed.

The problem with this,

Is the really long ques.

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J is for Joker,

The clown prince of crime.

A dog chasing cars,

A madman sublime.

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Catwoman, Selina,

But her K is for Kyle.

Dancing with Bruce,

With temptation's smile.

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L is for League,

Of Shadows, of spies.

Ra's return,

Took Bruce by surprise.

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M is for masks,

What we all wear.

From heroes to villains,

Hiding rage and despair.

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N is for Nolan,

Don't know him, do you?

He only delivered,

A Batman movie or two…

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O is for occupy,

That is Bane's plan.

To bridge this injustice,

Of currency's slam.

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Alfred the butler,

Pennyworth's P.

The one to alleviate,

Bruce's poor misery.

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The Joker's game,

The Q and the A.

Interrogation,

You want to play?

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R is for Ra's,

Wasn't he in this before?

Meh, he's immortal,

Fighting his war.

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S is for Scarecrow,

The mad Doctor Crane.

From sowing his terror,

He'll not refrain.

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T is for Tumbler,

Or the Batmobile.

Just watch out you crims,

Cause the Bat's at the wheel.

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Underground's U,

The cave of the bat.

Underneath the Wayne Manor,

How cool is that?

…

V is for voice,

Batman's bloody rasp.

His snarling, his whispers,

I hear it, I gasp.

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W, Wayne,

Our Bruce so coy.

Batman by night,

By day a playboy.

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X is X-rated,

I do not get this.

But hey no biggie,

It's IGN's list.

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Y's for Year One,

A comic book name.

A Batman story,

Of DC fame.

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Z is for Zimmer,

He composes the tunes.

For the Gotham of day,

For the Gotham of moon.

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Twenty-six letters,

They go up to the sky.

As shall the Bat,

When the Dark Knight does rise…

A/N

Idea for this came from a promotional article on IGN listing the A-Z of the Dark Knight Saga. Nice idea, ended up taking the list and making a poem out of it.